The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1897, Page 3

| b F THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1897. TOO VILE FOR THE YOUTH TO READ. Y As a Measure of Decency and for the Protection of Public Morals the Portland Library Asso- ciation Expunges the “Examiner” From Its Files. PORTLAND, OR., March 6.—At a special meeting of the board of trustees of the Portland Library Association, comprising some of the most intelligent and influential men here, a resolution was adopted expunging the San Francisco Exami ner from the files of the library. This resolution was somewhat of a surprise to a comparatively small number of the members, but it was brought about by the earnest solicitation of the majority of the patrons of the library, the younger members of whose families spend much of their time there. A CALL correspondent interviewed several of the trustees with respect to the proscription of the Examiner, and as to whether there was any very recent cause for their action. All of them state that they rarely saw a copy of that journal, but the frequent critical reference by the reputable press of the Pacific Coast to its pandering to indecent and corrupting sensationalism prompted them to investigate the moral tone of that paper with the aforementioned result. “We would just as readily allow the young people visiting the library to revel in the nastiness of the Police Gazette as have them perusing the columns of the Examiner as it is now copducted,” remarked one of the trustees. “That paper to-day is doing more harm,”” continued he, ‘‘in corrupting young minds than any of the weekly publications prohibited from entering the homes of persons making any pretension to respectability or decency. causing the removal of the Examiner from the files of the library. A community can long tolerate such a crime-encouraging and morality-destroying sheet as the Examiner. Its 7 illustrations alone are sufficient to condemn and cause its exclusion from decent homes, as if it were, what it really is, a thing unclean. missed with a few obscure lines of reference, shocks one possessed of any refined sensibilities. I must say that our board has been very derelict in its duty in not earlier 1 cannot understand how any moral Then, the graphic and ghoulish manner in which it publishes the in- jecencies of its own City and elsewhere, which, if necessary to appear as news matter, should be dis- In my pinion it may not be long ere the Examiner shall be refused transmission through the mails,” Another trustee stated his reason for voting for the adoption of the resolution as being the repug- nance he has for the so-called new sensational newspaper. ““It fails to fill the mission of legitimate journal- sm to educate the people and chronicle current events in a pure, incorruptible style, and its tendencies are 3 for no moral good. Although we have been somewhat tardy in removing this San Francisco sheet from the library where our young people had easy access to it, I opine that our course will have the effect of greatly jiminishing its circulation in private houses here, where its influence to degeneracy may produce irremedi- able harm in future,”’ added this trustee. The action of the Portland Library people is discussed everywhere, and scarcely an expression of condemnation is heard. DRAGA SUBPENAS 1SS Examiner Fakers Left No Hole Through Which to Crawl. [ ALL TELEGRAMS SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED. [ Long Green Lawrence’s Connec- | tion With the Hale & Nor- cross Litigation. ! IT INSPIRED THE LYING YARN ABOUT BRIBERY. Correspondents Behind Whom Hearst’s Managing Faker Hides May Accompany Him to Jail. SACRAMENTO, €AL., March 6.—Winc- ing under the probe that has discovered to the world its utter shamelessness and malignancy, that galled jade, the mon- arch of the “new journal” fakers, now prates of its honor, and seeks to hide its dearth of facts behind a virtue in which 1ts poverty is equally great. Acting under instructions, the only member of the Examiner staff’who ad- mitted to having any knowledge of the data on which the bribery fake article was based, refused yesterday to divulge such | information, its sources, or anything that would give the investigating committee a tangible clew to work upon. His excase ¥‘nr his obdurate course was that his honor | | { | | was involved, as to give the Legislature | the information which it asked would ne- | ‘cessitatate a violation of confidence and a breach of his word of honor. This peculiar attitude is viewed with | scorn and ridicule. Attention is directed to the puerile character of such an ex- cuse, which is presentea to shield the honor of one individual, when that same person has been guilty of not only im- pugning the honor and integrity of nearly eichty legislators, but by his present course is presumably preventing the ex- posure of a most serious crime and the punishment of thecriminals. Viewing the matter in this light, thereis & positive conviction, not merely a senti- ment or opinion, on the part of every one familiar with the subject, that the Ex- aminer article was a fake; that it was known to be & fake when published and that the fake was published for an object, and thatin order to avoid being publicly branaed