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The morning call., 1894-01-21
WOOL TALKS.

A call signed by 100 manufacturers OF
wool from all parts of the country brought
together over 900 men who have their
money in the wool manufacturing bust
ness. From report of the meetng-which
was held in New Tork-in the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, there seems 10 have
been no difference of opinion as to the ne
cessity of continued protection. 1t is
worthy of note that the universal demand
was for protection of wool-grOwers as well
as for the wool manufacturer. The gen.
tlemen attending this meeting were largely
Democratic. One of the resolutions says
that the protest against the Wilson wool
schedule is based upon the pledge of Presi-
dent Cleveland in his message TO Congress
10 1887, that a readjustment of the tariff
should be devised with special precaution
against imperiliDg the existence of our
manufacturing interests. This pledge the
wool manufacturers thought had not been
kept. The Wilson bill, they declare. sis
framed in a manner that threatens disaster
to a great group of industries. located in
nearly every State in the Union" An
other resolution declares the Wilson bill
the sole cause of the proloDgation of the
business depression. The meeting con-
siders the time chosen. one of profound in
dustrial depression, the most unfortunate
that could have been selected to put tariff
reform views into effect. This view of the
case was accepted probably to let the
Democratic wool manufacturers down
easily.
To thoughtful advocates of the protec-
tive policy the promise of tariff reform in
the direction of free trade is cause rather
than an effect The industrial depression
would have been produced at any time in
the last len years by the appearance of the
same cause. The protest presents an eff
fective argument against the substitution
of ad vaIorem duties for specific duties.
The protest says
American manufacturers OF wholesale cloth.
ing, by transferring their patterns and methods
to the continent OF Europe and utilizing Euro.
pean cloths and European labor, can supply
American customers with goods adapted TO The
American market, pay the proposed duty OF 40
per cent, and earn profit beyond the reach OF
those who continue TO manufacture in this
country.
This Is In the nature of an expert opin-
ion, and If correct should stay the hand OF
the free-trade theorists.
The morning call., 1894-01-21
TRIUMPH FOR COMMERCE,

1t gives some indication of the progress
of shipbuildiDg TO note that at the time the
entrance locks of the Manchester ship
canal were designed there was not single
vessel afloat which could not enter the
gates and proceed up the canal. These
locks are at Eastman, between RuncoIn
and Liverpool, and vessels may enter them
at any time irres pective of the state of the
tide. This is q very great advantage over
Liverpool, the docks of which are tidal.
If two vessels cross the Mersey bar at the
same time, one fol- Liverpool and the other
for Manchester, the latter may actually
begin unloading first, from not having any
delay but the transit of the canal. The
largest lock at Eastman has measure
ment of 600 by so feet, and the bottom is
% feet below the sill Of the old docks in
Liverpool and nearly 12 feet below that
Of the newest docks. AS the minimum
depth of the canal is % feet, vessels OF
almost any size may navigate the canal.
and very likely improvements will be
made rendering it suitable for the largest
steamers. A railway bridge. under which
the canal passes, has determined the maxi
mum height of masts allowed to be 20 feet
Any masts higher have to be lowered.
This is an obvious disadvantage TO sailing
ships. many of which have the tops Of
their lower masts about that height, but
steamers are rapidly supplanting sailing
vessels except for very long voyages. The
canal is now one of the wonders of the
day at cost of SIS, 600, 0OG, and it probably
will nav
The morning call., 1894-01-21
GOLD BONDS.

