The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME 3 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908. Call. PRICE FIVE CENT GUILT QF PILOT COMMISSIONER LEALE IS ESTABLISHED AND SENATE COMMITTEE WILL REOPEN INQUISIT. presented ioner Will iam G. Leale is as guilty as It uesday evening before the Senate Commitiee appointed to investigate the scandal. R. S. Alexander's stenographer, a young Is that secured for Mitchell Tyson his position as pilot, between Commissioners Alexander, Leale and Pratt, her testimony corroborating in detail the 1 could be secured was made known to the Senate Committee at Sacramento it decided to reopen the case, that the story of corruption migh associa tes in office, R. S. Alexander and C. H. S. Pratt, of the charges -of bribery and corruption in office ox woman of unimpeachal ! the GHT o e HIEH BOWEN'S AT HOOL PUPLS ~ STIRS HAY'S BE KILLED DiSPLEASURE Train Stri(es Car Minist;;n_dSecre- Filled With tary of State Children. at Odds. —— i Many Seriously Injured Method of Diplomacy and Death List Causes a Serious Will Grow. Rupture. Victims See Fate Impend- Official Representing Vene- Powerless to Save zuela May Not Go to The Hague. T > = s Iness betwe o > € n M Bowe . e ¢ oF RegOtt re the allied o nods s plowe e State wing tk r e note « z JUMP FROM WINDOWS OF A BURNING HOTEL Guests May Have Lost Lives in Try- ing to Escape From Fierce Conflagration. RAPIDS, Ia DAR their lives from the ave lost eavors to escape ing. Two guests have been e railroad depot near by with severe injuries sustained in jumping from The fire hotel uilding. g President Resigns. Fi 18.—Count von Crail- e Bavarian Council resigned and Prince Re- pted his resignation, ffective March L of the trolley car was com- The pllot of the engine struck it e middle, turned it partly gine cut it in two. The upg e street car was reduced t) fragments under the drivers of the lo- motor- | comotive If of the car was thrown ap- v on the tracks. The f the car er section was hurled some distance to move | gway. In every direction lay the injured . iere was DO | and dead. The engine was brought to a began to still, and from nearby houses men ice-covered | rushed to the rescue. The spectacle was appalling, and many who started to work bad to give it up unnerved. Over from mo- | the High School, where the crash had been heard and from the windows where oad gatez , the » one side and s, and ke harder , the very vard A lad who had been hurled into the snowbank arose, - snow out of his eyes and up the street to a firebox and in an alarm. 1 five minutes as many dead bod- 1 been laid side by side in the snow ide the track. Ome of the bodies, hat of a gl had been carried there on the pilot of x Load after load of the in- » igine. . a . e and ambulanc Within a short time s not an injured person near the of the wreck and the dead were u their way tothe Morgue ot o saw death dashing down | scene ibem. s | after March 4 probably will be CQK-; , was found a block beyond. { red was sent away in patrol wagons | UNGLE SAM'S CANAL PLAN S IN PERIL 1 'Panama Company Insists on Rapid Action. AN S Option ozl—the Gigantic Deal May Not Be Extended. BERRTNA Senators Succeed in Delay- ing the Ratification of the Treaty. compa option. he company has 1d men work on the « imated witi ork done h other reasonable ad- n of $40,000,000. The the deal by to make a new offer. mean that the Panama dition company March 4, of b to the opt close reparing to increase the Government 1 unable forced to | the Senate is unique, | without pi been grafte gether buster ha v and the deadl expectedly came to the | an to-day /and held session by dilatory Senate, as the “board of man- dumfounded and entirely | to accomplish a & nator Morgan occupied most of the n of the ge ross the als | sistance should exhaustion. The Alabama Senator, how- ever, showed no evidence of being tired. | Lawyers of the Panama Canal Company | said to-night that cablegrams had been | passing between Washington and Paris all day, but no definite instructions had been received to refuse Attorney General Knox's proposition. It was said, however, | that many directors of the company were | opposed to closing a bargain with the United States until the latter had ratified the treaty. Another report In circulation to-night is that the hand of transcontinental rail- roads has been again shown at a time when final action looked imminent, There are even hints of more “telegrams.” President Roosevelt will call an extraor- dnary session of the Senate of the Forty- | elgkth Congress unless both the Panama | | canal and the Cuban reciprocity treaties are ratified at the present session. The | President made this declaration of his in- tention to several Senators to-day and he made it as emphatically and unequivoeal- | Iy as he was capable of making it. LORD CURZON MAY BE RECALLED FROM INDIA Brodrick, Minister of War, Will Probably Be Sent Out as Viceroy. LONDON, Feb. 18.—It 1s said in politi- cal circles to-nignt that there is a proba- bility of Lord Curzon being recalled from India shortly and Mr. Brodrick, Minister | of War, being raised to the peerage and sent out as Viceroy in his place. The latter's conduct of the War Office and the apparent failure of the scheme of army reorganization are severely criti- cized in the House of Commons. —_— ESCALON IS DECLARED PRESIDENT OF SALVADOR Successor to General Regalado Named in the Central American Republic. PANAMA, Feb. 19.