The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1897, Page 1

| — VOLUME LXXXI SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. APPEAL FOR THE PERISHING POOR Chicago's Méyor Calls Upon Well-to-Do Citizens for Aid. Forty Thousand Families Sorely in Need of Fue!, Food and Clothing. Heroic Efforts of the Police Depart- ment Temporarily Allay the Awful Suffering. CHICAGO, Ii1., Jan. 25.—The people of Obicago in bodies and as individual tizens were aroused to-day to take ompt snd generous action for the ompt relief of the two score thousand e families who are in want of food and hing, their distross having reached a critical stage during this in- tensely cold weather. Between 5and 7 o'clock this morning the weather bureau in the Auditorium tower, where it is warmer than on the street, Only once in the history of the burean December 24, 1872, when it was 23 below, bas the temperature fallen lower. From 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. there was a gradual rise, the range being from 18 to 12 degrees be- low, but the relief was hardly felt when accompanied by a cutting wind from the northwest. The highest temperature for the day was 10 degrees below zero, and to- night the bureau’ thermometer is moving slowly down again with no hope of relief held out for to-morrow. Mayor Swift issued a proclamation to- according to his expressed intention day, appealing in urgent language toall citizens who have the means to epare to contribute at ‘once money and v srevent the starvation and rfortunate thousands, He urged the subscription of $100,000 as being | none too much 1o afford the relief needed. vor Swift's proclamation is as fol- enerous People of Chicago; The pres- r must naturally excite the pathy of every kindly disposed per- worthy and suffering poor. A pro- od of business depression has ds of men and women out of d brought want to families not iliar with it. No startling ts, but the need constantly dis- now augmented by the nd the extreme cold. You hav2 ever been found gemerous in behalf of ail objects, and T think it proper at this ot attention to ng for a mani- reasonable generosity. 1 and children in their to be relieved. There are ous who hesitate o seek as- er in silence. I propose to e department, have ition, partie npt help to money, food and ¥be sent to E. J. Keith, opolitan National Ban ibutions should be desig- ded for the “Mayor's ed under the direction of tendent of P food and clothing may be sen y the General Superintendent of Police at the City Hal GEORGE B. SWIFT, Mayor. The funds of the charity oreanizations have become depleted, owing to the extra- ordinary demands made upon them even during the mild winter weather which Yias prevailed here until a few dayvs ago, and the Chicago Relief anc Society was compelled to make a special appeal for money last week to carry on its work because of theun ally large number of heads and supporters of famiiies whe are unemployed while willing to work. Before the Mavor’'s prociamation was issued contributions to the special fund came pouring into his office in currency and checks, while various offers of pro- visions, clothing, coal and wood were re- ceived on a liberal scale. The Board of Traae and other organizations started to raise relief funds and the churches and Falvation armies began making sys- tematic and exiensive arrancements to help in ‘the charitable work along their special lines. Souphouses and shelters will be established and maintained as long s necessary. plan which the Mayor and Chief of ce Badenoch sgreed upon at a confer- eace to-day was immediately put into effect. The city will buy with the special fund food and fuel and distribute them on demand through the agency of the police department. This relief is to be afforded without the usual investigation until the regular cheritable organizations are able to take up the work. All police stations hiave been thrown open to the freezing multitude. The Mayor's of the kind years. "he worst and most numerous cases of suffering were reported from South Chi- cago and Kensington, where thousands of men have been laid off at the steel mills and other establishments, The savings of mostof these victims have been used these hard times to pay for their little bomes, leaving them prac- tically penniless, aithough not paupers. Much damage has been done in the sub- urbs to telegraph and telephone wires by the cold. Traffic With Cicero was sus- vended until Jate 1o-day by the collapse of cable poles. The work of affording instant tempor- ary relief during the inclement weather was pushed by the police agents nsing patrol wagons and ambulances in such a systematic manner that no case of desti- tution reported remained unattended to to-night. At midnight the thermometer registered 11 degrees below, and it is believed the up- ard tendency will continu-. Police sta- tions about the city are filled with lodeers, many of whom applied for shelter with frozen ears and fingers. Pt Colorado in the loy Grip. DENVER, Covo., Jan. 25.