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The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
LOOK FOR A CLEAN MAN.

7 T is evident to quote from our Sacramento cor
respondence that "the moral sense OF the State is
aroused" against the candidacy of Dan Burns.
1t is also clear that Ulysses S. Grant occupies posi-
ton scarcely better. The people have demanded
from the Legislature that it aside every aspirant
who is tainted and elect Senator who possesses the
necessary qualifications of intellect, education and
experience, and who is beyond reproach. Such men
can easily be found in the ranks OF the Republican
party, without discarding of the gentlemen who
have already been nominated in the joint convention
The Call has earned the right to pour this demand
into the ears OF the members of the Legislature and
insist that be treated with respect and acted upon
with promptness. The State capital is smeared with
the unclean drippings from OF the candidates and
their agents and followers and with that part of the
Senatorial conflict is time for the legislative police
to interfere On behalf OF the State, therefore, and
OF overy respectable element it contains, demand
that Burns and Grant be retired and that clean Re
publican, who will be just to the public well
the railroad be forthwith chosen as the successor
OF Stephen NJ White. The Republican party makes
this demand. The Democratic party makes this de-
n,and. The merchants, the manufacturers. the farm
ers the horticutursts, the miners the mechanics the
laborers the industrious and decent elements OF
population make this demand. 1t is ndorsed by all
political, moral, religious and social organizations
that interested in maintaining the honor the repu
ation and the interests OF the State 1t represents
the American sentiment, transcending parties and
creeds of million and half OF inhabitants who in
their elected agents in the Legislature that they
require their intelligence their integrity, their
sites and their wishes, and corporate seshness
or the counterfeit shadow of great name, to be illus
trated by their Senator at Washington.
Throughout the Union the determination to amend
the Federal constitution that the Senators OF the
United States may be elected by popular and that
treason to the Government may be no longer pro-
claimed by corrupt legislators is becoming intense
and irresistible. The present Legislature OF Califor
has not yet ranked itself with the disgraced repre-
sentative bodies of other States. Let it vind-
cate its own independence and manhood and justify
the confidence and heed the admonitions OF the mass
CT citizens by whom it was balloted into existence
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
TINE SAMOAN PROBLEM.

is not surprising that the recent furry in Samoa
has resulted in a revival OF the scheme to divide
the group into three parts, giving each to the
United States, Great Britain and Germany. The ex
pertinent with the triple combination protectorate has
been unsatisfactory from the start There have al
ways been dlssensions among the commissioners, and
were 1t not for the strong restraining hand Of the
home governments there would have been fighting
long ago.
There are two strong objections to the proposed
partition One that the three powers are bound by
the most solemn treaties to protect the independence
and territorial integrity OF the group, and for them
to now divide the islands among themselves would be
spoliation. That, however, is minor point in mod
diplomacy. 1t would be easy to find excuses for
breaking the treaty. 1t could be done in the name Of
humanity, in the OF civilization in the higher
interests OF the Samoans themselves or it could be
placed upon the ground that islanders living outside
OF Great Britain have rights that Great Britain and
Continental nations bound to respect
The second objection is one that cannot be so
easily disposed Of 1t is based upon the fact that
there is way of making an equal division of the
group. There three large islands, Upolu Tutuila
and Savail. The first named contains the town of
Apla and the great bulk of the population Which
ever power gets that island gets about all there is
OF value in the group except the harbor OF Pago-
Pago, which is 1t is the question of the pos
session OF Upolu when the distribution is made that
causes diplomacy to respect the existing treaty
One possible solution of the difficulty seems to be
overlooked entirely; that OF permitting the Samoans
to have the King they desire and govern their
country The adoption OF that simple expedient
would at once relieve the tension of the situation
The Consus OF the three powers could then attend
strictly to their business and quit interfering in
that OF the others. At present each of them seems
desirous OF being king-maker and raises as much
fuss and ructon it the average ward boss does
when he undertakes to make United States Senator
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LEGISLATIVE INTERVIEWING.

