The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1897, Page 1

- I G e N e e VOLUME LXXXI.: iAl\ FRA‘T(‘I@CO 'I‘UESDAV MOR NG MARCH Thxs to ‘be taken from ‘the Librar Paper: not y q»o# 2, 1897 PRICE FIVE CENT FAKERS MUST NOW FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. Senate and Assembly Select Committees “Examiner’ to Act on Lies. DENUNCIATION OF FALSEHOODS. 4Senator Morehouse and Other Honest Legis- lators' Mlake Manly Addresses and De- mand a Thorough Proving of the Scutrilous Charges Made. SACRAMENTO, Cal., jourdal’” intest faking. freak, wherein vontumely and a lar Th me of mind that the Senate is now in demands that the Examiner shall prove its chirges or be disciplined for its unwarranted and infamous state- ments. Every hour it is becoming- clearer that the cry of bribery was raised #imiply to obkcure the real motive of the Examiner, which is to defeat the bill | volved, for reasons t known to itself. Ever since its first outpouring of vilification. it has been hrdgln‘ itself about with weak, vain and unmanly withdrawals of its original sweeping and positive statements of corruption and bribery, and now no one -would ‘be surprised to see itdisavow all intention of conveying the idea that bribery had been used to carry the bill. Bat all this will not avail. To-duy the Senate, on motion of Senator Marehouse, adopted a resolution calling for an vestigation of all the Examiner charges and for .the appoint- ment of a committee for this purpose, and the resolution was adopted without {dissenting vote. A similar committee was chosen ‘by the. Assembly without oppesition. The investigation will begin in a day or two and.wiil tend to extend the session of the Legislature longer than was heretofore Anticipated No resolution providing for adjournment sine die was introduced to-day, and e than the'contesipt and ridicule of all decent and inteHigent people. March 1.—1It is the general opinion here that the “new faker has faked once too often and will soun have to bear something By its was heaped upon the entire Assembly majority of the Senate, it evoked a spirit of resentment and indigna- that willnot down without exacring its last ounce of flpsti. . under the twelve-duys notice rule this means that adjournment cannot be taken after the 13th. 20. unti ment is March The time set now by many members for final adjourn- There wus a meeting of the Bribery Investigation Committee this afternoon and a plan of procedure was discussed and = canvass of probahle witnesses Among those whom it is intendedl to subpena sre the managiug editor fanding journal acd all others wio ure believed to'have had 2 hand in © preparation of the fake article. The ‘ he investigation and examination of witnesses w the cominittee, which, subpenncs will bas issued to-morrow. be heid in public before when the investigation is finished, will report ifs con- clusions to.the Senate for the action of that body. SENATORS SPEAK OUT. Morehpuse Leads the Debate in the Denunclation of the Vile Charge of Bribery. SACRAM 0, CAL., March 1.—In an- ion of the action of the Senate r ve to the s! derous attack of th :ner on the members of the Legi charging indiscriminate. bribery, the rze dience present at the opening of orning session of that body was in ce to-day. The gallery and the bby were well filled. | mediately - after the rollcall and enator Morehouse carried out the D anncunced in THE CaALL this I Every one present knew what was coming and the interest was intense cn o w o that was said and done, necks being and eyes fixed on each actor in the ceedings, which were brief, but to the int. Senator Morehouse opened the ball the following prefatory remarks: “Mr. President, just before adjourn- ment last Saturday I rose to a question of privilege, and I rise to a question of privi- lege now. I had, as you all know, but just read the articlé in the Examiner beaded ‘Bribery in Aid of Thievery On the spurof the moment I rose to ane W my feet, and I owe to the Senate an apol- o the language which I i at that time, It sprang from me and in the excitement of the mome But as to the forceand purpose | and intent of what Isaid I have nothing toapologize for. I rise on this occasion | to again call the'attention of the Senate to that article, Will you kindly remem- Mer that iv is headed ‘Bribery in Aid of every. ‘Thousands of doliars corruptly | TVid members of the Legislature to in- | fluence their vote.” Observe that the head ! is not that it is so rumored, that it isnot 20 discussed, that it is not probable, but in most emphatic and unmistakable lan- | guage it is said ‘Thoasands of dollars cor- ruptly paid the members of the Legisia- ture to influence their votes.” “Ts it troe that any man in this Senate has received money as a consideration for | his vote ? [f such be the case then it is| the duty of this Senate—it is.the duty of every hone:t man in this Seniate to know | that fact. For my part I do not believe re 15 a man in this Senate who has ced himself in that position. For near- | wo months I have had the honor of | ing with the members of this Senaje. ave found tuem gentlemen of culture, | found them broad-minded, indus-{ ous and earnest, and in my heart of hearts I believe that every one of them ! bas acted honestly and uprightly, and nov man would undertake, 1n my opinion, to bribe any membsr of this honorable body. et me call your attention a littlg fur- ther to this arti It begins by quoting | Tennyson, ‘The jingling of the guinea | he he hurt that honor feels,’ and-adds: There is no immediate danger thatany | y for some of one here will cry out in great pain, for | there has been adeal of jingling. Some g4od gentleman basbeen toiling diligent- | 1y] at the Capitol as a dispenser -of bribes.’ Is that true? Has some good genue—l wan been toiling diligently in this Sexate | as adispenser of bribes? If that be true ‘ then every man in the Senate owes it to | bimself, owes it to lris own honor, owes it to the people of the State that he shoyld know who this man js, who has dispensed | bribes throughout this Capitdl buil n:, «But let me read further on, ‘Without a shadow of a doubt members of the Assem_ l | bly and members of bly and ‘members of the Senate were bribed to support the bill.’ That langtage is plain encugh; - that ianguage cannor be misunderstood.. Members.of the Assem- the Senite were bribed to support the bill. That charge is absolutely direc: and certain and. posifive. Is it true? -If it be true, then we owe it fo the people of - the Siate to find out.who that particular Senator is, and brand him as he should be branded—unfit to ‘sit in the halls of this Senate. °If ii'bs not trae then we owe it to the people of California to show that we have a Senate of men of | honor—upright aad honest—who dare to meet issues of this kind and to'deciare that we shall not be stabbed by false’ as- sertions of this‘character. % I believe it is_with. every member of this Senate as it is with me, for [ can say witli Shakespeare: ‘He ‘who steals my purse steals . trash. * Twas mine, 'tis. his, and b been slave of thousands. Bat he who filches.fram me my good name robs me of that which not enricheshim, but leaves me poor, 1hdeed.’ ‘I have- had but one ambition and ene purpose in’life— that when the hand of death touches.my brow I n feave to my wife and chxldren that which will be'a ray of sunshine . them and that wilh reflect honor‘upm\ them. I desire to ‘so shape my public course that when 1 die‘there will be a halo of glory suirouriding my caréer. I have nodoubt it is so with every member .of this Senate. s - *‘We must all realizo that this charge “is serious, and [ say to you, gentiemen of the Senate, it is a ohiarge. of such .a grave niture that we cannot let it pass by. - We OW& it to ourselves, 10 the State and to the people’ to " prove: or disprove it. 1 thers- { fore move the adoption of - the following resolution, which you will .perniit. me ' to [ read instead of sending it to the desk, so there oan bé no doubt as to its meaning.” After reading the resolution, which was | published in full in this morning’s CALL, he continued as follows: ~‘Task the adoption of this resolution: Lask you to appoint a commitiee, and I ask further that, as the charge points to members who voted for the measure, you appoint on the committee only members who voted-against it. "I ask further that you. call evéry member who, voted for it before this committee. “These charges are here, and if they be true the Examiner should receive tne sup- vort of the Senate in bringing to light all the facts connected with them. If they be false then it should be known tothe world that you and I and evéry man who { has honestly, fairly ‘and truly done his duty can dare to face a néwspaper that seeks to attack Him. “Let me in conclusion paraphrase from Patrick Henry, ‘Give me honor. or give me deatd.’” . & Senator ' Simpson. wox thé floor and spoke in fayor of the unanimous adoption of the resolution:as foows: *'T suppose that I'do not .come within | the purview of thisarticle, and whichis the subject of the resdlution whicl offered. It has been my foriune, fellow-Senators, 1o occupy a seat in this Legislature for a fumberof terms, and’T desire to say now and here that since coming to, the Capitol | duting this present session I have been | profoundly 3mpressed with the personnel of this body. - "Wittrout aying one word of dispiragement against other body- I.have had the honor to s past, I°desite. to say that so far.as this honlle is congerned it is the pnet of and Z SPECIALTO > ! WASHINGTON % = o McKinley Sfart_s for the * White House. ' perhavs excels in freedom of action and intetligence any body of which it has been my fortune to be a mémber; and so great is my confidence in those men with whom I have been associated since coming to this'body that I cannot sit here and allow them to be blackened in character and de- 3 tan: ¢ with in years | famed withont raising my voice in aid of the investigation: proposea by tinis resolu- 1 iherefore secoud lie -adopt the resolution, and hope it will carry | without a singie dissenting véice. ‘“I was the only Senator who spoke against the adoption of this bill, but I :yielded to the majority, as ] always do, aud try to do it in a manner that wx right.” While I felt that the bill was a dangerous one, yet I say now