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THE President's pilgrimage to Memphis to re
ceive Vice Governor Wright has been full of**
incident. The enthusiasm of the Southern peo
ple in behalf of the President was spontaneous and
hearty. His uncle was an officer in the Confederate
navy and served under Admiral Semmes, who was the
father of Mrs. Wright. So the people who were
brought together in the public eye represented:his
tory, and their meeting was an illustration of Ihe
close division of families in the Civil War.
,The great incident of the day was the reception
tendered to General Wright by the negroes of Mem
phis. , That event brought out the fact that in the
great yellow fever epidemic in Memphis twenty-five
years ago General Wright did not join in the flight
of nearly all the leading white citizens, but stood. af
his post and organized care and medical attendants
for the horde of helpless negroes who were left in the
plague-smitten city to feed the epidemic. When he
and the President appeared before the black audience
of thousands the scene was most impressive. The
negroes remembered their friend in need,- and recog
nized in the President another man of the same kind,
who, in trial, trouble and emergency,- can be counted
on to stand by his duty/regardless of peril to him
self.- : ¦ ,-. .-¦ ;,...< : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ '
Altogether that day at Memphis was a great day. for
the whole country. The President committed himself
against changes in the Philippine government for. par
tisan reasons, and in doing such conspicuous honor
to the Democratic member ¦ of the commission
clinched his non-partisan declaration by, action which
none can mistake. The few prejudiced partisans who
hoped that, the Booker Washington dinner would
cause coldness toward the President by the; people
of the South were properly disappointed. The people
¦of- Tennessee and the. surrounding 'States recognized
the fact that President. Roosevelt. is President of the
whole people, and their greeting -was exceptionally
heartfelt and warm. ; .
ROOSEVELT AT MEMPHIS.
Mr. Jordan says thaL he was not or
dered away from the banquet, but that
he was so grievously insulted that he and
others left. ' :
There will perhaps be an investigation
Into the trouble at the Knights Templar
banquet last Saturday : night, when sev
eral of the guests left the festal .board
feeling that they had' been insulted.
Frank C. Jordan has written • a letter to
G. H. Umbsen, coijxmander. of California
Commandery, asking that an inquiry into
the case be made. Following Is the let
ter Jordan wrote to Umbsen:
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 19, 1902.
G. H. Umbsen Esq., Eminent Commander
California Commandery No. l.-K. T. — Dear Sir:
On Saturday evening, November 15, I attended
the banquet given by your commandery. I
¦was the guest of Sir Knight Kobert Wieneke
of your commandery..- I appreciated the
compliment of an invitation and was glad of.
the opportunity ! to attend, for the first , time,
a gathering of Knights Templar. I there con
ducted myself as a gentleman, impressed with
the importance of the occasion. With others,
also guests, I felt (t necessary to retire from
the banquet room because of an Insult offered
by a member of your commandery.
The ladles who retired with their escorts are
also suffering from an unwarrantable attack.
The conduct of those retiring with me could
not be excepted to or criticised. ' The press
of 'the State has given the details of the affair
to the world. . • . ¦ ;
I am a Mason, and I appeal to your'com
mandery to make speedy Investigation and
ir.ake such official declarations as are neces
sary. ,"-¦'¦ i "¦;.
The good name of those who have suffered
is Involved, and the justice of Masonry is in
voked. Fraternally yours.
FRANK C. JORDAN.
Hay Lead to Investigation of*
Templars' Banquet.
Writes Letter to Q H. Umbsen Which
JORDAN BEQUESTS THAT
INQUIRY BE INSTITUTED
A free lecture will be given this even
ing at the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, Mason and Ellis streets, by Cap
tain Newton H. Chittendon on "The
North American Indian in War and in
Peace," and His Future." A fine display
of Indian relics is now on exhibition at
the association building, which will be
used to illustrate the lecture to-night. A
fuil-fledged wigwam, will be erected on
the platform of the hall.
Lecture on the Indian.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— The following
Californians registered at the hotels to
day: At the New Willard— Charles F.
Stone of San Francisco, Charles R. Drake
and wife and. William L. Drake of Lot
Angeles. At the St. James — J. B. Morris
of San Francisco. ¦ ' .¦
Californians in Washington.
It will be seen that the majorities given in the offi
cial returns published yesterday are, with one excep
tion, so large it is not at all probable the result will
be changed when th; entire official vote is reported.
