The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1897, Page 3

% THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1897. NEW FAKE “ JOURNALISM THROWS MUD An Imputation That Honest Senators Were Bribed Resented. DENUNCIATION OF THE MEN BESMIRCHED. Morehouse, Chapman and Franck -* Denounce the Malicious Lies of the “Examiner.” THEY WILL PROBE THE MATTER TO THE BOTTCM. Representatives of H-arst’s San Fran- cisco “Freak” May Be Put Out of the Legislature. SACRAMENTO, CAL.,” Feb. With- out the slightest foundation in fact, but witl an imagination born of malice and vindictiveness, the ‘“‘Monarch of Fakers” in the course of its everyday pas- time of faking, to-day made wholesale charges of bribery agsinst the members of both the Senate and the Assemb!, Bo contemptible were contained in the article in question and =0 flagrant was the violation of all the rules of decency written and unwritten that there wasa general outburst of in- dignation on the part of every Senator present, and on the floor of the Senate the article was denouncea as a “‘willful, un- mitigated, damn lie,”” and the author as “an unmitigated, malicious scoundrel.” The ostensible inspiration for the article was'the passage of Assembly bill 273, in- troduced by Caminetti, adding to section 170 of the Code of Civil Procedure the pro- yision that no Justice, Judze or Justice of the Peace shall sit or act as such in any action or proceeding ‘“when it appears from the affidavit of either party that he reason to believe, and does believe, that he cannot have a fair and 1mpartial trial before the Justice or Judge about to try the case, by reason of the prejudice or bias of such Justice or Judge.” 1t is charged by the Exa: bject of the bill is to prevent Judge Heb- d from sitting in the Hale & Norcross case,"should it be ordered back by the Supreme Court for retrial. Here is the language of that pusillanmious jereation, evolved from tlie fad of “‘new journalism’’: s coin has been used to crowd through siature a bill capable of enabling za Hayward and his Hale & Norcross fol- » wing to oust Judge Hebbard from the great Aly case in which they have been adjudged guilty 1 gigantic frauds At present the Hale & Norcross case is before the Supreme Court. Should that tribunal find some error in the rulings of the court below cause would besent back for rehearing. in ‘arises the eagerne; to be placed in a p Judge who knows them to the core. It then makes unsupported statements as follows: Without a shadow of a doubt members of embly ard members of the Senate were The price paid for the As bribed to support the bill. each vote bought in the lower House was $150. In the Senate a vote brought all the way from $350 to $500. After giving the history of the bill in Eenate, the article concludes with the fol- lowing cowardly insinuations: Prisk, Pedlar, Langford and Dwyer, who were absent when the roll was called on Tues- dgy, voted for the bill. Chapman, Franck and Morehouse, who had voted sgainst allowing the Uil a third reading, cast their votes for the passage of the messure. The San Francisco papers arrived but a short time before the adjournment of the Senate until Monday, and there was con- sequently but little time during the ses- sion for the members to read and digest the.article in question. It was only when the motion to adjourn was pending that Senator Morehouse arose to a question of privilege, and with voice vibrating with intense indignation gave vent to his feel- ings as followi “Before that motion s put I would like to call the attention of the Senators to an article that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner this morning headed ‘Bribery in Aidsof Thieves,’ and in which there “are statements that upon certain measures here members of the Senate have been ribed for their votes. I desire tosay that % far as I am concerned that article is a c—a willful, unmitigated, damned lie— d the man who wrote it is an unmiti. gated, malicious scounarel. I have come here honestly and have honestly voted on every measure in this body. No man has approached me under any vircumstance, and I think that 1s so in regard to every member of the Senate.” " After the adjournment the matter was - the sole topic of indignant and denuncia- tory remark about the Capitol. The absurdity of the whole story and the exceedingly thin fabric out of which it had been constructed is shown by the character of the men whom it sought to more directly connect by invidi- ous 1nuuendo with its infamous eharge, viz.: Morehouse, Franck and Chapman. These are the men who are stated to have changed their votes in favor of the bill after having once voted against it Franck is a resident of Santa Clara County, a man whose wealth is estimated at between $200,000 ana $300,000 and whose honesty and integrity have always been above suspiclon. Morehouse is also a man of mean stands high in the prolession which he Lonors, and is one of the leading attorneys of his