The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-20
Sensational Disclosures In Legisla-
tive Bribery Investigation.
AN INVESTIGATOR CAUGHT
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE Is
UNDER SUSPICION.
Alleged That He Attempted to Hold
Up the Grant Crowd For $4,000,
Claiming That Burns Had Offered
Him That Amount-De Young
and Spreckels Called.

Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 19.-The COM
mittee investigating the scandals re-
/ sulting from the senatorial situation is
meeting with surprising results. The
last man to be dragged into the circle
of suspicion is Chairman Cosper of the
committee himself L. L. Levings of
the San Francisco Call took the stand
! today and swore that a person, to wit
ness unknown, had told him that Mil
ton J. Green, Grants manager, had
said that Cosper had been to Green
with the statement that Burns had Of
COsper, according to the story, had told
Green that he would like to vote fer
Grant, but though that Grant should
pay him as much as Burns had Of
fered.
Chairman Cosper followed Levings on
the stand, and denied that any one had
offered him $4,000 or any other amount
for his vote, or that he had peddled it.
The incident was considered closed
until the last witness had been heard
for the day, when Walter Bacon,
Grants attorney before the committee,
took the floor and stated that he had
been told that a member of the assem-
bly, had said TO a friend that Burns
had offered $4,000 for the member
vote. The friend was described as a
Grant man, and the assemblyman had
said to him: IF 1 vote for Grant you
people should do as we'll by me as
Burns has offered to do
The witness demanded that the man
to whom Cooper had, he alleged, made
the statement, be brought before the
committee, and named c. G. Henderson
of Visalia- When pressed as to whom
the assemblyman is, he replied: Mr..
Cosper."
The subpoena has been issued for
LamberSOn.
Subpoenas will tomorrow be issued
for NJ. H. De Young, proprietor of the
San Francisco Chronicle; w. F. Herrin
of the Southern Pacific law department
and John D. Spreckels, proprietor of
the San Francisco Call.
Hugh Burke of the San Francisco
Call stated that he had had an inter-
view with Milton ]. Green, in which
Green had told him that money had
been given to Speaker Wright TO aid
in his campaign. Wright, the witness
said, had threatened witness to expel
the representatives of the Call from the
floor of the assembly unless the Wifi
cation Of the Call ceased.
The new charter for San Francisco
was unanimously approved in the sem
ate today, and carried in the assembly
y GSteIudg WIN one ulSStntiiS Voice.
The new charter empowers the mayor
of San Francisco to appoint or dis
charge the officials of that city, and to
control the municipal funds.
Sacramento, Cal. Jan. 19.-The first
break in the senatorial deadlock was
made on the twenty-secon1 ballot. when
Bulla gained four votes and Barnes one.
The forces of Grant and Burns stand
firmly by their respective candidates,
the gains that wers to Bulla and
Barnes coming from the lesser lights of
the senatorial contest. The twenty-sec-
ond and twenty-third ballots were as
follows: Grant. %; Burns %; Rulia.
13: Barnes, II; Scott. >: Bard. .: Estee, /
l; FELTON,, !; Resented, /; S. NJ.
White, 81.