The morning call., 1891-03-20

also testified that he found the pieces of the
money wrappers on the desk after Dibble
and Marion had lett the room. He thought
that the waste-basket was empty when they
entered the room.
woMAN's TESTIMONY.
Johanna o. Hare, the janitress, was called,
and swOre that she emptied the waste-bas-
ket that morning.
Senators Heacock and MCGOWAN testified
as to the manner in which the scraps of
paper were gathered together. They were
of the opinion that the papers were evil
out, and Senator Heacoek testified that Mr..
Estee when he saw them exclaimed: "This
will ruin me, but whatever it does. this
matter should be investigated in the interest
of the people,"
S. C. Evans and Frank Miller, who are
here working for the passage of the River
side Bill. testified that no money had been
raised in Riverside to influence legislation
and they knew nothing about the Fresno
Bank or the money wrappers.
THE RIVERSIDE ISSUE.
S. c. Evans was recalled when the COM
mittee met tonight, and testified that he
had been approached by Judge RowelI and
Mr.. Perkins in the Assembly. Rowell told
him that a committee was to be appointed
to investigate the Doodle charges. He did
not say at that time that whether there
was an investigation or not $4,000 would
De paiu loT Luo passage Oh the Riverside
bill
FELToN's STORY.
Senator-elect FELTON, testified that neither
he nor any of his friends, to his knowledge,
had given or promised any money or prop
erty to influence the Senatorial election, and
ii it could be shown that any had been used
he would tender his resignation He said
he never had any business with the Fresno
Bank. Scraps of the paper picked up in the
library were shown to him. He said the
writing looked familiar, but he was not
an expert. FELTON, testified that De Young
withdrew from the fight because he was sat
isfied he could not win. De Young with
drew in favor of the witness because he was
opposed to the railroads and thought Estee
was railroad man. Then again, De Y uung
preferred FELTON,.
Assemblyman Marion was questioned
concerning his meeting with Dibble in the
library. He said that he met Dibble on
Monday evening and they agreed to meet in
the library on the next morning TO discuss
the Riverside County and other bills.
Marion was opposed to this bill. He was
shown the roll-cal found in the library
il. Marion denied that he had ever seen
the roll-call and had no knowledge that it
referred to the Telegraph bill.
He was shown the list of names which
Dibble admitted having written as that of
the members who favored the Riverside
bill.
"How is it your name is on this listP"
asked Hart
II don't know"
"What does the * before your name
mean?"
81 have no knowledge"
Marion was shown the other exhibit"
but sw0re that he had never seen them be-
fore.
Then there came some highly entertain
ing testimony about the Riverside Bill
G. ID. Perkins. member of the delegation
from San Bernardin0, who came here 10 op-
pose tine Riverside bill, testified that when
ROwell left, S. c. Evans had said that he
would spend S500O0 to pass the Riverside
bill in spite of all the investigating commit
tees in the world Perkins averred that
DR.. Brennon of Riverside said that $4,000
had been raised to pass the Riverside bill.
Attorney General Hart said he expected
to prove tomorrow that the money from
the Fresno Bank had been drawn out by a
Riverside firm for this purpose.
The investigation VIII be continued to-
morrow.
The Bruner investigating committee will
report Tomorrow. Your correspondent is
informed that five members of the commit
tee will sign a report that will be equivalent
to verdict of guilty and that there will
also be minority report