The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-31
ort. As amended it read as follows:

port. AS amended 1t read as follows:
Whereas. The Special Committee of In
vestigation of the methods employed in
the election of United States Senator
has made its report to the House;
Resolved, That the said report be and
the same is hereby adopted and approved
as a partial report.
Mr.. Dibble accepted the amendment
and then the fight began. Young Mr.
Works of San Diego came largely into
evidence He headed the fight for
Green by rushing frantically to Bel
shaw while the latter was at the clerks
desk presenting his resolution and be-
sought him to amend by allowing the
dismissal of the committee.
Let up on Green" entreated the San
Diego yearling, that's all past now''
But Belshaw would not stand for it
and insisted on his amendment Works
got mad and introduced one of his own
which he moved as a substitute for Bel
shaw's. Mr.. Works wanted to resolve
that the report of the committee be
adopted and the committee be and here
by is discharged Then Burnett of the
| minority end of the committee came to
the front with his amendment which
was significant as showing the spirit
of the whole Democratic minority 1t
was as follows:
Resolved. That the report of the Spe-
cial Investigation Committee be and 1t is
hereby adopted; and be 1t further
Resolved, That the Special Investigate ton
| Committee be instructed TO investigate
and report what other members, If any,
OF the Assembly accepted financial aid
during the last campaign from any Sena-
torial candidate and whether such finan-
cial aid was accepted with the express or
implied understanding that their votes
for Senator were thereby pledged to the
candidate furnishing such financial aid.
Mead Of Los Angeles took occasion
at this point to get in little Demo-
cratic swat at the majority. He wanted
the committee kept right at work. He
/ believed it should go into every Assem-
bly, district in the State. He said he
could point out districts where Re
/ publican money was used, and Burnett
i chimed in with the statement that he
| knew for a certainty it had been used
against him. Brown, a majority de-
| fender from San Mateo, came to the
fore in defense of his colleagues and
! demanded that the committee be dis
charged and that the minority be given
no further chance to crowd the ma
| jority to the wall Mcdonald of Ala
| media also came to the front. A call
! was made for the previous question be-
/ fore he had had chance to come into
| evidence and with a Hold on there,
/ the amen corner has got a word or two
| to say" he climbed over all of the in
/ tervening furniture and landed in front
| of the press desk He belabored the
minority and every one else and gave
| off loud demands for the discharge of
! the overworked committee. "All these
minority fellows is trying to do" quoth
| he, lis make political capital out of us
and fill this here chamber up with q
Democratic majority next time
The star event though came from
! the rival leaders on the floor. John
| son made it another occasion to snarl
! at the heels of the press, and Uncle
! Coils little bowwow did not overlook
any bets When he had no facts he
manufactured them and the result on
| the whole was highly successful. Judge
| Dibble took his occasion when he got
up to demand the previous question
! The Judge spent fully ten minutes in
manufacturing glowing political docu-
ments to be used by the Democratic
| party when the next campaign comes
along He called up two bills he has
! introduced entitled, How to be hon
est. though crooked" and explained
that they were intended to prevent the
debauchery of State politics by every
wealthy aspirant to Senatorial honors.
He said in effect that Stephen White
swas the only United States Senator
elected from this State who had not
! had recourse to Colonel Mazuma to ef-
4 feet his election. He held up Hearst
! and also Stanf ord and every other Re-
publican success since 1880. including