—The coidest weather of the winter has prevailed in this { proclamation is the first to be issued in twenty-five recorded 20 degrees below zero. | Relief | ce for the | city and throughout the State during the past forty-eight hours, and still continues. At 8 o’clock this morning the thermome- ter registered 8 deg. below zero. Beveral cases of probable suffering were reported to the County Commissioners and relief was promptly furnished. Trains are pull- ing in and out on schedule time and no serious delay is reported either on moun- tain or prairie road —— REPORTS FROM MISSOURI. | Thousands of Families in St. Louis dre 1n Dire Distress. ST. LOUIS, Mo.,, Jan. 25.—The cold wave which gathered in British Columbia on Friday swept down on this section yesterday and still continues here though | slightly abated to-night. At7 o’clock this morning the temverature was exactly zero. At.noon 3 degrees above was re- corded and at 5 . M. 4 degrees above. This extremely low temperature following sharply upon a long season of mila weather found thousands of poor families unprepared. : The demand upon the associated - chari- ties for food and fuel was pever so great. Nearly 300 men and women were in line to-day waiting for assistance. The Police Department is doing everything possible to relieve the distress. Twenty-two frost- bitten victims were treated at the City Dispensary io-dav, and three amputations were necessery. Hundreds of homeless people are sheltered to-day at the police stations. The river hasnot yet closed here, though it is full of floating ice, which endangers shipping. Trains were generally on time this morning, but this evening all those due from points west and south were late, in one instance two hours and ten min- All were delayed by snow biock- Special dispatches show that no section west or south of this city has es- | caped the sudden fury of the blizzard. | For the first time 1c2 formed for a short | time over Lower White River, in Arkan- | sas, to-day. Snow is reported in West | Tennessee and ESouthern Illinois. The greal fruit section of Southwestern Mis souri and Northern Arkansas has es- vecially suffered, and nothing can save | the crop. A fall of snow that would have saved the wheat fields of Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska did not comé with the cold wave, and predictions of disaster to the crop were frequent on 'Change. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 25.-—The coldest weather this winter has prevailed during the last twenty-four hours in this | section of the Southwest. Thers 1s no snow, but a high, freezing wind bas added to the suffering. Great loss of livestock is reported. Tne cold wave extended to the territories. An average of 4 degrees be- | low zero is reported in Kansas, with no | prospect of immediate relief. FROM THE >OKTHWEST | Meroury 32 Below and Great Loss of Livestock Is ¥Fear-d. ST. PAUL, Mixx., Jan. 25.—Bxcessive | cold is reported again to-day ali aver the | Northwest. Itis 20 below in St. Paul and as low as 32 below ai points nortiawest of here. Signai service reports, however, in- dieate that there will be a slight modera- tion to-morrow. Railroad trains are all running here, but are from-one to four hours lste, ow- to ing to the inability of the trainmen keep up steam in such intensa cold. T South Dakota rotary snowpiows are worl ing to raise the blockade caused on all railroads by Saturday’s and Sunday's storm. ‘The Ckicago and Northwestern Railroad will soon have its East and South iines open from Huron. A snowplow has been | sent to the train snowbound at Higlimore, S. Dak., since Saturday last with about orty passengers. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad in Dakota is comvletely tied up, and it will be several days before an attempt | w emade to open tie Great Northern line between Watertown and Huron. Nothing concerning stock on the ranges | can be learned for several days, but it is feared the intense cold and deep snow will entail severe losses. Apprehension is aiso felt for settlers in remote districts where fuel is scarce. storm covers a vast area of South Dakota and in many respects is more severe than the storm of 188%, when 107 persons per- ished. DULUTH, Minsw.. Jan. 25.