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Show DE YOUNG CIVES IT UP. He Withdrawn rrnm tho I'nlted SHutea Ren-atonhiu Ren-atonhiu Fight 1 al fornla. SaVkamk.nto, March 1. Do Young's friends withdrew his name in favor of Felton yesterday. The joint ballot resulted re-sulted us follows: Kstee, 4."; Felton, 38; Iilanehard, 7; Johnston. 4; 1'erkius, 4; White, 20. Necessary to a choice. 58. DeYoiing. in announcing his withdrawal with-drawal .ld he had information which he beliex cl to bo true thai improper otters have been made to some of his supporters. Ho also recognized the fact that it was apparently impossible, for lam to secure tho support of all of lllanehurd's and Fcltou's adherents, it would be possible for him to transfer the. larger pari of his following to Fulton. Ful-ton. Tim San Francisco papers charge that Attorney-General 1 1 art has in his possession evidence tending to implicate a number of legislators. A ineiuoran-' ilmn has been found which it is asserted discloses t hat over $'.'1,000 was drawn from the Fresno bank and that certain assemblymen whose names were on the memorandum received the money. When the rumor became current yesterday that documentary evidence was found and turned over to the attorney-general, indicating bribery and supposedly in connection with the election of a United States fenator, ex-Congressman ex-Congressman Felton wrote a letter to tho attorney-general demanding that he disclose the actual facts ami proceed against any one who might be involved. in-volved. The attorney-general at once replied that so far as ho had examined ex-amined the matter the papers turned over to him in no wise showed that Fclton Fcl-ton or any other candidate had personally person-ally done anything improper in connection connec-tion with the senatorial contest. He also said that tho evidence in his possession pos-session was not sufficient to warrant him in tiling information of any character charac-ter against any person. Tho first ballot today in joint session resulted: F.steo -17. Felton 35, Johnson 3, Warn-hard 2. Perkins 1, White (democrat) (demo-crat) 21, 'Irish (democrat) 1. |