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New-York tribune., 1909-03-21
INSURANCE CONFERENCE AT ALBANY
Plan to Make Bill Eliminating Expensive Re-
ceiVerships Less Drastic.

Albany. March 2o--For the purpose OF endeav-
oring 70 agree upon amendments to the bill intro
duced on the recommendation Of William H Hotch-
kiss State Superintendent Of Insurance. TO give him
power 70 take insurance companies when he
believes to for the best interest Of the policy
holders the Superintendent conferred to-day with
representatives Of large life and fire insurance
companies. Efforts are be made TO make the
provisions Of the bill less drastic The measure is
the outcome Of the recent troubles over the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company, and is designed TO
do away with expensive receiveTships.
Those who conferred with Superintendent Hotch-
kiss included James H. Mcintosh and ex-senator
William J. Tully, representing the life insurance
companies: Senator William J. Grattan. chairman
Of the Senate Insurance Committee, and Assembly
man Harnn, chairman OF the Assembly committee;
Alfred HurreIl counsel to Superintendent Hotch-
kiss and Chief Examiners Ffadley and Gordon. Of
the life and fire bureaus of the State Insurance De-
partment
The conference. after being in session practically
all the afternoon. adjourned until tomorrow, when.
according to a statement issued by Superintendent
Hotchkiss tonight, 1T is thought a substantial
agreement will be reached substitute bill, in
cIuding the important features of the original bill.
with such notifications will meet constitutional
objections and obviate features which, II is claimed
would vest the Superintendent OF Insurance with
too arbitrary powers
New-York tribune., 1909-03-21
BY ALDERMAN
George Il. Morrison Returned Pay
He Said He Had Not Earned.

Alderman George A. Morrison. of No. slS Sterling
Place. Brooklyn. has carved a niche for himself
in the City Hall OF Fame by suffering a voluntary
attack Of eompunction about not earning his salary
While the throes were. the phrase goes, getting
in their best licks Alderman Morrison turned in to
the Conscience Fund in the Controllers office his
February salary check. for Sl66 6e
Controller Metz received the AldeTman's contri-
button yesterday. with the following letter:
city of New York. Board of Aldermen. City Hall.
March l9 1909.
Hon. Herman Metz Controller CITY OF New York,
New York City
Dear SIR called at the office of the City Pay
master yesterday to notify him TO return my Feb
ruary check to the city treasury, I absent
from the city and did not render any direct service
to the taxpayers for that month He informed me
that he did not have authority to return the check
to the city treasury. Therefore incose you my
salary check for the month of February. drawn on
the National City Bank. for S166 Sc. indorsed by
me to the city of New York and ask you to return
IT 10 the city treasury. Yours very respectfully.
GEORGE A. MORRISON,
Alderman seth District.
Mr.. Morrisons proffer twice refused. City
New-York tribune., 1909-03-21

money order and the registered mail service in
Paris.
The police and municipal guards on duty for
the protection of the general postoffice have
been replaced by soldiers.
The f1remen at the general postof1ce building
went on strike this afternoon. They were al
once replaced by soldiers.
The strike is now general at Lyons Marseliies'
St Etienne, Bourges Grenoble. Lille. Nancy
Rouen. Hayre. Limoges and other principal
cities Of France Troops have been called out
in many places in the provinces to protect the
wires and to guard workmen from possible vio-
lence
New-York tribune., 1909-03-21

Paymaster J. H. Zimmerman gave him an in
credulous stare and waved him of when he pre-
sented it. and then the Alderman took IL 70 Deputy
Collector John Fl McCooey. who held a oonsulta-
tion with his colleagues before sending him ths
Controller. Mr.. McCooey thought he was crazy.
When was a boy read Emersons essay On
compensation. said the Controller yesterday. a.
ne held Alderman Morrison's letter IN strens
light so that he could every word. Not until
now can I say that I really know that that iaT
operates Here I've been for three years UP against
the seamy side OF public life. II seemed 10 -
pretty much all seams until along came this letter
from Morrison. don't Just exactly understand
lAorrlson's mental operations He has been an
Alderman more than year. and this Is the nrss
time remorse has gnawed his conscisnee- II
there is occasion for it, hope it gnaws again Fne
town ought to- do something for Morrison. Regis
ter Howe built a Washington statue with fees as
couldn't conscientiously keep. Morrison Is statse
htmself--a walking monument 20 eloseoraing CIVIC
virtue This Morrison business exhiiarates me- 80
that shall bust something II don't 80 ana
take walk"
Two years ago a city employee who sneaked away
TO a ball game and afterward was converted q
Salvation Army meeting sent 50 70 the conscieno0
fund for time spent in watching -christy Msthe~
son pitch That created a sensation In the F1snc'
Department. but IL wasn't a marker 70 the Aer1~
son bonbshelL
New-York tribune., 1909-03-21
PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD HEARINGS

