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| | | i { . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1897. LONG GREEN LAWRENCE ORDERED TO JAIL. 4 Retfuses to Confess the Audacious Fake, and the Senate Commits Him for Contempt. The Managing Faker of Hearst's San Francisco “New Journal” Scavenger Arraigned Be- LIKE A CRIMINAL IN THE DOCK. With the Chief Culprit, an Unlucky Subordi- nate Is Taken Into Custody by the Sergeant-at-Arms and Sheriff. Out on Habeas Corpus. RESOLVED, RESOLVED, intil he shall have and a similar .. L. Levings, a n Lawrence and his ate were ordered by honesty, fairness, integrity, and all the virtues in- he human race. It was an oc- conzratuiation to every indi- ator who voted for the adoption ons, to the Senate as a body ntire Legisiature. The action pate is a matter for congratulu- ry man, woman and child who e welfare and good repuie of the calth at heart—a matter for con- on to the people of the entire United States. Ly to the world at large that no jon of “modern new journal- ply its loathsome business of deceit, treachery, misrepre- n and its vocation of slanderer, traducer with impunity in | This branch of the Legisla- set a precedent that will be and gratefully tage of wherever a viper born of the so- 1lled *‘new journalism’’ dares to raise its hea Tuat the course taken by the Senate has the approval of the people was made £ right in the Senate charcver, de- spite the strictest admonition of President er to the audience to preserve order nd refrain from any demonstration z the preceedings. T ent wspplause during the opening cech'of Senator Morehouse, and it was to siop these interruptions and breeches m that the request mentioned by the presiding officer of the action to-day the Senate has offic claimed State. has to But whén the vote was announced that showed the adoption of the resolution g Green Lawrence to jail the d not be restrained. vith such heartiness and effect :hat the vigorous pounding of the gavel >resident Jeter could not be heard a feet away, and it was only the sight of the presi s efforts that brought to the not ce of the astic audience the fact that they w gressing the rules Pure very thought, word and action takes vitality from Oo the blood ; every nerve, muscle, bone, organ and tissue depends on the blood for its quality and condition. Therefore N pure blood is abso- Spring lutely necessary 1y Nedicine right living and Ho healthy bodies. s Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier and the best Spring Medicine. Therefore it is the great cure for scrofula, salt rheum, humors, sores, rheumatism, , etc.; the great nervine, strength Jovilder, appetizer, stomach tonic and Aood’s Sarsaparllla Issold by all dmgpms 51 Prepared only by C. L Hood & Lo., m\ml, Mass. Get Hood’s and only Hood’s, “Hood’s Pills taken after dinner aid digestion. the self-confessed fake | its firm, consistent and self-respect- | taken advan- | ere had been | article charging wholesale bribery and | corruption to the members of the Legisla- ding T ction and gratification of the audi- | c It broke | tod the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, to the County Jail of the county of Sacramento, S purged himself of this contempt, by answering the | tions which were propounded to him under the direction of the | ¢, and that a copy of this resolution, duly attested by the secre- | ary of the Senate, be the authority of the sergeant-at-arms of the | ¢ and the Sheriff of the county of Sacramento. , March 9.—Under | i had crowded | the Murphy resolution, | | | | | | | | | | | { | | newspa | present. That the said A. M. Lawrence be, and he is hereby :lared to be, guilty of contempt of this Senate; and be it further That he, the said A. M. Lawrence, be taken into cus- d that he be committed tate of California, of the Senate and were in danger of being excluded from the chamber. Amid all the comments not a word of mpathy was expressed for the faker-in- chief of the faking misconception of a ted. The audience wad the largest that its way into the Senate chamber this session, ladies, Assembly- men, State officers and many of the most prominent people of Sacramento being This was the case during both morning and afterncon sessions. Three separate resolutions of sentence were introduced, one each for Long Green Lawrence, one for L. L. Levings and one for Al Murphy, but at the last moment, just when a vote was about to be taken on Senator More- house asked leave to withdraw it, and there being no objection, permission was granted. Thisaction was due to the gen- eral belief that Murphy had no hand, either directly or indirectly in the prepara- tion or publication of the contemptible fake, and that he was simply unfortunate | in having some slight knowledge, inad- vertently acquired, relative to it. There was a full attendance of the Sena- tors, with the exception of Senator Toner, who was excused yesterday, owing to a | | death in his family, and Senator