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THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending: midnight, Febru ary - 21 : San Francisco and — Cloudy Tuesday: fresh south winds. A. G. McADIB, District Forecaster. VOLUME XCVn— NO. S3 BOODLERS' EXPULSION IS DESIRED Investigators Find Four Senators Guilty. Recommend That They Be Expelled From the Legislature. Report Declares Emmons, Wright Bunkers and French Sold Their Honor for $350. 6pecl*l Dlepauh to The Call. SACRAMENTO, *Vb. 20.— Expulsion from the Senate is the fate of bribers Emmor.s, Bunkers, French and Wright as decreed in the report of the spec ial investigating committee filed this morning. None of the boodlers were present when the report was read con demning them to disgrace and denying them the right again in this life to hold a position of public trust. Em znons was present when the Senate convened and rising in his seat he eummoned his remaining nerve and requested th; ; French be r-d the right to absent himself [f was a pitiable effort on Vt oC the man from Kern to ap uncor.cerned and confident, but the chair tuck him seriously and said; "If there is no objection Senator French will be « xcused for the day." A minute later, just as the door had i b» hind Emmons as he walked panted by his xh< report came that not only h tor the day but that ■will excuse him and his companions itne from attendance forever. As • he report was in Bunkers en .ant-at-arms' room. A the judgment against him was handecf in him. He looked it over and •v think of it?" n* I give a d — n," he answered. "I know what they say isn't true and th^y rant hurt my feelings by expel rie." If Bur.kere appreciates the diigTa^e that has fallen upon him he is summate actor. But those that him best say he does not appre thftt hi? moral sensibilities are deader than Thebes. After the filing part Emmons. French and Wrigl vision. Upon them th« report had fallen as a stunning blow. The San Francisco Examiner also came in for the condemnation of the committee, which, referring to the part tak^n by that pap*?r in the effort tc undo the Continental Building and Loan Association, said: The San Francisco Examiner, tivee, actively • d sMd committee in preparing n of the affairs of intinental Building and Loan n by advising with Senator French, a member of said committee, th< i\i; l>e subpenaed, and furni- expert to assist in eaid investigation." Thus is the Ex- I > linked with one of the d puilty of bribery in oon n with his dealings with building I U M of Pan Fran < ntna n - rkport. When the chair called for the reports <" ( .mmii - ' KtOT Bel special investi said: at. I have here some . at a recent meeting — ■ stimony of ftfr. Ma Nab, Martin 5 and myself— which 1 wish print ed and appended to the testimony ly in prim. I also \\ i?h to pre * he findings of the committee ap d to investigate the. charges of y against Senators Emmons, h. Bunkers and Wright. ' He handed in the following report: "Mr. President: Your special com mittee on investigation appointed Jan uary 30, 1905. pursuant to the follow ing resolution: rhereas, There has been this day fled with the secretary of the Senate ;tir.g certain charges contained in en affidavit which reflects upon the honor and integrity of certain mem •he Senate, in that it does charge said certain members with cor ruption, corrupt conduct and a willful violation of their obligations as mem bers of this body; and " "Whereas, It is fit and proper that the charges be fully investigated by a ittee to be appointed by the pres ident of this Senate; therefore be it .esolved. That a special commit tee of five be appointed by the presi "f the Senate to investigate all < harges and statements contained in •:ng upon the honor, and conduct of the certain ere of this Seriate with relation ;.. th<- subject matter contained In affidavit; and for that purpose the said committee be and it is here i;powered to issue all necessary I to have full power to send • ! sons, books and papers, and to h i the attendance of any and all witnesses within this Stale and require the production of any and papers, books or docu r that the r>c*vers herein Kiven may be fully carried out: and \all report the result of its _ n to this Senate at the ble moment.' beprs leave following report: <■ met immediately ■ liliffently prosecuted an inquiry hareres made in the affidavit . DHara Corhin, filed in the Senate January 30. 