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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-16
In che Sonata.

The copyright bill is the unfinished bust
ness before the Senate. Whether its con-
sideration will be resumed tomorrow, how
ever, depsnds upon the majority's estimate
OF the amount OF time that will be required
TO reach the point Of final action.
Senator Hale has stated his intention TO
call up the diplomatic appropriations bill
tomorrow. The copyright bill is in such
shape that it cannot consume much more
time. 1t win probably be brought TO a
final vote before the diplomatic bill Is taken
up.
The sundry civil end Legislative appro-
priation bills are to be reported some time
during the week and will be pressed at once
upon the Senats's consideration.
The conference reports on the other and
further advanced appropriation bills viii
also be submitted for action.
THE CAUCUS PROGRAMME.
The republican caucus list Of measures
selected for consideration In tho intervals
betwesn discussion of the appropriation
bills Is as follows: Indian depredations bill,
Nicaragua canal bill, pure food and Conger
lard bills, army reorganization bill, inter-
state commerce bill, land court bill, bank
ruptcy bill, revenue marine bill and Pacific
railroad bill. How far In this programme
the Senate may proceed will depend on the
amount Of time occupied by the appropria-
tion bills, but it is the determination Of the
caucus that mono of the measures
named on the list shall be permitted to
remain under consideration for an unreason-
able length Of time and, as a matter of
justice to tho succeeding features Of the
order, any bill will be laid aside that pro-
vokes very much debate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-16

ointment of Europe, however, the workmt n
are employed only about three months in
the year.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
THE JAMAICA EXPOSITION.

A Washington correspondent, writing on
the 21St inst, says:
The action OF the British Government in de-
cllning 10 indorse the Efforts Of the managers OF
the approaching grand exposition al Jamaica to
secure the participation of the Government OF
the United States has aroused great Indignation
al the State Department and among those Sena-
tors and Representative who have been in
form d OF the facts ia the case. Secretary Blaine
makes no cOHcealment OF his belief that The
United States Government was purposely
snubbed by her Maiesty's representatives, and
an Investigation of the facts shows beyond dis
pute that the only reason why the United States
will not be officially represented al the expoSi-
ton Is thai no invitation was extended that
could be properly accepted.
The exposition opened on the 9th, and
the Governments of all the countries of the
Western Hemisphere except the Uaited
States are said to be represented. 1t is not
clear whether the Government of Great
Britain intended to exclude the United
States or whether notice that such an ex-
position would be held was regarded as an
invitation. Sir Julian Paunerfote ad-
dressed a note to Mr. Blaine a little more
than a year ago in which he SAYS that he
transmits, by direction of Lord Salisbury,
copies OF the regulations formed in regard
to an exhibition to be held in 1891 at Kings
ton, Jamaica" and concludes by saying that
he had been instructed to request, in COM
municating the papers, that they be brought
to the notice OF persons in the United States
interested in such an undertaking." Amer
leans interested in the Jamaica trade have
sent exhibits TO Jamaica, but the several de-
partments of the Government have declined
10 do so on the ground that no formal invi-
tatiUn had been sent TO the Government.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
WHAT FREE COINAGE MEANS.

We copy the following paragraph from
the columns of San Francisco newspaper
contemporary Chronicle:
A dispatch from Washington says that gen
tleman who stands close TO the Administration
has said MIR. Blaine is in full accord With plan
for tie purchase by The Uniled States OF the en-
tire silver product OF this co ntinent
The United States does not want to buy any
silver. What Is wanted is TO remonetize silver,
to Uut 1t on The footing 1t occupied before 1873,
aud to open The minis 10 silver bullion rs they
are now open TO gold. If there be any one who
cannot see the distraction between such a ran
and plan TO buy the entire silver product of the
Continent he IS out vi the range OF argument and
beyond tile reach OF demonstration
So long as the General Government pur-
ehases silver at its present price it cannot
possibly lose anything, for silver Can
scarcely be any lower But if the Govern
ment should do what the Chronicle desires,
1t weuld at once pay the owners of silver the
difference between silver bullion and silver
dollars. which is nearly twenty cents. The
free coinage of silver at this time is simply
proposition to pay the owners of mines
the twenty cents which the Government
now makes on its coinage of dollars. The
only safe way is for The country to pur-
chase silver as fast as it is wanted at the
market price for circulation Ii silver ad-
vances to parity with gold the United States
make. but if it does not advance the coun-
try loses nothing. The free-coinage propo-
sition at present is for Individual benefit,
not for the country at large.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
WHO KNOWS?

