The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANTUARY 31, 1899. TRIBUTE TO SENATOR BOGGS MEMORY. NOW ENROLLED IN THE SILE Death of Senator Boggs Announced to His Confreres. After Appropriate Resolutions the Members Lis- tened to the Eulogy and Tribute to a Friend by Mr. Morehouse. HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| Jan. 30.—“Senator Boggs is | > to answer roll call. He died ce Hotel in San Francisco at k this morning.” 1s the Senate convened this | d the first roll call had pro- as far as the name of Senator Senator Dickinson arose and the above statement. For a full there was a hush in the Senate | er, for the announcement of the death came as a surprise and a sincere »w to many of the Senators, col- s who knew him only to love er the joint session and when the| had reconvened, tor Dick- Sen, ution In the bers of the Assembly to p mmittee Lo draft suitable e memory of our late hon- € med colleague, Hon. John Bog A e with the resolution the | x « nitt appointed: | s Dickinson, and Davis. | > Senate wa to the the nd the action taken immediately trans- Assembly. That body | resolution and te-morrow 1 | to be appropriately draped on the day NT MAJORITY morning Speaker Anderson will an- nounce the committee he has appointed. The resolution in the Senate and the mbly was adopted by a rising vote. | n the Senate the desk was ordered of the funeral. A committee of Sena- tors was also ordered appointed to at- | tend the funeral as representatives of | that branch of the Legislature. Senator Dickinson in offering the | concurrent resolution paid a high unm-{ pliment to the deceased in a few hl‘lcfi But Senator Morehouse, who | a close friend of the late Sen- Boggs, on the floor made quite an extensive speech. In speaking of the character and life of the departed | legislator Senator Morehouse said: egret very much the untimely death Senator Boggs. 1 have known him for period of thirty ye: tremely pleased to les that a seat by me on the floor of the life is one of the brigh history and hi word for and courage. To my his acts of benevolence have made many homes happy that were otherw and_misfortune. only a few days ago, knowing that he w of the minority in the Senate, that his kindly nature prompted him to give a situation to a young lady and pay her compensation from his personal funds. His business interests required him to o | home and he requested me to obtain a | leave of absence for three days, which I | did. At the end of that time 1 received | a letter from his daughter requesting a further leave of absence. Then later I was notified of his ill and 1 obtained for him an indefinite e of absence. ened by povert To-day the sad news comes to all of us | of his death. He had climbed the summit | of life'and passed down the opposite side | to where the great shadows entomb him in the everlasting unknown. He was one of those grand, good and old-fashioned Southern gentlemen whose honor was un- guestionable and whose manliness made him respected by all who knew him. He belonged to that generation whose energy and character have builded this mighty. empire of the West. His industry and force of character made him the leading man of the community in which he re- sided. In the commercial world his large wealth made him a commanding figure, and his never to be doubted honesty made him such a bright example of that up- rightness of conduct in all business trans- actions that he was looked upon as one of the leaders of commereial thought and commercial integrity. As a banker he was prudent, just and honorable. Yet he possessed those tender sympathies that made his business tran- actions pleasurable to all who dealt with him. To my own knowledge, he pald a lady quite a large sum of money who claimed an interest in a piece of land the title of which was vested in his bank. He did not pay the money because there was any defect in the title or because the lady’s claim was an equitable one, but because he felt that it would be a delicate way to retrieve her poverty. He never took advantage at any time of any one. He would rather lose than to have it sald that he was unfair in any business trans- action. He was the soul of honor and a prince of men. As a Senator he was careful, intelli- gent, industrious and honorable. He was always to be found at his post and was absolutely reliable. I regret very much indeed that he has been removed from our midst. For his experience and charac- were a brillilant example for all of us to follow. He was not a fluent speaker, but his words carried conviction for the reason that his honesty of purpose was manifested to all. His opinions command- ed respect and his judgment could be re- lied upon. It will be a sad reflection to me to sit by his empty chair with his desk draped with the colors of;death. But while his personal presence 'will not be seen nor the soft, kind tones of his volce heard, or the gentle sparkle of his eye felt, I | shall not forget that the beauty of his character, the uprightness of his pur- the nobility of his motives, will er about me and guide and influence s though he were personally present. s wa aid by one of America’s greatest poets, “Lives of great men all remind us_we can make our lives sub- | lime and departing leave behind us foot- | prints on the sands of tim N0 TRIUMPY “TOR BURNS Continued From First Page. the judgment of the Assembly and recognizing Wright as a man worthy of confidence and respect is an insult to the Speaker’s intelligence, if not a re- flection on his integrity. Wright was thrown overboard because Colonel Burns could not endure the weight of supporting him. No doubt it might be very agreeable to the colonel if Speaker Anderson would now step forward and relieve Burns of the burden. Mr. Anderson is not the man to begin his career as Speaker by per- forming an act which would invite the indignation and contempt of the peo- ple of California. If allowed to serve on any committee the late Speaker should be placed at the narrative end of the Committee on Public Morals. The disgraced ex-Speaker is in the Burns camp to stay. Not another can- | didate desires his support. The colonel did expect at