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THE ORDER OF THE CITY HALL.

He who visits the City Hall for the Trans
action of business is astonished by the
crowd of clerks who are tumbling over each
others feet and chattering together. They
all apparently belong to the same class
hangerS-0n at the city crib. Sometimes they
are in one office, sometimes in another. One
year you find them in the Assessors office,
and another in the Tax Collectors office, aud
another in the office of the County Clerk.
But, wherever they are, they all wear the
same faces, and have the same unpleaslng
expression. Sometimes they are sent to
Sacramento as Assemblymen to represent
the city-beins as unfit to make laws for the
State as so many cowboys. Their term of
legislative duty ended, they gravitate back
to the City Hall, ana are sure to turn up in
some office or other. 1t may be said OF them
as is said of a bishop-once a City Hall
clerk, always City Hall clerk, so long as
life lasts.
Among them these gentlemen collect and
disburSe some five or SIX millions year,
drawn from the people of the city by taxa
ton. There are not 1.-THE of them who would
be trusted to handle twentieth part of that
sum by any experienced merchant. Yet
they succeed each other in regular order
when one dies, or disappears somehow, his
place is always taken by member OF the
same class, looking SO like him that he might
be his brother. The order of City Hall EN-
ployes appears to enjoy perpetual success
sion and immortal life. No wonder the citi-
zen has to deal with the tax-gatherer three
times a year.
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GovERNOR AND SENATOR.

Eastern political circles are disturbed
over Governor Hills retention Of the office
OF Governor of New York when he became
United States Senator on March 4,h last.
There is no law in New York requiring
citizen to resign a State office on accepting a
Federal Office, but it is settled principle OF
American politics that no man can hold the
two simultaneously. The reason for this is
obvious. Occasions of conflict between
Federal and State jurisdiction are con-
stantly occurring. 1t is right that the
claims of the Federal authority should be
pushed with all due energy by those who
are in its service, and in like manner that
the rights of the State should be set forth
with all possible force by the representatives
OF that commonwealth. A man who stimuli
taneously undertakes to represent Doth can
do justice to neither.
The fact is that Blr. Hill lis, as he always
Wa, something of demagogue and a tricky
politician. He holds on to the Governor
ship because it will give him influence in
the fall conventions Of his party and enable
him to fill offices with creatures III his own.
The calculation is as short-sighted as such
calculations usually are. Hill will lose
more bY his defiance of political usage than
he can gain by wire-pulling in convention.
Respectable men are shocked at his con-
duct. Every one is disguised at his attempt
TO hold two incompatible offices. He may
secure berths in the State Government for
some o. the henchmen who have done him
service in the past but he has pretty effect
ually killed his own chance of securing the
Democratic nomination for President
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STATES AND NATION.

The italian paper published in New York
thinks the Constitution OF the United States
ridiculous in according TO the central power
Mt Washington authority to make treaties
without, in case Of violation by any State,
having force to compel that State to main
tain its obligation. To this it may be re-
Piled that the Constitution makes treaties,
and that laws made in pursuance thereof
are the supreme law Of the land, and in case
any State willfully diSregards a treaty the
Federal power, through its courts, uphOlds
the authority of the United States. 1t is in
Difference TO this admitted power or the part
of the United States that California has
submitted for years to the Chinese invasion.
Had the management of this question been
left t. Us il would laYe been settled twenty
five years ago. But the United States had
made treaties with China, aud the Federal
courts have at all times held these treaties
above any law OF this State. 1t is true that
the enactment of an exclusive law in 1885
was violation or abrogatiOn Of one clause
of one Chinese treaty, but that law was the
work of the Federal Congress in It's SOY
ereign capacity. If the State OF California
had passed such law it would have been
declared unconstitutional. The Italian
papers comments on the Constitution were
inspired by the action Of the Federal Gov
eminent in awaiting the result of an investi-
CATION Of the New Orleans massacre by the
local authorities. If it appears that italian
subjects have been mallreated because they
were Italians and if the State of Louisiana
refuse to make reparation the Federal Gov
eminent will have power under the COnsti-
tuition to enforce all laws made in pursuance
of its own treaties But as the case now
stands, Italians are demanding degree of
protection for their subjects in the United
States which native born citizens do not en-
joy. The comfy of nations requires that
citizens Of one country residing III another
shall have all the protection the laws of
that country give to its own people. But
the civil code of one country is not subject
to that Of the country from which the So
journer may have come. Laws governing
the collection of debts, defining the nature OF
offenses and providing for general behavior
differ in different countries. In Paris, for
example, person may be arrested and fined
for throwing waste paper into the streets,
but the United States would not interfere to
protect an American in Paris from arrest SO
long as the laws were impartiaily enforced.
Ii there were two or three Italian subjects
killed al New Orleans their nationality had
nothing to do with the fact Of killing. They
would have been killed if, being American,
English, German or French, they had conf
bned to set the laws of the State at def
ance or if the evidence against members of
such nationalities had been as conclusive as
was that against the men killed at New
Orleans
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THE CONTROVERSY WITH rGAL1.

