The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1899, Page 1

Call SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JAN SENATOR REQUIESCAT IN PACE. ——— John Boggs, one of band of hardy | PIONEER | 00000000000000P20000 atorial District The sev tnight days. ome. The family d there death cam cold oped deve sa County. ved in this city last umber of t th n to th It 1s Mrs. to the cemetery. e conducted JOHN B pervises his father’s great agricul- Both were summoned by r to offe ral and Mrs. C Boges’ ‘, 06GS JOINS THE MAJORITY od of t of a Mor ; @& rugged and John Boggs, wi h him to the las followed the front California in the hi e then until hi; t force o kill was he S. d farmed of his e On his an yield for those who till it. ways fed on the be: cured, raised on th State Senate, evening. friends called upon history of Missouri from the a Governor, demic training of his early he died in that official harness. Senator Boggs was first elected to the State Senate in rving four years, CALIFORNIA | ARGONAUT. | hat State. It gave to Rl ho survived the ! FARMER ‘mon assassin to kill ¥——————% brave man after the traits of the fam- th an early set of that energy that was t, secured a good education, and then T that followed the sun, and arrived in igh and mighty mining days of 1849, and s death has been a vital part of the f enterprising men. All of his business put into farming. Of a race of plant- ¢ of his forbears to the soil. At acramento Valley, he owned a princi- it as carefully as if it were ten acres. mple will appear in his method as a t holding he produced everything that the market and is needed to support His great force of workmen was al- st of bacons, hams, fresh meats and e ranch. Every domestic fowl that can flourish and yield food was pro- duced there. All that the garden, orchard, vine- yard and dairy have to give was there. This s worthy of men- tion because va- riety farming is not the practice in California and the State suffers because it is not. Its fruits in his case were im- pressive, for year after year the profits of his ranch reached a hundred thou- sand dollars. He was a work- ing farmer. Al- though always of slight physique his hand knew the plow handle, snath and sickle. He loved to do a day's work on the land, and knowing a day's stint, exacted no more from any man that ever toiled in his fields. With all his skill and indus- try and success as a farmer,John Boggs had his family's talent for public life, and kept a cur- rent interest in it, without aban- doning himself to fts seddetions andé its certain diver- sions from his calling. Long and use- fully connected with the State Agricultural So- clety as director and president, he served as Regent of the State Uni- versity and later of Stanford Uni- versity,and there applied the aca- life. Twice elected to the and returned again to the er their condol house in 1887. From 1876 to 1880 he was a director of hipman and S State I ne Asylum, and from the latter year | he was a member of the State Board of Agricul- ted by Rev. Board of e conclusion of the He never got through h e funeral train and selves. Always a busy from his own affa but onl wish - that the tion d her wishes in which capacity he rendered invaluable aid to the He was appointed Penology Commissioner in 1885. State Prison Director during 158-§7. He also served on Yosemite Vs he and they knew it,.for he was utterly without 1 v Commissioners. ping other men to help them- man, he turned the most” wilingly to kb :Ip others in need and trouble, : ected re invit sentand it is ostentation in h rities and in all things. Always ap- ® taco e of both I of the Legisla- proachable, genial, thoughtful of others, he had the natur- ® in attendance. al dignity of a gentieman and never lost { I S hn S s the changes He bore his years so well that the news ¥—— —— ® | that have come fa pass before of h painfully impresses the entire H IEN tha m rnia pass befor [ & SENATOR | him, like a proc He was of good State. Not many of our men of affairs REGENT @ * ——# farm-bred stock, and of a family noted could go and be as sincerely mourned. S [d (1 1] LT @ 2090 20000 0 NOT No Element of Strength Added to His Fight, CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- —The forced resigna- | ,‘O‘G’OOO‘G‘OOOQOOOOO +THCH 0404 OI0+0I040+040404 040+ RIGHT POSES AS AN INJURED INNOCENT ia Legislature, and to the Secretary of State—Gentle- In view of the circumstances attending the recent investiga- tion, and the report of the select committee now familiar to che As- sembly, I deem it due to myself and to the Assembly to present : W 4040 sion Californi men: this communication: It It is due to me to sayt stated all of the facts that mittee to be censurable. thet the committee has done ms Nevertheless, as shown by that reason. kindness and courtesy in the past, @ CHOFTHO4T 040404040 +D+T 404040404040+ 0+ RIUMPH FO I feel that in many respects the findings and conclusions of the committee are unjunst and unwarranted by the evidence. can not be asserted that I ever denied to any one a single fact sustained by the testimony. 