as a self-confessed faker it was willing to make maityrs of members of the reportorial staff. This idea tnatithad an object in seeking to bring about the defeat of Assembly bill No. 273 by the publication of its fake bribery article was apparently confirmed by the statement made by Frank Moffitt in the interview published in THE CaLn this morning to the effect that he had de- clared that Andy Lawrence, managing editor of the Examiner, was interested in \ he Hale & Norcross judgment. While little regret is expressed over the predicament in which the managing edi- tor of the Examiner has involved himself, sympathy is felt by many of the Legisla- tors for his subordinates, and more par- ticularly for *Blinker” Murphy, who, it now appears, has aiso made himselt liable to imprisonmen:, for contempt. During the Senate examination last night Murphy was asked by Senator Morehouse: ‘Do vou know of your own | knowledge of any communication relative | to this matter from the city of Sacramento | by any person connected with tue Ex- aminer, either on Saturday of last week or for a week orten days preceding that time?” His reply was: “Ido not think I can answer that question unless Mr. Hearst consents to my doing so.” Benator Morehouse s:ated to the com- mittee that he did not think this wassa proper ground for declining to answer, as | the matter in question was not a priv- | ileged communication. | Chairman Dickinson directed the wit- ness to answer the question. “I do not desire to be in contempt to the committee,” repliea the witness, *‘but | I shall have to decline to answer the ques- tion under the circumstances.” His further examination was abandoned | at this point, and it is understood that in | the resolution that will be introduced in the Senate on Monday, three persons of the Examiner staff will be called to the bar of the Senate to purge themseives of or be punished for contempt. These will be Andy Lawrence, J. J. Levings and Al Murph So palpable has now become ths fake character of the story published in the | Examiner of last Saturday that there is | talk about & combination between all the maliened members of both branches of the Legislature for the purpose of bring- ing libel suits against that journal, each legislator to sue for $50,000. Much mystery and capital has been made by the faking newspaper out of the telegrams which it stated had passed be- tween Senator Voorheis and certain prom- inent people. It has tried to make it appear that the Senator from Amador had | received telegrams from Charles F. | Crocker, Alvinza Hayward and W. F. | Herrin in reference to the use of illegal means to bring about the passage of As- sembly bill No. 273. Senator Voorheis makes no secret about having recoived a telegram frond each of the individuals | named and of their contents, and is ready to submit them to the committee when- ever its members call for them. The one from Hayward asked Voorheis’ support for Senator Wolfe’s bill relative to extend- ing the rights of corporations sole, a meas- ure in which Archbishop Riordan 1s greatly interested. That from Mr. Herrin was in reference to the claim of the Bouthern Pacific Com- pany against the State for money due it, according to a recent decision of the Su- preme Court of the United States, while the dispatch from Colonel Crocker re- quested BSenator-Voorheis to support the University tax bill, the final passage of which was a cause of rejoicing throughout the State. It was on chimeras like this that the Examiner based its positive assertion that *‘without a shadow of doubt”’ mem bers of the Legislature had been bribed. To-day it again snarled and snapped at every one who it found would not stand aside and permit it to go unwhipped of justi But its maunderings are now only laughed at. Its fangs have been drawn and its venom is innocuous. Its attacksare now courted as the highest commendation. Its reputation as a faker is now as fixed and unchangeable as the star Sirius in the firmament. If it has friends to reward it must condemn them in its choicest billingsgate, and if it has enemies 1o punish it need only laud them to the skies. At the executive session of the Assem- bly bribery investigation to-day it was de- cided to defer action in the matter of con- tempt on the part of Andy M. Lawrence and L. L. Levings 80 as to give the Senate an opportunity to deal with the recalci- trant witnesses. Should that body not decide to imprison the witnesses for their contempt if they vontinue obdurate the Assembly will press the matter to such a conclusion, as that body is determined to make the Examiner prove its positive charges or admit that the whole fabric of its article was, as Attorney Knight virtually admitted last night, composed “at an idle moment in idle rumor and street talk” when the writer was “filled with good gin cock- tails.” Attorneys Knight, Clunie and McEner- ney this evening served tne following paper upon Chairman Dickinson of the Senate investigating committee: In response to the understanding between ourselves and the committee last night we have to request that you issue the following subpenas: To Frank Jaynes, superintendent Western Union Telegraph Company, requiring him to appear before the committee on Mon- day, March 8, 1897, ana bring