The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-31
THOSE CONTRACTS
They Are Yielded by the
Pacific Bank.
II. M. A. rlILLER HAS THEM.
The Grand Jury Committee Will
Probe the rlatter.
1T WILL REPORT JANUARY 10.
A Return Will Be Made on the
Entire Batch and Turned
Over the First Day.

The first real move in the prosecution to
be begun against DR.. Charles W. Decker,
a member of the Board of Education,
James A. Pariser, G. w. Pennington, w.
III. Eastland and Fl. l.. Sanborn. asprants
for similar positions, and who reconsid-
cred their determination only on election
day for their signing away their power, if
elected, to A. +. Johns, an employe of the
Pacific Bank, was begun yesterday.
Shortly before noon IL. NJ. A: Miller,
chairman of the Grand jury committee on
the Board of Education. called at the Pa
cific Bank and made a formal demand
upon the Bank Commissioners for the con-
tracts held by them TO which the above
named gentlemen had attached their sig
natures. Mr.. Miller explained his reason
for making the demand: That it was his
inten ton to present them to the commit
tee of which he is the chief officer that it
might take suitable action on them prep
aratory TO reporting the matter to the
Grand Jury. There was no hesitancy on
the part of the Commissioners about turn
ing the papers over, and. after stay of
about fifteen minutes, Mr.. Miller left the
bank with the telltale documents sealed
in a large envelope and safely placed in
the in side pocket OF his coat.
The Grand jury committee on the Board
OF Education is composed Of three men,
hers of the board-H. NJ. A. Miller, presi-
dent Of the California Guarantee Invest
mems Company, chairman; Y. L. James
of the Alliance Insurance Company and
Leon SlOss of the Alaska Fur Company
As yet no notices for meeting have been
sent out but will DE on Monday, calling
the meeting for some day next week. The
Grand jury and Board of Supervisors both
stand adjourned at present, 10 meet again
on the same day. January 10. 1894. The
Grand Jury committee will meet prior to
this SO as to have the case in shape 10 pre-
sent to the Grand Jury on its first day of
couvening.
In reply to a question as to how many of
the parties implicated in the now famous
contract deal would have their case pre-
sented to the Grand Jury by the committee
Mr. Miller said: "Of course DR.. Decker is
the only one OF them who succeeded in
getting on the board at the last election.
Ii is through his case that the committee
becomes interested In the matter. We will
go through that first and make our report;
then the others will be taken up-one at a
time and investigated. Reports will be
made out on each of them. and the whole
batch presented to the Grand. Jury at the
same time We will be all ready on the
first day after they meet and will lose no
time in getting the matter before them.
II do not think there will be very vo-
luminous report to compile. The contracts
speak for themselves. The object in taxi
ing the matter up through the committee
is because 1t is its duty. 1t will probe The
matter TO the very. bottom ana leave no
stone unturned TO bring the parties, if
guilty. a" Justice
Il only asked for the contracts from the
bank, as the notes do not concern US.
They might be business deals and they
might not. i don's know anything about
them. On the contrary, the contracts
might be claimed as business deals. but of
such character that they speak for them
selves. There can be no denial of their
meaning. They are all written in English
and read in purely business way"