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POLITICAL OFFENDERS.

Judge Billings Of the United States Cir
cuit Court for Louisiana has decided that
Chinese arrested for violating the exclusion
act are political offenders, but are not crimi-
nails. Judge Billings makes some fine dis
tinctions. he does not declare the law In
valid, but does declare that violating the
law is not punishable offense. He says
there is nothing in the statute declaring
that it shall he a crime or a misdemeanOr
for Chinaman to come into the country !;
the law simply says he shall not come. If
he does come he is in position to ask the
Government what it is going to do about IT,
The statute, Judge Billings thinks. deals
with the coming of Chinese as police mat
ter; it enforces kind Of quarantine against
the Chinese. 1t was hardly expected that
law enacted by the two houses of Con-
gress and signed by the President of the
United States would be whitfield down to
the level of a police regulation. The act
declares that Chinese laborers shall not
come into the United States. 1t is the high
est possible exercise OF the will of the peo-
pie. 1t was passed after several years of
experiment had convinced the people that
exclusion was the only remedy for the evil
OF Chinese immigration. Judge Billings
closes his exposition of law with the words I:
I'm accordance with these views i must
direct that this indictment be quashed, and
that the defendant be remanded 10 the Gus
tody of the Commissioner to be dealt with
according TO law" According to what law |?
The only law under which the coming Of q
Chinese laborer can be punished Is the law
the Judge had declared he could not hold
him under
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CREATING A DISTRIBUTING POINT.