There is some doubt whether an injunc-
ton restraining the Secretary Of the Treas
ury from increasing the public debt will
have any permanent effect. The act Of
1875 authorizes the Secretary to issue
bonds to preserve the reserve fund, and
the Secretary may exhaust the reserve
fund in making payments on account OF
current expenditure and use the proceeds
of the new bond issue to replenish the
exhausted treasury. But there is legal
question whether the treasury may issue
gold bonds without the authority of Con-
gress. and if that were settled in the Sec
retary's favor the question would then
arise if Congress has the power to grant
such authority The money of the con-
stitution is gold and silver. The assump-
ton Is reasonable that that provision was
inserted 10 prevent any possible legislation
on the part of Congress to demOnetlZe the
money of either of the metals. The dis
astrous consequences attending a contrac-
ton of the money of a country were as
clearly apprehended then as now. While
there was 10 absolute question of demOne-
tiZation before the trainers of the con sttu-
ton, there was the possibility that such a
question might arise. 1t is not presumable
that the States would knowingly have
intrusted Congress with the power to
destroy one-half of the money in which
currency could be redeemed or bonded
debts paid.
The morning call., 1894-01-21
A NEW CHARTER.

San Francisco undoubtedly needs bet
ter charter. The present charter has been
twisted out of shape by Supreme Court
decisions permitting the Legislature to
subject municipal ordinances to general
laws. The possible advantage to be de-
rived from a new charter should be esti-
mated in the light of the past. May not
the power which has impaired the useful
ness of our present charter get in its
deadly work on a new charter? The
Election Commissioners have decided to
postpone the freeholders' election until
November. They find, upon examination,
that the money is not at hand for the ex-
penseS of g special election. There is
certain TO be a deficit at the end of the
fiscal year, and the Commissioners pro-
pose to keep this deficit within manageable
limits. The present charter does not pro-
vide for the issue Of bonds without refer
ence to the people, and, if it did, the State
constitution stands in the way. So the
Carlisle way out of financial quagmire is
closed to San Francisco. The conclusion
of the Commissioners not to call a
special election has called out consider
able adverse criticism, largely from the
Democratic side. The Examiner des pairs
of the future of the city. 1t fears that the
material for good government does not
exist in this part of the world. Our
pessimist contemporary says truly that
our people get less for their money than
the people of any other city in the Union,
but omits to state that the waste is due
to individual rapacity rather than TO de-
fects in the organic law.
The Chronicle is only little less despon-
dent than its Democratic contemporary.
The S45. 900 the special election would cost
should not in the opinion of the former be
considered in estimating the results to flow
from new charter. 1t appears that the
overShadowiDg purpose Of new charter
is to take the streets out of the hands of
the Board of Supervisors. The disinclina-
tiop on the part Of the Street Department
to expend money on poultice pavement
seems to emphasize the necessity of a new
charter. The notion seems to prevail that
Board of Public Works to be created by
the new charter will take the streets, the
sewers and the mapping out of new boule-
wards out of the hands of the Supervisors
and put them under the control of a
board which will be practically indepen-
dent. Independent Boards of Public
Works have been tried In many cities.
notably London. New York and Washing
ton, ana in the three latter cases have been
abandoned, after profligate careers, which
rendered them intOlerable. 1t is hardly
worth while for San Francisco to repea,
the eXDeriment
The morning call., 1894-01-21
MILITARY NOTES.
Oregon National Guardsmen Want
to Come to the Fair

1t is doubtful If there VIII be brigade en-
campment Of the Second Brigade OF the
National Guard this year, as mauy of the off
GERS appear to be opposed to the project.
While the majority of them are under the I'M
preston that brigade encampment is better.
as school for the soldier. than a regimental
camp, they cling 10 the old notion of camps by
regiments, and when it comes TO a vote 1t is
probable that the majority Will be IN favor of
regimental camps.
First Lieutenant Mason, Company K, First
Infantry of the National Guard or Oregon, is In
this city for the purpose OF making arrange
ments for an encampment of the First al the
Midwlnter Fair. The soldier boys OF ORE gOn
are anxious 10 visit the fair, and If arrange
ments can be made" said the lieutenant, sit
will be grand thing for the National Guards
men and for the fair. We have some excellent
marksmen who are anxious 10 try their skill al
the targets against that of the men OF San
Francisco"
The annual high jinks of Company G, Third
Regiment. Will be held in the companys quar-
terS on Tuesday evening next A choice liter
airy programme has be- prepared.
Companies and q, First Regiment univer-
sally known rs the Nationals, will give bon
bon party and hop in the armo:y on Ellis street,
on the evening of Friday, the 26th inst A
joint committee representing the two COM
panies called the "Twenty-One" will make all
the arrangements.
The morning call., 1894-01-21
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