—The Go ernment thermometers here to-day reg: tered 32 decrees below zero, but private instruments went much lower. There is no wind. Tt is 51 below zero ou the ranges at Two Harbors. - SUFFRAGISTS FROZEN OUT. Few Dalegates Coming to the Woman’s Convention at Des Moines. DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 25.—With the | mercury for the past three days having | scarcely mounted up to zero and most of the time 10 to 25 degrees below the at- tendance will be disappointingly small when the annual convention of the Na- tional Woman Suffrage Association opens to-morrow. There is hardly a delegate from south of Kentucky, and the East will be poorly represented compared with expectations. The Far and Central West wiil be fairly represented. As a result the executive committee to-night discussea | having the conventions hereafter in the summer or fall and a change will probably be made. The more noted leaders are | nearly all here. To-morrow afternoon Susan B. Anthony. the president, will de- liver her annual address and the reports will begin. They are expected to show the work to have made encouraging progress. Rl AT CLEVELAND, OHIV. No Buch Want and Misery Befor- Known. CLEVELAND, Ouro, Jan. 25.--The ter- rible cold continues and the suffering among the poor of Cleveland eclipses any previous record. This morning the mercury had dropped to eleven below, which brought a number of hali-starved, halt-frozen families to the relief departments of the city. They ap- | plied for food and cosi. Red tape in the matter of the investigation was dispensed with, and for the first time in the history of the city the applicants- for relief were given the benefit of a doubt. At 10 o’'zlock to-night the United States Weather Observatory gives arecord of 8 degrees below, with s prospect of 15 or 16 degrees below before morning. To-night the theaters are practicaliy desertec. CINCINNATI, Ouio, Jan. 25.—There have been no fatalities from the extreme cold here, though it is reported that ther- mometers on particularly exposed points on the hitls around here registered 10 deg. below. There is considerable sui- Were Ever The | at Virgiis, 42 at Tower, 40 at Ely and 28 | | i | THE HOME TALENT DLAYED 99ME DAY WE'LL WANDER BACK AGAI AND OTHER SUGGESTIVE STRAINS, INCIDEN i~ 5O THE WaRDEN AuLL EXTENDED H1S GLAD, GLAD HAND. J!“\ il it il | THERE OF Goop CAME YOU NERE MY POOR. FELLOYWY JPock ET PICKIN WERE ALL KiNDS THINGS To EAT e o* FOLSOM EXCURSION. fering among the poor,'but the charities have responded to all calls for relief. -~ DESTITUTI IN NEBEASKA. Omaha Sunplies a 4dhowsand Families | With Food and Fuel. OMAHA, Nesr., Jan. 25.—Pitiful storfes | of destitution are com:ne to the attention of the authorities, aggravated by ‘the m- tense cold, which still holds | the city and State. The ci:y . authorities | to-day bad over a thousand families to | provide coal for in addition to food and | clothing. Thbe charitable institiitions are | able 10 assist only a smail provortion of those in need of actual protection. There is a report to-night that a woman and baby have been frozen to death at Oak Hill, a suburb of this city. Several persons ‘were injured by bursting water- pipes, and one child cannot recover from injuries received. The Missouri River is | entirely frozen over, and ice has formed | & foot thick on the streets. | The thermometer registers from 15 to 17 | degrees tnroughout the State, it being coldest in Columbia, 100 miles from this | city. Stock seems to stand the weather | better than expected | its grin on | e —— | TEX 8 IS SHIVERING, | Snow and Steet, Followed by Heary | Frost in Mauy Places. | GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 25. — The weather to-day at Galveston has been the coldest experienced this winter. Itsleeted all afternoon, and indications roint to a heavy fall in temperature before night. | At Dallas it has been ireezing all day, and | the “temperature is falling. The ther- | mometer registers 22 degrees above. At San Antonio this has been the cold- estday for many years; the temperature was 18 degrees above zero. Indications are that it will be much colder before | morning. The ground is frozen hard. | Seve-al big rauches west of here arere- | ported suffering with the cold and much damage will result. At El Paso the | temperature is 46 degrees above and fall- | ing. | BB S Unalleriated suffering ar Miiwawkee. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 25.