section. In Santa Clara, his home, no man bears a better private and \vublic reputation. His public record is ne that any man might feel proud of. So vell have his services on behalf of the peoule been appreciated, that his name is even now prominently mentioned in| con- nection with'the nomination for the high office of Governor of this State two vears hence. Chapman represents EI Dorado and Placer counties, is a miner, has an irze- proachable character, is worth in the neighborhood of $250,000, aad was only the the falsehoods ner that the of the defendants n where they shall have, in such a contingency, to face the 4 his colleague induced to stand for the Senatorship in his district by the persistent demands of his friends. Three men of higher standing or purer reputation on whom to cast its venom the Examiner counld not have selected from the entire list of forty Senators. And itis this fact that has aroused the Senate and permeated the hearts of all with a sense of outraged decency and justice. This feeling will find expression on Monday in 8 movement looking to a com- plete and thorough investigation of the matter with the purpose of inflicting such chastisement on the guilty persons as is in the power of the Senate and as their con- duct deserves. Among the methods pro- pos-d to be adopted is the exclusion from the floor of theSenate of the entire staff of the Examiner. Senator Morehouse will take the lead in the matter of the investization. He is de- termined to leave no stone unturned to b ing his traducers to time and to demon- strate to the world at large the falsity of the imputed charges. In an interview this afternoon he said: “All that I know of the measure is that there were two similar ones before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate which were strongly recommended by the Dis- trict Attorney of Madera County. Judge Conlan of Madera County felt that they were personal attacks on him, therefore in the Judiciary Committee I took strong action against both measures and they were not reported favorably by the Ju- diciary Committee. Afterward, here upon the floor of the Senate, the bill from the Assembly known as the Caminetti bill came up on second reading, and I moved to strike out the fourth clause and ad- dressed the Senate in opposition to the measure. “When it came up on third reading Senator Langford of San Joaquin came to me and said if I had no personal interest in the bill he wished I would vote for it, asit was a matter of great moment to him. Iinformed him I had no interest in the measure one way or the other, and while I did not believe personally in such legislation T could not see that serious in- jury would result in passing the bill, therefore I would accommodate him and vote forit. About the same time I re- ceived a dispatch from a personal friend saying that if I had no special interest in the bill it would be a matter of favor to him if I would support it, and not having any interest in it one way or other I cast my vote for the measure. “‘But in reading the article in the Ex- aminer this morning the only inference to be drawn is that all persons who voted for the bill, and particularly myself, Senators Franck, Chapman, Pedlar, Prisk and Dwyer, had received money for their votes from one of the parties interested in some litigation in San Francisco. “As for myself nothing was ever said to me at any time concerning the matter spoken of in the Examiner, and I knew of no motive other than I have heretofore stated for thebill. Iheveonly had one am- bition in life and that was to reach public bonors and =0 conduct myseif in public positions as to leave a reputation to my wife and children that would be an honor to them and a credit to the State, and I hold this dearer than life itself. I feel that this is an unwarranted at- tack, and was intended to injure and de- fame me and other gentlemen of the Sen- ate. But if my associates will stand by me I will have this matter probed to the bottom and find out the source of this in- formation, and, having found it out, 1 will take such means to rectify it as the law will permit, and if the law does not per- mit, I shail take such means as God Al- mighty gave me the right to exercise. his Senate from the beginning has been one of credit to the State, and so far as I know, every member of it has sought to do his duty &nd to maintain a repata- tion for personal honor and integrity that would be above reproach. Senator Franck, the other Senator from my county, is a man of unimpeachable integrity, of large wealth, and whose honesty no man can question. 