The San Francisco call., 1897-03-08

SACRAMENTO, CAL, March Ever
since being left without foot to stand
upon in it's charges of wholesale bribery
against the mem bers of the Legislature,
the Examiner, through its triurlvirate
of attorneys, has been bowling for the
4 production of telegrams. ain the tele-
4 graph Office" said its 'knightly' advocate
TO the committee, ''you will find mine
OF information. In the messages filed
with the Western Union and the Postal
Telegraph companies, gentlemen, you
will find food for ref ction and matter
that Will make interesting reading"
Every body, of course, understood that
this was only one of the geEtleman's elo-
quent bluffs, delivered with q stimulation
Of mpassloned vehemence that took moth
ing from the attorneys reputation as an
orator.
Nc one expected that either committee
would give any serious consideration to
the proposition, and the issuance of the
drag-net subpoena yesterday by the chair
man of the Senate committee was as much
a surprise to the Examiner people as it
was TO the general public.
But having once departed from the WELL
established law in reference to such mat
10 be consistent, and to-day issued an
other subpoena on Superintendent Jaynes
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, which is, however. it is only fair to
state, more within the spirit and letter of
the law than that demanded by and
granted to the Examiners attorneys. 1t
reads as follows:
SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, CAL,(
March Z. 1897.
To Frank Jdynes, Superintendent Western
Union Telegraph Company San Francisco, Cal.
\ GU are hereby directed and commanded to
be and appear before the Senate committee
appointed by the resolution of the Senate of
the State of California, on Monday, the 1st
day OF March, 1897, and which committee was
appointed and directed TO investigate into the
charges made by the San Francisco Examiner
in it's issue OF February 27, 1897, in regard to
bribery of members of the Senate in relation
to Assembly bill 273. on Monday, the 9Th day
OF March, 1897, at 10 O'Clock A. M, in room
10 of the Capitol building at Sacra-
mento for the purpose OF giving
testimony in the matter of the investi-
CATION above referred to and affecting the
contents of that certain art ticle printed and
Published on the 9th day of February, 1897,
in the San Francisco Daily Examiner, daily
newspa per printed and published in the City
and County of San Francisco. State of CalIfor-
MIA, and which said article was and is headed
bribery in Aid of Thievery," and you also
directed and required to bring with you and
have al the said time and place and to present
tothe said committee all kilograms in your
possession or under your control that have
been sent to or received by or sent by w. R.
Hearst, L. L. Levings, I. Alexander, A. NJ. Law
renee. AL Murphy Franklin Hichborn, or
either of them, between the 18th day of Feb
ruary. 1897, and the 7th day of March, 1897,
referring IN any manner to Assembly bill No.
273, or to the article in the Examiner above
referred to, or to the present investigation
being held under the resolution aforesaid.
Witness, my hand as chairman of said COM
mittee, and this subpoena is issued in rur-
suance OF an order OF said committee at Sacra-
mento this 9TH day of March, A. D. 1897.
J. n. DICKINSON, Chairman.
This document, it will be observed, calls
for the kilograms between the persons
named for a period of only twenty-four
davs, whereas the subpenas issued on the
request of the Examiners attorneys ask
that kilograms be produced for period
covering sixty days.
Service was made on Superintendent
Jaynes by telegraph, as was done in the
case of the other.
1t is hoped by means of this subpoena to
obtain the information, if there is any in
existence, on which was based the article
in the Examiner of February 81, without
involving any one connected with the
Examiner in breach OF confidence or
violation OF his word of honor. If Incl
dentally these messages should confirm
the now generally accepted opinion, that
the charges of bribery emanated in the
a Agln-cocktail befuddled brain OF one OF the
u attaches of the taxing scavenger journal,
as was intimated by Attorney Knight, or
reveal the fact that it was deliberate
falsehood published for some Interior mo-
tive, that would be the misfo- une OF the
Examiner, for he who fakes hould keep
away from the ''mine of information" SO
that he may live to fake another day.