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Will Modify Works Board Bill
Draws His Eloquence From Jug
FORBES OF INYO IS
FULL OF ELOQUENCE
Finds a Jug and Delivers
'Nine Speeches on as
Many Subjects
OPPOSES IMMORALITY
Heroically Masters Five Syl
lables of Word and the
House Cheers
CALI,, HEADQUARTERS,
1007 EIGHTH STREET.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15. — Assembly
man P. W. Forbes, a Bourbon represen
tative from Inyo County, made nine
ppeechps today on as many different
questions and never once touched the
Fubject at issue.
Som« of Forbes' colleagues intimated
privately that he had found a jug in
one of the committee rooms, but be that
ss It may, Forbes was full of liquid elo
quence, and at every opportunity reared
himself on his hind legs and talked of
the need of combating immorality.
Take it all in all, it was an heroic
effort, for Forbes had much difficulty
in conquering the five syllables of his
subject word. Every time he scored a
lingual victory over the word "Im
morality" he earned and received the
arpl a 'J se ot the house.
When Assemblyman Coghlan brought
\u25a0up the resolution declaring the need of
raising the duty on lumber consigned
to San Francisco and urging Califor
nia's representatives in Congress to
support such exemption, Forbes was In
his prime. Coghlan made an earnest
plea for the relief desired. When he
cat down Forbes, for the seventh time
In one afternoon, arose to make a few
remarks. Speaker Beardslee ruled him
out of order on the ground that the
c'.erk had already been instructed to
call the roll. Forbes subsided reluct
antly, but forgot his grievance suffi
ciently to permit himself to 101 l back
In his seat in luxurious comfort. So
Intent was he on taking his ease that
he did not answer to his name.
\u2666^The attendance was small and it was
W>:essary to call the absentees.
"Forbes!" cried the clerk. No an
f-xer. The Speaker repeated the name
loudly.
"Mr. Speaker," responded the gentle
man from Inyo, *"I don't know what
they're voting on and I refuse to vote."
Forbes had forgotten all about his
desire to make a speech on the ques
tion. A minute later he remembered,
and defiantly flung rorth to a waiting
world his determination to vote '"aye."
His decision was splemnly recorded.
A few ln-and-outers were caught on
the fly, and the clerk announced that
the vote stood 43 ayes and no noes.
Thus was the resolution carried, but
Forbes of Inyo was given no opportu
nity to congratulate the Assembly on
Its patriotic action.
.me of -mm law
RESTS WITH ASSEMBLY
Continued From Page 1* Column 3
sembly, Grove L. Johnson. Johnson
has numbers of bills. He wants a rule
that will compel the Senate committees
to pass out his bills within ten days
after they are referred. The Senafe
declines to agree to this and Johnson,
has been strong: enough to prevent a
cession of the joint committee of rules,
©?v which he is an Assembly member.
lly^e is to maintain his hold on the
Assembly, direct primary legislation
Is dead for the session and the Senate
will be able to dodge any responsibil
ity by pointing with pride to a unani
mous adoption of the Held-Wrlght
•amendment with the priviso rider,
which, by the way, is objectionable
only to the few.
Fully advised that the Senate "would
not appoint a conference committee un
til Joint rules were adopted, the Assem
bly adopted resolutions naming: sev
eral conference committees, which^es
clutlons upon transmittal to the Senate
h&ve been unceremoniously relegated
to the rubbish heap designated in par
liamentary terms as unfinishea business
and which would be more accurately
designated as business not started.
"When the Held- Wright^. amendment,
with the verdict of nonconcurrence,
xrus returned to the Senate, considera
tion was postponed until Monday to
ffive the Assembly an opportunity to
agree upon joint rules. The Assembly
rules committee, with more or less
feigned Ignorance of what had been
fione in the upper House, has made no
inaove toward a meeting.
