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TARIFF BILL IS
SENT TO SENATE
FOR DISCUSSION
DUTY MEASURE COMPLETED IN
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COMMITTEE OF WHOLE
TOBACCO AMENDMENT AWAITS
CONSIDERATION
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Finance Body Had Not Adopted Pro.
vision Governing Weed, but All
Others Not Reserved for
Revision Will Be
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WASHINGTON, July o.—The con
feree* on' the Payne bill will conclude
their work In lei* than a week. Presi
dent Tnft, before lie left Washington on
Saturday (or Massachusetts, predicted,
It If asserted'by a mini who discussed
the tariff with him, that he bill would
go to conference July 8.
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WASHINGTON, July The tariff
bill was completed in committee
of the whole in the senate today,
and the meaasure was reported to the
senate. ■"" •
. All sections of the bill that senators
do'not desire to .reserve for further
amendment will be agreed to en bloc.
The senate will consider the tobacco
amendment, the only amendment not
adopted in committee of the whole. '
The proceedings jogged along In un
eventful fashion today. " Various
amendments offlered by the committee
were adopted, after which Senator
Smoot sent to the desk an amendment
fixing the duties on tobacco. This, ho
said, had been recommended by the
finance committee. Senator Daniel of
Virginia, the ranking minority member
of the finance committee, denied the
provision had been recommended by
the committee.
Senator Aldrlch agreed to withdraw
the amendment and to have it con
sidered tomorrow morning by the full
finance committee before reporting it
to the senate.
. Charitable Societies Exempt
Among .amendments to the tariff
adopted today was jni exempting labor
organizations, fraternal beneficiary
societies, and organizations exclusively
for charitable and educattonfti purpo
ses," from the corporation tax.
Amendments were adopted specifying j
that Canada and the West Indies were
to bo considered contiguous countries
affected by the discriminating duty of
10 per cent ad valorem on imports not
manufactured In those countries and
Introduced into the United States, and
also extending from two to six month*
in any one year, the period In which
domestic-built foreign vessels may en
gage in the coastwise trade. ,
Another amendment relieves the
United States from reciprocal obliga
tion toward foreign ratings in the mat-i
ter of tonnage dues. •<
The..senate committee on finance to
day completed Its discussion of the in
ternal revenue provision of the bill fix-
Ing taxes on tobacco and reported 't
to the senate soon afterwards.
The existing rate of $3 a thousand
on cigars weighing more than three
pounds a thousand was retained, but
a provision was added increasing the
tax on high grade cigars. This pro
vision fixes a tax of $6 a thousand
when the wholesale price is between $75
and $110. Where the price is more
than $110 the tax Is fixed at $9 a thou
sand.
Rates on Cigars Changed
On cigars weighing thirty pounds or
less a thousand, the house rate of $1
is reduced to 75 cents a thousand, an
Increase of 21 cents more than the ex
isting rate. Cigarettes weighing more
than throe pounds a thousand, the
house rate of $3 Is .retained, but on'
those weighing not more than threo
pounds the house rate is reduced from
$1.50 to $1.25 a thousand, which still
leaves an increase over the existing
tax. I
The tax on snuff is fixed at S e^nts
a pound. The tax. on chewing and
smoking tobacco Is also made 8 cents
a pound and this rate Is made to cover
line cut, cavendish, plug or twist, cut
or granulated tobacco of every de
scription.
' The laws governing the sizes of pack
ages of cigars are re-enacted.
Additional sizes of packages of smok
ing tobacco are permitted by the sen
ate enactment.
, It Is provided the now taxes shall
not take effect until July 1, 1910.
SENATE AND HOUSE TO
SELECT CONFEREES TO •
ARRANGE TARIFF BILL
•WASHINGTON, July With the
senate rapidly approaching the day of
final »consideration of the tariff bill,
attention is being given to the selec
tion of the conferees on the part of
the senate and house, ' whose duty It
will ,be to attempt tp bring the two
todies Into agreement on the measure:
Gossip': has It that Senator Aldrlch
will pick besides himself as the rep
resentatives of the Republicans in the
senate, Hale of Maine, . Penrose of
Pennsylvania,' Burrows of Michigan
and Smoot of Utah.