3 *The other Senators I am not so weil acquainted with as I am with Benator Franck, but I am satisfied that they are absolutely innocent and that this is a pure joke, gotten up for the purpose of casting = slur on the reputation of reputable mem- bers and probably for political effect, ow- ing to the fact that a majority of the Sen- ators are Republicans. “If this is to be Democratic politics the sooner the Republican members of the Senate discover the fact the better. At any rate the time has arrived in the history of this State when fake journalism and lying correspondents snould be taught a lesson. I have no fear of any large newspaper or its attacks upon me, as my whole life has been one of toil and struggle, and 1 have never in my life been guilty of a dis- honorable act, therefore there is nothing in my personal record why I should fear the public press, and I know that my in- tegrity is proof against false attacks. I am sorry that this occurred so late in the session, as else I would prepare and in- troduce a measure which, if the Legisla- ture would pass, would prevent future attacks of this kind made on public men.” Senator Franck concurred in all that said and stated that he would heartily co-operate with Morehouse in any effort to run the false report (o earth and punish the offenders. Senator Linder is one of the legislators who voted for the bill. After hearing what Senator Morehouse had to say he remarked : T heartily indorse and concur in Se ator Morehouse's statement and 1n addi- tion to that1had a personal reason for oting for that measure. I had a building contract some four years ago aad a con- tract on which the contractor fell short or appropridted the money to his own use and failed to pay the workmen. *“In consequence the laborers brought a lien suit and the Judge in my county, Cross by name, who isa Democrat and very partisan, decided that the contract was all right and that I should only have to pay the contract price, but he gave judgment against me for costs, etc., amounting to $1200 or $1300."" Those who are best informed declare that the Examiner’s publication was sim- ply intended to influence the Governor to veto the bill in question, and that it cared not who was bespattered with its slime so long as it accomolished its object. Senator Seawell, tne leader of the Demo- cratic minority, voted for the bill, and de- clared that the provisions of itare em- bodied in the laws of nearly every State in the Union. He added that no undue influence was necessary to carry it was a sufficiently good measure to win on its merits. Deadly Boiler Explosion. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 27.—At 8 o'clock tkis morning the boiler-hou: harness shop and clothroom of the Cushnet Mills were wrecked by a boiler explosion. Two men and possibly more were killed outright, and a dozen opera- tives injured. The whole city was thrown into a state of intense excitement. e e James Austin Dead. MONTREAL, Caxapa, Feb. 27,—James Austin is desd. N Q\}\' NS ) NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. THREE STAR SPECIALS FOR THE COMING WEEK! STAR 3 isthat great magnet —9—. We have startlend the community and scared the wits owt of our competi- Star I What little money will do. It just ta #5to dress you in the height of of eourse this is a special | occasion. A real, Jashionable single or double breasted Suit, @ highly fashionable Overcoat, with deep velvet collar, in blue, brown, black and a variety of colorings, at the defiance price, $5.00. fashion. Star 2 Consists of 500 or more Suits in mew Spring styles, tailored hand- somely. They embrace those pretty and fash- ionable plaids, ~with Siy-front vests. Some awfully swell itings in_Scotches, in light, medium and dark shades. Those dressy Clay Worsted s in black, in single and double-breasted sac ks. There isn’t a suit 1n the whole assortment that can be duplicated in any other house in town under $15. Chall-nge price, - $7.50. tors through this bi ¢ Challenge Sale of ours at 459 .00--- The English Top Coat is an awfully swell coat ; it’s the new Spring sarment, very jaunty, very swell. Inthis great Chal- lenge at Now will they put up? $9.00. It doesn’t require much effort on owr part to talk about these goods at the Challenge price; ‘they're behind massive p anes of Slass, richt before yow in broad daylisht. The clever garmentsyou seein the picture hardly do justice to the pretty fabrics, the [fresh Spring ideas and the clever tai- loring. The Cutaways are true exam- ples of the tailor’s art, in those fine English clays, those fine gray clays, bright pinhead checks, all cleverly handled by master tailors. The Sindle and Double Breasted Sacks, new Spring garments, in light and dark ejfeets, in blue and black twills, cleverer darments never left a tailor’s bench. The Overcoats come in those royal blwe and black Kerseys, in brown and tans, satin sleeve linings, silk velvet collars, in medium and_long cut. We doubt if a tailor would make ’em for less than $40. Challenge Price, $9.00. RAPHARI'S 9,111,118 and 1 INCORPORATHD), S Rearny Street. THE CHALLENGE OF THE GIANTS! The young Frisco boys a distinct success. of Kearny street scored The challenge given forth last week still remains unchallengded. < Competing houses have acknowledgded that they’re not in it with ws on