LEEDS LEAVES SACRAHEXTO
Leeds, one of the Assembly members,
left Sacramento this afternoon. As
suming that he left without a knowl
edge of the situation, the Senate lead
ers agreed to postpone consideration
of the message of nonconcurrence until
Tuesday. Then, if no joint rules have
been adopted, so that a conference com
mittee can be regularly appointed, the
Eenat* "will decline to recede from Its
proviso; the Held-Wrlght amendment
•will f dead, and the eklrtß of virtually
every machine man will be cjeaa by
reason of their votes to concur. The
play to enable George C Pardee to get
.!h!j name on the primary ballot aa a
for United States Senator,
Jcoupled with the honest fears of & few
members and the credulity of & few
ttaore, will have resulted In deferring
primary election reform for four years.
The Senate has an advantage and
means to use it, but It can use that
*& vantage in a manner not open to
attack. \u25a0 If the Assembly chooses it can
have the Held-Wrlght amendment
ready for the Governor's signature be
fore the end of next week.
The Senate was officially advised to
day that th* Federal suit against the
Pan Francisco School Board instituted
In the California court will. .In compli
ance with the request of Senator Ed
•Vard I. Wolfe, be postponed for two
"«-eekE. "Wolfe received a telegram to-
W from Congressman Hayes stating
ithat the President and Attorney Gen
(eral had agreed to the postponement.
isxd instructions In accordance to that
agreement would be wired District At
torney Devlin this afternoon.
FIREBOAT FOR BAY
This postponement ratlsSed the Im
mediate demands of organized labor
and relieved the Senate from any em
barrassment that might arise from an
att««pt on tHe part of Senator Keane
to fjffce consideration of his bill drawn
to specifically include Japanese in toe
law providing for school segregation of
Mongolians.
A modern fireboat for service on San
Francisco Bay, and to be ; the nucleus
of a first-class marine fire-fighting bri
gade. Is proposed by a bill - Introduced
\u2666In the Senate by Welch of £an Fraa-
CONSENTS TO RETAIN
THE AUDITING BOARD
Gillett Is to Modify His
Project for Enginering
Department
RIVER MEN WIN POINT
Work Already in Hand Will
Not Be Interrupted
by Legislation
CAMi HEADQUARTERS.
1007 EIGHTH STREET.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15.— Governor
Glllett has consented to modify his
project calling for the creation of an
engineering department and the aboli
tion of the commissions that now su
perintend river Improvements..
Leavitt of Alameda. who Introduced
the bill providing for the creation of
the engineering department, •Submitted
an amendment in the Senate today
which* provides for the retention in
office of the auditing board of the
Commission of Public Works. River
land owners have succeeded in induc
ing the Governor to retain this unpaid
board, arguing that its abolition would
retard the work it has been advancing.
The Governor may change the person
nel of the board, but intends to have
all of its members residents of Sacra
mento and San Joaquln counties. The
name of the body \u25a0will also be changed
to the consulting board. It will be
made to consist of five members, who
will have charge of all matters relat
ing to irrigation, drainage and river
Improvements.
MART KELLET A LOBBYIST
Asks Legislature \u25a0 to Investigate Ibe
Relief Corporation
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15. — Mary Kel
ley, whose refugee cottage was broken
up after she moved with it to Ingle
side on a truck, has turned lobbyist.
She is here with Alva Udell, chief agi
tator of the United Refugees, and is
helping him in his effort to have the
Relief Corporation made the subject of
a legislative investigation.
Assemblyman Kelly of San Francisco
Is among the lawmakers who have been
persuaded by Mary's eloquence. Kelly
has Introduced a bill in the House call.
Ing on Governor Glllett to appoint a
commission of five to investigate the
Relief Corporation. The resolution re
cites that a petition calling for this
Investigation has been presented to the
Governor, and goes on to declare that
it Is commonly reported and believed
that $6,000,000 of the donations en
trusted to the committee has gone
astray and is unaccounted for.
OPPOSE EIGHT-HOUR BILL
Sacramento ' Carmen Say It Will Reduce
Their Dally Wage
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 15.— The bill in
troduced by Leavitt of Alameda in the
Senate limiting " the employment-, of
street car employes to eight hours a
day Is , likely to result in \u25a0an energetic
scrap when it comes up on the floor for
..nal passage.
The carmen of Sacramento have~a
lobby opposing the bill, arguing that it
will reduce their dally earnings. They
now get SO cents an hour for a nine
hour day.