A city becomes distributing point TO the
extent at which it can supply customers on
better terms than any other point. There
is no law of trade more fixed than this. All
over the country the merchant buys of the
distributing point which can give him the
best bargains. There is an attempt now
being made TO convince the merchants of
this city that discriminating railroad rates
in favor of San Francisco will enable San
Francisco to become a distributing point
FOR the State. 1t is assumed that the rail-
road company can make such rates for San
Francisco that goods will pass through in
terror cities to this city, and, consequently,
that merchants of these interior cities will
make their purchases here. 1t should be
plain TO everybody that this policy, il it
could be carried out, would antagonize the
interior cities. Their merchants would be
denied facilities which they Justly consider
to be in the nature Of rights Another point
should be considered. Can discriminating
rates be made that will allow a percentage
of advantage which will make the handling
of goods profitable business? There is
only the margin Of discrimination between
the interior merchant aud return to his old
habit Of buying In the East and shipping
direct to the city in which he does bust
ness. There is another policy by which
San Francisco may become a distributing
center. a class of goods can be brought
TO this port by seaat about one-iourth the
cost Of shipping Them by rail. Another
class can be brought to the Isthmus of
Panama. and perhaps shortly by the pro-
jected railroad across 1ehuantepec. A
third class OF compar atiYely high priced
goods will come by rail as at present. With
ell these facilities Of getting goods at lower
cost than Is possible for an inland town,
San Francisco will become by the force Of
natural LAVE a distributing point for an
area OF several hundred miles In extent If
we improve these facilities we shall not be
dependent upon the caprice Of railroad
company, nor shall we antagonize our
natural customers. Merchants doing bust
ness at what are now terminal points will
continue to enjoy the same privileges as
heretofore. The interior merchant, who
finds that he can trade to greater advantage
in San Francisco than in Chicago or ST
Louis, will not feel that San Franchises
ability to sell cheaply has been obtained by
cutting off his privileges. Every interior
city will give San Francisco its trade at
even rates for the reason that it is the CON-
mereial capital of the State with political
and industrial Interests in harmony with
their own. The average interior merchant
Is stranger in Chicago or st. Louis, but in
San Francisco he is at home. He has social
and political relations with the metropolis
OF his own State, which make occasional
trips pleasure
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ent all is in the clouds. Not even Alcatraz
is a fort completed. nor Is Angel Island or
Fort Point or Lime Point or Goat Island.
The condition of unpreparedness is de-
plorable We ought to be ready for war
hour by hour. AT present it is matter of
years and San Francisco would suffer In the
event OF great danger.
1t is amusing to observe the eclat with
which the Canadians hail the project Of a
fast line of steamers between Halifax, Nova
Scotia. and Milford Haven. The Canadians
suppose that the traveller to Chicago. the
traveller to New York will prefer twenty
four hours 81 railroad travel to forty-eight
hours of steamship comfort They have
the idea that people of means will break
their journey on an ocean passage for the
sake of saving day. 1t is an illusory idea
unless the Injuries of life can be made az
comfortable by railroad as they can by the
modern steamship. Travellers of experience
say without hesitation that the steamship
is preferable for a journey to the railroad
car, however luxurious upholsterng the
TailTuad-car may have. The Canadians are
mumbling nonsense when they suppose the
trade of the Atlantic can be transferred to
them merely by saving day TO passengers
Cargo has TO be considered. and cargo comes
from the country that provides it.
Ahlwardt who made very serious accusa-
uOnS against the herman Government In
regard to the manufacture of the rifle sup
piled to the army. has wound up his career
10y going 10 JAIL 1t almost looks as IL the
court had been compliant with Govern
ment desire TO hush up investigation into q
Government scandal. The accused fur
nished good deal of evidence from army
men in support OF his denunciation But
1t must be accepted that he has failed to
substantial his case, and il is God thing
for Germany at a critical moment that the
trial Is over and that the nation is allowed
leisure TO proceed ahead on lines of progress
not tending to disruption.
In receiving the deputation representing
the national Nicaragua canal convention at
the White House yesterday President Har-
ris0n uttered saying which should live 10
politics aud in commerce. 1t was this, 1.-THE
lack of the canal retards the progress of the
world" Undoubtedly it does. The canal
would confer benefits innumerabie upon
commercial mankind by shortening the
routes OF commerce, Whsn this canal
IS made we shall no longer have the Cape
Horn route. attended By weeks of buffetng
and disaster. The Journey between the
most distant parts of the earth in the West
ern Hemisphere will be reduced by half the
time. President Harrison added this pro-
phetc sentence. that IF we do not succeed
England or some other power WILL" Ii is
obvious that, while we have the opportunity,
we should allow 10 complication of an inter-
national character to arise in isthmian
trade. This country can take possession of
tbs Nicaragua canal and should.
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the silver act of 1890 is repealed, what then?
An act authorizing free silver coinage and
making the dollars so coined an unlimited
legal tender viii throw business upon sill
yer basis. What will be the status OF debts
the courts would decide. The confusion
that would follow would be about as bad as
panic. Gold would jump to a premium of
from 80 TO 10 per cent and creditors would
be clamorous for payment of debts in gold.
1t Is more probable that the gold standard
will be retained and the silver thrown upon
the market. European nations would have
to choose between letting silver down to a
point not yet dreamed of, and buying silver
with their gold. Letting silver down would
cause a frightful loss both to people and to
Government. What the monometallists are
expecting no one has yet said. The English
members of the conference go no farther
than to say that the gold standard must be
continued. But Ii the fabric of credit is
not shaken by the withdrawal of silver as
money y. the dreams of the most sangune
opti mist will be realized.
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HARTER'S DISCOVERY.

Congressman Harter has discovered a
process by which money can be poured into
the treasury without loss To anybody. He
imagines he can get SIS, 600. 600 from a duty
OF one-half a cent pound on sugar and the
repeal OF the bounty act ST., 000,0 600 TO come
out of sugar refners and S8,0o0.000 saved
from sugar producers. In this calculation
Mr. HaFter Ignores the fact that the removal
OF the sugar bounty will kill growing in
dus!ry, and also the facility with which
trusts of all kinds transfer taxes to their
customers. The sugar refiners will simply
add the duty to the present price of sugar.
There is no reason why they should not.
The act kills the only competition which
might Ia time regulate price OF sugar. The half
cent duty will be imposed as we'll on foreign
refined sugar as on the product of home re-
fneries. Sugar is an article also on which
the freight rate is high 10 proportion to its
value But duty on sugar is the natural
outcome OF a revenue tariff. Probably with
diminished receipts from articles On which
the duties are decreased the half cent duty
now proposed will become a one or possibly
two cent duty.
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THE SENATOR SHIP.

