The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1897, Page 1

to be e i This Paper not| il the Library.**** | taken from ! Y. VOLUME LXX I; PRICE FIVE CENTS. SENATORS HURL DEFIANCE AT BLACKMAILERS Morehouse Takes the Lead| in Denouncing Hearst’s Scavenger Sheet. DEBAUCHES ALL TRUE MANHOOD Legislators Besmirehed by the Circulators of A Filth Temporarily Postpone the Pun- ishment of the Recalcitrant | Witnesses. SACRAMENTO, CAL., March 8.—It was not by any clever bit of | , but by simply an that ry trick of the legal practitioners in the rence, managing fake editor of o, and his unfortunate subordin- before the bar of the Senate to-day. last moment telegram was presented from George A. ging for a postponement until to-morrow on the ground that . And this trivial excuse was put n in the matter of time had been 3 ation committee on last Friday. ner for time is well understood among the to do nothing that might even savor r postponement was granted. g féatures of the proceedings in connection ticle of the Examiner and its complete exposure was nistered publicly and spontaneously to the fake ‘“new M. rst’s fake journal of San Franci police courts ndrew persecution, the pl One of the i nost strik fake n of the Senate. reading of the report of the committee, reciting the facts > witnesses’ empt, was concluded, there was loud hand-clap- When the resolution citing Long Green Lawrence and Al Mur- and L. bordinates, to appear before to answer for their recalcitrancy was read there When Senator Mcrehouse spoke for his honor and cor § 5 hady of which he is a member, and hurled defiance at 4 prant sake journal the applause was more hearty and pro- } 1 ind when the resolution was' adopted all thought of decorum > applause was vociferous. of the witnesses were present, as were two of their at- s, Garret McEnerney and Andrew J. Clunie. The latter, with i al and political influence, failed to prevent lution mentioned, and even the services of Sam y were enlisted in the campaign. But all that could be done was ce the Democratic members present, with the exception of Chap- to vote against the resoiution, and a few Republicans. During the evening session, when it was expected the witnesses to be tried and, if found guilty, sentenced, the Senate had the arance of a first night at the opera. 1 ers, and the Assembly, had the roll been called there, would have 1ad to suspend business for lack of a quorum, It is now understood that the punishment to be imposed will be wprisonment. Had the sentence been pronounced to-night thie prisoners uld have been immedi i, as a writ of habeas corpus is to be signed, whenever the occasion arises for it being called into ition. profession the adoption of the res m relea { FAKERS MUST ANSWER. Sewers of the ““ New Journa!” Scav- enger Cannot Be Emptied Upon Legisiators With Impunity. | ted the report of the comnmittee, as pub- bed in this morning’s CaLL. It was ordered on file and Senator Morehouse, as | attorney for the committee, introduced | the resolution mentioned, which was CaL, March 8—For | adopied by a vote of 22 to 11, seven mem- 1 the Sen- | bers being absent or out of their seats, a with | follows ce, Denison, Dwyer, H Senat Holloway, Langford and Toner. rehouse made his eloquent and impres ech in fayor of adoption of the tion asking that the Examiner em. | s be cited before the bar of the Sen- | ate to purge themselves or show cuuse | y should not be puuished for con-‘ | Those who were present in the Capitol building, but who dodged the vote, were: Henderson, Langford and Toner. Here is the list of those who either sig- nified their willingness to suffer supinely under the malicious imputations of the fake scavenger journal, or who assumed an Dickinson of the Senate|to be assuaged for their wounded honor ribery Investigation Committee sabmit- | by what they considered to be the Exam- - sm’’ as exemplified by the San Francisco Examiner during the | Ladies were present in large‘ I many other things. LONG GREEN LAWRENCE AT BAY. | *“I called him a liar, a crook and a boodling blackguard, and I was not hot, but | thought that the | scrub should be called down.’’-—-Ex-Senator Moffitt. iner's retraction of its calumnious ialse- Boods regarding wholesa'e bribery of members of the Legislature: | Bert, Braunhart, Doty, Feeney, Hlflll, La Rue, Prisk, Seawell, Smith, Stratton, Withington. Of the four Republicans—Bert, Smith, Stratton and Withington—who voted against the resolution, Bert was the only man, who could apparently find no ex- planation to make for the manner in | | which e voted. The others excused their | vote in spceches, the substance of which | | will be found in another column. | The members who felt that they pos- | sessed honor, dignity, honesty and man- | hood, and that tue occasion demanded | | that they should assert and make mani- | fest the same, are the following: | Androus, Aram, Beard, Bulla, | Chapman,Dickinson, Flint,Franck, Gillette, Gleaves, Jones, Linder, | Luchsinger, Mahoney, Morchouse, | Pedlar, Shine, Shippee, Simpson, | Trout, Voorheis, Wolfe. | A