The herald., 1897-01-28

less than two years. The value of an
animal condemned to death must be
appraised and the price paid to the
owner.
The senate committee on swamp and
overfowed land today decided to recon-
mend for passage the bill to appropriate
$500, 900 for the construction of dredger
and other necessary work to clean out
the mouth of the Sacramento river. The
bill will be referred to the finance COM
mittee to have the amount of the appro-
priation determined upon.
The senate majority held caucus this
afternoon to discuss the request of Sec
retary Frank Brandon for two addition
al clerks at the desk. The request was
peremptorily refused. The caucus de-
cided to leave the selection of Senator
Chapman's successor on the. election
committee to President Pro TEN Flint
Senator Wolfe suggested that two stem
ographers be appointed for the use of the
senators, but this proposition was froWn-
ed down.
DUCKWORTH'S CASE.
The committee of seven appointed
to investigate the organization of the
house was in session this afternoon.
Judge Waymire was in the chair.
Chenoweth, acting as attorney for the
assembly, presented the temporary roll.
CLERK DuckWOTlH was liOl PlCoCiit Oi
account of illness. His brother said he
would not be able to attend for several
days.
North of, Alameda was asked to pro-
duce certain papers in his possession
He replied that he had not the papers,
with him, and that he would not pro-
duce them unless subpoenaed.
Attorney Chenoweth was empowered
to subpoena any witnesses he desired
D11- Tor from
terey which charged that three of Duck
worth's political allies had been placed
on the temporary roll, and although
they had never been near Sacramento,
had drawn their salaries.
Brieling, chairma nof the mileage COM
mittee, was put on the stand and testi-
fled that he was ignorant of the ways of
the legislature and had gone to Duck
worth for assistance in making his re-
port.
Duokworth. he said, had delegated
his brother Robert and E. J. Smith to
assist him. After the report was made
out and printed in the journal Brieling
said that number of people came
to him and demanded to know why their
names were not on the roll.
II went to Duckworth,' said the wit
ness, land told him that there were
lot of people kicking, and that he must
have omitted to put down their names.
He said the names must have been left
out by the printer. Then he made out
q new list On the second day twelve
names were added.
The names submitted by Brieling were
as follows: T. w. Measure, electrician,
$35; r. A. White, ,gatekeeper $2S; w. S.
Reyner, gatekeeper $4 w. Howard,
w. c. Dorsey E. McLane, pages, $21
each; Delos Curtis, doorkeeper, S21; T.
S. King, porter, S2S; Miss NJ. Bertola,
assistant clerk. $685. w. Hopkins, page,
S21: J. c. Williams, file clerk, $35; Mr..
Ashley, porter, $2S.
Brieling was asked If there was not
clerk named Ella Bateman on the
roll He said there was; that he did not
know at tie lime who she was, but sub
sequently learned that she was the
wife of Andy Branch.
EmmonS asked the witness If the
names were not added after the election
of Speaker Coombs He at. first said
he did not know, but subsequently ad-
mitted that it must have been. as he,
Brieling, had been appointed by Speaker
Coombs. The investigation will be re-
sumed tomorrow.
Chynoweth read a letter which had
been sent to the state printer by Clerk
Duckworth, stating that the names of
G. j. Rodriguez and j. L. Martin had
been omitted from the roll and asking
that they be inserted in the journal.
Chynoweth then put the original bill
in evidence.
R. O. Wickham, minute clerk of the
assembly, testified that the roll was part
of the original minutes. The commune
cation to Johnson, he said. did not pass
through his hands. In answer to At
torney Brusie, he said, that he did not
think that the chief clerk had any right
to add items to the bond, journal with
out going through the minute clerks
office.
H. H. North was called upon for docu-
ments in his possession relating to the
organization. Mr.. Brusie. Duckworth's
attorney, ob;scted to the introduction of
the papers. as he said Duckworth had
told Assemblymen Cutter and Fontana
that he might have made some errors
in crediting attaches to various assem-
blymen, and asked permission to review
the list
Mr. Boone moved that Mr. North re-
main custodian of the list until Duck
worth could make the changes he de-
sired. This wa agreed to.
Mr.. Chynoweth then Introduced the
original report Of the committee on
mileage to show that the name of Ella
Bateman had been interlined after tha