Senator German expresses surprise that
there should be an attempt made to change
the political complexion of several States
in which the Democrats were reported to
have majority. Among the States which
are In some way to be subjected to the re-
turning board process is California. AT the
last election the vote of California was so
nearly even between the two principal par
ties that a mixed college of electors is
chosen. The Democratic average is about
800 greater than the Republican. But, for
one cause or another, the Democrats elected
ffty-s6ven members of the Legislature and
rne Republicans but thirty-six. The twenty
FOLLOWERS and the independents Of one kind
or another make up the 120 members OF the
Legislature. Now, with about an equal
share of the popular vote with the Demo
Gratis. there must have been some reason
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why the Republicans made such poor
showing in the legislative districts. To SEN
ator German that reason may not be ap-
parent, but to the people OF this State 1t is.
The Republicans were beaten in the legisla-
tive districts for the simple reason that Re-
publicans believ ed that If the.Legislature
was Republican the Southern Pacific Com
pany would name the Senator. The fact
that the Southern Pacific Company's choice
was believed to be M. Ii. de Young had also
something to do with the Republican defeat
The only ATTEMPT that can now be made to
change the political complexion of the Leg
islature will be the purchase of votes with
coin. There is no place for any returning
boards in this State. The election machinery
was in the hands of the Republican bosses.
and the presumption is certainly fair that
they did not cheat themselves.
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FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

THE CALL has had San Francisco care
fully canyassed In order to learn what city
morning newspapers were taken by the
people. The result is that THE CALL cir
Cu,ates fully one-fourth more copies than
any other paper. The CALL circulation
leads by fully one-Quarter. The Chronicle
comes next after The CALL and leads the
Examiner. The above facts show why The
CALL is so strong in San Francisco.
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INCONTESTABLY THE LEADER.
Stockton Mail.

Stockton Mail.
In all things which go to make clean,
decent and commendable newspaper. THE
CALL of San Francisco is incontes:aby the
leader in the morning field of that city. In
the last year 1t has been on the right side Of
more propositions. has done more to attain
desirable public ends, than both Of its
morning contemporaries. 1t has repre-
sented the very best thought and impulse
of its party. l. speaks we'll for the citizens
OF san Francisco that under this sort of
management 1HF CALL is showing signs Of
great prosperity. To deserve popular en-
cOuragement Is not always to receive it, but
desert and reward seem to 20 together in
the case of LIE CALL.
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San Francisco has parted with some of its
eemetery ground at fair price 10 the Fed
eral Government and the Federal Govern
ment proposes TO construct fertilization
works thereupon. The loss of cemetery
ground TO the city Is not in any sense
serious matter, and the gain to the city by
proper fertilization works is considera BILE,
because thereby the rates of insurance may
be reduced. But IL will be good thing to
ace the time arrive when the harbor OF San
FRANCISCO Is properly protected. At pres.
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DECEMBER 1892
SiZtGGn-P2g9 Edition.
NOTICEI

AHy Of oar patrons acbO fail TO find THE
MORNING Gall for sale JQ troia-boys
Vibco1ger a fGror Jy notifying thiS Q5jce q
IGGct. naming the date and train.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES :

DAILY CALL Uneluding Sundays}, IS per year by
ID af postpaid: 10 cents per week. or IS cents per
calendar month through carriers. DAILY CALL
6vr copies. three months. IS 20. SUNDAY CALI
(sxteen psgesl. 81 so per year. postpaid SUNDAY
CAILand WEEKLY CALL, 81 SO per year, postpaid
WEEKLY CALL Is pages, 81 per year, postpaid
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
pCl will the editor enter into correspondents re.
elfCfIDp them
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ees Montgomery street. near Clay. open until IL
o'clock p. N. BRANCH OFFICES: 40 Market
street, Kearny open until IL O'Clock midnight:
S3e Hayes street, open until $50 O'Clock: sos
Larkfn street. open until 80 O'Clock: 25 Mission
street, open until O'Clock 2. M: and lie Ninth
street, open until $3.50 P. NJ
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We sell dinner, tea and toilet sets OF handsome
designs. ciockery, china aud glassware at half
Oid-llme prices. Our Mocha and Java coffee ia
perfection. Our teas and spiees have no eoual
At Great American Importing Tea Company's
stores. An extra Christmas present given TO
each
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The Oldest Wooden Building,
PhiIadelphia RECORD


The oldest wooden building is the church
at Borgund. in Norway, which was built in
the eleventh century, and has been pre-
served from the effects OF the weather by
repeated coatngs of pitch. 1t is built of
pine and is of fantastic RDmanesQue design.
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THE nAIIY MORNING CALL

