The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1898, Page 1

aesqi] uae} ++ e wiod} ! 1 e Rt mmmmne e am—" Qul aq 03 sou Jaded Siul 3 Call VOLUME - LXXXV,—N O. 30. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ARGUE LONG HOURS TO SAVE MRS. BOTKIN FROM THE GALLOWS Frank McGowan Demands Justice, Not Mercy, in the Name of This Woman Charged With Heinous Crime. Attorney Hosmer Will Close the Case of the People To- Day. It Will Hardly Reach the Jury Before Wednes= day of Next Week. ing days of the year 1838 will ng to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin surcease from the. conflicting emo- as her trial for beth Dunning Contrary to expec- an, in his closing r behalf, occupled the en- fct Attorney Hosmer will all of the allotted time to-day, de will make thelr prayers arding his instructions be of vital fmportance, ion placed by the court nd the evidence in the case There is a will . consume the . 80 the day on will be charged and the hich the jury inesday. McGowan had the last n behalf of Mrs. Botkin his co-worker, George spread his argument over too time and wasted his elo- can have no pos- n the minds of the jury- dwelling on the -alibi by Botkin proves she was in ay one of the anonymous city; on the fact o record on the books of showing tha sale of & person residing at ka on the ailed in thi to Victoria, and such other mat- ters where it is difficult to connect Mrs. the case, they are trying to that the box of cand; t are, that the from arsenical poison- spending time in such con- ttorneys for Mrs. Botkin take dif- points of view “or instance, e declared she desired a chance the past and blot from her 0 those violations o the code of ich In part have brought her of justice and placed her on °. Mr. McGowan takes a view from this. He affirms that ot a blot on her escutcheon;, not eat against her )s€ t flowed from of ing.” burden of of doubt his argument was the that hung like a pall link in the chain of welded by the n tne effort to connect Mrs s crime of poi: en. for ow n- He held that the people had they failed to ase of lump ar- round w! with the dwelt at length on the fact r Wolf when he analyzed the y in Delaware found only lump ar- In ke & with this he intimated t police had’ fixed the 1 Professor Price an- it in this city he found the pow- red drug. They had to do this to bear ir theory as formed against M f thought that everything possible in the | or the prosecution. way of vitriolic words, both written and ELECTRIC ROAD SOLD TO HUNTINGTON AND OTHERS Property Worth a Million Passes Into the Control of the Scuth- ern Pacific. Dec. 29.—The electric the Los Angeles and y Company, operating Angeles and Altadena, has the ssion of the South- le was con- purchase price be- P. Huntington, H. . A. Borel, Christian de W. Hellman are named as of the property, which ywned by And v Mc- srague and C, W. Smith Philadel- Green of Wood- LOS AN raliroad .} dena tWee and’ I irchasers rmerly 5. G, 1 consists of about forty miles nd extensive improvements by the purchasers. The of track will be m - OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. Formal Order for a Postal Station at Tloilo, P. I. i_L\'L;'ru\' I 29,—A formal or- issued to-day for a postal station at Toflo, P A postoft Willard, Count Cal., appointed postmaster. tor Perkins leaves Washington to- w for a brief visit to his old home at Kennebunkpor On January 3 he will deliver an’ address at the annual dinner of the Boston Merchants' Assocla- tion against the acquisition of territory remote from our shores. Pensjons have been granted as follows: California: James H. Murray. So $: Joseph Philliber, Red Biuft, 31 to gn! Annie Harnish, Napa, $; Henry Leifeld Placerville, $8; 'Mary Ann Richmier, Mer- ced, $8; Martin Beal, San Francisco, $12; Mafthew Robertson, Alton, $12: Louts M ler, San Francisco, $12; Joseph F, Wel Los Angeles, 36 to $10; Maria F. Merriil, Los Angeles, $12. Washington: Original—Elvin H. Smith, East Sound, $6. Increase—William J. Ster- ling, New Whatcom, §12 to $17. | celebrated case , when the attor- hands can hardly be never went | regarding certain | Mr. | Botkin had not | s that au ad- | e he paid his respects to the | 1t was | | spoken, had been uttered against John P. Dunning. He demonstrated that the limit had not been reached. His compliments to Miss Maggie Smith, coo.. of the Hotel Victoria, and she is ‘“‘a goggle-eyed pot- walloper.” Then there was that “human jumping-jack, Rosella, against whose wife he had nothing, except that she should have married such a man.” Mrs. Ruoff was a “flippant witness,” and so on down the long line. Tears, the relief of the distressed, come readily to Mrs. Botkin's eyes now. Sev- eral times yesterday she sobbed convul- sively, invariably placing herself where she would show to the best advantage to the men who have her future in their hands. Senator McGowan commenced his ar- gument upon the opening of court and hammered away at it all day like a faith- ful