The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1897, Page 1

LUME LXXXI.—NO SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POWERS IN N0 HURRY T0 COERC Brave Little Greece Yet Stands Off Turkey's Friends. A BLOCEADE IS THREATENED. BUT France the Only European Na- tion That Shows Any Great Reluctance, CRETAN INSURGENTS ARE NOT FULLY INFORMED. Fresh Massacres May Occur at Aoy Moment on the War-Stricken Island LONDON, Exa., March 12—It is as- serted here on excellent authority that the powers are exchanging views in re- gard to presenting a fresh note to Greece, giving notice of their intention to resort to coercive measures to enforce their de- mands if Grecee does not comply at once, and also to maintain a blockade of Greek ports. France, it is understood, is the only power showing any reluctance to 1g part in a blockads, and if she re- s to participate the blockade will be undertaken without her. The Daily News wiil to-morrow publish a dispatch from Canea, saying that it wotld be of the greatest advantage if the ‘would formally proclaim to the he fact that they had determined h an autonomous government the islana of Crete. Most of the habitants are not aware of the intention e powers. The few isolated chiefs of the.nsurgents who have learned that ) ish rule in the island is to be brought to an eni have declared their joyous ac- ceptance of the scheme of the powers. The correspondent of the Standard at Canea jelegraphs a description given by nn eve-witness @f the-evacuation of Kandam©s by the Moslems, who have row reached Canea. Hesaysthat swarms | of wild-looking insurgents swooped like | Kiteson the ontgoing refugees and seized | and hau'ed off oxen by their hornsand | tails. They fought desperately with each | other to gain possession of chairs and tables. The insurgents wanted 10 loot the place and were ready to risk their lives for a sheep or a mule, | The Times will to-morrow publish a dis- | patch from Athens saying that the city is swarming With enthusiastic rustic re- | es. Two thousand of them were sent | to the frontier yesterday. | CONSTANTINOPLF of Tuexey, March | 2.—The general belief here is that the | gotiations between the powers over the | reply of Greece to their demands will be | protracted, Meanwhile a renewal of the outbreaks in Asia Minor is imminent and Sir Philip Currie, the British Embassador, has called the Porte's attention to the | state of affairs existing, with a view of averting the atrocities which are threat- ened. | The Christians in Anatolia are in a de- plorable condition and consequently sab- jec'ed to outrage. I.is feared a massacre will happen at Payas, where the situation 18 extremely critical. It is reported from Erzeroumn that big bodies of Russian troops | are being concentrated on the Armenian | frontier.from the direction of Sarikemish | | in the district of Kars. It is positively stated here that the ad- ministration of the Sultan’s civil list will | ceek to enter into nezotiations with the United States Government for the pur- chase of three ironclads that are already comypleted. It is said that forty thousand pounds Turkish will be paid on account of the purchase price. The Porte and the foreign diplomats | have received news of bloodshed at Everek, a mountain village in Kefsarien. he situation in those regions is most mentable, and rumors are current in is city that a massacre is impending there. A, Crere, March 12.—The desti- tute Mussulman refugees are on tbe verge i sta n here. Bands of robbers are are pi. g the towns and the adjoining couritry It is reported here that the Turkish fort at Spinalonga is being attacked by the in- surgents. The Moslems are said to be naking a gailant resistance. It is also reported that several eneoun- ters between Moslems and Christians have taken place in Arehanes, ATHENS, Greece, March 12.—With the abatement of the war iever there isa grow- ing betief that an amicable agreement be- tween Turkey and Greece with regard to Crete is possible. VIENNA, AvsTRIA, March 12.—The ad- mirals commanding the Earopean squad- ron in Cretan waters have sug-ested to their Governments the advisability of each power contributing 1000 soldiers to be employed 1n occupying the towns in Crete, for the purpose of preserving order. BUDAPEST, Huseary, March 12._In tie lower house of ti:.e Hungarian Diet to- day the Government was interpeliated as to the outlook for a peaceable settlement of the Cretdn imbrogiio. Baron Banffy, he Prime Minister, replying to the ques- n, deciared that he believed that the eat powers had everywhere shown their rm resolution to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman empire and Lo render the chance of wa r impossible. PARIS, Fraxce, March 12.