Hollo- | way, who was given leave of absence last | Friday until Wednesday. Again, during the entire proceedings and the discussions incident to them, there was the same unani- mous admission on the part of ail who took the fake journal side of the case that there was no foundation for its ture, There was not even the slizhtest attempt to justify its course, even by George A. Knizht, its chief counsel. All the efforts to prevent the sentence of im- | prisonment from being pronounced were orr the line of technicality, such as ques- | tions of juri«diction and of the materiality of the questions propounded. Senator Morehouse was the chief figure on the floor and acquitted himself with the highest honor and credit to himseif and the honorable body which had, with 1ts full confidence and rare good judgment, entrusted its cause to his management. | Before his eloquence and learning the weak defense of the contumacious wit- nesses was splintered into such minute fragments that nothing remmned visible of it when the Senator from Santa Clara got through bis opening argument. He was atly seconded by Senators Boyce and Pedlar. Others sat ready to speak for vic- tory, for decency and morality—notably Senators Simpon, Balla and Gillette— but they realized that their aid was un- called for. Senator Dickinson opened the sensa- tional drama immediately the president announced that the hour had arrived for the consideration of the Examiner con- tempt proceedings. The chairman of the Senate bribery investigation committee asked that the witnesses be brought before the bar of the Senate and that the ques- tions which they had refused to answer be again propounded to them. At once there was a cranihg of necks and a straining of eyes to see the man who had dared to besmirch the reputa- tions of honorable public men, and the two unfortunates whom be had involved in the shameful affair, and who were ap- parently marked to suffer punishment with him. Bat Long Green Lawrence did not pro- pose to makea Roman holiday spectacle for the Sacramentans it he could help it. When hisname was sounded he slunk to the right-hand side of the President’s dais, between thatand the secretary’s hign desk, where he was out nf view of the assemblage. He was not permitted, how- ever, to hide his shame under a bushel, for Senator Bulla asked that the wite per, and his disgraceful fate was | hailed generally as it only too weil mer- | fore the Senate. nesses be made to appear in front of the Secretary’s desk, where they could be heard and seen by the Senators, and the request was promptly granted. With slow and halting steps, with face diffused with the coming red glow of shame and impu- dence, vainly trying to assume an appear- ance of defiant nonchalance, the fake man- | aging news editor walked arouad to where | he was in full view. Here was presented the edifying spec- tacle of an individual who was chosen to claiming to be a monarch in its field answering the questions propounded to bim in weak and faltering voice, witn the awkwardness and shamefacedness of a recruit at school, at the promptings of his attorney. As before the committee he declined to answer the questions. But that there may be no.mistaken impression in refer- ence to the actuating cause of this ob- duracy, it must be stated that there was nothing of moral courage, of loyalty to his employer, of protecting the interests | him. It was a course that was forced upon him by the exigencies of the situa. tion to avoid publicly and frankly admit- ting that he had prepared, or caused to be prepared, and published in his engine of nastiness whnat he knew was a fake. | Levings and Murphy in turn also re- mained obaurate. All three were brought before the bar together, and then George A. Knight made his arzument in their behalf, relying on legal technicalities to carry his cause, but his effort was a pitiable one to the spec- tators. He was in bad voice from a cold, | and his whole demeanor indicated that | bis heart was not in the cause he repre- ]sen:ea, and made impressive Senator Morehouse's characterization later that he was a ‘“‘hired Republican speaker making politics for a Democratic journal.” Though Knight, according to the resolu- tion, was allowed but half an nour, he oc- cupiea the attention of the Senate fora full hour. | Morehouse opened for the Senate, by presenting the resolutions prescribing the punishment for the witnesses, and from first to last poured such hot shot into the | scavenger newspaper that the audience was unable to restrain its approbation, and many a lady’s glove had to be re- paired this evening. He rose tothe oc- | casion like one inspired, hurling at the ? tempt and denunciation in sentences that seemed to make the very atmosphere seethe with their fire. When he concluded there was a hush that was the greatest compliment that could have been paid him. | Bert made a feeble pretext, that the questions asked were not pertinent, for voting against