Albany, March 20.-The Public Service Comrnis-
sion, I'd District, has seventeen public hearings
appointed for the coming week They are dis
ributed between Albany. New York. Buffalo and
Rochester On Wednesday New York the com
mission will take up the application Of the New
York Central Hudson River Railroad Company
to the of the elimination OF grade cross
ngs at Main street and Wdey street in the village
Of TaTrytown. On Thursday at New York, the
commission will hear the application Of the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
as to the eliminating OF grade crossings in the
VILLAGES Of IryinEton and Hastings.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-21

amounts with them and being penniless they
can neither afford to leave nor stay The hotel
managers. xith the best viii in the world, can
not assist them. because things have also gone
wrong with the hotels. Something like a panic
ss setting in among the foreign visitors because
shey are sc utterly cut of from home ana
FRIENDS Z. i g.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
AERONAUT DROPS
TO DEATH IN SEA
ThrOngs See Young BallOOnist
Fall 1000 Feet to a
Watery Grave

SAN PEDRO, March 9.-While hun
dreds of people watched his frantic
efforts to control a great gas bag
which was swiftly bearing him out
over the Pacific ocean this afternoon,
Lester EIkins, an amateur aeronaut 20
years old. scared with the balloon to
height Of more than 1000 feet before
he cut loose his parachute and dropped
into the waters of the outer harbor to
his death.
AS the huge bag rose from the
ground it careened and was carried
rapidly out over the water Elkins at
once began frantic efforts to guide it
back to the land by swinging from the
bar below. but almost before the spec
tators could realize that he was in i'm
minent danger the balloon was out
over the sea. Then it suddenly rose
and had reached an altitude estimated
TO be about $500 feet when the aero
naut was seen to leave the bag and
drop like a rocket. The parachute
filled after he had fallen a hundred
feet or more, but was caught by the
wind and carried still farther out and
fell in the ocean a mile beyond Dead
Mans island.
The launch Emeline was already in
the outer harbor when Elkins cut loose
but owing to the high wind. was un-
able to judge correctly the point where
he would strike the water. and before
il could race there Elkins had disap-
peared.
Elkins came to California few
months ago from San Antonio. Tex,
where his mother now lives. The body
has not yet been recovered.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
To Enjoy

the full confidence of the Well-Informed
of the World and the Commendation of
the most eminent physicians it was essen
tial that the component parts of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna should be-
known to and approved by them; there
fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub
fishes full statement with every package.
The perfect purity and uniformity Of pro-
duct, which they demand in laxatise
remedy of an ethical character, are assured
by the Company's original method of man
ufaeture known to the Company only.
The figs of California are used in the
production Of Syrup Of Figs and Elixir Of
SIENNA to promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles are obtained from
plants known to act most bene6cially.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale
by all leading druggists.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
Primary Bills Fate
70 Be Known Today
Assembly to Determine Form in Which the
Measure Goes to Governor
By George A. Van Smith
Especial Dispatch to The ColIl