The railroads are against the move
ment In sentiment, as it will necessitate
the restoration of the "extra shift."
They will not lose anything because of
the hourly wage paid to employes, hpw
ever, and are not offering any organized
opposition to the bill.
HARTMAN SEES VICTORY
Canvasses Senate and Sajrs Antl Prize
Fight Bill Will Pass
SACRAMENTO. F^b. 15.— Senator Gus
Hartman of San Francisco made a per
sonal canvass of the members of the
upper house this afternoon and an
nounced that the passage of his anti
prize fighting bill was certain.
"I'll show the wise ones of Fillmore
street that they don't know what they
are talking about in saying this meas
ure will take the count," declared
Hartman.
"There Is absolutely no chance of the
Governor refusing to sign the measure
once it passes both houses."
BILL AGAIXST WELCHERS
Measure Framed by McEnerney Is In-
troduced by Devllu In Rouse
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 15.— A bill
aimed at welching insurance companies
passed the Assembly today by unani
mous vote.
The measure approved was framed
by Garret W. McEnerney and Introduced
by Assemblyman Devlin of Vail ejo. It
provides that insurance companies
which refuse payment' on ground
that loss was caused by an excepted
peril, such as an earthquake, must, in
answer to a suit at law, .specify the
peril which* was the proximate cause
of the loss.
Cisco today. Welch's bill carries' an ap
propriation of $100,000. The fireboat is
to be built on/ the latest approved
models, manned and controlled by the
State and kept constantly ready for
service at any of the | ports on the bay/
It is urged that the two boats now des
ignated as fireboats are employed In
harbor improvement work, towing and
other work in no manner connected
with fire. fighting, and that the water
front is consequently virtually without
any salt water fire protection. .
BOLOGNA, Feb. 16.^— Giosue Carduccl.
the Italian poet and critic, who had
been ill hera for some dars with in
flueza and pneumonia, died this after
noon.
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THE SAN ; FRANCISCO CALU.\ .SATURDAY, ; FEBRUARY .16. 1907.
MYSTERY STILL WRAPS
SUICIDE OF MRS. WESTON
Note Accusing Judge Denny
Brings Anguish to Hi's
Mothers Heart
SHE DEFENDS HER SON
Secret of Missive Left by
the Dead Woman May
Never Be Solved
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
PETALUMA, Feb. 15.— The suicide of
Mrs. Hattie Hall Weston. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hall of this
city, has brought, great sorrow to fath
er, mother and relatives of the rash
young woman and to more than one
prominent family in the State.
"May God be Tom Denny's Judge and
have mercy on his souj for his cruelty,"
she wrote just before she fired the bul
let through her heart in the bathroom
at her home. These words have cut
like a knife into the heart of the moth
er of Superior Judge Thomas .Denny,
the young lawyer who has just taken
his seat on the bench by appointment of
the Governor to succeed Judge A. G.
Burnett, who was elected an Appellate
Justice.
"My son is an honorable. man, and n(j
act of his could h.ave prompted Mrs.
Weston to speak of him so," said Mrs.
William Haskell, Denny's mother, to
night. .
No member of either family seems
able to explain the meaning of Mrs.
Weston's last words, but It Is certain
that Mrs. Weston had suddenly come
to the conclusion that her love for
Denny was unrequited. The conditions
which led up to her conclusion were
formed recently, w;hen Denny's rivals
'for the position on' the Superior bench
went to Sacramento and tried to secure
the place.
DENNY A POPULAR MAN \
Young Denny has for several years
been assisting his stepfather, William
B. Haskell of this city, in his law prac
tice, but his chief prominence was in
social circles. A graduate of the Uni
versity of California and reared among
families well known on this part of
the coast, he was in great demand at
social functions, and frequently visited
San Francisco. Berkeley and Sacra- 1
mento. For more than four years he
visited Mrs. Weston, usually calling
upon her on Sunday evenings, and din
ing with the Hall family. /
Several weeks ago when the chance
came for some one to fill Burnett's
place on the bench, ex-District Attor
ney C. H. Pond, ex-Assistant District
Attorney Rolfe Thompson, ex-Superlbr
Judge J. K. Doherty and ex-Congress
man Barham, all considered in admin
istration favor, went to Sacramento and
presented their claims to the Governor.
