The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10

who voted for Assembly bill 273. Nc
Carthy was sent to the County Jail, got
out writ of habeas corpus and the Su-
preme Court sent him back to Jail, when
he relented.
"Simply because I am the manager of
this proceeding and have the earnestness
aid the character aad the nerve to beard
the lion in his den and the Douglas in his
hall expect more of these infamous lies
to be printed about me. Let it come.
The time will come when my voice will
be heard from Siskiyou to San Diego and
be more powerful than any newspaper,
and don't you forget it. [Applause.l
do the members want the words
'scoundreP and 'bribe.taker written
across their foreheads? Why should
these honest gentlemen. appeal to you,
Mr.. Chairman-why should these honest
gentlemen-and l use the words as Marc
Antony used them why should these
honest gentlemen who possess this knnwl-
edge that Senator Morehouse and Senator
Franck and Senator Chapman and other
Senators who saw fit to vote for this
measure took $500 to $500 for their votes,
"For myself I brand it as lie and the
man who wrote it as liar. But we ought
to let it go by. Shall we permit this man
to blacknlall, to vilify and corrupt the
whole community; to corrupt personal
honor? This paper will do it all the time.
Do you tell me that this man is worthy of
respect from any human being? You may
respect him. If so, 1 feel sorry that you
have forgotten your manhood and woman
hood. 1t ought to be matter of shame
to be an associate of such vile thing.
"We have no right to investigate public
slanders. We should sit here and render
up our morning orlsons and our prayers
to A. M. Lawrence. He is a god. He is
the one man endowed with all the virtues
man can possess and his chief virtue is
to write down any individual who votes for
a measure that A. M. Lawrence does not
like. We should teach the State that there
is one Senate possessed of the manhood
and character to dare present honesty and
truth to the public"
He referred TO the telegram be had re-
ceived from w. F. Herrin requesting him
to cease opposing Assembly bill 273 and
declared that he had shown no reluctance
to producing the message, and added:
"What harm is there in it? Ii that is
harmful then there is no man in the SEN
ate who should not be sent TO the peniten
tiary.
GAS for my being an attorney for the
Southern Pacific, l never denied was an
attorney for the railroad. l thank God
that he gave me power enough and brains
enough to be the attorney for railroad
com pany. [AppIause.] And I want the
world to know my connection with the
railroad. 1t has always treated me right.
1t has employed me year after year, and
when 1 get through with case l make
out my bill and send it to the company
and they always pay it. That my crime.
l don't think there is a lawyer with the
brains of newly fedged dove that
wouldn't take it tomorrow il he could get
it. [Applause.l
"It may be possible that this great en-
CINE may fire on you Republicans and you
may be defeated in your political aspira-
tions. But they can't hurt you. They
tried to kill off Stephen NJ. White, but
White was superior to the San Francisco
Examiner. l only give this to you that
you won't be afraid of this penny a-liner.
"What are you going to do? know
wnat I am going to do. This man has
been before the bar of justice. shall vote
for this resolution. 1 want an example
which shall say to this newspaper writer,
You shall not charge a Senator with
bribery unless you have the proof
The Bruner case was cited as showing
how ready the Examiner was to submit
it's proofs when it really had them. He
then continued:
"Now, if the private relations between
Mr.. Hearst and these gentlemen are so
disreputabe, 1 am willing to excuse
them. Why don't they answer If they
have any truth to tell? They want to be
put in q position to say that this Senate
fell down aud that the Senate dared not
punish them for contempt. They will
not put me IN this position. They can
hound me with their emissaries; they
can send men to peep through keyholes
and over transoms, but there is one
thing certain-they can't hurt a hair of
nv head, for truth will beat them every
time.
"What will you do? Task you to stand
up like men and teach these men that
they have braved our power; teach them
that it is in our power to make them tell
ms what they know or say, 'We lied about
this thirty-second session OF the Legisla-
ture.'"
Bert said he could not vote for the reso-
luton because the questions asked the
witnesses and which they refused to an
swer were not pertinent, and that no evil
dence had been submitted to show that
the charges were founded on any fact.
He added the Senators needed no further
yindication OF their honor and honesty.
Wilmington, to the surprise of every
! one, swung into the ranks of the ma ajority
| who voted for the resolution to cite for
contempt, although no testimony had
been adduced.
Prsk, doubling the Senate's power to
punish for contempt, but stating there
was no evidence whatever to substantiate
the Examiners charges, opposed the reso-
luton.
| Stratton offered some technical objec-
| tions as an excuse to permit him to vote
against the resolution.
| Pedlar expressed surprise over the "pe-
culiar speech of the Senator from Ala
media" and declared it was no time for
technicalites, and said that he for one
would be willing to stop all proceedings il
| the paper would retract all it had said
about the matter.
Senator Boyce delivered scorching hot
| address. II know" he said, that nc
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