The San Francisco call., 1897-03-04
WILL NOT ESSAY
TO OFFER PROOF
The Monarch of the Fakers
Has Naught to Say
of Bribery.
Trying to Turn Aside the In
vestigation Begun by the
Legislature.
Will Attempt TO Cover It's Dishonesty
by Clouiing the Issue Before
the Comm ttee.

SAChAMEN1O, GAL, March S.-Ered
Lawrence, brother of the managing editor
OF the Examiner, came up from San Fran
cisco last night with the Examiner cores
pondent who had made flying trip 10 the
City to receive instructions as to the man
ner in which the interests of the Exami-
ner should be guarded before com mittees
appointed by both houses TO investigate
the faxed libel recently published by that
paper. Mr.. Lawrence came flying into
the Golden Eagle Hotel with what is
known as "a fine front"
THE Examiner is going to make a big
fight on this matter" he said.
ut is not making any fight in its
editorials was suggested. at appears
TO be etractiDg its original statement on
the installment plan"
Mr.. Lawrence reply was an intimation
that the apparent weakness OF the Exami-
ner was only on the surface.
The correspondents and others on the
Examiners payroll are making big fight
here, after the lines laid down by MI
Caminetti the other day. The plan of ac-
ton is TO cloud the issue and to swerve
the investigation off in the direction OF
the merits OF the bill. An attack will be
made upon it. The statement will be
prominently put forward that Alvinza
Hayward is interested in the bill, and that
Mr.. Hayward is a millionaire, as is Mr.
Hearst who is interested in the defeat of
the bill. There will be elaborate argu-
ments concerning the reason why the bill
should not become a law, but when the
Examiners witnesses will be asked what
they know about Senators being bribed
for from $3.50 to $500, and Assem- bly, men
being bought in droves at $3.50 each, they
will be IS innocent and as ignorant as the
babe unborn. Only one of them will know
anything OF his own knowledge as to how
the article came to be published.
Two stories in relation to the matter are
current here. One is that the chief of staff
received from the editorial rooms of the
Examiner on Mission street tip to send
down the story for the purpose OF making
a sensation and of preventing the approval
of the bill by the Governor. The other
story is that the matter was written
wholly in the editorial rooms of the
Examiner in San Francisco for the pur-
poses outlined and because of the fact that
that paper had been "scooped" so often by
THE CALL and Chronicle 90 legislative
news that It was necessary TO make a Ping
Yang play to the gallery in order to brace
up its shattered reputation.
1t is reported also that agents of the
Examiner have withdrawn from the tele-
graph offices all kilograms passing between
the Examiner and its correspondents in
relation to the bribery libel. If the article
was written in this City the correspondent
will raise the point that he cannot be COM
PEELED to betray the secrets OF his en-
ployer and the paper will place him in the
role of a martyr.
But these tactics will be met by few of
the determined Investigators in the only
honest and direct way. The manager of
the paper Will be asked to prove the
charges of bribery against members of the
Legislature. If he cannot do this, and
odds of thousand to one are offered that
he cannot, the lie and the lake will be
crowded down the throat OF the Monarch
of Fakers.
The committees feel that this is the only
issue to be investigated. The merits of
the bill have nothing to with the case.
Did the Examiner tell the truth when it
stated that Legislators had been brIbed :?
That is the only issue before the commit
tees.
Mr.. Caminetti and his friends in both
houses may be relied on 10 do all in their
power to prevent an investigation on these
lines. Mr.. Caminetti outlined that idea
in his rem arks on personal privilege, for
he neither denied that members had been
bribed nor did he address himself to that
phase of the case at all.
Both committees will meet tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock IN separate apart
ments for the purpose of taking testi-
mony. Each will devote its inquiry to the
charge of bribery made against its own
particular department of the Legislature.
"I regard Assembly bill 273 as a very
meritorious one" said J. D. Sullivan, ex.
District Attorney of San Francisco.
"There are many lawyers who would be
glad if the bill became law, because it
would protect their clients IN their rights
against biased and dictatorial Judges, of
which there are more than one in the va
rlous counties of this State"
Andy Lawrence arrived on the late
train tonight and declined to be inter-
viewed. Immediately after his arrival be
went into consultation with A. J. Clunie
and Garret McEnerney, the attorneys for
the Examiner.
1t was learned tonight after Andy
rence's arrival that the Examiner will
attempt by bold bluff to div .rt the efforts
OF the Investigating Committee from ex-
posing its fake story by demanding that
the private books of those interested in
the Hale & Norcross suit be brought into
the case and that the owners of the books
be also summoned as witnesses Nothing
more impud ent and audacious was ever
proposed to court or any investigating
body. After direct and specific charges of
bribery have been made, and the strongest
kind of suspicion cast upon scores OF legis-
lators, who were mentioned by name, it
will now be sought by the manager of
newspaper to shield himself and his sheet
from well deserved con tenn pit and puni, b.
ment by a still more cowardly expedient.
The consensus of opinion tonight is that
absolutely nothing will be developed to
prove that bribery was resorted to in Sc
curing the passage OF the Caminetti bill,
and that the only result of the investiga-
tion will be to prove once more that the
Monarch of the Fakers cannot yet shake
off the habit acquired and become second
nature by long years of practice.
Glore Contest BIZ Defeated
SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 3.-Den-
nery's Assembly bill 787 allowing licensed
and incoruorated athletic clu bs to conduct