The one exception is the vote on the highways
amendment (Senate No. 20), which stands 45.770 for
.'ind 42.325 against On all other propositions the
vote was overwhelmingly one way or the other. As
a whole ihe vote shows that the people took a keen
interest in the constitutional questions and voted
with an intelligent understanding, of their merits. ~
Senate amendment No. 20 pro-rides for State high
ways, and the approximately ev^en division of public
opinion on the subject is shown- by th'e vote of 45,000
in its favor to 42,000 against it.
Assembly amendment No. 25, fixing a uniform
¦working day of eight hours on*all public works, ex
cept in the case of emergencies, is a decidedly good
step in the right direction, and -there will be general
gratification in the vote of 71,000 in its favor to only
24,000 against it .
Assembly amendment No. 28, providing for a com
mission- of five persons to exercise exclusive super
vision over corporations operating all sorts of pub
lic utilities,' was about the most vicious political
scheme ever engendered in California politics, and
was overwhelmingly defeated by a vote of 73,000 to
29,000.. : '. . . ... .
Senate amendment No. 13, providing that offenses
against the law may be prosecuted by information
alone, a notoriously vicious measure, was defeated,
the official returns thus far received showing a vote
of only 32,000 in its favor, while the adverse vote was
47,000. ; .
Senate amendment No. 14, providing for the use of
balloting machines, by local option, opens a way for a
great improvement in our methods of 'voting at pop
ular elections, and was carried by a vote of 48,000 to
39.000.
FIGURES published in The Call yesterday gave
the official returns of the vote on the proposed
constitutional amendments from every county
in the State except Alpine, Humboldt, Los Angeles,
Mariposa and San Francisco. Unofficial returns from
those counties make it fairly certain that no change
will be made in the result as to either amendment, and
it is therefore possible now to sum up conclusively
the results of the vote of the people on the various
constitutional questions submitted to them.
Senate amendment No. 4 provides for the inclu
sion of high, normal, evening and technical schools
in the public school system, devotes the school funds
exclusively to the support of primary and grammar
schools, but authorizes separate taxation for the other
schools named. The Call pointed out during the
canvass that the amendment, is unobjectionable. The
vote for it on the official returns is in round numbers
58,000, while the opposition vote was 39,000.
Senate amendment. No. 18, dividing the State into
fish and game districts and permitting a different
open season in each, was cordially supported by The
Call. The vote for it was 53»ooo, while the vote
against it was 36,000.
Senate amendment No. 3, to exempt State and mu
nicipal bonds from taxation, is one of the measures
for which The Call made a veritable campaign pi edu
cation, and it is gratifying to note that it was car
ried in the counties from which official returns are
received by 63,000 against 44,000.
Senate amendment No. 6, which conferred on all
cities exceeding 3500 inhabitants a right to make a
charter and have a municipal government was unob
jectionable and should have been adopted, but was
defeated by a vote of 37,000 in its favor to 38,000
against it.
THE AMENDMENTS' VOTE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.— The following
Californians are in' New York:. From San
Francisco— H. R. Hurlbut,. at -the- Nor
mandie; Miss Adams and. G. Abbott, at
the Manhattan; Mrs. -A. W. Jackson, and
Mrs. D. L. ; Hayman,' at the Navarre; W.
Kogen and F. H. Hilbert, at the Belve
dere 1 ; T. Schusker and wife, at the Hoff
man, and J. J. Johnson, at the Park Ave
nue. From Los Angeles— C. A. Manuel
and C. B. Ming, at the Broadway Central;
G. Hooper, at the Earllngton. From
Santa Clara— W. J. Fosgate, at the
Grand.
Californians in New York.
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STATEMENT OF ORCULrTTIOJi OF
THE SAN FRANCISCO tflLL,
Morjth of October. 3902.
October 1 61,400 October 17..... 00,035
October 2. .... OO.13O October 18 4S1,SO4>
October 3..... (>O.t)lO October li> 71.540
October -*..... OO.OSO October 20 412,170
October S 7 J,5&O October 21 01,700
October O OO.42O October 22..... U1.O5O
October 7..... CO.030 October 23..... GO, 740
October 8 G1,O3O October 24.. ... GO,<(OO
October 8 GJ.OOO October 25 «1,11O
October 10..... GO,75O October 20 70,200
October 11 00.040 October 27..... «O.74O
October. 12 7O.34O October 2S «O,34O
October 13 GO,87O October 2fl GO.O80
October 14 60,110 October 30 62,050
October 15 «1,4SO October SI..... 61,070
October 1U 61,350
Total 1,031,305
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO— ?s.
