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The morning call., 1894-01-15
A PROPHETIC SPEECH.

The action of the administration in the
matter of the Geary Chinese registration
act is recent history. The act was practi-
cally nullifed by order of Mr.. Cleveland,
and the justification offered was that the
Chinese had been misled by their lawyers,
who bad advised them not to register.
The rule was set up that if a lawyer of
some repute expressed an opinion that "A
certain act OF Congress would be declared
unconstitutiOnal by the Supreme Court,
that act might be held in suspense until
passed upon by the Supreme Court. So far
there have not been many examples of the
application of this rule. 1t was e5tab-
lished for the occasion and will probably
be withdrawn when the occasion has
passed.
When Congress met in August it
amended the Geary act with tie Me-
CreaTy act. The two laws were as much
alike IN purpose as in name. Both aimed
20 accomplish the same purpose. The
McCreary act was in substance the Geary
act with six months added within which
the Chinese might correct their mistake in
not registering. At the time some sur
prise was expressed that an administra-
tion so violently opposed to the Geary act
should have helped the McCreary act
through Congress. Some fear was ex-
pressed that the new law was not enacted
in good faith-that the real purpose of it
was 10 get rid of an act the Supreme Court
had declared constitutional that another
act alike in purpose, but differing in de-
tail. might be taken to the Supreme Court.
This fear was entertained elsewhere than
on the Pacific Coast. A somewhat
rlxoI HI 4
In October, when the McCreary bill was
under consideration, by Franklyn Bartlett
Of New ! ork, in which ground was taken
that the Chinese would be content with no
law that did not repeal the exclusion act.
Extracts from this admirable speech will
be found on another page of THE CALL.
MIR. Bartlett especially calls attention to
the motive which, in his opinion, under
lies the substitution OF the McCreary act
for the Geary act. That motive is to en-
able the Chinese Six Companies to appeal
anew TO the Supreme Court. 1t will be re-
membered that the court upheld the &C,
by vote of 5 to 3. One Of these five has
since died. The justices who held the act
TO be constitutional are now four in num-
Der. less than a majority of full bench.
Justice Harlan did not participate in the
last decision, but probably will In the
next. There is one vacancy, which Mr..
Cleveland is unnaturaliy anxious to fill by
the appointment of a New York corpora
ton lawyer named Hornblower. Should
Mr.. Bartletps prediction prove correct
the decision Of the case would rest practi-
cally in the hands Of Justice Harlan and
the new Justice to be appointed. There is
danger, therefore, that the Chinese fight
has to be begun over again, hut this time
with very large proportion OF the people
In the East on our side.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
WARRANTS ARE OUT.

THE CALL stated Sunday morning that
large mum Der of warrants were out for
the arrest of dealers who have sold cigar
cites to children under 16 years of age.
The CALL is otherwise Informed that
dealers do not want this trade. They are
quite willing 10 bave the law enforced.
some have sold TO minors rather than
offend customers. In some cases parenl S
or older children send minors on this uD-
lawful errand, and dealers have no way to
ascertain If The minor is buying for him.
self or is obeying an order. Parents,
therefore, should be careful not to add to
the perplexities of the dealer by sending
minor children to purchase cigarettes. We
assume that there is no considerable differ
eDce OF opinion as to the effect of cigar
ette-smoking upon growing children. We
assume, also, that 90 parent wants 20 have
his child grow up puny in stature or weak
in mind. The brain determines the will
power in its exercise Tor moral purpose,
A child may be willful n physical sense.
be determined to have his own way and
persist at some expense to his bodily com.
fort. but when he restrains the indulgence
OF an appetite it is because his reason tells
him it is for bis good. Parents might not
be able to secure the concentration of pur.
pore that is essential to the success of a
popular movement, but after all its ina
The morning call., 1894-01-15
THE FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION.

