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CRIMINAL NEGLECT OF DUTY BY BANK COMMIS
SIONERS
IT will scarcely admit of doubt that the bank commissioner who
made the. last examination .of the California safe deposit and
trust company knew it to be insolvent at that time, nearly a
year ago. Whether such knowledge can be brought home to'
him as matter of legal proof is uncertain, but it will not be dis- j
puted that an effort should be made to have him punished as the
law directs.
Under section 7 of the act creating the bank commission, any
commissioner, having knowledge of the "insolvency or unsafe con
dition*' of -a. bank, who neglects to report the fe"ameto the attorney
general may be fined $10,000 or imprisoned for two years in the \
county jail. The bank commissioner who neglects^ his duty in !
this regard is. in fact, a more "dangerous member of society than;
even the reckless financiers who destroy a bank. The commis- !
sioner is paid a salary to. prevent just such financiering, and there]
is no mystery about his work and no difficulty in compelling!
bankers to follow legitimate methods*. The commissioner who 1 ;
examined the insolvent bank found that it was engaged in reck-:
less speculation, using depositors' money to finance a score of
industrial schemes, some of them visionary and all more or less
speculative. That is not the business of a bank and the facts- should
have been at once reported to the attorney general.
The fact is that the commissioners have disobeyed or ignored
the law in a dozen different ways and it is time to bring them to
"a strict accounting. They are as much. responsible for the failure
\u25a0of the safe deposit company as are the bank officials.
The law requires banks to furnish to the commissioners at
least three times a year full reports of the condition of their busi
ness, including their loans" and investments in stocks and bonds,
specifying the nature of these securities." In past years it was the
custom of the commission to publish these reports', with full sped
licatjons of the nature of the collateral held by the bank as security
for loans, but this practice has- been abandoned, notwithstanding
the express injunction of the law that requires publicity for all
proceedings of the commission. It is clear that if a report of the
California safe deposit and trust company had been published a
year ago, with full specifications of the collateral security held
for loans, the insolvency of the bank would have been i manifest
on inspection of the report. The commissioners preferred to let
the concern go to smash at a time of financial stringency' and
after increasing vastly, the line of deposits carried. The commis
sion is responsible for- losses made by all depositors 1 who ventured
into the trap set for them by the bank officials, with the full con
nivance of the commissioners 1 .
It is an unfortunate fact that the newspaper press -and the
honest bankers of the city are in some degree responsible for the
neglect of duty by the commission. Newspapers, out of a mis
taken policy of tenderness for banking concerns, have not insisted
on the kind of publicity that the law directs and requires as the
one condition of financial safety. Honest bankers have followed
the same course lest they should be charged with business
jealousy and malice: The result is disaster.
Xo kind. of banking that will not bear the light of full pub
licity should be permitted for an instant, and the state official who
neglects his duty to give that publicity should be punished to the
THE APPOINTMENT OF A RECEIVER
TF it shall appear that the California safe deposit and trust com-
Jpanymust go into the hands of a receiver . certain imperative
considerations govern, the; choice of the man selected : for that
very responsible offrce. If some feasible plan can be devised
by the depositors, who are the real parties in interest, to resume
or take over the business of the bank^ that would,' be -best oiE all,
but in the absence of such a solution of the difficulty the selection
of a competent and trustworthy receiver is a matter of the highest
importance. '
It has been in the past the practice of courts to treat such
appointments as 1 political patronage.-.. The. : .gross- scandals
attended the receiverships, of the McDondld banks' in' the : years
following the crisis of 1893 were directs results of; this vicious
practice. -. ... ' .-[-,.\u25a0''
In .the light of that experience the - choice of a receiver for ; the
California safe deposit and trust company will be closely. scrutinized
by the public. The receiver, for one thing, ought not t6 be a poli
tician, nor should he be a business man in any way connected with
the management that has brought this, bank to ruin. The wisest
plan and the one least open to criticism will "be to allow : the
depositors- to make their own choice. "They are the chief parties,
in interest and should be consulted first.
