The San Francisco call., 1896-11-04


still alive. 1t is used only as a means of dis
tinguishing the elder from the junior memoer
of the family. The younger member should
discard it on the death OF the father.
New LICENSE REQUIRED-G. L. P, City. II
man in San Francisco buys out a saloon that
has City license, two months OF which is un-
expired, the purchaser must apply to the
Police Commissioners for a new license. Ihe
permit for license is issued to the individual,
not 10 the saloon.
DEMoNErIzATIoN-P. NJ S., Concord, Contra
Costa County, Cal. In 1871 Germany began
the enactment of laws which by 1873 placed
the currency of the empire on gold basis. In
1874 silver was demonetized by the Latin
Union, composed of France, Italy, Belgium,
Switzerland and Greece.
IMMIGRANTs-A. N, Walnut Creek, Contra
Costa County, Cal. The act to facilitate the
enforcement of immigration and contract Ia
Dor laws provides that the ships manifest
must. among other things, show if the imml-
grant is possessed of money, and, if so, whether
upward OF $50, and how much-if $50 or less.
SHIPPING FLowERs-R. S., City. Flowers are
shipped East by placing each in sheet OF It's
sue-paper and laying in perforated box, In
the bottom of which moist moss has been laid.
Moist moss or cotton is also placed between
reached Chicago from San Francisco in GOOD
condition. In transportation to New York the
flowers We're not in the best condition.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC-T. o.. City. The latest
statistics from the Argentine Repu bile show
that the average product of wheat to the acre
Is $50 pounds. The price of land varies ac-
cording TO the quality and location, ranging
from few dollars 10 $500 per acre. Many
reaping machines are used in the country ana
about 10 per cent of the agricultural 1mpie-
ments are imported from the United States.
GovERNoRs-A P. F.. Manhattan mine,
Knoxville, Napa County, Cal. There is but
one State in the Union that elects its Governor
for longer period tnan four years, and that's
Utah, W hich elects for five years. The States
that elect for four years are: California, Della
ware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, KENTUCKY,
Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,
Pennsylvania. Virgniia, Washington, West Vir-
g1nia and Wyoming.
PAYMENTs-M. ]. B., Jackson, Amador
County, Cal. If there is no stipulation in the
contract that loan shall be repaid in gold,
standard silver dollars are legal tender TO
any amount. The statement of the Popocrats
of your section that silver dollars are not legal
tender above 5 is not correct, and it is evident
that they have not yet become familiar with
The provisions of the act of February %, 1873,
which says: ''Silver dollars of the United
States shall be legal tender of their nominal
value for all debts and dues, public and private,
except when otherwise expressly stipulated in
The contract"
REVENUE FIGUREs-F. w. j., San Jose, Cal
The Mckinley bill went into effect in 1890.
Under its provisions the revenue in that year
was $S5. 5.O40.272 in excess of the expenditures.
This is for the fiscal year ending June 80 of
that year. In 1891 the excess of revenue over
expenditures was $26. .S3S, ,542; in 1892 it was
in excess SO, ,914,454; in 1893 the excess was
$2,34l ,261; in 1894, when the Wilson act
Went into effect, The excess of expenditures
over revenue was $69, ,SO3 ,26I. and in 1895
the excess of expenditures over revenue was
$42, 800, ,223.
THE ST. LoUIs-P. P, Tracy, San joaquin
County, Cal. q. ID. Fahnestock, San Francisco
agent for the International Navigation Com
pany, grves the following record of the Ameri-
can liner st. Louis Left Southampton August
1, 1896, at 1912 NJ, passing Needles Ii ght
at2:O2 P. NJ ana r,ached Sandy Hook light
ship at 11:26 A: NJ. August 2, current year,
having travelled 3O55 miles In six days two
hours and twenty-four minutes, the then fast
est passage on record. Her average speed was
20. S67 knots per hour. Subsequently the
steamship ST. Paul OF the same line beat that
record, having made the distance over the
same route and between the same points in
SIX days and thirty-one minutes, her average
speed being 21.OS knots per hour.
IN CASE OF DEATH-G. w. S., Oakland, Cal.
In case of the death of President-elect before
his Inauguration there is great deal of diver
sity of opinion as to what would be done, in
view of the fact that there is no provision to
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prominent men, we'll versed in politics, who
are of the opinion that in such case the Vice.
President-elect would become the President
There was time in the history of this coun-
try when the President-elect refused to enter
upon the discharge of the duties OF the office
| OF President OF the United States on the 4th of
March and that led to complication, yet the
Vice-President.elect did not, under the provi-
sions of the constitution which declares that
'in case of the removal of the President from
| onice or of his death, resignation or inability
to- discharge the power and duties of said
office, the same shall devolye on the
Vice-President' to enter upon the discharge
| OF the duties of the Office The 4th of
| March, 1S49, fell on Sunday, q day that the
constitution does not recognize as legal in the
transaction OF such official business as the ad-
| ministration of an oath of Office to a presi-
| dent-elect. At noon on that day the term of
| elect Zachary Taylor prior TO that time
refused, on conscientious grounds, to be sworn
/ in, as he did not believe he could legally ac-
cept the office on that day, it being dias nom
| The prospect was that the government would
| be without an executive head for TWEEN ty -four
| hours, and as those were exciting times, Con-
gress, then IN session, was extremely anxious
| that there should be no vacancy. A very heated
| debate took place. There was an inability on
/ the part of the President-elect to act but Mil
| lard Fillmore, the Vice-President-elect did not
! step In, but Congress decided that David
| r. Atchison of Missouri, President pro
| tempore of the Senate, must, from Sunday
sumo the functions of President, and he did.
| 1t Is probable that in the case of the death of
a President-elect between the time of his cleo
! ton by the electoral college and Inauguration
Congress would step in and declare who
| should be President.