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' , SUISUN. Jan. 6.— Yesterday the Board
bf Supervisors granted a. franchise to
Hartzell Brothers of Vallejo for sixty
miles of! electric , railway in ,. this county.
The road will pass through the wealthi
est- and most thickly populated parts of
the county and .will connect the towns of
Cordelia. Rockville. Manka, Fairfleld. Sui
sun, Vacaville and Dixon. From the lat
ter town the fc>ad will run north to-Wood
land.' A road will be built to Eerryessa
Valley, a rich farming section of East
ern Napa County,", and connect it with
tide water at Suisun. Hartzell Bros, are
supposed to 'be acting for a company of
Los Angeles capitalists. . '
Line Will Pass Throughihe Wealth
iest and Most .Thickly Pop
' ulated Sections. -~ ,
NEW ELECTRIC ROAD j
(FOR SOLANO COUNTY
Th<» Southern ; Pacific will 'soil 1 you a ticket
to Kansas City -and; back on [January. S and 3
for. sixty dollars. Hetter calt, at the Informa
tion. Bureau, _ H13, Market street, and get par
ticulars. It will gave you money. . ,. ' • ••
Round Trip Ticket at One- Way Rate.
THREE LIVES ARE LOST ' V r ;
IN, A CHICAGO HOTEL BLAZE
Porter Is Being Held by the Police
Authorities Pending an
Investigation. •
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.— Three person's lost
their lives and a fourth was fatally in
jured in. a fire at the Hotel Somerset! an
cight-s,tory brick structure, at Wab'ash
;md Twelfth streets, early, to-day. .Three
of the victims, Mrs. E. T. Perry, aged '35.
and her : two daughters. 8 and 9 years old*
respectively, were burned or suffocated to
death In their room on the fourth floor.
The fourth victim, believed to be Miss
Kthel . Sanders of 2535 \ Indiana ¦ avenue;
jumped from tho window of a room on
the same floor and was fatally hurt.
'G. W. Parker, a guesC jumped from tha
window a 'room" on, the fourth floor to
the -roof of a .three-story, building adjoin
ins; the'hotel and was badly injured.^ '*
A /short tlma after it : was discovered
that lives had been lost William Clemons,
a -porter in -the hotel,' was arrested.: The
police explained that from what 'could be
learned •from- the panic-stricken guests
the fire originated. mysteriously. Clemons
was awake, it is said, at the time and the
police will hold him until the lire has been
investigated. There were about 100 guests
In -tho ; hotel at the time. • , -'-;
. "From admissions made by demons It- Is
believed he caused the flee by accidentally
ifiiiitlng his bedclothes while smoking a
cigarette. BSS19
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The House to
day passed the bill for the creation of a
general staff for the army by a vote of
House Pal&es the Bill
for the Creation of
the Corps.
ALBANY, N\ T.. Jan. C— The Court of Ap
peals to-day handed down decisions affirming
the constitutionality of the police reorganiza
tion law of 1901. whloh legislated out of office
the "bl-pattisan'V police commission of New
York 'and former Chief of Police Devery-
BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 6.— To-niglit, for
the first time in the history of Bakers
field, gambling has been suppressed by the
strong arm of the law, so long success
fully defied here. The fall of the dice and
the whirl of the wheel are heard no more.
About 4 o'clock this afternoon
Kelley personally visited every gambling
house in the city and informed the pro
prietors that the games must be closed
at once. Only one house ventured to dis
obey the order and an. hour later the
Sheriff raided the place and arrested the
manager and three dealers, after seizing
the funds and paraphernalia.
Bakersfield Gamblers Are Raided,
Mrs. Purrington Sues for Divorce.
SANTA ROSA. Jan. 6.— A new phase in
the Purrington family troubles, which for
the past ten days have been occupying: the
attention of the courts, developed to-day
when Mrs. Frances Purrington? • brought
suit against Joseph Purrington for divorce
upon the ground of cruelty. Purrington
is a well known horse man and hop gro*W
er and the trouble appears to have, de
veloped over, the , disposition of certain
properties. •. " , • ; .. ; ¦
PROPRIETOR OF A SALOON*
KILLS A BUSINESS BIVAL
FORT BRAGG. Jan. 6.— O. P. McCoy
shot^and killed John Galliani. a rival in
the saloon business, at Cleon this morn
ing. There had been bad blood between
the men for more than a year. . Only ons
shot was fired.