On this 18th day of November, 1902, personally eppeared be
fore me, William T. Hess, & Notary Public in and for the City
and County aforesaid, W. J. MARTIN, who being sworn ac
cording: to law declares that he Is the 'Business Manager of
the San Francisco Call, a dally newspaper published In the
City and County of San Francisco, State cf California, an1
that {here were printed and distributed during the month of
October. 1902. one million nine hundred and thlrty-cne thou
sand thr-if: hundred and sixty-five (1,831,365) copies of the
said newspaper, which number divided by thirty-one (the num
ber of days of Issue) rives an average dally circulation of
CS.302 copies. W. J. MARTIN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of Novem
ber, 1902. • W. T. HESS.
Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran
clico. fitate of California. -'
The combination of Franz Wilczek and
Max Schluter, i Bach, WelniawskI and
Dvorak drew a lot of musical folk to
the Alhambra Theater yesterday after
noon. Both violinists gain by second hear r
ing. Mr. Wilczek's tone proves itself even
more lovely than the remembrance of its
round and limpid quality and Mr. Schlut
er shows a breadth of style that his per
formance of the Gade sonata at the first
concert hardly exhibited. Chief in inter
est on the programme was the rarely^
heard Bach concerto for two violins, given ;
with the able assistance of Gyula Ormay.
A sympathy of rare order marked the
rendering. Wholly devoid of the incon
gruous romanticism with which a too
frequent school belards its Bach— indeed,
simple, severe, pure as the noble composi
tion itself— was its handling by the three
musicians. It was suggested that this
number be repeated at the Saturday con
cert in place of the Godard duets. Mr.
Wilczek's solo was the "Faust", fa ntasie
of Weiniawski, and though it must be
owned that Monsieur Weiniawski came
off rather badly after Father Bach, the
tricky and brilliant work showed the
Violinist to much. technical advantage. He
was encored lustily. Schluter's solo num
ber was the Bach "Chacorme, 1 ' violin
alone, and the- young musician gave it
with fine dignity and breadth. The Ter
zette of Dvorak was repeated wi,th suc
cess and Carlo Gentile made a fairly
agreeable impression in three piano solos.
: The third and last concert will take
place. to-morrow afternoon at the Alham
bra Theater at 3: o'clock with the follow-_
ing programme:- ¦" ."
Suite for piano' and -violin. .• . . .-. .Goldmark
• Franz Wilczek and Gyula Ormay. \
Violin— ¦
(a) "Romanze" .Papinl
(b) "Premier. Chagrin" Godard
(c) "Mazurka 1 ' Bradyukott
" Max Schluter.
Songs with violin obligator . .
(a) "In Spring Love Came," (b) "Roses"..*
........... Oscar "Weil
Mrs Martin Schultz.
(Violin. Franz Wilczek.)
Violin, "Fantasle Caprice'^ Vieuxtemps
Franz Wilczek.
Duets for violins — w
(a) "Midnight." (b) "Serenade" Godard
Max SchJuter and Franz . Wilczek.
Wilczek and. Schluter Again Show
Skill on King of Instru
ments.
GOVERNOR SAYERS of Texas has taken an
honored place among those Southern men
who are doing their utmost to rouse public
sentiment against lynch law, and to enforce the hen
est laws of civilization and justice. He has recently
urged the passage of an act providing punishment not
only for persons guilty of lynching, or of abetting it,
but also for all State, county or city officials who neg
lect to their power and authority to protect
a prisoner from a mob.
With the accession of Governor Sayers to the list
of resolute men eager to redeem the South from the
curse of lynching there is a prospect that from this
time on the evil will be checked and begin to dimin
ish. In every State in the South from Virginia to
Texas there has now been some notable utterance on
the subject from a man of .large .personal influence
and high official station. The efforts of Governor
Longino of Mississippi to protect prisoners from
mobs have been frequently noted and are well known.
He has repeatedly directed the attention of the Legis
lature to the subject and has many-times gone in per
son to districts where lynching was expected and has
done his best to prevent it. Not long ago a Judge
in Virginia emphatically instructed a Grand Jury to
indict men who had been guilty of lynching a short
time before. In Tennessee several of the most elo
quent of the clergy have denounced the crime and
tried to rouse Christian sentiment to suppress it.
