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The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
YOUNTVILLE HOME BILL
VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

CALI. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, March 15.-The Governor to-day
vetoed Assembly bill No. 351, by Dibble
of San Francisco. In his message he
says:
.sBv the amendments in this bill it is
sought to turn over to the Treasurer of
the Veterans Home at Yountville, Napa
County, all money received from the Fed
eral Government, to be controlled by the
manager of said institutions.
This home is now State institution,
money for its support should be directly
handled by the State Treasurer and all
claims should be approved by the, Board
of examiners, and, after approval, war
rants should be drawn in payment there
of by the Controller upon the funds SET
apart for the support of the home.
The veto was sustained by unanimous
vote.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
MUCH TALK OVER
DISTRICT FAIRS

CALL HEADQUARTERS, sACRA-
MENTO. March 15.-With. the district
fairs as a subject and the general appro-
priation as a cause, the Senate wasted
most of this afternoon in talk. There
were several amendments offered, but the
bill weathered all but one-an amendment
raising the appropriation for the State
Agricultural SocieSy. By the original bill
$50 900 was allowed. Last night, after
long discussion, this was reduced to s20,-
900, and then by an amendment to-day
was put back to $50 900.
The discussion of the bill was enlivened
by some charges by Boyce that the bill
had been rushed through second reading
with haste that bespoke an anxiety to
avoid an open consideration before the
Senate when there was not a full attend
ance. When the bill was considered last
night there were not many Senators pres
ent but, as Davis said during the after
Moons discussion, if any one of the Sen
ators was absent 1t was his own fault.
Davis said the bill had been thoroughly
discussed and he denied that there were
any dark lantern proceedings. Then the
discussion became general, and in the
midst of 1t Doty moved to raise the State
Agricultural SOciety's appropriation from
$50, 900 to $50 900. There were all kinds of
arguments advanced for or against the
amendment, and it was finally decided
that the amendment should be adopted.
That appropriation having been dis
posed of, Boyce moved to strike out sun
dry lines in the printed bill which removed
the clause declaring forfeited any bene-
fits provided by the bill if there was al
lowed upon the district fair grounds any
game of chance. The amendment was
lost Then Laird wanted to raise four
of the allowances for as many districts
but this, too, was lost, as it was consid-
cred bad precedent.
It was during this discussion that Dick
inson was given his first word of praise.
AS chairman of the Finance Committee
he was getting very fairly roasted by the
malcontents, and then Sims rose to say
that Dickinson had handled the affairs of
the Finance Committee in manner that
showed distinguished ability and he
thought the Senator should be accorded
praise instead of blame and sarcasm.
Shortridge then submitted an amendment.
Jumping the forty-two agricultural dis
tricts named in the bill into sixteen and
making larger appropriations for each.
This, too, was lost after Langford had
warmly supported it. Then Langford
had an amendment of his own He
wanted to strike from the bill all appfo-
priations for district fairs. At the
amounts allowed, he said, it was impos-
sible to hold any fair, and the only thing
to do was to strike out the appropria-
tions. His amendment was lost. That
ended the consideration of the bill for
the time being and the bill went back to
the printer to have the allowance for the
State Agricultural Society raised
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| counties of fees for the collection of State
/ taxes. The bill was introduced by Sen
| ator Dickinson in an endeavor to stop
! the payment of large fees to attorneys
! for the collection of commissions from
the State and due the counties for tax
collections. The bill just signed repeals
the act allowing the commissions.
A communication from the Society of
American Authors asking that the Legis-
lature provide for the proper observance
of the one hundredth anniversary Of the
death of Washington, December a. 1899.
was received The communication was In
pursuance of a meeting of the society
held in New York in February last, at
which it was decided 70 recommen9 that
all work cease upon that day, and that
it be further observed by the laying or
the corner stone of the National Univer-
sity in Washington.
No. 10, providing an exemption from poll
tax for all who vote at genera! election,
came up for quite an extended discussion
ment submitted by Stratton adding pri-
mary elections to general elections to Sc
cure exemption. rms was opposed by
difficult of compliance and by others be-
cause they did not believe in the propo-
sition anyway Ihey tnought man
without hope of compensation.
Stratton's amendment was, lost, and
then the constitutional amendment itself
followed the same path to oblivion.
Assemblyman Kennealy's bill to pro-
hibit the employment of any but citizens
caused a long discussion and was finally
amended and sent back to the printer
The principal amendment adopted was
one allowing soldiers and sailors of the
TTni+ed states service to be employed,
nroyiGed they held honorable discharges.
Gillette submitted an amendment allow
nc the employment of any one who had
saSured his first naturalization papers,
hut this was not adopted.
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FREE MARKET
WILL NOT BE
HIDDEN AWAY
The Assembly Brings the Bill
Back to Its Original
Condition.
HEADQUARTERS,

