The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-29
CALL QUERY COLUMN.
No BattlG-Nhip Or Cruiser Can Beat
the Inman Liners.
Memorial Day Observanee-Liquor Law De-
cisions- Evening Dress-Practice in
the Justices Court.

Nor TO BE BEATEN-D. f., City. Your
question whether there is any battleship or
aTmored cruiser alOat that could overtakc
either the City Of Paris or City OF New
York is answered by the quoted matter
from letter of the Secretary of the Navy
to the Chairman Of the Sepate Com
mittee on Commerce, urging the bill
entitled to encourage American ship
ping" aud incidentally American reg
istry for Inman liners. That letter
says: "The naval policy Of the United
States cannot neglect to take account Of
the fleets Of fast cruisers which foreign
States maintain under the guise of pgssen-
ger and merchant steamers. They c0nsti-
tute an auxiliary navy, and must be reck-
oned as a part Of the naval force of the
Governments maintaining them. II Is diff
cult to imagine a more effective commerce
destroyer than the steamship City OF Paris
(Or her sister ship, the City of New York;
armed with battery Of rapid firing guns.
She can steam over u knots an hour ana
average 1919 knots from land to land across
the Atlantic. No man-Of-waT could over
take Fer; no merchantmen could escape
her. A fleet Of such cruisers would sweep
an enemy's CONNIE ce from the ocean. This
fact is well understood in Europe, and States
that are unproYided With a convertible mer-
chant fleet are preparing to meet the posi-
Bile emergency by partly protected cruisers
that are substantially as fast as the City Of
Paris"
MEMORIAL DAY-T. p. D., Auburn, Cal.
Memorial day was at first known to the
Northern States as Decoration day." but
the observance of the day may be said to
have Orginated-at the South before the close
of hostlities and inaugurated By Southern
women, who by almost imperceptble de-
grees established the yearly custom.
With the close of the war the custom had
become quite general and unwritten
law had fixed upon the 30th of May
as the one for its observance. In
the North, while similar services had
been inau gurated, no especial unanimty
developed until 1868. and the day that year
was formally established in a general
order of Com mander-in- Chief John A.
Logan Of the q. A. r. (2) The encamp-
ment at Baltimore 10 1882 officially
designated the day as Memorial day.
81 The Department Convention of New
jersey in 1874, it is said. was the first to
make a stated effort to secure legislative
action to legaize the 30th Of May as a holt
day. New York was the first, however, In
1873 to designate it az one of the public
holidays. (4) Congress never has legalized
tie day, though most of the States have.
STATE POPULATIoN-A. A. S., Dutch
Flat, Cal. The constitution of the United
States, with which every American citizen
is supposed to be familiar but apparently is
not, declares that representatives shall be
apportioned among the several States &C
cording to their respective numbers. The
same sec ton says that the enumeration
shall be made every 10 years after
the first meeting OF Congress and that every
State "shall have at least one representa-
tive" Therefore before Territory can ask to
be taken in as State of the union it must
have a population which will give it ''at
least one representative" That population
qualification cannot necessarily be fixed
one, but is changeable with every census.
According to the tenth census and the lat
est the apportionment is one representative.
to 14l,911 of population, and Territory
must have that number before IL can be-
come State. Under the constitution origi-
nally 10000 was the ratio.
LIQUOR LAWS - w. +. NJ, Napa, Cal.
% The Kansas law Of 1887 to enforce the
constitutional amendment Of 1880 on pro-
hibition was declared constitutional by the