A newspaper whose proprietor few days
ago was at work trying to obtain Senator
Stanford's influence in order to obtain Mr..
Hearst's position in the Senate, in the
event If his present sickness proving fatal.
publishes some editorial remarks in respect
to the proposition to have the Government
loan money al > per cent interest. From the
article we copy the following paragraph:
California cannot afford TO permit herself to be
pledged 10 a scheme which would seem to have
originated either in The Argentine Republic or
in a luuatic asylum. II the Senate wants to go
on record on the financial question let it resolve
that Leland STAFFORD be requested to lend farm
ers money at per cent year up 10 80 per cent
Of The assess ed value Of their farms, and see how
that proposition will strike the author Of the
Land Loan Bill.
Our contemporary should not be quite so
fast. MI Stanford does not wish to lend
his own money at 2 per cent per anrum.
He only wishes to have other peoples
money loaned at that rate, and probably he
would not object TO having the Government
loan more money to railroads at that rate.
We are afraid our contemporary does not
see quite so distinctly as he would if his
efforts had proved successful to enlist the
agents of Mr.. Stanford in his behalf.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
PROGRESS OF THE WINE INDUSTRY.

. Advance sheets of the Forthcoming report
of the Census Commissioner on the wine in
dustry of California contain some Informal
ton of value. OF the total wine product of
the United States, which is given as about
30. 900, COO gallons, California produces about
haif-say 1900, 900 gallons. Its product has
not materially increased in eight or ten
years. 1t has been extremely difficult to get
exact figures of the wine crop. Growers
have underrated it, as dealers have exagger-
ated it. Even the returns Of the Viticultural
Bureau have not always been reliable. But
it is probably correct to say that the actual
quantity of wine made in this State has not
varied much since 1881.
There has, however, been good progress
in the quality of the wine made. Some
thirty odd years ago California viney ardists
began to supersede the mission grape with
other varieties. 1t was supposed that we had
got the right vines in the right places, but we
have been experimenting ever since.
We have now in this State vineyards con-
tanning the Cabernet Sauvignon and the
Cabernet Franc. the Malbeck. Tamat, Mer-
lot and St. Laurent vines from the Bordeaux
district; Semignons and Sauvignons from
Sauterne; Pinot and Petit Surah from Bur
gundy; Johannisbergers, Traminers and
RieslingS from the Rhine districts; Chasselas
from Lorraine; Burgers from Alsace and
hundred other choice varieties from these
and other localities. Many of these vines
are now in full bearing and wine produced
from them is for sale at the wine-dealers
and is drunk at dinner tables 1t is no
exaggeraiion to say that some of this wine is
a superior article. We have not increased
the quantity of our product, but we have i'm
proved its quality.
This is the true way to fight the makers of
spurious wine. They cannot make out of
chemicals. glucose and brandy wine equal
to some of those varieties which are now on
sale IN San Francisco. If they could there
would DE no object in planting vines.
1t must not be imagined, however, that all
our yineyardisis have brought the wine in
ldustry to perfection in this State. Expert
ence. however. will teach which varieties to
plant in given counties and given soils. 1t
Is more than probable that some Of our most
faithfully conducted whey ards are in the
wrong place; that the soil does not suit the
vine that has been planted there and that at
some time hereafter it will pay to uproot
them and replace them with more congeniai
stock. This can only be learned by actual
experiment
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
WILL RISE TO EXPLAIN.