Galliani leaves a wife and six children.
McCoy gave himself up and Is lodged in
the Fort Bragg jail.
RAILROADS GIVE NOTICE
OF A NEW COLONIST RATE
CIIICAGO,' Jan. G.— T he Southern Pa
cific and Union Pacific and connecting
lines have given notice through the chair
man of the Transcontinental Passenger
Association to all lines interested in Cali
fornia-traffic that they will put in effect
from February 15 to April 30. inclusive,
a second-class and so-called colonist rate
of 533 from Chicago, $25 from Missouri
River points. Sioux City .to Kansas City
inclusive and HoustoriX Tex., and JCO from
St. L.ouis, Memphis and New Orleans to
points in California. The object of the
low rates is to encourage immigration
and to secure skilled and unskilled labor
for cities on the coast.
OTTAWA, Ont.. Jan. €.— The big po
litical railway fight that Is bound to
occur for tho new transcontinental sub
sidy will probably furnish the most ex
. citing incidents of the forthcoming ses
sion of the House of Commons.
Politicians and railway promoters are
slike speculating on the result, for all
the railways in the country are interest
ed in one way or another. Everything
i of course centers around the position
I^Tought about by the project of the
' (irand Trunk Pacific. Three months ago
the syndicate formed by the business
' men of Quebec was the only one in the
transcontinental field, but now there
nrc no less than four projects to come '
before the House to construct lines "to
the Pacific Coast. There is the Grand
Trunk, the Mackenzie and Mann line,
the Southern Central Pacific and the
original project of the Quebec people.
So far the application for the Southern
Central Pacific has been confined to a
Kbort line through Southern British Co
lumbia, through Fort McLeod and
northeastward to the Churchill River.
I^atcr this will be amended to make an
alternate route from McLeod throtfgh
the Central Northwest and east to
. Northern Ontario, to conr.ect~with~the
Grand Trunk.
Despite the numerous denials to the
contrary, it is generally believed that
the Grand Trunk and Mackenzie and
Mann will finally unite their projects;
that one road will be built through
Northern British Columbia to the coast.
JnjthejQrst place it is not believed that
the Pacific" province >-ould well afford
to subsidize two • roads and the dlKI-
Exciting Session of the
Ontario Commons
Expected.
Million Dollars' Damage
Suffered in Western
Washington.
TACOMA. Jan. 6.— The record of floods
throughout Western "Washington Is creat
ing astonishment, the damage being great
er nearly everywhere than at first sup
posed. Xot less than twenty rivers rose
higher last Sunday than ever before.
It is doubtful to-day If $1,000,000 will any
where near cover the damage. The
Northern Pacific tracks are absolutely
obliterated in Eagle Gorge Canyon, be
tween Palmer Junction and Canton, a dis
tance ' of. ten miles." The railroad here
ran along the foot of a high bluff rising
up from the Green River-. The' Green
River became such a racing flood as to
tear up the tracks and all the v.*ork« de
signed Jo protect the railroad from high
water, Added to this, the bluff slid down
into the river, covering the location of
the former tracks with many feet of
' earth. The railroad offlcfals to-night say
it will take ten days to re-establish the
tracks through Eagle Gorge Canyon and
the cost will be at least jlOO.000.
Tn the? meantime the Northern Pacific
through trains will be operated over the
Great Northern between here andSpoKane.
The Great Northern was open for a short
time last night, but washouts to-day
again. closed it. It # is expected 'it will be
reopened to-morrow. Hundreds of fam
ilies, aggregating more than 20,000 per
sons, have had to flee from the flooded
lowlands between Tacoma and Seattle, j
¦along the Snohomish and Skagit rivers, j
and especially in the Columbia River
valley. Three passenger trains arc
penned in between slides in the Cascades,
within sixty miles of Tacoma. The male !
passengers last night walked twelve miles '
to Kanaskat and were brought in ; by a
special train. The company is caringfor
the women and children in dining and
sleeping cars.