NNE curious feature OF such scandals as is now
| in course OF development at Sacramento con-
- sists in the efforts of members to adopt
measures which will prevent their recurrence in the
future Whenever an exposure occurs involving
the reputation OF the legislative boodlers, large
number OF back fires kinded in various directions,
which often take on very comical complexion.
In 1891 the last days OF the Legislature were about
as exciting, from a scandaous standpoint, as that
which is now in session. On that occasion num-
Der OF boodlng consultations took place in the State
Library the rooms OF which are very convenient for
meeting and negotiating, being located about half
way between the Senate and Assembly chambers.
Immediately after the last Doodle consultation which
took place in the State Library had been exposed,
member of the Senate arose and offered resolution
to investigate the State Library! This was an ex-
ceedngly comical method OF preventing future
scandals.
The other day Senator Boyce of Santa Barbara in
troduced resolution in the Senate making reporters
who interview members as to their preference upon
bills guilty OF contempt Mr.. Boyces idea evidently
is that the reporters responsible for the scandals
which are being Investigated by the Assembly, and
he thinks that if he choke off interviewing he will
prevent any future exposures.
We are compelled to differ upon this point with
the honorable Senator interviewing is not the
OF legislative boodling. 1t is the effect of it
If the Senators were all honest men and were acuated
by pure motives in legslating for the people there
would be occasion for the reporters to suspect
them investigate their views with reference to
pending bills 1t is only when the reporters hear
that there sack" in the lobby which is being dis
tributed among members that they become curious
and insist upon knowing how the members stand
Nor do think it will do any good to adopt Mr.
Boyces resolution. If the Senators decline to be
interviewed matters will be all the worse for the re-
porters will then redouble their efforts to find out how
they stand and will become more suspicious than ever
The way to stop legislative scandals is to quit bood
ling. No honest legislator was ever accused and no
honest Legislature ever successfully scandalized
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
SAFETY APPLIANCES ON RAILWAYS

~ NE of the most gratifying features of the re-
| ] port just submitted by the Interstate Com
merce Commission is the showing made Of
the good results obtained from the law requiring rail-
way companies to equip their cars and locomotives
with safety appliances 1t is striking illustration OF
what be accomplished by well directed legislation
in the direction OF compelling railroad managers to
exercise due care for the lives of their employees
It appears from the report that the commission
granted numerous railway companies an extension Of
two years from January I, 1893 within which to COM
ply with certain sections OF the act and required them
tc make semi-annual reports Of their progress in
equipping their roads with the safety appliances Re-
turns for the first six months showed that during
that time IIoo38 freight cars were equipped with
automatic couplers and 674oo fitted with train
brakes making total OF 795253 or 60 per cent hav
ing automatic couplers, and 5II,666 "A per cent
equipped with train brakes, up to June l. 1893. On
that date 2o175, or 90 per cent of the total number
OF locomotives owned by these reporting carriers
were equipped with drving-wheel brakes.
Returns for the six months ending December I
have not yet been fled but it is believed they will
show good progress and indicate the probability that
all roads will be fully supplied with automatic couper
and train brakes January l. Iooo when the exten-
sion order will expire. Now for the results thus far
obtained. The report says:
Since the enactment OF the law in 1893 there has
been decreasing number OF casualties. There were
1884 fewer employees killed and 1862 fewer injured
during the year ending June 3o 1897 than during the
year ending June 80, 1893. In the Spansh-American
2o8 men were killed and I645 were wounded In
1897 there 1903 killed and 27,667 injured
from all causes in railway service In coupling and
uncoupling alone 2Io less men were killed and
1904 less injured in 1897 than in 1893 The num-
Der OF such employees killed has been reduced one
half, and the number OF injured also practically re-
duced one-haf"
The good and benefcent results obtained by the
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
AFTER TIE sILURIAN MANNER.

= was to have been expected the first actual step
| \ taken toward the accomplishment OF the pro-
posed Pacific Exposition has brought the pro-
moters face to face with siurian opposition. From
this time forth until the OF the enterprise is
assured that antagonism will be met at every step
and will have to be combated incessantly
Long experience in opposing progress has taught
the silurians of this country that nothing can be
gained by direct and open hostility to public enter
prises. Accordingly for some years past they have
resorted to cunning tactics. 1t is their fashion
when any great project is under way to declare
themselves in favor Of progress but to insist that it
could be better attained by dropping the enterprise in
hand and setting about some other.
Thus the opponents of the Nicaragua Canal
scheme DO boldly object to the construction of
short water route across the sthmus but they main
tain It would be better to construct the canal at
Panama than at Nicaragua. The object OF such tao
tics is to divide the people and to create differences Of
opinion that will lead to such wrangling that the
whole project will be abandoned or at least in
definitely postponed.
These are the tactics which the silurians of the city
have already adopted in their opposition to the Pa
cfc Exposition. The Examiner, which on Sunday
made itself the mouthpiece OF that antagonsm an
nOunced that is in favor OF progress and San Fran
cisco enterprise, but is opposed to the project that has
hasn't been undertaken, nor is likely to be under
taken Moreover, it is safe to say that if the sug-
gesed scheme we're taken up the silurians would then
object to that and propose something else.
There are undoubtedly many ways by which the ex-
penditure OF a million dollars could be made beneficial
10 San Francisco. There is hardly any portion OF
the city from the ferry depot to the Cliff House,
where it could not be judiciously expended to the
public advantage. If we are never to undertake any
enterprise until we have reached condition where
we have no other for the money we shall be
stagnant the silurians who have achieved their
destiny and are dead.
The promoters OF the great exposition are not likely
to be disturbed by this display OF opposition They
are well Of the truth of Emerson's saving.
There are two classes OF people in the world one of
which goes ahead and does something and another
that stands around and complains the thing should
have been done some other way"
All eXpositions have had to meet opposition of the
kind the Examiner has manifested 1t is note
worthy however that every important exposition in
this country has been successful and that as soon
the success assured the surians who opposed if
have been heard to claim part, and large part OF
the honor OF getting it up The results in our case
will not be different from those achieved elsewhere
The Pacific Exposition will be one of those triumpI,s
that stimulate civic patriotism lead to the accomplish
ment OF other enterprises, and cause even siurians
to talk for awhile like good citizens
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