Whatever else may sGpervene 1t seems OBJ
vious that the sad affair at New Orleans will
impart new strength to the agitation for
reform OF the immigration laws. If the in
dis rimiuate emptying Of Europe into the
United States results IN transactions such
as the one which has jast occurred tie
sooner measures are taken to regulate or
TO stop the emptying the better for peace and
order. The controversy between Baron
Faye aud Mr.. Blaine deals naturally with
the affair on the low plane of the legal con-
struction Of treaties and constitutions. The
American people would like to have it dealt
with by and by in q broader sense. They con-
Germ themselves less about the Malta and its
death and crossbones than about the
large fact that Italy and other nations as
sumo the right Of exporting to this country
The least desirable portion of their people,
class Of persons who are not fitted by their
education OF their habits oF their aEteoe-
denis 10 become worthy members OF the
American nation. They reflect that the
Government of this country, like that of all
other countries, enjoys the right Of exclud-
ing from the national soil articles of mer-
chandise which are regarded as menacing to
health or morality or industrial prosperity,
and they ask why they should not be equally
privileged to exclude persons such as the
members of the Malta, whose presence here
is a menace to order.
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The new law regarding the payment OF
taxes will require the taxpayer in this city
to go down into his pocket three times a
year. In July the city and county personal
taxes become payable; on the fourth Mon
day in November half of the State and city
taxes becomes payable, and II unpaid
penalty of Is per cent attaches; on the
fourth Monday in April the other half be-
comes due, and if unpaid penalty OF . per
cent is added The object of this distribu-
ton was to prevent the usual lookup OF
money in the city treasury at the end OF the
year, hut the effect will be that the citizen
will fancy he Is paying taxes ali the time
and that any increase in the tax levy will be
fatal to the party which enacts it.
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DOES BLAINE WANT Ire
a RepnbILean conlemporary sayg:

n HtDu UIINtIII CNJtl TIT IJIdIJ hdlbs
Just ct ibis moment. II surface indications be
on any value. the President seems TO lead al
other Republicans except the Secretary Of State
as an Availability lof the next national canvass
Nobody Gcnbfs thai The Secretary caB secure
Tie prize II be wishes IL or SiIl take it; but pro
vIalng &c does as 10 1883, ADD peremptorily de-
cllaes Il. lie candidate Of 1888 may be renoa-
mated III 1897
There sre tyo facts thai Etand between
Blaine and lie Presidential homlnAtion-
frSt,the exissenee OF third party tllat Es&y
carry several Republican States. end sseoR C.
the control tbe Democrats have in the
House, wEaeA @5rt caoec Fsgsideat II Size
eIest0rd colleges fair IAe pl2a OF the
Democrats IS cv Ghrow votes enough "a thn
Alliaase ia esr6aiG States 10 0leei thai clue
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
SIGNAL SERVICE U. s. ARMY, I
DIVISION OF THF PACIFIC,