Five bridges in Pierce County have
been swept away and many more are
damaged to "a considerable extent. White
River bridge, between Pierce and King
counties, was swept away by a- log jam.
The bridge across the creek at Burnett
was sacrificed in the early part of the
flood to prevent the flooding of the
Sauth Prairie coal mines. The' bridge
collected logs, brush and driftwood until
It made a perfect jam in the stream,
causing the water to rise, and it was en
tering the coal mine when the bridge
was dynamited. \Altogether Pierce Coun
ty's loss on bridges will be close to $°0 -
000.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.— Reports from all of
the flooded districts indicate that the high
waters are receding very rapidly. The
thermometer is falling. and it is freezing
in the- mountains. "To-nlsht. the Great
Northern is open to St. Paul and trains
are being rushed out.
The Northern' Pacific main train will be
blocked for several" days yet.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— The day in the
Senate was eventful because of an attack
by i Senator Vest on protected indus
tries through the operation' of' the
Ringley law. Senator Vest used as a text
for hia remarks his resolution, introduced
yesterday., instructing the Committee on
Finance to prepare and report a bill re
moving- the -duty o'n- coal. Feeble in the
extreme and supporting himself on hia
desk, he .called attention to the condition
of distress which had arisen as a result
of the shortage in the coal supply. There
was breathless. silence in the chamber aa
he spoke, and every Senator on the floor
turned in his direction In order to catch
hia words. * - ¦
He said that the question was 'no longer
partisan/ but one of humanity, and that
we were not on the verge of a crisis, but,
actually in It. He charged the Republi
can Senators with being silent and dumb
to the state of a flairs, having only in mind
the party, cry, "Stand pat!"
He characterized the Dingley tariff as
a "sacred elephant with which nothing
was to be done." He -sarcastically re
marked that if the whole question, was
raising money for the next Presidential
campaign, that was the end of the dis
cussion. .-. . -. ¦ • . ¦ ¦•.
The Senator from Massachusetts
(Lodge), he declared, had endeavored to
ndminfEter a homeopathic dose In the
shape of a suspension of the duty on coal
for ninety 'days, but 'if medicine were
needed at. all it was in large doses. By
referring the resolution to- the committee,
he said, It would have no chance to pass.
• "Don't we know," he said, "that when
¦we send the resolution to* the Finance
Committee we send it to its execution?"
"He then pdid that all he" wanted was
for every Senator to put himself on rec
ord." }' '
. AJdrlch took exception to some of Vest's
statements > and at his request the reso
lution went over until, to-morrow, when
Aldrlch will make reply.
LOSS BY FLOOD
CROWS HEAVIER
BIG POLITICAL
RAILWAY FIGHT
I "WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.— Bids for build
i^vg cf $rr,000,000 worth cf warships were
w>; ened at the Navy Department to-day
y la the presence of representatives of near
ly every shipbuilding concern in America.
There were a host of sub-contractors,
who supply structural material for the
liig Fhip?. The bidding was close and ex.
citiTijr. A feature of the event was the
tubmission of a proposition to supply the
enormous horsepower required to drive
the Tennessee and Washington, the
speediest FhirJs the fnited States navy
"nill have on Jtf lists, with the new -tur
l'ir.f motors, tho latter to be supplied by '
e:i American company.
Another feature was the- fubml?fit'n of
* statement from one of the largest bid
ders to the effect that they had satisfied
that no less than 2,000 horse
|j>'-wer would be required to drive the big
»hty ar»the calculated speed, thus veri
ttyUig the estimates of Engineer in Chiel
|jdclville. The bids were as follows:
| XcKTMSt New* Shipbuilding Company, one
Whip In forty-two months, on dejiartment de-
ItsEicns. tot S«.:k».vOO.
j I'ort Kfver Ship ccl Engine "Works of
bQuincy, Mnss., one ship, department designs,
t 'Jr. forty-two month.*, for $4.«i7S.OQ0.
I Bath Iron Works, one ehip in forty-twa
ifjBnnthF. d<-p«rtmtnt design*, for $4,500,000. jf
I Union Iron Works of San rVanciwo. on«
|S*I:ip In f.>ny-t»i monthe. f 4,^6.", OOO.