law have been noted abroad well in this country
and it is stated that application of the selfcoupng
device and other safety appliances is being seri-
ously considered in Great Britain where the ratio OF
lives lost to the number OF employed in coupling
and uncoupling is reported to be to $50. The
ratio in this country has been reduced to man killed
out OF each 600 employed in coupling and uncouping
cars.
Rarely has law SO completely vndicated itself as
this. A statute that extends protecting hand over
the nation and saves the lives of workers is one OF
the highest benehcence, and the trainers of this act
may well look back upon their work with satisfaction
and an honest pride
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
Patent Right Decision.

United States Circuit Judge Morrow yes
terday gave judgment in favor of the
complainant in the case of the Risdon Iron
and Locomotive Works against L. c.
Trent for a permanent injunction and an
accounting. The matter in dispute was
the infringement by the defendant of a
patent on a roller ore crusher. Judge
Morrow decided that the Bradley crusher
of the respondent and the Bryan crusher
of the complainant were practically the
same invention. A perpetual Injunction
was granted and an accounting ordered
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
THE WATERS AND FORESTS.
Asst Saturday there was successfully organized
the first concerted movement, in this State,
the L

I AST Saturday there was successfully organized
| the first concerted movement, in this State
- for the preservation of the forests and waters
The subject interests our whole population, but is
one on which it has been difficult to arouse public
sentiment. Last summer The Call began a propa-
ganda and experts into the mountains to observe
and report upon the various forms of forest desrc
tion by which the headwater sheds of our rivers are
being laid bare and every stream is being made tor
rental, delivering its water Immediately causing
foods and waste. The dry year touched at last every
interest concerned. The miners and irrgators had
no water for their The miner, lumberman
rancher, daryman fruit planter electric power COM
panies all discovered that they touched and hurt
in common by anything that increased the ardty OF
the mountains by stripping their forests.
The result has been their combination in this prom
ising movement. They are reinforced by the strong
classes which have secondary interest the mer-
chants, manufacturers and bankers, who through the
State Board of Trade and other organizations affiliate
with the movement and stand ready to back it
The force of the Society for Conserving the Forests
and Waters is deposited in an executive committee
which is under instruction to make beginning by
memoralizing the Governor and Legislature to pro-
vide for unsalaried commission which shall ex-
haustivey examine the subject and report to the next
Legislature bill, or bills, for the legislation needed
ture to appropriate $4,000 for the establishment in the
State University of chair of forestry, thereby add
ing school on that subject. This being done it is
intended that such school shall be instituted in time
to have class in action by the time legislation is
completed two years hence and that the students shall
be used under such statute the summer patrol of the
forests, to be paid by the State This will put them
the ground, in the midst of the subject of their
study, and will constitute valuable summer school of
forestry In this way the whole subject will be kept
out OF partisan politics and the State will be training
expert foresters, who will ultimately have charge of
her forest crop supervise its harvest when ready for
the and and preserve her forest area for sue
cess1ve and permanent production. Students who
need to work their way through the university and be
assured OF career when they finish their course will
find in the School of Forestry most desirable means
to that end Meantime the whole State will have its
attention constantly upon this great economic subject
and will back efficiently every policy which looks to the
permanency of forests andthe perpetuy of lumber
ing, mining, agriculture and all the interests which
are born into possibility when the seed sprouts which
is to make tree.
The society wisely puts its purpose constantly be-
fore the people in the motto chosen for its banner and
legend for its seal, in the old Arab proverb "The tree
is the mother of the fountain
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
Voting for Senator.

