The record-union., 1897-03-10

| power in the State than that welded
| by libelers connected with the San
| Francisco Examiner This same
| Examiner" he submitted. had once
tried to kill Stephen NJ White, but that
| gentleman rose superior to it. and still
lived and was honored in his genera
ton. He only recalled this to the Sem
ate. he said, in order that the mem
bers might not be afraid of the penny
a-line scribblers who would give them
| black line every morning for break
| fast. He hoped to see the resolution
adopted.
BERT IN OPPOSITION.
Bert spoke briefly against the resolu-
ton. He said the Examiner had Of
| fered no evidence to show the truth Of
its charge, and in his opinion legislators
| needed no further vindication. The
| paper could not prove its assertions
and that being the case. the investiga-
tion ought to be dropped. He believed
| if the witnesses were incarcerated IN
prison the Supreme Court would re-
verse the proceedings
Wilmington believed that the Senate
had a right to punish Lawrence for
his refusal to answer. and should
therefore vote for the resolution.
| Prisk said that as a newspaper man
| he keenly appreciated the position of
| the parties before the bar. A doubt
| existed in his mind as to whether the
| Senate had legal right to punish in
! the case under consideration. He be-
! lieved that his constituents had as
much faith in him as they had had De =
| fore the charges were brought, and he
| felt it his duty to vote against the reso-
| luton.
| STRATTON, TOO.
Stratton spoke against the resolution,
and While his remarks were in the
main technical. they We're interesting.
| He admitted that there was a grain of
| sentiment in the matter so far as he
was concerned, having started in life
as a newspaper reporter He handled
the cases cited by Morehouse from a
decidedly different point of view, and
submitted that the resolution ought to
| be defeated.
| PEDLAR EMPHASIZES.
Pedlar made strong speech for the
resolution, protesting against technical
| arguments. The honor of the Senate,
he said, was at stake and the present
| was no time for technicalities. He was
| entirely willing to vote to stop the in
vestigation if the members of the staff
of the Examiner" would retract their
statements. If they refused to do so,
then the mills of investigation ought to
| grind on, and woe to they who We're
caught between the wheels.
| ROYCE SCORES DEEP
| Boyce spoke in favor of the adoption
of the resolution. The question, he
| said was practically one of new
| journalism" and if the time should
| come when a man could charge the
Legislature with bribery with impunity,
! then it would be time that the people
| demanded the members to fold their
! tents ana steal away after stealing
| everything in sight, as some of the
| people of Sacramento said the Legis-
| lature always did. He had been alb
| sent when this crime of the century, ~
as the Examiner would probably
| call the vote on A. B. 213, was COM
mitted, and had he been present he
| might or might not have voted for the
measure. But if the matter could come
| up again he would vote for the bill in
| order to show his contempt for that
| thing" He was not afraid to handle
vermin, if by that means he could do
some good and prove thereby that he
was a man. If such proceedings were
allowed to continue, he said, the time
might come when some respectable
| journal a journal of standing-might
charge the Legislature with corruption,
and honest people might believe it. He
proposed to vote for the resolution.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Morehouse said he had no further re-
marks to offer, and asked for roll
call, which resulted in the adoption of
the resolution by the following vote:
THE VOTE.
Ayes-Androus, Aram, Beard, Boyce,
Bulla, Chapman, Denison, Flint,
Franck, Gillette. Gleaves, Jones, Snider,
Luchsinger, Mahoney, Morehouse, Ped
lar, Seawell, Shine, Shippee, Simpson,
Smith, Trout, VOORHEES,, Wilmington
and Wolfe-26.
Noes-Bert, Braunhart, Doty. Dwyer,
Feeney, Hall, Henderson, Langford, La
Rue, Prisk and Stratton-11.
Absent-Holloway and Toner.
Not Voting-Dickinson.
TO RECONSIDER.
Seawc1l changed from no to aye be-
fore the vote was announced and gave
notice of a motion to reconsider the
vote whereby the resolution was
adopted.
Wilmington moved that the Secretary
be given instructions to not enter the
notice to reconsider upon the records.
Morehouse, under a misapprehension,
seconded the motion, but afterward
withdrew it.
Quite contention was raised over
the question, but the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor ruled that the notice might be
given, while it was in no wise incum-
bent upon the Senate to entertain the
motion this morning.
MURPHY DISCHARGED.
The Secretary next began reading
the resolution applying to Al Murphy,
one of the Examiners" correspond
entS
Morehouse rose and said he did not
desire to have Murphy incarcerated,
and if there was no objection would
withdraw the resolution. There being
none the resolution was withdrawn ac-
cordingly.
LEVINGS GOES UP.
Then the resolution applying to l.. L.
Levings, the correspondent accredited
with having written the article which
caused all the trouble, was read. Only
a faint half hearted effort was made
to keep Levings out of Jail and the res
olution was adopted by the following
vote:
THE VOTE
Ayes-Androus, Aram, Beard, Boyce,