J New York Shipbuilding Company or Camdea,
|r:;e ship in forty-two months, department de
|*:Anp frr 14.250.000. Two ships, same class.
Ll"r $4.15O.!«X> each, to be delivered In forty
end fi»riy-two months. Same company, on Its
own deyisn?, providing for 22-knot ships to
b» delivered in forty and forty-two months,
f*.2y),<X*» each.
Morar. Bro«=. & Ca. of Seattle. WaFh., one
*hip in forty-two months, for $*.C97.OOO.
Vi!i;a.m «"ramp i: Son*, Philadelphia, one
department fipylgTis, thirty-nint? month?,
U^.i^lftft. fame company, on its own 6°
it .;: fhips to be delivered In thirty-six and
#r:iirty-nine m<^nths, to "b» of ~ knots, one
r*hip for $*.lo<J.uOO; two ships on fame planp.
n4,Q00,O00 each. Same eorapany, on plan? cr
t Us own, providing: for the use of fteam tur
! binea and water tube boilers, $1,100,000 for
• <:;e and (i.fH'O.OOO each for*two.
The judgment of the board of bureau
& hiefs will be necessary to determine the
¦i wards.
on the crime it Is no wonder that the dig
nity of the press should be debased and -that
licentious Journalism should be rampant. The
majority of the newspapers of the State, es
pecially the rural press, art-, generally, con
trolled and owned by brave,- moral censors,
men whese purpose in Ufa is to purify public
opinion, suppress- vice and crime, and main
tain, by public argument, the rights and lib
erties of the people. Unhappily, a few glar
ing instances are to be se«n of newspapers
conducted by morally irresponsible corpora
tions and certain millionaires which represent,
in fact, not the pure and free voice of public
opinion, but the business and political Interests
of the owners, who use them as a means for
the atttalnment cf their own ambitions and the
.expression of their private hates and preju
dices. .. y
CRITICIZES THE PAPERS.
"With few scruples and millions • of dollars
at their command and actively Interested in
many political movements of the State for
th»ir own exaltation, these said proprietors
have become such- ominous elements as to men
ace the rights of the people and the. security
•if the State. Capable of misrepresenting pub
lic, as well as private intert^ts", when they
can npt dicta't<» to public officers In the per
formance of their sworn duties, they do not
hesitate to report to vilification. Kven State
officials, with the many important interests
under their administration, may become their
victims. If their insatiate and insolent de
mands be not obeyed by them. A fine to such
millionaire publishers, or a limited imprison
ment, which does not* place upon them ths
convict's stripes, is not a source ot fear nor
can such minor penalties deter them from
the course which ambition or' revenge may
»el»ct.
If timorous or- Dliant men should under the
present imperfect Jaws chance to be elected to
public oifk«v it may well be foreseen that such
officers may become the mere toys cr tools of
these ambitious publisheia. ¦
The reckless and libelous abuse of private
character' by* a few certain newspaper proprie
tors Is made more dangerous when they guiltily
combine or conspire to aid or/abet one another
in defenses against action for libel.
The l-ichts of citizens should be protected
from such consulrin* libelers who thus prosti
tute the purposes and privileges of a free press,
hence It is apparent that the punishment. now
pre^crib^d by law is inadequate \\q act as S
deterrent for si crave an offense.
It is time to reflect upon this menacing and
growing peril. It is time that the " people
should by law assert their majesty. It la tim^
to preserve the sanctity of good character from
the wanton and malicious abuse by the harpies
who befoul it. It Is time to place a public
l>arrler against newspaper intimidation of pri
vate citizens, legislators and other pubic offi
cers and to demonstrate- that our State govern
ment muet not be conducted by and for a few
nt:wspap<-rs, but by and for the people.
No honest .1-iurnalist can deem such necefr
sary action subversive of his liberty and privi
leges or a limitation of the constitutional rights
of the pies*. While honest criticism of public
officers l.s both a right and a duty upon the
part of newspapers, and while it is also a right
and duty to expose malversation or incom
peter.cy of all public servants, yet libelous
abuse and caricature find no Justification when,
perchance, the policy of a public officer does
not accord with the Interests or views of the
lilx-ler.
