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• CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA MENTO, May \ 18.— It . was f 8:30 o'clock when Chairman Burnett rapped for order for ¦ the' night session. Albert Brown of Napa, - Postmaster at ' the Veterans' Home, who attended ; the Republican convention • of 1856, was called to the platform . and three rousing cheers were given for. him. He told, of coming, up the. Sacramento River in 1856 "to attend that convention and recited, a number, of, political stories of the early, days. He referred to-many of the' leading men who attended; that convention and' said they were the men who made California what she is to day. He said the meeting-was held out- Little Business at the Night Ses sion. Continued on Page 4, Column 1. Continued on Page 4, Column 7. DELEGATES WHO WILL BE SENT. TO NATIONAL CONVENTION AT LARGE. GOVERNOR GEORGE C. PARDEE of Alameda. GEORGE A. KNIGHT, of San Francisco. JOHN D. SPRECKELS of San Francisco. J. W. McKINLEY of Los Angeles. FIRST DISTRICT. ' . , Delegates. , Alternates. JOHN CBUtL JR., Humboldt. F. P. TUTTLE, Placer. , C. E. CLINCH, Nevada. , D. D. DODSON, Tehania. „. , ! SECOND PISTRICT. JAMES STEFFENS, Sacramento. C. Cv DONOVAN, Sonoma., W. P. HAMMON, Butte. WILLIAM VAN AIiLEN,.4Jendociiio. Delegates. "^ DISTmCT ' Alternateg . l^ * GEORGE W. REED,* Oakland. r DR. T. OLMSTEAD, Oakland. W. L. CROOKS, Benicia. , J. • P. ; STOWE, -Walnut Creek. FRANK H. SHORT,, Fresno. . J. H. FOX, Kings. DR. J. G. PRIESTLY, San Joaquln. . . .".¦•; A. .-W.-..WYMAN, Santa Cruz. '"",¦ OSCAR LiAWIjOR,; Los Angeles. ,, - GUY; K. WOODWARD, Los Angeles. JOHN H. NORTON, Los Angeles. WILLIS BOOTH, Lbs Angeles. '. •'' - ' EIGHTH DISTRICT. ¦': ¦• \ {'• ' : '.' - ' " Delegates. ¦ ,' ' Alternates. D. F. HUNT, Santa Barbara. • DRv.F. W . HASSON, ••¦"Orange.- E. D. ROBERTS, San Bernardino. . . ..... A. P. JOHNSON, Riverside, Fourth and Fifth districts will meet In San Francisco, '¦ Friday night, In Shiels HaU. " VANCOUVER. B. C. May IS. — Chief of Police Stewart dropped '" , dead In court to-day at Nanaimo while the Assizes was proceeding, of apploplexy. He had occupied the office for thlrty tight years, He was .7.1 zea» of a«% Chief of Police Drops Dead. . CHEFU, May. 18.— As a result of the engagement which, the Japanese had on Monday with the Russian garrison at Kaichou, on the coast of Liaotung peninsula, the Russians were driven out of Kaichou, which is the nearest, point to Newchwang, with the excep tion of the Liao. River, where there 13 sufficient water io allow of the land ing of troops, - — - Russians Driven From Kalchou. KISHENEV, May 18. — The last trial of persons connected with the Jewish riots was concluded before the Court of Appeals to-day. Georgitz and Re denkoff were deprived of their civil rights and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for disturbance of the peace. . Kobaliehuba and Gohoff were sentenced to a year's solitary confine ment for attempted . homicide. Sib lieff and Roolkoff were condemned to four years' penal servitude for mur der.' 5 Several Receive Heavy Sentences for Part In Anti-Jewish Attacks. TRIAIi OF KISHENEV RIOTERS IS CONCLUDED doors and : It was generally j understood that the j delegates • were to jl be rotton egged. 1 but :in those days 'it was cus-' tomary- to "form - vigilant committees 'and ; the delegates were ' not rotton egged.. ; From that; day to the present, he ' added,- he had always endeavored to put ' forward the principles of the Republican party. He had 'grown 'up <with .'• It" and he< said -he ! could | under stand why it had been successful; r '"It 'has always been in the forward van of advancement," he said. "It has settled questions which have met the approvaland sanction of; the best peo ple'of America. Its leaders have al ways kept their faces to the light and never 1 have- betrayed 'human 1 liberty. -When f the ' Democratic party » had the power it betrayed liberty inthe^temple of the "country. ¦ "If Dante was living,to-day.andJook ed on Tammany's tiger he would see a picture not equaled by any picture of hell." .: Brown next took up , the subject of * CALL - HEADQUARTERS. SACRA MENTO, May 18.— The question of se lecting delegates at large to the Repub lican' National * Convention > was ; defi nitely settled to-day and to-morrow the State Convention of the party, here assembled, ' will ] elect the following named: j Governor George C. Pardee of Alameda, „ John D. 8preckels of San Francisco, George A. Knight of San Francisco and J: TV. McKinley of Los Angeles. . As alternates the following nam*d may be elected: A. Ruef of San Francisco, TV. R. Porter of Santa Cruz, A. "W. Forbes of Tuba and Ferdinand K. Rule of Los Angeles. R. N.'Bulla of Los Angeles has had aspirations for some time to be elected a delegate, at large to -the National Convention. His candidacy engaged some attention, but he withdrew from the contest - with the understanding that at the August convention he would be named as Presidential elector. The inllcations are the selection of the en tire national delegation will be accom plished without friction. The committee, on resolutions has been overwhelmed