The case of Charles F. Kenneally, AS
semblyman, charged with manslaughter
in causing the death of Michael Duane,
an old man, was called in Judge Mogan' S
court yesterday, and by consent was con-
tinued until February 6. Kenneally's at
torney explained to the court that he
was in Sacramento engaged in voting in
the Senatorial contest.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
NOT PROUD OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE,
PetoluDd Courier


totally dlsfegarulhs
wishes Of his United States SENATOR
Assenbyman We do not peHeVe ~
there has been time since Grants first mentioned
small
deserving
qualified vicinity eneal
is the choice of Republicans by at least ten to one
a
interviewed VINO
strongly In IaVor
strongly several Gays
ne
Price
besides been able near
o REPUBLICAN,.
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California Limited.

Connecting train leaving at p. m. on Sun
days, Tuesdays and Fridays allows half a day
in Los Angeles. Solid vestibuled electric
lighted, dining car and observation car train
Los Angeles to Chicago via the Santa Fe
Route Finest service ever given across the
continent. Full particulars at 62S Market ST.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
A Taxable Deed.

Internal Revenue Collector Lynch has
received a decision from Internal Rev
enue Commissioner Wilson to the effect
that the certificate of a Master in Chan
Gerry is not taxable, but that the deed on
the certificate is taxable at the rate of
one dollar on the thousand.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
AUCTION SALES.

BY Sullivan & Doye-Wednesday January, %. at II
m. 327 Sixth St, Horses. BuggIes,
BY G. H. Umbsen Co-Monday. January So at Il
o'clock. Estate at Montgomery
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Off for Havana.

Postal Inspector Erwin will leave for
Washington next Saturday evening to re-
ceive instructions preparatory to taking
cnarge OF the postal system on the island
OF CUBA, He expects to be gone about
three months.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

DYSPEPSIA CAN BE CURED BY USING
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets One little tablet
will give immediate relief or money refunded
Sold in handsome tin boxes At Owl Drug Co.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

A German subject desiring to go to jail, where he
could have shelter and food uttered series of pic
uresque insults directed the Kaiser and got two
years. In this country he would have hurled brick
through a window, and made happy for not more
than sixty davs
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

statute to prevent legislative candidates from
pedgng themselves to support any particular asprant
Tor the oenatorship would be excellent thing save
Tor the circumstance that it could be enforced
than the law OF gravitaton could be sr1snended
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

Coumbia-''The of the Nile.'
Caiforna-"A Contented Woman"
Alcazar-''Afen Women
Tfvoli-"The Wedding Day
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Comedy 'Tennessee's Pardner.
Chutes and zoo-Panka, the Lady Of Lions
olympia Mason and Ellis streets, SpecialtieS
Central Park-The Stseplechase.
Oakland Race Track-Races To-day.
Association Hal-Concert Friday evening, January 27
Metropolitan Temple-Pano Recital Monday evening Feb
6.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

Angostura Bitters is indorsed by leading
physicians for purity and wholesomeness. Get
the genuine-Dr. Siegert's.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

If Senator Perkins is to be simply the mouthpiece
OF whatever party controls the State Legislature he
might as well come home and let us put telephone
in the Senate It would be cheaper, and look better
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
Cal. glace fruit SOC per Ib at Townsends.' =

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allens). $40 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

Probably about the luckiest thing which ever hap
pened to the Fiipinos when they repressed their
desire to fire upon American soldiers
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

While DR.. Mallaby succeeded in avoiding payment
of duty lot of silk and escaped conviction, al
though ndubitably guilty of smuggling, he lost a
$4,000 position by his fraud, and will have to do lot
of figuring to find where he comes out ahead in the
deal.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

There ought to be an interesting story in connec-
ton with suit just dismissed after having been in the
courts OF San Francisco thiry-one years, and the
story would naturally have moral pointing to the
proftabeness Of litigation
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

Promoter Hooley is said to be liable to two wears
imprisonment 1t seems that he has nothing left
wherewith to buy influence
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

Carlists in Spain said to be ready for an up
rising. The only comment necessary, if any, is that
this particular chestnut is old enough to be retired
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

There is no Change" in the Montana Senatorial
contest. The whole wad seems to be in large bills
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

While the Kaiser is impressive figure, the con-
tract for inpressing the United States and Great
Britain both at once is large one, and to live up to
the specifications would require war-ording of high
degree.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

The fact that the Keely motor is fraud is parad
ing now as discovery, but it is about twenty year
behind the times.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

The rumor in Paris of Bonapartist revival may be
counted evidence that for once the Parsians are
incapable of devising novelty and have to amuse
themselves with any old thing
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

The first move tending toward public
ownership of the utilities was made at
the regular meeting of the Board of Su-
pervisors yesterday. Supervisor Lack
mann presented a resolution which at
once found favor with his colleagues on
the board. The resolution reads:
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

General total appropriation. 81, ,217, ,140
Less back salaries. s....-....., 100, 900