that not the least shadow of suspicion fljited across my | mind that any of my brother Senators had been improperly approached by any means. “There are two sides' to this quastion. ‘We mast look upon these questions from different standpoints. It would be useless to have a Legislature composed of forty men in the Senate and 120 in the whole body if we were ajl to view these questions from the same standpoint. Dif- ferences will arise, but I am tired now of having, upon occasions of this Kind where men are honest. the papers come outand state, without any shadow of evi- dence for it, as I believe is the case in this instance, that the men who voted either for or against a measure had been ap- proached, and, as stated in this article, hat-they were paid for their votes. It has been too long the custom for the newspapers to jump upon the necks, if I may use a slang phrase, of every man who would not bow down ta their behest. 1. believe with the Senator from Santa Clara, that-the great body composing the Senate of tnis State should arise to that point and say to the newspapers: ‘Prove your-charges, or take the consequences.’ '’ Senator Seawell, evidently under theim pression that the investigation was to be | made -the business of the Senate at once, moved that the resolution be made a special order after-the noon recess, and in- |’ cidentally remarked that the charges were not direct, and were, thereforé, unworthy of consideration. He lost sight of tha fact that the cowardly way in which the covert attack had been made upon all the “legislators who voted for the Caminetti bill was the very essence of the offense com- _titted by the Examiner, as every such legislator was thereby placed under sus- picion. Had the charges been direct, pointing out the men who had had their palmsoiled, the situation would have been entirely different, and the investigation would have assumed other shape. As the matter now stands, the Examiner is under stronger suspicion of evil-doing than the men whom it has sought to vilify. Its chief motive is now pretty generally under- stood to be the killing of the bill in ques- tion, not that the bill has anything in- herently vicious in its provisions, but be- cause the Monarch of the Fakers has some ulterior object of its own. * Senator Voorheis opposed any delay in the adoption of the resolution, and the vote, taken by ayes and noes, resulted in its passage by a unanimous vote, thirty- four Senators going on record. Lieutenant-Governor Jeter appointed Senators Dickinson, Aram and Seawell as a committee on investigation. Seawell objected to going on the com- mittee, assigning as a reason the fact that he had voted fot the bill. Morehouse requested that he be re- tained upon it, as he was known to be “straight goods all through, & yard wide ahd all wool.” - Amid general laughter Beawell expressed his acquiescence to the wishes of the Senate; and for the time being the matter passed out of notice, so far as the Senate ;s concerned, routine business being at once taken up. o S ——— ASSEMBLYMEN AROUSED. They Appoint a Committee to Take . Actlon on the “Examiner’s” Lying Accusations. mgtion to | ‘| ents’ desks, and facetiously remarked that | other member of this body had been men- u o [//f:’fflf,’,, i A EZ Examiner had been made by Caminetti, Cutter walkea over to the correspond- the difference between the Examiner and the Assembly was- that woen the Exam- iner made a charge against the Assembly it coulan’t prove it, but wheh a charge was made against'the Examiner, such as being $22,000 deep on the payroll of the Southern Pacific Camplny, it was always proved. Caminetti emerzed from behind a big plle of law books, and rose to aguestion of privilege. He said: “For the first time in my experience as a member of a legislative body 1 feel called upon, not on my own personal ac- count, because I am free to say .that if no tioned [ should have allowed thé matter 1 pass by, depending upon time, ‘which at least sets all things even, to justily any action 1 may have taken.’ “The article refers to my brother mem- bersupon this floor, and hence on that account I deem it necessary to take action on this matter. I accept the responsi- bility for this bill. There is notbing in the billin word or phrase that I-do not take the responsibility of, and I am right upon this eccasion. I[shall have an op- portunity on another occasion before the executive of this State to justify the bill upon its merits. I have not in’this mat- ter imposed on the members of this House, and I myself have not been ‘im- posed upon, for 1 myself did not intro- duce the bill without investigation and without a knowledee of the necessity for 1t. This'morning I had the honor of sub- mitting to his Exceilency the Governor this communication: SACRAMENTO, March 1, 1897." Hon. J. H Budd, Governor—DEAR SIR: As: sembly bill 273, entitled, “Anact o amend section 170 of the Code of -Civil Procedure,” relating to the disqualification of Judges in certain cases, now before you for considera: tion, has been made the subject Gf attack in the issues of the San Francisco Examiner for the 27th and 28th uit. Orainarily, unless a request is