The San Francisco call., 1907-06-23

Eugene E. Schmitz will be sentenced
Thursday to a term of Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary on charge
of extortion. Then the graft prosecu-
tion, acting through the board of super
visors, will select the man who is to
be the mayor of San Francisco. That
action may be taken on Thursday at
a special meeting of the board which
may be called TO consider the budget.
or more probably 1T will take place
on Monday, July l, when the board
meets in regular session. It Is not
known. at least publicly, who this
mayor is to be.
In the meantime Supervisor James L.
Gallagher is acting mayor, but he does
not permit the responsibility to disturb
him greatly and is not even annoyed
when Schmitz. from the county Jail,
daily gives limitations of executive
authority.
A new police commissioner was ap-
pointed by Schmitz yesterday. That Is,
Schmitz, with all the formality which
bolts and bars permit. accepted the
resignation of Police Commissioner
William II. Leahy and nominated for
the vacancy John L. Moore.
No one is quite certain who Moore
is, further than that he is a memb er
of the machinists union and is con-
nected in some capacity with the En-
terprise foundry. w. p. McCabe, Sec
retary of the San Francisco labor coun-
Gil and familiar with all union men If
the city who have any degree of
prominence. confessed last evening
that he did not know who Moore was,
and Police Commissioner Thomas Finn
was equally uncertain as to his new
colleagues identity.
1t was a general impression about
police headquarters that the new COM
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the Moore myth cult spread rapidly.
Inquiry at the Schmitz house developed
the fact that Moore was q person of
flesh and blood. a member of the in
carcerated and deposed officials family
stating that he was with the Enterprise
foundry.
PROSECUTORS NOT ALARMED
The appointment of Moore, whoever
he may be, will not cause a panic
among the graft prosecutors. The po-
lice board is notoriously -Schmitz
as it is, and the addition of one more
Schmitz man will not change its COM
plexion. The auditor and city treas
urer, whom Schmitz notified of Moore's
appointment, have already gone5on rec
ord by recognizing Gallagher as the de
facto mayor, and since two mayors can
not occupy Office at the same time.
Schmitz acts can not be considered
as effective and Moore can not,receive
pay for his services to the city.
Assistant District Attorney Francis
J. Heney smiled yesterday when told
that Schmitz had appointed a police
commissioner. He was. asked If the
appointment would be opposed.
NO." replied he. the smile assuming
its inscrutable cast. '"The question of
who is mayor is to be settled Son other
points shortly and in the meantime we
will not bother about side issues which
Schmitz might raise. In the Ruef case
at first they started to draw us away
from the issue on a hundred different
lines and they didn't succeed, Now we
have our eyes on the rabbit aud we,ll
catch that rabbit. no mattershow many
lions or bears or kangaroos. or ichthyo-
sauri or rats they send across our path,
1t would not settle the question at is-
sue if this little matter sof a police
commissioner were brought up In
court" s. - *
Acting Mayor Gallagher is complais-
ant in discussing the performances of
his imitator at the county Jail. .'Tm
not looking for trouble said he yes
terday. Gallagher was enjoying the
freedom of Van Ness avenue and was
on foot as an honest citizen might be.
Schmitz having held on to thesred auto
mobile furnished by a generous city to
its head boodler and extortionist .'If
Schmitz wants to appoint commission
ers 1 will not interfere with him, and
If Chief of Police Dinan wants to get
Schmitz' signature to fight permits let