1905, and mentioned in resolution. Numerous sessions held and many witnesses were 'Tarr.ined. some of whom would not have been material in a court of law, but It was deemed v.ise by your com- Continued on Page S, Column 1 The San Francisco Call. MARCONI WILL HAPPY A DAUGHTER OF ERIN He Chooses Miss Beatrice O ' Bnen Wedding Set for ttie Middle of Coming Month Bppclal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 20.— One of Guglielmo Marconi's chief worries has been thp constant variety of girls to whom the newspapers have engaged him to be married. Excepting the German Crown Prince and the King of Spain the genius of wireless telegraphy has been betrothed by rumor oftener than any man living. Since the report that he was to wed Miss Alire Roosevelt, American girls have not appeared in the Marconi list. Last week it was the Princess Ruspblf of Turin, the report arising doubtless from the fact that Marconi was- then making a Hying trip to Turin. This week it is Miss Beatrice O'Brien. The peculiarity about the O'Brien rumor is that it is true. Marconi did not intend to have the news published, and \n hen it first came out. he smiled at it in his usual sphinx like fashion and in consequence it was taken for granted that tho story was without foundation. He admitted to day, however, that the news is correct. The date of the wedding has been set for March 15. All of the women with whom rumor, from time to time, has coupled the name of the wireless wizard have been pretty girls. Miss Beatrice O'Brien is described as a beautiful woman. More over she can boast a royal pedigree. She is one of the eight sisters, all pood-looking, of the fifteenth Baron Inchiquin and can claim descent from the famous Irish monarch, Brian Bo roihome. who was King of the Emerald I Fie fr^m 1002 to 1014, when he was slain at the head of his army at the battle of Olontarf. His grandson. Tur logh. King of Munster, had four sons, whereof the third was the progenitor of the Barons 4 Inchiquin. One of Tur logh's descendants, Connor O'Bryan, was King of Thormond in 1529, and it was his brother Murrough. who. after usurping his kingship, surrendered to H<-nry the Eighth and was then made Earl of Thormond for life and also given the Inchiquin barony. A century later the barony developed Into an earldom, tke £fth holder, of whi<*h saw it convertecf into a mar quipate, that of Thormond, which passed away, however, with the third holder, while the other titles became dormant. It was Sir Lucius O'Brien, nfth baronet of an Irish creation of 1656, in whose favor the claim to the Inchiquin barony was made good a lit tle over forty years ago, and his son was the father of Marconi's bride elect. She is possessed in a marked degree of th<* pprightllness, wit and vivacity characteristic of the Irish tempera ment. There is a certain appropriate ness in Marconi's choice of an Irish lady for his wife, for his mother was of that nationality, although as every body knows, his father was Italian and he was born in Italy. • • LAWSON'S ONSLAUGHTS MAY CEASE Rogers Said to Have Purchased Im munity. Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 20. — Stories are cur rent here that Thomas W. Lawson haa at last effected a settlement with H. H. Rogers over the $1,000,000 or more that Lawson has always claimed Rog ers owed him for services rendered, and it is rumored that nothing more need be feared in the stock market from Lawson's Amalgamated revela tions. The March number of his ■Frenzied Finance" does not disprove this rumor. Two months ago Lawson was offered $500,000 to call "quits," but he demanded $1,100,000, claiming this was the amount due him on certain deals. It is said that he cleared from $1,200,000 to $2,000,000 out of his re cent stock market operations. NEW YORK. Feb. 20.— Denis Dono, hue, financial editor of the New York Commercial, who has been running in a magazine a series of articles, "The Truth About Frenzied Finance," which are in reply to the statements of Thomas W. Lawson about financial conditions, was arrested to-day on a warrant charging criminal libel, issued upon complaint of Herbert Gray of Haver hi 11. Mass. ROBBERS OF SOUTHERN* HOTEL MISS A FORTTJXE Five Minutes Before Crime Was Com mitted Clerk Takes $6000 I-Yoni the Safe. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2<J.