If Individual reputations 'may be torn to
Phreds at The sport or malignant will of a
libeler who Ftandp Intrenched behind his
moneyba&F. yet public officers ought at least
to b* permitted to conduct official duties with
out Interference and vilification. If no con
stitutional law can be devised by the Legisla
ture, to reach this desired end, an amendment,
to the constitution tending: to abate this alarm
ing evil may !n the future become a grava
necessity.
At least for the present as a remedy against
wanton and libelous assaults upon the repu
tation of private Individuals and public offi
cers respect for law and decency may pos
sibly be enforced by making the crime of libel
a felony with a maximum penalty of twenty
nve years' lmprlronment In the State prison
and a minimum imprisonment therein of one
year.
It Beems to me that it would be no In
justice . to the press of the State nor cur
tailment of It« proud liberty to raise the value
In ' law of man's and woman's reputation,
especially considering the fact that the priv
ileged libeler may still stand upon his extraor
dinary constitutional right of havine the
Jurors and not the court determine the Ian-.
As it is but just, however, that there, should
be no especial privileges given to one class
accused of crime over another I recommend a
constitutional amendment changing section J»
of. article 1 of the constitution whereby this
legal anomaly of now permitting the libeler
to submit the law for the determination of
the Jury be abolished and the court be given
GENERAL STUFF
FOR THE ARMY
Missouri Senator Makes a
.-.'. Bitter Attack Upon the
Dingley Tariff.
the power to determine the law as in other
cases. . .
BUBONIC PLAGUE FARCE.
-In regard to the false reports of the ex-
Ibtence or bubonic plague In San Fran
cisco the Governor writes an interesting"
and emphatic review of the situation and
gives copies of the correspondence, which
had to do with the affair. lje calls at
tention to his own line of. conduct, and
has some sharp things f6 say about Gov
ernment officials.
Regarding San Franclgco's "Chinatown
the retiring Governor says:; -^
Notwithstanding that' the reports of plagu*
in the Chinese quarter, or San Francisco have
been unfounded this part . of the 'city will
always be somewhat. of . a menace until better
sanitation Is there enforced. Its uncleanly
state and the mode ot life, and habits of
many of the Chinese 1 residents seein to me to
need legislative inquiry and approfiriafe- legis
lation whereby unwholesome . conditions may
be abated and the various underground places,
as far as possible, abolished, and |*rhap8 it
inlKlit be well, furthermore, to * give careful
consideration to the advisability of . • future
measures looking to a' chance In ', the location
of Chinatown.
The several State Hospitals for the Jn
sane, the Governor says, .are well ..man
aged by the respective boards, and' the
result is a most marked- improvement in
their condition. ••*- • . .
The records of the prisons an'd reform
schools arid other institutions are re
viewed ,at considerable 'length, , and the
Governor, then- touches .upon San Fran
cisco harbor improvements and the things
that have been done during his adminis
tration.
PRAISE FOB UNIVERSITY.
The University of California comes in
for a full measure of laudation, and the
Governor urges its' proper maintenance by
appropriations that may not be a burden
to the people. Of public. Institutions 'gen
erally he says the conditions are most
satisfactory.
As to constitutional amendments- arid
rnunicpal charters the Governor* writes:
1 venture to call your attention to a mat
ter which, by reason of its "disintegratintc
tendency, seems to me to .be portentous of
future probable peril to the -local-sovereignty
of the State. Constitutional amendments, pro
posing:, large grants of power, especially to
municipalities, have been bo often ¦ loosely
worded by their framera in the Legislature
that after adoption by the people, ! when
Judicially construed, It becomes evident' that
excessive power has been ceded, thereby limit
ing- the sovereign function* of the people.
1 stronsly favor the right ot cities and towns
to' be free from legislative interference in
those purely local, concerns which are neces
sary for their maintenance as municipal bodies.
1 have a most sincere affection for city and
town srovernment.
The municipalities are constantly gaining
the sovereignty which the State Is losing.