the resolution. Withington, who had voted against the resolution citing the witnesses for crn- tempt, had a change of heart, and spoke in favor of punishing them., Prisk, a Democrat, assumed to feel no wound to his bonor by the assault of the Examiner upon him. Stratton attempted to argue the legal phases of the matter to excuse his opposi- tion to the resolution, but his effort was as weak as it was futile, Pedlar took strong and manful ground with Morehouse and took the Senator from Alameda, who had preceded him, severely to task for his puerile argument. Boyce spoke at length and eloquently, delivering a speech much in line and strength with that of Senator Morehouse. With the simple sentence, ‘'l ask that the roll be called,” Senator Morehouse closed the debate. The rollcall on the first resolution sent Long Green Lawrence to jail by a vote of 25 ayes to 12 noes, and a similar vote performed the same service | for Levings. On motion of Benator Morehouse both prisoners were ordered atonce into the custody of Sergeant-at-Arms Lesiis Black- burn, to be delivered to Sheriff Frank Johnson, and imprisoned in the County Jail. ORDERED TO JAL. Proceedings in the Senate to Punish Long Green Lawrence. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 9.— Presi- dent Jeter had the Examiner contempt matter well in mind apparently this morning, for when 11 ¢’clock came around be promptly announced as the special order the consideration or the case. Senator Dickinson was equally on the alert and took the floor, saying: I move thuat the witnesses under subpena appear at the bar of the Senate.” “The witnesses are here,” responded the chairman, nodding to his right. “I call attention to the resolution which calls for the questions being pronounded 10 them by the President of the Senate,” continued Dickinson. Long Green Lawrence’s name was called ® de over the destinies of a journal | of those who he claimed had confided in | | ished for his contumacy. Long Green journal words of scorn, con- | where he had placed himself 80 as to be almost completely free from observation. “Propound to Mr. Lawrence the ques- tions in the order as submitted 1n the report of thie investigating committee,” added the President. “And yon are in- structed, Mr. Lawrence, that you are as a witness required to answer the questions propounded.’’ Secretary Brandon asked the witness the first question, which he declined to answer, as before the committee, but not until Garret McEnerney, acting as counsel for the culprit, made an objection on the ground that the information Lawrence possessed was privileged and that whether it had this character or not it was imma- terial, incompetent and irrelevant. Here Senator Bulla asked that the wit- ness be placed before the bar where he could b: seen and heard by all the mem- bers. President Jeter so ordered. Senator Boyce at this time zave a gentle hint to the audience that it remain as quiet as possible by suggesting that if it was found 1mpossible to preserve a proper decorum the Senate as a court in this case might go into executive session. The Senator from Santa Barbara had been ab- sent from the Senate yesterday, owing to indisposition, and was uninformed of In the ardor of his desire for speedy jus- tice he rose to a point of order when the second question was propounded to Law- rence and McEnerney remarked, “1 will answer for him.” Boyce sald the witness was under oath and answered on his con- science, and could not employ a conscience to answer for him. His counsel might advise, he added, but could not answer for him. Lawrence, on the instructions of his at- torney, followed exactly the same course as before the committee, except that he gave as his reasons for declining to answer the question the same as were em- bodied in the objections of McEnerney to t interrogatory. Levings and Murphby followed the same programme. The questions were asked partly by Secretary Brandon and partly | by President Jater. Boyce created another diversion after Lawrence had refused to answer the first question by making a speech at length to the effect that the witn=ss be at once pun- He \as called to order by one of the Senators on the | ground that there was nothing pending before the House, and the proposed course of the Senate was explained to him. He then made a_motion that the news- papers be excluded from the chamber dur- their appearance tended 4o divert the at- tention of the Senators, and ‘he believed that the matter under consideration was of the highest and gravest importance to the Senate. The motion was adopted. ‘The next formal step in the proceedings was to ask the three witnesses to take their given seats in a row, and in plsin view of everybody. “Mr. Lawrence,” sad President Jeter, | “have you any reason to present why you should not be punished for contempt for | refusing to answer the questions asked ?"” The same question was put to Murphy and Levings. Then Gsorge A. Knight, who had been specially selected to make the argument hefore the Senate on behalf of the culprits, took the place of Secretary Brandon. He began by asking the Senate to divest itself of all partisan feeling and any pre- judice caused by the publication of the fake article. The power of the Senate to take up slanderous publications directed against that body was questioned. Ad- missions were made by the eloquent ad- vocate af the faking newspaper that the article was baseless and had been pub- lished on hearsay and rumor. The Senate was advised to go to the courts, which stood with open srms to receive them, and recure justice, if its memoers had been libeled. No one was charged by a regularly drawn indictment, and for that reason the faker's attorneys claimed there was no legal cause before the Senate. ©What &re you going to do with us?"’ he had the hardthood to ask. “If we ad- mititis a lis and libel—what jurisdiction have you it we admit what you are trying to prove?’ This bold flaunting of the faker’s shame was followed by an impu- dent implied threat. ‘‘Beware—beware ! Don’t be tempted to be called out in the offing by a great Democratic newspaper,” he shouted. In conclusion he sais ask you that these witnesses be permitted to go without day, and that the Senate say these questions were not pertinent; that they do not look to the expuision of any member of this S:nate charged with bribery.” Knight had not closed his argumegt when the usual hour of recess arrived, and his time was extended without limitation to permit him to close at his pleasure. His effort fell flat, many leaving the chamber while he was delivering his speech. Morehouse attempted to introduce the resolutions providing for the punishment of the witness when Knight baa finished, but Seawell, by springing a peint of order that the Senate was at recess, prevented. It was 1 o’clock when the morning pro- ceedings came toan end. At 20’clock the Senate was again filled to its utmost ca- pacity. Senator Morehouse sent the Lawrence resolution to tie desk and asked that it be read, which was done amid silence and the deepest attention. The text is as fol- lows: WiengAs' Heretofore, this Senate, by reso- Iution duly passed, appointed Senators John 1. Dickinson, Eugenc Aram and J. H. Seawell an Investigating Committee to investigate the charges of bribery preferred by tho San Fran- cisco Examiner against this Semate; and whereas, said committec had A. M. Lawrence, managing editor of the San Frenolsco Exam- iner, before said committee; and whereas, upon the sald A. M. Lawrence being duly by President Jeter, and he rose from | sworn to snswer quunnm before sald com ) what had then transpired and of the plan | | of the Senate in reference to procedure. | ing the examination of the witnesses, as | places at the bar together, where they avere | mittee, and admitting that he was the manag ing editor of said paper; and whereas, upon said examination the said A. M. Lawrence, &s & witness, was allowed counsel at his re- quest, and being asked certain questions, as will be seen by the report of the said committee made to this Senate, and which said questions being material to the inquiry and investigation being carried on and conducted by the said committee, he, the sa'd A. M. Lawrence, then and there refused and declined to answer the said questions; and whereas, the said committee reported the sald action of the said committee and the questions propounded to the said witness, the said A. M. Lawrence, and that he had contu- maciously refused to answer the said ques- tions to this Senate; and whereas, upon the coming in of the said report of the.said com- mittee this Senate resolved that the said A. M. Lawrence be subpensed before the bar of the Senate to show cause why he should not answer the said questions; and whereas, the said wituess, A. M. Lawrence, was duly sub- penaed before the Senate, and at 11 A M. of ‘the 9ih day of March, A. D. 1897, appeared before the bar of the Senate; and whereas, the said questions reported by the said committee were then and there pro- pounded to him, the said A. M. Lawrencs, by the president of the Senate, and he, the sald A. M. Lawrence, then and tliere again refused and declined to answer the said questions, having no lawful or legal excuse therefor, and having been auly represented by connsel of his own selection, and having the ability and power to answer the said questions, but contu- maciously refusing to answer the same; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the said A. M. Lawrence be and he is hereby declared to be guilty of con- tempt of this Senate, and be it further Resolved, That he, the said A. M. Lawrence, be taken into custody by the Sergent-at-Arms of the Senate and that he be committed to the county jail of the county of Sacramento, State of Californis, until he shall have purged him- selfof this contempt by answering the ques- tions which were propounded to him, under the direction of the Senate and that a copy of thie resolution, duly attested by the Secretary of the Senate be the authority of the Sergeant- at-Arms of the Senate and the Sheriff of the county of Sacramento. After moving the adoption of the reso- lution Morehouse began the most notable speech of the session by reciting the events that led up to the present denoue- ment. “There is here a charge,” he continued, referring to the subject-matter of the fake article, “that every single Senator who votea for Assembly bill 273—and I make this charge boidly, and I do not pro- poso & single word of it—was bribed with from $350 to $500. The committee found out who were connected with the San Francisco Examiner. It found tbhat A. M. Lawrence was managing editor. It called in this managing editor, and it sought from him to find out the source of the information that was the basis that would lead to the detection of the man who had used his influence in the way of coin to purchase votes on the floor of this Senate, and, further, sought to ascertain who the Senators were who had taken $350 to $500 for their vote. Is there any- thing wrong in that? “When called upon to disclose his in- formation he hides himself, like every other criminal hides himself—he refuses to answer the question.” Morehouss took up the question of the power and jurisdiction of the Legislature in the matter and said: *‘The Supreme Court of the State of Cali- fornia is‘certainly more capable of telling what the law is than a hired Xepublican who comes before us to make Democratic politics in behalf of the Examiner."” Morehouse cited the case of D. 0. Mc- Carthy,which was decided by the Supreme Court of this State in 1866, *in charity, in kindness to these gertlemen of the Exam- iner, who had no charity, no kindness, no decency, no seif-respect.” He showed clearly that this was a parallel case in nearly every particulaz. According to the opinion of the court the Legislature had all the power requi- sile for seli-preservation. Tuen quot- ing from this decision he showed that the Legislature had the powers necessary to preserve and protect the dignity of the Benate as a body. “If there be a member in this Senate,”’ he continued, *‘who has taken a bribe—I repeat it, if there be a member in this Senate who has taken a bribe let this Sen- ate stop the investigation and punish him, If I be that Senator 1 say to you that you are lackinz in manhood, you are cowardly in the performance of your pub- lic duty, unlexs you brand me as a felon and drive me out as tue Roman Senate drove Catiline.” Quoting further from the McCarthy de- cision he showed that the Senate had ths right ““to protect itself and its members from libelous and slanderous attacks.” “Why,” he scornfully said, “'the learned counsel this morning said we had no such power. Do you wish my friend (designating Senator Buila), coming here from Los Angeles by the voie of the peo- ple, to be lib:led ana slandered without trying to protect yourself. Hore it is charged that the members of this body, that every member who voted for tn:s measure, received $350 to $500. Is that slanderous and libflous? And yet we are to bow down and submit to this charge concerning our conduct.” “To protect itself and its members from corruption,” he quoted. ‘*‘Forshame,” he exclaimed, “‘that any man or any citizen shouid attempt to advocate any such doc- trine as that upon the floor of the Senate. ‘Oh no,’ says the Examiner, ‘you have no right. You must anpeal to the judiciary; you must file a libel suit against W. R. Heart of New York.’ Sball we? I think not, possessing the power as we dn. You must not do that. You will be persecut- ing theae delightful gentlemen who brand- ed you as bribe-takers. “Day alter day you will read some lie about us in that journal, because it is im- possible for the San Francisco Examiner 10 tell the truth on any subject. ' [Laugh- ter.] It would injure the reputation of the paper to establish it on an honest busis. [Laughter,] ‘In this case of McCarthy but seven men were invoived, while here it will be held that the charge is against every mnn‘condamned and threw ou: of its public who voted for Assembly bill 273. Me- Carthy was sent to the County Jail, got outa writ of habeas corpus and the Su- preme Court sent him back to jail, when he relented. “Simply because I am the manager of this proceeding and bhave the earnestness aud the character and the nerve to beard the lion in his den and the Douglas in his hall I expect more of these infamous lies to be printed about me. Let it come. The time will come when my voice will be heard from Siskiyou to San Diego and be more powerful than any newspaper, and don’t you forget it. [Applause.] “Do the members want the words ‘scoundrel’ and ‘bribe-taker’ written across their foreheads? Why should | these honest gentlemen, I appeal to you, Mr. Chairman—why should these honest gentlemen—and I use the words as Marc Antony used them—why should these honest gentlemen who