one time that the public enrollment of Wright among the touts would benefit the Candelaria cause, but that beautiful vision vanished when The Call presented Wright as he was, not as herseemed. The sum and sub- stance of the colonel’s progress since he established headquarters in Sacra- mento and involved the assistance of the “Organization,” may be expressed in two words—Wright and Jilson. The latter has been trying to break away from the colonel for the past week, but no other candidate wants his support. The expected gains from Butte and Santa Cruz have not been registered. The county central committees throughout the State comprehend the colonel's caucus scheme and little sup- port can be obtained from the old-fash- foned tricks, which formerly caught un- wary members of the Legislature. Vol- unteer letters and messages are com- ing from every county in the State urg- ing the representatives of the people to abandon the cause of Burns and to proceed to the election of a Senator acceptable to the masses of the Re- publican party. The last lingering hope of the colonel lies in the dark lantern caucus. The quality of tenacity is not denied ‘him. He is obstinate, persistent and to some degree patient. He is a politician with propensities for gambling and mine jumping, and has no other occupation to engage his attention, therefore he fancies that he can wear out the other aspirants and ultimately force them to caucus. It s not yet clear to his mind that he is making a fight against the peonle in general and the Republi- can party in particular. As in the Es- tee campalgn he is blind to the facts and situations that are as clear as day- light to the observer who is not dulled by self-interest. The touts throw out hints to-night that the balloting next Wednesday will show the neonla that Burns can win. It i{s the same old | bluff with a new date line. Every known method short of downright pur- chase of votes for coin has been in- voked to increase the voting strength of the Burns forces, but it does not in- crease. ———e———— | William Pitt Washburne, youngest son | of the late Elihu B. Washburne, the | American minister at Paris during the | | Franco-Prussian war, died in Texas a few | ays ago. He was a Yale graduate and of | a i a literary bent. WRIGHT DROPPED OUT, ANDERSON ELEVATED Detail of the Proceedings Which Made the Change. : Assembly Business Goes Smoothly On and the Transformation of the Personnel of Of- ficials Take Place According ‘to Caucus Programme. threat of expulsion. infamy to the world. 0000000000000 0000 by the Assembly. [ 00000000000000000000000000000000000 SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30. — Howard E. Wright has folowed the orders of his master. The ultimatum that Burns is- sued to him last night that he should either resign or sacrifice Burns' further protection he has ablded by, and at.11:45 this morning he tendered to hiscolleagues his resignation as Speaker of the Assem- ly. b!):lls action caused no surprise among his fellows. The Call of this morning gave a clear account of his unpleasant half hour at Burns' Quarters last even- ing, when he was told that Burns had - TWO DAYS OF A CROOKED MAN’ JANUARY 13, 1899, JANUARY 30, 1899. i == | f 'Yf Qfrm—— Sausmuto~, S CAREER. On January 15 The Call exposed Wright and published his On January 16 the Assembly appointed a committee to inves- tigate the charges made by The Call. On January 27 the investigating committee found Wright guilty and recommended his deposition or expulsion. % On January 30 Wright forestalled deposition by resigning the Speakership, and the findings of the committee were accepted 00000000000000000000000000000000000 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30.—On Jan- uary 13 Howard E. Wright, then Speaker of the Assembly, pub- licly announced that he would expel the legislative correspondents of this paper from the floor of the Assembly. On January 14 The Call challenged Wright to carry out his 0000000000000000 (4] exfbugh with his own fight without shoul- dering troubles of others and predicted that though he had not consented to fol- low his master’s advice he would do so after a whole night of hard thinking. He did not come in person to the cham- ber thils morning. Instead he was repre- sented by the letter of resignation which Speaker pro tem. Anderson found on his desk when he called the Assembly to or- der. The regular praver of the chaplain was allowed to proceed and the reading of the journal of yesterday's business was begun before the prearranged pro- gramme demonstrated its existence. Clerk Kyle had scarce begun the usual morning droning of the minutes when Dibble arose to move that the reading of the journal be dis- pensed with. Then Mr. Anderson an- nounced a communication, and Wright's message of self-effacement was taken up and read. It was painfully evident that it was a hurrried affafr. Confession has not been one of the deposed Speaker’'s weak- nsses, but there was a strong element of it in his note of withdrawal. His reason for resigning, he said, was not that he was guilty of the things that have been alleged against him; it was not that he wished to rid his fellow-legislators from the dis- grace that would be theirs so long as he persisted in the chair; on the contrary, it was simply that he considered that the committee had done him an injustice in not basing their findings on the facts adduced. To every one of the facts brought out during thesinvestigation he leaded guilty. He acknowledged that he ad admitted it, but he claimed that all the mass of evidence that proved his mul- titudinous crookedness did not warrant the rather lenient findings that had been laid before the House. He was quittin, his high estate solely because his ideas o good taste and fairness had been outraged and for no other reason. His rambling screed, however, brought out no comments; it simply ushered in the second number on the programme. Dibble again took the floor and said: “I understand that this resignation will be accepted, but I think we had better put further consideration of it off until this afternoon. Should we accept it now this house would be without a Speaker and in a disorganized condition. BY this after- noon we can have caucused and selected another Speaker; then the acceptance of the resignation will be in order.” There was no voice of dissent and it was so ordered. The matter was dropped for a time and the regular order of busi- ness was taken up, but interest was whol- ly given over to the paramount matter. The word went out several days ago that Speaker pro tem. Anderson would succeed to the Speaker’'s chair should Wright be ousted from it, and Anderson did succeed to it, though with by no means so little opposition as had been counted upon. 