The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 3

® FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903. THE SAN ¢ o SEN FNATE COMMITTEE READY TO OPEN INVESTIGATION INTO CHARGE THAT PILOT COMMISSIONERS ARE GUILTY OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION + —— e N al s * - s PR FFE REET“!BYS HIJ‘ morning at 10 o’clock the members of the Sen- f " ate Committee appointed to investigate the charges of | The Call that bribery and corruption mark the record of | the State Board of Pilot Commissioners for this port—that po- | sitions as pilots have been bartered for gold—will formally | open the hearing in the rooms of the Police Commission, Hall A of Justice. The members of the committee are agreed that if the charges of The Call are proven they will see that full | punishment is meted out to the guilty, and assert that if they | are not proven they will put on record that members of the | | Pilot Commission have been falsely accused. ifl U \ TED HOSTELRY Furnishes Fuel for a Lively e / 1/ / /l’ r 'f{’//// X T EMPLONV. VERY BRIEF ' Meas: rended LEGISLATORS STRIKE HARD | AT CRUELTIES | | |Assembly Members 3 iy 7l ‘ - LA Report Upon Torture lnfhcted byi ' \1 H o | | ‘ ‘ | \ e , | Prisons. Use of the Strait- || ‘ s e B Speclal Dispatch to The Call JaCket' | o . : . Ac RAMENTO, Dec. 13.—After o g, ey b ving spent practically vho! EMBERS OF § NATE COM- ! i FORMER GOVERNOR ACCUSED in the consideration of the | A y dre 2 Rk % :‘ MITTEE APPOINTED TO IN- 1 of a report they would make | juerant by Crairman - ooty oot | | VESTIGATE PILOT SCANDAL. e Hears Testi-| , upon what they observed during | had hoved to make it stronger, the re- i ) Seasup Pund 8 2 S L the investigation at the peniten- | port follows: b - 2 ey | R . : 3 ¥ | tiaries at San Quentin and Folsom th>| Mr. Speaker: Your r i eaemo | Members Assert if Allegations Are Proven | Xeemus commitics on Staie prisons | Eron si Ketomiston LaW IS Asked For to Reformatory Institutions completed t of findings at 4 o'clock this Guilty Wili Be Punished; if Not, Shield the Con- | sent out, GALLOWS ROPES END TWD LIVES Eoibeeiveip s Cota and Gonzales Are Hanged at San Quen- tin Prison. - Murderers From San Benito County Pay Penalty for Crime. RS s SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Feb. 13.—A large ted San Quentin this fore- noon to witness the hanging of JoSe Cota and Juan onzales, who murdered and robbed Ruiz at the Ne Idria quicksilver min in San Benito Coun April 16 191. Arbogast, at one time the hangman at San Quentin but now a special police- an in San Francisco, was the hangman y, and was assisted by Connell. Ben Merritt and F. 8. Crandall were on the death watch. Last night Gonzales broke down, and it required con doctoring to strengthen b but he walked to the scaffold and ed upon the trap with remarka Cota was un in that spect. Last nigh emed to care for e for him to-day. but wi upon the gallows his knees shook. It was i0:45 o'clock when the Warden, followed by Cota Awl Gonzales and walkec “I am innocent because | saw he other fellow do the ars old wh the ind was drunk and was being done. i company, but that dle.. It was the ny trouble. f I will die, but me T am inno~ g0 on the scal- is shall be ‘I am i rere been su an a hanging, 1 crowd a n Aguirre and his corps of guards 1 and chagrined at the persons clamored 2 the scaffold ations had been e taken up at the ndred 563 we main gate. FRIENDS OF STATEHOOD BILL ARE STILL ACTIVE Will Offer It as an Amendment to the Postoffice Appropriation Measure. | WASHINGTON, [ 3.—~The Ser Committee on Postoffices and Postroads to-day decided to amend the postoffice ap- propriation bill by adding as an amy - | ment the omnibus statehood bill. The on the motion to ame 5 d was § to 5 | members who votea fc the proposi were Elkins, Mitchell and Penrose, publicans, and Clay, Culbertson, Dubois Simmons iaferro Democrats Those who voted e negative were Beveridge, Deboe, er, Lodge and Senator Mason presided and Proctor, all Republicans, chairman of the committ | did not vote. | BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT GRANTS THE DEMANDS Gives a Favorable Reply to the Ulti- matum Presented by the Bra~ zilian Minister. | LAPAZ, Bolivia, Feb. The Bolivian | Government yesteraay rnoon deliv- ered its reply the ultimatum sent the Brazillan Minister. Bolivia grants but under protest, all the e Bolivian troops eral Pando. They will not cross latitude 10 degree 20 min- utes, the southern boundary of the con- tested territory. Theref rg it is most im- probable that any troubl between the Bollvian and Brazillan forces will occur. 13 to i ; was not sailsfactory to sembly January vict . l Olmsted for the reason that L 3 y he ed to make it mucn stronger. On : 7 W i making sense it assumes. THE CALL'S POSITION gTé briby in public office ith I : s E- te commit aws of the State, with . sing it, and in that form the report on to probe to the trust reposed in | W presented. Carter, hiowever, refused | A majority of and with having taken earnings of ship masters ADVERTISEMENTS. . mmittee, which is 3 a minority report and for the purpose of composed of Senators Welch, Shortridge "'.”