Some months ago Senator Quay was
charged by responsible New York papers
with having used public funds in private
speculations. 1t was not stated that the
money borrowed had not been returned,
but that the use of it WAS unlawful. In one
case the speculation in which Mr.. Quay was
alleged to have invested public money proved
disastrous. Mr. Quay himself had not the
means TO replace the money be had lost but
his friends came to his relief. In the other
case the speculation was successful, and the
money was returned in time 10 figure in the
annual accounting. After long silence MIR
Quay now promises a defense We trust
that il will be full and satisfactory If it is
not we hope that Mr.. Quay will be induced
to resign. No party can carry men guilty
OF crimes charged against Mr. Quay. Adj
uniting that the moral sense of the average
man Is dull there is a percentage who will
not vote with party that bonors men who
make misuse of public furds. The stay
at-home vote. which caused the defeat Of
the Republican party in November, was
largely inspired by the fact that Mr.. Quay
neither denied the assertions of the New
York papers nor resigned his seat in the
Senate. The good of the party requires that
he should either show that he is not guilty,
or, falling in that. retire to private life
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
BUSINESS TROUBLES.
An Inquest Held in the Case of
Noise Kahn.

The remains of Noise Kahn were inferred
in Emanuel Cemetery yesterday and in the
afternoon an inGaest was held in the Morgue
at which Mrs. Sarah Kahn, the widow, tes-
tiled that she had been separated from him
for three or four weeks. lon one occa-
sion," she said, he threatened to make
away with himself. but l did not think he
would carry out the threat. last met him
one week ago Tuesday, when he told me
that if did not cume back tn him he would
commit suicide. l told him | would return
when he had Strengthened out his trouble
with the Northwestern Insurance Com
pany."
Was it the failure of his attempt to
settle with the insurance company that
caused him to take his life" asked juror.
4" Yes, it was" was the reply.
I. Reade testified to the discovery of Kahn
in a room at The Nucleus House, and the re-
moyal OF the unconscious man to the hospital.
The Coroner's jury found that the de-
ceased, a native of AIsace-Lorraine. aged AZ
years, and an insurance agent. died from
coal-gas asphyxiation and that he committed
suicide during fit of dependency, caused
hy I'm siDpss frOuhlpS
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
WORLDS FAIR pyRorEomN1cs.

A gentleman who cannot be accused of
unfriendliness to the Worlds Fair, estimates
the expense accouat of the seven commits
soneIs whom it is proposed to app lint to d.
rect the expenditure of the 100000 appro-
priation that is asked for, at 100000. A
Commissioner win cost $1,000 year. with a
clerk and other attaches to support. The
entire cost of each Commissioner would not
fall below 5000. aud there are to be seven
of them. And each Commissioner will have
two years in which to peck at the State az
preparation. This appears to be State of
magnificent conceptions. Officials are paid
high salaries and subordnates are employed
TO do all the work There is an army of
men ready to serve The public at $1,000
year and expenses. A larger sum will be
eaten up in the support of these public
spirited citizens than some other States will
appropriate for the fair. II is said that the
number OF State Commissioners was fixed at
seven because less number would not give
each district representative. In other
words, there are seven men so anxious to be
appointed on the committee thai it is dam
gerous to leave one of them out in the cold.
One enthusiastic gentleman imagines that if
California will make grand exhibit at Chi
cago the stretch OF desert between CalifOr-
mia aud the Missouri River will be wired
ont. But this stretch of desert will be re-
stored when wouid-be immigrants apply at
railroad offices for tickets to California.
They will find ii on the waybtll mile for
mile, and each nile will represent about four
cents. Under these conditions il is not prob
able that the movement of immigrants TO
California will ever assume proportions
compared to that which settled Kansas in a
couple of years. There are other things be-
sides exhibits required to attract immigrants.
We must have work for wage-earners and
land at reasonable rates for men of small
means. Magnificent exhibits will neither
bring men here nor feed them after they are
here. Large landowners and railroad COM
panieS will derive a lions share Of the bene-
fit from an exhibit at Chicago. These are
the two kinds of property that most per-
sistently and successfully evade payment of
taxes. The large land-hoder is taxed for
about one-tenth of the value of his land,
and the railroad companies only pay what
taxes they NAV please TO pay. But most of
the Worlds Fair pyrotechnies emanate from
one of these sources
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
PUBLIC PRINTING.
The Reports Injunction Proceedings Sub
nitted on Briefs.