—In the Sen- ate to-day M. Chauveau asked the Gov- ernment to explain the policy of France in regard to Greece and Crete. M. Han- otaux, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in Teply that he would explain the Govern- | this city was held to-night in Chickering | | able i g ny il R ] P & e e s s tiago de Cuba continues to be favorable to the insurgents, and the Spanish colunins have practically abandoned active opera- tions in the field. They escort only the convoys with provisions from one fortified town to another, carefuily avoiding any fight with the Cubans. Colonel Vara Del Rey bas reported to General Weyler that it is impossibie for the Spanish to move in the province in columns less than 4000 men strong. The Spanish guerrilla of Guanabana, Matanzas province, has been defeated there by insurgent forces commanded by Genera! Betancourt. The engagement was very hot, and lasted four hours. The Spanish had fifty-six killed and the Cu- bans thirty-seven. The estate of Carmen at Sabani!la has been attacked by the Cubans, who ran- sacked the stores and dispersed the garri- named ‘“Business Administration of Municipal Affairs.” This makes the fourth mayoralty ticket in the field and Alderman John Harlan, another non- partisan reform candidate, will probably be nominated to make the fifth aspirant for mayoralty honors. CHERTE MAY HAVE BEEN INNOCENT. Pitiful Scenes at the Electrocution of a Nagro Charged With Murder. SING SING, N. Y.; March 12.—Arthur Mahew, a negro, was successfully electro- cuted in the prison at 11:17 o’clock this morn:ng. Mahew suffered the death penalty for the brutal murder of Stephen Powell, a prom- inent and wealthy resident of Hampstead, L. I, March 17, 1896. Powell had been k) fi‘:%‘\‘l"\“ '(: ernment’s policy at the beginning of u:e! week. Inthe meantime, he said, he would | promise his associates in both chambers | that the foreign policy of France, whieh | could be expressed in one word, was to | maintain peace by means of a concert of the European nowers. SRR B TO 4ID iH¥ GREEKS. Mass - Meeting at Mew York to Raise Funds for the Cause. | NEW YORK, N. Y., March 12—An im- | poriant mass-meeting of the Greeks of | Hall. It was called by Demterios N. Bo- | tassi, the Greek Consul-Geoersl, for the purpose of expessing sympathy for Cro- tans and to devise means to raise funds to transport thie Greek reserves in this coun- | try to the L.vant. Chickering Hall was | crowded with the sympathizers of Greece, and therc was great applause at the vari- ous expressions of sentiments on behalf of the Cretans. President Seth Low of Columbia Uni- versity presided, and in opening the meet- ing said that the primary object of the meeting was to arouse interest in the con- dition of the Cretan refugees in Greece. “It is hoped,” ne said, *‘that when the facts are fully understood the American people will be willing to contribute lib- erally to help the peopie of Greece to carry this heavy snd unusual burden. “His blood must run cold, indeed, that | has not been stirred by the heroic action of little Greece in rushing to the relief of Crete in the face of armed and protesting Europe. It may well be believed that the reliance of Greece in this enterprise is not upon the strength of her own arms, but upon the justice of the cause. She may safely appeal to the considerate judgment | of mankind for the sanction of her under- taking. The civilized world has small confidence in a European concert that has been able to maintain the peace, but has not been able to vreserve the Arme- nians from being massacred by the thou- sands. Iventure to say that Americans at least, almost without exception, are glad that whatever becomes of Greece or of Crete the experience of Armenia shall not be repeated in Crete while Greece is to protest. It is earnestly to be hoped that she shall not have accepted these risks nor poured out her blood and treasure in vain. Her appeal is to the public opinion of the civilized world, and we in America would be false to ourselves, false to our history, false to our