artisan. His argument was scatter- /& ADMITTED EVERY THING TREY DESIRED, | ing, going over the same ground again | and again, showing the weak places in | the case of the prosecution. He pald tribute to his associate counsel and to the | Judge; whom he said was endeavoring to | hold the scales of justice evenly between the people on one hand and the unfortu- nate ‘woman on the other. He claimed the case was a pecullar one, as every technicality posstble had been employed by the prosecution to thwart what he called the ends of justice. The defense on the other hand admitted everything de- sired; everything was open and above- ) board, even all the sources of evidence. Had their client been guilty they would have made a viclous, technical fight shielding and fighting agalnst the evi- dence. The speaker reminded the jurymen of the responsibilities resting upon them, but said they never before had so much depending upon their judgment. Here was a human being to be cast either into utter | darkness or to once again breathe the pure air of liberty. He asked them, as | they decided the woman's fate, to think | of “the dimpled fingers of their loved ones | that wound their way into the tendrils of | their hearts.” The pitiless storm that for | some time past has beat down upon Mrs. Botkin must soon cease, he said, as, when | she placed her case in the hands of the jury, she felt she had reached a harbor of safety. McGowan dwelt. long upon the question of circumstantial evidence. He cited the | present case as one where there was an unusual amount of doubt as to the relia- | bility of certain testimony. He said that I1f a fact could be construed either toward | guilt or innocence that it must be con- strued toward innocence, the law not per- | mitting its construction toward guilt. He said his client was not before them cring- ing for sympathy, but was seeking only justice. The case against her was not proved by the evidence adduced by the prosecution, to such a point as to justify them in taking the life of the woman. He deplored the heinous crime by which the lives of two estimable women were ended, but their death, he said, did not afford a reason why that offense should be fol- lowed by another one. Mr. McGowan spoke of unreliable and | unworthy circumstantial evidence, saying | if one link had to be molded or changed He next attacked the theory of the prosecution as to the motive. There was no adequate motive to drive this woman to such a crime or suddenly develop this criminal instinct. He sald there was “not a blot on her fair name, not a stain on her escutcheon.” The prosecution holds, he said, that this woman was en- amored of Dunning and had murdered his wife to get him. He sald Dunning was nelther mentally, morally nor phys- fcally the man that any woman would commit crime for. She had every posses- sion of him. She fed him, clothed him, i = “The DURDEN OF THE PROOF Is Upoa » s "Mow ARE YU GoldeTO RECOACILE TMESE licoasISTEHCIES . ATTORNEY McGOWAN PLEADS FOR MRS. BOTKIN. Counsel for the accused woman claims that the prosecution has notformed & chain of circumstantial evidence connecting her with the Dover tragedies. Contrary to expectations, he consumed the entire day with his argument. He attacked the credibility of the witnesses for the people, and demanded Justice, not sympathy, for the woman on trial for her life. It was a confession it was not consistent | put shoes on his feet and provided a with the case. He claimed that there | house to shelter him in the storm. How had been a mpering with and a manu- | would the killing of his wife bring him facture of evidence in the case. A dis- | back to her? Didn't the jury think she cussion of the testimony was then com- | Would * have suggested dlvorce before menced and doubt was cast upon all pre- | murder? She did not suggest that he dis- sented by the prosecution. He doubted whether the candy box had ever gone through the mail—from its unbroken ap- pearance he did not believe it had. He aid Postmaster Goodin did not know it went through the mail because he did not lift it out of the mail k himself. He spoke of Chief Lees as “Ah Lee engaged in ironing out the wrapper and thus ef- fectually removing the evidences that would show whether it had ever been card the wife of his bosom. All the acts of friendship she did for him were held against her as acts of criminality by the prosecution. The motive was a mystery and the solution of it was held by Dun- ning, he declared. Dunning should have been forced to tell and must have sealed his lips to protect the identity of some one who might have had a deadly affection for him. “He swore Mrs, Botkin's good name away,” continued McGowan, “and only NEW JAPANESE CRUISER I MAKES A GOOD RUN | The Trial Trip of the Chitose Will Be Made Over the Government Course To-Day. SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 2 The Jap- anese cruiser Chitose, just completed by the Union Iron Works, arrived at o'clock this morning from' San Francisco, after a successful run of sixteen hour: : The machinery worked splendidly. { Owing to rough weather outside the trial trip will not be made until to-morrow. It will be an eight hour run, two hours un- | der forced draught and $ix hours with } natural draught. ‘Lone test will be made over the Government forty-mile course, extending from Santa Barbara to Point Conception. - RECOUNTING THE BALLOTS. SAN JOSE, Dec. 20.