Once enfeeble the State by undue and un-
Kua.nle.1 cessions of Its local sovereignty and
Instead of sustaining Its well-poised balance
between the people of the State, and the Fed
eral Government it will become frnere political
shadow, unable on the one band to 'resist the
centripetal force of Federalism or. on the
other, the centrifugal force of municipallsm.
This policy is not in accord with the form
of government which our patriotic forefathers
founded,, nor Is history wanting- in illustrations
where such a' policy'ha*; wrought ruin to free
political Institutions.* I regard this excessive
growth of municipal power as a peaceful, mode
of Mce?slon from the State and an uncon
scious blow arahist the State's integrity, and
indirectly an unpatriotic assault upon national
existence.
A* these amendments inflexibly affect funda
mental rights and as the Governor has nc
voice in tneir passage it becomes your solemn
duty to tnvesticate more closely these pro
posed amendments than proposed laws and to
place tl-em far above and beyond the power
and influence -of lobbies.
My career in office has not been one of
pleasurable ease, nor have I ever sought, at
the expenre of public duty, my • own ag-
BTandlzement. Mistakes may have been made
sometimes perhaps throueh want of that dip
lomatic tact which Braces many In public life
and which too often deceives, but for such
and all mistakes, wherever made, I shall he
answt-rable to the judgment of mv fellow
citizens in the quiet and Just criticism of
private life. Having, however, always kept
before me as my guldinsr light what I con
ceived to be and cherished as the people's
Interests, upon this the eve.of retirement, I
feel that, actuated by a sense of right and
Justice to all my fellow citizens, I have striven
with my begt and for the best.-
153 \o 52. By the terms of the bill it be
comes the duty of the general staff. to pre
pare plans for the national defense and
for the mobilization of the army in time
of war, to investigate and report on all
<iues-:tions affecting the efficiency .of the
service and to- render professional aid to
the Secretary of War and to general of
ficers and other superior commanders.'.
;The general staff corps is to consist of
one chief of staff and two general officers,
all to be detailed by the President from
officers of the army at large, not below
tho grade of brigadier general: four col
onels, six lieutenant colonels and twelve
fnajors, twenty capWiins to be detailed
from officers of. the grade of captain or
first lieutenant, who while- so serving
shall have the rank, pay and allowances
•if captains mounted. All officers -In "the
general staff shall be detailed therein for
periods of four years. While serving in
the general staff corps officers may be
assigned temporarily to duty ' with any
branch of the army in whtch. they hold
permanent commission and no officer not
a general officer shall be eligible to a fur
ther detail in the general corps unless he
shall have served two years with the
branch of the army in which commis
sioned, .except in cases of urgency or of
war. The bill also provides that the chief
of staii" under the direction of the Pres
ident, shall have supervision of all troops
of the line and of the adjutant general's,
inspector general's, judge advocate's,
quartermaster general's, subsistence, med
ical, pay and ordnance departments, the
corps of engineers and the signal corps,
and shall '¦ perform such other duties as
may be assigned to him by the President.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
j-m ct» ALL, HEADQrARTERS, SAC-
M ~ RAMENTO, Jan. 6.— The mes-
R sage of Governor Gage to the
W)^ J Legislature was received this
morning. It is a voluminous
document and embraces refer
ences to almost everything that occurred
d-uring the retiring- Governor's adminis-
Itration, with recommendations in the line
of things considered necessary and ex
pedient for the common wealth's progress
and prosperity. He says in an Introduc
tory paragraph:
Uu'rirg my administration I allowed all
1 proper api>ropriaticns to meet the current *x
p«"nses of government and lirovided. without
? tint, for every Stat* institution and Sta.e
r.*e<i' but I curtalM extravagance by \-etoing
?•xeesFtve and lr.exi»>iiient appropriation?, so
that the Siate is DOW on a business basis and
alil^ to i-«ay it« demands without either a dis
<-oum of ile narrant« or th<? exhaustion ct
its genera! fund. In disallowing appropria
tions 1 have not «=v3jeil any law which re
quirpd tbrir payment nur any State exigency
which wai required to bo, sooner or later,
faced. *
IiellevinR that the farming 1 and stock raising
Industries «f the State would be best promoted
by advancine t!ir Interests of the several ex
isting acrtcultura,! association* established by
law 1 approved/liberal but not lavish appro
priations for their ?ui>j)ort.