The Democratic senators who will
participate in the conference probably
■will bo -Daniel of Virginia, Money of
Mississippi and Bailey of Texas.
■■ In the house, Speaker Cannon, ac
cording . to the reports, - probably will
select Payne of New York, Dalzell of
Pennsylvania,. Boutell of Illinois, Me-
Call of Massachusetts and either Col
derhead of Kansas or Needham of
California as the Republican 'members,
and Champ Clark of Missouri, Under
wood 'of Alabama ; and Grlggs of
Georgia as the Democratic member".
On Mr. Aldrlch's suggestion the sen
ate at 3:30 o'clock adjourned until to
morrow, when all the amendments
made In ■ committee of the whole will
be voted on en bloc, except such as
senators may wish to reserve for
further amendment. - ■~- .■ •_■
' Mr. Aldrich stated that the entire
bill would be open for amendment.
ELKINS WOULD IMPROVE U. 8.
MARINE COMMERCE CONDITION
WASHINGTON,. July 6.—Declaring
that while great' on- land, the United
States ' was . impotent at sea, t Senator
Elklns of West Virginia declared at the
next session of congress he would ex
ert' himself; to the . utmost ■ to Improve
the situation. ■_ - •''"■■ ■■''('■>.
Speaking in . the senate to the sen-
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LOS ANGELES HERALD
ADMIRAL POTTER IS
, SELECTED TO HEAD
NAVIGATION BUREAU
WASHINGTON, July 6.—Rear Ad
miral W. P. Potter has been ap
pointed chief of the bureau of
navigation and will also act as a mem
ber of the army and navy joint board.
The appointment is a popular one in
the navy. Rear Admiral Potter was
born in Whitehall, N. V., and graduated
from Annapolis In 1869.
HEIR TO BEAUTIFUL
SUICIDE A DEAD MAN
Brother of Mrs. Lorena de la Mon.
tanya Asks to Be Named Ex.
ecutor in Place of
C. A. Hugh
SAN FRANCISCO, July <!.—Robert
G. Hanford and Mrs. M. W. Patton
were interrogated today by detectives
in the investigation of the death of
Mrs. Lorena de la Montanya, divorced
wife of Marquis de la Montanya, who
was shot through the head in her
apartments Friday night. The date of
the inquest has not been set as yet.
Mrs. Montanya's will, a holographic
instrument executed Bee. 16, 1909, was
filed for probate today. Alfred R. Bar
bler, a brother of Mrs. Montanya, filed
an application for his own appolnt
nici t as administrator, estimating the
estate at JIO.OOO. The will names
Charles A. Hugh, who died a month
ago, as executor, and all real estate
holdings of the testatrix were to go
to him on her death.
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Wednesday; light south winds. Maxi
mum temperature yesterday, 74 de.
grecs; minimum, 58 degrees.
LOCAL
San Pedro trustees rescind Shaw harbor
luce. ,
Woman travels from Chicago to die in water
at Avalon.
Herrmann and 300 Kliks leave Cincinnati
to.' Los Angeles.
Chauffeur arrested in connection with death
of Isaac L#owman held In default of ball-
Austrian musician commits suicide in room
ing house. . ,
Woman reports she was robbed of $600 by
youthful fiance.
Stock and bond business shows three-fold
Increase. ■ y
Supervisors will consider today cutting of
water rates <at Hollywood.
Wife whose ] husband smoked In kitchen
ll granted divorce. ■*.
Real estate dealer in auto runs down laborer;
arrested. J -
Burglars and thugs make big Fourth of July
haul. . ■ . ■
Barbers ask ordinance to Insure cleanliness
in shaving. .'■ -■■•'.
Chauffeur who tried to escape after running
down man arraigned on charge *of battery.
City attorney Instructed by council to frame
ordinance prohibiting giant firecrackers. .
■ , COAST
United States surgeon sails for Manila from
San Francisco with newly found serum for
typhoid fever. , . • . ,
Timber King John A. Benson of San Fran
cisco will be taken to prison today to begin
term of one year.