possess this knowl- edge that Senator Morehouse and Senator Franck and Senator Chapman and other Senators who saw fit to vote for this measure took $300 to $500 for their votes, be allowed to keep this knowledge? “For myself I brand it as a lie and the man who wrote it as a liar. But we ought tolet it go by. Shall we permit this man to blackmiail, to vilify and corrupt the whole community; to corrupt personal honor? This paper will do it all the time. Do you tell ma that this man is worthy of respect from any human being? You may respect him. If so, I feel sorry that you have forgotten your manhood and woman- hood. It ought to be a matter of shame to be an asscciate of such a vile thing. “We have no right to investigate public slanders. We should sit here and render up our morning orisons and our prayers to A. M. Lawrence. He is a god. Heis the one man endowed with all the virtues a man can possess and bis chief virtue is to write down any individual who votes for a measure that A. M. Lawrence does not like. We should teach the State that there is one Benate possessed of the manhood and character to dare present honesty and truth to the pubiic.” He referred to the telegram he had re- ceived from W. F. Herrin requesting him to cease opposing Assembly bill 273 and Ceclared that he had shown no reluctance to producing the message, and added: “What harm is there in it? If that is harmful then there is no men in the Sen- ate who sbould not be gent to tke peniten- tiary. “As for my being an attorney for the Southern Facific, I never denied I was an attorney for the railroad. I thank God that he gave me power enough and brains enough to be the attorney for a railroad company. [Applause.] And I wantthe world to know my connection with the railroad. It has always treated me right. It has emploved me year after year, and when I get through with a case I make out my bill and send it to the company and they always pay it. Thatismy crime. I don’t think there is a lawyer with the brains of a newly fleiged dove that wouldn’t take it to-morrow if he could get it. [Applause.] “It may be nossible that this great en- gine may fire on you Republicans and you may e defeated in your political aspira- tions. But they can't hurt you. They | b tried to kill off Stephen M. White, but | White was superior to the San Francisco Examiner. I only give this to you that you won’t be afraid of this penny-a-liner. “What are you going todo? 1know wnat I am going to do. This man has been before the bar of justice. I shall vote for this resolution. I want an example which shall say to this newspaper writer, “You shall not charge a Senator with bribery unless you have the proof.” ”’ The Bruner case was cited as showing how ready the Examiner was to submit its proofs when it really had them. He then continued: “Now, if the private relations between Mr. Hearst and these gentlemen are so disreputable, I am willing to excuse them. Why don’t they answer 1if they have any truth to tell? They want to be put in & position to say that this Senate fell down and that the Senate dared not punish them for contempt. They will not put me ‘n this position. They can hound me with their emissaries; they can send men to veep through keyholes and over transoms, but there is one thing certain—they can’t hurt a hair of my head, for truth will beat them every time. “What will youdo? Iask youto stand up like men and teach these men that they have braved our power; teach them that it is in our power to make them tell us what they know or say, ‘We lied about this thirty-second session of the Legisla- ture.””’ Bert said he could not vote for the reso- Jution because the questions asked the witnesses and which they refused to an- swer were not pertinent, and that no evi- dence had been submitted to show that the charges were founded on any fact. He added the Senators needed no further vindication ot their honor and honesty. Withington, to the surprise of every one, swung into the ranks of the majority who voted for the resclution to cite for contempt, although no testimony had been adduced. Prisk, doubting the Senate’s power to punish for contempt, but stating there wasno evidence whatever to substantiate the Examiner’s charges, opposed the reso- lation. Stratton offered some technical objec- tions as an excuse to permit him to vote against the resolution. Pedlar expressed surprise over the “pe- culiar wpeech of the Senator from Ala- medza’’ and declared it was no time for technicalities, and said that he for one fwould be willing to stop ail proceedings if the paper would retract all it had said about the matter. Senator Boyce delivered a scorching hot address. “I know,” he sald, “‘that no newspaper can ever rise above or distin- guish itself from the character of the man who is at the head of it, any more than a fountaln can rise above its source.” Referring to Long Green Lawrence, the Sepator continued: *“If he can say that bribery stalked in our midst, if