741:"AT THE STATE CAPITAL: Two Reports on the Bruner Scandal The Accused Condemned by the Majority An Attempt to Present It Causes a Heated Debate--A Disgraceful Occurrence IN BOTH HOUSES A Number of Bills Passed and Several Defeated THE WASTE-BASKET INQUIRY The Attorney-General Makes a Statement APPEALS IN CONTEMPT CASES The Law Permitting Them Vetoed by the Governor CAPITAL NOTES Presentations Made to Officers and Attaches of the Senate LEGISLATIVE SCENES THE COMIC SIDE OF THE WASTEBASKET INCIDENT Views of a Venerable Democratic Statesman--The Female Suffragists Again".
764:"AT THE STATE CAPITAL: Appointments Made by the Governor Changes in the Semi-Annual Tax Bill Comment on the Selection of a Democrat as a Member of the Board of Health TRACING THE SCRAPS RESULT OF THE WASTE-BASKET INQUIRY The Committee Makes Its Report--It Is Unable to Find Messenger Jones BRUNER'S CASE THE ASSEMBLY ADOPTS THE MINORITY REPORT Bruner Makes Charges Against Bledsoe Which Are Deviled by the Latter IN THE SENATE A Hot Debate Over a Bill Concerning Veterans of the Rebellion THE ASSEMBLY A Goodly Number of Measures Disposed Of".
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Francisco ticket broker that Bruner, "in connection with McCall of Alameda" had attempted to blackmail him out of $ 1,000. The prosecution failed, however, when the State Supreme Court ruled that the grand jury had been improperly chosen. A new grand
695:"AT THE STATE CAPITAL: Bruner's Defense in the Assembly A Counter Charge Made by the Accused He alleges There Was an Attempt To Blackmail Him--An Investigating Committee THE ENGROSSING TOPIC Legislators Talking About the Bruner Investigation IN THE SENATE A Number of Important Measures Adopted".
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603:"AT THE STATE CAPITAL: Voting for United States Senator Stanford Will Be Declared Elected To-Day The State Commissions to Be Investigated--New Bills Introduced THE REGISTRAR FIGHT ... Friends Active and Hopeful of Success THE PROCEEDINGS A Shower of Embryo Laws Fails in Both Houses".
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Assembly chamber — even the State Senate had adjourned its session to allow members to view the proceedings — the 36-year-old Bruner denied the accusations and instead charged Andrew M. Lawrence, the
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reporter, E. J. Stillwell, filed a suit in San
Francisco stating that he himself had played the part of Thomas Stoley and had paid Bruner $ 400 for a job on the police force but "the lawmaker has failed to keep his contract and deliver the position".
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Francisco and appropriating to the use of himself and accomplices the proceeds thereof". During the session, the Assembly dissolved into "the greatest confusion", with Bruner weeping and Speaker
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