aspira- tions if at such a moment we did not re- ply to Greece in words of no uncertain sound that she has unreservedly our sym- pathy, our applause and our prayers.” Consul-General Botassi read the list of vice-presidents of the meeting, which in- ‘cluded Mayor Sirong, J. P. Morgan, Theo- | dore Roosevelt, D. O. Miils, George Gould, H. C. Whitney and Charles A. Dana. Addresses were also delivered by Gen- eral Agnos of Boston, J. M. Rodscanachi, former Consul of Greece in Boston, and Professor J. P. Leotzakos. It was announced that James Woode ward Jr., president of the Hanover Bank of this city, will act as treasurer of the Cretan fund, ana a request for contribu- tions was made. —_— WOODHEN 0r WOKLD, iH Session Deroted to kecising, Amending and Codifying Laws. BT. LOUIT, Mo., March 12.—To-day’s ses- sion of the Sovereign Camp, Woodmea of the World, was consumed in the revision, amending and codification of laws gov- erning the order. The dispute between the Pacific jurisdiction and the Sovereign Camp was also discussed. The trouble arises over the refusalof the Pac.fic juris- diction to pay its annuai per capita of 5 cents, amounting to $1160. The Sovereign Camp decided tbat it would have to pay the tax. A resolution was adopted to that effect ana calling upon the iurisdiction to continue its allegiance to the parent body. There was but one representative of the Pacific jurisdiction present, and he only as a visitor. No accredited delega tes were sent. The Pacific jurisdiction em- breces the States of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idabo, Montana, Washington, Ne- vada, Oregon, California and Alaska. Its membership numbers 23,000—a litile mora than one-third of the entire membership of the Sovereign Camp. | | i { The Sovereign Camp Ladies’ Auxilfary elected officers this afternoon as followss Supreme cuardian, Mrs. Mary J. Huse, Omaha, Nebr.; Eula Durland, Dennison, Tex.; supreme secretary. Mrs. Ruby Root, Omaha. The Ladies’ Auxiliary adjourned sine die at 5 p. ». They will next meet in iennial session with the Sovereign Camp, | Modern Woodmen, st Mempbis, Tenn., on the <econd Tuesday in March, 1899. Sovereign Secretary John T. Yates of Omaha states that the rumored with- drawal of the Pacific Coast is misleadine. All mpmbers of the order, he says, are in harnf ny, though some of the Western members are suspended for mon-payment of dues. There is a gratifying increase in membersbip and the fature is ravared. S et JOURNEY OF SEE YUP LEADERS. Rich Chinese on the Way to Washington to Have Their Death Warrants Recalled. CHICAGO, IrrL., March 12.—A select party of Chinese merchants of SBan Fran- cisco, including the wealthiest of the race in America, arrived in Chicago to-day from the Pucific Coast, en route to Wash- ington on a peculiar mission. In the party are Lee Chow, whose fortune is stimated at $3,000,000; Chan Lee Doon, a big rice and tea merchant; Wong Shai Shung, a native American who is worth $500,000; Lee Fook, member of the cigar firm of Cabanas & Co. and credited with an estate worth $300,000; Fung Yow Kaing, president of the See Yup Society; Moy Burk Fun, the interpreter; J. C. Camp- bell of Reddy, Metson & Campbeil, San Francisco, counsel for the See Yup So- ciety, and Private Secretary Thomas Geogh. The pariy traveled in a private car, which was the scena of concerts, lec- tures and dramatic recitals by some of the Chinamen and invited fellow-travelers. All the ten Chinamen are members of the See Yup Society, which is at war with the Sam Yup Society in San Francisco. Fong Yuen Hing, the Consul there, sent to the Chinese Minister at Washington | recently a list of charges against promi- nent members of the See Yups, accusing them of plotting against the Chinese empire. The Minister sent the charges to Peking as true. Lee Chow and President Kaing were sentenced to ke beheaded if they touched Chinese territory, and more than a dozen relatives of the other mem- bers of the party were imprisoned and their property confiscated. It is to have these troubles removeud that the See Yups are now on their way to Washington. The Chinese members of the party, arrayed in silken robes, were received in state by the leaders of Chinatown on their arrival, and will be entertained until to-morrow evening. They are staying at the Audi- torivm Hotel. MUICIDE EAND>.A ROMANCE. Fate of a Millionaire’s Outonst Son, Who Married aw Aetress. NEW YORK Y., March 12.