Thus the; story, runs from one ;Southern Stnte to
another. The lynching .still goes; jon, but .the opposi
tion,to it is increasing and becoming- m6re resolute
and outspoken. 'A member "of the Georgia ' Legisla
ture has sought to prevent it by a bill providing for
a rural constabulary of sufficient strength to arrest
criminals and to withstand mobs. Perhaps that would
be the most effective way of dealing with the evil, but
there is still good. reason for believing the existing
legal machinery of the South would be sufficient to
punish lynchers if only public opinion could be made
strong enough to compel an enforcement of law.
There can be no question that the, prevalence of
tyhching in the Southern States is due almost wholly
to the weakness of local governments. It is another
illustration that when lawlessness once breaks forth
it- runs on in an increasingly wilder madness until at
last it either sweeps away all law and overthrows so
ciety or else engenders an opposition strong enough
to crush it. The Southern leaders perceive clearly to
what excesses of barbarism lynch. law is carrying the
violent elements of the people and . have evidently
made up their minds to put a stop to.it. Their ef
forts merit the support of the whole country, and
every step they take toward the enforcement of law
should, have honorable recognition from all good
citizens.
VIOLIN VIRTUOSOS
DRAW MUSICAL FOLK
Robert Byron Rascovlch, a well known
artist, is here from Venice. He will
study Chinatown and thinks he will get
good material there to paint several pic
tures.
H. "W. Johnson of Sacramento is at the
California.
Dr. B. W. Doyle of Fresno Is a guest
at the Grand. / . '
J. J. Hebbron, a. cattle man of Salinas,
is at the Grand.
S. ' Ewell, a merchant of Marysville, 13
at the California.
C. L. Mead, a merchant of Portland,
Or., is at the Palace.
Edward Berwick, a rancher of Pacific
Grove, is at the Grand.
Percy Q. Robison, a- resident of Mld
dletown, is at the Russ.
Luis de Castro Palomine of Spain is
registered at the Palace.
_\V. F.' Hawke, a vlneyardlst of Marys
ville, Is a guest at the Russ.
Frank H. Short, the well known attor
ney of Fresno, is at the Palace.
L. H. Taylor of the United States Geo
logical Survey is at the Occidental.
E. A. Albright, secretary of- the Le
high Valley road, Is at the Occidental.
C. S. Piner, a merchant of Middletown,
Is here on a short business trip and has
irade his headquarters - at the Russ.
\V. M. Rank, who was several months
ago appointed assistant manager of the
North Shore road, was yesterday pro
moted to the" office of general manager.
TO SUPPRESS LYNCHING.
PERSONAL MENTION,
Chinese newspapers have entered the dangerous
domain of political prophecy and predict a war be
tween England and Germany. ! The Chinese may be
right, and it is safe to say' that the bone over which
the Germans and the English will growl will be
China. . . ¦
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— The check in
the negotiations with Colombia relative
to the Paaama canal has given great en
courageniknt to the friends of the Nica
ragua project and the first evidence of
renewed attivity on their part was the
¦appearaneeW the State Department of
Senor Corea, Nicaraguan Minister to
WashingtonX Secretary Hay has several
times called \he attention of the Colom
bian GovemnWt to the fact that under
section 4 of Vhe Spooner act if he is
unable to obtefin control of the necessary
territory In Colombia by treaty lhen ha
is required to i>taln such territory from
Costa Rica and Vicaragua. It is now said
to be probable fbit to emphasize his re
peated declaration that the action of Con
gress in the passage of the Spooner
amendment did »ot finally commit the
United States to \the acceptance of the
Panama route, Secretary Hay may pro
ceed to draw up a \reaty with Nicaragua
and Costa Rica and 1 ; submit it to the Sen
ate along with such a treaty with Colom
bia as he may be able to conclude. In
this way the Senates itself might decide
whether or not the Colombian treaty is
satisfactory and tf It should decide in
the negative then It will have at hand
the Nicaraguan-Costa \ Rica treaties so
that thee will be no excuse for delay in
the canal project. \
As for the Colombian negotiations it
can be stated that the United States has
now gone to the practical end of the
concessions It is willing to make. Tha
Colombian Minister here has been notified
of the decision reached and is expected to
make further reply, either accepting or
rejecting our last proposition. One of tha
principal objections by Colombia is the
difference over the tenure of the United
States in the canal strip. \
Prominent Senators who hate been con
sulted by the State Department have In
dicated their strong opposition to the
acceptance of a hundred years' lease with
provision for renewal as sufflelext to meet
the provisions of the Spooner act. Noth
ing less than "perpetual control," as set
down in the act, will satisfy them. Tha
Colombians say that would be In violation
of their constitution. But a careful read
ing of the Colombian constitution by th»
officials here does not satisfy them that
there is any such prohibition against
alienation of territory as is represented.