sienificant fact developed in connec- | tion with the debate over the resolation. | Nota single member who spoke hesitated | | to declare on the floor of the Senate that | e article published in the Examiner of | February 27 was a pure fake, without a shred of foundation. This is the resolution introduced by the committee through Senator Morehouse : i | | | ') | | | | | WHEREAS, There appeared in the San Fran- cisco Drily Examiner of February 27, 1897, an article headed *Bribery in Aid of Thiev- |ery,” wherein it was charged that certain | Senators who voted in favor of Assembly bill 273 had received bribes ranging in amounts | from $350 to $500 10 cast their votes for said Assembly bill 273; and whereas, thereafter on the first day of March, 1897, this honorable Senate upon resolution duly adopted ap- 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE AT ATHENS, CAPITAL OF GREECE. LAY (il pointed Senators John H. Dickinson, Eugene Aram and J. H. Seawell as a commiltee {0 in- vestigate the charges so miade as aforesaid in said article so published as aforesaid in said newspaper, with full power to issue subpenas, swear and examine witnesses and to make a complete, periec: and full investigation of the alleged bribery set forth in said newspaper; and whereas, saidicommittee, so appointed by this Senate, undertook to discharge its said duty of investigating the said charge of bribery; and whereas, subpenas were duly and regularly served upon A.M. Lawrence, manag- ing and supervising editorof the San Fran- cisco Daily Examiner, and upon L. L Levings, the correspoudent of the San Francisco Dail Examiner and reputed author of said article, aund upon Al Murphy, &lso a correspondent of the said San Francisco Daily Examiner; and wherens, in pursuance of said subpenas so is- sued and served, the said witnesses appeared before tne said committee of investization of * this Senate, and each of the said witnesses being duly sworn and during the course of the examination refused to answer questions pertivent to the said issue as to their knowl- edge tonching the matter set forth in said article and to paers which were admitted to have been in their possession or telegrams which they had seenand had kuowledge of; and whereas, the truth of the said article is supposed to rest and be in the knowledge of said three witnesses; and whereas, they are supposed to have caused the said article to be published; and whereas, the said witnesses have refused to answer questions relating to and pertinent and material to the investign- tion before the said committec; and whereas, the said committee has reported to this Sennto the refusal of zaid witnesses to tes answer questions material to the investigs tion; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the sergesut-at-srms of the Senate be -and he 18 hereby authorized and directed to bring all of said witnesses upon subpenas to be issued by the said committee through its chairman_before the bar of this Senate forthwith, and then and there to an- swer the questions propounded to them and which they declined and refused to answer, and that upon the service of the said subpena. upon said witnesses, if they refuse or fail to attend at the time aforesaid at the bar of the | Senate, that the sergeant-at-arms be and he s | hereby suthorized and empowered upon war- rantissued by tne said committee of investi- getion through its chairman to srrest said witnesses and bring them before the bar of the Senate, that they may purge themselves of contempt in refusing to snswer the said ques- tions; and be it further Resolved, That upon the appearance of said witnesses, 11 they so desire it, they and each of them may have counsel to 1epresent them, but that said counsel shall not be permitted to occupy more than one-halt hour of time; and be it further : Resolved. That upon the said witnesses being brought before the bar of the Senate the presi- dent of the Senate shall ask them if they have cause to show why they sbould not be pun- ished for contempt in refusing 1o answer the ontinued on Second Page. Read the great expose in THE | CALL to-morrow, ‘*“The Hypo- | the results which will foliow, his Majesty’s | Government considers it to be its duty'to | ardently desires to contribute to the main- crite Unmasked."’ BRAVE GREECE WILL NOT YET ABANDON CRETE Full Text of the Reply to the Ultimatum of the Powers. AUTONOMY IS NOT THE REMEDY To the Combined Friends of Turkey the People of the Hellenes Declare That Christians on the Island Must Be Protected. LONDON, Ex., Macch 8.