The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1897, Page 1

AR S SO T R SR i T ————— e - ST g MRS ( VOLUME MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1897 PRICE FIVE CENTS T THE B0LD LOBBYIST Senator Bulla Will Make| Charges Against the Attorney. MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM | THE LEGISLATURE. | _Daring Work in the Interest of | San Francisco Abstract | Companies. SCANDAL CONNECTED WITH THE DEFEAT OF A BILL. But There Will Be a R-consideration That May Cause the ex-Militiaman to Be Publicly Accused SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 4.—Colonel Thomas F. Barry of § militiaman torn ncisco, ex- ician and at- | ed with be- his exclusion E probably | ator Bulla to-morrow. I pay his another lobbyist, who ces to the Los An- fterward, on the ge- s proffer, worked against the | ing a lot from the floor of th be asked for by On the same c nate will on he w compliments to first o d his ser 1e originally proposed mi me of this gentleman Sena- | 1ses to d lose. he bill about which these peculiar de- yelopments cluster is that introduced by Senator Bulla, ana which provides for the | ation of land titles and simplifica- | tate transfers. | eat of the measure on Tues- 4day by one vote Bulla gave notice of re- | consideration. Yesterday the Senate con- tion of real After the d ed ‘to reconsider the bill, and it1s to rdisposifiva wo-imurtow and there are indications that there will | e a lively debate over it. | Senator Bulla is of the opinion that the | :iled Lo pass in the first nstance | v of understand the merits of the bill or his colle: JUDGE JOSEPH McKENNA, Who Has Accepted a Place in the Cabinet of President-Elect McKinley. | | es did not | with my bill will be brought to the Sen- |in joint s had | ate’s notice. I have no desire to make it M) i I 0 ALY SENATOR R. N. BULLA, the Energetic Statesman From Los Angeles, Who May Cause Colonel Thomas F. Barry to Be Expelled From the Floor of the Senate for Lobbying. been influenced by the arcuments of those personally interested in its defeat. In | | illustration of his views he related the | Ifollowing bit of histor; “I know,” he said, been opposed by Colonel Thomas F. Barry. Yesterday I asked him why he was working against the bill. He an- swered that he was here in the interests of the abstract companies. He further stated that he was receiving pay for his efforss directed against the bill. When I ecalled his attention to the fact that he was vio- lating the law he explained by saying that he was employed as the paid attorney of the abstract companies. that he was violating the law by lobbying on the floor of the Senate and intimated that I might have him exciuded from the Senate chamber. His only replyto this was that this was my privilege. “All this was freely admitted in the presence of another Senator. If Colonel Barry continues his efforts against my pill I shall feel compelled to call the ‘attention of the Senate to his conduct - snd have him forbidden entrance to the Benate. Both his conduct and that of another lobbyist who has been coquetting | ‘that the bill has | | | I then told him | 'LEGISLATION FOR unpleasant for this gentlemen, but I feel in duty bound to protect my bill. It has further come to my xnowledge | that the alleged facts of the main argu- ment made on the floor were made by | Colonel Barry, and I know that many misstatements were contained in the statement furnished by him. SAN' FRANCISCD Representatives of ths Metrop- olis Express Their Views at Sacramento. Mayor Phelan and Others Speak About City Cemeteries, Corporation Offi- cials and Cheap Carfare. SA‘CRAMENTO. CAL, Feb. 3.—From 8 o'clock uniil after midnight the San Francisco members of the Legislature sat | of January. on to-night in the Senate chamber to discuss and consider legis- lative matters pertaining to the metrop- olis. The features of the meetipg were the appearance before the joint commit- tee of Mayor Pheian and his address on the various measures on the files of both hauses and the debate on the bill. provid- ing for 234-cent fares on streetcars in San Francisco at certain hours of the d ‘While awaiting the arrival of Mayor Phelan and other prominent. San Fran- ciscans, the Senate San Francisco delega- tions heard arguments on the bill to pre- vent buriais within the City after the lst 1000. Charles H. Hubbs spoke for the Rich- mond District people. He called atten- tion to the fact that seventy-two valuable blocks were tied up in the various ceme- teries. Within these, he argued, about 6000 burials were made annually, and as it took twelve years for a body to decom- pose, 72,000 bodies were continuously undergoing = decomposition within the City’s imits at the time, to the imminent danger of the health of the City. He heid