The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-02
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tain insurance bills nIf the insurance
companies want bills passed or want bills
defeated let them put up the stuff
Now certain threats are being bruited
about that disclosures will be. made be-
cause of afailure to divide the spofls. :. !.
Fred Hansted, commonly known as
Professor Young Dutchy," who held the
position of sergeant-at-arms to the Senate
Committee on Public Morals, has talked a
deal about town: of late. He has referred
toa Senatorial com bine for revenue, but
the animus Of his statement was directed
against a single Senator. He made state
presence of III. M. La Rue, foreman of the
Sacramento Grand Jury, but it lacked cor
roboration.e Mrs. Reina LIE Ballister also
made statement to attorneys who have
taken part.in the investigation, but it was
not a very strong one. -: ::
" The: statements made by; Young
Dutchy,1 about town are much stronger
than those made in the Office Of the Pine
street attorneys, for as he declared OF have
not told La Rue half yet. ,"
F. He seems. to think that Senator Seymour
of San Bernardino owes him something,
for the animus of his statement is directed
against that legislator in connection with
several bills but with special reference to
the pilot bill, which Senator: Seymour in
trodueed. This bill was in direct conflict
with the Federal statutes, for it exempted
vessels built and owned on the coast from
Pilotage tolls, while the United States laws
forbid any discrimination against,the ves-
sells owned or built in any State; of the
t Union..: -: E 80
The bill in. its introduction was some
what later. than. the hoary cinch which
Senator Toner introduced to regulate pilot
age. :: ~. s.: -,,:.:
Dung Dutchy' implies that there was
revenue in that BILL. He declared that. E.
+ A. Phillips, ex-secretary of the Pilot Com
missioners. would corroborate his state
ment and declared that Mr. Phillips would
make a statement in the office of q legal
flrm. He even made an appointment for
Phillips to. come, but the attorneys waited
patiently for the ex-secretary to appear,
but he did not materialize. E. So !.
Then the report grew that the ex-secre-
tary OF the Pilot Commissioners had gone
to Alaska. This was not true, for Mr..
Phillips was ON the streets last night. He
made a statement, but it lends no Strength
to what "Y Dung Dutchy" said in fact its
trend is directly against the claims of the
sergeant alarms. of the Committee on
Public Morals. =.
The scene of the operations of the Sena-
torial combine, if such existed, is laid in a
brick lodging house on K street, .Sacra-
.mento, where: Mrs. Reina LIE Ballister
lodged during portion of the recent SEES
sion OF the Legislature. Certain residents
of Sacramento and a married woman, a
friend OF Mrs. LIE Ballfster, figure in. the
story. :. 49, 4.
The Grand Jury of Sacramento County
may attach sufficient Importance to the
statements made by 'sYoung Dutchy''
and his associates to take up this thread
OF the investigation or: they may not, be-.
l1eving 1T to be a new scheme to extort
revenue. -. .s+ =: i. -. I:
;. Attorneys who have been. concerned in
the case: seem to regard the evidence as
insufficient to be of much practical value.
IT may be that Jerry Burke, ex- Director
OF the Board of Education, can. be of as
sistance to the Grand Jury in its efforts to
ferret out the truth,as hemade an attempt
to trap certain legislatorswho were thought
70 be over-anxious for revenue, but as he
himself declared: Yesterday, the attempt
falied. 1t Is represented that he was seek
ing TO entrap some one who desired booty
from the insurance; companies, for it is
known. that representatives of the insur-
ance corporations had such a: plan sug-
gested.. to them. to put an end for all time
to the introduction of cinch bills aimed at
their Golfers: by the use of "a little whole
some exposure of the methods. employed.
Fred: Hansted was seen by IA CALL re-
;PoIoei III .Ie 0Ianu :nQteEiaSI nlgnt, ana
after considerable hesitancy told, SO far as
he thought advantageous to his side; the
story OF his differences with. Senator Sey.
mour...
=. Were you not in the law offices of w.
~. Foote; q week ago last Monday2'' Mr..
Hansted was asked. -. ~.
II was. ~: p,
I; . not III. NE. La Rue; the foreman of
the Sacramento. Grand Jury, present2"
o II c 81. o
"You made a definite statement then OF