The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-24

a new occupation connected with his
employment by the Southern Pacific
Company. When a man wants to get
ticket over the company's lines it is the
proper thing to send a note to Herrin,
who in his turn sends a clerk after the
desired thing. The next time Herrin
meets the man for whom the ticket was
secured he collects for the same and
presumably turns the money over to
the company's cashier. These facts
were brought out in Herrin's testimony
concerning the issuance by him of two
tickets to Assemblyman Merrill of San
Francisco at the written request of
Dan Burns. Herrin testified that he
complied with Burns request for the
tickets, which were from San Fran
cisco to New York. Some days later he
met Burns on the street and collected
from him the price of the tickets, a sum
amounting to about $130. A peculiar
circumstance connected with this trans
action was that Herrin could not for
the life of him remember whether he
made collection from Burns before or
after the fact of the issuance of the
tickets was exposed in the San Fran
cisco newspapers.
L uI oUiAS luS diOilS IliCoC
lines the inquistive committeeman de-
veloped the fact that Speaker Wright
had also applied to Herrin for trans
| portation over the lines controlled by
! Coils 2. Huntington. The request
made by Wright was not denied. Mr..
Herrin gave him a mileage ticket for
which, Herrin added, Wright paid in
greenbacks. In view of the fact that
| Wright has not yet returned the $3.50
he received from u. S. Grant, through
Milton J. Green, in return for prom
Use to vote for Grant for Senator, this
payment by him of money to Herrin in
return for a mileage ticket, sticks out
on the face of his recent career like a
clam shell on mud fiat 1t is barely
possible that Herrin may have had a
financial dream at the moment he
handed the mileage ticket over to
| Wright, but he is so positive he han
died the actual cash that his statement
may be received as truth without en-
dangering Wright'S reputation for dis
honesty.
Another view of the circumstance
would be that Wright did not know
where the ticket Office of the railroad is
located and that during the course Of
his search for it he wandered into Her.
rims office. Having explained his pre-
| dicament Herrin saw an opportunity to
| get some of the Grant money Wright
was jingling in his pockets, so he sold
his visitor a mileage ticket on the spot.
! This is, of course, mere conjecture, but
If it were true it must have been a
great relief to Herrin to be able to sell a
ticket and receive the pay for it in his
office, thus avoiding the manual labor
attached to running about the streets
to collect small sums for tickets issued
by him, as he did in the case of Colonel
Burns.
The witnesses whose names have
been mentioned were not the only ones
who appeared before the investigating
committee to-day. Among others was
| u. S. Grant. He told the committee
that all of the funds that had been
expended by him in making his canvass
| for United States Senator had passed
through the hands of Milton J. Green,
his political manager, and that he had
no personal knowledge of the manner
in which the money was expended. He
had given the money to Mr.. Green from
time to time, with the general instruc-
| tions that it was to be used in a legiti-
mate manner. None of the money so
provided had been expended other than
| iegitimately to his knowledge. He ad-