George Stock, member of a big furniture
manufacturing firm of Cincinnati has retired
from the firm and will 90 on the stage as pro
fessional magician with the cOstiest outfit ever
SEEM Mr.. Stock is very wealthy and man OF
great learning. Cincinnati society is shocked.
Mary Frances Butts, author of the lines be-
ginning Build little fence OF trust around
to-day" lives in BOotbbay HarbOr, Me-, and
has devoted herself for twenty years past
mostly 10 the production of literature for chill
dren.
The appointment of Miss Louise Imogene
Quincy, the literary woman and poet, as Post
master Of Auburndale, Mass, came almost as
birthday gift TO her, for il came within few
days OF an anniversary.
Among the successful female lawyers prac-
Massey, daughter OF the late Plat H. Spencer,
and widow of General Massey, in whose office
Mrs. Massey studied law.
Miss Ida Welt, who graduated at Vassar in
1891, has since stood for the degree of doctor
of science at the Geneva University, SwItZer-
land, and has passed a brilliant examination
there.
Stephen P. Slocum. the newly appointed Col
lector of the Port of New York. was an inspec-
tor of customs under President Pierce more
than forty years ago.
Earl Dunraven, whose yacht Valkyrie was
defeated by the American yacht Vigilant, still
entertains hope OF defeating our boats.
Q Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton the poet is
decidedly English looking, with fine complexion
and OF queenly bearing.
The morning call., 1894-01-21

an election fairly than to win one unfairly.
But portion of the voters who possibly
have personal interest in the result pre-
fer to win in any way they can. The Fed
eral election act was devised to restrain
this active and INSCRIPTIONS class of men.
II creates officials whose duty it is to see
that elections are fairly conducted in all
cities and towns where a certain proper
ton of the voters have reason to fear that
the will OF the people may be defeated. 1t
should be borne in mind that the will Of
the people may be suppressed as effectu-
ally by creating conditions which will pre-
vent voting as by register stuffiug or false
yofinp
The morning call., 1894-01-21
A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

1t would be Interesting if some occupant
OF San Francisco pulpit should devote a
sermon to the important discoveries of Mr..
A. L.. Lewis touching the relations Of the
Egyptians to the exodus of the Israelites
from the land Of Goshen. Historians have
thus far generally agreed that the oppres-
sion OF the 1sraelites which led to their
exodus from Egypt occurred under
Thothmes the Third and Rameses the
Second. toward the close of the nine
teen:h dynasty, that is TO say. about 1880
3. c. But the monuments of those IA
nous soyereignS contain no reference to
the controversy or TO its result. Mr.. Lewis.
whose studies of the period have been
profound, thinks ii more likely that the
exodus occurred under the reign of Amen
hotep the Fourth. who changed his reli-
gion, adopting a more Semitic fern. and
subsequently changed his name TO khue-
naten. This Pharaoh was succeeded by
bis sons-in-law, and they. after brief
reigns, were overthrown by an insurgent.
who restored the old religion and de-
stroyed all the monuments of Kbuenaten.
IF Khuenaten was the monarch in whose
reign the Israeliles migrated TO Palestine
and after his death every trace of him was
etfaced from the Egyptian monuments it
would be easy to understand why the
latter contain no reference to the exodus.
The explorations which are going on in
Egypt are calculated to put a new face on
the history of the world prior to the
twelfth century before Christ. 1t is only
within The past half century that we have
begun to understand the inscriptions with
which Egyptian monuments are covered.
and we are only now scratching On the sur
face. Under the eveT-shifting sands Of the
desert lie pyramids by the hundred, some of
which may be larger than those which are
seen near Cairo. Masses of sand and silt
cover the remains OF Bubastis, which Tor
The morning call., 1894-01-21
STILL NOT READY.
Chinese Six Companies
Issue No Notice.
Thew Want to Be Assured That the
Full Six Months VIII Be Given
to LaborerS.