The Los Angeles Herald. commenting
upon President Cleveland's change of
policy in respect to the Hawaiian Islands,
in Difference to public opinion. says:
1t is a noble and inspiriting thing that there
Is such force in public opinion, and il is to be
hoped that il viii Oe diligently cultivated. 1t
exists in far larger measure In Great Britain
than In the Unite States. and in France it is a
tremendous force. Such an episode as thai OF
Hawaii would wreck any Ministry in England.
while far less exciting event would dispose OF
President CarnOt and his whole Cabinet In a
trice. The American people will stand almost
anything UP TO certain point Supposed to be
more eXcitable and volatile than the English
men. they are really twice as phlegmatic.
Another view may be taken of the
patience with which the American people
wait for time to remedy evils. They know
that time will remedy them. They know
that the egotism Of President cannot
greatly influence the general course of the
country. The opposition of President
Cleveland to the annexation OF the Ha-
waiian Islands may defer that event for q
period. Mr.. Cleveland may make one ad-
niinistratiOn appear to future generations
as a gap in the history Of the country. He
may refuse TO accomplish any purpose the
people want accomplished. aud may al
tempt policies which the people will not
accept. But manifestations of impatieDce
at the Presidents course are tempered
bv the-knowledge that his power is limited
and his period short. Had not Congress
held the President in check. the people
might have spoken. But there is no use in
getting excited over an imaginary danger.
Public opinion is so certain to reach both
the Executive and Congress that any vehe-
mence in methods of expression is sort OF
farce.
In the long run 1t will be matter oi
small importanc whether Mr.. Cleveland
consents to annexation or not. If the peo-
pie of the two countries want political
union it will take place. The Americans
have no throne to kick over or Ministry tC
Danish to clear the way to the consumma-
ton Of a measure they approve. While nc
one will assume to read the future, there i:
in the American mind feeling of security
that can hardly be said to exist anywh
else. What European country expects Il
continue it's present form of government
through the next half century? Throne:
are a vanishing force in government. They
are the outward manipulation of power
somewhat like heatben images of wooc
and stone, to overawe people who have
not vet risen TO a conception of a power
they cannot see. In this country we havt
none of these blocks Of wood and stone t
rpmova
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THE MISTAKE OF WILLIS.

In one respect Mr.. Cleveland has reason
TO find fault with the manner in which
Minister Willis represented this Cavern
ment at the islands. This was in de-
manding the surrender of the Provisional
Government after the deposed Queen had
declared her purpose to hang the leaders
of it aud con tiscate their property if she
got power. II is inconceivable that Mr..
Willis should have slept upon this answer
one night and have accepted conflicting
one at a later day. No matter what his
instructions might be, his mission ended
with the Queens first reply. 1t is not
conceivable that President Cleveland
would desire to enthTone a woman who
had given expression to such bloody pur-
poses. Mr.. Cleveland would remember
that he is now the head of Government
which crushed the most formidable re-
beilion the world has ever seen and per-
mitted the leaders OF it to live unmolested
in the country whose Government they
had attempted to destroy. Contrasting
this humane and statesmanlike policy
with the vindictiveness of a Queen who
had invited her own overthrow by dis
carding its constitution, Mr.. Cleveland
would most certainly have withdrawn bis
instructions TO restore the Queen if he
could have done so.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
GOOD ADVICE.

The Fresno FTpOSitor says that every
Democrat should support the Wilson bill
or 90 over to the Mex Kinleyites. This
is the logic of the situation. The tariff
policy is the main issue between parties.
Since the declaration in the Democratic
platform in 1892 there is no place for a
protectionist in the Democratic party
The Wilson bill does net carry out the
principles of that platform, but it is as far
from being protective tariff as it is from
being revenue tariff. Democrats in Con-
gress naturally hesitate about going over
to the Republicans They consider them
selves under a kind of contract TO vote as
the party leaders may determine. But
Dem ocrats who are not in Congress, and
who have no expectation OF going there,
are joining the Republicans with an avid
ity that should satisfy our Fresno contem.
norary.
The morning call., 1894-01-15

1t need not excite surprise in any special
degree that the Americans who formed a
portion OF the crew of the Brazilian
cruiser Nictheroy are in a very dissatisfied
state at their treatment. This is not the
first time that Brazil has been prolific of
promises and has left those to W hom they
were made in the lurch. The men should
have looked well ahead in regard to their
pay and other equivalents of service.
w hen engage the Brazilian Government
was in such desperate straits that 1t would
almost have promised province for few
gond resolute men such as abound in
America. If the men depend upon litiga-
ton to settle their grievances they are
trusting to broken reed. They have, at
least, the co mfort of being free from any
more adventures, and their treatmentmay
op crate as a warning to others not to in
terfere. There are still large number of
Americans on board the Nlctheroy, and
Lieutenant Conway says that il the vessel
goes down in action it will be with colors
flying.
A paltry matter has arisen about the
christening of the Columbian museum in
The morning call., 1894-01-15
WILLIAM HENRY WADDiNGToN.