— Had the men who .on Saturday afternoon robbed the safe in the office of the Hotel Angelus committed the crime five minutes sooner they would have se cured J6OOO instead of $830. Five minutes before the theft one of the clerks took $6000 from the safe, and, accompanied by a porter for a guard, went across the street and de posited the money In the bank. It wag in currency, most of it in $100 bills. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY J2l, 1905. YOUNG IRISH WOMAN OF FAMOUS FAMILY, TO WHOM MARCONI IS EN GAGED. AND WHO WILL BECOME THE WIFE OF THE WIRELESS TELE GRAPH INVENTOR ON THE FIFTEENTH OF NEXT MONTH DEMANDS HOME RULE FOR ERIN LONDON, Feb. 20.— 1n moving as an amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne the decla ration' that "the present system of government (of Ireland) is opposed to the will of the Irish people," John E. Redmond led the Irish party in the House of Commons to-day in an attack that contained for the Conservative Ministry more of menace than lay in the fiscal debate precipitated by As quith's amendment last week. The Redmond amendment was carefully calculated, in fact, to undermine the Government's majority. Interest in the debate was intensified by a well defined report in the lobbies, and which quick ly spread elsewhere, that the Earl of Dudley had resigned the Lord Lieuten ancy of Ireland. This report, which was given wide credence, gave heart to the Nationalists, who made the at tack cm the Earl of Dudley one of the features of their speeches. Late to night the Earl's secretary declared the rumor unfounded. Redmond's speech was an uncom promising demand for home rule. He directly and unsparingly charged in dividual members of the Irish admin istration with incompeteney. Both Redmond and Moore (Irish Unionist), who followed, made a special point of what they termed the "shameful treatment" of Sir Anthony MacDonnell in connection with the now famous difference in the Ministry over the re form scheme. "Ireland," he declared, "ia governed by a bureaucracy more devoid of re sponsibility than the bureaucracy of Russia, which England is so fond of denouncing." Armed revolt, he said, would be jus tified if a chance of success existed. Moore, who spoke in behalf of the Irish Unionists, was as bitter as the Nationalist leader himself in his con demnation of the present Government, which, Moore declared, was held in contempt and disgust by a million and a quarter of loyalists who have been driven to revolt by the policy of glam or and promise without performance. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ire land, delivered a straightforward ex planation of how the unfortunate mis understandings involving MacDonnell arose. In doing so. he paid a splendid tribute to Sir Anthony MacDonnell, Vho, he said, was asked to accept the post of Under Secretary, not in the capacity of an underling, but as a wise and able colleague. Wyndham said he had given MacDonnell a free Jjand to <ttal with the situation. They JIU JITSU WRESTLERS DEFEATED special Dispatch to The Call. WEST POINT, N. V., Feb. 20. The cadets saw to-day a demonstra tion of jlu jitsu through the courtesy of Japanese Consul General Uchida, who accompanied two wrestlers to the academy. The academic board is making an investigation of the art with a view of installing it as part of the athletic education of the cadets. Professor Tomito Loki and his as sistant gave an exhibition. After he had displayed his prowess with his assistant, Cadet Woodbury volun teered to wrestle the assistant and soon had a fall to his credit, although the Japanese outweighed him. Cadet Tipton, the football center, next took n turn with the professor himself. Tipton pinned the little Japanese to the mat. had discussed the situation together. He knew that MacDonnell and Lord Dunraven been considering a re form scheme, but he did not know all the terms of their plan. "Wyndham said: "1 had often discussed reforms with MacDonnell, who with his Indian ex periences found analogies between my ideas and ideas he had formed in In dia. Here came the first soiirce of se rious misunderstanding. I, with a colossal ignorance of Indian affairs, did not know that a semi-elective coun cil exists in India, and therefore it never occurred to me in my conver sations with MacDonnell that he had in mind any board partially elected as part of the reforms of which I approved. If I had thought he had any such idea I would have told him that it was, in my judgment, quite im practicable." Wyndham said he was absent for a holiday when the revolutionary scheme was published, and