—The Eleventh, Twelfth and Sixteenth precincts of the city were recounted to-day. There are 259 disputed ballots now held up for de- cision at the close of the count. The gains and losses of contestants were sald to be: Tenth Precinct—Lyndon_lost 10, Conant lost 3 and Aggeler lost 7. Elev- enth—Langford gained 7, Lotz gained 2 dnd Aggeler gained 1. Sixteenth—Lyndon gained 9, Aggeler 1 and Conant 5. Attor- ney Moore, for the contestants, objected to counting the vote or accepting the re- turns of the Sixteenth Precinct, as 300 unused ballots had not been returned from the precinct. This will be argued in_the morning. The Good Government League is still confident of seating all three contestants. AT S L Death of John Meiner. VENTURA, Cal., Dec. 20.—John Meiner, | the millionaire resident of Ojal Valley, dled to-day. The deceased owned much { valuable property in Milwaukee, Wis. having been a pioneer brewer of that city. Killed by Wood Alcohol. SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 20.—Mrs. Laura | Rains to-day drank wood alcohol by mis- | take for pure alcohol and died from the lg;‘e‘wm. e was aged 40 and a native of 0. wrapped around another box.” | detectives who had examined Mrs. from his lips comes the testimony of im- proper relations existing between them. He comes with malice in his heart and strikes her down.” He poked some quiet fun at Dr. Bishop of Dover, Del., saying the only patlents in the Pennington household who died were those upon whom he attended. The children who did not take any of his po- tions recovered. He gave the two women whisky and digitalls, both irritants, but never used the stomach pump or gave any antidote for arsenical poisoning. This closed the morning session, and the after- noon saw all this gone over again and again, until every grain had been thrashed out. The speaker took up the question of motive first, and soon dismissed it, going on to a discussion of arsenic. He said that while the box of sweets was in the possession of Detective McVey of Dela- ware the arsenic in it changed In some unaccountable manner from lump to pow- der, to fit the theory of the prosecution. This inconsistency he left for the jury to explain away. He attacked the testimony of the candy girls and their methods of identifying Mrs. Botkin as the woman to whom they sold the candy on thd#t Sunday afternoon in July. He could not understand why a woman of Mrs. Botkin's intelligence would say she wanted some candy left out so that she could put in a handker- chief, when it would fit there without any belng removed, and her request would surely be a hint that she was the woman who was wanted for a crime if it had been committed. He claimed that the defense had impeached Kitty Dettner and the prosecution did not try to strengthen her standing by calling rep- utable witnesses who knew her. The lobby gave vent to its amusement | when he referred to the cook of the | Hotel Victoria as the ‘“goggle-eved pot- walloper,” and Judge Cook thereupon or- dered that those who could not find seats | be removed. He maintains dignity and | decorum at any cost. By this time Mr. | “TAIS WOMAY, WITHOUT A STAIN Ot HER d ESCUTCHESY, McGowan had again reached the candy | box on his rounds, and attacked it with | his old vigor. Later on he ridiculed the | Bot- | kin's room and found no evidence. Later Rosella found the bit of pasteboard. detective who could not find that seal, he seld, ‘‘could not catch an afternoon train if he had a schedule In his hand Discussing Mrs. Harris, the saleswoman of the City of Parls, he quoted. “O, what | a tangled web we weave when first we | practice to deceive.” [ When he finally came to the matter of | expert testimony, Attorney Hosmer ob- | Jected to his reading from a law book to the jury. Judge Cook told him the juryi must take its law from the Judge and | not from the attorney. He quoted from the testimony where Ames said “the note | in the candy box was most clearly dis- guised; it is drawn, not written, and the | letters are distorted.” Expert Elsen- | schimmel had said: “There are no dis- gulses in it whatever. It represents the | natural handwriting of defendant, the | only change being in the slant of the letters.” He asked the jury not to take a | human life on a matter of handwriting; | it was too frivolous a pretext. | In closing, he asked the jury not to | cast a stain on the fair name of the ac- | cused woman's family (Brown). He | warned them of the terrible penalty of | their taking an innocent