The San Francisco call., 1906-07-02
ISSUE THE CALL
FOR CONVENTION
Republicans of Fourth
to Hold Separate
Gathering.
Will Nominate Candi-
date for Kahn's Place
on September Is.

/ A meeting OF the Republican com
mittee OF the Fourth Congressional
District was held at 1870 O'Clock Sat
urday night at the Auditors ONCE,
2513 Sacramento street, in pursuance
/ of a notice issued by its chairman.
Maurice L. Asher. who presided. P.
/ j. Haskins acted as secretary. The
chairman announced that the object OF
the meeting was to adopt a call for a
Congressional convention for the pur-
pose OF nominating a Representative
/ in Congress from the Fourth Con-
gressional District of this State and for
the selection OF a Congressional COM
mittee therefor.
A call for such a convention was
duly adopted. providing for an appor-
tionment of eighty-four delegates from
the following Assembly districts:
From the Twenty eighth, 6; Twenty
ninth. s.; Thirtieth. I; Thirty-first, Z;
Fortieth. 10: Forty-first, 9; Forty-sec-
oAd, IL; Forty third, II; Forty-fourth,
/ that the delegates so selected shall be
/ separate from those elected TO the
State convention.
The district convention viii be held
/ in San Francisco September. IS. 1906.
/ at q place to be hereafter designated
4
KAHN is SAFE.
/ The move for a separate convention
/ in the Fourth is not regarded as inirn-
ical 10 Julius Kahn. the present Repre-
sentative of the district in Congress-
He is supposed TO be close up to the
powers that control the party machin-
1 cry of the district.
Politicians are saying that Oakland
has lost her grip In the councils Of the
/
1itical appointment that a third-rate
! San Francisco unburned ward politician
would blush to ask Tor and be refused.
/ For some months past the politicians OF
/ Oakland have been exerting their most
strenuous efforts TO secure the appoint
i ment of Deputy Internal Revenue Col
lector to be stationed in the Internal
Revenue Office in the Oakland Post
| Office for the purpose of selling beer
and tobacco staSnps- as an accommoda-
i ton to the business community of that
/ hotbed Of craftsmanship. All the ex-
pense to the Government involved
would be $1,000 per annum the salary OF
the Deputy. But all their vast political
/ influence was not potent enough 10 Sc
cure the desired concession. Commits
/ sioner Yerkes refusing his assent.
chiefly upon the ground of economy
1T is the strangest thing IN history,
remarked a statesman yesterday, that
u
of the senior United States Senator from
California, Of a member OF the Cabinet
! (Secretary Metcalf). OF the Governor OF
/ California, of a Congressman (Know-
/ land), OF a Customs Collector (Strat-
tom and OF a United States Immigrant
Commissioner and OF the Lord only
| knows how many other State and Fed
/ eral officials, was not able to exert suf-'
| fcient influence to get $1,000 per an
mum job on a legitimate business
PROPOSITION"
GALLAGHER sTIRs TROUBLE.
/ 1t is common gossip among some OF
/ the Supervisors that there is consid
erabIe friction between Supervisor Gal
| lagher, chairman OF the finance COM
mittee. and Sherin Thomas ONeH, be-
| cause the budget as passed by the
board reduced the salary account OF the
j Sheriffs office to the tune OF several
/ thousand dollars. The Sheriff found II
| necessary TO reduce his stan TO some
extent, and the combination is said to
be responsible for the eoldness between
the two men
| some of the men who were cut OF
/ from serving the county at good sal
| aries were friends of various OF the
/ Supervisors, and they are not feeling
the best IN the world over the confusion
that has arisen. in the matter. They
feel that their friends should have
| heen treated with bit more considera-
ton. but the Sherif declares that he
had to reduce expenses to get within
the salary limit and that he is In no
1 way to be held responsible for the state
of affairs.
Thomas Gallagher, a brother Of the
| Supervisor, who was Superintendent OF
| JaiIs, got from under. however, before
the trouble came. and this has not
I,served to increase the entente cordiale
/ between the Supervisors At n recent
| meeting Of the board there was creaed
/ the Commissary Department for the
purpose of buying supplies for all city
/ and county Offices, and IN the same
breath Thomas Gallagher was appoint
ed TO the position at salary that viii
i enable him to enjoy life-
This relieved Sheriff O'Neil IN the
| sense that il gave him another vacancy,
but all the same the rumors around the
temporary City Hall have reached the
i state where 1t is said that things have
| developed into something of a personal
4 fight between the man who Is presiding
| officer over the Supervisors when
! Mayor Schmitz is absent and the guard
/ ian of county prisoners.
PERKINS SLIPS FROM UNDER.
The washington dispatches announce
] that Senator Flint spoke and voted for
the confirmation of Franklin K. Lane
as Interstate Commerce Commissioners
A telegram from the national capital
i conveys this information: There was
no roll call in the Senate on the ques-
Itfon OF the confirmation OF Franklin K,
j Lane. Senator Perkins did not oppose
/ confirmation He is understood to
i have been out of the chamber when the
i vote was taken.
The Senator has achieved national re-
l'nown for diligent attention to his pub
Il lie duties hence his absence from the
Senate when the Lane vote was taken
will create some comment IN political
! circles
JAPANESE CAUSE STRIKE.