The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
DENUNCIATIoN OF THE
MEN BESMIRCHED.
Morehouse, Chapman and Franck
Denounce the Malicious Lies
of the Examiner"
THEY WILL PROBE THE MATTER
TO THE BOTTOM.
Representatives of H arst's San Pran.
cisco Freak" May Be Put Out
of the Legislature.

SACRAMENTO, CAL Feb. 27.-With-
out the slightest foundation in fact, but
with an imagination born of malice and
'vindictiveness, the Monarch of the
Fakers" in the course of its everyday pas
time of taxing, to-day made wholesale
charges of bribery against the members
of both the Senate and the Assembly.
So contemplate were the falsehoods
contained in the article in question and
SO fragrant was the violation of all the
written and unwritten rules OF decency
that there was general outburst of in
dignation on the part of every Senator
present, and on the floor of the Senate the
article was denounced as a ''willful, un-
mitigated, damn lie,'' and the author as
IAN unmitigated, malicious scoundrel.''
e. The ostensible inspiration for the article
was'the passage of Assembly bill 273, in
troduced by Caminetti, adding to section
40 of the Code of Civil Procedure the pro-
vision that no Justice, Judge or Justice of
the Peace shall sit or act as such in any
action or proceeding when it appears
: from the affidavit Of either party that he
has reason to believe, and does believe,
that he cannot have fair and impartial
trial before the Justice or Judge about to
try the case, by reason of the prejudice or
bias of such Justice or Judge"
1t is charged by the Examiner that the
object of the bill is to prevent Judge Heb
bard from sitting in the Hale & Norcross
: case should it be ordered back by the
Supreme Court for retrial. Here is the
language of that pusillanmious Creation,
evolved from the fad of ''new journalism:
Plainly coin has been used to crowd through
the Legislature a bill capable of enabling
&: AlvInza Hayward and his Hale & Norcross fol-
lowing to oust Judge Hebbard from the great
case in which they have been adjudged guilty
Of gigantic frauds.
At present the Hale & Norcross case is before
the Supreme Court. Should that tribunal find
some error in the rulings of the court below
the cause would be sent back for rehearing.
Herein arises the eagerness of the defendants
to be placed in position where they shall
not have, in such a contingency, to face the
Judge who knows them to the core.
1t then makes unsupported statements
as follows:
Without a shadow of doubt members of
the Assembly ard members of the Senate were
bribed to support the bill. The price paid for
each vote bought in the lower House was
$3.50. In the Senate a vote brought all the
way from $o0O 10 S0OO.
After giving the history of the bill in
Senate, the article concludes with the fol-
lowing cowardly insinuations:
Prisk, Pedlar, Langford and Dwyer, who
were absent when the roll was called on Tues
day, voted for the bill. Chapman, Franck and
. Morehouse, who had voted against allowing
the bill third reading, cast their votes for the
passage of the measure.
The San Francisco papers arrived but
short time before the adjournment of the
Senate until Monday, and there was con-
sequently but little time during the ses-
sion for the members to read and digest
the.article in question. 1t was only when
the motion to adjourn was pending that
Senator Morehouse arose to a question of
privilege, and with voice vibrating with
intense indignation gave vent to his feel
ings as follows:
:. Before that motion is put would like
to call the attention of the Senators to an
: article that appeared in the San Francisco
Examiner this morning headed Bribery
in Aid sof Thieves and in which there
are statements that upon certain measures
= here members of the Senate have been
lbribed for their votes. l desire to say that
| so far as l am concerned that article is
lie-a willful, unmitigated, damned lie
NRnd the man who wrote it is an unmiti-
gated, malicious scounorel have come
here honestly and have honestly voted on
every measure in this body. No man has
approached me under any circumstance,
and think that Is SO in regard to every
mem Der of the Senate"
After the adjournment the matter was
the sole topic of indignant and denuncia-
tory remark about the Capitol.
The absurdity of the whole story and
the exceedingly thin fabric out of which
it had been constructed is shown by the
character of the men whom it sought
to more directly connect by invidi-
.ous lnuuendo with its infamous
charge, viz: Morehouse, Franck and
Chapman. These are the men who are
stated to have changed their votes in
favor of the bill after having once voted
against it.
Franck is a resident of Santa Clara
County, a man whose wealth is estimated
at between 500, 900 and $500, 600 and whose
honesty and integrity have always been
above suspicion.
Morehouse is also man of means, and
stands high in the profession which he
honors, and is one of the leading attorneys
of his section. In Santa Clara, his home,
no man bears a better private and
public reputation. His public record is
kone that any man might feel proud OF. So
tSell have his services on behalf OF the
Ipeorle been appreciated. that his name is
even now prominently mentioned in con-
nection with'the nomination for the high
office of Governor of this State two years
hence.
Chapman represents FL Dorado and
Placer counties, is q miner, has an ire
proachable character, is worth in the
neighborhood of $3.50, 900. and was only