Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
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by q vote or 40 10 ~. lHeSe dinelu-
ments struck from the resolution all
reference to the Bristow report and all
recommendation for the establishment
of a government line of steamships on
the Pacific. AS amended in the as
sembly, all that was left Of the reso-
luton was the request that the inter
state commerce commission consider
the protests made against the advance
in transcontinental freight rates, and
the request made of our representa-
tiVes in congress that they support
legislation to grant further powers to
the interstate commerce commission.
(See page 772, Assembly Journal, 19O9)
ments voted to strike for the amend
ments, voted to strike from the reso-
luton all recommendation to congress
that a government line of steamships
be established on the Pacifis.
1.-The record shows (Assembly Jour
nal, 1909, page 772) that you voted Tor
the amendments.
"The amended resolution was return
ed to the senate. 1t was then beyond
your reach or power to change. Had
the senate concurred in the amend
ments, senate joint resolution No. 3
would have been adopted, as your vote
helped to amend 1t in the assembly,
without any recommendation to con-
gress whatever that government line
of steamships be established on the
Pacific, without any reference, indeed,
to Pacific steamships at all.
"All this is as we'll known to you as
1t Is to me.
But the senate refused to concur in
the amendments which struck the
really vital and important paragraphs
from the resolution and the assembly
was given an opportunity to recede
from them.
REFUSES TO RECEDE
Under your leadership, the assem-
bly, refused to recede.
"The resolution then went to COM
mittee on conference and later to a
committee on free conference. Such
committees consist of three senators
and three assemblymen. You, as
speaker of the assembly showed your
attitude in naming the three assembly
men to serve on the committee, by ap-
pointing two members who had voted
with you to eliminate from the resolu-
tion those paragraphs urging the es-
tablishment of the government line of
steamers on the Pacific. Fortunately,
however, the three senators who sat
on the committee were heartily in
favor of the project.
THE committee restored to the reso-
luton paragraphs urging our represen-
tatives in congress to exert themselves
secure
the government line on the Pacific, as
had been provided in the resolution as
it had originally passed the senate.
To this victory for those who were
standing for the best interests of the
state there was not a dissenting vote
in the assembly, so far as the writer
knows, when without roll call the re-
port of the committee on free confer
ence was adopted.
T.. AiG
report of the committee on free con-
ference that you base your allegations
that l have deliberately falsified your
record on senate joint leSolulloi4 NO o.
claiming that l have deliberately mis-
represented your position on this meas
ure.
lyon must know that this unrecord-
ed vote is not expressive of your attl-
tude on senate joint resolution No.
at all: that your attitude on the resolu-
ton, however, is expressed in your
vote for the assembly amendments,
which struck from the resolution all
recommendation to our representatives
gress that the I'd
line be established.
And in the face of these facts you'
who as speaker of the assembly, are
entirely familiar with them, have the
effrontery to print in the pamphlet
which you have given wide d'strlbu-
tion:
"'In the matter of the federal steam
ship line (senate joint resolution NO: 81
I am compelled to say that Author
Hichborn deliberately falsif1es when ne
saws or insinuates that 1 voted against
this measure, | say he deliberately
misrepresents, because he must know
that not a single assemblyman voted
against it, The measure was approved
bv unanimous consent of the house at-
ter a long preamble to the resolution
OF absolutely no value to 1t, had been
stricken out.
ADOPTS AMENDMENTS
"When you wrote that paragraph
YOU must have known that the ~ecords
of the assembly show that not only ala
the assembly amendments, adopted
with vonr support and vote, strike out
mart of the preamble, but those sec
tions OF the resolution itself whlch
refer TO and urge the establishment of
n government line of steamers on tne
Pacific. Compare the resolution as II
was adopted by the senate and printed
on page 272 of the senate 9o1rHal i tba ton
1909. and as it was amended IN the
assembly and printed on page I72 of
the assembly journal for 19O9)
"Such being the case, permit me TO
saw that when you wrote that para
graph you sought to evade response
bilify for your vote for the assembly,
amendments to strike from senate JOINT
resolution No. those sections when
urge the establishment Of a govern
ment line of steamers on the Pacltc;
that you sought to dodge the issue by
deliberate MISREPRESENTATION, If not
falsehood. -. -.
at can appreciate the fact that you
were hard pressed to explain away your
vote in this issue. The Anaheim Ca
zette. for example, one of your strong
est and most loyal supporters, in vehe-
ment denial that you voted on this is
size as the record on page 772 or the
assembly journal of 1909 shows that
Won voted, has this to say OF your
availability for the office of governor:
"'If this statement that stanton
voted to eliminate from senaIe Jollll
resolution No the paragraph urging
the establishment by congress OF
federal line of steamers on the Pac1hc)
were true. 1t would be the first time in
his nublic life that this man of the
hour has turned his back upon the
neonIe and knuckled down to the rail-
roods If II were true 1t would unit
hin, for the governorship. There is a
GREAT work for man of Stanton's call
her to do at Sacramento in the next
four wears. The Panama canal VIII
be completed in few years. The "a
cific and Pacific. mail VIII strike the
shackles off the thralldom Win Iile Ihe
advent of the isthmian waterway. The
neonIa have need for such a one. If
Mr. Hichborns charge against stanton
10 true. he is unfit to occupy the high
office he seeks
"Your defense it would appear, then,
was necessary to satisfy the most
earnest of your supporters. But even