SPEAR STBEET WILL NOT
. BE PAVED FOR SOME TIMB
Supervisors' Committee "Will Consider
' Subject of Blasting Operations
in the City.
The Supervisors' Street Committee yes
terday recommended that action on the
ordinance providing for the paving of
Spear street, between Market and Mis
sion, be postponed for sixty days in order
to give property owners an opportunity
to make necessary improvements.
The committee reported in favor of
changing the name of City Hall squara
to Marshall square. Mrs. Edward F.
Glaser of the California Outdoor League
spoke In favor of the change. .
The committee heard a number of prot
estations against the blasting of Telj
graph Hill by Gray Brothers. It was as
certained that other contractors are en
gaged in similar work, namely Cushing
"VVetmore Company, John Biggio, City
Street Improvement Company and Quim
oy & Harrelson. The committee decided
to take up the whole question of quarry
ing in San Francisco this morning t at
10:30. o'clock. *
The committee rescinded the action taU
en by the board in ordering the perform
ance of certain street work in Richlani
avenue, the Board of Works having rec
ommended the action too soon in. the pro
ceedings. .
The committee recommended the con
struction of a sewer In Vallejo street, be
tween Baker and Broderick, and the do
ing of certain street work on Dorland
street and other streets in front of city
property at a cost of $2000.
Graduates Receive Diplomas.
Graduation exercises of the Hahnemaim
Medical College of the Pacific took place
at Golden Gate Hall last evening. Tha
invocation was delivered by the Rev.
Bradford Leavitt, introductory words by
l>r. James W. Ward, and an address waa
made by J. C Campbell. Diplomas -were
awarded by Dr. G. H. Palmer to Charles
Herbert Atwood, Eugene Or.; Nelson
Bradford Bailey, Pomona Cal.; Charles
Frederick Crittenden/ San Jose; John Ed
win Morton, Midway, Utah; Theophllus*
Callway Robinson, Banta, Cal.; LJlla
Mary Tenney, San Jose; Mary Jeanne tta
Watson, Sacramento, and George Marx
Webster, Long Beach, Cal.
Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.^
Townsend's California glace fruit and
candies, 5Qc a pound, in artistic fire- etched
boxes. A nice present for Eastern frienda.
639 Mdrket st.. Palace Hotel building. SJS.
¦ Mri. Jssse Langdon, Mrs. Martin Crimmlns,,
Miss Bessie Ames, Miss Bertie Bruce, • Miss
Ruth AHen. Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Dav
enport. Miss Ardella Mills, Mi83 Bessie Mills,
"JVJrs. Ethel Cooner, Miss Bernle Drown, Miso
Kdith Huntinston, Miss Louise Harrington,
Miss Mary Harrington, Miss Genevleve King.
Miss Hazel Kins, Miss Elizabeth Huntlngton,
Miss Marion Huntineton, Miss Gladys Mc-
Clung, Miss Alma McCluntr, Miss Charlotte
Elllnwood, Mrs. Horace Pill-sbury, Mrs. Ed
ward Fond. ' Miss Hilda Van Sickleh, Mrs.
Wakefleld Baker, Mies Maybelle Toy, MiSiS
Edith Simpson, Miss Bessie Center, Miss Elena
Robinrfon, Mrs. "Worthington Ames, Miss Emliy
Wilson, Miss Helen Dean, Miss Maud Bourn,
Miss Gertr.ude Joaselyn, Miss Elsie Sperry,
M1S3 Kathryn Robinson, Mrs. Alexander D.
Keyes, Miss Leontine Blakeman, Miss Maye
Colburn, Miss Gladys Merrill, Miss Mollie Dut
ton, Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Louise Rcdlng
ton, Miss Marie Voorhies, Mrs. "Willard Drown,
Miss Virgirfia Jollffe, Miss Gertrude Jollftc,
Miss Azalea Keyes, Miss Lucie Kine, Miss
Florence Cole, Miss Bessie Cole, Miss Saran
Drum, Miss Isabelle Hooper, Miss Jacqueline
Wolf of Oakland, Miss Florence Bailey, Misb
Olive Holbrook, Miss Grimwood.
