The morning call., 1892-04-08

The oveThauling Of Custom-house affairs
in San Francisco has resulted in the up
roofing OF much information on fraudulent
methods Of doing business and making the
tariff conveniently easy. Without official
connivaEce and assistance these frauds
could not have been perpetrated. There
has been treacheTy within the Appraisers
building as well as bribery outside OF IT, In
dication of the turn things have taken is
afforded in a dispatch from Washington.
Charles VI. Leavy has been relieved Of the
cares of Office as appraiser OF merchandise
on the ground alleged of completely in
frauds by undervaluation, and he has now
10 face prosecution. Whether others are
to be brought before tie Grand Jury re-
mains 10 be seen. but completely implies
conspiracy In the systematic undervalua-
ton which has been carried on so boldly
the brlber is worse than the Dribed. 1t is
his money that tempts the public officer 10
be false to his trust. and his illegal gains en-
able him to underSell and injuTe competitors
in business.
The French are making war on Dahomey.
Could they so conclude hosiiities as to ex-
tInguish that kingdom. and put the natives
under some form Of rule which would dis
peuse with the bulcheries Of human sacri-
nee as a Precipitation Of fetch idols, no civ
ilized country would object As the Da-
homeyans are in possession of good arms
and are Tesolute, warlike race, the French
Will be lucky II they 90 not sustain serious
losses, but their ultimate success against n
savage foe is not doubtful. They have this
time 10 face in doubled strength The famous
female warriors, who now number 6O0O and
are understood by the Kings generals to be
invincible. 1t will be cruel work to sere-
made the fair sex with machine guns, but
that is one Of the operations of war most
effective against close ranks aud the French
Cfr,c, hsa
indiscriminate slaughter OF human lives at
the murderous within Of savage sovereign
French success will check the slave trade in
this region and give protection to the
weaker tribes, who are decimated by this
horrible traffic.
Whether Deeming is guilty Of the White
chapel murders or not will have no bearing
upon his fate. His other crimes are proved
against him beyond question, and there is
but one sentence that can be passed on such
monster in British colony. But before
he is handed over to the bangman it would
be satisfaction TO the whole of the civil.
lied world to have the demoniacal perpe-
traitor of those awful murders In London
absolutely identified. The memory of these
| crimes will not soon fade, and as long as
the lnhumsp brute who committed them is
undiscovered all sorts Of mistakes in efforts
at Identification viii be made under the in
fuence Of suspicion. A clew is reported To
have been found in London connecting
| Deeming with the murders very circum-
| staDtaly. a woman has identified him by
| lis portrait as the person who courted her
| under the name of Lawson at time when
TWO oil the murders were perpetrated lie
was with her on the night tho women were
| bnicheIed, and In conversation next day he
MADE remark that implied he thought him.
sell suspected. The woman never saw him
| afterward. Whether this story be halluci-
| nation or not, the public certainly have
strong opinion that DeemiDg is the demon
| who produced such CONSERVATION In Lon
| den. The known atrocities of the heartless
miscreant prove him capable of committing
| the others.
Certain good citizens Of Massachusetts
have signed a petition presented TO the Sem
ate, praying that such Chinese as were in
the United States prior to the passing of the
| first exclusion act may be allowed to be nat
| ural.zed. There Is not the slightest chance
that this movement on behalf Of the people
| whom We would gladly see out of the coun.
try can succeed; but if it were successful
| the door would DO thrown open pretty wide
toa large amount OF fraud. Chinese du-
| Dlicity and craft would not allow the
advantages OF such legislation to remain
unItilized. What possible good could be
| achieved by this concession when the evil
| dent desire OF the country is that Chinese
| should be prohibited from settling in our
midst? Those States which have had the
| fullest experience OF MoDgolan immigration
| are the least inclined to tolerate 1t under any
| pretext. What could be the gain of citizen
ship when exclusion has been resolved upon?
The Finance Committee of the Board Of
Supervisors has completed Its investiga-
| ton into the manner in which SO many
| worthless surety bonds have come on file In
| the Police Courts. If the rotten system Of
tn ha toI
| sponsible persons is to be suppressed mere
| stringent methods of procedure In such mat
tiers will have to be devised. The precau-
| tion should at least be taken to ascertain
| whether persons who offer themselves as
bondsmen are possessed of the property
they profess to hold. 1t clearly will not do
to take mere personal assurance, for the
| experience is that lying is regarded as
| legitimate art in imposing upon a court;
| But there is much more than eyidenca of