The herald., 1896-05-01

the Southern Pacific He told his busi-
ness to some person unknown to afiiant
in Mr.. Crawley's office, and was directed
by that person to say to Mr. Carrere
that Mr.. Crawley would meet him at
400" no street given. Afiiant after
ward learned, however. that 400
meant 400 South Broadway Mr. Hervcy
Lindley's office. Affant shortly after
was sent In company with young man
from the Express office to meet a bar
Der and make an engagement to take
him around in buggy for the purpose
of getting signatures to petition pur-
porting to be from the members of the
labor organizations of the city. The
barber was in his shop in the basement
of the Stimson block, and afiiant has
been informed that his name is Fred
Hetz, jr. Afiant on the next morning
took buggy and called for the barber.
but the barber had Informed him that
he had been thinking over the matter
the night before, and declined to go
with him. Mr.. Carrere then put into
atlantis hands a petition in the follow
ing words:
los ANGELES. Cal. April s, 1896.
Senator stephen Nj. White and Con-
gresham James McLachlan. Washing
ton, d. C.-Sirs: We, the undersigned,
citizens of the city of Los Angeles,
favor all appropriations for harbor.
or other improvements that congress is
willing to grant, and, therefore, urge
you to so amend the river and harbor
appropriation bill that it will contain
the appropriation as originally inserted
in the bill by the house committee for
both San Pedro and Santa Monica.
Respectfully,
purporting to be from citizens ana busi-
ness men, and instructing affiant to
obtain signatures to the same among
the business men and citizens of the
city Afiiant went out with the petition
for the purpose of obtaining signatures.
and spent some time in endeaVoring TO
get people to sign 1t, but his reception
from the business men at whose places
he called, and their universal refusal
to sign the petition was such as to ut
terly discourage him, and he Went
back to the Express office and told Mr..
Carrere that he, Carrere, could have
10 conception of the strength OF the
sentiment against Santa Monica. and
that the people to whom he applied
would have nothing to do with the pc
tition. and treated him with very little
consideration. Carrcre then instructed
affiant to take the petition out and get
names on it some way, that what they
wanted was names, it made no differ
ence what names or whose names so
the petitions We're filled out. Affiant
then went to young man named K. d.
Morris, whom he had known for some
time previous and that Morris was a
painter by trade, but out of a job at the
time, and he induced Morris to get
names upon the petition. agreeing to
give him one dollar for each petition
which he got filled with names. The
petitions had from one and one-half to
two and one-half blank leaves, each
of the leaves being ruled on one side in
double columns for names. Every time
one of these petitions was bfoUght in
filled with names, he paid Morris
dollar, and Morris brought in altogether
twelve. The petitions were all copies
of the petition above quoted. Norris ex-
planned to afliant that he filed out petit
tions with names by signing a great
many names himself, and got any per-
son whom he could pick up about San
Pedro street and other places of like
character TO sign his own name and
other names. Affiant at one time saw
one of these parties whom Morris ap-
preached sign his own name, and then
sign several others. Afflant pretended
to be surprised and said: What are
you doing that for?" when the party
laughed and said, ooh. 1 can write
dozen different hands" Affiant took
the petitions and delivered them as fast
as they came in from Morris to Carrere,
and Carrere paid affiant the money for
them. Atliant then put into Morris
hands petitions like the one above, ex-
ceptlng that the words "citiZenS of Los
Angeles" were substituted by the words
members of the labor organizations"
Norris concluded to go down to Santa
Monica to secure names, as their sigma
lures would be more easily obtained
The laboring mems petitions We're after
ward returned to Carrere by Morris,
with about three hundred names on
them, many of which, it appears, were
names of citizens of Santa Monica. Af-
rant does not know and did not care
hnr
member of the labor organizations upon
them or not, as. acting under instruc-
tlons, he was simply endeavoring to
get petitions filled out with names, so
that they could be sent forward AfH-
ant received from Mr. Carrere and paid
10 MOTIFS and to one Carry, who went
to Santa Monica with hm, 80 for the
work at Santa Monica. Affiant saws
on one occasion he was walking along
Main street with Norris going toward
the Express Office to get some money
Tor Morris to pay for petitions, which
ne was then ready to hand in, when he
saw Mr., Carrere approaching him. ana
told Morrls TO stop, and met Mr.. Carrere
some little distance from him. ] told
Mr.. Carrere L wanted some money to
pay one of the partied for getting names
to the petitions. He told me he had
none at the time, but would imnedj-
ately go to the Southern Pacific offices
ntu - sC' II, anu lelt ne, going along
Th1rd street east, as though he were
going to the Southern Pacific offices at
the Arcade depot. About an hour after
ward l went up to see Mr.. Carrere at
the Express office and got the money
and paid Morris. Carrere several times
spoke about what big job he was un-
dertaklnS, and that money was no OBJ
lect in 1T. Everybody in the Express Of
nee seemed to understand that the EX-
press was doing this work for the South
ern Pacific, II. u. Osborne, proprietor, as
well as others. My understanding was
that when | turned the petition over to
Carrere, he delivered them to the South
ern Pacific offices to be telegraphed or
mailed to Washington. On one occa-
sion tried to circulate petition among
the laboring men and the members of
the labor organizations. asking for the
confederation appropriation. I found
IL impossible to get signatures, however,
until took the petition to the Southern
Pacific shops, and there everybody
signed it-from the superintendent down
including all the clerks in the Southern
Pacific depot. They were about the only
people | found that would look at the
petition; when they learned who it was
Tcr they got right in and clapped on their
names in hurry. In our efforts to get
names of the members of the labor or
ganizationS of Los Angeles upon the pc
tition above set out, l was sent with an
other person to Mr.. Hawkins, an Of
fetal, l believe, of the Typographical un-
ion, to get him to circulate a petition
among the labor organizations. Hawk
ms refused to have anything to do with