further that the reveaue by taxation that might be derived from these blocks, if de- voted to other purposes, would amount to | about $400,000 annually. | At this juncture As:emblymen Bettman, | Gately and Dennery withdrew in evident disgust, saying they had heard all these arguments before and that they were tire- | some. They promised to return when the | joint session was called to order. Dr. R. C. Taylor spoke of the dangers to healith that existed in the practice of bury- ing people within the City limits. George Fletcher oppesed the bill, be- cause he said that in bis opinion the clos- Continued on Second Page. { County; M AENT S IN THE CABINET California Highly Honored by President - Elect McKinley. THE JURIST NOTIFIED | LAST NIGHT. | | As Yet the Position He Will Occupy Has Not Been Designated. HANNA FOR POSTMASTER-GEN- ERAL. ' | It Is the Accepted Opinion that He Will Represent Ohio in the 0 ficial Femily. Judge McKenna of the United States Circuit Court last night authorized the statement that he has been invited to ac- | cept & position in the Cabinet of Presi- dent-elect McKinley and also that he has signified his acceptance. He did not care to give for publication the dispatch in which the tender of a position was made, nor did he wish to make his response public. He considered these communications confidential and personal. He had ex- pected the communication from Canton. I can say only this,” said Judge Mec- Kennalast evening, ‘‘that no position has been designated which | am to occupy. That is for Major McKinley to signify. Beyond this 1 cannot say.”” The definite announcement that the po- sition has been tendered and that Judge McKenna has accepted the appointment wiil not come as a surprise to any one, for tne fact has been generally forecast, ever since Judge McKenna was summoned to visit Major McKinley. The people will naturally be much gratified that California has been recos- nized in the make-up of the President’s official tamily. Judge McKenna, on his return from Canton, spoke very plainly to a represen- tative of this paper. "I have not been a candidate for a position in Major McKin- ley’s Cabinet,” he said, “and Lam not a candidate.”” Further than this, he modestly forbore to speak. “We were all surprised,” said the re- porter, “when we heard that you had so suddeuly gone to Canton.” “Not more surprised than I was to go,” answered the Judge, quietly. From this it is made cleur that the posi- tion and the attendant bonor which is naturally conferred by it came unsought. Judge Joseph McKenna was born in Philadelphia on August 10, 1843. He came to the coast in 1855 and settled in Benicia, Solano County. He was educated partly in the public schools and in the Benicia Collegiate Institute. He studied law under Professor Abbott of that insti- | tute and was samitted to the bar in 1865; | elected District Attorney of Solaso re-elected in 1867. As District Attorney he moved up to the county seat. | guessers the rest of the week After leaving the District Attorney’s office he practiced law. | In 1875 he was elected to the Assembly of the State of California for the sesion of 1875-76. In 1876 he was nominated for Congress and was beaten, the district being Democratic. Renominated in 1878 he was defeated again by a narrow ma- jority. Upon the State being redistricted he was nominated by the Republicans of the | Third Congressional District, and was | elected in 1884 to the Forty-nimnth Con- | gress. He was re-elected successively to | the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second | Concresses. While serving in the Fiity- second Congress he was appomted by President Harrison a United States Cir- | cuit Judge, and has served in that capa- city to date. | S Sl HANNA’S INTENTIONS. : It Is Reported That He May Accept the Postoffice Portfollo. CANTON, Ouro, Keb. 4.—The indica- tions are now that the political mtentions of M. A. Hanna will occupy the Cabinet | It is re- | ported by mauy of Mr. Hanna's Cleveland | friends who have visited Canton within the last shirty-six hours that he may ac- cept the position of Postmaster-General. The more generally accepted opinion is that Mr. Hanna thinks that he will be appointed to the Senate by Governor Bushnell, but the rumor that Governor Bushnell has decided to appoint Lieuten- ant-Governor Jones to the Senate in suc- cession to John Sherman, March 4, is not thought to be wholly reliable. An earnest effort on the part of local | Republicans attached to both wings of the | party in this State is being made to main- tain the harmonious relations whicu have | existed in the State for the last year and | a half, and it is by no means certain taat Governor Bushnell may not at the last moment appoint Mr. Hanna to the Sen- | ate, though up to this time he hasin no