prices, qualities and styles. We’ll give ’em another week of DEFIANCE PRICES NOW WILL THEY PUT UP? WE ARE! Over 250 pret- ty short pants Middy Swits, made with a washable vest 1 B and deep sailor bt J collar, in blue, browns, tans i and grays, very | pretty Sarments I for Spring. Challenge price $2.95. See the picture on the side? It’s an aw- Sully swell Suit, a | beauty. There’s just 150 “of these Long Pants Middy Suits blue ; the vest is ele- gantly embroidered in silk ; pearl buttons on the reefer ; the collars are trimmed with red, white or black sou- tache braid; swell stuff; ages 3 to 12. Special Monday at the Challenge price, $4.95. Gentlemen’s full size Handkerchicfs, in | plain 1w hite, hem- stitched, and an end- less variety of pretty colored _borders. 500 dozen of ’em. Special Monday, 5 Cents. | Men’s Underwear Department. Just 90 dozen of fine All-Wool Underwear, in chocolate, gray and tan, fwll-fashioned throughowt and well worth .50. SPECIAL MONDAY AT —85¢— ARE YOU READY FOR SPRING ? : That pretty long pants Sai- lor Swit, Reefer style, that yow see on the side, in handsome rowgh twill Blwe Cheviot, the collar hand- somely braided. You know what they sold before at. Challenge price. $3.50. Just 200 of -those pretty short pants Middy Suits in hand- some fabrics, new Spring designs, fancy Scotches and. Home- spuns, including a pretty duck vest; three pieces wn ally and the price t Last season you paid twice as much. They're spe- cial Monday at the Challenge price, $3.95. Have you visited our Shirt Waist Depart- ment? Its teeming with new noveltids in new Star Waists, for Spring, handsome Crash Waists. Monday we place on sale over 300 dozen new Spring styles in Dimities and French Percales, with desp sailor collars ; great values. Special at 50 Cents. Have you heard of the Leominster Mills? They make the finest Shirts. We've closed out over 200 dozen of their $1.50 Shirts in pretty Madras fronts, beautiful colorings for Spring. Special price Mon- day, 75 Cents. LEGISLATING FOR MiNING INTERESTS Numerous Measures Look- ing to a Revival of the Industry. Soward’s Amendment to Debris Commissioner Act Is Most Important As a Law It Would Restore the State to Its Former Place as a Gold-Producer. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 27.—Hon. F. D. Soward, chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining Interests in the As- sembly, in talking about mining legisia- tion and the needs of the miners, said: “The thirty-se cond session of the Cali- fornia Legislature has before it an un- usual amount of mining legisiation. This, no doubt, is brought about by the revival in mining noticeable in all of the mining sections in the State. The bill known as Boward’s amendment to the Debris Com- missioner a ct of 1893 is the most import- ant. Upon it depends the outlay in this Btate of aj half million dollars in the building of ‘works for the restraining or impounding of debris resulting from min- Il 2 ing operations, natural erosion or other causes.’ “One-half of this money is to be paid by California and the other half thereof by the United States. Each appropria- tion is in a measure aependent upon the other, and as the National appropriation is for & somewhat different purpose from that of the State appropriation under the Ford Act of 1893, the Soward amendment is necessary so as to make the purposes of the two appropriations conform. “This large amount of money is to be expended under the dirsction and control of the Federal Engineers constituting the Federal Debris Commission, pursuant to section 25 of the Caminett: act. “In June, 1896, the present National river and harbor biil became a law, and in so far as it affects the appropriation un- der consideration it provides: For the construction of restraining barriers for the protection of the Sacramento and Featherrivers in California, $250,000, such restraining barriers to_be constructed urc the direction of the Secretary of War in a cordance with the recommendations of the California_Debris Commission, pursuant to the provisions of und for the purposes set forth in section 25 of the act of Congress of the United States, entitled “An Act to_ create the Caiffornia Debris Commission and regu- late hydraulic mining in the State of Calitor- nia,” approved March 1, 1893; provided, that the Treasurer of the United States be and he of said_State, or other officer thereunto duly authorized, any and all sums of money that ¢ may thereafter be appropriated © for the purposes herein set forth. sums when 80 received are hereb appropriated for the purposes above named, 10 be expended 1n the manner above provided. “The bill known as the Dredger bill, asking for an appropriation of $300,000, now pending before the Legislature, is & companion bill to the Soward amend- ment, and the miners and farmers have both 'heartily joined in supporting both measures. For the first time in many representatives of the miners and the farmers have worked