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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
CONSULAR SALARIES.

c OMETHING of encouragement for the advo-
Gates of an improved Consular service has been
- afforded by the vote in the Senate increasing
the salaries of considerable number OF Consular at
aches. 1t would have been better ii the whole sub
ect had been thoroughly revised but in the lack of
that revision it is gratifying that at least of the
more fragrant instances of underpay are now in fair
way to be remeded
When attention was directed to the parsimony of
the appropriations providing salaries for the Con-
sular officers Senator Hale chairman of the Appro-
priations Committee, stated that the committee had
given the subject of salaries any thorough
sideration and suggested that the Committee OF For
eign Relations take up the question and make some
recommendation The suggestion is not bad one,
and it be hoped it will be eventually acted upon
and adequate pay for all branches and departments
of the service be provided.
Without waiting for such reference of the issue the
Senate proceeded at once to deal with some of the
salaries reported in the bill and raised considerable
number of them. There some opposition, of
course Senator Cockrell of Missouri for example,
declared the present salaries to be ample, and by way
of proving his assertion asked: Have you ever
known any applicant for Consulshps to object to the
salaries before taking office"
To such argument as was contained in that sar-
castle question Senator Galinger answered: "Sena-
tors receive $4,000 year Many others would take
the position for half that Some men in Mon
tana and other States Judging from accounts in the
newspapers, willing to pay bonus for seat in
this body But that is reason why Senators should
not receive decent salaries; nor is it reason why
some of the young men abroad should not be paid
proper salaries. Some of these salaries are meanly
inadequate. Our Consular servic. is verging in this
respect upon what deem disgraceful
With the increase. of the products of our indus
tries, the demand for markets and the extension
Of commerce the Importance of the Consular service
increases We must rely largely upon the work of
Consuls and their clerks and attaches to assist in
the promotion OF Our trade with foreign nations.
That work cannot be efficiently performed by incom-
petent men, will it be performed we'll BY discon-
tented men. Good men and good pay are as neces-
sary in that in any other department of the Govern
ment and the surest way to obtain the one is to
vide the other.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
SHOULD BUY HERE.
Efforts to Have Government Supplles
Purchased in the WEST.

Several weeks ago the officers OF tns
Chamber of Commerce communicate
with Senator Perkins asking him 10 use
his influence in getting the department
officials at Washington to purchase the
supplies for the army and navy OF the
Pacific on this coast: also to assist MI.
Goodwin, manager of the local Manufa C.
turers and Producers Association, IN
his endeavor to have the, supplies Tor the
indian reservations of the West bought
in this State, instead of having them al
purchased in the East and sent We st.
Yesterday the following reply was re-
ceiyed from the Senator:
in receipt Of 5 your :, telegram bafnr tS of
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with a
request that pgr sd be maee With 1T c Mr
Goodwin in this matter 1 would state
that the Government has during the past pas
year made purchases amounting to Sl9,
900 900 in California and other Pacific
Coast States, and has expressed several
times it's intention to purchase there
everything possible for the use of the
army and navy on the Pacific"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
WEATHER RECORDS
SMASHED AGAIN
THE MERCURY BEATS HISTORY
SEVEN DEGREES.
Greatest Range in Temperature and
About the Lowest-Killing
Frosts OF the Heels Of
Recent Heat.

The weather has made another SenSa-
tional record. as it did last week. A week
ago Thursday was the hottest January
day San Francisco had ever known, with
the mercury up to Is degrees in the shade,
while the whole State was bathed on phe-
nomenally hot sunshine. Then it started
in to show its versatility, and it has
proved it by beating the greatest previ-
Gus January range of temperature seven
degrees. When 1t suddenly started to cool
off early in the week it soon gave the
coolest weather of the season.
Yesterday morning the thermometer
stood at 81 degrees, which, except for one
phenomenal day eleven years ago, was
within one degree of the lowest tempera-
ture shown by the records since 1871, when
the record began.
This was a drop of forty-one degrees in
about week. The greatest winter range
in the. city's meteorological history had
been thirty-four degrees in 1888, so that
the range record has been beaten seven
degrees.
In seven previous years the January
minimum has fallen as low. In 1880 it was
also 81. In the years 1876, 1888, 1880, 1898
and 1894 the lowest was 36, one degree
colder. The phenomenon of the record is
20 degrees in 1888. In 1878 the lowest was
46 and the minimum is generally in the
.iCold, very cold" said Forecaster VIII
son, and it's going TO stay cold for all /
can see
This cold snap is in a sense the fringe
of the big freezing blizzard that is raging
in the Colorado region. There's a big
high all over the West, and the cold
winds are coming over the mountains
into the State from the east and north.
Yesterday evening it was II below zero in
Wyoming, "a below at Helena, and SINH
larly frigid all over the Northwest.
In this State it has got down to the
freezing point at Sacramento, Fresno and
other interior points, and wherever it did
not happen to be cloudy the frosts that
had been feared crisped leaf and bud, and
We're the sort officially known as killing
frosts."
There will be killing frosts pretty
generally over the State tonight" said
Mr.. Wilson last evening, land possibly
still more severe through there being
less cloudiness. The resulting damage
will depend on how far advanced the fruit
buds are. My reports on this point are SO
conflicting that it is too early to say much
that is definite, but there Is a possibility
of much damage"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
THE PERFIDY OF WRIGHT.

