Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
SAVAGE PLAYS
HIS LAST CARD
WILL TAKE LEGISLATORS ON
JUNKETING TRIP
PLANS LAID TO CORNER THEM
DURING SAN PEDRO VISIT
Moral and Financial Support of the
Southern Pacific Machine and
Liquor Interests Secured
at Special Meeting

The anti-consolidationist headed by
Senator Savage, will play their last
card when a united effort will be made
to influence a junketing committee OF
legislators who are to visit San Pedro
today. The committee which Savage
and his cohorts will try to mislead is
composed of eleven members of the
senate and assembly who are in
Southern California for the purpose of
investigating the merits of various ap-
propriations that have been asked for
during the present session of the
legislature.
Although the presence of this COM
mittee at San Pedro will have no par
tisan bearing, the Southern Pacific ma
chine and the liquor interests have
arranged an elaborate program in their
honor. In order that they may not be
given an opportunity of meeting rep
reSentative San Pedro citizens, the anti
consolidation faction will nave a COM
mittee meet and remain with them
from the time they step, from the
Pacific Electric train at Wilmington
this morning until they return again to
Los Angeles. The interests have even
gone SO far as to charter launch that
will be utilized in keeping the legisla-
tors on the water alone with their rep
resentatives during the greater part of
the day.
The whole program was arranged at
meeting of the Savage faction held at
San Pedro Friday night. This meeting
was planned as a secret affair, but a
Herald representative had no difficulty
in learning the facts. The routine work
of the legislative committee made it
necessary that the members visit San
Pedro to investigate the harbor condi-
tions.
Savage Called Meeting
Savage, who is member of the COM
mittee, called the Friday night meeting
at San Pedro and there solicited the
moral and financial support of the in
terests for his scheme to use the inno-
cent legislators as tools to betray the
people of San Pedro and defeat the
consolidation. bill.
When seen by a representative of
The Herald at the Hotel Hayward last
night and informed of Savage's plan to
use them as a, means to an end indi-
Vidual members of the committee were
not backward in expressing their in
dignation. With two exceptions, the
legislators are all representative of the
northern senatorial and assembly dis
tricts, and they had no difficulty in
seeing through the Savage frame-up.
With the exception of Savage the va
rious members almost as a unit have
favored the consolidation movement.
Senator Savage took the occasion to
demonstrate to the public that he is
still past master in the art of dealing
out Billingsgate that would bring
blush Of shame to the cheek of a long
shoreman. His roars attracted the at
tention of dozens of guests in the lobby
Of the Haywood. His chief philippe
was against the newspapers who disa-
h 10 II
clared there would be no provision for
newspaper men on board the launch
where the legislators are to be enter
tained today. SaVage'S abuse disgusted
the other members of the party, who
apologized for the San Pedro man.
1t was generally known that the va
rious commercial bodies of San Pedro
would have been mere than glad to
have been allowed to make the stay of
the legislators a pleasant one. AS they
are the logical hosts, there is much in
dignation in San Pedro, and no doubt
somebody will be called to account.
Prominent citizens refer to the whole
affair as an outrage and a discredit to
the fair name of the harbor city.
The committee visited the asylum at
Patton yesterday and also looked over
the local normal school building. The
members express themselves as more
IA4c1l1 p4SooCu Will lIlG hospitality D6-
slowed on them during their trip to
this section of the state. The commit
tee will visit the reformatory and the
pathological school at Whittier Mon
day, and probably will return north
Tuesday. Senator Walter Price of
Santa Rosa, who is chairman of the
committee, is in charge of the legisla-
tors while they are away from home.
Following is the personnel of the
committee:
E. K. Strobridge, Hayward; Charles
B. Bills, Sacranento Gus Hartman,
San Francisco; Thomas Kennedy, San
Francisco; John Hare, San Francisco;
Daniel Riley, San Francisco; Thomas
Fern, San Francisco; H. M. Hurd, Los
Angeles; w. H. Savage, San Pedro; J..
Lewis Martin, San Francisco, and Wal
ter Price, Santa Rosa. The committee
has no official name, but its purpose is
the investigationlof appropriations