They were astonished when they learn
ed that A. W. Foster, former presi
dent of the California Northwestern
Railroad, had already asked for the
appointment of young Denny. "Hith
erto the young man had not even been
considered a possible candidate; but
when the hand of Foster was shown
they returned home without parley.
It was at this point that melancholia
seemed to blight the mind of Mrs.
Weston. She felt that Denny's appoint
ment and his removal to Santa Rosa
meant separation and the end of her.ro
mance. Rumors, came to her of his en
gagement to another, although': Denny
has -written since ; her' ideath -her
brother-in-law,- Dr.: A. L. Tibbitts, that
there was no truth in these, reports.
She did nov however, outwardly, show
the condition of her mind relative to
the rumors.
"Fifteen minutes before my daughter
killed herself," said W. P. Hall today,
"I was leaving home to visit my other
daughter, Mrs. Tibbitts, a few blocks
away." *
. "'ls there anything I can do for you,
father, dear?' she called to me from
another room.
"Not until my return, when I saw
her lying lifeless In her room, did the
tone of her voice as she spoke to me
suggest anything to my mind. And then I
remembered that her.voice had broken
as she called to me for the last' time.
Always before she had been loving and
cheerful, and what she meant by her
reference to Tom Denny I cannot say.
For four years he had been her friend,
calling here frequently, but I did not
discuss with my daughter the question
of her engagement to him. He has
written to Dr. Tibbitts, setting at rest
forever the -stories In circulation re
garding the affair."
GUEST OF THE FOSTERS
Denny is popular throughout, the
county. He has frequently been the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foster, of San Ra
fael, whose sons and daughters have wel
comed him to all their social functions,
a feature of which during their father's
presidency of the California Northwest
ern was a series of gay excursions In
his private car through the beautiful
hills and valleys of Sonoma and Marin
counties.* Denny was a college mate
of th,e Foster boys at Berkeley and was
as attentive to the Misses Foster as he
was to many other popular girls In
San Rafael and 6"tTfer bay towns. Mrs.
Weston's secret hinted at in her last
outcry before, the bullet ended her
misery is buried with her. The note
left to her parents has been burned
and the only explanation attempted was
given by Mrs. Haskell tonight when
she said she feared that melancholia
had unbalanced Mrs. Weston's mind.
She declared her son was not engaged
to Mrs. Weston. not to any "one. '
PROVIDES FOR OUTING
Lndlngton Introduces BUI for Investi-
gation of Fish and Game
' SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15.—Assembly
man W. F. Ludington of San Diego
reached the .height of the ridiculous
today. He proposed an after-session
junket authorized '\u25a0\u25a0 to keep going until
the next meeting of the Legislature.
Ludington is a member of the fish
and game committee. Last week he
visited the State hatcheries at Sissons.
So delighted was* he that today he in
troduced a bill providing for a com
mission to investigate | fish and game
centers between sessions. It is to con
sist of the Governor,- one member each
of the Senate, and Assembly and two
"citizens at large.'';
The compensation .mentioned is $10
a day j and expenses <,while employed. '\u25a0
PROVIDES FOR WARSHIP
OF DREADNOUGHT TYPE
House Passes the Naval
Bill That Carries
$96,000,000 /rv;^.
SCOFFS AT WAR TALK
' * j
Burton of Ohio Argues in
Vain Against - Need
'of Big Ships
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.— -The Hous?,'
after an interesting "debate. * tojlay,
passed the naval appropriation - bill,
which carries in. round; numbers-- $96,
000,000. . Burton of Ohiomade an un
successful effort to strike out the pro
vision for an additional .battleship 'of
the Dreadnought type. His amendment
was: voted down 14 to 146. . .: •
Speaking in support \ of his .motion
Burton called attention" to -the inevi
table tendency of advancing civiliza
tion toward peace, the .untiring en
deavors of nations not involved in
conflict, to prevent war. between ; other
countries between which controversies
arose. v He spoke of the growth, of ar
bitration as a means of settling-dis
putes, and the intolerable" burden of
maintaining armies and* navies. He
said that in the United; States inde
cent years the expenditure of the mili
tary^ and naval establishments., had
grown to be five , times as. great as in
1887, only twenty years ago. \.,r
Burton deprecated the ! war talk in
regard to the Japanese and contrasted
the size of the navies of the two coun
tries, showing , that . with % ships- un
der construction the United States navy
would be nearly, two-thirds larger than
that of the Japanese and. was- at pres
ent a half .larger. \u0084 .V : .