together in accom- plishing the same ends. The old animosi- ties have been buried, and both seek to adjust their differences upon friendly { lines, instead of wasting their substance in useless litigation. “What little I may have dene toward | bringing about these friendly relations, I shall ever look back upon as the brightest part of my legislative career. “Early in January of this year I had the honor of appearing before the executive Hon. F. D. Soward, Chairman of the Committee on Mines and % Mining Interests in the Assembly committee of the State Miners’ Associa- tion for the purpose of bringing about the above result. At this meeting a resolu- tion offered by Mr. Keyer wat ot"hd di- recting that the members of theLegislature in sympathy with the miners be requested to co-operate with the farmers in dredg- ing Newton shoals. A “Immediately thereafter 1 had the honor of callinga joint meeting of the Senate and Assembly committees on Min- ing and the committees on Rivers and Harbors, and Swamp and Overflowed Lands of the present Legislature, and as presiding officer of such joint meeting I extended the olive branch on behali of the miners and asked the farmers to meet us on mutual ground and to join with usin adjusting our_differences upon friendly lines. This offer was accepted by sll of the representatives of the farmers present, and the miners and farmers have ever since been workiug together. Thisimeet- ing was a great success. ““Another important bill now pending requires work upon each mining location within sixty days after posting of notice, 50 as to prevent monopoly in making min- ing locations. As the law now stands par- ties often locate thousands of acres by successive locations and take the Congres- sional time (sometimes most two years) to commence work. The bill has passed the Assembly and is now pending in the. Sen- ate. ‘Anotner bill which has passed both houses modities the law that requires min- ing corporations to post monthly state- ments showing their receipts and disburse- ments. so that the directors will not be liable for $1000 liquidated damages for fail- ure so to post, but will only be liable there- for for actual damages and removal from office at the suit of a stockhoider. ‘‘Another bill provides for protection to laborers where blasting is done by suc- cessive shifts. This bill has passed the Assembly and has been amended in the Senate. *Other bills provide for the recordation of mining notices by County Recorders, and the repeal of the law of 1874 relating to the sale of mineral land in school sec- tions. “The United States Bupreme Court has decided that mineral lands in these sec- tions do not belong to the State, but to the United States Government, and are to be treated as other mineral lands. (Min- ing Company vs. Consohdated Mining Company, 102 U. §., 167.) “There are numerous bills pending saffecting miners’ liens and many other mining matters. ‘It is estimated that one billion and a quarter in gold has been taken out of the 4 X California mines. The immensity of this can be fully appreciated when wa consider that all of the gold in circulation as coin in the entire world is only about eight billions. “If bydraulic mining had been per mitted to run from 1882 to 1896 California, it is estimated, would have produced $72,- 000,000 more gold than she did. Then the loss in_decrease in value of the property and equipment, estimated at $150,000,000, brings the total 'loss to this State by the stoppage of hydraulic mining to $225.e ““The time for grass-root mining, when muscle was the only capital required, is past, but the ancient river channel with its lava cap and the quartz ledges with their chutes of pay offer the best oppor- tunities for investment by capitalists thag can be found anywhere to-day. “The mines of California are not worked out. The shallow placers are gone, it is true, but deep mining is just in its ine fancy. California miners ask only that no law be passed restricting their indu try, but that their great industry be en< couraged by wise laws and the protection that is thrown about other industries and that then California will be restored tg her former place as a go'd producer.’ OREGON SWINDLEE CAPIURED, Found in a Michigan Town After & Three Years’ Chase. CARO, Micx., Feb. 27.—E. Durand, alias Wiske, alias Dickinson and Wilson, is under arrest here charged with forgery and embezzlement in Oregon. He ade mitted his guilt, and said he would go back without a requisition. Three years ago Durand organized an Oregon com- pany in Portland, borrowed lavishly, and left forged notes, overdue paper and debts amounting 10 $200,000. In May, 1894, he was indicted at Portland for forgery. Officers have ever since been on his track, but he has avoided the: A et Zo Check Divorcss in North Dakota. BISMARCK, N. Dax., Feb. 27.—The House has passed the bill extending the period of residence irom three months to one year befors action for divorce can begin.