~ NE point in connection with the retirement OF
Howard E. Wright from the Speakershp OF
- the Assembly scarcely have failed to at
tract the attention of observing persons.
An investigating committee reported that Mr..
Wright had accepted money from Ulysses S. Grant
upon an implied promise to support him for United
States Senator. The transaction denounced by
the investigators as immoral and subversive OF Legis
lative decency. The report was adopted by the As
sembly after debate, and therefore stands the de-
berate conclusion of that body. Yet Mr.. Wright is
allowed to resign the Speakershp, resume his place
upon the floor of the House and take the positions
upon committees which have been occupied by the
man who succeeded him as Speaker
Naturally the reflection to which all this gives rise
is not calculated to reflect much credit upon the
bers who have ratified Wrights reinstatement. II
the disgraced Speaker is not sufficiently honest and
virtuous to preside over the Assembly, by what
process OF reasoning the Assembly conclude that
he is fit to occupy place upon the floor where he
may for the passage of laws and participate gen.
orally in the deliberations Of the House?
1t seems TO us that an Assembly which will permit
such compromise as has here evidently been made
is weak and thoughtless body There is nothing
Spartan in accepting the resignation OF Wright and
then continuing to associate with him. If Wright is
the boodler and confidence operator which the inves
tgating committee reported him to be he ought to
be expelled from the Assembly and sent into private
life with all the obloquy possible heaped upon him.
1t is farce to mete out such punishment the As
scmbly has decided adequate for his offenses.
Members of the Assembly should, however, note
that this proceeding is not going to end with the ad
journment of the present Legislature. Thousands Of
Republicans throughout California have reached a
state of disgust upon the Senatorial subject which is
rapidly changing their political tendencies II the
Republican party desires continue in power in this
State it cannot through its representatives paate
such moral crimes have been committed by How
ard E. Wright. A political organization which will
not maintain its sefrespect in the presence OF the in
luences which were exerted to this miserable
reprobae cannot hope to receive much consideration
the hands of the people when it asks for release
OF power.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
This Weeks Wasp.

This weeks Wasp contains a variety of
attractive illustrations scattered through
its pages, and its budget of comment on
local and national events is witty and in
teresting reading. The cover cartoon,
1.-THE Necessity of the Hour" depicts a
legislative machine that seems to be much
needed at Sacramento. The recent Juror
in Oakland over the bibulous habits that
obtain with some of that city's gentler
members of society comes in for fling,
ITO Drink or Not to Drink in verse,
and "a Barrack-room Ballad is indicted
to Messrs. Eagan and Alger which re-
lates 1.-THE Rotten, Sinking Story of the
Rotten, Sinking Beef after the catchy
style of Kipling. The Wasp's school of
yellow journalism gives some inside in
formation about the methods of yellow
artists; Teresa Doane, in Social Side
Lights relates some gossip from Sacra-
mento and a couple of stories of the week
that were told in club circles. "Why
Smith Left Home is explained by Touch
stone in humorous vein. r. A. Luchesi
contributes some of his always interesting
musical comment, and a couple of good
tales are told in the LEND Me Your Ear"
column. The sketches are particularly
good and the half-tone Illustrations very
beautiful The middle page half-tone car
toon, drawn by Gordon Ross. with ac-
companying verses by the yellow Jour-
nalist," portrays ..'Ye Ancient Robber
Baron and His Successor, the Yellow
Journalist" who plies his pen with as
much success as did his prototype the
sword in corraling Colonel Mazuma.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

stance, the twenty-mile comes In sum-
mer, and yet if rider were e, to 60 on nus nus
viacaton away 1fo nfor ths the race he would
be ineligible to ride. o,,a
The forces back of the Gaines amend
ment are led by the Bay City Wheeimen.
The Olympic Wheemen are managing the
opposition fight. There. will doubtless ne
a full meeting and a hot time to-ni Ell
Wheelmen are looking forward WIN u
considerable pieasurable anticipation to
the fourteenth annual ball Of tat the macy Bas
neEt Wednesday night in the maple room
of Of the Palace Hotel. President 'FahrbIa g
states that it will be one of the most ela fhe
club. Eddie c. Bald, the champion , snor.,
as the. Beau Brunmel of cycling, VII re Re
lead the eotiilon, as Bald is as Tame9 qfa as
leader as he Is as e1 raeer and md their
IS Imltea 20 +;o on being obtainable only
from the mem berS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS.