SIGNAI SERVICE L. s. ARMY,O
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC.
SAN FRASCTsCo, Apri! =, lS9l-5 P. Nj
Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours.
The barometer has fallen in California, Arizona,
Nevada and Western OREGON: elsewhere it has risen
& is still above the normal at all stations, 1t
is highest at olympia lSO46 inches1 and lowest at
Yuma (29.s4). The p essure AT san Francisco is
3oIS inches The winds 2 nera'ty north to
in all districts pit sOuthery aio the coast
OF Cent? California. The force IS ge orally light
TO fresh EXCEPT rssh 10 brsS along the northwest
coast OF Cali oruia. san Francisco, southwest %
miles per hour; Eureka, nor Invest, II miles. The
temperature fallen slightly in Central California
OF the southwest coast aud Western Washington;
els where it has risen. II is generally above the
normal in ALI districts, especially in southern
California, where the excess Is from 10 to Is de-
Gree- Light rains have fallen in or gon washing
ton and along the northwest coast of California
The following precipitation has been reported from
signal Service Stations: Sposane Falls, trace:
WalIa walla. O.O2 Of inch; Portland, O.0i;
Baker City. trace; Eureka, OO2.
Forecast Till x p. NJ Friday.
~ Northern Callfornia-Fair weather, except
Hight rains along coast: winds generally north To
west: nearly stationary temperature except cool
az Red Bluff Sacr lmeuto and Winnemueca.
For Southern CailIornia-Fair weather; north TO
west winds: nearly stationary temperature
For oregon and Washingt0n-fsir weather;
winds generally nOrtherly; cooler.
JoHN P. FIHLEY.
Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry, in charge.
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FIFTEEN IN ALL.

Eastern papers devote considerable space
TO the heroic efforts of a United States life
saving crew to save the ship Um0ertO Primo
that was stranded on the Romer Shoal, north
of Sandy Hook. The correspondent of the
New York Herald, who was an eyewitness
OF the scene, thus writes:
Through bowling gale aud enormous seas,
which Threatened every moment to crush the
stout lIfe-boats the lifesayers from the two sta
tons on Sandy Hook fought their way TO the
stranded vessel, aud the miserable drenehed and
shivering wIetches comprising her crew were
snatched from The very jaws OF death. Every
man Of them was saved, fifteen in ALL
but the brave men who accomplished the rescue
took Heir lives in their own hands.
The vessel and crew were Italian. They
were not saved because they were Italians
any more than the individuals who were
put TO death al New Orloans were shot be-
cause they were Italians.
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THE SUGAR SITUATION.

The expectation is that in the course of
time the price Of refined sugar will depreciate
nearly TO the extent Of the duty that has
been taken off. But the cheapening process
will be slower on the Pacific Coast than on
the Atlantic. On this side we depend for
refined sugar upon two local refneres.
There does not seem al present anything to
prevent the local refneries from charging
about the old rates. There are no sugar
refineries to the west Of US that can supply
our market. There is a railroad company
which might bring sugar from tie East at
the ordinary cost of transportation, but that
railroad company has apparently formed a
combination with the refners to keep the
price up It is little singular that when
an opportunity is offered the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad Company to do the people of
this Coast service it fails to accept it. The
agreement of the two refneries to keep the
prices of sugar up to the old mark would
have had but temporary effect if the railroad
had kept rates on west-bound sugar at the
old rates. The refners might have added
to the Eastern profit the cost Of transporta-
ton, but the action of the Southern Pa
cifc Company In advancing the freight
tariff on sugar from 81 90 TO 81 hundred
or quite at the old figure. The Spreckels
Refinery, the American Refinery and the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company VIII,
Tor lime al least, divide among them the
amount that under the old tariff was paid
into the United States Treasury. A sugar.
dealer who was interviewed Wednesday by
a CALL reporter thinks a competing rail-
road would straighten out the sugar tangle.
A competing railroad would. But when
there are two or three railroads, they do not
always compete In the sugar case, if there
were a second railroad there would, in all
probability. be four parties to The sugar
combination in place o. three. If the two
renneries eau combl:g, why might not two
railroad companies? The remedy lies in
the cultivation Of beet sugar Beet sugar
mills should be erected in all parts of the
State. The present outlook is that there is
as much profit in beet sugar as in fruit.
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SHERMAN SAFE.

A contemporary doubts if John Sherman
could have been elected Senator at any time
during the past dozen years if the plan of
nominating Senators by convention had
been in vogue in Ohio. This doubt does not
seem well founded. Sherman has controlled
Ohio State conventions ever since he has
been in the Senate. He has been the Presi-
Dental choice Of three conventions and there
is as yet no indication that ne has lost the
popular support. The convention plan
would put more John Shermans in the Sen
ate and Paynes and Brices out.
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ONE FOR BLAINE.

