Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-03-21
SACRAMENTO, March ls.-Wber the

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implicated certain legislators in attempt
ed bribery in connection with thu SEN
atorial contes5 demands were al once
made by DeYoIng aud FELTON,, two of
the senatorial candidates that Attorney
General Hart at once produce such evil
dence and cause an investigation. The |
latter relying to them stated that he |
had no evidence duplicating them in any |
way so far as he knew sufficient to form |
ulate charges as yet against any one.
Dibble speaking on the joint resolu-
tion said II hope the resolution will be |
adopted. There has been published GER
tain statements in various newspapers !
which reflect upon my integrity in this
house. l court the fullest and most
rigid investigation. Dibble then stat
ed he had discussed the Riverside bill
with Marion but made no mention of the
| senatorial contest. He said: There is
not among the papers held by the at
torney general land know not what he
has) one single scrap Of paper of pny
kind which can be construed into show
ing any such attempt or which can be
| justified in any manner" Young moved
the number of the committee be increas-
ed from to 5. The motion was adopt
! fIis, s,1i5 TIA rss olutio back To
the senate for concurrence.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
immediately upon the opening of the
senate this morning Senator VOORHEES,
introduced joint resolution calling up
on both houses to appoint a committee
Of three TO meetiwith the attorney gen.
eral for the purpose of investigating the
documents which were found IN the
state library yesterday. The committee
appointed by the president is VOORHEES,,
Crandall and Berry.
The first ballot today in joint session
resulted, Estee 40; FELTON,, 81; Johns
ston, 4; Rlanchard2. After changes had
been made the ballot was corrected to
stand, Estee, At; FELTON,, 35, Johnston,
8; Blanchard, 2; Perkins l; White, (dem)
"a; Irish, (dem) /. At the close of ballots
Felton's friends demanded adjournment,
and on call of roll this was carried by
vote of 81 to 90.
New ORLEANS, March 1S.-New Or
leans has quieted down today and the
sober rounds Of the people have return
ed. The Italian consul, Signor Cortez
says that full report of the proceed
ings has been transmitted to Rome and
to the Legation at Washington and all
further action will be taken through the
the delegation. O'Mally the detective
who was largely the cause of the trouble
is not in town. His suit against the
state for $4,000 damages is to come up
today and the answers of the defendants
has already been published.
: 1t was 80 strong and Indicated that
, O'Mally has been sent to prison for
theft, in Cleveland;that he had periured
/. himself and that he had suborned wit
nesses; that sentiment against him
was created and it is expected now that
he has left town never to return, es-
pecially as he was not in court today
when his case was called.
IL NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.
The Examiner in an editorial headed
New Orleans Butchery" says: The
massacre Of the imprisoned members of
the Mia at New Orleans is not thing
that can be defended in cold blood. 1t
is easy to understand the feelings of the
! mob, but now that the passions of the
volunteer executloners have had time to
cool, they can hardly think of their
work with satisfaction. Every man &C
; cused of crime has the right to legal
trial, but this right is reduced to mock
cry if We say that the trial must have
only one outcome and that the verdict
of acquittal can mean nothing more than
a substitution Of the lyncher for the
sheriff"
The Chronicle says Lynch law is
always to be deplored. and especially in
an old settled community like New
Orleans, but if the vigilant vengeance is
! ever defensible, it was in the case
case of the people of the Crescent City
who Saturday melted out swift punish
ment to the gang Of SiciliaHs who were
charged with the murder of Chief of
Police Hennessy."
The Call says: ut may be that In
, New Orleans as in other cities, the ad-
minlstration of justice sometimes breaks
downs and these Sicilans ought to have
been found guilty. Jur:es have been
fixed in other cities besides New Or
! leans. This partial jury may have been
fixed, but the fact will have to be very
clearly established by undisputable evi
dences before the Leading Citizens"
will be iustifable in taking the law into
their own hands That is a dangerous
) experiment.
The London Star this evening is of the
opinion that 1.-The impressive features of
the New Orleans affair was the perfect
, orderliness that maintained throughout
the proceedings. Here the champions
Of law aud order stand aghast at such
proceedings. The American democracy
has sounder notions as to what law and
order really are"
Mr.. Morton fireman, q son-in-law Of
the late Mr.. Leonard Jerome, has writ
ten letter which is published in the
Pail Mall Gazette today, defending the
; action OF the citizens OF New Orleans as
!, Strengthening out of the Italian ques-
tiononce for all" and he adds that he
leaves the old women Of both sexes to
moralize over the so-called excuses of
the bloodstained populace" etc. Mr.
Freemen also commends the action of
the men OF Louisiana who are not spoil
ed by the spirit of submission to the
letter of the law which has done so
J much to emancipate the human race.
, The Pail Mall Gazette in a reply, gen.
orally criticizes Mr.. Fremen's letter, but
holds that the English people ought
not to hold up their hands in righteous
horror, adding lone branch of the
Anglo-Saxon race does not differ from
, another in this matter. The citizens of
New Orleans finding that the jury did
not DO its duty, said we must by one