—Pedro Jose Escalon has been declared elected President of Salvador, succeeding General Regaiado, and Calix Velado has been declared Viee President. as complete | | MEMBER OF PILOT COMMISSIO HAS.BEEN SECURED BY ALEXANDER - AS. HI LEALE MONEY BAG WITH WHI TIQN OF THE BRIBE MONEY PAII MITCHELL TYSON TO POSITION OF PILOT FURTHER PRO( CALL, AN : s POINTMENT OF R. §. Alexander’s Stenographer _C;;) n-| Jirms Testimony He Gave at Investigation. QUBT as to the guilt-of Pilot Commissioner - - William G. Leale exists in the mind of the Senate committee appointed tc investigate the charges of bribery and corruption brought against him and his associates in office, Charles H. S. Pratt and R. S. Alexander, and it hence be- comes the duty of The Call to present further proof that William G. Leale is not less culpable than his associates in office whomsthe Senatc committee has determined to condemn in its report now in course of preparation. The Senate committee, in preparing its report, has advanced upon the theory that the guilt of Pilot Commissioner Leale is shown only by the confession of Commissioner R. S. Alexander, and in the absence of “corroborative evi- dence and in the presence of the denial of Pilot Commissioner-Leale the Sen- ate committee felt constrained to per- mit Leale to escape the consequences of his unlawful act by recording in his case the Scotch verdict, “Not 7t But as to the guilt of Pilot Eomm sioner Leale The Call has positive cor- roborative proof, and this proof The Call presents to-day in support of the confession of R. S. Alexander, incrimi- nating his_associates in office, the truth of which could not be doubted by those who witnessed the dramatic scene when the aged Commissioner- threw. -his upon the mercy of the commission and the world and detailed tibe startling of political corruption. LEALE’S EFFORTS AT DODGING. When R. S. Alexander rose before the Senate committee sitting in this city to investigate the charges of corruption | | and . bribery brought by The Call | against the Pilot Commission, of which | he is a member, and confessed that - he | and his associates were guilty of the vio- | lations of law laid at their door, it was | the general opinion that the report of | the Scnate committee would let noj | guilty man escape, but in the absence of | corroborative cvidence the committee | | felt constrained to do so. But the fact that further evidence ex- ists to prove that Captain William G. | Leale is as guilty as his associates was | made known last evening: to the mem- bers of the Senate committee, and they decided to reopen the investigation, drop the report which was in course of preparation and summon Mr. Alexan- der’s stenographer to appear before the | committee ' next. Tuesday evening and tell the story -of her -knowledge of the unlawful tfansaction to which her em- ployer confes: When R. S. Alexander .was ques- tioned, after his confession had been characterized as false by his associates, as to whether or not there was a wit- ness to the division of the spoils be- tween himself, Leale and Pratt, he said: “All three of us were there when we divided the money for the ap- Gold for the Purchase of ‘Tysorz’§ Position Is Divided Under Her Eyes. tee and agreed upon a c defense that they were to { testimony, that defense being that they had received the money innoce bad used it for charitable vhen they appeared before tee Leale denied that he was in / ander’s office on that morning and said that he could furnish evidence to prove| an alibi. The evidence that Leale told | _ a falsehood in this as well as in other matters will be laid before the commit- tee whenever the committee sh: for it. When Pilot Commissioner Leale and | the array of political wi pullers. he has gathered about him pointed to the fact that there was no evidence porting the confession of R. S. Alex der-and that his naked statement stood alone agzinst that of William G. Leale who positively denied the charges of bribery and corruption, they failed to consider the importance ofi Commis- sioner Alexander’s declaration, “There was change to be made, and I sent my stenographer out to get the change.” s ready to « transacti before the Senate ed to investigate the whose v e, the young my employer cterized as | The - stenographer referred to by a < Commissioner Alexander is 2 young| Pratt and William G. I cale ha: auwal woman whose Y. . honesty and| ened me to a further sense of what truthfulness are unimpeachable. During 3 : the hearing of the charges against the Pilot Commission by the Senate com- testimony befor miftee sitting in this city she was not| mittee but e " t ) mittee, a question « called owing solely to the fact that with | veracity between Mr. Alexander and wotmnanly modesty she shrank from the | Captain Leale T will teil my story. cor ordeal of taking the stand and adding a chapter to this story of political corrup- tion that had . come to her knowledge through the pursuit of her vocation as| stenographer in the employ of one of| the men involved in the tainted tran-| saction. But as to the truth of the| confession of her employer, R. S. Alex- ander, she had full knowledge, and be- | requested, as he stated in his testi- lieving in full hisassertion that he knew | mony before the Senate committee, not the turpitude that attached to his act | that I secure some change for some in nknnquol&mhexchange for a position | gold pieces which he handed me. over which he had control. resentment | When he called me into his office Mr. léfldnhtgwm‘:‘:';u‘{‘egfia‘stgm{ia?é | Alexander was sitting at his roll-top characterizing as -false his confession made under oath. roborating that of Mr. Alexander and adding its measure of weight to pro false that of Captain Leale. “It was one day in 1899, I do not exactly remember the month, when Mr. Alexander called me into his pri- vate office at 35 Steumart street, and 1 Continued on Page 3, C;lm ‘ 3