To Prevent the Grip Laxative Bromo-Qulnlne removes th« caui«. • CHARGES PARIS COMMISSION WITH GRAVE OFFENSES bridge. "Of course there were many scene's of jollity and "merrimt-nt and the Commls- Men and Women Gambled,. California's Interests were Neglected and Revelru iiGiyiiuUi . SENSATIONAL developments In th« legislative inquiry into the affairs of the California Commission to tlie Paris Exposition were not confined yesterday trs Sacramento. A new witness, and a Vitally Important one, has appeared In this city and before the investigation is over he will give his testimony at the Capitol. This witness Is Andrew Dennis, the colored porter •who served the California OommisFion at its headcuarters in Paris during the ?tay of those Interesting officers, at the French capital'. Drr.r.is had an opportunity of seeing everything which transpired at the headquarters, and the story h<> tells of the netiens of the Commissioners and their friends la one of shocking immorality, drunken revelry, pnmbling among men end women, neglect of duty, misappropriation of exhibits and other derelictions ¦which reflect anything but credit upon the commission. This porter describes the fight between Commissioner Foote and Commissioner Truman. He relates the duties 'hat the Commissioners forced him to perform for their private benefit. He tells of a gambling pariy in which one of the Commissioners lost 2500 francs to a woman and was forced to go to the bank the following morning to secure funds. He relates the incidents which accompanied the visits of disreputable women to the headquarters, and he recites a tale ¦which is perhaps more shockingly sensational than any which has yet been. told of the commission and its affairs. Young Dennis begins his recital by telling of incidents which immediately precsded the celebration of July 4, 1903, by the California Commission. "Sousa had promised to attend our celebration," t=aid Dennis last night, "and preat preparations had been made for the affair. Commissioner Truman had told the other Commissioners that he ¦ would attend and then he told me that he would r.ot, as he did net like the character of the people who had been invited.. I knew then that something was wrong among the Commissioners, but Truman Was not the only guiltless one in the crowd. "He used to send me out every day with from three • bottles cf wine to a case to take to his home in Paris or to his friends and he never even paid for the expressage on them. I used to take this wine frcra the stock belonging to the-commission. While we were there Truman moved his residence and I had to do the moving. I dipcovered that he had stocked, his place with canned goods, fruit o? every description and -wines which came from the store of the California exhibit. "One day he took me downstairs to the cafe and asked me If Foote and Gaskill were talking about him. He told me that neither Foote nor Gaskill were any pr»od. and that he was getting tired of the •whole affair. When the wine was taken cway Gaskill would always demand that I £*>t vouchers for that which Truman took. but I never got any vouchers for what the others sent away, and they sent a treat, deal. Emlay took away a great deal of wine, and Truman told me that Kmla>l was selling it to the various hotel*. Xo inventory whatever was taken cf the stock at the California headquarter?, and any amount of stuff could be taken out and was taken out while we were there. "One day Loeb, th<> French interpreter who was employed by Secretary Gaskill, came to me. very early <n the morning and asked me for the keys of the wine cellar. I pave them to him and thrn got up to ?<e what he was doing. I discovered that he look away several cases of ¦wine in a hack. Loeb was cmploved by QaskttJ at a sa'.ary of $03 a month.* which v.as raised to $M a month. When we reached Paris he bought a quantity of obecru-> French pictures which he tried to «e!» to visitors who rameXo the California headquarters. Complaint was made bytwo California:-.* and an investigation was made, but nothing further was done. "As for the wines given to the Juries, no more than twelve bottles were supplied to th«m, and I got those for the Jurors. The Commissioners were very seldom at th«» headquarters, and Assistant Secretary Dargie and I were the only people there to welcome visitors, who would very frequpntly ask who was running the place end wh^re the Commissioners wore. The Commissioner?, as a matter of fact, were at Henry's, an American bar on the Rue des Capuchins, playing poker and domlriocs with Americans all day long. They were very seldom at the headquarters, and Dargie and myself were left there «lon»». "One night I went to headquarters and fotind Commissioner Truman sitting In a chair grossly and helplessly drunk.