'wo opponents, and strong ones, devel- oped in Assemblymen Belshaw of Contra Costa County and Valentine of Los Ange- les. Valentine was the first choice of the Burns faction. Ever since the Los An- geles delegation insisted upon having the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, which Is held by Valentine, the Mexican forces have been filled with envy. Before they came to Sacramento Assemblyman Cobb, Chairman of the San Francisco delegation, had been lined up for that particular job, and disappoint- ment was general when he failed to get it. Burns is still after it, and an oppor- tunity came to get it when Wright's en- forced resignation was decided upon. As they had planned it Valentine would be urged to accept the Speakership, and no trouble was anticipated in prevaliling upon him to take it. His acceptance would of course leave the coveted vacancy in the Ways and Means Committee and Cobb would fall heir to it. The scheme worked all right up to the point where Valentine was brought into the consultation. Valentine was so pleased at the proffer that he found diffi- culty in finding fit expression, and would be delighted and all that, but he felt that his duty forbade that he resign the chair- manship at a time when so many matters of importance were before the committee, and as a matter of conscience he must decline the alleged greater honor and re- main where he was. He stood firmly to his decision, despite all cajoleries and threats, and the Burns people finally with- drew and sought out a new candidate. They found one in Alden Anderson, and it was Judge Dibble who placed him in nomination before the caucus this after- noon. The Grant people had some little politics to do as well. There is not one in the San Diegan’s camp who does not consider the demise of Bulla's Senatorial hopes an im- medlate possibility, and they are all work- ing hard on those of Bulla's thirteen votes that they do not feel sure of. Southern influence they consider strong enough to swing his southern strength, and their hardest work is being done on those ad- herents the southern Senatorial {mpossi- bility has gathered up here in the north. | Belshaw is their bright, particular hope, and Belshaw, it is said, was won over as a second choice possibility. At any rate the Contra Costan was given the nomination in a nice speech by young Mr. Works of San Diego and was also given the assurance that the Grant people were strong enough to carry him through almost anything. So they would have been but for a quick and characteristic bit of Burns politics that ‘W4s sprung at just the right moment. The first ballot gave Beishaw 28 votes and Anderson 2. Atherton of Marin County, who had thrown his vote to the Contra Costan, asked permission to change his vote from Belshaw to Ander- Reward of $20,000 Offered. A wealthy lady recently lost a satchel con- talning jewels worth $150,000, and now offers a reward of $20,000 cash to the finder. The loss of health is far more scrious than the loss of jewels, and yet it can be recovered without paying big rewards. A little money invested in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will tore strength to the weak, purify the blood, estab- lish regularity of the bowels and help the at":nllch to properly digest the food taken t i son. The result was a tie of 27 to 27 and a second ballot was ordered. The Burns influence was centered on Merritt of Los Angeles, who had also voted for Belshaw, and when his name was called on the second ballot he came over to Anderson on the jump, giving the Solano man the election by a majority of two votes. Belshaw then moved that Anderson’s, elction be made unanimous, and it was so ordered. Upon the Speaker pro tem. both sides agreed and after the formality of nom- ination Assemblyman Dunlap of San Joa- quin was tossed the office by unanimous vote. ucus was adjourned to go up- stairs and ratify both nominations in open session. Ex-Speaker Wright's resignation was the first order of business and it was quickly disposed of. resolution by Dibble called for the nce of his resignation forthwith, ¢ at once adopted. Wright became simply the mem- ber from Alameda, and will be of greatest utility hereafter as an object of interest to the curious visitor to’the floor of the Assembly. Mr. Anderson was then announced as the choice of the Republican majority for Speaker and the Democrats placed Meade of Los Angeles in the list as their nomi- nee. The nominating speech was made by Sanford of Mendocino. The voting gave the minority candidate simply the minority vote, and Anderson was declared elected. Against Dunlap the Assembly glnced Assemblyman Glenn of Glenn ounty and the ame vote resulted. Dun=- lap was declared elected and followed Anderson to the chair, both of them prop- erly attended by committees of three. Judge Hughes of this city administered the necessary oath of officé, and then Mr. Anderson and Mr. Dunlap indulged in the customary speeches. Mr.. Anderson said he was proud and would always try to do right. - Mr. Dun- lap said he was proud, too, but he turned Anderson’s speech around a bit. He an- nounced in sternest tones ‘‘As long as you do what's right you will have no trouble with me,” and with the roar of laughter that went up the incident of interest gavo way to the third call that has been made for’ Milton J. Green. Federal Official Il Deputy Surveyor of the Port Chauncey 8t. John was removed from his hotel yes- terday to the Waldeck Sanitarium in the ambulance of that instituuon. 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