1t is not pretended by any one that I have been guilty of any crime. appears that some members of the Assembly suggest that I ought not to continue to preside as Spaaker. Th-refore, thanking the members of the Assembly for their Speaker, and ask that it be accepted at once. +04040404 0404040424 O 4040 1040 + 0404040404040+ 040404 R BURNS tion of Howard E. Wright from the Speakership has not added a single ele- ment of strength to Burns. The pro- motion of Alden Anderson to the office of Speaker is in no sense a Burns triumph. The boast of the touts that Burns made Mr. Anderson the Speaker of the Assembly is designed to fool the credulous with the notion that the | colonel can swing things in the Legis~ lature if he desires. It is true that the Burns men in the Assembly voted in caucus for Anderson, but they did so for the reason that Belshaw was fur. ther from their liking than Anderson. hat 1 freely and frankly are alleged by the com- nor do I admit for a moment I therefore repeat that I feel a grave injustice. the report of the committee, it I do not wish to do so for I now tender my resignation as HOWARD E. WRIGHT. - BL040404040+ 040404040404 040404 0+ OIO+04I0404040400 Alden Anderson is an open supporter | of General Barnes. He went into the | | Barnes camp after full and deliberate | | reflection, and went there to Atherton of Marin, another outspck&n; | advocate of Barnes' election, changed | | his vote from Belshaw to Anderson. | This change produced a tie. Mr. Mer- | ritt, a supporter of Grant, then voted | for Anderson. | This evening the boast was made by | the Burns following that Speaker An- | derson would to-morrow morning ap- | point Wright to the committees on | that ‘Wright the chairmanship of the Com- | mittee on Corporations to succeed the | promoted Assemblyman from Solano County. The touts speak of the ex- pected appointmer. to-nirht because | they fancy that the announcement will be made before another issue of the ~sjan Francisco dailies can reach the city. | The plain facts in the case are that | Anderson did not enter into a pro-| gramme with the Burns men. He did | not give a pledge or the hint of a | pledge in connection with the Speaker- ship. It is probable that he will ap- point Wright to the committees on which he (Anderson) held a subordinate posi- | tion, but as far as can be ascertained | he entertains no thought of placing the | deposed Speaker at the head of the| Committee on Corporations. The posi- tion is one of honor and responsibility. | | It should be filled by a man of char- acter and good principles. The report circulated by the touts that Anderson | entered into a programme with the | Burns men to appoint Wright to the head of that committee is an insult| which the true men of the Legislature | will resent. No one here is willing to | believe that Speaker Anderson ever thought of appointing Wright to the chairmanship of an important com- mittee. The fact is recognized that a feeling of sympathy for a disgraced | and dishcnored young man constrained | the Assembly to accept Wright's resig- | nation rather than demand his expul- | sion. The letter of resignation must | | be accepted as a confession of guilt. No other meaning can be attached to it. | The assertion therefore that Mr. An- der entertains the thought of reversing | Continued on Third Page. | indefinitely. | for the adoption of the committee's Te- | publican success since 1880, including JARY 31, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HOWARD E. WRIGHT RESIGNS - 10 FORESTALL DECAPITATION 0T OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE THE BLOW COULD FALL Must Rest Under All the Odium Attaching to His Acts. PUNISHMENTTflOUfiTSUFFlClENT After a Scoring Speech in Support of a Resolution of Expulsion the Speaker Was Dropped Into Com- parative Oblivion. COMMITTEE WORK COMES IN FOR DISCUSSION Democratic Members Try to Make Capital Oat of the Situation and Get a Chance to Work in a Campaiga Speech or Two for Future Use and Also to Lelp the Han From Mexico. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 30.—Without one dis- senting voice the Assembly this after- | noon adopted the report of the special committee investigation that charges -and convicts Howard E. Wright of crimes and transgressions of the moral laws so great that even public censure was not deemed ade- quate to their punishment. Without one dissenting, voice the As- sembly set the seal of {ts convictions of and concurrence in the charges that have brought Howard E. Wright and his crooked career to a public and in- glorious finish. With the same unanimity it has vindicated the course The Call has pursued since it first un- earthed the ex-Speaker's wrong-doing and has Indorsed the efforts this journal has made to instil into the present Senatorial fight some element of cleanliness. The punishment that would surely have been his portion Wright antici- pated by resigning from the high posi- tion from which it was the fixed inten- tion of this Legislature to pull him by force if he should refuse to volun- tarily relieve it of the odium of his au- thority. Howard Wright saved him- self from further public humiliation by following the advice of his Mexican master and withdrawing from a posi- tion from which he would have been on stay. | Incontinently tossed, but in adopting | When the vote in the caucus stood 26| the report of the committee that de- | for Anderson and 28 for Belshaw, Mr. | clared him guilty the Assembly set the | brand of its convictions so deep in his political hide that not the power of a Burns nor the combined influence of his hirelings will ever efface it and make him fit again to sit where honesty and uprightness in public things sit in open assembly. The Assembly realized this and for this reason stopped at his enforced withdrawal and the ratification of the which he (Anderson) was