- He had been nauseated in-; was in a very unpresentable condition. I went away and In the morning when I returned I found Commissioner Truman Iving asleep on a bear rug on the floor. He went over to Henry's, the American bar, and got credit for four bottles of wine which Commissioner Foote paid for "In September came the fight between Commissioner Foote and Commissioner Truman.. I knew the fight was coming because I heard some one tell Mr. Footo that unless he punched Mr.-Truman in the 3aw things would be disagreeable for him. The day of the fight Commissioner Foote wai In the headquarters when Commisnioncr Truman entered. ' Truman went Into the Inner- room and- a minute later I beard curses and a striking blow. There were loud. words and scuffling and I and air. Darde rushed Into the room. "Mr. Foote ¦was getting. 'the worst" of It, as he was. very gToggy 'that day, and Just as I entered Mr. Truman had an Ink well In his hand and was about to throw It at the head of lir. Foote. I Jumped at Mr. Truman to hold him and Mr. Foote chouted: 'That's right, Andrew, hold him* the fellow won't give me a square deal and will kill me.* I held Mr. Truman and turned him over to Mr" Dargie. I then escorted Mr. Foote downstairs to the street, where a hack was waiting, and where Mr. Foote met a lady friend. They drove away together Mr Foote and Mr. Truman did not speak to each other for a week after that. "Poker parties were very frequent at the headquarters, and Commissioners Koote and Runyon and Secretary Gaskill tnd several of their lady friends took part in them. Sometimes the ladles won and sometimes they didn't. It depended altogether on who they were. Some of them could play better than others, and, of course, they won. In one party a lady won 2500 francs from Commissioner Foote. and be was forced to go to' the bank the next morning lo get some money. But that lady was a pretty good poker player; she came from Honolulu. "Once In a while ladles would come up to see Commlsisoner Foote when they were Jn distress. I loaned one cf them 53 francs myself, but Commissioner Focte paid It back. The lady was an actre3» who .used to play at Morosco's. ; She Is in Paris yet, I think, because there Is no sloners were not .frequently sober, but 1 suppose they were having a good time and it was none of my business. This i think Includes In a general way, without entering Into a variety of details, what I know of what happened in the California headquarters at the Paris Exposition." j | ; ! TRUMAN SCORES FOOTE. Beplies to the Colonel in Extremely Harsh. Words. CALL, HEADQUARTERS. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31.—The Investigation of the Parts Commission took on a more roseate hue this afternoon, for most of the time was spent in investigating the. alcoholic capacity of the Commissioners and their willingness and ability to carry away Wine from the storeroom at the headquarters. In the general mix-up Truman suffered most. There was not a good word said for him during the afternoon, and there were plenty that were bad. Robert Itcss. son of United States Judge Ross, v.-ho was one of Gaskill's.assistants, was the most interesting witness of the session. Ho was called to tell what he knew of the doings of the- commission during his month ot service. Regarding the number of visitors at the heauquarters Kofs said 'JUO a day wouj<be a large estimate, and of these more than hair were Americans.' Tney were shown the exhibits' and through tne rooms, and were given wine if they wished it. ' "Did you ever see anything Improper around these headquarters':'' askeu Mel- Jek. "Ye* r I have ' seen* Air. Truman orunk several times," was the answer. •Did you ever see Mr. Gaskill undet the influence of liquor.'" "So, I never saw Air. Gaskill drunk." •'Did you ever see Foote drunk?" "No, not in tne headquarters." "Ever see him drinking elsewhere".'" "Yes; I have seen Air. Foote when he had been drinking. I have seen him take six cocktails in an afternoon, if that is wnat you mean." "Did you ever see any carousals in the headquarters in which there were ¦women?" "So, I never did;" "Why did you leave the employ of the commission?" "I was asked to resign by the secretary, who said the board had ordertd it. 1 refused to( resign until charge* were preferred against mo. and 1 think it was Mr. Gaskill who said the maps I was working on were not coming oat rapidly enough. I explained this. 1 They said 1 had opened\wine without authority and 1 denied this.' They said, too, I was intoxicated, and this, toor, I denied, for it was not true. Nest day I got a note from the commission asking lor my resignation." Four months later, Ross said, Truman called him Into his room and in the presence, of Marais, who was called In as a witness, told Ross that as his dismissal had not been* entered on the minutes the commission was willing to treat the intervening time as a vacation and would take him back and give him his salary for that time. Ro?s refused the offer. Th%n the witness offered this letter in evidence as showing Truman's version of the affair and also the feeling that existed in the commission last September. PAHIS. Sept. 26. 