made for in- formation, 1 conceive it to be not omly up- necessary, but “‘a custom more honored in the breach than the observance” to request affirm- ative action by the Executive upon a meastre ihat has passed botir houses of the. Legislature. On this oceasion, however, by reason of said attacks, in justice to the members who voted for the bill as well as to mysell as the au- thor thereof, I feel constrained to respecifully request a hearing thereon on the'merits of the changes prepared in the law. If not out of uu”""m % . il CLEVELAND PREPARES_ To, LEAVE. Assembly took similar action to that taken by the Senate to-day and appointad a committee to investigate the sweeping charges made by the Examiner to the effect that Assemblymen received $150 each and Senators from $350 to $500 each. Caminetti rose to his question of privi- lege, but to the surpriseof all who heard him he confined his remarks to the merits of Assembly bill 273, of which Camimetti is the author., He made an apology for the proprietor of the two fake papers, one south of Market street and the other, west, of the Bowery, and had no words of con- demnation, no expréssions of outraged virtue or of manly indignation for the stain that had been put upon the honor of himself and his fellow-Assemblymen. The fact that he is a politcian, not a statesman, is the only excuse that can be urged for him. The Examiner, such'as it is, 'is ‘tke organ of s ‘two parties— the Democratic and the Populist. When it fouled its own political nest and slapped its friends in the face Caminetti smelled of the nest and gently rubbed the place where the slap landed and kissed ihe feet of New Journalist Hearst in his speech to- day. But the Examiner had supported the man from Amador and his politicai collesgues, and it wasithe only, newspaper in San Francisco, such as it is, that would 1| support :him and ‘them again when they bob up serenely for office and' for spoils. - Waymire made another flop to-day. He was one of the iznoble turee, composed of himself, Melick and Strain, who voted to suppress the attempt. at: investigation, -and ‘who by that vote announced - their J willingness to be silent when they or their the charge of being bribe-takers. Melick voted for the final passage of the bill on February 13.: Melick'and Strain voted for the bill on February 25, when the Assem- bly concurred in the Senate amendment. They were therefore among those de- nounced by the Examiner as bribe-takers and -perjured scoundrels. Waymire was not present on either occasion, although present at rollcall on the 25th, but the' vote, as reported in the journal of that date, does not_show his name., The vote on both occasions was unanimous. The finalvote on February 25 was as follows, and those are the gentlemen upon ‘whom the Examiner 'has ‘put the charge of being bribe-takers. It is from this in- teresting group that the Examiner must select the names of the members whom it has charged before the people of the whole State with being felons: Ayes— Messrs. Aldridge, Allen, Bridgford, Burn- ham, Caminetti, Canavan, Cartwrizht, Chynoweth, Clark, Cross, Cutter, Dibble, Dryden, Elliott, Emmons, Ennis, Fore- man, Goff, Goodhue, Henry, Hill, Hud- son, Keegan, Keily, Kenyon, Lacy, Lands- porough, Lindenterger, Melick, Mulcrevy, McCandish, McClellan, Pohlmann, Power of Placer, Price, Rubell, Ryan,. S8ims, Shanahan, Soward, Stansell, Sirain, To- lai Treacy, Vosburg and Speaker Coombs—46. But though Waymire, Strain and Me- lick may be rhinoceros-hided in the face of the terrible charge made against the majority of the members of the Assembly, they are the only ones who voted to evade an investigation. Catter of Yuba gets off some good things SACBAMENTO. CAL., March L—The | colleagues were publicly contronted with ! becasionally. After the apologics for the place I would suggest that the Examiner be invited to be present thereat by its attorneys. Awaiting your convenience in the matter and with the hope that after such attacks the Ex- aminer will see the propriety of acceding to the reasonzble suggestion I have taken the liberty to make, I remain, yours truly, A. CAMINETTI, “I want it to go broadcast through this Etate,” continued Caminetti, *‘that I am willing to meet any gentleman that the Examiner may appoint as its legal repre- sentative to go before the Governor and in a calm, dignified way upon the merits of the bill discass it at such hearing. The Governor said that he would give me a hearing some time auring the wesk, of ‘which he would give me notice. “The Examiner in an article of the 27th says that this provision is new to the law, and that nothing like it is found in the codes of any other American Siates. If the attorneys for the Examiner will take the same stand Ishall have no doubt as to the vutcome. If their knowledge of law is shown by that article the Governor will not waste much time in zxvmg them a hearing on that point.”’ Caminetti proceeded {o show that the States of Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, ‘Washington, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Ken- tncky, Missouri, Nevada, Maine, Alabama, ‘Wyoming and ot! bad identically the same law in operation. “I will undertake to say, and I setit down as a broad principle, that all civil- ized communities, with the exceptior of Californis, have adopted the principle be- cause it is in consonance with the eternal & Continued on Second Page BUTCHER WEYLER 15 YET THERE But It's Only a Questibn of Time Before He Quits Cuba. EVEN SPANIARDS TIRE OF HIS TACTICS.’ General Blanco May Be Sent to Take the Governorship of the Island. SPAIN SECURES A VICTORY IN THE SUPREME COURT. Judge Locke of Florida Ova;rnl:ed in the Case of the Filibuster Three Friends. HAVANA, Cupa, March 1.—The re- ports whick have been in circulation here and have been cabled abroad that.General Weyler had resigned the Goverrorship of Cuba because the Government at Madrid had not consulted him concerning the re- lease of Julio Sangwlly are-absolutely nnd entirely without foundation. LONDON, ExG., March 1.—A Madrid dispatch says that the report that General Weyler had resigned _the Governorship of Cuba on account of the failure of.the home Government to consult him in re- gard to the release of Julio Sanguilly is untrue. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 1.—Not- witlistanding the denial from Madrid of the story that Weyler had resigned it is generally believed tanat if he bhas not alreaay sent in a request to be transferred he will do so in the near future. It 1s known that the release of Sanguilly was extremely - distasteful, and there is no doubt that Weyler wiil at once resign if the Madrid Government continues its vons cilistory policy toward the United States. Itis pnuu:la, too, that Weylyr realizes that be it in some danger of removal if he does not resign. There has been a strong party in Spain opposed to Weyler's methods and who' point to the present results as showing them to be a failure. Campos, who precedea Weyier. as Gov- ernor of Cuba, believes in a more humane policy and has been stronaly advocating as his successor, General Blanco, who dise tinguished himself at the outbreak of the Philippine war. Those opposed to Wey- ler say that it is only a question of time when even Spain will tire of Weyler ana will demand a change. JUDGE LOCKE OVERRULED. An Important’ Decision by the Suprems Court on. Belligerency. W-ASHINGTON, D. C., March L—The decision in the case of the alleged filipus. ter Three Friends announced in the Su- premé Court to-day by Chief Justice Ful- ler is likely to have an important bearing on similar cases. In the lower court Judge Locke heid that it was insufficient undér section 5283, Revised Statutes, because it was not al- leged “that said vessel had been fitted out with -intent that she be employed in the service of a foreign Prince or State, or any colony, district or people recognized as such by the political power of the United States.” Chief Justice Fuller said the court agreed with Judge Locke that the conten- tion that for seizure of the.vessel under section 5283 depended upon the conviction of a person or persons for doing.the acts was untenable. The suit, he said, was a civil suit for the condemnation of the ves- sel only, md was Dot & criminal prosecu- said the court, “‘strictly speaking, consists in abstinence from any. participation in a public, private or civil war, and in impartiality of conduct toward both parties, but the mainte.ance of unbroken, of peaceful relations be- tween two powers, when the domestic peace of oneof them is disturbed, is mot neutrality in the'sense in which the word is used when tne disturbance has acquired such heap as to bave demanded the recog- nition of belligerency, and is a mere mat- ter of municipal administration. No nation can permit unauthorized acts of war within its territory in infraction of its sovereignty, while good faith toward iriendly nations requines their preven- tion, Hence, as the Attorney-General pointed out, though the principal object of the act ot Congress was to secure the performance of the duty of the United States under the law of nations, as a neutral nation in respect to foreign powers, the act is nevertheless an act to punish certain offenses aganst the United States by fines, imprisonment and for- feitures, and the act itself defines the pre- cise nature of those offenses.” After discussing with much elaboration of technical detail the exact meaning of the words ‘“state, colony, district or people,” as used in section 5283, United States Revised Statutes, and tracing the. history and purpose of tne legislation embodied in that section the Chief Justice said: *“Even if the word ‘states’ as previ- ously applied admitted of a less liberal signification, why should the meaningof . words ‘colony, district or people’ becon- fined only to parties recognized as ‘bellig- erent? Neither of these words is used a§ the equivalent to ‘state’ for they wére added to énlarge the scope of a statute: which already contained that word. Th statute does not say ‘foreign colgny,.dis trict or people’ nor was it necessary. “As argued by counsel for the Govern- ment an insurgént colony under the act is the same before as after the recognition of belligerency, as shown by the instanceof the colonies of Buenos Ayres and Para-: