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Show j EI.ECTIOX UtAlDS, , Oilietnl IfiTPHilcmfOD lu Nan Irsui'iKcw. San Franci-.cn, 9. During tho day there has len a treat dal of talk alxiul frauds in the city plrction, and I ihf! hiird uf Mip'Tvinorg (nivo autlior-iZ'.-d Hit) tinaiiL; conirnili'-' to invixli- it'j the matter aft' r lite iduniB I nave bpt-u cariVArti d. Tho frauds are illf'gt:d to havfi bt'ii p(?rp':lratt-d through the medium of tiie certili catf-s tin which the parlies vocd who ftpplii;d f'tr registration trto lute lor their nanus to yo on the great nailer. nai-ler. The fuels are that the board of supervisors directed tiie finance com mitt' e Ui Uko charge of the c rtiti cat-s. registration atlidavits and otln r registration (locinnentt, and at onre proceed to investigate. This is BiiniKiS'd to have bi tni tho rrrtult ol a conference between Mayor Uryant, I Governor Irwin and tho board I ol supervisors. 1 hf county clerk 'roliifwi to sorrf-noVr tho documents on the ground that be wm Ihu sde legal cust'hun. Huhfcqiicnlly the mayor, chairman of tho liusnce coin-mit'eo, coin-mit'eo, the county clerk, A. O. Ahull, chairman of tho republican state central rommitten. United States District Dis-trict Attorney Coghlan, Ocoro C. Oorhaui and a nutnher of prominent reniihlienns and dcnioerats held a oouli-roiiru nt the mayor's oflico, as '.ho rtault of which tint demand fur the documents wai withdrawn, and it whs decided tiiat they should remain in the county rlerk'rt vmilt until the returns' aro canvitsiwl on Monday 'next, afttir which the finance conimit-teowill conimit-teowill proceed tn investixalH. The comrnitleo consists of two democrats and ono republican, and it waf wyreed that nothing should bo dnnn excej,t in full committee, find lh;it i ho invalidation shruld be piitd in. Tho matter linn o-ciofied coninler-blg coninler-blg excitoment during the afternoon, and charijes and counter idmres were freely miwlo by both par Lirn, j |