—The Chroni- | cle to-morrow will publish a dispatch from Athens giving the full text of the reply of Greece to the powers. After a brief preamble the reply continues: “In view of the extraordinary gravity of submit to the powers its opinion of the measures decided upon, an opinion wnich is the result of long experience and ac- quaintance with the situation in Crete. «Impressed by the sentiments which animate the powers and their solicitude for general peace, the Greek Government will not fail in this duty, since Greece also tenance of peace and to save from utter ruin the population of an island put to severe trial and so cften decimated. *“We believe that the new regime of au-| tonomy adopted by the powers unhappily | cannot correspond to the noble intentions | that inspire it, and that it will suffer the iate of the different administrative sys- tems which at various times and without success have been tried in Crete. “This is not the first time that Crete finds hersell in a state of insurrection. In | recent. times on more than six ogeasions the horrors of anarchy have shaken and finperited her wxistence. It rthe ney regime with whicb it is proposed to endow her is not caleulated to re-establish orjer in a definitive manner the Greek Govein- mont cannot double the impossibility of | putting an end by means.of it to the pres- ent state of revolution. Anarchy will continue to ravage the country with fire and sword.in its hands and blind fanati- | cism will continue its destructive work of | exterminating a people which assuredly | does not deserve such a fate. | +Before such a prospect our responsi- | bility would be enormous if we did mot most earnestly urge the powers not to in- sist upon the scheme of autonomy bro- posed, but rather to restore to Crete what she already had at the time of the en- franchisemant of other provinces which form the kingdom of Greece and to lead her back to Greece, to which she belonged since Capriodistis was President. “In the presence of the recent massacre, pillage and conflagration 1n Canea, in the | presence of the frightful anguish to which | the inhabitant of Crete have been ex- | posed and menaced by the boundless fury of the Mussulman population, who-pre- vented the aeparture of Christian families for Greece, which hasalways been a pro dential refuge for all these miserable | beings, our whole country was torn with | remorse for the responsibility it assumed last year in inducing the Cretans to lay down their arms. The misfortunes that resulted forbid us to undertake once more such a task, and if we had attempted it our voice would certainly have been fee- A ble. Itsecho would not have reached the Cretan people. It being the case, therefore, that a new regime of attonomy could not fulfill the noble aims of the puwers, it is obvious what would be the situation of the un- happy island until the establishment of this regime. 5 “If the powers deem it their duty to persevere in their resolutions with the above views and in the name of humanity as well as in the interest of the island, the pacification of which 1s the unique object of the solicitude of the powers, we do not hesitate to appeal to them oa the subjects of the other measures—namely, the recail of our military forces. Indeed, if because of the presence of the united squadrons in Cretan waters and in the conviction that the squadrons will not permit Turkish troops to emberk on the island, the presence also-of all the ships of the Greek tleet off Crete is judged to be necessary, the presence of the Greek army on the island, nevertheless, is shewn to be desirable alike irom sentiments of humanity and in the interests of the definite re-establishment of order. Our duty specialiy forbids us to abandon the Cretan people to the mercy of Mussulman fanaticism and the Turkish army, which at all times has deliberately apd intend- ediy” participated in the aggréssive acts ol the popualace. “Above all, if our troops on the island, who are worthy of the confidence of tha powers, have received 2 mandate to paciiy the country, their desires and intentions would have received prompty the most perfect satisfaction. It would be, then, after the re-establishiwent of order thatit would be possible to learn the desires free.y expressed of the Cretan people for a decision as to toeir fate. “The sorrows which have recurred reg- ularly 1n Crete for many decades past not only do not occur witbout profoundly agitating the Hellenic people, but they interrupt social activity and gravety dis- turb the economy and finances of the state. Even if we admit that it would ba possible to forget for an instant that we share the common religion of Crete, that we are of the same race and bound by ties of blood, we could not in silence allow the powers to assume that the Greek state 13 able any longer to resist such sbh For this reason we appeal 10 the generous sentiments animasing the powers and beg them to permit the Cretan people them- selves to declare how they desire to be governed. SKoUZES.” The Chronicle adds, on high authority, that the Greek Envoys abroad nave been instructed on receipt of the reply to in- form the Government to which they are accredited that Greece is prepared to rec- ognize the temporary sovereignty of the Sultan, to withdraw its fleet completely and to place the Greek army in command Modern Athens, the Capital' of Ancient Greece, as the City Appears To-Day. W ] (i~ w2 ZZ =% Z \.wsfi[ 2 7o — & uife Wl = S s 0 <z e