In Secretary Blaine's reply to Minister
de Faya's note, the former says that neither
tile United States nor the State of Louisiana
can anticipate verdict of court. Mr.
Blaine says I" 1t needs no argument 10
prove that q Jury could not be impartial if it
were in any sense or 10 any degree bound
before the trial of the accused by an assur-
anee which the President Of the United
States had ventured TO give a foreign
power" The log!c of tlIis reply was so
convincing tia. the Italian Premier admits
that It would have been absurd Go claim pun
fshmsnt ler fhe Gfsnders without The guar
zrfees AFFORDED by a regaIsr trial" Yet the
Gay Eefete Minister dc Faya had declared
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that the first demand of the Italian Govern
ment was that official assurance should be
given by the Federal Government that the
guilty parties should be brought to justice.
Since the Louisiana court had commenced
proceedings to Try the guilty parties"
when De Fava wrote, the assurance de-
manded by De Faya must have cantem-
plated some other way of bringing the
guilty parties" to Justice than through the
courts. Mr.. Blaine seems to have convinced
the Italian Premier that he had nothing to
complain about.
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ODD FELLOWS, BANK.


4 Compromise offered to Depositors of
the Defunct Concern.
The attorneys for the depositors in the
ODD Fellows Savings Bank have submitted
to them plan for compromise that will
save the time that would be lost in an APP
peal to the United States Supreme Court.
Each of the depostors has received the fol-
lowing statement:
The amount OF money now on hand ready for
distribution Is s56.5Oo; prospective sale OF Sui
ter County lands. $4,000; value OF other real
estate, $500; total assets OH hand, $4,000.
Another aud maj payment OF 2li2 per cent to the
depositors would require S52,9S2 OIL, which,
subtracted Il ON SIG, 900, leaves balance Of
S63, 072. The stockholders have paid in cash
SIPS. $40, and $63 072 would reimburse them AZ
The rate OF fraction less than 30 per cent MIR.
Benson says payment of gig cent would
enable him TO keep bis books just as they are
and avoid great trouble ana confusion. The
basis OF the compromise already discussed ought
TO be IN accordance with the above statement.
If you authorize me go ahead In this business
please sign the within ana mail without delay,
etc.
BE sure and see the property to be sold at public
auction easy terms Saturday April 4, 1891, on
the grounds, corner Fourteenth and Center Streets
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rAIIY CALL (iucluding Sundays, St per year by
nal. postpaid II cents per week. IS cents per
calendar month through carriers DAILY CALL,
fyf copies, three months. ST. %. SUNDAY CALL
sixteen pages). 81 so per year, postpaid. SUNDAY
GIL and EEHLY CALL, 81 50 per year, post
laid. WEEKLY CALL eight pages 81 % per year.
ieslIald. Cubs Of ten (seut to Que address,, $40
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

A Civil Service examination will be held
on Tuesday in the Custom-honse at which
forty-eight would-be inspectors and fifteen
clerks will he examined. On the day fol-
lowing fifty-four nightinspector applicants,
eighteen assistant weighers and four sam
piers will be examined. From these Col
lector Phelps expects to increase his water
frnnt fnraa
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Mrs. winslow's soothing syrupr

Has been used over nifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while teethng, with perfect
success 1t soothes the child. softens the gums, all
lays pain, wind collie regulates the bowels and
is the best remedy for diarrhea whether arising
from teething other causes For sale by drug
gsts in every part OF the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five
cents bottle
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toral ticket and thus throw the election into
the House. If that plan works the Demo-
cratic candidate will be elected.
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yrF Montgomery street, Clay. open until II
O'clock P NJ BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street. near Kearny, open until - O'Clock midnight
$50 Hayes street. open until 9: 80 O'Clock; sos
LsIkin street. open until 80 o'clock 25I5 Mission
street., open until O'Clock r. NJ, and 1l6 Ninth
sueet, open until g 40 p. NJ
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No better opportunities were ever offered to the
public to choice residence property than at
the auction Saturday. April a, 1891 o'clock
NJ, the grounds. corner of Fourteenth and
Center streets Oakland. Only 20 per cent cash.
William J. Dingee Auctioneer
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Church Suppers.