There is reference to the opening of the
State Printing Office, which had been
closed during his predecessor's term, and
then a criticism of the evil of overlegisla
tion. On this subject he says:
The real of legislators sometime* makes them
forgrt that a new law is generally a displace
ment of a previously existing right and that
the judicial branch of the Government will
proba-bly pass upon the legislative enactment
in the course of litigation arisinc out of the
process of adjusting the new law to the ex
isting: relations. A Sfate Is less 'liable to
suCer from a paucity than from a redundance
; of. laws.
GOVERNOR NEEDS TIME.
It is recommended in the message that
the Governor's time to act on Legislature
bills should be extended and a careful
revision of the election laws is urged.
The Governor makes extended reference
to his veto of the celebrated Senate Bill
No. 7, which related to irrigation. He de
clares it to have been far from a useful
measure.
The subject of forestry has considerable
part In the message and' the Governor
eay-s he heartily favors measures for the
conservation of waters and the preserva
tion of trees.
The crime of libel is the subject of one
section of the message. There is a long
historical review of early statutes, the
conditions that made them imperative and
the results they accomplished. The pres
ent conditions are described thus:
Hcwsoever we«may cherish our reputations
and publicly and privately condemn libel, we
have not. as a practical people, piven force to
our opinions, nor have we sufficiently in
trenched ourselves against libelous assaults by
the passafre of laws meting out penalties, com
mensurate with the gravity of this most
flagrant ar.j obnoxious crime. It is made u
felony by our criminal law to steal from the
person of another the merest trifle of his per
sonal property, or even, unsuccessfully to make
the attempt. It is made a felony to creep
s«cretly inta another's bam or outhouse with
Intent to steal the smallest article ot value.
But it is only a misdemeanor for one malic
iously and deliberately to rob a man or woman
of cherished reputation and destroy the honor
which years of virtue and honest lite nave
maintained, or foully to Invade the privacy ot
a household, and unbosom and distort Its fam
ily ppcret!" through the dark innuendoes of a
cowardly libel.
It is by our law made a fe-lony to steal a bi
cycle, horse, mare, tfeldingr. cow. steer, bull,
calf, mule. Jack or jenny, and the convicted
offender may wear the stripes of the peniten
tiary for a period extending; from a minimum
of one year to a maximum of ten years. Still,
on the other hand, the penalty for the crime
committed by the convicted destroyer of a man's
ct a woman's reputation is only a maximum
fine of $5000 with a nominal sum as a mint
mum, or an Imprisonment in a county jail for a
maximum of one year with a fractional part
of a day as a minimum, the determination of
the penalty, within those limits, resting- on
Judicial discretion.
With such insufficient penalties imposed up-
cultics presented to the successful
handling of competitive roads in a new
country are large.
1 Enormous Horsepower Will
Be Required to Drive .
the Vessels.
Seeks to Make Partisan
Issue of the Fuel
Famine.
Board of Navy Bureau
Chiefs Will Make
the Awards.
Harmony Among the
Cities and Towns '%
. Needed.'
Peril He Says Lies in
Too Hasty Amend
ments.
VEST ASSAILS
THE COAL TRUST
WARSHIP BIDS
ARE VERY CLOSE
Libel the Subject of a
Part of the Docu
ment
Wisdom in Enacting
of Laws the De
sideratum.
THE final message of Gov
ernor Gage to the legis
lature consists chiefly of
a retrospect of the work
done during" his ocenpancy of
the Stato'B supreme office dur
ing- the past four years, with
an occasional dash of criticism,
and a sprinkling* throuirhont of
cuygestion, admonition and en
' couragement. He reviews the
changes in conditions since his
election and tells of the admin
istration's work in the line of
advancement. Among 1 the topics
made prominent are the libel
law, the Csng-er of the enact
ment of unnecessary constitu
tional amendments and the ne
cessity of more harmony
throug-hout the State. >
MESSAGE OF THE RETIRING GOVERNOR
REVIEWS ADMINISTRATION'S HISTORY
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1903.
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