1900. My Dear Friend: Your son returned here to-day, and as Foote is in Spain and Gaskill In l»ndon I called the boy into my i*om in the presence of a witness, not to listen to him. Imt to myself (and, by the way. I did £>!! thev-a'.klnm, and 1 told him (your boy) the vlr>!e s-tory of his damnable treatment by Ftpcte—Vhlcta I had said tr» Foo.'e before he v<nt tj Madrid —and his inhuman treatment fcv the ww-llvfd, dirty. Infamous dog' Gaskill, n.\l s»a>i lo him that the commission would ncf ac-ewt his resignation. As the dirty dog c.-i-Mll ,8 away and cannot control the wpakn-inAo.1. weak-Stne^d Foote if he comes back ti'-mprrow, and the latter will return from Ki'iyfr to-morrow. I think, and as I have genrrslly been ipnored by Foote and Hunyon in rr.oj-t matter?, 1 shall now insist upon not recognizing your son's reslpnetion forced by the infamous Oaskill and v*><? cowardly W. W. Foote and tell b!m to draw his salary for four months and consider that he \As been 9 member of the commission all the time, and that nothing has happened. 1 have told Robbie that he need not pay anything against Toote to any human being (except his lather and mother), and that he should tell no person what I have done. (It would take a dozen pages to tell you of the infamy of Secretary i;.•!!• kill, who controls Foote.) All this I have said to" Foote. I knew his father, and I hated to say fo. but I told Foote to his race that ho was untrue, unfair, unworthy and controlled by Oaskill. I said even more. But vour son shall be rifchted to-morrow or when Foote returne or there- will be a dreadful scene. But, my diear friend, while Foote ccmes from a fine Southern family, he is a liar, a traducer and a coward. Yours very truly. BEN C. TRUMAN. Binee writing you the foregoing Uobhle has paid to me that Foot" and Oaskill have paid t-> him that they tried to save him, but "old Truman insisted en kicking him out." Was there anything so damnable? Why I frught putting him out all the way through. Feote applied all the epithets known to your bob and ordered him with oaths not to smoke, etc. and Gaskill set him to work in the kitchen with a negro and a French cook in order to humiliate him and get rid of him. Well, your son is and has been an attache of cur commission all the time or there will ba a hell of a scene to-morrow. TRUMAN. Rofs had much more to say of Truman and Foote and how each of them would come to him privately and after swearing roundly at the other, would suggest that he go and repeat the remarks. "They wore not men enough to talk to each other." said Ross, "fo they used to come and tell me." Emlay also told of Truman's convivial habits, going into great detail. "I was coming home on the night of July 7 last," he said, "and on going Into the" headquarters I saw Truman there. He was very drunk and was looking pale and sick. 1 tried to revive him and worked over him for four hours. Then he felt better and I left him. I saw him again at 6 o'clock the next morning. He was looking very bad, dirty and sick. His face had not been washed and he was looking very disreputable." "Was that the only time you ever saw Truman drunk?" continued Mellck. "No." said Emlay. "I saw him drunk one day, it was the day Mr. Runyon was leaving, down at the depot. He had a bottle of wine under each arm and said he wanted to give Mr. Runyon a good send-off. He was attracting a great deal of attention and was making quite a Ecene." Mellck asked many questions regarding the receipt which Emlay had been given when he paid the money for medals to Aine, and he called Emlay's attention to the Item. "Four bronze medals at ?20 each. $100." Emlay declared he knew of no such discrepancy when he paid the amount, nor did he know of the discrepancy, he said, until Melick showed the receipt to him. He was asked what there was about the bill which showed that It had been paid and he pointed to a rubber stamp mark'- at the ; bottom. Ho said that In France all bills were receipted In that way. He said he paid the full amount showing on the receipt, and he did not know nor did he rind out later that it was $20 too. much. Later A. Ekman, who was In charge of the mining exhibit, was shown the receipt and he said he would not have accepted It In that form as a receipted bill Ekman was called to the stand to explain the damage done to the Davidson quartz specimen, which he did by saying some of the points were chipped off by poor packing. He added nothing to the scandals, except to describe a drunken waiter who attacked him and whom he hit with his fist. This evening Judge Henshaw and Erall JCusbaumer came up from Oakland and until late -to-nieht they were closeted with Foote and Runyon and the Governor In Foote's rooms In the capital Hotel. \v H. Mills may be called to testify to-morrow, and Joseph Lynch ¦will also be on hand. The turn of affairs this afternoon which brought the Inquiry into the personal conduct of the Commissioners is likely to assure the opposition which Foote promised in the first place Jf personal conduct should become one of the subjects Inquired into.