—Sam- uel Newton, 24 years old, said 1o be the son of a well-known business man and millionaire in London, committed suicide in the Warwick” Hotel this morning by taking Paris green. Newion is said to have gained the displeasure of his futher because of his infatuation for an actress, and was aisowned as a consequence. Newton martied the actress, whose name was Catherine Foote, despite his father’s threat to disinherit him. They were mar- ried about xix months ago, after which his remittances from home discon:inued. The couple stopped at the lmperial, but ‘were compelled to leave their trunks be- hind them as_security for an_ unpaid bill and went to the Warw:ck. . The’bride se- cured an engagement at a music-hall and her ‘money went to support them. He said several times that he would commit suicide. ‘ Leo and the School Question. LONDON, Exe., March 12. A. R. Rus- sell, thie Manitoba lawyer, who, with Hon. Charles Fitzgeraid, Solivitor-General of Canada, visiizad Rome for the purpose of presenting the Manitoba school case to the Pope and also to obtain the appointment of an apostolic deicgate to Canada, has returned to London. ~ Ia an interview with a representative of the United Associated Presses to-day Mr. Rus- seli said that he was highly satistied with the results of the several interviews hebad with his Ho iness, who evinced a peculiar interest in Canadian affairs. ' The. Pope felt satisfied that the appointment of Monsignor del Val would conciliate the opposing factions in Cansda. RADING CL0E 10 THE CAPTAL Cuban Leader Acosta Boldly Operates in Havana Suburbs. | fasd LY s Blockhouses Burned, Prisoners Taken and Supplies Car- ried Away. Daring and Successful Tactics of In- surgents Undsr Gzneral Wey- ler's Very Nose NEW YORK, N. Y., March 12.—A Press speciai from Jacksonville, Fla., says: Cuban Leader Acosta made & raid on the suburbs of Havana within haif a mile of two blockhouses Wednesday night, cap- turing three Spanish soldiers and two of- ficers. The atiack was made on the turn- pike or military road, as it is called, one of the best fortified rcadways on the island. The point of attack was a little hamlet, where there ware two large store- houses containing considerable ummuni- tion and also clothing for the Spanish forces. The two blockhouses were located with- in half a mile of the place. The Cubans dashed in, looted the storehouse and than set fire. to them. They then retreated rapidly to the right and came up in the rear of the Isabelia blockhonse, The troops in this, seeing the burning buildings, rushed out, leaving only a small guard behind. Theinsurgents, per- ceiving thi:, managed to break in the blockhouse door, aud in ten minutes were in full possession. Knowing that they couid not remain, they looted the building of all equipments that would be valuable to them, consisting of two stands of arms and considerable ammunition. They spiked the small field pieces, and setting fire to the house inside dashed away hur- riedly. The Spanish pursued them within half an hour, but came back two hours later, and reported that the rebels could not be found. The oniy report made in Havana regard- ing this engagement was that a force of rebels had been dispersed, but the main facts are known all over town. —_— CANNOT BFE (ONQUERED, General Rivera Writes an Assuring Let- ter to the Junta. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 12.—A let- ter was received at the Cuban Junta head- quarters to-day from General Ruiz Rivera, who succeeded to General Maceo’s com- mand in the province of Pinar del Rio. In the course of his letter General Rivera says: 3 assure you again that you need have fear for us. At the close of this sea- ’s campaign my forces are occupying the poritions they held at the beginning in October last, and with the advantages of being better trained in warfare and im- bued with greater confidence. “[will notgo into details. It is suffi- cient to say that no Spanish general, no Spanish army, can pacify Pinar del Rio. Time will prove it.” . FICTORY FUOR INSURGENTS, They Take a Hundred Prisoners dnd o Larae Supply of Armas. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 12.