The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-13

not interfere in the contest for United
States Senator now in progress here is
again corroborated. Tonight General
Barnes received a letter from Judge
Waymire in which the latter writes IN
der date of Modesto, March u, as fol-
lows:
I have a letter from MI Hanna, in
which he expresses great anxiety to
have a Senator elected. Says he has
not taken sides with any one
1t is known that the Organization"
made an effort to get from Washington
an expression of some kind favorable to
the aspirations of D. NJ. Burns, and it is
now clear that the attempt was unsuc-
cessful. The duty of electing Senator
will be performed by the Republican
majority in the Legislature. The signs
tonight indicate that the deadlock will
be broken. Colonel ]. P. Jackson, Col
lector of the Port of San Francisco,
went home to-day but will return to
this place tomorrow evening. Senator
Currier of Los Angeles. who has been
absent from the Senate for three weeks
or more, returned tonight and will cast
his vote for United States Senator on
the joint ballots tomorrow. 1t is said
here tonight that he will vote for Gem
eral Barnes
Assemblyman Huber went south day
before Yesterday. He will probably re-
turn tomorrow or next day. Assembly
man lie Barron may leave Sacramento
for his home in Sonoma County next
Wednesday evening. His mind is not
fully made UP on this point, but he says
that business affairs at home demand
l., his personal attention. He will return
here provided the session of the Legis-
lature is prolonged beyond the coming
y week.
: All the whispered rumors regarding a
+: close relationship between the camps of
Dan Burns and L. S. Grant are given
out for circulation by the chief touts Of
the Burns corral The purpose in view
IS to brace up the weak and respondent
followers of the Colonel" The Burns
forces are badly de -oralized by the de-
feat of the Harbor Commission reor-
ganization scheme which followed close
on Burns defeat on poolselling PROPOSE
ttons.
Several of the supporters of the
Colonel began to show signs of de-
sorting the corral when they saw for
themselves that the boasts Of control
ling legislation were empty assertions
of strength. Something had to be done
TO brace up the column and keep the
men in line between Saturday night
and Monday morning. The old bluff
of winning the SenatOTShip on Ger
tain, day or getting a caucus at GER
tain time was played out several days
ago The tOutS who were capable of
doing a little brain work on their own
account called to mind that Governor
Gage had not vetoed all the legislative
measures which emanated from the
Grant and Barnes supporters and
neither had he shown any preference
for the bills emanating from the lead
ers in the Burns corral.
These facts, coupled with others of
equal significance, aroused the sus-
picion that the promises of State
patronage, so freely made in the cor
raj. were bricks" In order to stop
breakaway a new confidence scheme
had to be devised. Some one, perhaps
the adroit Lindley, fancied that 1t
would be a deep game to spread
abroad the impression that an alliance
between Burns and Grant had been
. established. The reports of negotia-
tions between Grant and Burns are
utterly false and absurd. Burns can
not make any Roadway by compromise
or negotiation. He is simply facing an
impossible wall created by the force
and power of public judgment With
the assistance of Democrats he may
be able to force an adjournment of the
LEGISLATURE before a choice for Sen
: ator is. reached, but he cannot gain the
prize himself or name the winner.
Should the Southern Pacific Railroad
refuse to sustain him in the effort to
prevent the election of a Senator, his
chance of success in the scheme would
be very slender.
The fifty-eight members Of the
LEGISLATURE who have resolved that
there shall be no caucus and that this
State shall not be disgraced by the
election of an unworthy man, repre-
sent much of the integrity and ability
of the Legislature. The superior de-
, baters and the best parliamentary gen
erals are among them. They are here
serving the public without hope of
: other reward than the commentator
= of the people, and they will stay until
the Legislature adjourns.
Red-eyed hunger has raised a pretty
row in the camp Of the Mexican. Sixty
days of uhwonted affluence and ten
DAYS of meager banqueting at Sacra
eu1ento's none-too- beautiful lunch count
ers has left the San Francisco gang in
state of penury that is distressing. Not
one of them but owes in San Francisco
the price of his election to this session
of the Legislature. Many of them are
in debt for from a hundred to six hun
6red apiece, and those who nave homes
10 send TO have been reduced TO the
necessity of remittances from that
quarter for two weeks past. The truth
of the matter is that there has been not
a dollars worth of business done
since the gang came up here to vote Tor
de Colonel" and no well regulated
Polly from the sunny side or Market
can exist through a prolonged session
on the IS per diem provided by the
State. That, however, is the rub. The
lack of cash might be taken under or
binary circumstances as San Joaquin
farmer takes a scant rainfall, as mis-
fortune. 1t is the well grounded sus-
picion that the stuff has arrived and
not been doled out that has raised the
rumpus and it has raised 1T to the eX-
tent that yesterday two of the most.
prominent members of the metropolitan
delegation called on Burns and on be-
half of the crowd delivered its ultl-
Rnatum. Something must "be doing"
before adjournment, and the leaders
have got at least to make a dizzy Of
what is coming into the corral
9 The fender bill ran its weary length
through both houses and left no golden