Miss Catherine Herrin's \ luncheon yes
terday was a brilliant affair, and for gen
uine 'pleasure' surpassed any similar/en-,
tertainment given in this city for many
a day. The beautiful home of the Her
rinsi on Scott street and Broadway, was
elaborately decorated for the occasion,
and the handsomely gowned debutantes
edded, to the picturesqueness of the scene.
Covers were laid for fifty-six and the
guests were seated at six tables scattered
throughout the spacious rooms. Three of
the tables were effectively decorated with
red- berries,, roses and carnations. An
other table was ¦ entirely in pink and tha
two others in yellow, including chrysan
themums and boughs of lemons. Sweet
music from a string orchestra afforded a
delightful accompaniment to the laugh
ter and animated conversation. Miss Her
rin was beautiful in' a white crepe gown
with garniture of rare lace, and received
the guests with her usual charming cor
diality of manner. Among those present
were:
Owing to the claim by the Pacific Cable
people that, as they read one of the other
conditions, it will practically prevent tlie
necessary relations with existing lines in
China to secure the transmission of
American messages" to interior points,
the provision is being recast to obviate
misunderstandings and will be submitted
to the President in a modified form with
in a few days.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— Clarence W.
Mackay, president of the Commercial Pa
cific Cable Company;. George- G. Ward,
vice president.' and William W. Cook,
general counsel for the company, had an
interview to-day with the Attorney Gen
eral with respect to the conditions pre
scribed by President Roosevelt/ for con
structing a trans-Paciflc cable. These
conditions were approved by the Presi
dent! in July last, since which time the
Pacific Cable Company has not officially
notified the Government as to Its inten
tion or willingness to accept them. To
day, however, Mackay explained to the
Attorney General that the delay was
caused by protracted negotiations, which
have only been brought to 'a conclusion
•within the last few days, to secure a
landing place in China to comply with
the President's condition that an Inde
pendent American line should be con
structed from Manila to Hongkong, thus
giving an all-American through line
to the Asiatic continent. It was
this condition that was supposed
to be the one that the cable
company would be unwilling or unable to
comply with. It now announces its abil
ity and intention to construct a line from
Manila to Shanghai, a distance of about
1200 miles, and to have the same" complet
ed-within a year.
.It is announced that the case of Representative
Brigham Roberts in the present Congress is a prece
dent. This cannot be, for the testimony showed that
Roberts was living in polygamy at the time of his
election and at the time he presented himself at the
bar of the House to take the oath of his office. It
is the opinion of every one conversant with the facts
in his case, and with a knowledge of the constitution,
that he was deprived , of his constitutional rights by
being denied his seat^ He should have been sworn'
in and then expelled. But he was put on trial by a'
committee of the House which had refused to credf/
his credentials and admit him as a member.
There; is no' doubt that he could have received his
constitutional rights, have been seated and then ex
pelled, even in the absence of a judicial conviction of
the crime of polygamy. The constitution says that
each House of Congress "shall be the judge of the
election" of its own members. The House could have
done no less than judge and admit the election of
Roberts. But the constitution continues, in the same
sentence, "and qualification of its own members."
After he became a member by admission the House,
judging his qualification, could and doubtless would
have found him unqualified.. But it passed upon the
qualifications of a man whose" election it had • not
passed upon at all.
It is to be hoped that a like exhibition will not be
made by the Senate in the case of Smoot. If elected
he is entitled to a seat on his credentials; then if the
Senate wish to investigate his qualifications it may
proceed to. do so, in strict compliance with the con
stitution. There has been much discussion of the
expulsion from the Senate of Jesse D. Bright of
Indiana during the Civil War. He had been ad
mitted to his seat, but was judged unqualified to oc
cupy it because he had written a letter to Jefferson
Davis, the leader of a rebellion against the Govern
ment.
The leaders of the Mormon church have never been
charged with a lack of sagacity, and they would not
be so unwise as to send a man at present in the prac
tice, of polygamy to the Senate. If he be. clear of
that Offense to expel him because he is a Mormon
is an abhorrent proposition. He has just as much
right there as the able gentleman who will be his col
league, and who is a Catholic. This Government is
not a theocracy. It is not a Christian government.
Professors of Judaism have the same rights, and all
the rights, as the professors of Christianity. A Budd-,
hist, Shintoist.or Mohammedan has a right to sit in
either branch of Congress, provided his life and con
duct conform to our laws. To insist that this is a
Christian- government* raises at once the issue, Which
sect is Christian ? As a Christian institution the Gov
ernment cannot proceed until that issue is decided,
and when it is the sect that is held to embody Chris
tianity will have the right to exclude all others from
participation in the government.