Despite the fact that morning paper in
this CITY has given what purpOris to be
translation of circular Issued by the SIX
COMPANIES advising the Chinese iaborers
IN California to register, the truth IS that no
circular has been issued by that organlza-
ton. and will not be until certain questions
sent on to Washington are answered.
The Six Companies DO longer resist reg
istraton, nor do they have any intention.
as stated in the translation of the circular
accredited to them, of again contesnog the
McCreary or Geary acts. They are ready
tn advise all Chinese who come Within tne
provisions of the act to register it they de-
sire to remain in the United States, put
they want first. before issuing circular
with the seal of the companies attached. 10
have positive assurance from the Unlteo
States Government that the full period on
six months as allowed for registration VIII
be given the Chinese, and that n o deduc-
ton of two months, during which time the
law was inactive after its passage through
the delay of the officials at Washington,
shall be counted against them.
The circular published was issued by
ring or clique of Chinese merchants who
hire out la borers, and the delay of the Six
Companies in issuing their expected ad-
Visory circular constrained these people 10
issue one of their own in order that the
men for whom they bad contracts might
register and remain in the country. Inc
circular issued is signed Residents Of
Chinatown" and has had little or no in
fuence with the Chinese laborers.
1t is proba BILE that the genuine Six Com
panies circular will be issued on Tuesday
of this week. The circular will recite that
the McCreary law is 'the law" and that
laborers must obey it or go home; but it
will fix as we'll the full limit of time. the
manner of registering aud the penalty for
refusiDo
The morning call., 1894-01-21
PAY FOR RETIRED WARRIORS.
Military and Naval Officers Well
Treated by the United States.
Detroit Free Press,


1t costs Uncle Sam 81, OOO, 900 a year to pen
sion the naval officers who have grown old or
who have become disabled in his service. Every
officer OF the army and navy who has been In
the service great number of years, or who has
become disabled from any cause, in or out of
line OF duty, retires from service with an as.
sured income. This is one feature which makes
service in the army or navy atCt active There
Is no other occupation. except that of Federal
Judge, which makes provision for mans
business men who provide for old employees
But these instances rare, and the
ordinary business man is expected to Law by
something Tor his own rainy day. The officer
In the army or navy knows that he can keen on
drawing money from Uncle Sam until he dies.
provided he does not m1sbehave. 1t is a COM
fortlDg renection, and goes a long Way toward
recoDcilng men to the ambitionless life of the
service. Temptations are often put in the pafh
OF army and navy officers to resign and go into
business. Positions with bankers and brokers'
with railroads and shipbuiders are offered 10
them. They hesitate long time before ac-
| ceptlng, and usually they obtain, through the
grace OF the head OF the d. partment under
which they are serving a long leave OF absence
In which they can make trial trim in the
new business. They do not care 10 risk their
standing In the service for anything I'm certain
ii II was not for the retired list great MANY
olieers would resign and enter upon some
| active pursuit.
| The ''half-pay" of a United States naval
| omcer Is usually three-quarters pay The law
PROVIDES tnat the pay of dll officers of the navy
VINO nave peen retlred after foIty-five years
service, alter reaching the age OF 60. or who
nave been or may be retired after forty years.
service upon their own application 10 the Presi-
aenl, OF on attaining the age of 81, or on ac.
count OF incapacity resulting from long and
IaEnlal service, from wounds or injuries re-
celVed In the line of duty or from sick
ness or exposure therein, SHALL when not
on active duty, be equal to rs per cent Of
tne sea pay provided for the grade or rank
Which they held respectively at the time
of the retirement. The pay Of all other
o1cers on. the retired list shall. when not on ac-
tive duty, be equal TO one-half the sea pay pro-
vided for the grade or rank held at the time OF
retirement" The sea pay Of rear admiral is
$4,000 year. OF a commodore $4,000, OF a
captain S46OO of a commander $1,000, Of
ieutenant-commander $500. according TO the
length OF active service. Thus the pay OF the
retired rear-admIral is $4,000 a year, of a
commodore $3.50. of captain S3375, and
so on. An income OF $4,000 Is a very neat sum
to live on In idleness, even In Washington
and most of the retired officers of the navy
make their home in Washington. The number
of naval officers on the retired list at this time
Is $50.
The morning call., 1894-01-21
MUCH TOO ATTENTIVE.
An Enthus iastic Claude MeInotte in
Serious Difficulty.


