The morning call., 1893-02-04

limit o; cost in respect OF the San Fran
cisco Postoflice building has been fixed by
the Committee on Public Lands and
Grounds. The Appropriation Committee
has yet to pass upon the question. 1t Will
require careful handling to get large and
handsome building o stone or brick out OF
s.. 0O0, GEO. but that Is all that has been al
lowed. good building can be provided
Ter that amount, but IL VIII not be the won
der of the city for tourists unless 1t Is CON-
pared with its present beehive, shabby rep
resentatiye on SansOme and Was lngton
streets. In pubic buildings utility has first
In be studied; Stateliness and ornament
should accompany that II possible.
The resolution OF the Ways and Means
Committee of the Assembly. directing At
torney- General Hart to pay into the treasury
$4,000 which came into his custody as the
compromise Of an action against certain
Harb0r Commissioners and their suretles,
should have gone a step further. II should
also have given information as to where the
money has been living all this time IL -
not 10 be supposed that 1t has been slowed
away unprOdUctlyely in the Att0Tney-Gen-
eraPs safe. Then il the money has been in
vested or interest has been running, who is
the benefciaTy-the State treasury or the
Attorney General? 1t is right public policy
70 keep all public moneys IN the treasury,
interest IS earned. But # public money Is
invested, the product should 20 into the
treasury.
1t was the firm of Langhorne & Miller
who wen the action against the HarbOr
Commissioners. The same law firm have
/ been successful in obtaining judgment
against the Central and Southern Pacific
! companies and others for taxes due in 1857.
! The principal comes TO S647. $50. but there
! is also per cent penalty and interest from
/ delinquency at per cent per annum. besides
] attorneys fees and costs Judge HeDbard
/ awards Langhorne & Miller ~ per cent on
| tie principal amounts being S4S, 557 -, and
a. K. Cotton receives pa per cent CT Sl6,-
| 49, -. Tie court points out that the CON-
/ panies had abundant opportunity to show
| good faith in their refusal TO pay. Ii is.
| however, the old policy. They come into
| court Offering to pay no portion OF those
| taxes. valid or invalid, resisting the payment
of eyerv cent thereof, and seek TO avoid liza
| bility by technical defenses which are not
sustained either in fact or in law" VIII
! they now pay up?
The Panama Railroad Company has not
! yet got its new steamer arrangements in
! operation. but the business cannot hang
| FIRE long Some details are yet 10 be ar
ged about classification and rates, but
otherwise there is full assurance that the
enterprise will be launched successfully
Mr.. Leeds goes to New York TO complete
the friendly partnership. Meanwhile tile
Pacific Mall contract is dead paper, and the
| consequence Is seen IN It's refusal To quote
| through rates for isthinus traffic. 1t need
| not, however, long be debarred from doing
| So for the Panama Railroad Company will
| Oblge it with the information as to the
local transit rates, and 1t can then make the
| calculations with ease. The rivalry in the
| coast trade promises TO be warm. but there
may actually be business for two compan-
| les provided the rates are moderate. The
| time has gone TO consider the railroads
| across the United States in this traffic, and
! oceanic lines may push the freight and pas
senger business for all it is worth. The
volume of shipping trade might easily he
trebed
CoyOte-huniing should be a tolerably lu-
cratiVe pursuit IL the State treasury pays
out such a round sum as 100000 for the
slaughter. To suppose that the day Of
determination is near would be very op-
timistic, so the raid on the treasury will
continue. In the economy Of nature the
coyote has his good qualities He does not
eat corn or wheat or early vegetables. but
he is fond of rabbit aud squirrel and almost
any animal with flesh on its bones 1t
would pay the farmer TO get rid Of more
Occasionally lamb Is devoured when skip
ping TOO far from ths eve, but the lamb
worrying does not drive the rancber into
bankruptcy One may ask why some local
manufacturing use is not made of the skins
of jackass rabbits, squirrels and coyotes.
The fur is pretty, and that is great recon-
mendation for ciOakmaking. The Eastern
States and Europe would take every skin
thus worked up, provided the handlcrat Is
skllful. There are millions Of rabbits IN
the San Joaquin Valley at the manufac-
turer's service.
Colonel Saunderson, the belcose member
who sits in Parliament for North Armagh,
frequently gets into hot water with his or
atoTy. He is accustomed to use strong Ian
guage in epithets and manufactured humor.
and IS listened to more for his eccentricities
than for his thinking. His burly form and
clustering manners appear formidable. but
in reality be Is as harmless as that
fierce looking monster, the Arizona liz
ard which wears its spines and repellanI
color as a DOGGY to scare off enemies,
When the colonel sits down his normal
gOod-natuTe reasserts supremacy and his
genIallty and racy spirits make him enjoya-
BILE company even among those who are at
daggers drawn in regard to his verbose full
limitations and bigUted denunciatiOUs. HUI
NOR is so scarce in the House OF Commons
that the colonel has an inflated notion OF his
merits. He is sometimes outwitted, how
ever, in his chosen line. sarcasm, irony and
raillery not being scarce endowments
| ha Trieb cf haro