with work, and to relieve it of its burden a sub-committee has been appointed to revise the docu ments. The committee will report to morrow forenoon, and In all probability the convention will adjourn sine die before the afternoon is far advanced. Awaiting Reports From Various Committees. No Contest Over the Delegates at Large. H. H. Asquith summed up for the opposition and what was something of a storm in a teacup ended with a vote of 251 to 306, defeating Black's motion. Then Chamberlain reiterated that he did not wish to raise the fiscal ques tion In the House. He said he sup ported the Government and would continue to do so. He hoped that the Premier would take his own time to carry out his policy. Balfour said his , Sheffield speech still represented the advice he would give to the country if asked to-morrow to give an election address. With a touch of passion the Premier, amid loud Ministerial cheers, repudiated Lord Hugh Cecil's charge of cowardice against Chamberlain, saying that Lord Hugh was "the man to be accused of lack of courage." ACCUSATION OF COWARDICE. At last there was comparative quiet and then Lord Hugh Cecil, with much heat and amid a great uproar, ac cused Chamberlain of cowardice la dodging the Issue by refusing to meet his opponents In the House on the campaign .which he had preached throughout the country. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach threw a bombshell into the free food camp by announcing that he would not sup port Black's motion. Twenty-one Unionist free traders voted against the Government, but more than double that number would have done so but for Balfour's skillful intervention between Chamberlain and his opponents. The net result of the debate, which crowded the House of Commons to a greater extent than it has been In this session, Is that all parties stand as they were. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and his Immediate following prac tically saved the day by refusing to vote with "Winston Churchill. Lord George Hamilton, Lord Hugh. Cecil and other more ardent Unionist free traders- against Balfour. In the course of debate Lord Hugh Cecil, in scathing satire, denounced the policy of his cousin, the Premier. Chamberlain interrupted him . and then a storm of Interruptions and cries of "order" rose from the Radical and Liberal branches. Chamberlain sat down and twice the speakers ap pealed to the members to give the former Colonial Secretary a hearing. PARTY STATUS UNCHANGED. The Premier adhered to his policy as outlined In his recent Sheffield speech. LONDON, May 18. — By a majority of 55 Premier Balfour to-night suc cessfully defeated an attempt to upset the Government upon the fiscal ques tion. An interesting debate, charac terized by some heated exchanges, took place, resulting ir> the Premier's reiterated determination to shelve the question of fiscal reform until the next Parliament. In this decision Jo seph Chamberlain publicly concurred. The motion upon which the ques tion came up was made by Alexander W. Black, memb.er_ from Banffshire. Scotland, and an advanced Liberal, welcoming the Ministerial declarations that "protective taxation of food would be burdensome to the people and injurious to the empire." In pur pose the motion was intended to cen sure Chamberlain and the latter'3 amendment to it would have split up the Unionist party and possibly would have : in the defeat of the Government. Balfour's own amendment to shelv<» the question left a middle course open to the members of the Unionist party and, although the amendment was not put, the House accomplished the de feat of Black's Indirect censure on the ground that It was not now necessary to discuss the fiscal Question. Lord Hngh Cecil Accuses Chamberlain of Cowardice and Is Himself Denounced. Attempt to Upset the Got . eminent on the Fiscal Question Fails. British Premier De : leats Opposition Coup. BALFOUR'S TACT SAVES MINISTRY REPUBLICANS OF CALIFORNIA MEET IN CONVENTION AT STATE CAPITAL VESSELS SUNK IN ATTACK Heportefl Loss of Two Japanese Warships, Blown Up by Mines WMle Shelling Port Arthur. ; Russian Refugees Tell ol Disaster to Admiral Togo's Fleet FLASHLIGHT PICTURE •• OF THB ¦ REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN r SESSION AT SACRAMENTO. Delegates Elect Judge Burnett Chairman. Eloquent Tribute Paid to the President. - CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA MENTO, May 18. — An orchestra at the speaker's desk," half concealed 'by flowers and foliage, discoursed sweet music as the delegates to the conven tion entered the Assembly chamber. The spacious hall was beautifully dec orated, the national colors dominat ing.' Pictures of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Ga'rfield, ' Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt were in appropriate position. At 2:80 p. m. William M. Cutter, chairman , of the " Republican State Central Committee, rapped the delegates to order. He extended his congratulations | on the fine Uppear ance of the convention and remarked Judge Burnett . of Sonoma . Is Unani mously Elected Chairman. . CONVENTION ORGANIZES. to ; conduct , the Presidential campaign in . California. CHEFU, May 19,11:30 a. m. — Russian refugees who arrived here to-day on a junk from Port Dalny say that the Japanese bom barded Port Arthur last Monday. Russian officers who were on Golden Hill declared, according to the refugees, that during the bombardment a Japanese battleship and a cruiser struck mines and sank. The warships reported to have been sunk were the battleship Shikishima and the armored cruiser Asa ma. The story is not be lieved here, but the Rus sians who brought the news insist that it is true. The Shikishima is a first-class bat tleship of 14,850 tons displacement. She is 400 feet in length, 75 feet beam and has a draught of 27 feet and an Indicated horsepower of 14,500. Her armor belt is 9.4 inches thick and her turret armor Is 14.6 Inches thick. Her deck armor is of 3.5 inches. She car ries four 12-inch guns, fourteen 6-inch puns and twenty quick firers. She has five torpedo tubes. Her speed is reck oned at 18.5 knots and she carries, a complement of 741 men. The Shiki- Ehima was built on the Thames in 1698. According to a recent list of Jap anese navy officers, I. Teragaki was In command of the Shikishima. According to the same list. S. Tat eu^hiro was in command of the ar mored cruiser Asama. This vessel Is of 9750 tons displacement. Her length is 408 feet, beam 67 feet, and her draught 24 feet. Her indicated horse power Is 19,000 and her speed 22 knots. Her armor belt is 7.3 inches thick. She carries four 8-inch guns ; fourteen 6-inch guns and nineteen smaller ones. She was built in 1898. LOSSES OF THE JAPANESE. Casualties fn Late Fighting Total One Hundred and Forty-Six. TOKIO, May 18.— An official report from the second Japanese army shows that the railroad north of Port Arthur has been cut in five places. Between May 5 and 17 the Japanese losses have been 146 men. The official reDort of the landing of the- second Japanese army has been re ceived here. It is as follows: "The army arrived at the pre arranged place on May 5, and, under cover of the navy, began landing at 8 o'clock in the morning. None of the ennny was observed. According to native reports there were about 300 of the enemy at Pulandlen, 100 on Pitzewo road, 200 at Pitzewo and 600 in front of CALL HEADQUARTERS. , SACRA MENTO, May 18.— Harmony reigns in the Republican camp. The orchestra In the assembly chamber renders sweet and alluring music before and after prayer. Fair singers with. inspiring voices sing the national hymn and the liberty-lov ing, law-abiding and peace-promoting Republicans Join in the singing. • It is so different from the Santa Cruz con vention, where Jaw bury Jones /raved and Hutchinson Imagined vain things; where even the musicians of the Angel Island band were not permitted to ride in the Hearst band wagon. The dele gates and spectators to-day were'en thusiastic to a high degree. Whenever the name of Theodore Roosevelt was mentioned a mighty round of applause was the response * of " the ' audience. Judge A. G. Burnett, who was chosen chairman, added to his laurels, as ; a polished speaker and also won cora- pliments forhis falrnessin the makeup of the committees on organization! cre dentials and platform. . . Many of the eminent party leaders are on the ground and freely partici pate in the harmony. ¦ Black Hayes and Johnny Mackenzie breathe the same kind of air and A. Ruef makes no reference whatever to • Judge McKin ley's accomplishments as a typewriter. The harmony, is so all absorbing that the Alameda delegation can find noth ing to fight over. In the. Fifth Con gressional District there Is Just the sign of a Jar, hence it was deemed best to defer the selection of district dele gates until . next Friday . evening at Ehiels Hall, San Francisco. C. B. Greenwell ! of Santa Barbara and E. O. Gerberding of Ventura are here and will no doubt keep an ; eye on the remaining fences of , Senator Bard to guard against any damage that might be caused by George Hat ton and John Lynch. Senator Bard will be in California next Tuesday. It was observed to-day that Thomas Flint seemed well pleased when . the standing committees were announced. No signs of displeasure were manifest ed by John A. Britton, Charles E. Snook, Charles H. Spear, John • F. Davis, . W. M. Cutter, Colonel Forbes and A. Ruef. " ¦ »' '¦*¦ It <s not expected that Chairman Burnett will please everybody when It comes to the appointment of men to comprise the executive committee of the State committee,- for these .ap pointees will be . charged with'' the responsibility of electing a I chairman Continued on Page 3, Column 3. . Forecast made at Baa Traa cltco lor thirty tours ending midnight May 19, 19O4t Saa rranclvco and Tidaiity— raiJVjhursday; brisk westerly wind*. a. a. vcaz>xs, District 7orecMtcr. TRS WEATHES. Alcaxar— "CoUnette." SUtin*s i *>«¦*• N^ * California "Our Hew Minister." Central— TJown by the Sea." drateti — VaudovtO*. Columbia. — "B«aa Bin-nroet" Grand — **Iimyi « «w nMOc»/" Orpbroaa— 'V»od«rtOe. TItoM-A*. Basawa? Ql*l«" PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWENTY PAGES— SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY ' 19," 1904— PAGES 1 TO 10. VOLUME XCV— NO. 171. The San Francisco Call.