The Reports Injunction Proceedings Sub
mitted Briefs.
The injunction proceedings of W. r. Bun
ker and A. c. Hester, seeking to prohibit
the Board OF Supervisors from multiplying a
contract to do the public printing, which its
predecessors awarded to the plaintiffs, were
submitted on briefs yesterday.
The demurrer is upon the grounds, sub
stantisly. that the cour. has no power to
enjoin legislative body from passing reso-
lutiols; that there is no express or implied
authority in the law enabling the board to
bind the city to give all or any of the public
printing to any particular paper for given
time, or to continue the same as the official
organ Of the city that while the board is
vested with legislative power it cannot di-
vest itself of it by delegating any one under
its control to bargain for public printing or
other work; that the board cannot so con-
tract for the public printing as to withhold
from an incoming board the power of max
ing newer arrangements. and that the Re-
port contract is irregular when compared
with the printed proposals, in accordance
with which 1t should have been submitted
Several other points will be urged by the
City and County Attorney, which hinge
upon the proposition that the remedy sought
by the Report may be obtained by action at
law, but not by injunction or proceedings in
auujtv
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
SIGNAL SERVICE, U. S. ARMY
DIVIsIoes or THE PACIFIC. :


DIVIsIoes or THE PACIFIC,
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 30. 1879 P M
Synopsis for the Past Twenty-faur Hours.
The cyclone of Thurday is stiH central In British
Columbia and there are evidences OF another dis
turbance from the ocean of Vancouver Island
The barometer has fallen decidedly In California
and Nevada. with heavy cloud formation and
threatening weather at occasional stations. The
wlnds are generally westerly In the North Pacific
region, aud horth in Arizona. The barometer
IS highest in South western Oregon aud lowest In
Eastern Washington. The temperature has fallen
IN Central and Southern California and Arizona:
at North Pacific Coast stations. Rain or saow has
fallen ia Washington, oregon. North I'm Nevada
and Eastern Arizona. Tine following precipitation
has been reported from Sig al Service stations:
Olympia, COZ OF inch; Fort Candy. COS: Spokane
Falls. O.O2; walla walla trace; Baker city, DOG;
Portland, O0s; Roseburg, OPS Wmnemucca. O.02;
Fort Grant, 0.5O; Eureka missing.
Forecast Till $ p. NJ. Saturday.
For Northern CaIfornfa-FaIr weather. except
tight rain at Eureka, Red Bluff and Winnemucca:
variable W nds, generally south to west: nearly
stationary lmperature.
Fer Southern California-Fair weather: variable
winds; nearly stationary temperature.
For Oregon and Washington Rain, turning to
snow in the mountains; variable winds. generally
south TO west; nearly stationary temperature, ex-
cept cooler 4! Portland and Olympia.
join p. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Signal Corps Qa charged.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
A Hnir-splitting Objection.

A communication of forbidding length
and bulk was received by the Board of Ed
ucation yesterday from a japanese with un-
pronOuneeabie name, student in one of the
public Schools He tells of misstatement
in regard to Japanese history contained in
one of the school textbooks, and begs the
board to have it corrected, because it casts
ignominy on the Mikado's realm. The par
ticulnr clause objected to is that one which
states that when Marco Polo. the Y enetan
Traveller, visited China the great Khan ruled
over all the provinces OF Southern and East
ern Asia, including the great island of Ci-
pango (Japan). 1T is true" he says, that
the Mongul Emperor had overthrow the
Song dynasty of China and conquered the
adjacent countries, but the historical fact
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
CLEVER JUGGLING.
How Specifications We're Changed
for Printing the Tax List.

