Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-25
pilot and Harbor commissioners.

SAN Francisco January 24th.-The rooms
OF the Chamber Of Commerce were crowded
this afternoon with representative business
men of the city from the Chamber of Com
merce, Board OF Trade, Harbor Commission
ers, the ShipoWners' Association and Pilot
Commissioners, who assembled to meet the
ioint committee on Commerce and Navigation
of the Senate and Assembly, to investigate
the affairs Of the Boards OF Pilot Commis.
sioners and Harbor Commissioners. James
V. Coleman was elected Chairman, and Sen.
ator Lynch Vice-Preaident. It was decided to
frat investigate the aft iirs of the Pilot
Commissioners. and G. 7. Hopkins,
Chairman Of the committees from the
Board Of Trade and California Ship
owners Association, was invited to
address the meeting. He made an earnest
speech, relating his experience in looking into
the books Of the Pilet Commissioners, the re-
suit Of the examination, and denouncisg in
roundsst terms the present pilot monopoly.
He alluded to the public opinion, that the
pilots were in league with the tugboat COM
pauy; also that the tugboat company was
supposed to receive 55 per cent of the gross
receipts for pilotage Captain Travers was
examined, and said | sm Pilot Commits
sioner, appointed in 1880; am not interested
in sny vessel; the expenses of the Commis-
sicners monthly are about $3.50; never
heard of any rebate made in pilotage
the duties of the Commissioners are to
keep the pilots straight, and generally over
see their doings; never, in his knowledge,
had any contract been made, either by the
pilets or by the Commissioners, with masters
of vessels; the books OF the Commissioners
are kept in the single entry system there are
twenty pilots in port, and one at Mare
leland; the Commissioners do not handle o
dollar Of money; all the receipts go to the
| Port Admiral; the percentage due the pilots
| and Commissioners is divided at the end Of
each month by him; the Port Admiral's
name is Jarliff he is a pilot, elected by
pilots don't think he could easily report
false receipts Of fees.
After a long examination Of Captain Tray
era, Assemblyman Weaver introduced res
olution directing the Pilot Commissioners to
produce before the committe at 9 o'clock
A. NJ. their books, papers, statements, ETC.,
connected with the Commission. The req
olution was adopted. In response to the
queries of Assemblyman Hughes, Captain
Travers admitted that he had been to Sacra-
mentc, but denied having declared to news.
paper correspondent that the measure before
the Legislature was q cinch bill. The COM
mittee adjourned till 10 A. NJ. tomorrow.
Sensation in n Cemetery-Nearly seri-
Ous Riot.
SAN Francisco, January 24.h.-A very
exciting scene occurred to-day, on the occa.
sion of the burial of the twenty-one China
men who were killed by the giant powder
explosion at Berkeley last Sunday afternoon.
Elaborate preparations had been made by
friends of the deceased, with view of giving
the defunct Celestisls q respectable burial,
and every available hearse in the city was
engaged, in addition to eight dead wagons.
The procession, headed by a long array of
mourners, proceeded TO the Chinese cemetery.
Meantime permits from the Health Officer
had been sent out in advance, but unfortu-
nately, on being counted by the Supsrinten'
dent Of interments, one psrmit WAS found to
be missing, and when the funeral cortege ar