way indicated his willingness to do so. Whether Mr. Hanna is appointed to the | Senate to fill Sherman’s unexpired term or not, he will be a candidate for the Sen- ate at the regular fall term of the Legisla- ture which is to be elected next fall and which meets to choose a United States Senator in January next. Many of Mr. Hanna's friends want him to go into the Cabinet, and Major McKin- | ley has desired it ever since his election. | The belief is that Mr. Hanna will be | the night, and it is more than likely that | respecting the Cabinet, although he awaits the efforts of those who are trying to arrange matters in the interest of party peace, though he may not announce his decision for two or three weexs. The visit of General Alger to Canton to- day was not fraught with importance. | He came to present the wishes of some | Micbigan friends, and there was alittle but nothing of a definite nature respect- ing this important appointment wasdone. The visit of Chairman Gowdy of the In here at 1 o’clock to-morrow and will spend | he will come to some definite couclusion | talk about an Assistant Secretary of War, | SOME NEWS FROM THE OLIVEBANK Butler Was Known on Board Her as Robert Ashe. HE WANTED A SEAMAN’S BERTH. Captain Petrie Easily Identified a Picture of the Cap- tive. | BUTLER HOLDS A LEVEE IN HIS CTLL Denies That He Was Interviewed, or That H: Made a Corfession or That He Insulted Ladies, The third day of Butler's incarceration has passed and still he is seli-possessed, non-committal and apparently indifferent to the awful charges of many murders that have been placed against him. He emphatically denied yesterday that he had made any confession, and repudi- ated the facts, sentiments and unnatu- rally graceful language attributed to him by the Examiner in its inaccurate and bossiful article. | He was at his own request furnished by the Australian detectives with a suit of new store clothes, which he donned early in the afternoon to be more preseniable to his numerous visitors, many of whom | were women. | The police estimate that fully 3000 per- | sons have thus far called to see the human | monster. No restrictions have been im- | posed. Every one is admitted to the corri- | dor. The Chief of Police gave orders to | admit any respectable looking person. Some of these visitors hover near the | bars in close proximity to Butler. Some | of them give him cigars. Most of them | talk to him. To all of them be appears diana Republican Committes was one of | ypiformly courteous and stands up nearly interest. He spent the day in Canton and | ali day on parade for the satisfaction of had an extended talk with the President- | the morbidly curious and the sentimental. elect. Mr. Gowdy says Indiana will be | Butler’s property has all been placed in | modest in ber demands upon the Presi- | S3fe ""}z“:fi;l“‘l“%h"‘e‘“ "‘;"“d.‘:i”n“m""gs dent-elect, and when pressed confessed | C2P S€@ ! o uromer E | ings commence. that he would like to be apoointed | —— . Consul-General at Paris. KNOWN AS RICHARD ASHE. As a matter of | fact, applications for office from Indiana have not been as numerous in Canton as | Butler Served Under That Name from many other States. | Aboard the Olivebank Four There are at least twenty applicants for | Years Ago. the post of Consul-General at Paris. | “Thatis Richard Ashe, a native of Ire- The appointment and accentance some | land, who served aboard my ship as an time last night of J. Addicks Porter to the | A. B.in 1893,” said Captain Petrie of the position of private secretary to the Presi- | British ship Olivebank last night when dent-elect puts a stop to further discus- | shown a picture oi Lee Weller, or Frank sion on that subject. Butler, the man now in the City Prison Perry S. Heath of Indiana, who was a | accused of at least a dozen murders. | good deal talked of in connection with the | The Olivebank has been outside for office of private secretary, came here to- | some days, and on several occasions she day in response to a telegraphic message | Was reported as the Swanhilda, both be- from the President-elect. Mr. Heath was | ing four-masted bark-rigeed ships. When offered and accepted an appointment. | the news came that Butler had made a The position to which he has been as- | voyags on the Olivebank, there was a rush signed, however, has not been given out. | to board the ship and secure Caprain Mr. McKinley said to-night: “I havere- | Petrie’s statement. After identifying the | picture he said : Continued on Second Page. | “I shipped Richard Ashe in Rio de ITHROPIST DEMING ¢ HIM WITHA JAR ARCOAL JINEVER THOUGHT | HAD SO MANY FRIENDS ~ ODD CHARACTERS VISITING THE b /L ) AN AUTHOR WANTS O MAKE A'REPUTATION AND PROPOSES TO WRITE A BOL ONTHE CRIMINALS CIFEee AUSTRALIAN CRIMINAL AT THE CITY PRISON.