PROOF OF PULLMAN COMPANY EXACTIONS
THE announcement that the Pullman company will shortly
declare* an extra dividend, distributing $30,000,000 accumu
lated surplus, throws a bright light on the plea made by rep
resentatives of this corporation for a reduction of. its assess
ment and taxation in California. Including the $30,000,000 'thus
to be distributed, the company will have paid a grand total of
$191,000,000 in dividends on an origina^capital of $36,000,000.
The . simple statement of these - f actsj is sufficient proof that
the corporation charges exorbitant and . unreasonable rates for
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public service, and doubtless the interstate commerce commission
will act- on the information as soon as the federal courts decide
that the company is a common carrier. There^ is little doubt ihat
{he decision on this point will go against the , corporation."
The present dividend "is; the 1 second distribution of '<> 3. swollen
and unwieldy surplus made by the Pullman - company. Eight per
cent dividends have been paid every year since 1867; and, notwith
standing these -liberal returns 1 ,- the company found §18,000,000. ( in
the surplus, of 1898. fTh 1899 the company -absorbed the '-. Wagner
corporation, with a capital stock , 0f 520,000/300, which was added
to the Pullman capitalization. The usual 8 per cent dividends
were paid on the increased capitalization, and now the company
finds $30,000,000 on hand and undistributed. The facts speak for
themselves. .'.",- . '. . / A':'S:.
IN Ohio, where they do politics nights and days and Sundays. 1 ,
/off years and on years, the* Foraker alarum is already sounded,
and. in a week orilen-days the big secretary of war will be on
the ground to make his own campaign. Foraker's recent attack
on Taft and his declaration of his own entry for the presidential
race will scarcely be regarded as other than malicious. Foraker
can not be nominated, but he may, be able to injure Taft by dividing
the Ohio delegation to the national convention.. From the begin
ning" Foraker has wanted a compromise with Taft on the basis of
a division of honors. He was to go back to the' senate and Taft
would be given the Ohio delegation. The " Washington corre
spondent of the Boston Transcript gives some inside facts bearing
on these negotiations*: /
It was such a proposition which Senator Crane carried from foraker. to
Taft last spring.^ The answer of the secretary of war: was ;' that- the presi
dency was too high an office '- to- be bargained for in that way ; that . he was
not opposing the re-election of Senator Foraker, nor , vvas J .he indorsing the
election of Representative Burton toVthe ' senate; that . he ; refused to \u25a0 'pur
chase" the. indorsement of Ohio:- by making any siichdeall Secretary Taft
has never been implicated " in -. a : fight . to , eliminate - Senator Foraker; ; the
sentiment in favor of elimination ; has come from the 1 people of Ohio; it is
the firefrom the rear which has forced the, senator into the open.
Such - is the way of the politician— addition, division and
silence. Taft would have "none of . it. Three times he has declined
elevation .to the supreme bench in order that he might •make the
fight for a continuation.o f the Roosevelt policies in the presidential
chair.: Some of his" friends have suggested to him that he was
making a mistake. to. champion so vigorously , the Roosevelt policies.
Again that' is the way of the politician. He fears- nothing so /much
as- the outspoken "support of advanced measures. Such things
make enemies/ In the politician's- view the way to office is like
making a sneak. r • is; different and to the advice " of his cautious
friends he replied.: . •"I am i in this fight because I believe with- all
my heart ' in exactly,: the same "principles for 'which 'the president
is lighting. , \u25a0 I propose \ that the people of this . country shall know
that, if elected; president, I shall continue; my fight for those prin
ciples and" shair carry fqrvvard.the priaciples with;, which this.admin
istration has been /associated." . " ;'' ,
That is, the way a' brave ; man speaks, whvor lose.
Tried talking through *ybur,. chest
yet?- ' .?'.'\u25a0\u25a0;'\u25a0 : \u25a0•'-.'•"-\u25a0..,'\u25a0,\u25a0• -' : <%
"Sell the publicand- occupy, a cell"
is what some bankers " are - mournfully
saying to themselves. 1 .' ;
. The Bryan donkey* threatens to rival
the' Fairbanks cocktail las "a ; means of
killing a boom v by i . : ridicule."
