The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-18

sions of regret. II caught, the offender may
| receive little extra punishment for daring
TO annoy an envoy plenipotentiary.
The office-seekers at Washington are cha
grned that they know nothing of their fate,
and will not for another week. the Senate
having adjourned without receiving any
nominations of subsidiary character. Some
OF the hungry feel pinehed over their recep-
tion and have ceased to expect anything,
but for curiosity's sake they wOnd like to
know where the plums have fallen. An
other weary week they must wait for that
consolation.
The needs OF the treasury in regard
to the maintenance of gold reserve
have been made use of to a GER
tain extent to get rid of light gold.
But the treasury has not been caught
mapping. The gold is weighed, and If found
deficient beyond per cent of the standard,
! which is % $40 grains to the dollar, it is
| paid for according to weight or returned
with Tight weight" stamped on the face.
The effect, however, of not accepting light
coin without deduction Is to keep it in cir
culation and continually getting lighter. In
ordinary use light coin is as good as one of
full weight so only full weight coins reach
| the treasury when payments must be made.
his is an effect so well known in metallic
currency that 1t has become a financial
axiom. All gold taken to the Bank OF Eng
land is weighed. and if light deduction is
eXacted. Recently the amount of light coin
IN circulation was too serious TO be neglected.
The Government undertook to pay in
tuil for half sOvereigus and sovereigns, and
the greater part of the debased currency
was thus called in.
The Six Chinese companies are reported
to have provided fund of 5000 with
which TO take the opinion Of the courts on
the Geary registration act. The final pro-
ceedings arising out of test case will be on
habeas corpus. A few lawyers will pocket
fat fees, but it is not believed they have any
prospect OF upsetting law which is de-
signed to protect Chinese who are in the
country and keep others out who would
come IN, as they have been doing, by hook
or crook. Mendacious statements have
been circulated about the expense of regis
tratl0n. The cost of procuring photographs
does not exceed half dollar per individual.
Fhe deluded will find il great deal more
expensive to follow the misguiding advice of
the Six Companies.
A man has actually passed away at
Quincy. H., who was in his one hundred
and nineteenth year. He was, therefore,
born British colonial subject in 1874, two
years before the declaration of America as
free, sovereign and Independent" He
knew Washington, and Is said TO have been
In his employment. and is perhaps the only
man who can be said TO have enjoyed the
blessings OF freedom under all the Presi-
dents. Except his age, there appears to be
nothing else remarkable about this vener-
able citizen. But be cannot be cited as an
illustration of the debasing effects OF
tobaccO. He enjoyed soothing WHIT to
the last, and he must also have been accus-
! toned to comforting tOothful, as teetotal-
Ism was quite unknown when he was man
of 40.
A corner lot on Fulton aad Broadway.
New York, has been sold at q price so high
| that an acre at a like rate would bring
| S7.60O.00 In London recently $50 square
feet frontage sold at a figure which would
make the acre cost $4,000, OOOl But right
| In the neigh bOrhoOd other land sites have
| been sold at very low prices, and others
| have been withdrawn because the bids we're
| too low. When we get few more rail-
| roads into san Francisco and treble our
population real estate men may be able to
| chronicle some sales as noteworthy ap-
| proxlmately.
Mr.. Irving NJ. Scott denouuces the SEN
saiionaI report in the New York Times
about the boilers of the Monterey as a
| tissue OF misrepresentation. The Monterey
| has had steam kept up ever since size LETT
| the Union Iron Works, and she can steam
| to sea tomorrow as far as her machinery is
concerned. Moreover. Mr.. Scott says the
! company has no loss to endure The
| steamer has been accepted, but \ final test
! has yet to be made by the Government,
| after which a reserve amount oil So, 600 will
/ be- paid over. As usual in such contracts,
| tie Government furnished the plans and
| Specifications, and also furnished the
| boilers, with which the contractors had
| nothing to do. Whatever the condition of
| the boilers. the Navy Department is respon-
| sibie, and. as Mr.. Scott points out, it is very
| unlikely Trial Board of Government ex-
Derts would shut their ewes to any defects Of
The nature ind Heated. The realization of the
| charges made by the Times is prompt.