—The cold " wave which came here Saturday was here | to-day i full force. This morning the thermometer registered 20 degrees below zero. The relief organizations of the city are overwhelmed with applications for help from the suffering unemployed, and there is mucn distress that cannot be al- leviated. Lake traffic continues under ob- stacles, a most impenetrable mass of steam arising from the water. - Georgians Get the Chills ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 25.—The ther- mometer touched the lowest point in the history to-day by touching 33 degrees be- | low zerq. The thermometer has been creeping down for ths last twenty-nine hours. The fir-t effect was to almost un- mau the railroads, the brakemen not be- ing used to such severe weather, and most of them pave np their places. The thermometer in the southern part of the State ranges from 30 to 35 degrees higher than the northern section. iDaded Extremely Cold 1n Wisconsin. MADISON, Wis., Jan. 25.—The temper- ature was recorded at Washburn Observa- tory to-day at 23 deg. below zero. The absence of the wind diminishes the suffer- ing among the poor., As the day advanced the temperature rose a few degrees. ettt o The Wave dtrikes Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, A1A.,Jan. 25.—Thecold | wave struck Alabsma last nightand it has been getting colder ever since. The | lowest temperature reached up to 10 | o’clock to-n1 ht was: At Birmingham 20 above, Montgo mery 23, Mobile 27. ST ey Growing Colder in Michigan. DETROIT, MicH., Jan. 25.—The in- tensely cold weather moderated some dur- ing the day and at 7 o’clock this evening the thermometer registered 3 deg. below zero. Later, however, it again grew colder and at 10 o’clock it is 8 deg. below. F e Siz Abore Zero in New York City. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 25.—The aver- age temperature here to-day was 10 de- grees above. At midnight the thermome- ter registered 6 above. This is the lowest s0 far this winter. | encounters with his solid column. | it is explained why be has no encounters | zanillo. WEILER' PATH I MARKED BY FIRE Illuminates the Way So the Tosurgents Have Time “to "Avoid” Him. Assistant Butcher Fondeviella Is Causing a Terrible Reign of Bloodshed. Continues to Arrest and Slaughter the Unfortunate Citizens of the Town cf Guanabaco: KEY WEST, Fra., Jan. 25.—Advices from Havana say that the conflict be- tween the sugar planters and Weyler con- tinues with more bitterness than ever. Both are deiermined to carry out their purposes and the unusual spectacle is pre- sented of two contending parties fichting with one another without openly declar- 1ng their hostilities. Of the war little that is new can be said Weyler continues on his march withou! deviating from the highways and railroad lines. Despite the strong column march- ing with him, he fears to enter the unex- ploted regions. As he burns and destroys evervthing in his passage, he illuminates his way as if he carried a torch in his hand, and the rebels can easily avoid any Thus with them. As an idea of the notorious Fondeviella’s character, it is said that when it was re- ported to him that all the Spanish officers captured by Aranguerin had been re- leased he remarked: ‘*Aranguerin did well in setting them free, or there would not remain a single Cuban alive to-day in Guanabacoa.” The arrest and killing of the unforiunate citizens of that town continues, and as he bas prohibited their removai to this city or other places, the situation can bs un- aerstood. Persons who have visited the town say there could not be a more shock- ing sight. All the houses are closed, ladies fear to look out of the windows, as the sol- diers will surely insult them; few citizens walk around the streets, only armed sol- diers, soiled and repulsive, are to be sezn. Reports of the landing of expeditions have been afloatin Havana for: the last few days. One is said to have landed in Pinar del Rio and the other around Man- The exact location has not - yet been ascertained. The forces under Weyler's \command number 14,000 infantry, a cavairy regi- ment and twenty-two pieces of artillery. . FROM SPANISH SOURGES. Information Given Out by the Legation at Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C.,' Jan. 25.