There is much confusion of mind caused by con
founding religion" and theology, and those who organ
ize to prevent a Mormon becoming a member of
Congress only because. he is a Mormon are playing
with fire and are fighting Mormonism with weapons
which simply increase its strength: * \, '
Prior to the Tucker- Edmunds law George Q. Can
non and other avowed polygamists represented Utah
Territory as delegates in the House, and., their social
status was no legal bar whatever. A man's past con
duct, if a closed chapter in his lifej and especially if
at the time it was not obnoxious to any existing law,
cannot be pleaded against him in any of his present
legal relations to the Government. On the face of
the affair there exists no legal reason why Apostle
Smoot should be denied a seat in the Senate if his
State choose to elect him. That he is the preference
of a majority of the legal voters' of Utah is proved
by the result at the polls, reached in the full knowl
edge of hi,s ambition and purpose. This being the
situation, it. is with some surprise that the country
learns that a crusade is started with the purpose of
denying to him the seat to which he will be chosen. •
It is' supposed that this crusade is a part of the
anti-Mormon movement of the evangelical churches.
If so it may not be taken as proof of the wisdom of
those churches. No religious movement was ever
killed by persecution. It is probable that if Joseph
Smith had not been murdered by a mob in Carthage
jail Mormonism would have died in its first great es
tablishment at Nauvoo. The murder of its leader
furnished it with a martyr, and, thought the Mormons
scattered and settled fitfully at places wide apart, the
cohesive force of persecution brought them together
in the wilderness on the Jordan; and they prospered
mightily, though the world was against them.
The heads of the church were leaders of men, and
proved it by inducing a return to plural marriage, a
system that had been abandoned and left far behind
in the march of civilization. Polygamy in the far
past was a vast improvement on the promiscuous
association which had characterized the remote ages
of the human race. But as civilization gamed and
advanced monogamy succeeded it as a further im
provement. Its reappearance among the Mormons
was an example of atavism, which the moral sense
of this country refused to tolerate, and the law smote
it destructively. To conduct now a general m move
ment against the political right of the Mormons to
have a member of their church in,. the Senate is to
make the same kind of mistake that was made when
Joseph Smith was murdered. .....
PRECEDING the recent State election in /Utah
Apostle Smoot of the Mormon church be
came an open candidate for the United States
Senate., His candidacy was an issue that was iought
out by the Mormon and Gentile factions in that State,
and was decided at the polls in favor of Smoot. The
question of polygamy being raised against him, we
believe that he denied ever having been in polygamy.
But be that as it may, if he were involved in that prac
tice when it was sanctioned by the Mormon hierarchy
and have abandoned it since the Tucker-Edmunds
law made it a felony his past indulgence cannot be
made a bar to his admission to the Senate.
MANY COLORS
USED IN TABLE
DECORATIONS
AMERICAN CABLE
LINE TO CHINA
FROM MANILA
Hie, prbgrammV. agreed, 'it will be remembered, to
evacuate Manchuria. .Since that time there have been
many complaints that her troops are still in tlie"prov
ince and show no sign of getting out. ''Thus there has
grown up a widespread opinion that Russia .would
break her word. Diplomacy was getting ready to
make such an accusation in polite words,; and laymen
the world over were waiting to see what would hap-*
pen. Lo and behold. Russia has forestalled her oppo
nents by announcing that she has "evacuated" her
posts in Manchuria and she asks now to be let alone.
* It appears that Russia is fight. She has really,
evacuated the specified posts. It happens, however,
perhaps by chance,- that she has taken up others in
the immediate vicinity. A correspondent of the Lon
don Times writing from Manchuria says: "The.
evacuation of Newchwang means the removal of the
troops one hour's march up stream to permanent
quarters in the Russian concession, or one hour by
train. eastward. to the Russian settlement of Tashih
chiao, where ample permanent barracks, solidly con
structed of stone and brick," will be ready for the win
ter. The evacuation of the great city of Moukden
means removing the troops from within the walls,
one hour's march to the Russian concession outside
the Wall, where permanent quarters are being con
structed for the garrison, which is expected to num
ber 6000." •¦
Russia has kept her diplomatic word. There can be
no questioning the fact, and now will not some ver
satile fabricator of plays see in the situation a plot for
a first-class' farce, whether set to music or not?