life and to spare | the fair name of the State from an unjust | verdict; to decide in the light of the evi- | dence as sanctioned by the law, which | was founded on justice. | Mr. Hosmer will make the closing argu- | ment for the prosecution to-day. | 'WONDERFUL DISCOVERY IN ELECTRICAL FORCE One Million Volts Can Be Diffused in Body and All Forms of Bacilli Destroyed. the Call Office, Riggs House, WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 29. There will soon be filed In the Patent Office an appli- cation for a patent on a discovery in electro-therapeutics which promises to create a tremendous sensation In the medical and electrical world. It will be shown that glass Is the conductor of an electric current of wonderful elec- tro-motive force, but by means of the Intervention of glass plates. It is positively asserted that by the process to be patented 1,000,000 volts of electro-motive force may be diffused and evenly charged to all parts of the human body, not only without physical sensation to the patient but so as to bring sure death to all forms of bacilli, in- cluding tuberculosis. HA AR AN NN NS AR RN LN REBRRRLRRREES Parasites to Destroy rests. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—The Super- visors of this county have received a re- port from George Compere, their com- missioner in Hawali, who was sent there for the purpose of securing parasites for fruit tree pests. He states that he has forwarded parasites which destroy aphis and also the pests which have been at- tacking the English walnut trees. The success of the new acquisitions will be NRUUUUUYURIIIIILS LRUVUVRUULRURIINIININ Suicide of a School Boy. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Horace B. Todd, 18 years of age, a pupll at the High School here, committed suicide about 1 o'clock to-day by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. No cause {s known for the act. The boy's father, Dr. B. Todd, is a dentist in Aspen, Colo., and his mother and sister are traveilng in Eu- rope. He was living here with a younger brother In the family relldenc!. 'fhe watched with interest by fruit men. brother can offer no reason for the deed. CHURCH 1:Hé VAGRANT NOT. MURDERER DUNHAM| So the Columbus Prisoner Escapes With a Sentence of Five Days’ Imprisonment. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 23.—The police reached the definite conclusion to-day that Church is not Dunham. The pri; oner was sentenced to five days for va- grancy, the motive for the detention be- ing a telegram from Milwaukee asking that Church be held until officers from | that city can get here. Church is wanted at Milwaukee to answer to several charges of swindling in connection with a closing out sale. He interested a Mil- waukee citizen to such an extent that the latter mortgaged his property for $200. Church took this money and later ap- peared at Waukesha, where he swindled another man. et GOLD THE ACTUAL MONETARY STANDARD The Nation’s Policy Should Be Such as to Insure Its Sta- bility. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 29.—At the morning session of the American Eco- nomic Conventlon, now being held in this city, the report on banking and currency was presented. Following is an extrac “Under existing conditions the only wise and consistent policy for the United States is the frank recognition of the fact that the actual monetary standard is now, and for some time to come will be, gold, and the adoption of legislation . ‘which shall insure the entire stability of that standard, until such time as the nation n::y have - declded to establish some other.” S S Slated for the Russian Mission. NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: Former Governor Merriam of Minnesota is sald to be slated to succeed Secretary Hitchcock as Embassador to Russia. GAGE NOW RESORTS T0 PETTY EVASIONS He Is Here Asked a Question and Plain, Straightforward an Answer Is Desired. Proofs Are Offered to Estab lish the Fact That He Seeks to Retain Gunst in Office at the Re- quest of Colonel Dan Burns. OVERNOR-ELECT GAGE does not take kindly to criticism. He is shocked and grieved because The Call has related in detail the man- ner In which he proposes to carry out his promise to Dan Burns to keep Burns' gambling partner, Moses Gunst, in oifice as a member of the Board of Police Com- missioners in this city. Being loth to remain in a bad light be- fore the people of the State to whom he made such glowing promises during the recent campalgn, Mr. Gage has had niw- elf interviewed by the Examiner, Calonel Rurns' organ, the interview being evi dently intended to soften the fall which the Governor-elect seems to think he is about to experience in the minds - of those who voted for him and who sup- ported him during the campaign. among other things Mr. Gage says that the ques- tion of the reappointment of Gunst had nothing te do with the fixing of the date of his inauguration for January 4. To prove this he quotes