' Missionary schooner Abler from Alaska Is re
ported missing by captain of vessel which has
arrived at San Francisco. ■ -, *
Filipinos of Seattle protest against exhibition
of unclad Igorrotes at Alaska-Yukon-Facillo
exposition. • —■•... . .
Woman's suffrage convention at Seattle
doses,, end Prof. Frances S. Potter Is chosen
secretary. * . -' '■ ' '■'. • '. ■ ■
Heir to i beautiful woman who committed
suicide In San Francisco Is found to be dead.
I Train|oads of Klka stalled In Huyal Gorge by
reason of washouts; no danger.
' : .,. EASTERN , f '£g 'J: *.;
i Texas brewers willing to wager money that
dry states sell more liquor than wet states.
Father, who meets daughter at altar In New
York with man with whom she eloped relents
and permits marriage to take place. , ,
Police of New York cable to Europe to cap
ture Leon Ling, slayer of Elsie Slgel.
Atlanta, da., belle says she was drugged,
then, while dazed, was married. ,
Tom Taggart's name Involved in case of Ella
Singles, lace maker, ■ on trial In I Chicago for
theft of lace. .'■--.' j ■'-'■- > .
Celebration of Fourth of July In Plttsburg
Is expensive.' Many (lies take place, and many
persons Injured. -. r - . "
Representative Cushman of state of Wash
ington succumbs to death In New York.
Tariff bill is completed by senate committee
of the whole and Is reported to senate for
consideration. > ~ .
' Dr. Nicholas "M. Butler says that liberty
under law" is Ideal state of existence, when
tho noted educator talks -to teachers' conven
tion In Denver.
Gunnlson tunnel In western Colorado Is com
pleted, and men shake hands through its two
headings.
FOREIGN , , ;
Three. Cossacks are killed and three wounded
In ,mldnlgbt attack on Persian revolutionists
mar Teheran. ; . :
France. threatens tariff reprisals, and angry
scene is depicted .In f chamber of deputies at
rates to be made iby United States.
sj Panama libel suit in Paris Is halted because
of action of French attorneys. , .
WEDNESDAY MORNING, .JULY 7, 1909.
BUTLER STATES
LIBERTY UNDER
LAW IS IDEAL
RULE FOR GOOD CITIZENSHIP)
IS LAID DOWN
PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA TALKS
TO EDUCATORS
Noted Scholar Says Colleges and
Schools of Country Have Task of
Preparing Intelligent Amer.
lean Citizens
DENVEH, July 6.—Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity, New York city, laid down
a rule for good citizenship tonight I
when he told the members of the Na
tional Educational association that
"liberty under law" is the ideal state
of existence.
Dr. Butler was heard by a large
audience in the Denver auditorium.
President Butler said the educational
instrumentalities of the country,
schools, colleges and universities alike,
have before them here a ta.sk which
takes precedence of all questions of
school organization and management,
of programs of study and curriculum,
of teachers' salaries and tenure of of
fice, of general vocational training, of
secondary and auxiliary questions of
every sort—the task, namely, of pre
paring intelligent American citizens to
take up each his own share of the na
tion's responsibilities.
"The unrest which is abroad in the
world and which is found alike In
Europe and In America, In the un
changing east as well as in the restless
and rapidly-moving west, is in no small
part duu to the lack of understanding
of what Is going on In the -world and
what has gone on hitherto," said the
speaker.
Ability Is Lacking
"The world has been for more than
a hundred years under the spell of ab
stract principles, admirable In them
selves, and yet the world in large
measure lacks the ability or the ca
pacity so to organize itself and its busi
ness that those principles shall find
Just and equable expression.
"Everywhere old beliefs, old tradi
tions and old customs are giving way
before the corroding tooth of time an-1
as the time-honored creeds, political,
social and religious, lose their hold,
others equally controlling ami impera
tive do not come forward to take their
place. Immense masses of men are
left, therefore, with almost boundless
opportunities for good or evil, but with
out guiding principles with which to
work. This leads to moral restless
ness.
"There are many who fpel that the
rising generation of Americana Is grow
ing up without any proper knowledge
of fundamental principles of American
institutions and American government.
Because of this lack of knowledge,
well-meaning men lend ear quite too j
readily to demagogues who propose to
them all sorts of schemes without any I
relation, save one of antagonism, to es
tablished political principles.