CALI, HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO. March 15.-Goodall Perkins &
Co.'S reported attempt to shove San Fran
cisco's free market down the water front
to an obscure location at the foot of
Front street was frustrated to-day in the
Assembly.
Senate bill 43, as 1t was originally in
troduced by Senator Langford, gave for
use as a free market triangular piece
of water front property bounded by East.
Pacific and Davis streets.
Goodall Perkins & Co. have, 1t is as
serted, used that particular piece of prop
erty for over ten years and for all that
time have maintained lot of unsightIy
coal sheds and bunkers there. AS coal
station the block is worth thousands each
month to the steamship people, but they
have paid to the State a rental of only
$500 each month.
When the proposition was first made
to turn their coaling yards over for use
as free market the company began a
hard fight and maintained it here in Sac
ramento through powerful lobby.
In the Senate they were successful.
it was so amended that the pier at the
end OF Front street, away off behind Tele-
graph HILL was made the location in
stead of the Davis street block
When the bill was transmitted to the
Assembly Radclif of Santa Cruz, who
has had the management of the measure,
offered amendments TO the Senate amend
ments, which left the bill in it's original
shape His amendments were adopted
and to-day the measure came up in the
Assembly on its final passage and was
passed by a vote of 56 to l.
Knowland of Alameda was, the mea-
sure's only opponent. He said his inter-
est was not personal, but that, he, under
stood that Goodall, Perkins & Co. had
used the property for years and had
erected valuable improvements upon II.
He thought they should not be summar-
ilV turned out.
Radciif denied that Goodan, Perkins &
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der's constitutional amendment No. %
was passed in the Assembly this after
noon and transmitted TO the Senate. 1t
is designed to so amend the constitution
that the Legislature may place limit
upon the charges of telegraph. telephone
and gas companies and charges for
The 7 T1episiatI1re sba1i mass laws reeu-
lations and limitation Of the charges for
services performed and commodities fur
nished by telegraph, telephone and gas
corporations and the charges by corpora
tions or individuals of storage and wharf
age in which there is a public use, and
where laws shall provide for the selection
Of any person or officer to regulate and
limit such rates, no such person or Off
Ger shall be selected by any corporation
or individual interested in the business to
be regulated. and no person shall be. Sc
lected who is an officer or stockholder in
anY such corporation."
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fruit hauled a long distance over rough rough
streets to the wholesale and commission
houses. IT,.
of property only a short haul from the
commission houses, and the bill in ITS ITS
original shape and as 1 have amen6eG s
Association, the San Francisco, Chamber
of Commerce and all concerned.
Dibble of San FRANCISCO seconoed tile
bill and so did COsper Of Tulare ana HAN
lev of San Francisco.
The bin was Immediately transmitted
to the Senate, where Radclns amend
ments were concurred in this evening. 1t
will now 20 to Governor Gage'in It's orig
inal shape.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
ADJOURNMENT
WILL COME ON
SATURDAY NEXT

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC
RAMENTO, March 15.-The Legis-
lature will adjourn at midnight on
Saturday March IS. This was prac-
tically decided this evening by the
members of the Senate. The ac-
ton was wholly informal, but was
taken with the object of getting a
general expression of opinion as a
guide for formal proceedings to-
morrow. The joint resolution
adopted by the Assembly on Satur-
day, and which provides for ad-
journment next Saturday, will
come up in the Senate tomorrow
for final action. Under the terms
of the mutual understanding ar
rived at tonight it is probable
that the Assembly resolution will
be concurred in without much op-
position. Unless present plans are
changed before IL o'clock to-mor-
morrow morning, the thirty-third
session Of the California Legisla-
ture will be brought to a close next
Saturday at midnight
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
SELF-APPOINTED LEADERS
HAVE LOST THEIR PRESTIGE