FOR SALE AL
New York BRENTANo BROS. Union Square
Chicago ........... News Stand Palmer House
Mn orleans ........., ALLOT Il JOUBERT,
l151, Common ST.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

IFrARTNFNT OF AGRICULTURE.
MEATHER BUREAU.
FAN FRANCISCO. December 10, 1891
Official Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midnight Sunday.
Northern CalfornIa-Fair weather; warmer;
nofthery winds.
Southern Csiifornis-Fair except occasional rain
along the coast: warmer; south TO west winds.
san Franeisc0-Fair weather; warmer winds
noIthery. p T. JENKINS
Local Forecast Official. in charge
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rur rAsrrRN oFFICE OLE THE GALL,

etPotter building, New York CRY, isprovided with
tlttof California papers. Visitors welcome. Ad-
<e.iisiIg rates and sample copies furnished
F. X. MISCH, Manager
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THE MORNING CALL
FERTILIZATION OFFICE:

Has larger circulation than any other
newspaper published in San Francisco.
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GREAT sale finest eye-glass specs ] sc up. 65
Fourth ST., Sunday 72S Market Noe numbers.
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The marvellous suaeess OF Hoods Sarsaparilla
is due 20 its positive merit. II cures where other
preparations fail to do any good whatever Ia IL
not the medicine for you?
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No Christmas and New Years table should Ia
without a Bottle of AngOstura Bltters. the world
renowned appetizer OF exquisite flavor Beware of
couBterfeits
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CHURCH NoTICEs-CoNTINuEp

~ First Congregational Church. Cor.
49, OF Post aud Mason sts-Rev. Charles O..
IL O'Clock: theme: Winged Faith and Speedy
Answer" In the evening at 80 O'Clock: theme !:
"1he Young Man ana His Mother" Sunday sch DOL
service Mrs Coopers Bibie-eIass In the auditorium
Mr.. Kimbslfs Bibe-elsss in study. Young Peoples
kndeavor meeting at $50. Weekly prayer meet
ing. "Wednesday. at 80 p. NJ. S. ID. Mayer or
gansr, will play fifteen minutes before evening
service. In the evening the pastor delivers the
third in his series OF addresses on themes of special
interest TO young men, All cordially invited.
especially those from hotels and boarding. houses
IN the vicinity
BIZ Post ST.. bet buchanan and webster-Rev
w. ID. Williams DID,. pastor: residence I7l9 Post
street. Preaching / A. aud 80 p NJ. sunday
schools. 80 A. VI. and 80 p NJ Christian En-.
de yor at . 80 p. N. Prsyer-meetfng "Wednesday
at ~ r. NJ Morning sermon: Things That Are
Lovely" Evening sermon: "HAlf Hours With
Whole Truths" the first OF three sermons on pres
ent dectrinal disturbances represented by Profess
sors Briggs. Smith, al Everybody in vited to ali
The services Strangers welcome.
- First English lutheran Church,
H-0 Geary ST.. near Octavia-Seryiees at IL A. N.
ana rh,3 "a; AL, F. NJ Al the morning service Rev
Evening. Children's PYRAMID FESTIVAL Sunday
school at e;4o A. N. Young peoples meeting at
P. NJ.
E Universalist servic s-Rev. @. H.
49, Shinn, general missionary, will preach at
Red Mems Building, 800 Post St. (washington
Hall. ground noor) at ii n and p. N. Sub
The Universslist Creed" Sunday-schooi 1915
p. NJ Young people of Oakland church will con-
Duct young peoples meeting at z. Sermon at 8. .
~ Young Mems Christian Association
49, nan, 23E Sutter St. bet earny st. and Grant
ave. - Grand union mass-m Getting of young men
only, this (sun day. afternoon at O'Clock. Mr.. T.
address. sublect, "Sowing and Reaping." This
will be Mr.. Roberts closing address as he leaves
for the East Monday. Special singing by q male
quartet seats free 20 gentlemen between l6 aud
80 wears OF age
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CHEAP GROcERIEs--It will pay you to get your
groceries at the Old reliable house o. sbarboro a
Co., 53l W ashington Sc. Choicest goods at lowest
prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. The Cheapest
place tn the city. Send tor our monthly caraIogue
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THE best way to avoid scalp diseases hair IN ling
out and premature badness. is to the best pre-
ventive known for that purpose-HaI's Hair
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SPECIAL sale OF decorated china by loca
artists, at Sanborn, Vail & Co.'S
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JANUARY STYLES BUTTERFLIES patterns. Cata-
Iognes mailed free. II. A. DemIng. l2i Post Isl s y
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IN AFFLICTED with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Tho;.o
son b Lse Water. Druggists sell ii at % centS
TxrEA Minee PIES swAIN,s. 2I1 snrtsr stras,
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@ First Baptist Church. Eddy st. Ret.
~ Jones aud Ieayenworth-Rev.J J. q A Henry
pastor. will preach at IL a. NJ. subject ..Broken
Baigstrades"; and at q: 80 r. NJ. topic "Out OF a
Situation" Sunday-school at 1890 p NJ Young
Peoples Society OF Christian Endeav at 80 p NJ
Pastors residence. The Bereslord 500 Bush at All
these services are open to the public. Strangers
are welcome.
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IA AN1ED-GOOD SECOND COOK FOR FIRST
w class place, $50 to S65; call 10 A. NJ sunday
LEON ANDRE 800 Suffer ST I
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IL ANTED - 10 WIDE-AWAKE MEN WHO
" want TO be somebody to take 5 acres each OF
beautiful fruit land in OF the richest sections
OF the State Will let you have acres for SO and
only pay 81 cash and 81 a Week after this don't
miss it and you will soon have home your own:
otherwise the poOTheuSe awaits for you i'm your old
$40 Market ST. dell 81
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DORrUGuES HEAD COOK AND CREW
country hotel, Sl55; bellDoy, irst-ciass hotel
south. SIS aud found; waiter, hotel, city $50: 3
woodchoppers. near city. &. K HASSEN l. e.,
ITO 1ieary dali ~
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MALE HELP WANTED.

