The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-20

1ournment was taken at noon to-day
Governor Gage delivered to the Senate
and Assembly his final message. That
It was an excellently executed docu-
ment, from a comparative standpoint,
was agreed by every lingering legisla-
tor who heard it read, and not one
of them but was struck by, and re-
marked upon it's political significance.
1t was in its erasures, rather than in
its printed text, that its significance
lay. Governor Gage and Mr.. FoIey'
his secretary, had taken all of four
days in it's preparation. 1t had been
reread and rewritten and worried over
until the Executive was satisfied that
1t would move this dilatory Legislature
to do its duty in the way of the cleo
ton Of a United States Senator Even
then there was found a change to be
made, and rather than rewrite it. 1t
was sent to both houses to-day with
the last correction marked through in
lead pencil lines that in not one whit
disguised it's meaning. The erasure
read as follows:
SIT is now apparent that no extra
session can be justified in order to
see whether you will, in the future,
been ignored"
1t was the original intention of Gov
ernor Gage to hand in his message Just
before the last balloting was begun
yesterday, but mature elaboration and
consultation with his confidants in both
houses convinced him that such action
would be ill-advised in view Of the in
depreciation that many of those who
have been fighting for a Senator have
put upon his apparently close relations
with D. M Burns and his adherents.
That his message would have been
lever under the factional leanings of
every man in the House is evident upon
the reading of it. 1t was as follows:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. STATE
March IS. 1S9s.-To the Assembly of the
State of California: A solemn duty re-
quired of you as Assemblymen still re-
mains unperformed. You have been elect
ed agents of the people, not only to
pass necessary and judiciOus laws, but as
well to choose United states senator
to serve the State in Congress. AS such
representatives you were elected not to
voice the desires Of particular localities,
but to carry out the will of the great ma
jority of our people for their greatest pos
sible good. Your personal feelings, your
especial likes and dislikes, should, there
fore be Subordinated to the sense of pub
lie duty. The people demand United
States Senator.
During the last political campaign no
subject was of higher Importance than
the question of sustaining or opposing
the plan of territorial expansion and the
general national policy OF our great Pres
That will of the majority of the people
of this State of all political productions:
as expressed at the polls, was IN favor or
the national administration; and you
were, in effect, instructed by that splendid
majority to elect a Senator IN accord
The demand of the people being thus
strongly manifested, no diversity OF opln-
ion, no private disc4rds shoul a. De e, RgT-
ment of the popular desire.
In view of the great territorial eXpan-
sion westward in the Pacific Ocean, the
commercial interests of this State are too
vast and its political position too impor-
tant to be now impaired by your tallure
to choose a national representative.
The power to select q Senator Is vested
in you by the constitution, by the law and
by the people, and the people require az
YOUR hands the exercise of that hlgh pre-
rogative. u,..
in the discharge OF my soieI t guy ID
and discard your individual prejudice
your personal disagreements-and to OBEY
the peoples behest. implore you, not as
partisans but as distinguished representa-
tfves standing upon the nigh plane OF
American citizenship, and as the agents
of the great majority Of the people who
elected you, and also as the guardians OF
the minority Of our people, whom you
likewise
the popular demand im&ore you to
falter no longer in the discharge of your
Ugh duty: to select for the State proper
representative for the United States Sen
ate; to rise above the antagonisms which
have been engendered during your long
session. and to choose for the people a
nan fliilv eouinped roentallv and morally
for the great Office of United States Sen
ator; a man Of distinguished abilities an
virtue, a man in whom the people will
perceive just grounds for confidence, a
man who will best subserve our CONNER
cial and political interests and represent
HENRY c. GAGE.
Governor Of the State Of California
Coming in as it did at the eleventh
hour it resulted in nothing of more
moment than round after round of
hearty. applause in the Assembly and a
wrangle in the Senate. There was no
indication of a desire upon the part of
any Of Mr.. Burns supporters to make
the capital they might of il. On the
contrary, Judge Dibble, in the Assem-
bly,, who yesterday gave his word of
honor that at IL o'clock this morning
he would move to adjourn, so far
ignored it that he Immediately rose to
move that the journal of yesterday be
approved. Mr.. Valentine of Los An
geles was, however more courteous
and moved that it be spread upon the
minutes of the last day, and it was so
ordered by Speaker Anderson.
AS the true significance of the dOcu-
nent dawned upon the Senate and the
crowd waiting in the lobby the hustle
attendant on the preparations for ad-
journment ceased and the Senate be-
came all attention. When the clerk
had finished reading a wild yell rose
from the Burns people and they cheered
and shouted until the Senators or those
whom Burns owned Joined in the tur-
MOL. But even over the shouts of the
crowd Boyce's voice could be heard de-
ma ndinpr reoO2nifiOn and q cbance RI
speak. He was no friend to such a
course as the message suggested and
the Burns crowd knew it, and as he
called the louder the rcoters yelled.
The President pro tenn, nor his gavel,
nor the sergeants at arms, nor the
Affn,.ts af the mora dacernt elarnerlt Gould