CALL HEADQUARTERS, sACRA-
MENTO, March 15.-The fight between
the members of the San Francisco dele
CATION and their seif-appointed leaders,
Dibble and Johnson, was on right mer-
rily tonight in the Assembly chamber,
and Dibble and Johnson had no one but
themselves to thank for it. Before a
wearying call of the House put an end to
it it was strongly impressed upon both
of the Assembly engineers that their Gus
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Co. had erected anything on the prop
erty but lot of unsightly, shantfes and
one inexpensive corrugated iron struc>
ture.
ALTHOUGH the free market bill was
passed at the last session of the Legisla-
ture" said Mr.. Radcliff, the San Fran
cisco Harbor Commission has never pro-
vided any place for the market and ship
pers have been compelled to have their
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16

meanor to sell or traffic in or refill any
oask, keg. bottle, vessel, siphon, can,
case or other package bearing. the duly
filed trademark or name of another
printed, branded, stamped, engrossed,
etched, blown or otherwise attached or
produced thereon.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
A. B. spreckels at the Capital.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO. March ia. B. Spreckels,
president of the State Board of Agricul-
ture. arrived tonight from San Francisco.
He is here to assist in obtaining just ap-
propriations for the State fair to be held
under the auspices of the Agricultural
Society.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
SENATORIAL ROUTINE
GOES FLOODING ON

CALL HEADQUARTERS, sACRA-
MENTO, March ia message from the
Governor read this morning in the Sem
ate announced his approval of Senate bill
No. 127, an act to abolish the payment to
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
The trademark Law Signed.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO. March 15.-Governor Gage to-
dav anproyed Richards S substitute for As
sembly bill No. %, making 1t a misde-
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
NO SENATOR
RATHER THAN
DAN M. BURNS

SANTA BARBARA, March 15-At meeting of the execu-
Republican Committee held this
evening unanimously of Senator
should rather than have Dan Burns
addressed
sernblyman Merrit unanimously adopted:
1t is the Judgment OF this Central Committee
that u S. Grant is the best and most aVaa-
hIe candidate for United States Senator and
vour course i'm supporting him meets with
approval, and we hereby enjon upon you to
make no change and do no act that will in any
manner advance the candidacy OF Daniel M.
Rurns We would rather the office Of United
States Senator should remain vacant than that
If should be filled by D. M. Burns.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
TO CONTROL CHARGES
OF CORPORATIONS

CALL HEADQUARTERS SACRA-
MENTO, March 15-Assemblyman Crow
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. It's perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants. by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, ky. NEW YORK, N z.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price 50c- per bott1A
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-16
BURNS SCORED
ANOTHER FAILURE

CALL HEADQUARTERS. SAC
RAMENTO, March 15.-Mr. Burns
, supporters were claiming last
night and this morning that they
had two more names for the black
list of those who have gone Mexi-
can since the Senatorial fight
opened.
The rollcall, however, failed to
make their assertions good. There
was no change.
The Democrats voted for Frank
Gould.
The vote cast to-day was the
largest cast during the session.
All three of the leaders polled their
full strength, and the ballot came
out as follows:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
A GOld-Bug FlOpS.

Charles V. Eskridge, the veteran editor Of
the Emporia Republican, has caused consider
able commotlon among the members of his par
ty in Emporia by the following editorial:
"Trusts are the legitimate offspring of the
gold standard. If you would get rid of the et-
feet you must remove the cause. Trusts have
been formed, are being formed and will be
formed. Nothing will stop them but change
in the financial policy of the country. All the
small industries of the land are being closed
out Competition is being destroyed, men are
being thrown out of employment in the shop,
factory and OIL the road. The country is rap
idly becoming Impoverished, wealth is concen-
tratng in the hands of the few, interior cities
are struck with the dry rot and there is no hope
for the people under gold standard money pol
icy 1t is the parent of trusts. 1t is money
policy which paralyzes industry and drives the
larger hsh to eat up the smaller ones. The
gold standard is commercial cannibalism. 1t
is serfdom for the masses 1t IS head wind
against all transportation lines 1t is the un
delminng rat of our republican institutions.
Don't stop to argue the question with Jug
glerS OF nSureS, put NOtc 10 uOWl IL III lllG )dl-
ty if you can, out of it if you must Country
first, party next AS we said in yesterdays
Daily Republican, referring to the wealth of
Rockefellers, Vanderblts, Gouds, Astors and
Others, IF there is anything that shows the in
capacity of the people for sef-government, it is
a system OF legislation under which the accu-
mutation of such vast sums, by individuals, is
possible Interior banks, under the national
banking system, have felt and will feel more
perceptibly than ever before, the gradual squeeze
of the gold Standard the concentrating power
of which tends to centraize all business, all in
dustries and all commerce in three or four cities
located OH the larger bodies of water-one on
the Atlantic, one on the Pacific, one on the
lakes and one on the Gulf-to the utter destruc
ton of life and property in the interior
These larger cities will in turn waste away be-
cause they will eventually have no country TO
back them. The gold standard is the road to
ruin. Expansion or anti-expanson is an Incl
dental question. Every patriotic citizen, who
loves his country more than his party, should
vote, in the interest of humanity, to save the
United States from the disastrous consequences
of the gold standard money policy, which is
now sought to be permanently fastened upon
this country for the purpose of bringing our
people under European conditions"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02