Greed and Hate Elevated
"From listening to demagogues it is
but a short and easy step to a state
of mind in which envy, greed and hate
are elevated to the lofty place which
should be occupied by respect and
confidence, as well as by political In
sight, political knowledge and political
experience. The Americans of an
curlier day got their training In the
fundamental principles of citizenship
from the stern facts which faced them, j
"Today, however, one hears much
less of these fundamental principles.
There are those among us, some of
them in places of responsibility and
great influence, who Call them out
worn, antiquated, obstacles to popular
government, and who would substitute
the passing desire of today for the
carefully wrought design of all time.
The courts are attacked as usurpers of
an authority which the people them
selves have Riven them for the people's
own protection. The carefully built
guards which have been put about in
dividual rights anil liberties are de
nounced as fortresses of privilege by
those who seek privileges for them
selves at the expense of the rights of
others.
Enemies of Human Order
"There are only two really deep
seated and Influential enemies of hu
man happiness nnd human ordei —
Ignorance and selfishness. These do
pretty much all the damage that is
done In the, world, and they ate the
always present obstacles to Improving
the condition of mankind. It Is the
province of Intellectual education to
address itself to the first of these, and
it.is the task of moral education to
deal with the other.
"If one, seeking to know the story
of civilization, casts his eye back over
the pages of recorded history, he will
find that the record of progress can be
written in a simile sentence. It. is the
development of liberty under law. Lib
erty and law are the two words upon |
whose true and faithful exposition all |
training for citizenship must rest. Ho j
who truly understands the meaning of
liberty and the meaning of law, and j
the relation of one to the other. Is
ready to face his full duty as an
American citizen.
"An intelligent citizenship, which Is,
also good citizenship, implies, however,
much more than a knowledge of funda
mental principles, indispensable as
that knowledge is. Good citizenship
Implies a habit of will by which the
Individual instinctively conforms his
action in concrete cases to the abstract
principles in which he professes belief."
Teacher* Should Be Healthy
"No teacher with round shoulders
and a hacking cough should be per
mitted to be In the school room."
"The city is responsible for lowered
mentality and a weakened body in an
increasing number of school children."
"Feed the physical body Its educa
tion as you feed the brain its words
and figures."
These were some of the points urged
on the huge gathering of teachers in!
the department of education of the
National association this afternoon.
William W. Hastings of Springfield,
Mass., urged most of the above rigid
pronouncements on the teachers, and
though they seemed to come straight
from the shoulder none of his auditors
took offense. On the contrary they
heartily applauded the sentiment for a
hygienic school room, both from the
standpoint of the school teacher and
the scholar. A discussion-on the sub
ject of health In the school room led
by Dr. J. E. Peairs of Pueblo, Colo.,
brought out the fact that most of the
fsaster (C—Hound •*i^'j^ymsm 1
Place Where Denver Welcomes Educators
and Some of the Prominent Delegates
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POETESS SEEKS
DEATH IN OCEAN
COMES FROM CHICAGO TO DIE
AT AVALON
Woman Leaps from Cliffs Into Sea
During Display of Fireworks from
Sugar Loaf—Life I*
Bayed
The desire to end her life in the place
which she believed would be the most
Ideal for a final resting place brought
Miss Julia Vanderchyse, a Chicago
poetess, half way across the continent
to Vie lure of the shimmering ribbon
kelp, the gardens under the. sea, and
the multi-colored Avalon depths, where
she. cast herself into the sea Monday
night in an attempt to place the carea
of the world behind her.
The glare of the brilliant pyrotechnic
display from Sugar Loaf mountain
Monday night lighted the sea for a
little group of people who had wan
dered along Bannlng's beach watching
the fireworks, and revealed a ghastly
upturned face with flowing hair roll
ing and swaying in the foamy swells
near the shore. And when some of the
bolder had recovered from their fright
suffciently to pftll the body from the
water it was at tlrst taken for granted
that the woman was dead, but later a
faint fluttering of her eyelids caused
her to be rushed to the office of Dr.
J. H. Peckham, and after remaining
unconscious Monday night and most of
Tuesday she was at length revived and
related the weird story of her desire
for death.
