The morning call., 1891-01-12
THE SENATORSHIP,
A Circular That Created a Sen
SatiOn.
Speaker CO0mbS 10 Announce His Commit
tees To-Day.
Proposed Legislation Against POOl-Selling.
The San Francisco Fire
Department.
Special to THE MoRNINs CALI,

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 11.-Fred. NJ. Camp
bell of Oakland produced hurting sensa-
ton here tonight by distributing TO the
Legislators long circular protesting against
the election of Leland Stanford to the Sem
ate. The circular starts off with caustic
account of Stanford's alleged treachery to
Sargent in 1885. The writer asks after
sort of summing up: "HOw was it done? =? do
you ask. Don't you know? do. Why, it
is no secret. Ask Senator VoOrhes of In
diana. He knows. Indeed, the information
must be readily available and must be very
discreditable to our Senator, too,
when through the mere threat of
making ir public by investigating
the methods Of his election, your only Re-
publican Senator was compelled at the die
tum of that Democratic Senator from In
diana to give the Republican vote of Cali
fornia in the United States Senate, in the
full gaze of the whole nation, against the
investigation of Democratic Senator Payne,
of Ohio, the oil king, charged with purchas-
ing his seat for gold, and the charge, too,
backed with incontrovertible testimony
and that, ,moreover,i in the face of memorial
from the Ohio Legislature praying for the
investigation. And this refusal to investi-
gate Payne, be it also remembered, was the
first and the only case in the history of the
United States Senate of the rejection of
such memorial"
Then comes much in the same vein con-
cerning an alleged division of the Republican
party in 1887 in order that Hearst might be
elected. Mr.. Campbell says this was ac-
compilShed by the creation of the American
party, and in this connection Frank Pixley
receives the following personal mention:
The people to accomplish this were easily
selected. They were: Mr.. Pxley, who was
on the payroll of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company for $4,000 a year (he received
it for eight years and until very recently,
when Mr.. Huntington cut him off, and at
which, by the way, he Immediately pro-
eeeded grossly to abuse Mrs. Huntington);
Mr.. WgginGton, who was on the payroll
for 5000 year as attorney; Mr.. Bassett,
now editor of the American Standard, who
was on the payroll for $500 per month, and
Mr. Boruck."
Chapter 4 of Mr.. CampbelPs effusion is
entitled, "Of Stanford's uDblushing prosti-
tutio n for the consideration of personal and
corporate interests of California's Republ-
can vote and influence in the United States
Sen ate in the matter of the confirmation of
! Associate Justice of the United States Su-
| preme Court of Lucius Quintus Curtis
Lamar, ex-Confederate Brigadier and ex-
Democratic United States Senator from the
murder-haunted swamps of Mississippi"
Tue greater part of this chapter is de-
voted 10 a condemnation of Stanford for
voting to confirm the appointment of Lamar,
which Campbell holds was hereSy TO Repub-
lican doctrine He asks, moreover, whether
Stanford is now cultlvating the Farmers
Alliance in the IN terest of the Republican
party The Senator'S motive for founding
the college at Palo Alto Is questioned and
| made subject for sarcastic reflection, con-
cluding as follows: ANY institution which
! he should found for the training of young
men for success in business, and especially
| for success in public life, he should, to be
| consistent, and to make his theories con-
| form to his practice and his example, place
Professor W. w. Stow in charge of the de-
partment of political economy and Pro-
| fessor Christopher Buckley in the char of
! the clvcs."
These extracts give fair idea of the re-
markable circular, which is as eagerly Pc
rused as any extra edition of newspaper
would be.
Speaker C0ombs has prepared his list of
| committees, which will be given TO the
House tomorrow. The first bills to be in
troduced in the Senate viii, come up to-
| morrow morning. Among them there will
probably be one by Senator Campbell
against pool-selling. There is an active
| lobby of po0l-men waiting to oppose it. A
! bill to upset the Buckley legislation relative
| to the San Francisco Fire Department is be-
| ing prepared.
John d. Spreckels is here in the interest
| of some friends who desire to have the Gov
| eInor'S favor.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Reddic4 is rapidly
rppnyprinU his haalth