\”\'\‘[‘]:v'[”‘"’a,’"\xg:‘l"l’l':“ | giving im an opportunity to do o the | had T French, Williams, Byrnes, | gat to men competent and aos V1€ | Agsembly postponed action on the matter PRUOTPUPPPPPPITLPPPULULUT £ Lati Smuivus] ot tevin, williog to i e R ARl o ! the last evening. All a"‘ If The Call falls to prove its charges| Far 0 the wee small hours and in! expected to be present when the investi hen its propr! should bn punished | executive session the committee labored, | gation formally opens in the rooms of the | “‘;;f:'l;"‘"‘i‘}l']‘; ihe reputations of these | {rying to find the middle ground which Fplice Commmisaton, -Xiakl spr sFumgios: | punished it the chargss aealist (rend oo¢ | would give. to the several factions ful Senators Weich Emmone, Knowland | hased on fact and their truth duly estab. | oPportuni to express wnat they think and Ward openly and emphatically con- | lished. < | and know. The reports of cruel and in- demned as without basis the inference —_— human punishment of prisoners in the ast b, tot Assemblyman Rolley of Humboldt effect that it was being whispered Prescott and Copus Utter Sharp | Words in the Assembly. xed,” his infer nce belng tha will see that a full measure of pun- ment meted out to the guilty and | bil s0 nuu “any band of robbe; 1ding and loan as under the tions may R R R have been charged with corruption bribery will be exonerated by the s and it will g0 upon record that | they were faisaly accused. As to what { mblyman Rolley's charge | gnorance; as to the falsity | source of information they subject the Inter- introduced request of the eople— | Bullding and Loan \zm atione. pads = verdict of R ¥ e ol based upon North Hall Bepnned Unsafe. e age, purit in the testimony and other evidence CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, " Al | which will be laid before them Feb. 18.—Governor Pardee has made an inde- But in this connection The Call reiter charge that gold was paid di- to the hands of members of |k Com 1 in return -for ap- ments as pilots for this, the port of investigation into the condition of from Archi ing s unsafe. It s betievea that he will sign Waste's bill 421, ap. propriating $230.000 for a building to replace N Trancisco. The Call further charges | North Hall. ~The Ways and Means Committea N s R « torruption and bribery have not | has recommended the appropriation. Tha Ala- 215 Mari S 2 arked Seclated: casel. et B voll . | on has agreed to forego all other « marked jsolated cases, but [/ mede:apiesetitey bRCKfsad. o o - e necessity through demand of | of the Board of Pilot Com- tHbee ouoo »00600‘0600 AR Al A e e SRR R Read Louls J. Stellmann’s Sacramento | AR R R TP PR R R TS missioners to many appointments to + pom ons as pilots that have been made by THELILLI 149404444 Accused Will Be Cleared. 5 and | DENOQUNCE THE ASSOCIAIIONS. | R i s 4 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Ak m :" "flrt_ pnl.e-? in the i Feb. -Bullding and loan associations were it would prove farcical and | poijy dencunced to-night In the Assembly by | result. | Prescott of Redlands on the third reading of " | Waste's bill, No. 164, roing building and __ COMMITTEE'S STAND. | toan ascociations moved to exempt The members of the committes are | from the operation of the act socleties dolng | | agreed that the' charges are proven (& strictly =—cooperative —busine Prescott that ‘ITansus was trying to fix the they are equally positive in their asser e i that If they are not proven those give nothing in return.”” | ersity of California, and | itect Howard | the other hand Ass not satisfled becau: strong, 1 the con mblym wae, Carter was in his opin and was a third ittee which desired to iddle ground. Glmsted finally won over the others with the exception of Carter and had In serted in the report a descrip ket and a sta of the eff: e it too tion of th 1o sign it and declared that he would file penitentiaries have In no wise been mag- nified or exaggerated. In private =atlon the members of the committee, or | some of them, assert that the whole truth has not been told; that if the general pub. lc knew all that was revealed to the committee there would be a wave of In penitentiaries from office. Men, it 1s reported, have been killed in the prisons as a result of the punishment | Infiicted and many other convicts must go through life permanently crippled by | reazon of having been made the victims of barbaric treatment, excused under the pretense that such treatment was neces. | sary to the proper discipline of the In- | stitution. This is what one of the mem- | bers of the committee said ‘this morning after first exacting a promise that his | name was not to be used: t fs not a question of what most of but one of getting the other member: he committee to sign some kind of a report thus avold friction. Wa all know the and what has bsen published about them een only part of the truth. We know that the straitjacket is & crusl and inhuman instru- ment of torture, but with some of the membera of this committee—at least two of them—it is guirre a fit man to be at the head of any prison, and I think we should say so, but ere are others who think It unnecessary to go e that metien god who adtise that e deb) { moderately with the question. There are mem- bers of this comimittee Who want to sea | Aguirre reniain where he I8 and to see Wil- kinson fired, thus doing what a number of Wilkineon's ‘subordinates have been treacher- ously trying to do for some time. The result Is that we have only made a generai state- ment in this report and have told next to nothing of the horrors which were stated to us conver- | dignation which would result in an al. |t | most clean sweep of the officlals of the | 1 fined in Su are now last year subje 1 punishme: . | the mtral | prisons upon said | prisons for the pur | ishment; that during ti Quentin have been m State pr | within the ed numerous wit ing the 6 tire term of the present \/arden and 1s now be- | ing used as a means of pur It was also used 1o a limited extent tie ad- § den Hale during the latt term of offic uphield by W of the insti vas ad- ard by Ve find that straitjacket has bee of punishment was confly on a diet of bread and wate: . some. s s forty-eight hours, hat as the result of such confinement some of the prisoners were permanently Jured. In the cases of Evve haughnessy we find that th of the injury veceived from in the straitjacket, badly cripple having lost the use of their hands. The offen for | was that of fighting. At Folsom your committee found that the |tlm1!ja(‘k!l had never been in use until about thres years ago. 1L was in use for about two vears, Warden Wilkingon deciding to discon- tinue it about one year ago. During the time that the straitjacket was in use we found one Robert Smith had been permanently crip- pled in hia right arm and hand and other injurfes. In the case of Morris Welss, slias Weitz, who was a tailor by trade and worked at the up to the time he was put in the straitjacket, he wustained such injuries it of sald he will to work Jaciet. your Ccommittee 1t s not prepared report that death_tesulted from injurles recetved by the use of the straitjacket, but such is the opin- lon of those conversant with all the facts in this cass. Owing to ths limited time at the disposal of your committes, It was un 10 make the thorough fnvestigation therefore your committes special cor e be appou to summon and swear w mony and thoroughiy Inquire into and Invest! gat: the management of sald prisons. Tt hes been turther uscertained by vour com- mittee that the State Board of Prison Direc- tors has not held a meeting for some months. It is the opinion of your committes that a separate board of directors for each prison would insure better results and be the means of bringing about much needed reforms. Facts in possession of your committee con- ted which these two prisoners were punished | stained | i | \ i \ | i i ed to cruel and un- | and | | unlaw stitute It is generally supposed here that the Acre revolutionists will surrender their arms to the Brazillan troops immediately. n‘\‘\. Cruel" instrumen LUMLEY MAKES A CHANGE. Measure Relating to Taxation Is Re- vised and Passes Assembly. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, The proposed const by Lumley providing f 't personal proper mmend that as a means of puni: al Institutions of this State i statute. 1 Mate, ment in & prohibited b; Brown of who Is a member of the Assembl on State | @ Ori t ! Prisons and Refq stitutions, in- T e = duced a bill morning which, if | it provided that personal prop ed, will render impossible future amount of §300 should be exempt scandals like those discovered as a re- ‘ l_\ml;‘z“n‘w'r""\ &£ e marmbers “‘;)_ux;zn;:n. sult of the Investigations made by the | {5wn On reconsideration Lumley changed the committee at the San Quentin and Fol- | amount to $200, and that form it was som penitentiaries. The bill provides that ed and sent to the Senate. it shall be unlawful for any official, em- P ploye or other person in authority at any Crew of Boat Are Drowned. of the penal instituti of the State to WASHINGTON, N c . Feb. 13.—During use cruel and inhuman punishments upon | the heavy gale of Thursday night the those under their charge and control. | Manco was capsized In Swan Quarter The use of the straitjacket, thumbscrew y. Captain Robert Westcott, master or shower bath as a means of punishment | is prohibited and it is also declared to be | ports . are conflicting, but one rumer is to trice up prisoners in any | that five negroes, also of the boat's crew, | were drowned and two white men were drowned. Re- manner. ADVERTISEMENTS. Now In Its 60th Thousanc. THE RECORD HERALD says: “The wholesomest, helpfulest, jolliast boon of the year and a tonic for any moed.”’ LETTERS #om« SELF-MADE MERCHANT ¢t s SON BY GEORGE HORACE LORIMER Pric: $1.50 Thera’s nothing in this talk that two can live cheaper than one. 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