that, when he re turned, without consulting MacDon nell, he wrote to the papers denouncing the elective council feature. Wynd ham said the Cabinet never had doubt ed MacDonnell's loyalty, but simply had recorded itself as not approving the action of an Under Secretary, who had approved of a scheme without first submitting it to his chief. Wynd ham admitted that MacDonnell per haps was justified in taking his ap proval for granted. The night session was taken up by T. W. Russell, Winston Churchill and others, who bitterly aqsailed the Gov ernment's management of Irish affairs and the Earl of Dudley's administra tion. ENTOMBED BY A MINE EXPLOSION Scores oi Workmen Believed to Have Perished. Many Hours Must Elapse Before Rescuers Reach Tbeir Bodies. Disaster Occurs at the Birmingham Property of the Alabama bte:l and Wire Compmy. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 20.— 8y an explosion in the Virginia mine, about eighteen miles southwest of Birmingham, at 4 o'clock this after noon, between 110 and 135 union min ers were entombed, and it is believed that the entire number suffered an awful death. Scores of vigorous res cuers are at work digging into the mine to relieve their friends and com rades on the inside. The explosion is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of gas, although the mine has heretofore been noted for beiner entirely free from dust. It is believed that, as the entire quota has probably been killed, the de tails of the cause of the disaster will never be known. The camp is almost isolated from the rest of the world, as there is no tele phone station at Virginia and the only wire running to the place is a dt& patched wire of the Birmingham Min eral Railway, on which Virginia is \o cated. The class of miners employed was the best in the district and all be longed to the United Mine 'Workers of America. Since tha strike has been on in the Birmingham district many of the most industrious and thrifty min ers of Pratt City and other important mift+nsr points have removed to- the Virginia mines, so that the mines were being worked to their full capacity by the most skilled miners in the com munity. Relief trains with surgeons and workmen were dispatched from both Birmingham and Bessemer as soon as the news of the disaster was received. They began the work of succor before 6 o'clock, but at midnight had not dug half way through the mass of debris. It i^ believed that it will be 10 o'clock to-morrow before the interior of the stope is reached. The stoDes are well arranged, and there has never been the least trouble in the mines before. They are owned by the Alabama Steel and Wire Com pany, but are leased and operated by Reid & Co. President Edward Flynn of the Ala bama United Mine Workers and Na tional Committeeman W. R. Fairly, together with J. E. Allier. district or ganizer, ha\t left for the scene. Pres ident Flynn said >before leaving that there were 135 men employed in the mine regularly, but as yesterday was pay day he could not say whether the full quota was in the mine at the time of the disaster or not. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR. Disaster at Ohio Mine Also Injures Fourteen Workmen. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0.. Feb. 20.— Four men are dead and fourteen in jured, five of them seriously, as the result <Jf an explosion to-day -of a stationary boiler at No. 1 mine of the Provident Coal Company, near here. The dead: William Adams, president of the local branch of the United Mine Workers of America; Eli Minty, engineer, aged 26, married, of St. Clairsville; Michael Meili, aged 36, of Glencoe, Ohio; unknown Hungarian miner. HOTEL IN BOSTON FILE& SUIT AGAINST HEARST Demands Pay for Refreshments Con- sumed by His Campaign Boomers. BOSTON, Feb. 20. — The Hearst per petual candidacy for President is re ceiving some debilitating jolts from Massachusetts. Following Congress man John A. Sullivan's public drub bing of Hearst comes a suit against Hearst by the Hotel Revere of Bos ton to collect a campaign bill. The Revere management, at the be hest of Granville McFarland, George Fred Williams, "Jerry" Watson and other similar statesmen during the last Presidential campaign, allowed the Hearst boomers to consume Re vere House liquor and food to the value of $241. Hearst refused to pay the bill, hence the suit. DR. HARPER ONCE MORE SUBMITS TO EXAMINATION Surgeons Said to Have Concluded That He Has Cancer of the Colon. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.— Dr. William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, to-day submitted to an other examination at the Presbyterian Hospital, where he was taken to await an operation on Wednesday. The sur geons refused to make any statement; of the result of their examination, but it is said they have reached the def inite conclusion that Dr. Harper has cancer of the colon. Composer Lame Passes Away. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. — Albert Larue, well known among musicians and musical publishers as an arranger and composer, died to-day at his home here of pneumonia. He arranged the scores of many of the musical comedy successes produced here in recent years. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR— "The Merchant of Yen . ice Rgfg CALIFORNIA— "Uncle Tom' ■ Cabin." COLUMBIA— "The Earl of Paw tucket.'* • CENTRAL— "A Ride for Uf»." CHUTES— Vaudeville. 3 GRAND— "Mother Goose." LYRIC HALL— BiBDham Concert. ORPHEUM- Vaudeville. TIVOLJ-jGrand ODera. SIXTY YEARS IN PRISON FOR AN ARMY MAJOR. HARD FATE OF CARRINGTON Convicted of Having Falsified Vouchers to the Philippine Government MANILA. Feb. 21.— Major Carring ton, who. was convicted of falsifying vouthers'of the civil government to the amount of $1500. was to-day sentenced to a total of sixty years and five days' imprisonment. He was sentenced on five separate counts and the sentence on each charge *as twelve years and one day. Major Carrington practically mads no defense, his attorneys raising tech nical points only. The case will be appealed to the Su preme Court of the islands and if the decision there be adverse to the appel lant the Major will appeal to the Su preme Court of the Tnited States. Major Carringtun was accused of misappropriating funds in the Philip pines that had been sent to him to pay thf necessary expenses of getting his battalion of Philippine scouts in condition to be taken to the St. Louis fair. It was also charged that he had falsified his accounts in this connec CLEVELAND CITY COUNCILMEN ACCUSED OF TAKING BRIBES Mayor "Tom" Johnson Names Two Fellow Dem ocrats as Among the Alleged Culprits CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 20.— 1n the City Council to-night Mayor Johnson directly charged Councilmen Dewar and Wilke. Democrats, with having accepted bribes from the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. At the same time Mayor Johnson charged that the votes of all the Republican raem oers of the City Council had been in fluenced by contributions from that company to the last campaign fund of the Republican organization and to the campaign expenses of the Republican candidates for the City Council. The charges are the outcome of Mayor Johnson's allegation of two weeks ago that the recent defeat of the ordinance to annex the village of South Brooklyn to the city of Cleve DEPEW HELD TO BLAME FOR LOSSES Accused oi Being a Party to Fraud in Klondike. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.— Less than thirty stockholders of the Ladue Gold Mining Company of the Yukon, hold ing proxies for 10,000 more stockhold ers, met to-day in Jersey City, and after making threats to sue several prominent men once identified with the company, appointed a committee to confer with the new officers of the company when elected and report to the stockholders on April 21. The company was organized in the boom days of the Klondike by the late Ladue. formerly of Plattsburg, N. V., one of the founders of Dawson City and its first Mayor. It was capitalized at $5,000,000 and among the original di rectors whom Ladue interested in his project were Senator Depew. Thomas C. James, Smith Weed, W. J. Arkell and John Carstensen. formerly con troller of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. None of these men are now on the board and none of them attended to-day's meeting aa stockholders. It is alleged by many of the stock holders that the company, instead of owning valuable mining property, has only a vast tract of valueless Alaska land and a few cheap buildings. They state that they invested in the com pany, relying upon the names of De pew and others as a guarantee of the honesty of the enterprise. It Is charged that the only dividen* ever paid by the company was not paid from the earnings, but from tfce capital. For all these reasons these stockholders think that the original directors, including Senator Dapew, can be legally and equitably called upon to make good their losses. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS SEA PAY FOR SHORE DUTY Passes on Test Ca.se Which Concern* Chief Kiiginer of the Navy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.— Justice White to-day delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs. Albert C. Engard. Chief Engineer of the United States navy, involving the question as to whether a naval officer can collect sea pay for shore duty. In this case the auditor for the Navy Department re fused to allow traveling exbenses on an official trip to Ohio and return. This decision waa overruled by the court. PRICE FIVE CENTS. tion. Carrington's accounts when sub mitted to the Government were incom plete and he was called upon to render a full statement with the vouchers attached. He delayed, and after pre paring his battalion of seoute brought them to San Francisco on their way to St. Louis. Major Carrington remained in San Francisco for some time before going to the fair with his scouts. He was extensively entertained and made a large number of friends while here. He gave exhibition drills at the Pre sidio which showed his skill as a drill master. It was while Major Carrington was in St. Louis that the Government had him placed under arrest. A close In vestigation made in Manila had re vealed wholesale falsifications in his accounts and the major was ordered la return to Manila to answer the charges against him. He left San Francisco for th« Philip pines early last summer, stating at the time that he had no fear of a trial aa he had done no wrong. land had been T>rou*ht about by un due influence. At last Monday night's meeting of the Council the Mayor re peated his statements of alleged bri bery and of undue influence, but gave no names. His accusations were de nied with much emphasis by several of the Republican Councilmen and spe cific charges In writing were demand ed. These were made to-night. . - The Council Immediately adopted a resolution to investigate itself and City Solicitor Newton D. Baker, a Democrat, .was appointed prosecutor, of the investigation. The resolution em powers the City Solicitor ,to subpena ' ■witness»«*rarMj* i " fVu any 90099 or j other documents which may be >>i I value in proving or disproving the* I Mayor's charges. STEAMSHIPS AID DOCKS IN FLAMES Big Loss by Fire on • the Charlestown Piers. BOSTON, Feb. 21.— A fire that causea immense losses broke out on pier 4 of the Hoosac Tunnel docks at Charles tov.n early this morning. It is be lieved to have started from spontan eous combustion. The flames commu nicated with the Furness-Leyland steamship Phlladelphian. which waa tied alongside the pier, amd in a few moments the vessel was afire from stem to stern. From the Phlladelphian the flames Jumped over to the steamship Dalton Hall "of the Antwerp line, which was soon ablaze. It is believed that the crew of the Dalton Hall escaped. Th« Phlladelphian. arrived here on Saturday from Liverpool. The Dalton Hall was laden with a valuable cargo and was to have sailed to-morrow. Piers No*. 3 and 4 have been de stroyed and the steamships Michigan of the Warren line and Martello are threatened. It is believed the loss will be nearly $1,000,000. The burned piers were stored with valuable imported goods. At 2:30 o'clock this morning? the flames were under control. LEOPOLD WINS SUIT BROUGHT BY DAUGHTER Court Denies Her Claim to Portion of the Property of the King. BRUSSELS. Feb. 20. — The Court of Appeals to-day gave judgment in fa vor of King Leopold in the protractor! lawsuit instituted by his daughter, the Princess Stephanie (Countess Lonyay) and the creditors of Prim-ess Louise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Th<» for mer claimed that she was entitled un der the Belgian law to half of the property of the late Queen Marie Hen riette and to half the King's property on the death of the Queen. The lower court decided that King Leopold's marriage contract, which provided for separate estates, was a diplomatic in strument superseding the Belgian law. This decision was confirmed by the Court of Appeals. Admiral Wilde Retires. BOSTON, Feb. 20.— P^ear Admiral G. G. "Wilde. U. S. N.. waa to-day retired from active duty after forty-three years' active service. Admiral Wilde turned over the command of the Charlestown Navy Yard to Captain Albert S. Snow, pending further orders from the Navy Department.