—“The most complete news that we have yei re- ceived from Cuba,” said Mr. Dubosc, the | first secretary of the Spanish legation, to-day, “‘reached us to-day by cable from Madrid. It is a telegram from the Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, Duke Tetuan, em- bodying the points of a dispatch sent to him by the Captain-General at Havana. The Duke’s dispatch reads as follows: “ ‘General Weyler at the head of four- teen battalions has traversed the provinces of Havana and Matanzas, compelling the principal rebel chiefs to fly to Las Villas, abandoning their horses in the river Ha- bana, many of the fugitives perishing in ‘Maritimas. Weyler considers that in Ha- vana and Matanzas there are no longer great organized bands to disperse, and that both provinces may be regarded almost | death. entirely pacified. The sugar properties in the rear of the troops have already begun to grind.’ “Tbis information the Minister, Mr. Du- puy de Lome, authorizes me to give to the United Associated Presses,” said Mr. Du- bosc. ‘:Aside from the fact that it comes from the Minisier of Foreign Affairsit | has been confirmed by several other | sources and may be relied on as entirely correct. The legation is very particular 1ot to give out news tbat cannot be sub- stantisted. This is the second dispatch that the legation has made public ir two months. The other wasat the time of Maceo’s death, which was at first denied here and in New York and afterward, when it was no longer denied, it was im- puted to treachery. “I should explain,” Mr. Dubosc went on, “that General Weyler started on his present trip about eight days ago. The province of Pinar del Rio has been under ractical subjection ever since Maceo’s The province of Santa Clara can hardly be said 0 have ever been in revolt, and asa revolt we now have four pr vinces in which there is little, if any, dis- turbance. When the new reforms for Cuba are promulgated, as they will prob- ably be in the next fortnight, they will | be put into effect in all the six provinces of Cuba. You ask me 1f the Cubans are ready for these new measures. I have no hesitancy in replying in the affirmative. The only peovle who oppose the reforms and desire the continuance of revolution are the patriots in New York. The rebels in Cuba are anxious for peace. In my opinion the daysof the insurrection are numbered.” e —— MOST BARBAKOUS WARFARE, Foreigners Protest in Fain Against Spanish Atroocities. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 23.—A dis- patch to the Sun from Havana says: In the province of Havana the war has as- sumed the most barbarous character since Weyler gave his last orders to lay waste the entire country. Around the town of Guines the Span- tards have destroyed everything. Noth- ing can stay their inhuman work, and the property of either friend or foe is reduced to ashes. Many foreigners have vainly protested. The protest of a foreigner is brought to Weyler, or, in his absence, to his secretary, the Marquis de Pelmerala. The reply is generally: ‘Lot the foreign- ers present their claims through diplo- matic chanuels.”” Senorita Bigarron, a distinguished young woman, has received orders to leave the island within a week under pain of imprisonment. Aunother Cuban lady, Emelia Cordova, has received a similar order of banishkment. Clemencia Arango, sister of the Cuban Colonel Raoui Arango, was the victim of still more cruel treat- ment. The police searching her rooms for letters from her brotber treated her so rougnly as to arouse the indignation of all the neigbbors. An editor of the Diario de la Marina was summonea to the palace of Admiral Na- varro as socn as the news was circulated of the destruction of the SBpanish gunboat Cometa by the insurgents near Cayamos, Matanzas. The editor received orders to deny the news, and accordingly the fol- lowing lines appeared in yesterday’s edi- tion of the paper: “The splendid gunboat Cometa is doing her duty on the coast of Cuba. She hasnot been destroyed by the ingurgents. The press of New York has again been deceived by the lies of the Cuban sympathizers, who, by way of Key ‘West, send to the United States all kinds of false reports.” | La Lucha publishes the same denial as official, which relieves it of any responsi- pility in case the authorities are in the wrong. However, the Cubans here have ratified the news. It came to Havana through a trustworthy Cuban agent. That the town of Cayamos, where the gunboat is said to have be n blown up, surrendered to the insurgents and was destroyed is beyond any question. Admiral Navarro was so angry over the news that he said; “I will order the Cometa to enter Havana harbor with all her flags flying and salute Morro Castle with twenty shots.” Time will show whether Admiral Navarro is playing a game of blaff. In Brujo, Pinar del Rio province, a hot engagement lasting four hours was fought on Friday, in which the Cubans num- bered 