The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10

of the Senate and were in danger OF being
excluded from the chant Der.
Amid all the comments not word OF
ympathy was expressed for the faker-in-
chief of the taxing misconception of a
newspaper, and his disgraceful fate was
hailed generally as it only too we'll mer-
tied. The audience was the largest that
had crowded its way into the Senate
cham Der this session, ladies. Assembly
men, State officers and many of the most
prominent people of Sacramento being
present. This was the case during both
morning and afternoon sessions.
Three separate resolutions of sentence
were introduced, one each for Long Green
Lawrence, one for L. L. Levings and one
for Al Murphy, but at the last moment,
just when vote was about to be taken on
the Murphy resolution, Senator More
house asked leave to withdraw it, and
there beng no objection, permission was
granted. This action was due to the gen.
eral belief that Murphy had no hand,
either directly or indirectly in the prepara-
ton or publication of the contemplate
fake, and that he was simply unfortunate
in having some slight knowledge, mad
vertently acquired, relative to it.
There was a full attendance of the Sena.
tors. with the exception of Senator Toner,
who was excused yesterday, owing to a
death in his family, and Senator Hollo-
way, who was given leave of absence last
Friday until Wednesday.
Again. during the entire proceedings
and the discussions incident to
them, there was the same unan!-
| nous admission on the part of all
who took the fake journal side of the
! case that there was no foundation for its
article charging wholesale bribery and
corruption to the members of the Legisla-
ture. There was not even the slightest
attempt to justify its course, even by
George 4. knight, its chief counsel. All
he efforts to prevent the sentence of i'm
prisonment from being pronounced were
on the line of technicality, such as ques-
tions of jurisdiction and of the materiality
of the questions propounded.
Senator Morehouse was the chief figure
on the floor and acquitted himself with
the highest honor and credit to himself
and the honorable body which had, with
Its full confidence and rare good Judgment.
Before his eloquence and learning the
weak defense OF the contumacious wit
nesses was splirtered into such minute
fragments that nothing renamed visible
OF it when the Senator from Santa Clara
got through his opening argument. He
was ABLY seconded by Senators Boyce and
Pedlar. Others sat ready to speak for vic
tory, for decency and morality-notably
Senators Simpson, Bulla and Gillette
but they realized that their aid was un-
called for.
Senator Dickinson opened the sensa-
tional drama Immediately the president
announced that the hour had arrived for
the consideration of the Examiner con-
tempt proceedings. The chairman of the
Senate bribery investigation committee
asked that the witnesses be brought before
the bar of the Senate and that the ques-
tions which they had refused to answer
be again propounded to them.
At once there was a craning OF necks
and straining of eyeg TO see the man
who had dared to besmirch the reputa-
tions of honora bic public men, and the
! two unfortun ates whom he had involved
in the shameful affair, and who were APP
/ parently marked to suffer punishment
| with him.
But Long Green Lawrence did not pro-
pose to make Roman holiday spectacle
lor the Sacramentans if he could help it..
hen his sname was sounded he SUNK to
the rlght-hand side of the President 8
dais, between that ana the secretary's hign
desk, where he was out nj view of the
assembiage. He was not permitted. how
ever, to hide mis- shame under q bushel,
for Senator Bulla asked that the wit.