clare war. Senators Miller, Holohan.
Campbell, Curtin, Cartwright and
Caminetti made the passage OF the
bill in the upper house possible.
These senators were not doing parti-
san politics when they voted for the
bill. nor is it to be readily assumed that
they Will do partisan politics to defeat
IT in the last days of the session in
the event that it is amended by the
assembly. They have several broad
alternatives. They can beat the enc
mics of the bill. who hope to see it
thrown into conference by agreeing to
concur in the assembly amendments
and ending the direct primary fight
with one vote. On the other hand they
can refuse to concur and throw the
bin into conference or drive the repub-
1cans into a party caucus and passing
the bill as a strictly party measure
They know that the republicans can not
adjourn without passing the bill and
they know, too, that IL the bill is
made party measure that there will
be no recession from the assembly
amendments providing for the district
advisory vote.
If the bill were thrown into con-
ference it is highly improbable that
either a disagreement of the conferees
on the part of the two houses would
throw the bill into q free conference,
where 1t could be mangled at the sweet
Will of the conferees, and both houses
would be compelled TO accept their re-
port or the entire subject matter would
be dead. Neither republicans nor demo-
Gratis, with possibly a few exceptions
on both sides of the political fence,
wish to bring about such a state of af-
fairs. And neither side can afford to
@ fngs Il
CAN FORCE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
All of which means that with not
more than 10 days of the session left
the democrats can drive the republicans
into caucus if they choose. Undoubted-
ly some of the republicans in the up
per house would welcome a situation
which would force party caucus 1t
would give them an opportunity to
smear over the record they wrote for
themselves when they voted for the
Mccartney resolution providing for the
40 per cent and 25 per cent pluralities.
1t would also enable them to claim all
the credit for giving the people a
direct primary law.
Most of the republicans who voted
for the Mccartney resolution would
vote for concurrence in the assembly
amendments al a nod from recognized
authority, but it goes without saying
that they would rather do it as the re-
suit of caucus. But with or without
caucus the republicans, both of the
machine and anti-machine variety. are
alive to the fact that they must pass
the direct primary bill, and it may be
safely assumed that with or without
the assembly amendments the Wright
Stanton bill will be up to the governor
early next week
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
HAWAIIAN MAHOGANY
PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
Manufacturing Project Has
Proved to Be a Failure

HONOLULU, Feb. 26.-Notice is pub
lished OF the intention of the Hawaiian
development company to foreclose and
to sell the property of the Hawaiian
mahogany company, limited, a corpora
tion organized two years ago for the
purpose of getting out koa lumber for
the manufacture of furniture and
interior finishing. The promoters were
ne officials of the Henry WaterhOuse
trust company of this place.
Lack Of experience caused the man
agement to fall into expensive errors
and the trust company found itself
unable to carry the heavy burden and
it was decided to turn over the prop
erty, under mortgage. to the Hawaiian
development company
The company had made a contract
to deliver ohia ties to the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa F'e railway company
at San Pedro at what proved to be a
deficit of cents or more a tie. An
effort was made by the mortgages TO
cancel the old contract and make a
new one at a higher figure, a price
which the railway company was will
ing to pay, but was not willing to take
any steps toward breaking the con-
tract made with the original company.
Now that the principal is due and un-
paid the property will be sold March
81 to pay the debt. 1t is thought the
company will be continued under the
management of the development COM
pany.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
SENATE WANTS NO
DIvORCEExAMlNERS
SOlons Score Plan to Have In
tervenor to Represent State
in Separation Suits
Declared Chance for Blackmail
and Measure Is Beaten When
Vote Is Taken
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

CALL HEADQUARTERS, CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING. SAcRA-
MENTO, March S.-There will be no d.
vorce examiners in this state unless
the senate changes its mind. Senator
Bells bill providing for an intervenOr
who shall represent the state in di-
vorce actions and prosecute collusion
or other frauds was beaten by vote
Of 16 to Is. Bell Will ask the senate
to reconsider the vote.
This bill would make marriage a
legalized concubinage, declared Wolfe.
"A divorce examiner, forsooth. 1t is a
better chance for blackmail than any
thing I know of. Why does all this
sort of legislation come from the sunny
south? Bishops favor this bill? Well,
I'll read you some letters in a day or
so from bishops who oppose local op-
ton"
"BlackmaiIr' exclaimed Leavitt.
why. they'd rake it in fore and aft,
to a fare you well,T
Suppose they do eolluse-coIlision?
riddled supergrammaticaI Gus Hart
man.
Los Angeles is the Castle Garden for
the offseourings OF America. confessed
Willis. ITS the Mecca of people look
ing for divorces. 1 abominate reform,
but I'm for this bill"
IL ,x-o- boo+o~
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09