The Ladies' Aid Society of Simpson Me-
mortal Methodist Episcopal Church, corner
Haight and Buchanan streets, will give
supper in the church parlors this evening
from 80 to o'clock.
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To FoREcLosE MoRTGAGE-The Hiberhla
Savings ana Loan Society has brought suit In the
SUPERIOR Court TO foreclOse a mortgage OF $500
The properly of John L. MildeN, deceased, Oh
Cara street near Fourth.
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THE universal praise given Hoods SarsaparilIa
by those who have taken 1t should certainly con-
vince you that it is the best spring medicine. 1t
thoroughly purifes the blood.
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LEAVE GRANTED TO SELL Judge Hoge yes
terday granted the application OF the Progressive
SpiriiuaIisis to sell real estate belonging TO them
worth s2075O
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: MORNING GALL
r circulation than any other
4 published in SAN Francisco.
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Ee5P Yerba Buena Chapter. No. 4, l.
GT-S Knights Rose CrOix-Annual meet-l S42
ing THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING, April 80, E5f
at O lock. Election III
GEORGE j. Kobe. al
lt* Secretary. Il
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS

TRs Yerba Buenn Lodge of Par- II.
ES-S fection, No. 6-Stated meeting THIS IN
FRIDAY EVENING. April Sd. at 1:3O IN
O'Clock GEORGE j. Kobe, eI2to
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Rs The Fourth Annual Neefins of the
Es~S stockholders OF the It1liaR-SwsS Mutual
Loan Association Will be held on WEDNESDAY,
April 8, 1891. at 80 P. NJ. at their office,
52i Montgomery for the purpose of electIng Di-
rectOrs presentation of the fourth annual report,
and the transaction of such other business may
properly come before the Getting The books are
now open for limited number of shares in the fifth
series Loans made only in the city and county of
san Francisco aud county OF Alameda at b per
cent per annum interest, free OF mortgage taxes,
with the privilege TO repay the same at any time
BY order of the Board OF Directors.
mr3l I'd A. SBARBoRO Sec.
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DrrcHAA's Pills cure bilious and nervous Ills.
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R7 WalhaIia Encampment, No. 1,s& -
a5~S ]. o. o. F.-Tbe officers and the Funeral n
Committee OF the above-named encampmenIx
are requested to meet on FRIDAY, the Sd inst, az
30 p NJ sharp. in their hall, for the purpose OF
attending the funeral of our late Patriarch, JOHN
BOHN. Iap2 2tl Q. j. w EDL. U Y.
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DIVIDENO MOTTO 5.

R9S Dividend Notice-Ofiice of the Pa
9y~S cihc Coast BoraX Company San Francisco.
March 81. ISgl-At meeting OF the Board of Di-
rectors of the above named company held this day.
a dividend mo. A. OF one Dollar (fl) per share
declared, payable SATURDAY, April 10. 1891, at
the office OF the company 23O Montgomery ST.,
rooms Il and u Transfer books close April g.,
1891. at 3 O'Clock r. NJ. ALTON H. CLoUGH.
NJ Secretary
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MASSAGE.

/, =, - :. -
M ISIS SYBff JoHNsroNA. 131 TAYLOR ST.
w apartments and Q; hoLrs 2 to IL APP IT.
OSQ MIsSIoN-ARRIvEs.,..E WooDFoRD
OOo massage; ETA lEAN, paths; daily and
Sunday. mrs. 7ts
. LADY ASSISTANTS WITH ROSE CLEYE
Il LAND massage, Nlieus House. L ~ ta7 II
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The Italian Government is taking measures to
prevent the workingmeass movement on May
day assuming dangerous proportions. An agi-
tafor VINO urged the aborers of Sicily TO start
revolt that day is TO be prosecuted and the
police have been cautioned Ia disperse meetings
OH May lst If any cries are raised or other Illegal
acts INDUCED In. Instead of suggesting the ne
cessily Of changes in our Constitution, Italian
statesmen might with profit inauguraIe some
reforms at home Tile people need them.