—A dis- patch to the Sun from Havana, via Tampa, Fla., says: Reports are received from Manzanillo about another serious engage- ment near Cauto River, in which General Garcia captured from the Bpaniards a large supply of arms and ammunition and made 100 soldiers prisoners. The situstion in the province of San- son. Governor Porcet has sent eighty more prisoners to Havana. They are re- ported to be Manigos. Two hundred who were held as prisoners have previously been forwarded to Havana. They will be sent to the island of Fernandopo. Benor La Barrera, Chief of Police at Havana, will embark for Spain soon. Senor Porrera, Both functionaries are said to be in serious disagreement with General Weyler. Fon- deviella is committing new atrocities at Guanabacoa. Beven prisoners yesterday were taken out of the jail and murdered balf mile outside of ‘town, vietla-boxsts of K" and sa the more he is artacked by the Cubans the more of them he will kill in order to prove that he has the confidence of his Govern- ment. ———— WE)LER'S BRUTAL TACTICS. Imprisons Innocent Womem and Kills Inwmates of Hospitals. JACKSONVILLE, FrA.,, March 12— Four colored Cubans—tw) men and two women—from Havana pas:ed through the city to-aay for St. Augustine. ‘The men Lave been serving In the insurgent army and came to the United States to get their fauilies out of Caba. The men say that at Pinar del Rio City the Spaniards last Monday arrested Senora Elvira Perez, her daughter, Margarita, aged 14 years; Senora Genoa and her deughter, Maria. age 16, her brother, Adrian, aged 2, her cousin, Maria, aged 3; Senora Perez Rodriguez; Senoritas Cani- dad, 10, her sisters—Francisca, 8, Josefa, 5, Elvira, 4—all of whom were taken to Havana and confined in Casa de Reco- jidas, where they will be kept until their Telatives in the Cuban army surrender to the Spanish authorities. The women and children in this prison are treated like common criminals and are almost starved to death. They tell of the raid of Colonel Segura on a Cuban hospital near Ojo del Agua, in which twenty patients were slain hy the Spanish soldiers, who cut down and wounded Cubans with machetes, fired the building and burned the bodies. Another hospital was captured near ‘Wanacas, and all of the inmates, thirteen in number, killed and the bodies burned. Reports reached Havana on Tuesday that a foreman employed in the American iron mines of Firnesa, near Juragua, was assassinated in the field on Monday, and that all the miners had left the place and joined the insurgent army. It is claimed that the assassination was ordered by the commandant of the local garrison, who had levied a special tax on the foreman, which he had declined (o pay. ENE e FIGHTING FOR CUBA. No Further Doubt as to a Young Port- tander’s Whereabouts. PORTLAND, Or. March 12.—Addi- tional proof that Russell Montgomery, the young naval cadet whose disappea ance from Annapolis so greatly worried his parents, Mr. and Mr-. J. B. Montgom- ery of this city, is in Cuba fighting for the freedom of that island, has been received in a letter from a Havana cigar firm and sent tbrough the Navy Department at Washington to Montgomery's father in Portland. The communication was in relation to some business transaction.of the cadet, evidently bad while he was arranging to make his way out of Havana to join the insurgent torces. On its receipt Mr. Mont- gomery was puzzled to learn how the ac- count of his son with the Havana firm could have in the first place been con- tracted, and secondly in what manner it reached the Navy Department. In his ai- lemma he sought the counsel of a naval officer now on detached duty in Fortland. The officer made 'matters plain, and also through his explanation gave to the tather the certainty that the letter received from Virginia, written by the captain of the Cuban battery in which Russell Mont- gomery is serving as a lieutenant, is authentic. e Many Candidates for the Mayoralty. CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 12.