CALL HEADQUARTERS CHAM
BER OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SAC
RAMENTO. March s.-The form in
which the wright-Stanton direct pri-
mary election bill viii go TO Governor
Gillett for his signature will be de-
termined in the assembly tomorrow
morning. The one question TO be de-
cided is shall the party electors in
struct their Legislators in the matter
Of nomination OF United States sena-
tor by state wide vote or by the vote
OF their several districts. The test
viii come when the reports of the
committee on elections are called up
and Hinkle and Drew endeavor to Sc
cure the adoption OF the minority re-
port as an amendment to the majority
report which provides for the advisory
vote by districts. II the minority re-
port is substituted. the senate will be
asked TO concur in a half dozen typo
graphical amendments only.
WILL PRECIPITATE FIGHT
II the majority report prevails the
fight which is brewing in the senate
VIII be precipitated. and noncurrence
on the part OF the senate VIII throw
the bill into conference from which
il may emerge a direct primary bill in
name only. In my judgment the ad-
visory vote by districts will win in
the assembly. 1t will win because the
organization, after its disastrous de-
feat in the senate, abandoned all at
tempts TO inject the iniquitous and un-
constitutional fixed plurality scheme,
and declared for the compromise which
ii refused in the senate committee on
elections. A further and more po-
tent reason for believing that the dis
trict vote scheme will win in the as
sembly is that Governor Gillett, who
has declared that the direct primary
bill must go through. is strongly in
favor of the district plan and always
has been.
That the governors known attitude
in the matter of the senatorial vote
rather than any personal interference
on his part, has been determining
factor is beyond question. Men who
were prepared to fight it out for the
bill as it came from the senate have
changed their attitude in the single
particular of the vote for United States
senator.
BILL 4 PARTY MEASURE
The tendency of these changes is TO
make the bill as amended a party
mea sure In fact If the assembly
amendments are adopted it will be done
by an almost strictly party vote, and
the responsibility for saving the bill
from defeat will be up to the repub-
licans of the senate. The democratic
senators, without whom the bill could
not have been passed in the upper
house, are up in arms over the assem-
bly, amendments and are ready TO de-
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
RAILROAD CHIEFS
PLAN CONFERENCE
Illinois Central President Conn
ing West for Meeting With
Hartman

OGDEN, Utah, March S-J. T. Hara-
han, president of the Illinois Central
railroad. accompanied by a number Of
other prominent railroadmen. travel
ing in private car, will reach ogden
at noon tomorrow en- route west for
a conference with E. H. Hartman. ar
ranged to take place in San Francisco
within the next few days. Important
changes in the official railroad family
of Hartman are said to be under con-
sideration, among them the transfer of
E. E. Calvin from the head of the
southern Pacific to the Illinois Cen
trail and Harahan's promotion to the
New York Central.
%. r. Calvin, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Southern Pacific
company, when seen yesterday in re-
gard TO the reported shifting of Of
hcials in the Hartman hierarchy. said
that he knew nothing of the rumored
changes He had received word from
the Chicago offices of the Southern Pa
cific company that j. T. Harahan. presi-
dent OF the Illinois Central. was com
ing TO this coast and he had been in
structed to be prepared to greet him.
But I know nothing about con-
ference. which, it is said. Will be held
here between Mr.. Hartman and Mr.
Harahan," Calvin stated. Nor do T
know anything about the proposed
changes. l have heard nothing that
would lead me to believe that Mr..
Harahan is to be made president of
the New York Central, and that / am
to be president Of the Illinois Central
What | do know is that Mr.. Harahan
is coming west on vacation and not
for the purpose of seeing Mr. Harri-
man.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
CARNEGIE INTERESTS
PURCHASE VAST ISLAND
Largest Body of Land in Fresh
Water Bought by Americans

DETROIT. Mich. March S.-The larg-
est island in fresh water in the world
has reverted to American ownership
through the diplomacy of business and
probably without the knowledge of
Washington. Isle Royale. in Lake Su-
perior consisting of 1920 acres. has
just been purchased by American in
terests from the English syndicate
which owned it for many years The
deal was concluded in London by f.
w. Nichols of Houghton and Oscar J.
Larson of Duluth. the latter the agent
for the United States steel corporation.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
Oppose National Guard Bill
[SneciaI Dispatch 10 The Call

