The San Francisco call., 1899-01-28

e. SACRAMENIO, Jan. ZI.-Late this
afternoon the special committee ap-
pointed to look into Legislature scan
~dals growing out of the Senatorial fight
! filed It's report. Before it did so, how
;: ever it held several open and executive
sessions.
3. Immediately after the vote for United
States Senator was taken the commit
tee met to hear evidence. A certificate
from the attending physician was filed
setting forth that Assemblyman Dale
was too i'll to appear before the COM
mittee. The circumstances will be re-
ported to the Assembly tomorrow
morning.
=: Thomas Nosler was given an oppor-
tunity to testify. He stated that he
had never told any story connecting
.Assemblyman Cosper with a bribe Of
$4,000, said to have been offered by Dan
NJ. Burns, nor had he been with Lam
berson Of Visalia to Milton j. Green
TO solicit $4,000 in Assemblyman Cos
pers behalf. Last summer witness had
borrowed 5000 from Milton j. Green,
but had not worked for Grant during
the campaign on account of the loan;
in fact he was not aware that 1t was
Grants money.
j
titled. took a recess until 1:30 o'clock
10 give a subcommittee consisting OF
Burnett Melick and La Baree an op-
portunity to take further testimony of
Milton ]. Green, he being too i'll to leave
his room.
=: on reconvening the subcommittee
. presented the following report:
J.. Report of Subcommittee.
. We. your committee, composed of j.
X. Burnett. w. S. Melick DR.. La Baree,
appointed to take the deposition of Mil
ton J. Green, beg leave to make the
following report:
. and found Mr.. Green in bed, and were
= permitted to enter the room after some
little delay by DR.. A. T. Hatch. We
found Mr.. Green in bed, sick Then
we took the following deposition, with
DIR. Hatch and Attorneys Messrs. Bacon
and Metson in the room:
Bv Mr.. Burnett-We were sent down
here TO take your deposition in regard
to how this statement OF Mr; Lamoer-
sons came to you Then Mr.. Cosper
came to you with the proposition that
Mr. Burns had offered him $4,000 for his
vote and that while he preferred to vote
for Grant that he thought he ought to
. have as much as that from the Grant
people? We want your statement in re-
g. gard to the facts in connection there-
with
Inc N4lACSo ANAA' ASS@AI @~A~ -
o. can say, gentlemen, is this: I have
known Mr.. Lamberson for several
wears and knew he was chairman of
the County Central Committee down
there, and he was in Sacramento, and
I asked him to see Mr.. Cosper and
urge him to vote for Mr.. Grant; that
Mr.. Grant was the only candidate for
: Senator from the Seventh Congress
sional District, and that Mr.. Cosper
was the only Assemblyman that was
. not favorable to Mr.. Grant from that
district, the Seventh Congressional
Z. District, and he saw Mr. Cosper, so
he said, and I afterward saw him,
think, in this room (where witness
: was lying in bed). He told me that
he had used every argument that he
. could with Mr.. Cosper to vote for Mr..
Grant, and Mr.. Cosper said that he
could not, and he would not vote for
Colonel Burns, but that he would not
promise to vote for Mr.. Grant. Then
:" Mr.. Lamberson went on to say that
; he had heard it reported that Mr.
: :Cosper had been offered $4,000 to vote
for Burns, and that perhaps he was
waiting for similar offer from us.
9. Were those his exact words as you
:. A. ! can't give the exact words, and
= wouldn't pretend to. l told him, of
course, I did not believe anything of the
= sort; didn't believe Colonel Burns had
% offered him $4,000; that it was ridiculous,
. and that 1T must be a joke, and so far
,, ,Rs we were concerned we were not buy
anE rfnfo fnV
%. BY DIR. La Baree-Did Mr.. Lamberson
say Cosper. had said that Burns had Of
-, A. No; 1 don't remember. He didn't
>. tell me who told him this story that an
p: offer had been made.
''i Q. You inferred from what he said that
.Cosper had told him so?
= A. Well, I did not infer much about it,
because the thing appeared so ridiculous
told him; told him / did not believe the
story: 1t was absurd on the face of 1t
TO think that any one should be offered
': $4,000 for his vote. He did not say Mr.
'Cosper authorized him to come and tell
me that. or thai he was authorized to
speak for Mr.. Cosper
Q. Was 1t your Inference that he had
o: authorized him to speak to you?
-. A; Well, from other circumstances that
:had been brought TO my attention, l didn't
=" believe that he had. l told him TO pre-
e sent my compliments to Mr.. Cosper and
: say tnat we were not buying any votes,
and did not believe the story
d. BY Mr. Burnett-Well then, the state
Tnent that Mr.. Lamberson made to YOU
. seemed TO come from Mr.. Cosper. at
least you understood ii come from Cos
., per?
"A. He did not say so.
q. You answered that you told him to
present your compliments to Mr. Cosper2
. "A. | said. if you want to you can pre-
" sent my compliments TO Mr. Cosper. and
say ] don't believe 1t. l saw Mr. Cosper
aftcrward. l never mentioned this story
=, TO him; that is. until after this investi-
'::gation commenced. and then he told me
at the State Capitol that he heard the
story from some other source. and that
Mr.. Lamberson was In no way author
lied TO represent him. the story was un-
: true. and that Mr.. Lamberson was never
. authorized to represent him in any way
q. Did Mr.. Cosper prior 10 that at anv
.ime say anything to you that would lead
you to believe that he was making bid?
A. No. sir. All the argument / used
with Mr.. Cosper was that Mr. Grant was
The only Senatorial candidate from the
Seventh Congressional District. and that
Rll the other Assemblymen in that dis
trict were favorable to Mr.. Grant and
that had reason to believe that every
vote in the Seventh Congressional Dis
" irict would be for Mr.. Grant. OF course.
There were two Senator'S that had not
Ioted for him. Mr. Flint and Mr. RowelI