A. Berg of Portland is at the California.
Charles G. Dormer of Fresno is at the
Grand.
I. ]. Spenser of Iowa Hill is a guest at
the Lick.
G. H Andrews of Detroit is registered
at the Palace.
D. G. Roberts and wife of Los Angeles
are at the Grand.
L. S. and Charles Roth of Cincinnati
are guests at the Palace.
H. B. Chase and Isl Jacobs of Portland
are staying at the Grand.
L. r. JONES' banker of Salt Lake City,
is a guest at the Occidental.
T. M. Schumacher, a photographer of
Los Angeles, is at the Palace.
D. ]. Straus and wife of San Antonio,
Tex, are guests at the Grand.
Captain S. H. Morrison of Santa Clara
is registered at the California
C. w Hartman of New York was among
the arrivals at the Palace yesterday.
Alexander Brown of Milton, member
of the State Board of Equalization, is
at the Lick.
John d. Spreckels started for the East
last evening on business trip. He will
be gone several weeks.
George B. Harris, vice president of the
Burlington Railway, is at the Palace. He
is accompanied by his brother, John F..
Harris, and Robert Forsyth and George
Manierre, all of Chicago. The entire
party is here for pleasure
Benjamin Warfeld Brown and wife and
William Brown, accompanied by their
nieces, Mrs. May and Miss Priscilla Hit,
all of Springfield, ILL.,, are at the Califor-
MIA. They are all relatives of General r..
H. Warfield, and are here merely for
pleasure, having arrived from Coronado
Yesterday
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

However strongly the Morehouse bill for the
slaughter of newspaper men may commend itself to
the Senatorial intelligence it destined not to go
through without amendment. For instance, Stratton
wants closed season of twenty days, which is kind
and thoughtful This would give the surviving jour
naist chance to lay aside his bulfeproof shirt and
the Warehouses a chance to count their dead and
clean up their weapons. We would suggest that the
measure would be nearly perfect if instead of
merely authorizing the statesmen to kill it offer a
reward for the scalps OF the slain
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
WILL DISCUSS GAINES Law.
Probable Animated Meeting of the
Wheelmen's Association
To-Night.

The regular monthly meeting of the
board of governors of the California As
ISOLATED Cycling Clubs will be held this
evening at 562 PARROT building, the rooms
of the Cycle Board of Trade.
From all the talk that has been going
around in wheeling circles since the last
meeting the gathering tonight will be a
wordy war from the rap of the president
gavel. The bone of contention is an
amendment passed at the last meeting
permitting any member of the association
no matter where he resides to ride in any
open. club or team event held under the
auspices of the association. This is the
now famous Gaines amendment
What the opposition are trying to gel
through is a change OF the wording, SO
that no man can ride in the relay or
twenty-mile- events unless he has resided
in the city from which his club comes at
least sixty days prior to the race. For in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
AN INEFFECTIVE COMMISSION.

IN ERHAPS the time has not arrived for passing
~ final judgment the conduct OF the Union
Savings Bank of San Jose, but it is certain that
there such indications of rotenness as recall the
shameful history OF the McDonalds father and sons
It would appear that depositors had been robbed
funds loaned reckless of security and thousands
wasted in chmerical schemes. All this has familiar
sound Where bank should have been financial
stay the community it has been the means of caus
ing distress to many and actual ruin to Others some
OF the sufferers being wholly innocent
There is Bank Commission and at this juncture
question arises to what it is for Assuredly the
body in this instance has fallen far short OF the
measure OF duty. 1t examined the now closed insti-
tuition last December. and pronounced its affairs in
good condition, whereas they were really in des-
perate condition and the bankers had even before re-
sorted to extraordinary means to delay the evil day
OF collapse which they must have known to be near
at hand
II commission authorized to subject the books
and accounts OF any bank to the closest scrutiny can
go through the form of doing so and emerge from
the experience utterly befooed as TO the real status
of the concern the commission is useless and might
as we'll be abolished. 1t is highpriced and super
fuous ornament. The best work of police force is
not always in catching thief, but in preventing a
theft and analogous to this should be the work of
Hank Commission. 1t should be guard between
the depositor and the knavery or incompetence Of
the man handling the deposit. When it is ANYTHING
less its purpose is unaccomplished and its existence
vain
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
ANU EMENTA

Cou1nba-"The Idols Eye"
Caifornia--"why Smith Left Home
Alcazar-"Peaceful Valley"
Tfvoli-'La Perichole."
Orpheun-
Comedy Spider Fly Sunday night
Chutes and Zoo-Panka, the Lady of Lions
Olympia - Corner Mason Streets Specialties.
Central Park-The Steeplechase
Sherman Clay Hall-Concert this afternoon.
Metropolitan Recital Monday evening" Feb
ruaTy 6.
Y. NJ c. A Auditorium Oakland shakespearean Recital
Tuesday. February
Oakland Track-Races To-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
Stole Money From a Child.