. Crumpacker of Indiana favored the
big ships for the protection, of the
Philippines." "I believe," 'he said, j "the
'Philippines are the sword 'of Damocles
hanging over the head of .'this; repub
lic," and he contended "that -they Im
posed a responsibility which. we' should
be prepared -to. meet in the right' way.
Hayes "of California presented ; an
amendment providing that -'any bid for
the construction of any of -the vessels
authorized in the bill 'on: the .Pacific
Coast should 'have -a differential -of •!
per cent in its favor, which- should -be
considered by the Secretary :of the
Navy in awarding contracts • for the
construction of the vessels. The
amendment was defeated 66 to 84.
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ASSERT THAT WHITES
PLANNED A MASSACRE
Negro Ex-Spldiers Give Tes
timony That Startles
the Senate
WASHINGTON. : Feb. 15.— Startling
•testimony \ concerning alleged plans to
massacre • colored soldiers at Browns
ville, ' Tex.v by men from the town was
given by negro ex-soldiers today-. at
the ,"; Investfgation , before the Senate
committee, on .military affairs.'
William ;Mapp,. a member of Company
C, : testified that on the morning follow
ingthe. shooting he had heard Wilbur
Voschelle, the reservation corral boss,
and a .white ' man. who had been in
charge "of the corral prior to-the ar
rival of j a battalion of the "Twenty-fifth
Infantry, discussing' the case. Accord
ing to \u25a0 Mapp's . story, Voschelle said :
"Well, it's a good thing it happened
as It did. I was out In town last night
and the crowd came in front of me.
The plan was to catch a lot of you ( fel
lows In 'Allison's saloon and massacre
you/* - '
\u25a0 Thomas r Jefferson,, roonv. orderly in
Company C ..barracks, said he saw the
flashes from. the guns and thought the
garrison was under attack..
Solomon P. O'Nell, a former member
of Company C. testified that the shoot
ing: was. from near the wall at the
end ,of Company B's quarters and that
the .' shots were apparently over the
barracks.. .r: ' : ;.';
There was great- excitement In the
barracks and whin the gun racks were
broken_open some of the rifles fell to
the floor. There was no light, and the
men could not get their own rifles.
CHICAGO ARRIVES AT
A SALVADOREAN PORT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.— The Navy
Department ' was - informed today by
cable that the cruiser Chicago ijad ar
rived at Acajutla, Salvador, whither
she had been sent from Magdalena Bay
to look after American interests dur
ing the existing friction between Nica
ragua a*nd Honduras. The vessel will
be - kept within reach of cable connec
tion with the department for a few
days, ready to meet any demands upon
her. / :,f: ,f 7
NOT GUILTT OF ASSATOT— Frederick H.
Brelter, a carpenter, charged with an attempt
ed assault on Hilda Clark, a 14-year-old \u25a0 girl,
was. found not- guilty of the crime by. a jury ia
Judge Dunne's court yesterday.
WOMAN DELIRIOUS FROM
ILLNESS LEAPS TO DEATH
Patient in Hospital Loses
Reason and Hurls Her
self From Window
In a fit of delirium brought on by
worry and stress. Mrs. Harriet Har
court, a patient at the Lying-in Mater
nity Hospital. Twenty-ninth avenue and
Clement street, killed herself yesterday
by Jumping from a third-story window
of the building.
Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday
morning the nurso In charge of Mrs.
Harcourt stepped into an adjoining
room for an instant. When she re
turned the patient was gone and the
open window told her the story. Inured
as she is to scenes of suffering, the
nurse fell In a faint
Little is known of Mrs. Harcourt at
the hospital. She was taken there three
days ago by her husband. John Har
court. who was" apparently a mechanic.
He left no address and all efforts to
locate him yesterday proved unavailing.
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