—Washington Hesing, Postmaster of Chicago, was nomi- nated to-night by acclamation at Central Music hall for the office of Mayor on a municipal reform platform and at the bead of a non-partisan ticket, which was Civil Goveraor of the | orovince of Havana, will also go to Spain. | waylaid, robbed and murdered. John ‘Waynes, a negro, and Arthur Mahew, also colored, his friend, were arrested. Waynes made a confession accusine Mahew of the crime and implicating bhimself. Waynes is now serving a fifteen years’ sentence in Bing Sing for complicity in the crime. Mahew died proclaiming his innocence. He made resistance when he reached the chair and bad to be forced into it by the keepers, where he struggled until strapped in. Mahew was terribly fright- ened and appealed to the keepers not to turn on the current until he cried he was All during the operation of fas- John Waynes and Al- bertson are guilty I’ These cries beinterspersed with, ‘‘Jesus, have mercy on me. O Lord God, save me!” It was a pitiful scene. Frank Albert- son, who was accused by Mahew in his dying breath of being implicated with Waynes in the murder of Mr. Poweli, has never before been mentioned in connec- tion with the crime. That there issucha man is not even known by anybody in- terested in the case. Testimony during the trial showed that only two ‘men were concerned in the crime. Several lawyers here to-day took an interest in the man’s strong proleststions of innocence ana Wayne’s confession that Mahew was not implicated in Powell's murder, and ex- pressed the fear that perhaps Mahew may bave been mistaken for Albertson, and that the unfortunate negro was innocent of the crime for which he died. D CHICAGO’S SHOOTING MYSTERY. The Young Woman Accused Is Releasso From Custody—Buttercup Story of the V.ctim. CHICAGO, Irn, March 12.—The mys- terv surrounding the shéoting of Mrs. Catherine Bragg is still unexplained. Josephine, Mrs. Bragg's foster-daughter, who was arrested soon after the shooting was discovered, and who it is thought could explain everything if she desired to do so, was released from custody this afternoon. She was first taken before her mother £t the hospital and much that transpired during the time that she was there led the police to believe that the adopted daughter fired the shot that wounded Mrs. Bragg. She declares, how- ever, that she is innocent of the crime and her mother will not betray the secret of the shooting. Mrs. Bragg has disinherited her foster daughter, to whom she had wi'led her en- tire prop-rty, amounting to $30,000. It was reported this afternoon that $10,000 worth of diamonds brlonging to Mrs. Brage had been stolen, but that they were found to-njght at a pawnshop, where Mrs. Bragg had placed them. Josephine Bragg’s father, H. L. Parker, of Lynn, Mass., 1s well known there and prominent in yacbting circles. About sevenieen years ago. according to the story Mrs. Bragg told at the bospital to- night, Mr. Parker was married, and when a year later he and his wife were in Chi- cago a child was born to them. For sev- eral weeks Mrs. Parker was 1n a hospital here, and when they returned to Massa- chusetts the child was left in Chicago. The hirth was kept a secret,’ said Mrs. Brage, “'and only three persons in Chi- cago knew what had become of the infant. They were Mr. Brage, myseif and the nurse who carried ti.e baby to their home. This cuild was adopted into the Bragg family. Josephine’s father and mother bave seen her but ouce since then, and at that time lonked upon their daughter from a window across the street. “‘When Josephine had attained the age of five, and was able to understand, the nurse began to impose b'ackmail on her foster parents. The amounts demanded, however, were becoming larger as the giri grew in years, and four years ago Mr. and Mis. Parker were asked to come to Chi- cagzo and make a final settiement with the woman. They did come, and that is the time when they Jooked upon their daugh- ter from a window opvosite the Bragg residence. From that time the nurse ceased her demands.”’ Two Murderers Exmeouted. LA PLATA, Mp., March 12.—George Matthews, who murdered James J. Irwin | at Allens Fresh, Charles County, Mary- land, last August, was executed in the La P:ata jailyard at 8:30 o’clock this morn- in, & BOBCHESTEE, N. B, March 12— John E. duilivan, the murderer of Mrs. Dutcher arnd her young son Harris, was nanged in the jailyard here this morning. TRVING T0 EP U7 OF PRISON “Long Green” Lawrence’s Case Taken Under Advisement. JUDGE HUGHES DECIDES IT TO-DAY. ; Assistant Attorneys - General Argue That the Court Has No Jurisdiction. FAKERS CANNOT ESCAPE THE PUNISHMENT, The Case of McCarthy Quoted to Show the Power of the Legislatur:., SACRAMENTO, CaL., March 12.