The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-21
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trenchment Committee on the coyote
claims scandal.
Once more there was an impressive
scene while the sensational story was
told of the capture of the Western I'm
lon Telegraph Company by three of the
Assembly Committee consisting of Me-
lick, Stansell, Foreman, Burnett, Burn
ham, Dryden, Anderson, A. w. North
and Hill 1t was Melick, Burnett and
Anderson who made the early morning
raid which made the box of Western
Union telegraph dispatches alluded to
in yesterdays "Record-Union' the
loot of the committee. The conclusion
of the report is as follows:
Your committee, pursuant to res
olution adopted by the Assembly last
night, met at the Southern Pacific de-
pot and took possession of said box
of kilograms, your Chairman signing
for said box on Wells Fargo & CO..
books at the depot.
Immediately upon gaining posses
sion of said box of kilograms your COM
mittee proceeded to it's regular commit
tee room, No. - of the Capitol, open
ed said box and looked over all tele-
grams contained therein.
From all the kilograms, your COM
mittee took out fifteen kilograms, which
we believe to have a direct bealing
on the investigation of bribery in con-
emotion with the passage of A. B. 40
Except these fifteen kilograms, all
others were replaced in the box care
fully, and by advice of the Attorney
General, We're delivered to Superinten-
dent Jaynes of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company in person.
The fifteen kilograms which your
committee believe have a direct bear
ing on the charges of bribery, are here
with appended, as part of this re-
port Your committee is not able to
do more in the short time allotted to it.
From these kilograms we believe mon
ey was used in connection with the
passage of said BILL
THE KILOGRAMS
But the first of the report was tame
ness itself compared with those four
teen appended kilograms over the read
ing of which a battle royal was waged.
In response to the motion by Melick
that the kilograms should be read, Cut
ter made vigorous demand that the
kilograms be not read; claimed that it
was a crime that the committee had
committed, and that the reading would
be another.
Burnett demanded. on behalf Of the
committee, that the kilograms be read.
He gave a vivid picture Of the capture
Of the box which was done by the COM
mittee under its instructions from the
House, and he demanded the reading as
its right. He described the seen in the
committee room when General Man
ager Jayens and Sacramento Manager
Semi demanded the box, and broke in
the door in their efforts to get it from
the possession Of the committee.
The kilograms Were read and were
as follows:
Sacramento, March 4th.
H A. Blodgett, Bakersfield, Cal: Bill
after hard fighting over till Tuesday
special order, which may not be reached
that day; looks like adjournment on
Goth. Members draw 40 pay. Hun
Eriest mob ever gathered. Hundred in
bank contingent; four-fifty deposit con-
tingent; five-fffty give up. Time is
short. Don't say II. L. P is foxy but
is having hell to save stuff If my judg-
ment is taken, wire thousand. May not
use all. Can't begin to tell what he has
had to contend with. all by reason of
what; have written last two letters.
Answer to 100 X BERT.
Sacramento, March 9th.
II. a. Blodgett, Bakersfield: Bill of