The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
SOME ASSEMBLYMEN
FREE FROM BLAME
Guy of San Diego Did Not
Place Any Names on
the Roll.
Others Admit That They Gave
Piace-Seekers Permission
to Use Their Names.
Legislators Candidly Confess That
Excessive Mileage Was Paid
Without Protest.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. CIV. r.
Guy, Republican Assem- blynau from San
Diego has clean record in the matter of
the temporary roll scandal. He was cred
tied on the list with the appointment of
Clark Aberti, but he went before the in
vestigating committee this afternoon and
under oath declared that he did not ask
Clerk Duckworth to make any appoint
ments on the temporary list
Guy did not turn and twist and squirm
! as did some of the witnesses who preceded
him, but he was as explicit as it was pos
sible for truthful man to be. He said:
II made no request to any person, nor did
authorize any one to request the chief
clerk or any one else to put any one on the
! temporary roll. 1t was intimated to me
! by several mem bers that l had right to
| be represented on that roll and l told
! them that l did not desire to have any
| one on the roll"
| He made the further explanation that
two years ago at his request Alberti was
| appointed assistant clerk of the Assem- bly,,
! but he did not know how he came to be
on that roll.
Strain of the committee swore that he
did not recommend the name of J. R.
! Nixon, which was credited to him; nor
did he recommend to Duckworth the
name of any other person for the tempo
rary roll, but he did solicit Duckworth's
support in aid of Nixon for permanent
position. He was one of the statutory
employees of the previous session.
Power of San Francisco, a Democrat,
had two appointments on the temporary
! roll. Two or three others had gone TO
him for permission to use his name in or
der to get on the roll. He voted for the
mileage report because be heard that the
report called for only $104 too much mile
age He didn't think it was any use to
waste time about $104, and voted to pay it
| with Democratic liberalitY.
| Lacy of San Francisco raised laugh by
] declaring that in his district were many
colored people, ana they had made his
! life a burden waking him out of bed in
the morning to have him place them in
| fat jobs. He told them to go to Duck
worth and use his name for all it was
worth.
| Harris of Santa Barbara said that ne
did not recommend Rodriguez and Miss
Bertola, whose names were charged to
| him.
Doian CD of San Francisco said that
he recon mended T. ]. Smith in letter
| to Duckworth. The other men charged
to him asked him whether they could
not use his name and influence with the
chief clerk to be placed on the list and he
told them 10 go ahead and use his in
| fuence as much as they liked.
Gately, a fusionist of San Francisco,
swore that G. w. Kyle, Martin and Allen
asked him for permission to use his name
with Duckworth, and he told them to go
ahead and speak for themselves. He was
on very friendly terms with the chief
clerk. He did not expect to get any ap-
! pointments. If he had he would have
sent to San Francisco and got some good
Democrats to come up here and pose for
day on weeks salary on a temporary
list.
| Bookkeeper Hooking for the sergeant-st-
arms said he was allowed $114 for mIIesge
from San Bernardino. He came up from
there, taking prisoner to San Quentin,
and the Sheriff of San Bernardino gave
| him $50 to pay the expenses of both.
x-Sergeant-at-arms Parkinson recon-
mended to the Mileage Committee that he
be paid $114.
| Assem- blyman Breiling testified that