2000 men. In Sagua another en- gaczement of importance has occurred, in which the Spanish Captain Carerras suf- fered losses, and the Cubans lost three | well-known leaders—Estanilas, Jose Roque and Pedro Nodarse. Near Victoria de las Tunas another en- counter is reported between Calixto Garcia and the Spaniards, in which a Cuban vic- tory is beyond any doubt. The Spaniards confess to seven killed, which is an ex- traordinary admission in an official report. Around Havana and even in the poor districts of the city famine is spreading and if the destructivn of all the country continues, as Weyler intends, the misery of the once rich capital of Cuba will at- tract the attention of the world. The epidemic of smalinox is augmenting. The cases num ber 3200 to-day. —_— ARRESTED IN CUBA. President Cleveland Submits Some In- formation to the Senate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—The President to-day sent to the Senate, in response to a resolution, a list of American citizens, either native born or naturalized, who have been arrested in Cuba since the beginning of the present insurrection, together with the action taken in each case. The arrests number seventy-four. Of these seven have been tried, and ap- peals were taken in two instances from the sentence imposed—those of Sanguiliy and Someilian. In the case of the five Competitor prisoners a new trial bas been ordered. Seven American newspaper cor- respondents were also arrested and ban- ished. SMALL FIREARMS IN EEHIIID. Chicago Dealers Have Not Done Such a Thriving Business Since the Big Railroad Sirike. CHICAGO, IrL., Jan. 25.—On the prin- ciple that it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, dealers in small firearms are congratulating themselves that the carnival of store and street holdups has given their business a more decided boom than it has experienced since the great railroad strike and the so-called Chicago riots. Despite the heavy penalties pro- vided by law for the carrying of concealed weapons it is said that from 50 to 60 per cent of the male population who are out after nightfall provide themselves with means of protection. In most of the saloons, especially in the outlying ais- tricts, a revolver can be found reposing on a shelf under the bar or in the hip pocket of the bartender, and the same appiies to drugstores and other places of business such as restaurants that keep open until a Iate hour or all night. In the business office of one of the largest gas companies in the city a big navy revolver rests in full view on the counter immediately beside the cash drawer, although the receiving clerk is protected from outside attacks by an. abundance of wire netting. Itis the consensus of opinion among dealers that there are more revolvers be- ing carried or otherwise used for purposes of protection in this city than ever before. Loaded canes, on the oiher hand, are a drug in the market. All the ticke llers of the Metropolitan elevated road have also been equipped with revolvers. el gpovay VOLUNTEEES OF AMERICA. Gathering at New York City to Attend the Grand Council. NEW YORK, Y., Jan. 25.—From all sections of the country officers of the Vol- unteers of America are on their way to at- tend a grand council beginning next Wednesday at headquartes, Union square and Sixteenth street. Besides Commander and Mrs. Booth there will be present. amoug others, Lieu- tenant-Colonels Fielding _of _Chicago, ‘Washington Blackhurst of San Francisco, Cheeron of Grand Rapids, William Wool- ley of Baffalo and Patty Lindsay of New York. Perhaps the most important topic to be discussed will be the question of branch- ing out in foreign fields. By-laws and rules for the goverhment of the Volun- teers will be adopted. 1 10 PROBE THE GREAT SCANDAL Speaker Cocmbs Announces the Committee on the Temporary Roll. It Is Believed That an Effort Will Be Made to Suppress the Evidence. Members of the Assembly Would Rather Duckworth Take the Blame Than Themselves. SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 25.