New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-21
TALK AT GREAT CENTRES.
SAN FRANCISCO.
KEARNEY-sENATOR MILLER ON The MI
ARkGUA hlAh'
raY TELEGRAPH TO THE Tribunal


Cav Fp,xc,sco. Jnue 2O-How hard 1t is for
demaoogue to give up his grip on notoriety 10
shown nv the latest scheme of Denis kearncy' tne
ex-Sand-Lot leader aud apostle OF tho Caiiiorh'a
Workingmens movement. kearney mas ooo"
earning his bread for the last two years py NANNY
inc an intelligence Office for white servants anu
acf,nn as agent for the railroad and steamship COM
panies which bring immigrants to this coast ho
has lately formed plan of running ior oo'erhor VI
the State at the next election on what he calls tho
PEOPLES Autobiography ticket He claims INA.
hard times In tho State are due to the ine'nc'ehcy
the State Government and that he can demonstrate
his mower TO raise wages reduce taxes and make
easier the burden Of the laboring man. Inat
Kearney has a shrewd eye to the value OF the sup
mort of the National Administration is shown by inc
fact that he is working to secure Dig reception W
Ju tlce Field on his forthcoming visit 10 TINS CITY
Kearney regards Field as the next Democratic
candidate for the Presidency and as the best friend
the California workingmen have
Meanvblle Governor Stoneman has begun to feel
stirrincs of ambition for n longer continuance IN
office He remarked the other day in conversation
that il was q singular fact that no Governor Oh
California had ever been elected 10 second term,
and then he dwelt upon the advantages 10 inc
State of an Executive who has has one terms ex-
nerience. Then he called attention to the success
of his own Administration, which had been anti
nonopolv anti boss ant-everything that is corrupt
and extrayaQant The joke in this ambitious
scheme of the Governor is that every one except
himself knows that his Administration has been
failure and his chances of reelection are hopeless
He has no hold his party, aud the recent session
of the Legislature showed he hal no grasp OF public
affairs In fact the Democracy has done nothing IN
this state which it promised to do before election
and the Governor has simply loated with his party,
having no more control over it than boat has
over the current which moves 1t.
Senator John +. Miller addressed the Cham
Der of Commerce on Wednesday on tho Mica
ragua Treaty, copy OF winch IhE
TRIBUNE published exclusively at the time
it was sent to ne This eo%Strys relations to
foreign countries, argued that the United states
had clear right TO control lsthmian transit. that
the DE Lcsscps canal was menace To the racine
coast and that every consideration OF National
honor and commercial enterprise demanded that
the United States should have canal OF her own
through Nicaragua. He dwet at length on the
clauses OF the Clayton Bulwer Treaty which have
been held as n bar TO the construction OF IN MIC
aragua Canal, and sho Ned that the provisions Of
the proposed treaty with Nicaragua were not ID
coptrayentiOn of them. Having disposed OF
international complications he drew picture or
the benefits TO the Coast accrulng IRON tue con
struction of the Nicaraf ua Canal claiming that IN
ten years there would be ample business Tor Two
canals and that Che Nicaragua route would never
The Southern Pacific Company (which includes
hotn the Central and Southern Pacific Railroad
compancs) this week decided 10 abolish several
departments in order 10 reduce expenses Since the
beginning of the year not less than 1000 employees
have bsen discharged and now several men IN
prominent positions will have 10 60. Among these
are General Auditor Porter Master OF Transports,
ton RailtOn. Chief Engineers Hood OF the central
Pacific and Gray OF the Southern Pacific and n
number of others. The fact - that the company
has employed too many men for the work to 10
good running. lhat IL the secret oil the reduction
order. and not IA heavy reduction OF earnings IN
senator stanfori's duties at Washington have
made necessary the appointment OF some one 10 MI
his PLACE here. hence the new oilce oil Assistant
President of the Southern Pacific has been created
and given to stephen ;. Gage. one OF the best
known railroad men on the Coast, who has been IN
employ OF the Central Pacific for fourteen years
The recent murder Of white saloon-keeper named
| Dempsey BY Chinese hlgt-bndeI IN China-
town and the failure of the Chinese sig companies
To deliver up the crimna have lod the police 10
adopt "A plan Of blOckadng all alleys IN CHINATOWN
| and searching passers-by for weapons. The result
of this espionage is TO ruin the business OF the
rambling dens and brothels. and the police shrewdly
| Count on the Chinese authorities surTeuderlng the
| criminals rather than allow che blockade 10 con
! tinuc longer The same scheme was trleh aoout
twenty wears ago when the Chinese screened one OF
their murderers. and resulted IN his delivery 10 tho
| police. Although the Chinese habtually go arinfd
| with knives and short iron clubs 80 general was
! the warning OF the police supervision that nor one
| Chiuaman searched was found with a weapon,
| although several were notorious high-binderr,
| or braves who have served terms in San Quentin
| Monsignor Capcl was among the arrivals from
| the East this week. In an interesting talk with
| reporter he declared that Americans have small
| claim 10 the title of an inventive people. having
| produced only two strictly original Inventions,
| sewing machines and roaplng machines. He
thought the most melancholy feature OF the people
was their utter lack OF reverence for everything.
| 10 reform this rreyeren; spirit be believed TO DO
| Tn, mission of tho Roman Catholic Church IN
| America This could only DO done by training
| children to revere religion and implicitly obey their
| parents TO their unqnestionng devotion 10
| common faith ne attributed tue strength oil the
| Den ocracy IN this country.
Careful reports from ali largo agricul tural
| counties show that the dr0uth has reduced the
cereals below half an average crop. The season Is
| phenomenal from the fact that the coast counties
which usually receive heavy fogs that serve IN lieu
OF rain were rs parched as inland valleys. The
fruit crop however, will be extraordinarily large
| and will task the resources OF the canning aud
| driving establishments TO save II from waste.
! James Bee the incendary who confessed that the
anti ,hine,e speech of Coroner ODonnel prompted
him to set fire 10 many buildings in san Jose and
| vicinity, has been sent TO the state Prison for
| twenty years Meanwhile ODonnell abuses the
| Newspapers for crIticising his conduct, and tho
| trades unions OF Los Angeles have invited him to
| address them If his visit does not end in trouble
| IL will be n wonder. Property-owners fear this
| man almost as much as they used 10 fear kearney