Leaps from Cliffs
According to the meagre statement
made by the Tvould-be suicide, she
could not resist the call of the sea, and
ever since her visit to Avalon several
years ago, when she, watched the beau
ties of the beautiful, silent depths, she
has beta obsessed by a desire to re
turn and become a part of the strange
ly beautiful submarine gardens which
enthralled her very soul, and so, after
traveling all the way from Chicago,
she waited until -the celebration was
at its height Monday night and hurled
herself from the cliffs into the velvet
green abyss below in the hope that
that might be her end. Th,e doctors
state that they believe the woman will
fully recover from her stay in the sea
and believe that she can be persuaded
that it is better to live in California
than to die a sub-aqueous death.
Many tourists who have visited the
sea In the neighborhood of the attempt
ed suicide have been heard to Jestingly
state that they would like to cast them
selves into the attrective garden's of
the sea and would prefer to be buried
there to any other place and It is be
lieved that the poetess allowed fcer ro
mance to carry her too far.
Returns to San Pedro
After fully recovering yesterday af
ternoon. Miss Vanderchyse passed
some time strolling along the beach,
gazing idly into the still ocean water.
Fearing she would make another at
tempt to throw herself into the sea,
several persons watched her carefully,
but the woman merely stared far out
in the quiet waters.
Without a word of thanks to hc-r
rescuers or to the physicians who
worked tirelessly all night to bring her
back to life, Miss Vanderchyse boarded
the boat for San Pedro. During the
short trip to the mainland she kept
herself apart from the remainder of
the passengers and refused to be drawn
into conversation. Most of the voyage
she ke|jt close to the side of the boat,
gazing dreamily Into the water.
Arriving at San Pedro, she hurried
ashore and was soon lost amid tho
confusion at the landing place.
JAIL DROWNS
WEDDING BELLS
E. ALLAN SHOUSE IS BACK
WITH YOUNG WIFE
Mother Takes Young Girl Away
to Her Home and the Prisoner
Has -Nothing to
Say
E. Allan Shouse, who, April 18, per
suaded pretty Nellie McCarthy, the
cashier of the Boston department store,
to marry him without her mother's
knowledge or consent and wh o after
ward persuaded his young wife to cash
a bogus check for $150 at her place of
employment, was last night received as
a prisoner in the county Jail and, after
being turned over to the officers of tho
county by Constable Ed Rice, was
placed in a felony cell.
Mrs. Nellie McCarthy-Shouse, who
returned from San Francisco with her
husband and the officer, was met at
the Arcade depot by her mother, Mrs.
Florence McCarthy, and taken at once
to her new home at 1036 South Hill
street.
Unshaven, tired from his long jour
ney and worried from his confinement
in the city prison of San Francisco, he
looked anything but the suave and
debonair young man he was pictured
when first his romantic, marriage and
later his alleged crime was reported to
the police.
When asked a question he dropped
his hands helplessly and asked to ba
excused from saying anything.
"There is nothing I can say. I have
had a hard, long trip and there has
been a grievous mistake made in my
arrest. Further than that I have noth
ing to say."
Shouse was arrested in front of the
Emporium department store on Mar
ket street, San Francisco, from his pho
tograph and description printed in The
Herald of May 22, by San Francisco
detectives, Constable Ed Rice having
sent the clippine from The Herald to
the northern officers as the body of his
circular.
Neither Shouse nor his wife would
make any statement last night, and
at the Arcade depot, when Constable
Rice took charge of Shouse to carry
him to the county Jail and Mrs. Mc-
Carthy met her daughter to carry her
to her South Hill street home, there
was an affecting and loving scene of
parting.
According to the sheriff's deputies,
there are a number of other charges
outside of the forgery on the Boston
store which will be pressed against
Shouse. His girl wife, who, for three
days, was a prisoner in the San Fran
cisco Jail as a fellow forger with htm,
will not be prosecuted.
BREWERS BET $100-000
THAT DRY STATES SELL
MORE LIQUOR THAN WET
GALVKBTON, Texas, July 6.—At ■
meeting of the Texan Brewers' associa
tion, at which every brew«r In the state
was represented, a fund of fIOO.OOO was
set aside to be given to public charity, If
they could not prove that more liquor Is
consumed In the prohibition or dry states
and sections of the United States, than
In the free, or wet sections.