In the dark days of reconstruction In
France the two most active and most gen.
orally trusted apostles of moderate Tepub-
licanism revealed their foreign ancestry
by their names. One was General McMa-
hon, who succeeded NJ. Thiers as Presi-
dent; he was member of family which
had been Irish, and had accompanied
Charles Stuart into exile. The other
was William Henry Waddington, who
represen ted France at the Congress of
Berlin in 1873. and was President of the
Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
under President Grevy; he was the son of
an Englishman who had settled IN France
to run cotton-mills, and he had himself
been educated at Eton and Cambridge in
England. On coming of age the young
man was required by French law to elect
whether he would be Frenchman or an
Englishman. He chose to belong to the
country of his birth.
He entered life with rare advantages.
He was gifted with good looks and an ath-
letic frame; he had rowed stroke in the
Cambridge raceboat. He became scholar
of his college and graduated second in the
first class in classics. He was said to be
the only man of his day who spoke and
wrote French and English with equal
fluency and elegance. From his fathers
business he inherited wealth. and was
able to devote himself to art and science.
Before he was 25 be had attracted atten-
tiOn by archaeological papers on Asia MI
nor. and be was chosen member OF the
Academy Of Inscriptions.
After the overthrow of the empire he
entered political life and became in sue
cession mem ber of the Chamber, men,
Der of more than one Ministry and Pleni-
pOtentary TO Berlin. Ten years ago he
was appointed French Embassador to
London and has filed the post ever since.
His death was quite unexpected. Many
years ago he married a Miss King of New
York, sister of Mrs. Eugene Schuyler; he
was fond of extending a large and grace
ful hospitality to Americans.
Neither NJ. Waddington's foreign ances-
try nor his education abroad ever stood in
his way in France. No one ever thought
of him otherwise than as a Frenchman,
and indeed he was thorough Frenchmsn
to the tips Of his fingers. Provincial as
the French showed themselves TO be when
they hissed "LoheUgrin" off the stage. they
are always ready to accept foreigners,
quality and become members Of "the great
nation" They took Rossini and Often
bach to their bosom, but they never could
see much merit in Herbert Spencer or
Darwin. The two former lived on the
bouleVards, but the latter, in spite of all
temptations 10 belong TO the French ma
tion. remained Englishmen.
NJ. WaddingtOn was indeed a man whom
France could not spare; there was moth
ing snowy about him. He made no
speeches, wrote no poetry. But he was
very SNOWY in science and took a common
sense view of politics. which was just
what France wanted. His shining merit
was that he was a gentleman of the purest
honor and incest delicacy. This was so
we'll known that when relatives of his
family were implicated in the decorations
scandal no one thought of suspecting him.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
The Overland FLYER

The Union acifc is the only line running new
Pullman doulle drawing room seepers and din
Ing cars. San francisco to Chicago without
change. IL three and one-hslf days. All tickets
good via Salt Lake City and Denver.
select tourist excursions through TO Chicago
wifhout change every Thursday, IN charge OF
managers.
steam ship tickets on sale to and from all points
in Europe,
For sleepiDe-car sccomm odations and tickets
call en- ID. W. Hitchcock. general agent ! Mont
gomery street, San Francisco; F. R. Ellsworth.
agent. SIS Eroadway, Oakland. Cal: or q. Z Herr,
229 South String street. Los Angeles. Cal
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prRTIC.TToN OFFICE

SOS Montgomery street, near Clay, open until IL
O'Clock p. NJ BRANCH OFFICES; 40 Market
street near Kearny open until u o'clock midnight;
$50 HAYES street open until $50 o'clock sos Larkin
street open until 9:3Ooclock SW. corner sixteenth
and Mission streets. ouen until o'clock ZoIo
Mission street open until o'clocki ana 11o MINI
street omen until 9:3O o'clock.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
CANADIAN LIBERALS.