he can say that every one who voted for a certain measure is guilty of bribery with im- punity, then we should fold our tents and silently steal away after we have stolen everything in sight, as some of the Sacramentans say we do. “These men have sought to charge cor- | ruption 1n a public journal It is proper that this body should cleanse itself and leave itseif above suspicion. I believe that these re<o'utions simply indicate that we are strong enough and firm enough to resistthe attack of any journal.” His closing words were as follows: “That thing which has been exciuded from the mails by one house ofour United Government; that journal states Portland library as being too indecent to be on its tables, should be punished. “I am not afraid to handle vermin. If by any means within my power I can do some good in the wortd I am willing to go down into the gutter to crush out this viper* Morehouse saw the trend of matters and with good sense closed his case by this impressive and simple sentenc “[ ask that the roll be now called.” ‘When the secretary had finished this was the vote in favor of punishment: Androus,Aram, Beard,Boyce, Bulla, Chapman, Denison, | Flint, Franck, Gillette, Jones, Gleaves, Linder, Luchsinger, Mahoney, Morehouse, Pedlar, Shine,Shippee,Simpson,Smith, Trout, Voorheis, Withington, ‘Wolfe. Total, 23. Those who were willing to see the Sen- ate defied and besmirched with impunity were: Bert, Braunhart, Doty, Hall, Dwyer, ¥Feemey, Henderson, Langford, La Rue, Prisk, Sea- well, Stratton—Total 12. Beawell changed his vote for the pur- pose of securing a reconsideration, so the official vote shows 26 ayes and 11 noes. Dickinson refrained from vcting, as he was chairman of the committes of inves- tigation, and Holloway and Toner were absent. Senator Morehouse withdrew the reso- lution providing for the punishment of Al Murphy, and the vote on the Levings resolution was the same as on the first one, except that Wolfe dodged the vote, Dickinson and Stratton voted for the reso- lution and Smith voted against 1t. Seawell again changed his vote to aye for the purpose of reconsideration, and the official record of this vote also shows 26 ayes and 11 noes. The matter of reconsideration cuts no figure, as the motion to take up the mat- ter will be defeated incontinently should it ever be made. On motion of Senator Morehouss the two prisoners were ordered into the cus- tody of the sergeant-at-arms, to be deliv- ered to the Sheriff for imprisonment, s R OUT ON BONDS. Long Green Temporarily Gets Out of the Sheriff’s Hands by Furnish- y ing Bail. SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 9.—After the Senate bad rendered its decision that the managing editor of the Examiner ana the reporter who wrote the bulk of the libelous article were guilty of contempt, the prisoners at the bar were taken by Sergeant-at-Arms Blackburn to the office of Adjutant-General Barrett, where the | Examiner’s atiorneys, Garret McEnerney, A. J. Clunie, George A. Knight and Charies F. Hanlon, held a consultation with reference to the proceedings in habeas corpus, After the campaign of the defense had been marped out Lawrence and the rest went to supper at a French restaurant, and at 9 o’clock were turned over into the custody of Sheriff Johnson. This was merely technical, for they were brought to the chambers of Judge Hughes, where a petition for the writ of habeas corpus was filed, and where Charles F. Hanlon and Railroad Commissioner Hugh M. Larue filed bonds for the appearance ot the prisoners {o shew cause on Thursday, March 11, at half-past1in the aiternoon, why the sentence of the Senate should not be carried out. The bondas were fixea at $1000 each, and after the necessary formal- ities bad been observed the prison to- gether with their attorneys, leit the courthouse ang celebrated their respite by opening chumpagne in the Golden Eagle bar. A peculiar incident occurred at half- past 11 o’clock this evening in the office of the Golden Eagley Hotel. Senator Franck of Santa Clars was conversing with Sergeant-at-Arms Blackburn of the Senate when Andy Lawrence approached him and angrily said: “Father Riordan of Santa Clara College has telegraphed me that he is opposed to the bill allowing the girls trom the Whittier School to be removed to Eanta Clara. You don’t de- ceive me any more.”’ Senator Franck laughed at him, and Lawrence retired to the headquarters of the Examiner in the inner office. Senator Franck explained to a CALL re- NEW TO-DA There are 25 cents " a poun& baklng pow- ders and there are 5 cents a pound : beef- steaks. fib})’lv—the' finest baking powder known —is not the _ cheaDest Tillmaru & Bendel, Mfra, FOR BARBERS, BAK- BR“SHES"" oot iiar- e, Dotises, billiacd-tables ey oty nakers o ‘flourmills, - foundries,” laundriés, papes Al oqers, Driciers, pabaters, shoe factories. stable- men, tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, HANAN BILOS.. C. -Brush Manufacturers. sowsnnmnfioh