The decision Is to be made by two
commissions of six members, three to be
elected by the brewers and tbre« by the
national or Teiaa Prohibition party.
CIWPT 1? f" 1/ IT> f T?U • DAILY, tot SOXDAT, B«
J*>lJN« I^J'J LAJlitl/O. ON TKAINS, 8 CENTS
BANK IS ROBBED
BY LONE BANDIT
THIEF SECURES BUT FEW HUN
DRED DOLLARS
Holds Up Assistant Cashier and
Seizes Money—Grapples with
Cashier, Whom He Shoots,
and Escapes
(By Associated Press.*
EVERETT, Wash., July 6.—A lone
bandit held up Assistant Cashier E. C.
Olson of the Bank of Commerce short
ly before the bank closed this after
noon, wounded Cashier J. L. L.yon and
escaped with a few hundred dollars,
the exact amount not being known.
The robber, who was unmasked, es
caped on a bicycle, which he appears
to have hidden In the vicinity of tho
bank. He rode to the north end of the
city, and from there went to tho water
front, where pursuers found a satchel
in which the robber had carried his
loot. Only $15 was left in it.
When the bandit entered the hank
he thrust two revolvers Into Olson'3
face, and commanding him to throw
up his hands, luid down one gun,
seized all the money in reach and
placed it In the satchel. The thief
paid no attention to a few customers
in the bank.
Cashier Lyon. who was in the rear of
the tiuilding, ran out the back way and
around to the front door, where he
caught the robber and grappled with
him. The robber shot three times, one
bullet passing through Lyon's Jaw and
neck, making a serious wound.
He then fled, both Lyon and Olson
shooting at him. The thief's hat was
shot off and it is believed he was
slightly wounded.
A few moments later he whs seen on
the bicycle, rapidly riding away.
Infanticide Sent to Whittier
MODESTO, Cal., July 6.—Prank
Cecil Hopkins, the 12-year-old boy who
two weeks ago shot his baby brother
and buried him before 'life was ex
tinct, was today committed to the
Whittier reform school by Superior
Judge Fulkerth. The boy will be con
fined in the southern institution until
he has reached his majority. At the
discretion of the authorities, he may
then be released on parole.
Boat Capsizes; One Person Killed
HONOLULU, July 6.—The power
schooner Rainbow, carrying an excur
sion party of twenty-flve school chil
dren and a number of women, sud
denly capsized off the island of Molo
kal, near Pukoo harbor, Sunday after
noon and slowly sank. All the passen
gers and crew were saved but one
woman, who died soon afterward from
excitement and shock.
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Dickens' Grandchildren Pensioned
LONDON, July 6.—"ln recognition of
the literary ' eminence of their grand
father, and in consideration of their
straitened circumstances," is the rea
son given today for granting a civil
list pension of $2.50 a week to each of
the four granddaughters of Charles
Dickens. .
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Nine Men Killed
TRINIDAD, Colo., July 6.—Nine men
were killed today by an explosion of
gas in the mine of the Cedar Coal and
Coke company at Tollervllle, near
here. All of the dead were foreigners
except Albert Noah, cage tender, an
American.
Protest Against Interference
LONDON, July 6.—Some protests
are being voiced by the newspapers and
in parliament against what is charac
terized as unwarranted interference by
Great Britain and Russia in Persian
domestic affaire.
k^W cents
SAN PEDRO
TRUSTEES
STOP GRAB
Shaw Harbor Lease Is
Turned Down
LUMBER COMPANY ALSO DE
NIED SIMILAR FRANCHISE
PACIFIC ELECTRIC MUST WAIT
WEEK FOR CHANCE
City Attorneys Hewitt and Stieglitz
to Have Consolidation Reso.
lutlon Ready for Action
Next Tuesday
SAN PEDRO trustees yesterday
voted for an ordinance which is
designed to dedicate forever to
public purposes the strip of water
front on the east side of the channel,
on which lease and wharf franchise
were asked last week by R. E. Shaw.