TO PREVENT
DELAY IN THE
CANAL PROJECT
THE CASE OF SMOOT.
THE SAK FRA^CISpO^ CALiL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1902.
Mark Hari'na; is quoted as : saying-that reports of his
ill Health make him laugh, so it ;Jb, probable he: will
have a .Very merry Christmas and V New Year full of
trie gay na na. » ¦ ¦ . -¦>. ; ¦¦-. -,,j . : : ,.
¦ Bpecial information ,: supplied Gaily ¦_ to
business - houses "and ' public : : men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Call'
tornia street ."-.Telephone Main 10 12. < .•
Superintendent of Schools Webster not
ified-the ¦. Board of- Education yesterday
that he had decided i not to sign the back
salary demands ¦ of R. H. Mitchell and
Mrs. • I. D. Reeves as prepared - by the
board • for the .fiscal years '1S9S-189D.- 1899 '•"
1900.; and ' 1900-1901, aggregating $5500, be -
cause ¦.,' there; Is no money , in the school
fund of thosej years to pay them. : Web
ster,'however, signed the warrants be
ginning with July 1, 1901, 'amounting to
about '.$2000. The question of '¦ paying the
i einstated teachers interest amounting to
$572 80 '.will be j a - subject for jj future con -
bideration.".'.- h' - .
Teachers Lose Back Salaries.
DIPLOMACY is not an opera bouffe perform
ance. On the contrary, it is a. very high,
dignified and serious pursuit, employing in
its various departments all kinds of talents and nearly
all kinds of men. • Still there are times when.it is
funny, and infuture ages the writers of comic plays
will turn back to the diplomacy of our time and find
no end of humorous complications, whereat our en
lightened successors will laugh and call us '"jays."
A case in point is now disturbing Europe. : Some
time ago when the powers were settling up affairs in
China and devising.ways and means of imposing upon
that country Tan indemnity fully, as heavy as the traf
fic could be made to bear they agreed that there
should; be: honor, among them and that each one
should be square with. the rest. Russia as a oart of
FULFILLING THE WORD.
The San Francisco local council of Jew
ish Women held Its regular monthly
meeting yesterday afternoon In Temple
Emanu-El. The' meeting was well at
tended, and C. T. Work, superintendent
of the manual' training department of the
public schools of San Francisco, delivered
an;, interesting lecture on the 'practical
value of I manual training. Miss *Mamie
Voorsanger • has been selected to repre
sent the San Francisco Council of Jewish
Women at the annual meeting of- the
council, to be held 'in Baltimore from-De
cember 2 to December 11. Miss Voorsang
er will leave in a few days on her mis
sion.
Jewish "Women Hold Meeting.
6
That Weird, Tragic, Unexpected
Last Chapter in "The Octopus"
» . • .
SN the art of writing novels the late Frank Norris won his title
of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST because of his remark-
able faculty for giving a whirlwind finish and an altogether dra-
matic and unexpected climax to all his stories.
In "The Octopus," the first of his wonderful "Trilogy of the
Wheat," which unfortunately will never be completed now, he ex-
celled himself. The last chapter is the most weird and haunting
word picture ever conceived. With the shadow of the all devouring
railroad Juggernaut over it all, after the vivid contrasts between the
social elect and the defeated and desperate wheat growers passing
each other on the stairs at the fashionable reception at the San
Francisco Bohemian Club— the stormy meeting v of the conspirators
and the denunciation of Lyman Derrick at Los Muertos Rancho—
the race for life and the fight for liberty of the blacklisted San
Joaquin Valley engineer, Van Dyke, against the hirelings of the rail-
road from the cabs of two huge pounding moguls on parallel tracks
and the last fatal gunflght of the Mussel Slough wheat kings
against Behrman, the smooth and crafty railroad tool, and his gang
of deputies— that last chapter is tremendous in its strength and
strange import. There is no straining after effect— no forced sen-
Bationalism— it is absolutely inevitable, and yet withal so simple
that the reader wonders that he never thought of it before.
But nobody who reads "The Octopus" to that last chapter will
ever forget the vivid description of Behrman-fat, bloated and arro-
gant at the very height of his triumph over the California wheat
growers— suddenly plunged headlong into the vortex of the hu~a
stream of wheat he had schemed so long to corner and left strug-
gling, choking, maddened to" frenzied terror in the hold of his own
tramp steamer. . < s <
"THE OCTOPUS" IS NOW BEING PUBLISHED IN THE
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One half of the story has already been published in two edi-
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