There was some clever juggling done by
''the solid nine" when The contract for pub
fishing the delinquent tax list was awarded
to the Stock Report. This paper bid IS
cents, and the WORK amounted to $500
lines, equivalent TO S10.713 60. .And vet it
managed to collect S14,35S OS, the following
table showing what the same work has cost
in former years:
1884, Report, 1114 cents. 1O7 OF
1856. Bulletin, cents .........., 3 944 o8
1855, Report, 912 cents .......... 5O2l 40
1889, Report. 99s cents .............s5 ,5O5 ~
As matter of fact the paper that did the
work was permitted to charge 1886 lines
more than the list contained. One of the
means resorted to to beat the game" was
eX-Supervisor Becker's favorite trick of
changing the specifications unbeknown to
anybody, and so as to favor his pet sheet.
The specifications originally read:
Seeond-The price proposed to be CHARGED for
eaeh assessment or subdivision in thr case of
personal properly, Including the State as well as
the ely and county delinquent tax
Ihird-The price proposed to be CHARGED for
each assessment In the OF real estate DIRE
speciive of subdivisions), including ali exniana-
tory mailer relative thereto as entered IN the
assessment book. ~
As changed they read:
Second-The price proposed to be charged for
each assessment In the case Of personal pfoperiy.
1nird-Ibe price proposed 10 be charged for
each assessment In the case of real estate
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
:" CAN CLEVELAND CARRY TEXAS p.

This question is asked by a Southern
Democratic paper named the Southern
Times. In 1884 Mr.. Cleveland carried
Texas by plurality of 1888. which was
increased in 1888 to 146. 46i. The reason
that causes the doubt of the Times that he
can carry Texas in 1892 is the attitude of
Mr. Cleveland on the silver question. A
number of Southern Democrats have been
interviewed and pretty nearly all think that
the next Democratic candidate must be
tree-coinage man. There is precedent for
the change in votes which would leave
cleveland in minority in Texas in 1892
For example, he carried New York for Gov
ernor IN 1882 by plurality of 1884. He
lost New York when a candidate for Presi.
dent In 1888 by plurality of 1904 In
1884 bis $4,000 majority was reduced to a
little more than 1000. Still it is probable
that Cleveland would carry Texas and sew
eral other Democratic Ststes in 1892 should
he be the Democratic candidate. But in the
West, where the parties are more evenly
divided, his well-known views on the silver
question would tell against him. While no
Western man is prominently mentioned 10
connection with the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency, such doubts as ale ex-
pressed by the Southern Times is kind of
notice that tits time 10 find one.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
IMPEDING ITS PROGRESS.

or course those persons in this State who
believe they can manipulate political con-
ventiOns do not wish to have the Australian
system OF voting adopted, for in that event
there wiz be bat slight opportunity for the
success of bossism. The purchase and sale
oil nominations, it is believed, would then be
thing OF the past. The members of the
Legislature generally, it is thought, under
stand why measure which both political
parties were pledged to adopt is held back.
The indications are now, however, that the
measure will be adopted. but it will not IL a
few persons hailing from San Francisco can
prevent IL,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
TO BE WATCHED.

The members of the Legislature should
not be condemned for every vicious bill
which is brought before them, for many OF
these emanate from outsiders-from men
who lobby and originate all manner OF
projects to plunder the public. The men,
bers of the Legislatu will. however, have
to keep their eyes open in order TO defeat
the thousand and one schemes which are
being put forward.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-31
TWO MARITIME LIBELS.
The Ship friedrich Billings Defendant
Two Actions,

The Ship friedrich Billings Defendant in
Two Actions.
Papers in two suits against the American
ship friedrich Billings were filed yesterday
in the United States District Court. The
first is by w. A. Swinerton, assignee Of the
Ii. S. Croker Company, for paper sent by
the George r. Dickinson Paper Company of
Holyoke, Mass, which was damaged on ac-
count of poor handling by the stevedores.
The damages claimed are for the total value
OF the paper and Sl6S 81, the amount paid
Tor freight charges.
The second SUIT is by Mary Jackson, who
was shipped as stewardess at New York
City without the fornlaIty of having been
examined before the Shipping Commits
sioner. For this oversight there is a fine of
$500 imposed, which she claims that she
paid. She sues for the 500 and $50 per
month wages While aboard the ship.
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THE CALLS CALENDAR.
january, 1891.
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