serving and | committee findings. That he was not | the announcement would give | disbarred from the floor he can lay to: the similitude of decency to which he laid claim by virtue of the apparently voluntary resignation. It was not the findings in the case of ‘Wright that percipitated the squabble that ensued this afternoon when the committee report came up on the spe- cial order. The committee itself was the contention. The Grant people were out to save Milton Green, Grant's rath- er unique political manager, from the contempt proceedings that have been hanging over his head. The com.nittee, except the minority part of it, was in the fight because it wanted to be re- lieved from the onus of further duty. The minority wanted to go on as long as there were any Republicans lefr to work on. The majority cause being a common one with Grant, the two fac- tions combined. Dibble and the Burns people were in it to make all of the Burns capital they | could out of the censure that was ad- ministered to Grant, but they did not want to take a chance on anything be- ing turned up on the Burns camp, so Dibble introduced a resolution = that hasn't its equal on the records for uniqueness. He wanted the committee discharged and he also wanted it kept in commission, but with its pewesr lim- ited to dealing with Milton Green. Bel- | shaw looked at it from a Bulla stand- point, and wanted everything to go along just as merrily as it has bYeen, and he expressed a desire to ve everybody in the State investiga'ted. He amended Dibble’s resolution to the extent that none of it was left and so that it provided that the committee should continue with its investigation The report also provided (3 port. As amended it read as follows: Whereas, The Special Committee of In- vestigation of the methods employed in the election of a United States Senator has made its report to the House; | Resolved, That the said report be and | the same is hereby adopted and approved as a partial report. | Mr. Dibble accepted the amendment | and then the fight began. Young Mr. Works of San Diego came largely into | evidence.’! He headed the fight for | | Green by rushing frantically to Bel- shaw while the latter was at the clerk’s desk presenting his resolution and be- sought him to amend by allowing the dismissal of the committee. “Let up on Green,” entreated the San | Diego yearling, “that’s all past now.” | But Belshaw would not stand for it | and insisted on his amendment. Works | got mad and introduced one of his own | which he moved as a substitute for Bel- shaw’s. Mr. Works wanted to resolve that the report of the committee be adopted and the committee be and here- | by is discharged. Then Burnett of the | | minority end of the committee came to | the front with his amendment which | was significant as showing the spirit | of the whole Democratic minority. It| was as follows: | Resolved, That the report of the Spe- | | clal Investigation Committee be and it is | hereby adopted; and be it further | Resolved, That the Special Investigation | | | { | | | | | Committee be instructed to investigate and report what other members, if any, of the Assembly accepted flnancial aid during the last campaign from any Sena- torial candidate and whether such finan- | cial aid was accepted with the express or | implied understanding that their votes for Senator were thereby pledged to the candidate furnishing such financial aid. i’ Mead of Los Angeles took occasion | | at this point to get in a little Demo- | | eratic swat at the majority. He wanted | the committee kept right at work. He | | believed it should go into every Assem- | | bly district in the State. He said he could point out districts where Re- | publican money was used, and Burnett chimed in with the statement that he | | knew for a certainty it had been used | against him. Brown, a majority de- | | fender from San Mateo, came to the | fore in defense of his colleagues and | demanded that the committee be dis- | charged and that the minority be given | no further chance to crowd the ma- jority to the wall. McDonald of Ala- | meda also came to the front. A call was made for the previous question be- | fore he had had a chance to come into | evidence and with a “Hold 6n there, the amen corner has got a word or two to say,” he climbed over all of the in- tervening furniture and landed in front | of the press desk. He belabored the minority and every one else and gave off loud demands for the discharge of the overworked committee. “All these minority fellows is trying to do,” quoth he, “is make political capital out of us and fill this here chamber up with a Democratic majority next time.” The star event though came from the rival leaders on the floor. John- son made it another occasion to snarl | at the heels of the press, and Uncle | Collis’ little bowwow did not overlook | any bets. When he -had no facts he manufactured them and the result on | the whole was highly successful. Judge | Dibble took his occasion when he got up to demand the previous question. | The judge spent fully ten minutes in manufacturing glowing political docu- THOHO4040404040 40404 0+ 0+ O+040+0+04040404040+S+ 04 party when the next campaign comes along. He callea up two bills he has introduced entitled, "How to be hon-[ est, though crooked,” and explained | that they were intended to prevent the debauchery of State politics by every[ wealthy aspirant to Senatorial honors. | He said in effect that Stephen White .was the only United States Senator; !elected from this State who had not had recourse to. Colonel Mazuma to ef- fect his election. He held up Hearst and also Stantord and every other Re- i ments to be used by the Democratic | 1 BO+O+0+0+ ff et i un: | O O R S SEOBOISTRCISSONSORIIRT0NS O 83 01 BP0 SI0STUISTNIA 10183 101 83101 83101 83101 B3 STLITOIITRO B Perkins, as monsters of political wrong- doing and prayed In tear-choked ac- cents that this thing might be stopped. To do the judge justice he was simply attempting to make capital for Burns out of the censure the investigating committee has heaped on Ulysses S. Grant. He had really no ulterior mo- tive. The previous question prevailed and Belshaw’s amendment to Dibble's reso- lution was adopted. Howard E. Wright was officially declared guilty. \'The next business was his punishment.