Michael Enrlght big, burly man.
was yesterday held to answer before the
Superior Court by Acting Police Judge
Barry on the charge of grand larceny in
$4,000 bonds. He forcibly took So from a
Chinese little girl on Clay street
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and pubic men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). $40 Mont
gomery street Telephone Main 1042.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
CALIFoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-F. s. Poland Of
San Francisco is at the Normandie. c. c.
Moore of San Francisco is at the Shore
ham.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
In the Divorce Courts.

Blanca H. Colombo has been granted a
divorce from her husband. Enrico C. C.
Colombo, on the ground of extreme
cruelty. LYDIA White has sued Andrew
White for divorce, alleging failure to
provide as a cause of action.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

The Governor of Vermont filled the vacancy in
the Federal Senatorshp of that State occasoned by
the death of Senator Merrill by the appointment of
Jonathan Ross, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of that State. Here is suggestion for Our Legis-
lature that it is unlikely to adopt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

An exchange publishes as the portraits of three
tough girls trio OF handsome faces which might
well belong to webred university students. Yet
there are statesmen who would suppress the artist
prone to distort and malign
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Alameda soldiers got no more welcome than an or
binary boatload of commuters. Alameda feels
ashamed now, and it ought to-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

San Jose seems to be having experience with an
almost Mcdonald style of banking.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
THE FAMINE IN Russia.

c o absorbed are the American people in their
- own prosperous business or in the consldera-
- ton of political problems, it will be surprising
to many to learn there is now raging in Russia a
famine OF extreme degree and wide extent. 1t has
reached such large proportions, according to all re-
ports that authorities of the opinion that
the earnest efforts of the Gar to bring about dninu
ton of the armies of Europe prompted mainly by
the need of money to relieve the stricken districts of
his empire.
A European correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch in giving an account of the situation says
THE official reports admit that less than nineteen
provinces with population OF 100000 are al
fected by the famine and it is worthy of note that
the sufferers comprise not merely the peasanry but
likewise the landed gentry and territorial nobility
who in many instances are seeking and obtaining
Government and even private relief In fact the
barine and the moujik alike reduced to beggaf
and terrible as was the famine OF 8oIo2 the present
one far exceeds it in horror"
The writer goes say that the lack of pasturage
and forage has been so disastrous that in many
agricultural districts not directly affected by the
famine 80 per cent of the rural population without
horses or cattle, and therefore without means to plow
their lands In the famine districts hunger typhus has
broken out among the people, and there are grave
fears that during the coming Russia will
have plague almost as appalling as that which
swept over India in the wake OF the famine in that
country few years ago.
While these reports may be somewhat exaggerated
it is not unlikely that the restitution is great The
Russians are a poor people. They have very little
stored wealth, and the failure of crop not
merely hard times, in the United States, but
tual misery and starvation 1t is therefore, be
wondered the Gar desires to reduce his army and
hasten the construction of railroads and canals that
will open up rich grain growing regions to his
ing people. The days when the tribes of Asia and
Eastern Europe could march out of famine country
and invade fruitful one have gone by. 1t is
by war; but industry, that Russia must seek salvation
now and it is fortunate for her that she has rulers
wise enough to know the truth and to act upon it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Perhaps If Judge Treadwell were to expel more of
the chronic loafers from his department he would
not find the air of the place so debilitating.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

The most efficacious stmulant to sharpen the
appetite is DR.. Siegert's Angostura Bitters.
See that you get the genuine
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

1t is good thing for Kipng that he is once more
in this country. The English stories he has been
writing lately show that he is running short on in
spration.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Grove Johnson wants the heirs of convicted muir
derer who died in prison while awaiting second
trial to be paid $4,000 Oddly enough he asks that
the State hand over this sum, although for him to
hand it over out of his private purse would be just
reasonable and far more generous.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
Fell From a Raof

John w. Lord, carpenter, while at
work on the roof of a house at Bay and
Buchanan streets, yesterday morning, fell
to the ground and was severely injured
He was taken TO the Receiving Hospital
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

One OF the hardest knocks the expansion policy
has to combat is the steady advocacy of Dick Croker
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Nevertheless the time for Senator Morehouse to
get his gun has not arrived
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

If the anti-cartoon bill is going through, the able
artists OF the press ought to work overtime until the
fatal day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Harry C. Lath-
rop of San Francisco is atsthe Barthoidi.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Brandes did not get change of venue, but if it is
justice he wants he get it right in Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04

Nobody has yet suggested that the cold spell.at the
East was due to the recent meeting OF Miles ant
Eagan.