The record-union., 1895-02-14
CIVIC FEDERATION.

y Delegation Of Members Urge tho
Passage of the Waymire Bill.
During the recess of the Assembly at
O'Clock yesterday a delegation of the
| civic Federation addressed the members.
urging the passage of the Waymire bill,
Rev. DR.. Ollie presiding.
/. G. Truman, President Of the FEEDER
alton, was introduced by the Speaker
and said it was unusual TO see bnsinass
men leave their daily ayocations and
come before the Legislature To ask for tho
passage OF law Tor the enforcement of
SOOu, government. san Francisco is =
part OF California, ana asks aid in this
matter. Inc Grand Jury is an obsolete
institution. 1t might have done we'll
once, but tor the rascal OF to-day it is he
hIhu the times. He did not think all the
alone.
Or. Ollie, Chairman of the deIepatjOn.
alluded TO the state of affairs in San Fran
| cisco, and said the taxpayers were de-
| pflVeu practically OF their votes and re-
| quced TO the position Of Cinnamon and
4hulahs. Much corruption has been un-
| eartAeu, and no doubt much more can he
uncovered. The Grand Jury is fettered
ana Its hands tied so that it can do moth
ing. The citizens therefore ask a com
| mission with power to compel man TO
answer questions, and not allow him 10
, shelter himself behind the plea that he
might criminate himself They ask Tor a
non-parLsan commission, that the blame
may be liked where il belongs and that
no WhlteWashing report may be pre-
scented, but the search-Iight turned on
| this whole matter
For TINS purpose a hundred and twelve
men OF all parties, Creeds and OCCUPATIONS
nave come up here to address the Legis-
Iature. lie called on II. y. Clement to
address the Assembly.
Mr. Clement SAID he had always been a
republican, and was one OF the Erae-
holders who had framed the charter soon
20 Oe submitted to the people of San
FRANCISCO. There is no politics in this
matter, and he believed that a non-parti-
/ san commission from the State at large
was the way to get at this matter The
Grand jury Is subjected to powerful in
Huences that stopped them Just on the
Drink OF discoveries, and rendered futile
| their efforts. He had heard il stated that
II was bad politics to allow Democratic
Governor 10 appoint a commission to in
VeSUgate Republican politics. but as q
Republican he did NOT fear it,
Rev. Dr. McCIIsh said that one Obiec-
ton he had heard was that the Declaration
represented preachers and women He
remembered that Charles Sumner an
sWered similar objection by saying that
they helped save the country in the Rsyo-
luton, and it was too late to raise the
issue now.
He had shouIdered a muslet during
the late war and fought to the end. He
haG won his right to be called a citizen
and did not like TO have it thrown in his
lace that because he occupied a pulpit he
had no right to act in this matter Mac
auIey had said that he would give Amer
lea TIL the twentieth century to find out
whether she would stand or la.I-4vhep
the ignorant and the vicious had congre-
gated IN her cities, and would PERHAPS
oYerturn her laws. He asked them to
rise above all partisan considerations ana
have a hOuse-cIeaning
I: W. Reed. eXDistrict Attorney.
spoke on the subject Of Grand Juries,
and said that the Chairman Of 2 mem
oraDle one-Sewart Menzies-was en- this
loor to tell the members that Grand
Juries are pOwerIess under the law 10 re-
dress the evils complained Of, because the
courts alone have power. The Grand
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