The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-05
WHY He DID NOT CALL,
The Three Reasons Which Ed
Conroy Gave Mrs. lie
BalliSter.
WHAT HE SAYS SHE THEN SAID.
Told Him the Pilots Must Put Up
or Seymour Would Pass
the Bill.

Mrs. Reina lie Ballister is credited with
expressing belief that Ed Conroy, and
not e. A. Phillips, the ex-secretary of the
Pilot Commission, took a sack to Sacra-
mento to defeat the bill introduced by
Senator Seymour.
Conroy declares that Mrs. LIE Ballister's
belief has no fact to rest upon.
81 met Mrs. LIE Ballister while in Sacra
mento," said he. II was introduced to her
and perhaps we exchanged a dozen words.
About a week afterward Mrs. LIE Ballister
met me in the Capitol building and said:
ooh, Mr.. Conroy, why haven't you called
upon me-?
81 replied: There are three reasons
why have not called upon you, Mrs. LIE
Ballister. In the first place, you had not
asked me to call; in the second place, /
did not know where you resided, and above
all, | do not make it a custom of calling
upon women who are strangers to me-
although my remarks were not very
cordial, they did not break up the CONVEX
sation. Mrs LIE Baliister declared that
she thought had brought up a sack to
beat the Seymour bill. l assured her that
I had not done so. Then she said: well,
they better bring. up the sack. If they
don't We'll get the bill on the special
urgency file and Seymour will see that it
is passed.
Mr.. Conroy says that he had advised the
pilots not to try to defeat the bill with
money, and he does not think any money
was used.
1.-THE bill was clearly in violation of an
act OF Congress, which declares that no dis
elimination shall be made in pilotage
ri bnfuaar1 ho vocsa1S owpod in anu
of the States of the Union" said Mr.. Con-
roy. ''This fact was published in the CALL
when the bill was on the calendar, and it
was well known that the bill, if passed,
could not stand in COURT
There is a sequel to the trouble over the
charges against the alleged Senatorial COM
bination on the pilot, county division,
lature. 1t was stated last night that when
Mrs. Reina LIE Ballister begins to talk the
whole matter will be made plain to ALL
Mrs. Relna LIE Ballister, with feminine
persistency, declines to be seen.
In strange contradistinction "Young
Dutchy" or Fred Hanstedi is quite voluble,
although supposed to be in the hospital as
a result of the attack by Ed Smith.
Hansted was walking on Market street
last night, when half q dozen men sang
out to him, 'Why, we thought you were in
the Receiving Hospital?" Hansted natur-
ally got angry.
Later he said, GLOW such story as the
one about my row with Ed Smith got out
I can only imagine. do not even know
the man, and l was at no time on Mont
gomery street Wednesday. I of course
know who Ed Smith is, but I could lick
half hundred such men in five minutes.
| never saw him at all Wednesday. l
never spoke to him. It is put up Job,
and will see that it is sifted to the source.
GAS to Senator Linder's statements that
wrote him letter or letters 1 have only
mour produce any letter that / wrote
them"
1t was suggested that Senator Under
had said he had lost or mislaid the letters.
THAT is very likely replied Hansted
sardonically," but it makes no difference
to me whether the letters are said to have
been lost or mislaid. That is not my bust
ness. Let them produce any letters writ
ten by me, and l will stand by the con-
tents thereof
Hansted was angry all through, and all
the more that he was seemingly being de-
serted by those upon whom he counted for
backing and assistance. 81 am alone now
in the fight" said he, "but am as honest
as any of that combine, as the facts will
show, whether they are brought up before
the Sacramento Grand Jury or the San
Francisco Grand jury"
1t is evident that Hansted is furious at
the way he thinks he has been treated,
and it is more than likely that Foreman
w. H. Gagen of the San Francisco Grand
Jury will begin very soon to look for local
testimony which may permit him to take
hand.
Hansted throws defiance in senatorial
faces when he says:
eff am Matchmaking any one why am
I not arrested? There are laws to secure
my arrest and conviction if found guilty.
Let him whom the cap best fits wearit. As
for me, want only what is legitimately
due me-"
Despite all this the woman in the case,
Mrs. lie Ballister, pretends to decline to
talk and when called upon last night
stated in most audible tones that she was
mot at home"
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