The record-union., 1893-03-01
The Investigation Of Attorney
General Hart ReOpened.
THU COMMITTEE HAD A bomb.
Some Mysterious Questions About a
Recent Loan.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Another Debate in tAe Assembly On the Leeds
Amendment ReaSSeSS-
ment Bill
THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

Regardless of the fact that the investi
CATION of the charges preferred agains
Attorney-General Hart were declared
closed last Saturday evening by the com
mittee appointed for that purpose, it was
concluded yesterday afternoon that the
investigation had not been thorough il
all its parts, and that other witnesses
should be introduced upon the scene tC
tell what they knew about the case, anc
the committee met at o'clock p. NJ. il
the Supreme Court room.
General Barnes was absent, but Attor-
ney Frank NJ. Stone was present and
looked after the interests of the Attorney
General. He was frank to admit that he
understood the investigation had been
closed, and knew of no reason why il
should be further continued at this.time.
There was considerable mystery about
the whole affair, and it was some time be-
fore anyone could divine what the COM
mittee was up TO.
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY.
Attorney Devlin, for the committee
first placed Deputy Attorney @ General
Charles H. Jackson upon the stand. The
witness stated that he did not know thai
General Hart had had or kept in his pos
session any mony collected from the Har.
Dor Commission cases. General Hart haC
safe in his office in San Francisco, but
witness knew nothing of the money KEEP
in it.
Deputy Attorney General Oregon
Sanders testified that General Hart had
once consulted him regarding the uues-
ton as to where the money collected from
the Harbor Commission cases properly
belonged.
Deputy Layson being called, said he
had no knowledge of any public money
being kept at the San Francisco Office by
General Hart. He knew that the money
coming from the Knight case had been
collected, but did not know what DISPOSE
ton had been made of it,
Alfred Belts, stenographer in General
Hart's office, testified that he was familiar
with the collections made by the Attor-
ney-General. He knew that $4,000 had
been collected and placed in the safe al
the San Francisco office. He had seen q
large amount of money in General Harris
tfNfs2-'No7AOAA
him say that that was part of the money
collected from the Harbor Commission
cases. Hart had telegraphed the witness
few weeks ago that there was large
amount of money in the safe in question
and warned him to keep it closed
ED LEAKE's INQUIRY.
Ed Z. Leake testified that he had been
sent by the committee to the Attorney
Generals office to inquire what had be-
come of the money collected by Miller
and Langhorn from the Harbor Commits,
sion cases. The witness had seen Oregon
Sanders IN the office, but he knew moth
ing about the matter. He did not see Mr.
Layson when he visited the office. He
saw some one who referred him to Ore
gon Sanders, and he thought it was Mr.
Belts.
Mr.. Belts was, however, at San Fran
cisco with General Hart, and the witness
said he might be mistaken.
Chairman Mathews said he only wished
TO show that those in the Office at the time
of the visit knew nothing of the business
whatever.
In calling the next witness, the com.
mittee probably expected to build upor
the foundation laid by the witnesses VIII,
had been called, and gave key to the
reason why continuation of investiga-
ton had been determined upon. The
witness was John CARRIER of the firm O
CARRIER, Bolt & Bishop of San Francisco
THE CLOUDS DIsPERsE.
Attorney Devlin did not bubble about
coming to the point, but touched the fuse
TO the mine at once by asking if his firm
had recently advanced or loaned any sun
OF money to General Hart.
The witness quietly replied that so fal
as he knew no sum of money had ever
been advanced TO General Hart by his
firm, but that his partner, Mr.. Bishop
was the executive of the firm; handled
all the money, and might have made such
an advance to General Hart He, how.
ever, had never heard of any pecuniary
transaction between the firm and the At
torney-General.
Chairman Mathews inquired if the
chief clerk of the firm would have {
knowledge of the loan, if one had beer
made, and Mr.. CARRIER replied that he
presumed so. The Chairman further in.
ouired whether Mr.. Bishop, who is an in.
valid, would be able TO give audience tc
the committee or any member of it, tc
which CARRIER replied that he supposed so
as his partner always attended to bust.
ness with the assistance of half dozen
typewriters.
Mr.. Devlin asked for Bishops address
but the witness referred him to the Sar
Francisco directory.
While it was not openly concluded tc
send member of the committee to inter
view Mr.. Bishop, there appeared to be g
tacit understanding that such a course
would be pursued.
Thus Devlin's fuse hung IRE.
Upon conclusion of the evidence of Mr.
CARRIER, the committee adjourned to meet
at o'clock P. NJ.
Word was received last evening by the
committee that the San Francisco wit
nesses who had been subpenaed to appear
would not arrive until this morning