Frank Armstrong. who is one Of the
shining lights of the S0ntag and Evans
theatrical combination and who was ar
rested on a warrant obtained on complaint
of Miss Anita Fallon. is likely to have a
hard time if the com plainant'S allegations
be correct.
1t appears that in October OF last year
Miss Fallon was starring in the LADY of
Lyons" and upon her arrival at Stockton
Frank Armstrong, the leading man of the
Claude. At one of the matinee perform
ances Armstrong made Claude" more
than usually eager in his protestations to
the tender Pauline, and just before the
curtain fell. while holding her in lover
like embrace. he tangled up his part of
Claude with that of Dick Turpin and
nipped valuable pin from Pauline
gown.
Miss Fallon, having discovered her loss.
gave information to the detectives and the
other day portion Of the pin was located
in pawnbroker's in Oakland The
stones had been removed. but the gold
work was readily identified. AS the arli.
Gle had been deposited by Armstrong in
his proper name and he was known TO the
proprietor, his connection with the broken
item of jewelry was easily established.
The pin was rare obsidian set In dia
monds and rubieS. Since the unfortunate
occurrence Miss Fallon has been starrin!
in legitimate roles, while Armstrong ha
been iden titled with drama of the luri(
ORDER
The morning call., 1894-01-21
FACETIOUS SENATOR VEST.

The criticism of Senator Vest on the
Federal election bill may have been anus
ing, but can hardly be considered instruc-
tive. He said that the Federal election
law was based on an assumption that
officials of the United States are better
than the people. Mr.. Vest might object
to any law on the same ground. The law
assumes that 1t can find better men to en-
force the laws than the men who break
laws. More than this. the law makes 1t
the interest of the official to execute the
law. The election law cannot be consid-
cred In any way reflection upon the gen.
eral character OF the people either in the
North or South. II is an effort to restrain
lawless characters in both sections. Prob
ably four-ffths of the voters OF both par
ties in such cities as New York. Philadel-
phia or San Francisco would prefer to lose
The morning call., 1894-01-21
GLOOMY PICTURE OF ITALY.

The condition of Italy is pictured in
very gloomy colors by Mrs. Crawford, the
well-known Paris spondent. Sicily
has a population mostly of Greek and
Arab mixture not in touch with the rest of
Italy, but apparently loyal. The revolted
people are revolutionary as regards local
administration and the octroi duties, but
are loyal as to the King and Queen, and
carry their portraits in the van of their
PROFESSIONS. In other parts of the king
dom all is awry financially. There is not
enough Of currency to carry on business.
The ancient system of bartering commodi-
ties has TO be resorted to owing to scarcity
of money. Taxes grind down the cities
which should be the most thriving. They
are paid on nearly everything and Mrs.
Crawford says. "the money is shamefully
wasted by cumbersome, ill-paid
and swarming civil service" North
Italy and Tuscany support lazy and
beggarly Rome. Sicily and Naples,
end frightful extravaganza has
prevailed in maintaining public works
in the great cities, something like $500, OOO,-
600 having been spent in Naples alone.
The conclusion Mrs. Crawford comes to
about Italy is that federation instead of
Capitalization under a monarchy would be
the best form of government were there
not the danger of foreign machinations.