' It ; may be .that ; a; sense of shame
at \u25a0 last .;hasv.been^ awakened^ in ;."Big^'
Jim, Gallagher, .'and he is i traveling
incognito. ;
The ideal man ;has been? described
by 75 • seminary/, young ladies.; ;The
standards: set aje\very;high';:but. there
is ; ho,doubt that,'; as : time- passes, 1 some
of : them -will , be iwillirig- to * take > just
a -man., -^..r : : ' --:--:
Cue for ihb Croakers
TAFT AND FORAKER
NOTE ANP COMMENT
'An ex prize fighter has been made
pastor " ; of _ a ;; Nebraska i church. '-. Some
straight«.frorfi the: shoulder ; sermons
should' result." v- : : -.. \u25a0 "
Socialists in Goldheld hissed the
name of President^ Roosevelt, -'. Decent
people 1 will Task' no better recommen^
datioh' for'him.' ~ : V
A TELBPHOXE QUEEX
; .Western'Texas' is : proud" of Mrs. ; An
ney.; McElroy > Brett, i^woman-" promoter.'
Today she iis the telephone queen of the
southwest.'; - She pis •; president y v of '_ r.the
Southern 1 Independent' 1 telephone ; arid
telegraph company, > and ;\u25a0 president land
genoral mariagerJofitho^Brett^ construe-*
tlori, ; telephone \u25a0 ahd|telegraph • company.
These 7 companies;^; representing i> more
thanfhalf ja^mllllohxdpllars'^werejor^
her' without a dollar' of capi
ta^to start with:— Exchange.- ' -
Answers to Queries
DOUBLE PEDRO-^A. J. S., City. ' In
the absence -of -any agreemeht in the
game of double pedro as to who is en
titled to , a pedro that may have been
accidentally discarded it belongs to the
player who makes the bid.
HUNTERS' LICENSE -- a H. D.,
Berkeley, Cal. The state law of Cali
fornia relative to Jflmter's license says:
"Every person in th& state of Califor
nia who hunts, pursues or kills any of
the wild birds or animals protected
by the laws j of: this state without first
procuring a license therefor is guilty
of a misdemeanor." The provisions of
the^law-do not apply to any person
who hunts on his own lands.
THE RING FINGER— A. N. 8., Oak
land. The wedding ring is almost in
variably placed on the fourth finger
of the left hand because many cen
turies ago the Egyptians believed that
a certain small artery proceeded di
rectly from the heart to the termina
tion of that digit. On this subject there
is the following in "Attick Nights'*:
"The motion of this artery may be
felt by touching this finger to the
pulse,-, it being . an- index. In case, of
siokness or where persons are weary or
overlabored, .always S informing when
the heart is. overburdened or offended.
This; finger, rarely- hath gout on'account
of the sympathy and neighborhood it
hath with- the heart. /It is the first
finger that a new born babe Is able to
move and the last, of which a dying
person loseth control. -It is also the
one last to swell -when the vital heat
Is abating in*.one that is passing over."
MOABITE STONE — A Subscriber,
Oakland, Cal. The Moabite stone is a
slabof. black basalt, 3 feet 8% inches
long. 2 feet 3% inches wide. 1 foot 1.78
Inches thick; bearing ;a long inscrip
tion in j Hebrew-Phoenician letters ; dis
covered by M." Klein of; the British mis
sionary society at Diban.;lß6B. It ap
pears;; to ! have been erectediby Mesha,
Jiing ; of Moab, mentioned in II Kings,
vii. The inscription ; refers to his • wars
with Israel- (B. C. tenth century). 'Its
date ; may be ; taken as about 890 B. C.
The negotiations, set on foot for the
purchase of this' stone led to quarrels
among ,the Arab tribes | claiming an in
terest in it. During/one of. these quar
rels the; slab; was broken -to pieces.
