Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-08

months resident of this city shall pay
large license per quarter for the privilege
of plving their vocation here. The ordi-
nance was gotten up and put through at
| the solicitation of local hackmen, mere
handful of citizens, who have no right to
speak for this people, and who, however
they may have the interests of the people
of Sacramento at heart, have in this in
stance made a woful mistake. The pur-
pose was to exclude hackmen and trans
| porters of passengers by street vehicles from
| plying their vocation during fair week in
| Sacramento. The excuse for the ordinance
was that foreign hackmen come in al that
| time and practice extortiGn upon strangers,
! and that the Sacramento hackmen have to
bear the reproach. However that may be,
the officials should be able, and we venture
the assertion are amply able, to compel
| hackmen to observe the law regulating
hack charges. They are just as able to do
| it iribo1u the license ordinance as tcuh it
the ordinance cannot in any way aid them
except by its excessive charges excluding
the foreign hackmen altogether, and that
would be precisely the effect accomplished,
and probably desired. If the Sacramento
| hackmen are so solicitOus about Their repu-
tation for charging, they need only to aid
| the city officers in enforcing the law
against extortionate charges. AS a class
! there is no complaint to be made of
! hack proprietors in this city. They are law
abiding citizens and we believe them to
have dealt fairly with their customers,
though there may have been few excep
| tons on the part of driver here and there,
| as there is now and then everywhere. So
| far as ali that is concerned, the Sacramento
| hackmen are not class to be complained
| of. But III their efforts to set up the barrier
| tbot &c oy, boliad IN tba ordinance rafnrrn1
to, they have misrepresented this city, done
| it grievous injury, and alienated some of
| its best friends. They have been guilty of
pushing upon the city an ordinance that is
| simply outrageous, and, we believe unlaw
| full and not capable of being maintained.
| The State Board of Agriculture has most
properly denounced it, and declared that it
will go far toward awakening throughout
the State unreasoning hostility TO this city,
will decrease attendance at the annual
| fairs and inaugurate movement for the
removal of the Board headquarters from
| this CITY, and as q consequence the annual
| exhibitions also. But while this may be
said to be a sort of menace, irrespective of
it, the ordinance is I'M Just, harsh, and
! detrimental to the interests of this city.
| The prosperity of Sacramento, her trade, or
| commerce, do not depend upon activity in
| the hack business, or the prosecution of it
| by few to the exclusion of others. Sacra-
mcntos interests reside i'll the broadest
| hospitality 10 the people who come here,
whether they bring a hack and run it, or
come TO view the city and ride in the ear
riages of others. The annual expositions
of the Agricultural Board, are State expo
sitions and not local to Sacramento, except
as to the mere matter of geography. To do |
ANYTHING that will localize it, as this Ordin- |
ance will, is to put the whole State in OPP
position to this city. 1t is TO be expected
that it will bring upon the city just such
assaults as that made by the Stockton In
dependent of yesterday, which devotes a
column to the subject under flaming
title as follows and which may be taken as
typical of what will be said OF US generally
if the ordinance stands:
SACRAMENTO's GREED.
GAME OF ExroRrIoN UNDER PLEA OF
STOP THIEF
A SCHEME TO FLEECE STRANGERS.
REASONS WHY THE STATE FAIR SHOULD BE
HELD ELSEWHERE.
Another journal devotes three-ouarter
OF column to the same subject under this
heading:
SACRAMENTO RAPACITY.
HOW THE HAcKNEN PROPOSE TO MoyoPo-
LIE THE FAIR.
The effect of such publications can be
| very easily forecast.
1t Is unfortunate for this city that the
| Trustees should have been led into the
error they have made. Even the repeal
| will now but partially repair the evil done.
| 1t is certain that their act is not representa-
| tive of the best sentiment of the city, and
| they are now 50 convinced The express
! sIons OF the people are pronounced against
| the ordinance, and the demand is for its
speedy repeal and it is certain to be so re-
pealed. There was error in passing it with
out the usual opportunity fur publicity
| and discussion, and the sooner the error is
corrected by resembling the vote, the better
! for the city. 1t is certain-and we are as
| sured of the certainty-that had the usual
| time been taken for notice of the ordi-
nance II would never have passed since
mature consideration exposes its true char
! acter. There are local reasons for desiring
| here in fair week large force of trans
| porters, and there should be exclusion and
taxation of none, but regulation of all.
! The State Fair is a fair of all the people
and Sacramento should do no act that will
! deepen the false impression that this city is
a pensioner upon State bounty. If the or
| dinance stands. the people of the State will
be justified in refusing to attend the fair, as
a just rebuke to this city, and this journal
will not feel inclined, for one, to reflect
| upon them for so doing, or object to such
| punishment as they may see fit to attach
for what Is certainly wrong.
Orr FOR CHISA.-The agents of the Ming
Yuen Company are collecting their dead
comrades from the graves in the Helyeta
| Cemetery for shipment back 10 China
When each tomb is opened the Chinese
| rcsurrectionist scratches around in the dust
till he has secured every particle of the dry
skeleton, and these are carefully sacked up
| in clean white sacks. about two feet in
length, and labeled for the Flowery King
| dom The cost Of collecting. permit and
| transportation to San Francisco is about
| Sl5 per skeleton, and across the ocean the
| charges are $50 per ton. No one is missed
not Celestial is so poor but his bones are
transported home again" TO the land he
left in the years before
| A CELEsrIALs CLOSE CALL. - About
| o'clock last evening a horse attached to
| light wagon dashed up street and collided
with an awning post in front of Weaver's
| printing office, where he came TO q stop
and commenced kicking and plunging. He
| soon kiCkeO HlilSeiI out OF the harness,
and as the cloud Of dust rolled away a very
dirty Chinaman was seen 10 crawl out from
between the shafts, where the horse had
been doing his circus act. A crowd rushed
| to the spot, expecting to find badly cut up
! Monaghan, but he scrambled to his feet
ana calculated, "H-ll, l can't help itr'
II was found that he was somewhat
bruised, but not seriously hurt.
WARD MEErISG.-The Four and q Half
Blaine and Logan Club met in East End
Hall, corner Eighteenth and NJ streets, on
Wednesday evening. The hall was beauti-
fully decorated with banners, pictures. etc.
Speeches were made by several prominent
speakers, and general good time was had.
The meeting adjourned-to meet next
Wednesday evening-with cheers for Blaine
and Logan There is q membership Of
over fifty.
TO-DAY fifty dozen linen huckabuck tow |
els, extra good size IS cents each; napkins |
so cents per dozen: doylies, Is cents per |
dozen; fringed towels, SO cents per dozen. !
Red House.