at length from nu- merous legal decisions in this and other States relative to the status of Mr. Gunst's incumbency, thus proving beyond a doubt that he had never given a thought to the question until the moment he was approached by the interviewer. A careful reading of the interview dis- closes the fact that Mr. Gage did not deny that he had promised Colonel Burns to keep Gunst in office; that he did not | deny that he had told Governor Budd that he (Gage) had fixed January 4 as the date of his inauguration because he had been requested to do so by the executive &mmittee of the Republican State Cen- | tral Committee; and that he did not deny | that he sent Governor Budd the following message some days ago: “Do you intend to appoint a suc- eessor to Poliece Commissioner Guns “Colonel Burns has been very kind to me, and I feel that I am un- der obligations to him. He wants Gunst to continue in office, and now that I am in a position to handle this matter for him I feel that I ought to do it. I am in no hurry to be inaugurated, and would prefer to let matters take their usual course, but if it becomes necessary I can be inaugurated in time to handle this appointment. Unless I get the proper assurances I feel that I ought to take such a course as will prevent any mistakes.” Governor-elect Gage did not see fit to deny that he sent to Governor Budd such a message as the above, though he is quoted as saying that the question of Mr. Gunst's reappointment had nothing to do with the fixing of the date of the inaugu- ration. Mr. Gage is now given an oppor- tunity to deny that he sent such a message to Governor Budd through the Governor's private secretary. If | he has a sufficient disregard for the truth as to deny that he sent such a message The Call will produce the proofs of his untruthfulness. The issue is plain and no honest man will seek to avoid it or pretend to mis- understand it. Either such a message was sent or it was not. The Call says that it was and stands ready to prove it | If the | if Mr. Gage sees fit to deny it. message was sent, then Mr. Gage, by his own words, has undertaken because of his friendship for Colonel Burns to con- tinue Mr. Gunst in office. It is also true that upon the certainty of being able to keep his promise to Colonel Burns de- pended the fixing of the date for his in- auguration. He says: “I am in no hurry to be inaugurated, but if it becomes ne- cessary 1 can be inaugurated in time to handle this appointment. Unless I get the proper assurances I feel that I ought | to take such a course as will prevent any mistakes. The ‘*proper assurances” were not forthcoming, for Governor Budd refused to promise that he would not appoint Mr. Gunst's successor. Thereupon Mr. Gage fixed the date of his appointment for January 4, “in time to handle this ap- pointment,” and so prevented the liabil- ity of there being ‘“‘any mistakes,” be- cause Mr. Gunst's term of office expires, if it expires at all, on January 5. It is all a very simple matter. Gunst and Colonel Burns are personal friends and gambling partners. Colonel Burns and Mr. Gage are personal friends and political associates. Mr. Gunst wishes to retain the office of member of the Board of Police Commissioners. Colonel Burns has promised to aid him to that end. Colonel Burns has asked Mr. Gage to retain Mr. Gunst in office and Mr. Gage had promised to do so. After communi- cating with Governor Budd he ascertained that he would be unable to keep his prom- ise to Colonel Burns unless he fixed the date of his Inauguration for January 4. This date was fixed upon accordingly and for the reasons mentioned. The Call knows little and cares less con- cerning the legal status of Mr. Gunst's incumbency. If there is a difference of opinion between gentiemen learned in the law regarding’ the expiration of Mr. Gunst's term/of office the question can be easily and finally determined by resort to the courts. It is very evident that Mr. Gage has studled the matter carefully, be- cause of his ability to refer in detail to numerous judicial decisions bearing on the point at issue. It is equally apparent that he belleves that Mr. Gunst's term of office will expire on January 5, from the purport of his, message to Governor Budd and his subfquent actlon in fixing the date of his own inauguration for Jan- uary 4, thus giving himself the privilege of allowing Mr. Gunst to remain in office, During the campaign that resuited in Mr. Gage's election The Call did what was in its power to promote his candi- dacy, believing that the assurances af his honest intentions to serve the best in- Mr. | terests of the people—such assurances be- ing made both privately .and publicly— were made in good faith and would be carried out. Whatever course this paper or its proprietor has taken with reference to the matter that forms the subject of this and previous articies has been done for the sole purpose of preventing Mr. Gage from violating his ante-election | pledges and making the mistake that put a smirch- upon the closing days of Gov=- ernor Markham's administration. The people of San Francisco gave Gov= ernor Budd a majority of about 12,000 votes. They gave Mr. Gage a majority of about 4000. Under his proposed leadership the city changed from a Democratic com= munity to a Republican community. This | fact alone should entitle its people to very thoughtful and careful consideration at his hands. When Governor Markham appointed Moses Gunst Police Commissioner mass- | meetings composed of the best and most highly respected business men, capitalists and wage earners of this city were held to protest against the insult that had been put upon the people of San Francisco. Unfortunately the law. was so construed as to render these protests futile. Now there is a possibility that circumstances will permit of the retirement of Mr. Gunst to the society of the associates from which- he was elevated at the re- quest of Dan Burns Governor-elect Gage steps forward, again at the request of Dan Burns, and proposes to prevent the retirement. Is this the way Mr. Gage proposes to keep his ante-election promises? Is this the manner in which Mr. Gage intends to | reply to the people of San Francisco for supporting him so handsomely at the polls on election day? During the campaign ang since Mr. } Guge asserted that he would not be dominated by any person, newspaper or | corporation. Now that he i& put to the test is he going to permit himself to be dominated by the person or persons who wish to retain Mr. Gunst in office? | The Call does not ask of Mr. Gage that it be allowed to dictate who shall or shall not be appointed Police Commissioner for San Francisco. It does propose, however, that the people of this city shall be made aware of the manner in which their inter- ests are being considered by the chief executive of the State, and it reserves for itself the right to criticize his acts and to adopt such measures as it deems neces- sary to reveal his motives and make them | plain, if it so be that there is good ground | for believing that such motives are not | for the best interests of the city. | EMBASSADOR ROMERD | DIES AT WASHINGTON | Recently Underwent an Operation for Appendicitis—Remains Will Be Taken to Mexico. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3).—Embassador Romero of Mexico died this (Friday) | morning at 4 o'clock, aged 62 years. The | remains will be taken to Mexico for inter- ment. He had just undergone an opera- tion for appendicitis. | Soagaei b 'JIM CORBETT SAYS & SHARKEY WILL WIN But the Sailor Thinks That Kid Mec- | Coy Will Give Him the Battle | of His Life. NEW YORK, Dec. —Jim Corbett tips Tom Sharkey as the winner over McCoy in their fight January 10. When asked to give his opinion, Corbett said: “Sharkey | will win, of course. He ought to put McCoy to sleep before the twentieth round is reached.” {‘be at the fight. | McCoy Is still a slight favorite in the betting at 100 to %, and unless something jun!uresecn happens he will remain at | these odds up to the time the men begin their fight. McGQoy is visited every day by sporting men from this city, and if their statements of the Kid's condition are true, it certainly looks as if he stands a chance of defeating Sharkey. The latter, however, Is not a bit worried over the glowing reports he hears of McCoy's condition, and says he feels as confident of getting the decislon as McCoy does. Sharkey, In speaking about his chance of winning from McCoy, said: “I feel pretty sure that I will beat McCoy, but I don't expect to do It before going through the hardest fight I have experienced. McCoy I consider a great fighter, and as I re- gard him as being a better fighter than Corbett I am sure he will make me fight the battle of my life before I finally beat him Corbett said he would Sindis CHANDLER AND LOUD CLASH IN COMMITTEE Heated Colloquy Between the Senator and the California Repre- sentative. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—At to-day's sessfon of the joint committee appointed to investigate and report to Congress on the » compensation - paid raflroads for transporting malls there was a heated col- loquy between Senator Chandler and Rep- resentative Loud of California. C. W. Ernst of the Boston Postoffice was on the stand, belng cross-examined by Mr. Loud, whose questions were objected to by Sen- ator Chandler. ““The Senator seems to have constituted himself an attorn.y for the witness,” said Mr. Loud, with asperity. “The Representative from California seems to have constituted himself an at- torney for rallroads,” retorted Chandler. This led to further controversy of such a character that it was deemed proper to close the doors, and, In other words, an executive session was moved and carried, What transpired is not known, but after. ward Senator Chandler sald ‘apologetio- ally: T regret this occurrence. No ong would intentionally impugn the character of Mr. Loud.”