Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-29
Committee of Seventy.Five
VIII Be Formed to Do the
Work That Seven
Gave Up.
RUFF WILL Be SEN
TENCED NEXT WEEK
Prosecutor Heney Apparently Has
Something More Up His Sleeve.
Agent Who Bribed Supervisor
for Telephone Company
Given TIL Saturday.

San Francisco, Cal, May 29.-I
Within the next few days, IL is an
nounced that a committee of seventy
five. comprising he most influential
business men, merchants iand manu-
facturers of San Francisco, will be
created as a rallying point for the
decent conservative element in the
community, which wishes that law
and order be preserved and business
confidence again restored.
Ruef VIII Be Sentenced Next Week.
Abraham Ruef appeared before Su-
perior Judge Dunno today to be sem
fenced for extortion of $1,175 from
Joseph Malfanti, the proprietor of the
Delmonico's restaurant, to which he
plead guilty a fortnight ago.
On the motion of Assistant District
Attorney Heney, sentence was post
pone two weeks.
Theodore v. HaIsey, agent for the
Telephone company indicted on the
charge of bribing supervisors. was
arraigned and given until saturday to
plead -
Grafters Would Bribe Jurynneu.
That attempts have recently been
made to tamper with certain mem
bers of the grand jury by agents of
some of the persons under indictment
and others who are under investiga-
ton by the graft prosecution, is the
torney Francis j. Heney, who claims
10 have in his possession evidence to
substantiate 1t.
Heney said yesterday that he knew
1t to be a fact that certain grand
jurors had been approached, with
view of influencing their votes on the
indictments returned last week
against the United Railroads officials,
the directors of the San Francisco
Gas and Electric and the Parkside
Transit companies. Heney refuses to
say what action he will take in the
matter, but intimates that he will in
vestigate it and possibly prosecute
guilty of the offense. The accused
are said to be men of high standing
In the business community.
Prepares to Combat the Defense.
The graft prosecution has been adj
vised that the defense of the corpora
offering a bribe will be that they
were the victims of eXtortion by Abe
Ruef. Preparations are being made
to combat this line of defense. Ruef
declares that he never asked any of
the indicted magnates for one dollar.
that in each case they went to him of
their own initiative and rendered
money to him: that he took ii reluc-
tantly as a fee with no evil intent.
and that he gave az part of his fees
to Mayor Sehmitz and the supervis-
ors, because they forced him to do so
under cqmpulsion.
1t remains to be seen whether such
a farcical explanation of the corrup-
ton of the city government will be
regarded seriously by anyone, except
the graft prosecutors and Ruef.
The forces of the prosecution are
aligning for a great battle i'm the
courts when Patrick Calhoun and the
other corporation officials are brought
to trial.
Outlines Attitude of Prosecution.
In regard to the attitude OF the
prosecution Heney said yesterday:
This cry of eXtortlon, by which the
bribe givers whb have debauched
our city government hope to save
themselves, is utter rot. If any eX-
tortion was practiced, why did not
Patrick Calhoun come to me and tell
me about IT. l was friendly enough
with him to be appointed by him as
a member of the board OF arbitration
to settle the previous strike OF the
carmen on the United Railroads. III
Calhoun was a victim of extortion he
should have come to US, at tne out
set. when we We're asking everyone to
come forward and tender eviuence of
municipal graft against Ruef. CAL
houn remained silent then, and 1t is
too late for him to cry extortion
now"
Heney says that the Investigations
into the Home Telephone company,
the Pacific Telephone company, the
prize-fght trust and the Bay Cities
Water company are not yet concluded
and will be resumed when the grand
Jury convenes on June 10th. Mean
time all the energies of the graft pros
ecution will be concentrated on the
pending trials.
Know Who Their Enemies Are.
at is a good thing TO see the
enemies OF the prosecution line up"
said Heney yesterday in discussing
the situation. I'VE know who they
are. and would rather fight them in
the open than in secret. The principal
enemy of this prosecution is William
+. Herrin, general counsel for the
Southern Pacific railroad, and we
shall give him a fight 10 the finish;
you can rely on that
William J. Burns regards IL as
most fortunate thing that Ruef has
confessed and also deplores the tend
ency which. he says he observes, 10
make the fallen and disgraced boss
the scapegoat for all the sins Of the
municipal government When asked
whether he regarded Ruefs confess