with him all telegrams under his control that within sixty days last past have been transmitted over the wires of the Western Union 7elegraph Com- pany and addressed by Senator E. C. Voorheis from Sacramento to Alvinza Hayward at San Francisco or San Mateo, to Colonel C. F. Crocker at San Francisco, to George W. Baker at San Francisco or Oakland, or to W. F. Her- rin at San Francisco; and also to bring with him any telegrams ander his control that have within sixty days last past been trans- mitted through the Western Union Company toSenator E.C. Voorheis at SBacramento from Alvinza Hayward at San Francisco or San Ma- teo, George W. Baker at San Francisco or Oak- land, and from W. F. Herrin at San Francisco, The document asks also for telegrams from Hayward to Baker, from C. F. Crocker and from W. F. Herrin. The counsel ask for a second subpena requiring Jaynes to bring all telegrams that have been sent or received at Sacra- mento between January 10 and February 27, inclusive, by Senators Androus, Bert, Bulla, Chapman, Doty, Dwyer, Feeney, Franck, Hall, Henderson, Langtord, Lin. der, Mahoney, Morehouse, Pedlar, Prisk, Seawell, Shine, Stratton, Toner, Voorheis and Wolfe and fifty-one Assemblymen. The names given in the request are of the Senators and Assemblymen who voted for Caminetti’s bill 273, but nothing is said about the bill in the document. The fact that the request for the subpena does not state that the telegrams required relate to that bill shows that the Exami- ner’s attorneys are piaying a game of bluff. They know that under the rule of evi- dence telegrams relating to any other bill than 273 are not admissible in evidence, and that the committee may therefore re- fuse to issue the duces tecum subpena asked for. Then the Examiner will raise a howl to the effect that the Senate de- sires to suppress evidence. That is the Iast desperate resort of the Examiner’s at- torneys. Why don’t they ask for all telesrams re- lating to Assembly bill 273? That is the bill for supporting which they allege that the Benators and Assemblymen named in the subpena took bribes. To the evident chserin and disappoint- ment of the Examiner crowd Chairman Dickinson late to-night had the dragnet subpena served on Superintendent Jaynes by telegraph, Mr. Jaynes having previ- ously consented to accept service in this manner. STATE PRINTING OKFICE. Johnston Makes an Explanation to the Investigating Committee. BACRAMENTO, Car., March 6.—The joint committee to investigate the affairs ot tne State Printer met this afternoon, with Benator Dickinson in the chair. R. T. Devlin appeared as the attorney for the State Printer. State Printer Johnstqn appeared before the committee, and in reply to a question as to whether there was a deficiency in the Btate Printing Office at the time of the in- troduction of A. B. 263, appropriati; $75,000, said that there was no'l’.p g i A1l claims against his office, he said, were passed upon by the State Board of Examiners. It was his custom before the bills went to the board to check them over and ascertain whether they were correct. In purchasing supolies for the printing department it had been his custom to ad- vertise for a period of thirty days for bids, as required by law. ! A recess was taken until 8 o’clock this evening. Johnston, in reply to Assembly- man Caminetti’s questions, said that the first dispute between bim and the Gover- nox]' occurred last July about the July pay- roll. They had another difference about a coal bill. It appeared that before the new contract for coal had been entered into the office zot out of coal and Johnston bought seventy-five tons of coal under the old but then existing contract at $10 per ton. The price was 9 cents a ton higher than the rate under the new contract. The coal bad been ordered from tre con- tractor some time before. Caminetti examined the witness very closely on what kind of inks he bought and where, but he made nothing out of toat, as all supplies for the Printing Of- fice were purchased by contract. Senator Seawell took up the examina- tion at this point and went over the sta- tistics contained in the last biennial re- port of the State Printer. He asked John- ston concerning anjapparent snortage of $51,000 and Johnston explained that that was made up by $28,000 worth ,of legisia- tive printing, $16,000 worth of stock pur- NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. DON'T MISS THE BIG BARGAINS AT THE HUBS GREAT REBUIL!iiNG SALE. i Of every Bardain Seeker and jealons would-be | competitors has been riveted the past week . npon the UNPARALLELED BARGAINS which ' we have beec FORCED T0 GIVE THE PUBLIS, It's simply i Our Landlord Says So! His Architects Say So! A CASE OF MUST WITH US. 'WE MUST VACATE HERE BY APRIL. And Their Commands Must be Obeyed ! It is not a case of choice with us, but a case of MOST! SELL OUT! GET OUT! g e R Rk AN R \“ N N Wy e NS T AN a":f’,’lllil,/,/,/flll!r?lilll‘l‘!