The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-31
After Scoring Speech in Support of Resolution Of
Expulsion the Speaker Was Dropped Into Com
paratiye Oblivion.
COMMITTEE WORK COMES IN FOR DISCUSSION
Democratic Members Try to Make Capital Out Of the Situation
and Get Chance to Work in Campaign Speech or Two
for Future Use and Also to Eelp the
Man From Mexico


CALL HEADQUARTERS. sACRA-
MENTO, Jan. 30.-Without one dis
senting voice the Assembly this after
noon adopted the report of the special
committee on investigation that
charges and convicts Howard z.
Wright of crimes and transgressions of
the moral laws so great that even
public censure was not deemed ade-
quate to their punishment.
Without one dissenting, voice the AS
sembly set the seal of it's convictions
Of and concurrence In the charges that
have brought Howard E. Wright and
glorious finish. With the same
unanimity it has vindicated the course
The Call has pursued since il first un-
earthed the ex-Speaker's wrong doing
and has indorsed the efforts this
journal has made to instil into the
present Senatorial fight some element
of cleanliness.
The punishment that would surely
have been his portion Wright antici-
pated by resigning from the high posi-
ton from which it was the fixed inten-
tion of this Legislature to pull him by
force If he should refuse to volun-
tarily relieve it of the odium of his au-
thority. Howard Wright saved him
self from further public humiliation by
following the advice of his Mexican
master and withdrawing from posi-
tion from which he would have been
incontinently tossed, but in adopting
the report of the committee that de-
clared him guilty the Assembly set the
brand of it's convictions so deep in his
political hide that not the power of a
Burns nor the combined influence of
his hirelings will ever efface it and
make him fit again to sit where honesty
and uprightness in public things sit in
open assembly.
this reason stopped at his enforced
withdrawal and the ratification of the
committee findings That he was not
disbarred from the floor he can lay to
the similitude of decency to which he
laid claim by virtue of the apparently
voluntary resignation.
1t was not the findings in the case OF
Wright that percipitated the squabble
that ensued this afternoon when the
committee report came UP on the spe-
cial order The committee itself was
the contention The Grant people were
out to save Milton Green, Grants rath-
er unique political manager, from the
contempt proceedings that have been
hanging over his head. The committee
except the minority part of it. was in
the fight because it wanted to be re-
lieved from the onus of further duty.
The minority wanted to go on as Ions
as there were any Republicans left to
work on. The majority cause being a
common one with Grant, the two fac
tions combined.
Dibble and the Burns people were in
IT to make all of the Burns capital they
could out of the censure that was ad-
ministered to Grant, but they did not
want to take a chance on anything be-
ing turned up on the Burns camp, SC
hasn't its equal on the records for
uniuueness. He wanted the committee
discharged and he also wanted ii kept
in commission, but with it's power lin
tied TO dealing with Milton Green Bel
shaw looked at it from Bulla stand
point. and wanted everything 10 20
along just as merrily as it has been
and he expressed a desire to have
everybody in the State investigated
He amended Dibble's resolution to the
extent that none of 1t was left and Sc
that 1t provided that the committee
should continue with its investigation
indefinitely. The report also provided
| for the adoption Of the committees re-