—After five hours of argument in the habeas cor- pus cases of Long Green Lawrence and L. L. Levings, sentenced to jail for contempt by the Senate, Judze Hughes took the matter under advisement until to-morrow moraing at 9:30 o’clock. Both prisoners were present. They were represented by Garret McEnerney and Andrew J. Clunie, though the latter took no active part whatever in the court- room proceedings. The Senate was repre- sented by Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Anderson and Deputy Attorney-Gen- eral C. N. Post. Ason the day previous, the courtroom was crowded, and most of the audience remained in attendance throughout the entire hearing, notwith- standing there were no flights of elo- quence or exciting verbal passages-at- arms. Throughout the presentation of the case for the petitioners there were ihe same broad admissions of the fake article of February 27 having been published by the Examiner on ruinor and hearsay. By Judge Hughes side sa: Jhdge —art fig | After tha return of the Sheriff'on the w had been duly filed, McEnerney fiied t reply of the petitioners. McEnerney tie again attempted to bring up the question of the right of a Judge to releasea prisoner on bzil pending the hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. Anderson questicned this right and Mec- Enerney cited a number of cases in which such action had been taken by the Su- preme Court. He claimed that this had been the practice of the Supreme Court for forty years. Anderson alieged that bail was only ac- cepted in such cases when the respondent did not question the right of the court in the premises. Judge Hughes evidently had no great desire to have this matter argued, and de- clared that the investigation of this propo- sition at this time was not pertinent. “The right to issue the writ, he said “is not contested. The question of bail con- cerns action that has been taken by the courtand it is past history. Throughout the Union it is tbe practice 1 Superior and Supreme courts to release prisoners on bail uader similar circumstances, and 1do not care to hear any further discus- sion on that proposition. Proceed to the main que-tion of the case.” McEnerney, aiter reviewing the inci- dents that led up to the present situation, stated that one of the questions was: “Can a legislative body, investigating a charge like this, compel a witness to tes- tiiy as 1o what he had beén told.” Such testimony, be declared, would be hearsay and not complete. His second proposition consisted of the question: ‘‘Has the Sen- ate jurisdiction to make the inquiry to which the questions propounded to Lawe rence and Levings were directed.”” He claimed that if it had not such jurisdic- tion the questions were not material and there was no contempt. In the endeavor to prove that there was no jurisdiction in the matter on tha part of the Senate, or rather that. the Senate had overstepped its powers in en- deavoring to inquire into s slan:erous and libelous attack on the members of the Senate, he quoted from the resolution adopted by the Senate. This provided for an investigation relative to the bribery charges and aiso for the punisiment of any one found guilty of having siandered ana Jibeled the Senuate or any of its mem- bers in ti.eir official capacity. McEnerney alleged tbat the Senate had absolutely no power to go into the ques tion of slander and livel. Setting forth his third proposition be said: “The judge ments of courts are always opsn to review in court for want of jurisaiction, and the same principle applies to legisiative bodies.” His fourth point was that the Legislature hes no general power of investigation. and that it has no power to use the machinesy of the Legislature to ascertain for private persons whether or not a pub- lished article is slanderous cr libelous. The remedy for slander and hibel, be said, is 1n the courts, either, by criminal or civil action. He concluded by an argument tending to show that the questions asked of both Lawrence and Levings were immateriai, irrelevant and incompetent. Throughout the argument numerous citations were made from the habeas-corpus jurisprue dence of this country anc of England. Assistant Attorney-General Anderson, controverted by competent and late authorities and decisions the stand taken by McEuerney. After calling attention to the fact that McEnerney bad admitted that the Senate had jurisdiction to inves- tigate charges of bribery he ciaimed that the resolution adopted by the Senate pro- viding for the irquiry could at the most ouly be held invalid so far asthe matter of inquiring into the slanderous or libele