| Show B T KE R S SARE V V ARE EXPELLED Cal California ora State Senate Purges Itel Itself of Fo Pour Member NOT A DISS DISSENTING VOTE OF O ONE E OF ACCUSED TtE PRESENT Sacramento Cal Feb sl gal galleries und and lobbies 01 of the senate were crowded today taday in anticipation of af n a de debate debate bate an on the thc recommendation of ar te the special Investigation committee that Senators Emmons Emmona Bunkers Wright and nd French be expelled from fram the sen senat senate at ate s Mrs Emmons left the bedside of her hor husband at the to be present in the senate when te the report came up She st sat at athe ather her he husbands desk desk Senator Senator French was te the only one of the four accused senator senators present The Tho report repart ot of the thc committee wa was read in ful full Senator moved It its adoption Sena Senator tr Lukens seconded the matan motion and asked for a roll raU cl cull The or of the committee report w was adopted by affirmative votes The other five votes of oC the senate were not nat ct cast the four taur ac senators and Senator Welsh not nat voting Motion For Expulsion In answer to r a queston question Senator I wa y informed that the re V port part of the committee merely rV com commended m mended expulsion Senator Lukens t then offered a resolution providing for forthe forthe the expulsion of af the accused men for In office During of the re repart report port part Senator Wright came IntO into the room and moved that his ce case and that of of the three ater other accused men be considered separately President An Andeson Anderson deson derson said tat that he hc did not nat deem it proper for far Wright to make the maton motion Senator then took the thc faar floor 1 and nd moved that the report reports be given separate consideration The matan motion was cried criedA carried A As the tho nane name of af Senator Emmons Emmans ws was first itt in the report report Senator Lukens suggestion that his case be considered last was adopted Bunker Bunkers name wa was fir consIdered and he wa was expelled by thirtyfour votes There were ere no neg nega tire votes S Senator Welch was absent and Senator did not nat vote vate B By the time the vote was cast in Bunkers case Senator French Wr wan ex x pl d At the time the vote vate wa was t ta taken len ken he was In his set seat In Iii an absolute lute stillness French took his hat and quietly left tle the ram room V Wright Made a Plea Senator Wright asked for and was gant granted d permission t to have hit his counsel caunsel make a final plea In Just before the rol roll wan called Sen Senator ator atar Wright made made a plea for far hImself declaring that ho had not been given a fair hearing Wrights speech hud had nO effect in hi changing the opinions of af his eel cal leagues whO promptly expelled hIm on an rai roll cl call vote vate Were cat cast for Car expulsion and there were no neg negative balot ballots Senator Senators Pendleton Rambo refined refrained tram from voting in Wrights case ce Mrs Emmons was an n object abject of af pity I as s she sat with downcast eyes in her seat in the senate chamber Just before the clerk commenced to to call the rai roll which was to determine the fate or of her hel husband she left the room He Hc wa was expelled by thirtyfour affirmative yates votes Senator Markey re le reframed framed from fram voting A recess wao was then taken I V |