son held that without proof of intense suffer
ing on the part of the deceased, only nominal
damage could be awarded, and that the burden
OF proof rested with the plaintiff.
The new York Journal gives the following
editorial view of such decisions:
Judge" Robinson of the Connecticut su-
perior court decides that laborer's life has
merely a purely nominal value-say TEN
DOLLARS.
The man who hands down this decision IS
neither insane nor wilfully vicious, He is.
merely one of those 'judges' who are so rap
idly bringing the courts into disrepute.
Their conduct is the greatest menace to the
peace and welfare of the country. Public be-
curity and tranquility are based on public eon-
fidence in public justice. Faith In the courts.
has been feature of American life since thu
nations life began.
How loug will that faith last in the face Of
such "judges"?
One declares that childs life Is worth one,
dollar because the child's death frees the pax:.
ents from expense. Shall we have anothel
'judge" to say that railroad which kills .
child is entitled to sue the parents and recovec
half the money saved through the child's deathe
This Robinson Judge declares that laborer
killed instantly felt no pain, and therefore only
TEN DOLLARS is enough damages for che
railroad to pay his relatives.
Will he decide how much torture the ce9d
may inhict on the man in killing him-saB teS
$40?
The judges who favor government by in}unc-
ton, the judges who give towards the power
to hire Pinkerton men, the judges who assess
the value of mans life according to that
mans fortune, are public dangers and publac,
enemies. Coming Nation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
Damnable Inhumanlty.

Considerable comment was occasiOned by the
action of Judge Gummere, of New Jersey, when
he cut down the $4,000 verdict of a jury as
damages for the death of a child to $1,000 and
afterwards said that the loss of child's lite is
worth only 81 damages. But Judge Robinson,
of the Superior Court of Connecticut, has far
exceeded his brutal estimate of human life.
He fixed the damages for the death OF work
ingman at $40 the other day. The laberer was
found mangled and lifeless beside the railroad
track, killed by passing train. Judge Robin
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
GARNETT, KANSAS, JUNE 2, 1899.

Additional evidences of the truth of these
charges comes from the Manila correspondent
of the New York Sun. One sentence is suf-
ficient. TO shoot man at six-foot range with
Springfield rifle Is hard thing to do, but the
orders were to let no insurgent live, and off
would 60 the whole side of his head
James Tul, of Co. l. Twentieth Kansas, in
letter published in the Cofeyvile Journal, says
'Our men took no prisoners, for the boys be-
lieve that the only good Filipinos are dead ones,
so every one that we saw was shot down like
rabbit"
This is horrible and revolving enough, but the
correspondent of the St. Louis Republic has
informed his paper privately that the censor
ship exercised by Otis over the wires and mails
at Manila surpasses anything that Weyler ever
put into operation in Cuba, and that when the
facts become known, the American people will
be astounded with the revelation.-Star and
Kansan
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02

WE are in receipt of copies of three speeches
delivered in congress by Hon. J. D. Botkin-
one on "Soldiers' Pensions," and one on CAR
my Re-organizat ion and Collateral Subjects"
and one on 1.-THE Purpose OF Government-the
Maladmnistration of nment-Protection
Fails to Probationary and Banking Re-
form the Need of the Hour-the Abolition of
Trusts demanded"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
Educated and VirtuOuS.

Lieutenant Colonel Little writes letter to
his father, at Abilene, in which he tells of
meeting an American physician who has been
on the island of Luzon for twenty-five years.
Speaking of the natives before the Spanish
wars began, the doctor says that every village
had its school house. and all the natives could
read and write. He said further that with the
exception of few wild tribes, the natives OF
Luzon were educated and virtuous.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-02
Insurance Companies Pooling Rates Again.

A new insurance rating bureau has been es-
tablshed for Kansas by Inspector Eldndge, Of
Topeka, and is ready for the transaction OF bus-
mess. This is substantially the Clarkson rating;
bureau under new name. Mr.. Eldridge was
Harrison Clarkson's assistant until Superintend~
ent Webb McNall "busted" the Clarkson rat
ing bureau. The Chicago Times Herald,
speaking of this new bureau under date of Sep
tember 26, says:
Inspector Eldridge's proposition to ceAa-
panies for rating Kansas business has been re-
ceived by company managers. The charges
will be based upon premium returns, except
that companies not admitted in the state In
1898 and wishing to become subscribers must
pay on the basis of $4,000"
This in effect is simply pooling Of rates
and competition cannot be had under It, and It
looks like return to the old order Of things
under the Clarkson rating bureau.-Topeka
State Journal.