Mr.. Laurier, the leader Of the Canadian
Liberals, is In favor of free trade between
all English-speaking countries. But Mr..
Laurier has not made it clear why Eng
disappearing countries should form CON-
mercal union to the exclusion Of other
The morning call., 1894-01-15
GREAT PREMIUM OFFER
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Picturesque California.

Coupons printed on the ninth page each day. for
send it with dime to THE CALL, San Francisco or
present the places named below and you will receive
Number One of Picturesque California" New subscrib-
ers will receive THE DAILY CALL regularly and new
and old watch the newspapers columns for
of the publication of the other numbers There
was never anything like it.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
The EXempts' Banquet.

The Exempt Fire Company of this city
will give its annual banquet this evening
in the hall of the company on Brenham
place. George T. Bohen, Andrew T. Jes-
sup, j. J. Guilfoyle and j. ". Kentzel,
the committee of arrangements. have made
every preparation for a pleasant time.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
Phillips Rock Island Excursions

Leave San rar cisco every ednesday and Satur
day via Rio GRANDE AND ROCK ISLAND Rvs
Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Bos-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these e1cur
sions thT ugh to Boston. For tickets sleeping car
acc on odati' and further informa tlon address
CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Ry
50 Mon 2omery street San Francisco
The morning call., 1894-01-15
Mrs Wipslow,s SOOTHING svrur ,,

Has been used fifty years by millions OF
mothers for their children while Teethiug with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child softens the
Gums. allays Pain. cures Wind Collie. regulates the
Bowels, and is the best remedy for Diarrhpas
whether arising from teething other causes
For sale by Druggists in every part of the world
Be sure and ask for Mrs. Ninslow's Soothing
Syrup. 2oc bottle
The morning call., 1894-01-15
Overland Route.

The Shasta Route and Northern Pacific Rail-
ROAD 10 points In Washington, Idaho, Montana,
the Dakoias. Minnesota, Wisconsin,, Illinois
and all Eastern States is the most comfor able
and plctur eSqUe line of all. Daily train SER
wee. with dining, Pull man Palace and up
holsiered tourist cars on all trains. T. X.
STATELER, General Agent. 63S Market 81.
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mail postpaid: Is cents per week, or 65 cents per
calendar month. through carriers. DAILY CALL
Eve COMES three months, &6 25. SUNDAY CALL
q 70 ner wear. postpaid. SUNDAY CALL and
NFFKLY CALL, $3.50 per year, postpaid NEEhL1
CALL, 4I per year, postpaid
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
ror viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
kLtcIlIK them
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AUCTION SAILS TO-DAY.

FuRNr4uKE.-By S. Basch. at 3le-321 sutter st
at 10 O'Clock.
EURNJTVRE.-By NJ d. Simmons, at 1Oof mar
ket ST.. al 10 80 clock
FURNITURE.-By Geo. f. Lamson at 9l6 Geary
street, at 2 O'Clock.
FURNITURE.-By Frank w. Butterfeld, at 800
Hyde ST.. al Il o'clock
The morning call., 1894-01-15
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

A death mask Of Richard Wagner, hitherto
quite unknown TO the public, has been added 10
the noted Wagner Museum of Herr Nicolaus
Oesterlein in Vienna. Herr Oesterlein secured
it last autumn during a visit TO Venice the
scene OF Nagner's last days The mask was
made by Augusta Benyenuti, one OF the most
prominent sculptors of Venice, on February Is,
1888.
son OF MIR. and Mrs. John Maxwell OF Eng
land-Miss Maxwell being known the world
over as Mrs. BraddOn, the nOvelist-has been
leading ranchmaD's life in exas for the last
year and half and has quit 1t to return TO Eng
land.
1t is said tnat when Mrs. Peter Cooper first
went to housekeeping every piece of her furni-
ture was made by her husband with his own
hands. Even the bedroom and parlOr ''sets''
were the handiwork of her ingenious husband.
Mrs. Eliza T. Routt wife OF ex- Governor John
l.. Rontt Of Colorado, was the first woman In
Denver who registered TO vote under the new
equal suffrage law. She gave her occupation as
housewife.
Prince Bismarck is an ardent admirer of
everything En glish. He is close student OF
America and its institutions, and is as familiar
as native born with its history.
Nine. Schlieman Is fulfilling the promise made
TO her late husband and is personally supern-
tending the work Of excavations al Troy. for
which his name Is SO famous.
The Sultan has conferred The grand cross OF
the Imperial Order OF Medjidie upon MIR. Max
i'm, the inventor of the qucK-hriDg gun bearing
his name.
Baron Taylor's famous library OF 5000 vol.
umes devoted exclusively to the theater has
been dispersed among private collectors In
The morning call., 1894-01-15