| Matters were delayed for a space by Senator Charles .1. Shortridge of Santa Clara, who at that moment arose and ad- journed, and then Burnett, who had been holding back a resolution that was suspected of being a warm one, cla the Speaker's attention. Here Clerk Kyle read: Resolved, by the Assembly of the State of California, two-thirds of all the members elected to the same con- curring, that Howard E. Wright, a member of the Assembly, represent- ing the Fifty-first Assembly District of the State of California therein, be | and he is hereby expelled, and his seat in said Assembly is hereby de- clared vacant. ‘What Burnett had to say in support of his resolution he prefaced with the statement that he was actuated by no feeling of bitterness or any considera- tion of party difference. He said he called for Wright's expulsion from the Assembly upon the ground that only such action would be consistent with the adoption of the findings of the com- mittee. Mr. Burnett spoke at much length, but it w evident from the start that the result of his resolution had been already programmed by the | majority. He was replied to by Judge Dibble, who looked pained and spoke from the Bible.. Mr. Dibble. conjured up the Pharisees and compared them with the political hypocrites of the present day. THE NEW SPEAKER, ALDEN ANDERSON < lms:msce:uxsaxsmwrmesnzzaswmafiusmwmmmwom&i SR O OB ORI K 0 0 PO ORORE 101 85 01 88 XX SR I0H B3 0H 23 L SEOBCETI SN 2 : g 2 : g 2 & =3 s g g b= 2 o 8 =3 2 =3 e b= £ g 2 g g g =3 e f= 8 b= e o 2 k=3 & o ‘8{ X After he had dewlt upon the punish- ment that had already come to the fallen Speaker he called upon " him among his hearers who'was guiltless to cast the first stone. And when the vote came on there were only a few of them fired and they all came from the minority. The vote that killed off Burnett’s resolution stood 56 to 18 and as it was there was a scant half dozen of the minority who cast their votes for the protection of their ex-Speaker. Radcliff of Santa Cruz declined to vote at all and Dale, Knights and Hanley were on the absent list. ¢ The retaining of the committee in‘its present capacity left the Green matter in a proper condition and upon the pre- sentation of another physician’s cer- tificate his hearing went over to Friday, Money for Political Pie. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 30.—The twenty-six Repub- lican Senators caucused this evening. Under the amended Belshaw act they had each $14 worth of patronage to distribute and ‘pass over to hungry hangers-on, who have been waiting here for four weeks to obtain a seat at the ple counter. The Senators had no difficulty in arriving at an amicable adjustment of the patronage question. The increase of the expense of conducting the Senate under the new law amounts to $364 per day. Under the Bel- shaw act as originally passed each Sen- ator had $13 50 per worth of patronage This amount, to a total ex- to pass out. 1 ! p:-n‘;n nf per day, with the addition of $364 which created by the new law, means tr 5 per day of the money of s is pald out dally to Senate attaches. pon;tion Bills. Committee on Corporations this ev nd were reported back fa- vorably—bill 29 act enabling cor- porations owning property in forelgn countries to dispose of the same, and bill 39, an act to amend an act providing for the organization and management of fire insurance companies. . g % 9 © & b3 3 s 3 + % 8 % = cious lie. tongue. as a miserable Iiax makes it possible fo € GROVE L. JOHNSON A MALICIOUS LIAR CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Jan. 80.—Assemblyman Grove L. from Sacramento, arose in his seat this after- noon and gave uiterance to a deliberate and mali= The lie was malicious because it was uttered with an intent to do an injury; it was de- liberate because no one knows better than Mr. Johnson that it was a lie. Here is what he said: “There is another man in San Francisco—a man claiming to have great power in this State—a man also owning a great newspaper—one John D. Spreckels—who has published in the columns of his paper that these same twenty-five men who have voted as I have voted for a United States Senator (for Burns) have been bought to do so.” The Call has never made such a charge, either directly, indirectly or by intimation. Mr. John- son is challenged to produce a copy of the paper of whatever date in the columns of which he can find subtantiation for the utterances of his Mr. Johnson must do this or stand convicted whose lack of conscience him to violate the honorable privileges of the Assembly. WM‘OMOMWWOMM ¢ § Johnson, member lying H404+040404C4040404040+040 4040+ 0+ 0+ 040+ 0+0+0+0+0+0+040+C+0+