The fragments' were, .", however,'; with
considerable 'difficulty rejoined and | are
now. preserved in the .Louvre, in Paris,
France.' It is an interesting,; and, from
the - standpoint of historians, : valuable
relic v "..'.--. ' ." .- -,-
MISTAKEX
H For six years a' bitter feud had
existed between the*. Browns and Rob
insons,:: next .door neighbors.-.;. The
trouble originated^ through ; the depre
dations of Brown's cat, and' had grown
so fixed*: an ' affair. :that:. : neither party
ever dreamed' of -."making : up." - : One
day, } however, Brown sent his servant
next-door: with -a "peace; making note
for -Mr.' -Robinson;' 'which read:'
; - "Mr. : ,- Brown,* sends 'his "compliments
to ; Mr.;' Robinson,' and begs tQ say that
his. old cat died! thls. : mornlng."
: Robinson's \u25a0 written . regly ), was : bitter:
"Mr.".:; Robinson • is ;\u25a0 sorfy ? to bear of
Mr.^Brown's \u25a0 trouble, \u25a0 bburt r he \ had nn t
heard ':\u25a0 that y MrsV Brown " was ill."-^-Tit-
Bitso' • -.-: .-•-•"; \u25a0 -\u25a0\u25a0 - ' v. -.
UNIVERSAL \u25a0LITERATURE
;: "Kipling's selection, for the -Nobel
prize-Is not only the choice of the first
Engllshman^on .'the:: list -during seven
years.of , trial;- it Is the first: acceptance
of * English-speaking. standards. • Of the
seven -who have .preceded - him . in j the
prize only .one^Sienkiewtcz,; is generally
read ; ; here or in ; England. ?-' Carducci Is a
poet/u Italian;- {"and" Italian alone? / ; So
Sully Prudhomme = was ' French' alone "in
his <i acceptance. rSMohjinsen is a his
torian- read in \u25a0- all Hands,* but ' German in
everyj page. Bjorsen.^Mistral^and > Bche
gary,^ these ? all< are; men; i Norse.^of ; the
French' Midi and j Spain. iNo'man'.reads
or J knows •; them .* beyond ' j their -.tongue
and*lahd.':;'::Kipliiig'siflction- is. univer
sal.—Philadelphia'Press.*
DECEMBER 10, 1907
THE INSIDER
Narrates a romantic episode of the days of '59
when the .hand of a beautiful woman was
the prize in a contest for the speakership
Romance of the
Fight for Speaker
j you: It was in the winter of '59, and William C Stratton of Placer county and
; Charles R. Street of Shasta were rivals for the speaker's chair. They
| were also rivals for the hand of a beautiful woman who had gone to Sacra
i mento from New York. No one knew much about her except that she
engaged rooms at George Newcome's hotel,, the Orleans, and had a crowd
of -admirers soon. Stratton "and Street were the favored worshipers at her
shrine and many a time she said she wished she knew which she loved the
I best. ".. Finally she announced that she would accept the hand of the one
; who won out as -speaker. There was an exciting contest, which was won
;by Stratton, who married the lady from New York. Street consoled hi 3
J wounded heart by marrying Rowena Granice, an actress."
Merry Afternoon
at Bohemian Club
Warren Stoddard gives an interesting account of a merry atternoon spent
at the club's old quarters on Sacramento street. The gayety wa"^ started by
Herr Muller of the Fabbri-Muller company, who played "Dixie,'* "Hail
Columbia" and "The Last Rose of Summer" on the piano in such a manner
that "the three songs were disintegrated and hopelessly mangled; recogniz
able fragments came to the surface as the various' components of a salad
appear,' only ' to disappear in a moment during the process of making and
mixing. Sometimes we were regaled with several familiar bars and these we
seized upon, as a drowning man his straw, only to be submerged in a maze
of melody where floated, the flotsam of the triple theme with which Herr
Muller was toying 'as a juggler toys with a bottle, an egg and a cannon ball
as he keeps them revolving in the air. . . . At the conclusion, where the
three themes seemed to have been braided or blended into one harmonious
whole, our .cheers could have been heard a block away above the city's din.