MORE than $4,000 people read the Pacific
States Watchman''; 10000 bona tide subscrIb-
ers; largest legitimate circulation OF any
monthly west of th, Rocky Mountains. A few
hIst-class advertisements will be taken. Ad-
dress WM. II. BARNES, 81. AIMS building,
san EranciScn Cal
The morning call., 1894-01-15

success lies in their hands. II parents CO.
operate heartily, earnestly and persist
emily the cigarette habit in children will
be slammed out.
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NOTICE.!

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II was troubled with headache, cold hands and
feet and loss of appetite. Hood SarsapariIIa
helped me and 1 would not be without it," Annie
Fitzgerald San Francisco, Cal.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, !
WEATHER BUREAU.
San FRANCISCO, January IA, 1Se4.J
OEoiRl Forecast for Thirty-six Hours
Ending A. NJ, Tuesday.
San Francisco and vicinity-Rain; slightly
cooler: brisk southerly winds and gales.
B. 5. PAGUE Local Forecast of6ciaL
The morning call., 1894-01-15

One of the prize curiositiss of the old
Mechlin Museum was a cherry stone bas-
ket containing fourteen pairs of ivory
dice.
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THE DAILY MORNING CALL

FOR SALEsAT
New York BRENTANO BROS, 5 Union Square
Chicago. B. SIZER, 189 State street
New Orleans. G GALLOT & JOUBERT, Il 81 Common
The morning call., 1894-01-15

Glass globes for generating electricity
were used by Newton and others about
16T5
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL.
so Potter building New York City is provided with
files of California papers. Visitors welcome. Ad-
vertising rates and sample copies furnished.
+. K MISCH. Manager.
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THE MORNING CALL

Has a larger Circulation than any
other newspaper published in San
Francisco.
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NOVELTIES in granlteware. Cosgrove's,
1928 Market street.
ELMwooD ranges are the best Cosgrove's,
1928 Market street.
The morning call., 1894-01-15

Baron Taylor's famous library OF 5000 vol.
umes devoted exclusively to the theater has
been dispersed among private collectors In
Paris
The morning call., 1894-01-15

The Sultan has conferred The grand cross o
the Imperial Order OF Medjidie upon MIR. Max
i'm, the inventor of the qulcK-firing gun bearing
his name.
The morning call., 1894-01-15
THE CALL CALENDAR.


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II q % 92i d 25 % 27 "a Jan. 3lst.
tI-- I-- " Full Moon.
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Nine. Schlieman Is fulfilling the promise made
TO her late husband and is personally superin-
tending the work Of excavations al Troy. for
which his name Is SO famous.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-06

tives have been smashed recently that they
are heing repaired in the Philadelphia an d
Reading shops in Reading
For seizing account books Of the Mime
apolis coal combine, seven Minnesota leg
islators were fined $500 each.
uiFirst Lieutenant Sidney Il. Stuart
United States army, has been relieved
from duty at the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany's works and assigned to duty at the
pH PeRt Wilmington, DELI Powder
works, and Lieuten6nt j. Walker Bdnet
will succeed him, having been relieved at
ffankford arsenal by lieutenant &. H.
fluggles
The No. 3 knitting mill Of Warner De-
Forest &, Co., at Amsterdam, N. y, is
being put in readiness TO resume opera
lions next week. A full force will be em.
ployed,
The Berwick car shops here have received
orders which hUye started the works in all
departments full handed,
Isaac l.. Rice ia said to mediate q fight
| against General Manager Voorhees, reten'
tion by the Reading company while he Is
employed simultaneously by the Lehigr
| Valley.
John Taylor general traffic manager Of
the Lehigh Valley railroad, is rapidly re
covering his former robust health