CALL HEADQUARTERS, CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO March S.-With the possibfl-
ity of strikes in mind, Senators Tom
Finn and John P. Hare today opposed
the passage of a bill appropriat ting
100000 to pay the expense of calling
out the national guard in cases OF .in-
surrection, invasion, tumult. riot,
breaches of the peace or imminent dam
ger thereof" Leavitt of Oakland ex-
planned that the bill made no changes
in the law, but simply obviated the
calling of an extra session at a cost
of thousands of dollars. Finn and
Hare were not satisfied. so considera-
tion of the bill was postponed until
tomorrow The bill which was intro
duced by Perine of the forty-fourth
district has passed the assembly.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
TAX Plan fAvORING
RAILROADS KILLED
Amendment Reducing State As
sessment OF Interurban Lines
Loses After Hard Fight
Boynton Denies Seeking Spe-
cial Legislation for Northern
Electric Company
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

CALL HEADQUARTERS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, sACRA-
MENTO, March S.-Senator Boynton of
Oroville was beaten today in his at
tempt to amend the Curtin tax amend
ment in such wise that interurban rail
ways paying a percentage OF their
earnings to cities or counties for their
franchises would have their state taxes
reduced by the amount of such pay.
ments.
Insinuations by Curtin and other SEN
ators that Boynton was seeking special
legislation for the Northern electric
company were met by the senator from
Oroville with the emphatic statement
that he had no knowledge of any
Northern electric company franchises
which would be touched by his amend
ment.
Boynton succeeded In lacking his
amendment to the Curtin constitutional
amendment providing for the separa
tion of state and local taxation, last
week. after hot debate. But several
senators have changed their minds
since then, and after another debate to-
day, characterized by considerable Bit
measure of the Boynton amendment
The vote stood 10 to 10.
RETTERATES ARGUMENTS
When Boynton had been overruIed in
his attempts to delay action on points
of order, Curtin reiterated his argu-
ments of last week, insisting that the
Boynton amendment destroyed the
whole tax scheme and worked injustice
to all sources of state revenue except
the interurban lines paying money for
franchises.
Without directly connecting Boyn-
ton with the corporation he used the
name of the Northern electric company
Within few years. under the new
system of taxation, the entire revenue
Of this state will be derived from the
taxation of railroads, as it is in Penn
sylvania," declared Curtin in conclud-
ing his argument.
SHOE ON OTHER FOOT
This is corporation matter. but the
shoe is on the other foot this time "
retorted Boynton ''The tax amend
ment. as it stood without my amend
ment, was approved by the hired lob
byist of the most important railroad
corporation in California. 1t suits them.
1t was made to suit them. They don't
care about the little fellows. l know
what l am talking about. l have had
men come to me who received money
to lobby and work at the polls to put
that amendment through"
Boynton declared also that the
Broughton act had been passed to stifle
railroad competition.
Wolfe and Burnett of San Francisco
eSpOuSed the cause of Curtin. Now that
the amendment has been restored to the
shape approved by the tax commission 1t
will come up for final passage tomor-
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-09
LITTLE PROGRESS IN
STOCKTON GRAFT CASES
Time Set for Hearing Argument
on Demurrer

STOCKTON, March S.-Councilman
W T. Shepard, accused of misconduct
in Office by the grand jury. and Police
Captain John Craig. accused OF dere-
LECTION OF duty and Of having accepted
money from saloonmen, appeared be-
fore Judge w. B. Nutter of the su-
OF their trials set Attorney Arthur
L. Levinsky appeared in behalf OF
Shepard owing to the absence of his
attorney. Assemblyman Robert /.
Beardslee. now at the legislature
Mr.. Levinsky requested that as the
state law provided that an attorney
who IS a member of the legislature
and who has a client in court is en-
titled to continuance of 30 DAYS after
the adjournment of the legislature that
March "a be set as the time for ar
gument on the demurrer which was
fled. This was granted
Captain Craig was represented by
Attorneys Clary and Loutitt. They
filed demurrer, FIVE grounds being set
forth.
The first is that the grand jury had
no legal authority TO inquire into of
fenses of that character by reason of
its not being within the jurisdiction
of the county.
The second is that the court has no
jurisdiction.
The third. that the facts stated do
not constitute a public offense. and
fourth and fifth, that they do not state
grounds for granting the relief praved
for-removal of Craig from Office
Judge Notter set Thursday at I.3O.
O'Clock .. m. for the hearing of the
argument in the case of Captain Craig
IN fe -.