Then Tommy Newcomb, the first president of the club, rushed to the side
board and, seizing a colossal bottle of champagne— it must have held a gallon
and had been reserved for the great occasion that should strike 12 without
a doubt — opened it, and the rest of the afternoon was ours and all went
merry as a marriage bell. That was Bohemia in its infancy. It was a mighty
promising child and no mistake."
Stoddard tells of meeting : Colonel Richard Henry Savage, Archibald
ClaveVing Gunter and others then unknown to fame, and of later day meet
ings, with Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson. Of the latter he
says that "when in his Samoan garden weeding — weeds grew knee high in
a night iii summer land — he was forever framing sentences, and those that
especially pleased him with their grace or beauty he would jot down on little
slips of paper and reserve for future use. . Sometimes, perhaps, it _wa3 but
a single word, or two or three of them, that caught his fancy."
Of Kipling he- says:^ :;•;-'•
"I have lounged in *Rudyard Kipling's den at Brattleboro, Vermont—
before he deserted America for England — and seen him at his work. He
sat at his table in a revolving chair. I had a book in my hand and said
nothing unless I was spoken to, for I was enjoying a great privilege that
was granted to no one else but his wife. He would write for a moment, per
haps for 10 or 15 minutes at a time; if he was writing verges he would hum
very softly, to himself an air which probably kept the rhythm in his mind.
When writing prose he was silent, but often he would lay down his pen,
whirl round in his chair and chat for a while. - It might be. something
relating to the subject he was treating, or bear no relation to it .Suddenly
he would- wheel back again and his pen would fairly fly over the paper.
He can easily concentrate his thoughts and as easily descend from cloud
land to the commonplace of the day, though ' in his mind and on his lips
nothing is ever 'commonplace.' Some .61 his poems he has written ..when
speeding'in a Pullman car at the rate of 6p^miles an hour." ', :
Origin of Some
Motices on Coins
"I suppose you don't remember how it first happened to be placed on a
coin, do you?" he asked. I pleaded guilty. "Well, it was ordered put or? the
2 cent piece, by James Pollock, director of the Philadelphia mint, in 1860,
and later on the half and quarter dollars issued from that mint *E. pluribus
unum/ still used on silver dollars, is without specific lawful authority. It
was first placed on a copper coin struck off at a private mint in Newburg,
N. V., in 1786, but in 1787 a New York goldsmith issued a 16 dollar gold
piece with the -motto 'Unume pluribus/ Later copper coins all bore thi*
inscription,' though at first 'Nova Constellatio' was the inscription. You'll
find there's lots to interest you in coinage if you just look it up."
•' QUIET wedding of a few days ago
j\ • was that of Miss Florence Bel
j-\ knap and John Guerin. Mr 3. Guerin
. . was the eldest ' daughter of the
late Attorney Belknap and an extreme
ly charming and popular woman. She
is a graduate of the University of
California and has lived since her fath
er's'death "in Sausallto,. where the Bel
knaps, have a pretty home; Two years
ago Miss. Belknap .went east for a lon&
visit with her brother, who is promi
nent in the New York colony of Cali
fornia artists and writers and shares
a studio with Charles Battell . Loomis.
It was shortly after her return to San
Francisco last- spring .that her engage
ment to the young businessman of Ala
meda jvas , announced. Immediately
after their "wedding, which was wit
nessed by only a few relatives and in
timate friends, Mr. and Mrs. Guerin left
for a honeymoon in the southern part
of the state.
After a visit of several weeks with
her daughter,' Mrs. Edward Chapman,
in Detroit, Mrs. George Hermann Pow
ers ;\\ on her way hom,e. She will
stop to" visit kinspeople for a few days
en route./reaching California about De
cember 22.. Dr. and Mrs. Powers have
made their home \u25a0 In: San Rafael since
the'nre artd" will remain there through
the winter. Miss Ruth Powers will con
tinue, her. musical studies in New York
for another year.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunphy. who
returned ' recently from their wedding
Journey to southern, California, have
taken apartments at the San Xavier
for the vrinteT. •
\u25a0 Drummond McGavln returned to San
Francisco last week, after a long so
journ >in' Mexico,- where- he was. con
nected >, with one of the large mines.