—Speaker Coombs this morning announced his com= mittee to investigate the scandal of the temporary roll. They are: Waymire, Kenyon, Strain, Keables, Boone, £Emmons and Stansell. The resolution authorizing their appointment called for a full, fres and fair investigation of all matters con- nected with the temporary organization of the Assembly, and Judge Waymire seems determined to carry on the inves tigation in that way. The commitiee met in the library at5 o'clock this afternoon in a pokey corner where the newspaper files are stored and after calling the meeting to order Chair- man Waymire made a little speech call- ing the attention of the members to the importance of the duty required of them by the Assembly. *It is our duty as legislators,” he said, ‘‘to allow no more men to be employed than are necessary. If we have permitted any more men to be employed than are necessary we are to blame. If Duckworth, as the clerk charged by us to attend to this nratter that no more should be employed than are necessary, has violated that duty we sbould know it.” Waymire went on to say that he had heard that Duckworth had remarkea that he would employ more men the next time. It would be well to inquire whether the cierk had mude that remark. It was in order for the committee to devisea plan of procedure. Emmons suggested that it would be well to inquire how certain powers of ate torney got to Sacramento so soon after the warrants for mileage, eic., had been drawn. He moved that the committee should first ascertain how many men were employed in the temporary organi- zation, what it had cost, by what author- ity had they been employed, and whether in appointing them any wrong was com- mitted and who was to blame. Chynoweth said that he had accepted bis appointinent on the committee with the understanding that he would be al- lowed to make a thorough inves tigation, 50 as to place the blame where it be- longed. Chynoweth was thereupon se- lected to examine witnesses on behaif of the State. Judson C. Brusie appearcd as coupsel for Duckworth. Belshzw placed the com- mittee in possession of a letier which he said be had recently received. It was written on a letterhead of the Monterey Meat Company and was signed “Thos. Doud.” The writer said that C. A. Rod- rignez, A. Gunzensdorfer and W. H. Kearney, who had been placed on the temporary roll at §5 per day, were in Mon- terey during the temporary organization of the Assembly and were not in Sacra- mento at ail. They were intimate friends of Duckworth. The letter concluded, It you will investigate you will find that N. Friedman, the man who cashed so many of the warrants, is Duckworth’s brother’s political partner in San Francisco.” Brusie at this point entered a protest against the niode of procedure pursued bp the committee. He said that it would be very unjust to Duckworth if the commit- tee accepted evidence 1n his absence and which might be used against him subse- quently. Emmons said that he was there as a member of the Assembly to purgs the As- sembly of the chargeof stuffing the roil. “[t seems,”” he added, “that we are mak- ing a good deal of Duckworth and very little of the investigation. Wherever the blame is there let it be piaced and let everybody know it. I believe in going to the root and bottom of this thing.” The remaining members of the commit- tee seemed to be of the same mind. Itis reported that an effort will be made by Assemblymen on the committee to star- chamber the investigation, because the movers do not wish to have all the facts published regarding the appointments made at their request, and several other matters. But the composition and temper of the committee are such that the effort to sup- press the facts will fail. The people of the State demand all the facts in the case ,and they are entitied to have them through the only unprejudiced medium—the press. The committee will meet to-morrow after the third reading of the file has been fin- ished, and will proceed to examine the temporary roll and take evidence thereon. Duckworth’s brother is satisfied with the personnel of the committee. He exhibits the following dispatch irom the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic com- mittees of Monterey County: SALINAS, Cal., Jan. 23, 1897. To Hon. 8. J. Duckworth: Your friends in this county indorse the stand you have taken in not resigning, and believe you are right. Do not weaken for the sake of others. M. R. MzRrrrT, F. H. LaNG. (T A vk IN BENATE D ASSEMBLY. Bills of Small Importance and an Ap- propriation for Printing. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 25.—In the Assembly to-day Shanahan arose to a question of privilege and denied the asser- tion made in = San Francisco paper that he had had two friends put on the tem- porary roll. Speaker Coombs announced the follow- ing committee to investigate the Duck- worth matter: Waymire, Kenyon, Strain, Stansell, Keables, Emmoas-and Boone, Belshaw’s bill fixing the number of tem- porary and permanent attaches of future Legisiatures was reported back by the Retrenchment Committee with the rec- ommendation that it be passed. North