The action was taken after the at
torney for Mr. Shaw had withdrawn
his application in deference to the
strong public sentiment against grant
ing them.
A request for similar lease and
franchise on the same property, made
by the Consolidate*. Lumber company
in October, 1807,, and revived yester
day, was denied.
The San Pedro trustees laid over,
consideration of the Pacific Electric
ordinance and the application for va
cation of streets in the Pacific Coast
Steamship company tract: for one,
week.
Passage of the resolution arranging
for the consolidation election in San
Pedro was delayed one , week at the
request of City Attorney Stieglitz of
San Pe-ro and City Attorney Hewitt
of Los Angeles, who stated that the
resolution vtill be ready for passage
next Tuesday, and that this would be
in ample time.
Council Chamber Filled
All the trustees were ■ present, and
the council chamber ! was tilled with
citizens who' were Interested in the
action on franchises, among them be- ■
ing a number of fishermen. Fifty or
sixty men were standing through thQ
session.
"We have found out that the peo
ple in East San Pedro don't want iis
to build a free wharf," said Attorney
Denlo in asking the trustees to re
consider the Shaw lease, "and the peo
pie over here don't want it either. We,
have found that the cost would be
about $12,000, which is another con
sideration for withdrawing our appli
cation. Therefore, I am instructed to
ask your reconsideration of the mat
ter and to permit my client to with
draw the applications.
"How's J that—all right?" he asked.,
turning to E. D. Seward, secretary .of
the San Pedro consolidation committee.
Consolidated Lumber to Front
Percy R. Wilson was present as at
torney for the Consolidated Lumber
company, prepared to ask considera
tion of the Wheatley petitions filed In
1907 for lease and franchises on the
same property referred to in the Shaw
lease, but the Shaw withdrawal was
made before ho had opportunity to pre
sent his client's claim.
The petitions had laid dormant pend
ing decision on the jurisdiction over
Terminal Island, and Attorney Wilson,
Insisted that, until the dispute between
Long Beach and San Pedro was de
cided, no other course was open to tho
petitioners. They had no objection to
advertising the franchises for sale, ho
stated. •
Trustee Tilton moved that the city j
attorney be directed .to prepare an
ordinance making the land in question.
a public landing for public purposes j
forever. This was carried unanimously
and the ordinance will be considered
next Tuesday. The Wheatley petitions
were then taken up and denied.
The Pacific Electric application for a
railroad franchise on Palos Verde anil
other streets came up In a slightly
modified form. A steam road franchise
was requested substantially as in tho
ordinance previously submitted by thu
Pacific Electric, but the stipulation wag
added that, during the fifty-year llfo
of the franchise, no power but elec
tricity should be used on the line south
of Fourth street.
Opposed by Citizens
This was vigorously opposed by citi
zens. Petitions signed by George H.
Elliott and others from the San Pedro
consolidation committee were received
by the trustees against the proposed
franchise, and a number of speeches
were made against the ordinance.
Charles S. Burnell, a Los Angeles at- '
torney who said he represented be
tween thirty and forty property own
ers directly interested in the question,
stated that they were opposed to grant
ing any kind of a franchise at this
time, believing that to do so would
bottle up the harbor and also practical
ly give away a street to the railroad
company for the improvement of which
the property holders had paid out mora
than $14,000.
Trustee Peck, who Is a heavy prop
erty owner on the street, said that
more than $50,000 had been paid for
grading down and improving the street,
instead of $14,000.
Railroad Methods Shown
"The railroad watts till you have tha
street cut down and then asks for it
without compensation," said Mr. Bur
nell. "It simply says, 'you have fixed
the street for us, now turn it over.'
"The company offers in this ordinance .
to do not one thing it is not compelled
to do by law. I believe the very pc- •
culiar wording of this . ordinance will
involve the city in litigation. If they
want a franchise for an electric road,
why not ask for it that way Instead
of requesting a steam road franchise)
with the stipulation that ; only elec- .
tricity shall be used?"
"To save discussion I would advis«
the trustees to turn this ordinance
down," said Attorney Stieglitz. "It >Is I
asking the city ' to do something It
should not do." ,\
Although this opinion was vigorously
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