The herald., 1893-01-25
The Investigating COMMITTEES
Renders Its Report.
Kerns and Cannon Completely
Ex0nerated.
No Doodle Used in Senator-Elect
Whites Campaign.
The Committee Recommends the Expul.
sion of the Astute Assemblymsn
from acknowledgements
Proceedings.
Bv the Associated Press !

By the Associated Press ]
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 24.-The assembly
committee appointed to investigate the
charges made by Assemblyman Bretz OF
Alameda against Assemblyman Kerns
of Los Angeles, reported today. Bretxs
during the vote for United States sena-
tor in joint session Of the legislature
charged that the vote of Kerns, Popu-
list, who voted for White, had been
bought and that Marion Cannon, Popu-
list congressman from the Sixth distrlcts
had been negotiator. The report is ~
follows:
The committee beg leave to report ~
follows:
That they have taken and given ann
pie tim to the matter of of said investt-
CATION to any and all persons who de-
sired to be heard therein. either as to
facts or arguments
That Thomas v. Gator appeared as
counsel for Assemblyman Bretz and no
one appeared as counsel for any other
person; and from such confederation
and investigation we find:
That the charge made by Assembly,
man Aaron Bretz as set forth in said
resolution and which was made in joint
assembly for the election OF q United
States senator in the assembly chamber
on January IS, 1898, was false and un-
true in every respect.
That the charges made are groundless
and malicious, inasmuch ae from the
evidence we find no probable cause for
the utterance of the words used in said
joint assembly by said Aaron Bretz.
AS aforesaid, we fnd that there was
not the slightest evidence adduced be-
fore said committee that money or cor
rupt means whatever, or that any means
other than those the most honorable
were used to procure the election of
stSPhsn stSF. N whit~ Y r'ai4sa States ''''''
We find that not the slightest faint of
| corruption or wrong doing in any re-
| spect attaches to either Hon. Marion
Cannon or Hon. 7. J. Kerns in the mat
ter of said election of said United States
Senator White.
Therefore, in view of said facts and in
view OF the circumstances surrounding
the making of said charge, your com
mlttee respectfully recommends that
said Assemblyman Aaron Bretz should
receive the severest censure of the as
sembly, and that he should be expelled
threirom and his seat be declared va
cant. T,W.H. SHANAHAN
Chairman.
W. Fl. AFFORD.
d. 7. PERKINS,
julius KAHN,
r A. PUEscHEL,
w. p. MATTHEWS.
L concur in the report, except in that
part which recommends expulsion,
W. A. VANN.
On motion of Barlow, seconded bv
Shanahan, further proceedings were
dispensed with until the report of the
committee was printed.
LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS.
Bledsoe introduced Joint resolution
relative to the government ownership Of
railroads.
The committee on federal relations re-
ported, without recommendation, Joint
resolution relative to the free coinage of
silver.
Among other bills introduced were
the following:
BY Lynch-Appropriat S1e Ooo ~
cover the deficiency in the appronria-
tion for additional improvements for the
Southern California state asylum for tie
insane and inebriates, and appropriate
ing 1896 900 for the erection of additional
buildings and improvements for the
same institution.
BY Thomas OF Santa Clara-Making
annual appr priation from state treas
treasury OF $1,000 on the basis of each 5000
individuals III the state, for the employ-
ment and relief of destitute c,tizens.
BY Lynch-Approprieting $50 900 for
the management and maintenance of
the Southern California state asylum
Tor the forty-tourth fiscal year
BY Bula-Appropriating S75 600 for
the construction and furnishing of an
additional nuiiding for the state normal
schoolat Los Angrlrs
Alter recess tue judiciary COMMITTEES
reported number of measures.
Bledsoe's constitutional amendmant
relative to the righr of suffrage was
taken up. Afford offered q snbstitnte
which was lost and the original amend
ment carried "a to6
Among the bills introduced ont az
order we're: Bills appropriatinp an ao-
sregate OF S3S 200 Tor the Improvements
u the stockton insane asylum: declar-
ng arrangements, contracts, trusts and
,om pines In restraint of trade and nro-
iuction unlawful, and fixing penalties
nereior; to retire teachers OF public
chools upon partial pay after rs years,
ervlce; appropriating $178, 600 ior the
rection OF additional buildings and i'm
st the Whittier reform
chool /; abolishing the office Of public
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the senate number Of bills were
Introduced, among them one BY Flint.
D form the county of Santa Rita ont Of
lerced and Stanislaus counties. with
be county seat at Newman ona a !, 49,
Rating $4,000 to pay the claim of ( ~
'hodes for cousel fees in the case "a
ounty OF Santa Clara vs.. thaS sop1
acific railroad z1
A joint resolution. intrq< s s
,om, was read, 4equea I'd jhS
larkham to call asi irr1' q ~