The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-24

be guilty of perjury and subject to legal prose
cution therefor; that any person who shall De
contumac1ous, or refuse to be sworn or 70
testify when by said commission required SO TO
DO, shall be deemed guilty OF contempt OF ootn
OF said houses of this Legislature, and, being
duly brought before this Legislature, or either
house thereof, shall be duly punished Tor such
contempt, as well as be liable to such further
punishment as in such cases by law MADE ana
provided; and be it further
Resotued, That it is the sense OF TINS Leglsla.
ture and of both OF said several houses Thereon
tnat IL is contrary to public policy ana the IN
lents OF good order that any person giving eVl-
dence before said committee tending TO snow
mat ne has been party to the practices ABOVE
mentioned or the abuses above referred to, or
any or either of them, should be 1nd1cteu or
prosecuted upon evidence so given or aomls-
SONS SO made by him, and be 1t turther
ResoLUed, That the joint committee aforesaid
De ana IL hereby is instructed to receive ana
act upon information furnished in the Inves-
ngation aforesaid by the committee OF eleven,
appointed at maSs-meedng held IN san fran
cisco on Saturday, January IL, 1895, and by
the CIVIC Federation and other organizations
aiming at the Just and impartial administra-
tlon OF the law and of each department OF the
municipal government of San Francisco, ana
at absolute fairness and honesty in registration
ana elections, and the due execution OF the
laws relating thereto.
By resolution the subcommittee was au-
thorlzed to proceed to Sacramento to urge
upon the Legislature the adoption OF the
JOINT resolution, and in pursuance OF TINS
resolution the members of the committee
lett Tor the capital by the 6 o'clock train
last evening.
The committee on the Reilly funding bill
presented report in which it was shown
that the address on this subject, heretofore
published, had been sent to every mem Der
OF Congress and had also been sent TO the
editors of all the leading papers in New
YORK, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore and number of other places with
a request that the same be read, carefully
considered and intelligently commented
upon, For" says the committee in COM
munlcatlon to the editors, ''this is matter
that demands the widest publication in or
der that the people may be educated up to
the enormity OF the funding bill; and then,
1t may affect your section of the country
After the report had been accepted, j. Il.
Barry, G. G. Terrill and ]. M. Reynolds
were requested to go to Sacramento this
morning and urge upon the Legislature to
prepare memorial to Congress, in which
shall be voiced the sentim ent of the people
of the State of California in their opposi-
ton to the passage of the bill that would
authorize the railroad company to refund
its Indebtedness for fifty years.
The next matter that occupied the atten-
ton OF the committee was the mass-meet-
ing to be held next Saturday night in
metropolitan ddu 10 IuTJner ulSCuSS Gue
work OF reform in which the committee is
engaged.
The secretary was instructed to send in
vitations to the Civic Federation, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Board of
Trade, the Builders Exchange, the FEEDER
ated Trades and all organizations that are
in favor of a publication of the city gov
eminent to attend the meeting. He was
further instructed to invite prominent citi-
zens and merchants to attend the meeting
and act in the capacity of vice-presidents.
All the speakers for the occasion have not
yet been selected, but among those who
will address the meeting will be Messrs.
Highton, Thompson and Barry.
Just before starting for Sacramento Mr..
Highton said: what we want is to go for
the heads of departments and show up the
wrong they have done and the wrong they
are doing. We do not want to look up the
petty delinquencies of the minor subordi-
mates; these will appear in the course OF
the investigation, but, as L said, what we
want are the big ones.''