Mr.'.'MacGavi.n Is popular. with the city's
smart set .and .already is in demand
for 'dinners- and dances. His sister,
Miss Dolly. MacGavln, is one of the
year's debutantes. .
Mrs.' Knight White has sent out cards
for a large' bridge party, to be given
in" her home, this week. It will be
followed -by an informal . tea, to which
severalniore guests have been bidden.
. Mra.- .William, Mintzer, who spent
Thanksgiving^ week with ; her daughter
in Santa Barbara, has returned to San
Francisco,; and is: again !n her hand
some home in Pacific avenue.
- ,- Miss Helen* \u25a0 Robson left the city a
few days ago > for "a visit to friends in
the", southern , part of the state . and
probably will not return until after the
holidays. 'V^9Hin|Bßl •
Mr. 'and 'l Mrs. Laurence Scott have
come up to : town from their Burlingame
home. ; and have - taken an .attractive
house here for: the- winter. Mrs. Scott*3
4(T COULD tell yon lots of good stories «*
\u2666 I early legislative sessions," said the old
timer. "Here's one that may interest
In an article on the earliest days of the
Bohemian club, contributed to the December
number of the Pacific Monthly, Charles
I was talking with a mint "employe about the
row that is still raging over the omission of
"In God we trust" from the new coinage.
Smart Set
mother, Mrs. Crockett, will bo their
guest for some months.
The George Martins have sent out
invitations for a large dinner to -be
given at the Fairmont December CO.
Their guest of honor will be Miss Alex
andra Hamilton, and the list. of guests
includes several other debutantes. This
dinner was planned originally to pre
cede the Greenway dance, but . • tha
dance has»been postponed until tha
second week In January.
Evan Evans of San Rafael was host
at a dinner to 12 at the Fairmont
hotel last week- His guests included
several of the year's girls, among
them Miss Helen Baker and MlssLoa
isiana Foster, and a corresponding
number" of men. After the dinner host
and guests attended the Van Ness the
ater, where they saw Frltzi Sch«ff in
"Mile. Modiste." A supper at one of
the • popular restaurants finished - tha
evening.
Among the San Mateo people who
came. up for ths Greenway ball Friday
night were the Frederick Kohls. Mrs.
Kohl, like almost all the ciatrons of the
smart set. was Mrs. Walker's guest to
the afternoon for cards.
Mrs. Henry Ware Lyon, who sailed
for Honolulu in October a few days
before Admiral Lyon's departure for V
New York, will return to California-*!
next week and be for several weeks
tne guest of Mrs. Riddell In Berkeley.
She win Join Admiral Lyon la Boston
early in February,, ai»d they will spend
the summer In their charming country
house in Paris, Me. ' Mrs. Lyon bas
been much entertained while In Hawaii,
where she has many friends.
One of last week's Informal teas was
given by Miss Edith Berry, whose
guests numbered a score of the young
er set. It took place Thursday after
noon between the hours of 4 and S
o'clock.
Mrs. le Breton ar»<t Miss Marguerite
le Breton are in Washington, where
they are the guests of Mrs. George T.
Marye, one of the,, national capital's
prominent society 'women. Mrs. la,
Breton and her daughter will leave in
a few: days for New York, where they
are ; to spend the winter, coming on to
California in the spring. David ia
Breton, who was temporarily stationed
at the "Washington navy yard, la now
on his way to California, and will be
stationed here Indefinitely. .
The many friends of Major Georra
E. Plokett will be, glad to hear that ha
is. again in ..San. Francisco, and win
be;: stationed at the Presidio. Major
Pickett and his family are Just now tha^
guests of Captain Charle3 A. Faulkener^
and Mrs. Faulkentr at the Presidio*
but will shortly take possessloa o£
their quarters for the winter.