n GOD SITUATION ASSURED TO ALL COMPE.
VI tent graduates from Merrill College OF Short.
hand, Typewrttng aud Telegraphy. 659 Market
St send for circular. nol7 q
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1k1E CALL CALENDAR.
DECEMBER, 1892.
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IA ANTED - GENTLEMAN OR LADY TO
W travel; salary $3.50; position permanent; rail-
way fare paid here; incIoSe references ana self
addressed stamped envelope. National 1902
MOnadBoek building. Chfez7o. dell Su Il
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81 simpson Memorial Methodist FaIs-
80 copai church. cor. Hayes and buchanan srs-
Rev. A. Z. Hirst. DID. pastor (resIdence 13g Nm
chanan 81 y Preaching at ii A. N. and ;i5P N The
pastor will preach at both services Subject for the
morning: 1.-The Law OF Kindness" For tha even
ing: fright at Short Range" Special music hv hs
cholr. Chautauqua Circle Monday at 7:45 p AZ
Lecture by DR. Nelson. ''The Evolution OF t,harar
ter Choice music by amateur vocaists SIM
day school at 80 r. NJ. c. II. Perkins superfD.
tendent Epworth League service at 6:ge . NJ
The seats In this church free The public cor
daily Invited 10 all the services Ushers In attend
ance. Prsyer-meetiDg wednesday evening AZ
7:45. - ~, "s
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" ANTED VEGETABLE CO0K. COUNTRY
W $50. HOTEL GAZETTE 40 Kearny st. IL 2t
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IA ANTED INSTRUMENTATION BABIES or
W all nations for the International Candle Contest
BABY Show aud Living Chess Tournament, 20 be
held in Mechanics Pavilion December 10 - IL
fncIusive; bring all the babies baby show and
compete for the valuable prizes; charge made
for entries; bring baby with you and register Al
at Office, 1Ol7 Market ST., H. ROTATE
manager no3O II
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ESPECTABLE GIRLS WISHING To MARRY
IL honest men. send your address to MRS a.
box 81, Call Branch Once de8 7ts
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" ANTED-A WOMAN OF TACT; STATE FE-
w perence and salary expected Address Pro-
motion, box lac, Call Branch Ufiee. dec ST.
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IA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BUTLER FOR PkT-
.24 Suffer st dir ~ =