‘\‘l\\\“{\k\\\}\‘}\::‘::\ l"z;'i:' TR SN W AT ONCE! Up to the present hour we have been unable to find a suitable store large enough to hold our MAMMOTH STOCK, and WE MUST PUT OUR FINE CLOTHES UPON THE PEOPLE’S BACKS. Matters not how great our loss may be, | THE GOODS MUST GO! | Not in the dim, distant future, but RIGHT NOW the massacre MUST TAKE PLACE—regardless of all Cost, Loss or Actual Worth. { | Men’s Fine Imported $17.50 SUITS AND | OVERCOATS 39,50 38,75 38.75 Have been cut to Men’s Fine All-Wool $15.00 BLACK CUTAWAY CLAY WORSTED SUITS Have been cut to EMen‘s Fine All-Wool $15.00 BLACK KERSEY OVERCOATS (all sizes), Have been cut to THIS WEERK WE PROPOSE TO MAKE THE BANNER WEEK OF OUR GREAT COMPULMORY REBUILDING SALE! | Note a few of our UNPRECEDENTED VALUES, then come and see with YOUR OWN EYES the many hundred more we have in store for you upon our high- piled counters, now towering with the LATEST BUDS OF FASHION. IN FACT ALL OUR SUITS AND OVERCOATS FROM 815 to $30 BEAR THE MARKS OF A TREMENDOUS CUT IN PRICES. | / Men’s Stylish All-Wool $12.50 NOBBY | CHEVIOT SACK SUITS 36 50 1 33,75 $1.95 Boys’ Stylish All-Wool $8.00 Long Pants CHEVIOT SUITS (ages 13 to 19) Have been cut to Boys’ Stylish All-Wool $5.00 Short Pants CHEVIOT SUITS (ages 4 to 14) Have been cut to P 200 TO 208 KEARNY STREET, CORNER OF SUTTER. Our stores will remain open every evening during this Great Compulsory Money-Losing Sale. | FIXTURES FOR SALIX CHEAP. T ’7:7".,'//' Tl | '/:%4'1"@&"1 ! : that it the gentlemen desired to indulge chased, moving the bindery and compos- in personalities he would furnish them with boxing-gloves and a referee. ing-room, painting the building and other matters. John Skelton, a coal dealer, was asked as to the manner in which he delivered Skelton was ordered to produce the data next Tuesday morning. The witness said Shell Mound Park, Oakland, to make its own laws, just as any other town. Shanahan made a violent attack upon the bill. He said that it was in the inter- est of people who owned the racetrack at Dennery, shaking bis hand n the direc- tion of the political orphan from Shasta, remarked that the gentleman appeared ;n have a bad Bttack of railroad on the rain. coal to the State Printing Office, . Senator Dickinson said to Caminetti, who was examining the coal-dealer, “'If you believe or even suspect that coal was bought and pmd for and was not deliv- ergd, we will give you .every opportunity to ascertain tbat fact—we will give you full scope.” Caminetti denied that he had such belief or suspicion, but he asked whether Skel- ton could furnish the committee with a statement of the quantity of coal deliv- ered by him and the weight of each load delivered. Skeiton said he would be able to pro- duce the required statement by next Wednesday. Caminetti at this stage of -the proceed- ings became a little irritable because of a remark made by Dennery ana asked the chairman to keep ‘‘that boy” quiet. Dennery resented the remark and sald that if the chair would not protect him from insult he would protect himself, whereupon Senator Dickinson observed that he bought his coal from tbe Oregon Improvemeut Company in 8an Francisco. He declined to state what he paid for it. Ten dollars for Brymbo coal was a fair price. J. Thorpe and other witnesses were ex- amined as to the manner in which orders for printing were received and the general routine of the work in the State Printing Office. The Assembly will resume its in- vestigation at 10 o’clock to-morrow (Sun- day) morning. L S SHANAHAN LAUGHED AT. Could Not Defeat the Municipal Incor- poration Bill. BACRAMENTO, CAL, March 6.—There was a lively fight in the Assembly this afternoon over Senate bill 14, entitled “An act to validate the organization and incorporation of municipal corporation: The act, if it becomes a law, will enable the suburban town of Emeryville, near Emeryvilie, ana he made a heated decla- mation to the effect that the racetracks were circles of science where men gambled away their money and women lost their honor, presumably by drinking wine be- tween the heats; but Shanahan did not explain in what way or to what extent women who attend races lost their honor. This violent attack was replied to by Leavitt of Alameda, who remarked with hom:-made sarcasm that the gentleman came from a county where there were no racatracks, “‘and,” he added, “'I hope they will never get any racetracks up there since they send such people as he to the Legislature.” Bettman explained the purpose of the bill and read an editorial in THE CaLL advocating its ssage. He denounced the remarks of Suanaban as uncalled for aud misieading. He explained that it was a general law applicable to all the towns in the State, and that there was no valid reason why the bill should nut be- come a iaw. 2 North of Alameda spoke in favor of the bill. It affectea the incorporation of the town of Emeryville, which had been already incorporated; the bill was a just one and harmed no one, and he would vote for its passage. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 49 to 21. Shanahan changed his vote and an- nounced that on Monday he would give notice of a motion to reconsider. i S Date of Adjournment. SACRAMENTO, CaL, March 6.—The Senate and Assembly conference com- mitiees held an executive session to-day and fixed upon March 16 as the date for the adjournment of the Legislature. There is a difference in opinion as to whether both houses will concur in the recommendation of the committee, it be- ing believed that it will require at least a week before the Senate can dispose of the zeneral apnrouriation bill,