But there were further complications. The first Sacramento Publishing Company, the directors and officers of which were the directors and officers of the second company, transferred the corporation's office building to the second corporation. The second corporation thereupon mortgaged this real estate to the People's Bank of Sacramento to secure a second loan of $20,000. When Mr. I. W. Hellman, Jr., manager of the Union Trust Company--also one of the prominent managers of the Hellman movement in local politics--was on the witness stand, at the time of the Calkins investigation, he was asked to whom he looked for the payment of the $175,000. "To the Calkins Syndicate," replied Mr. Hellman. [276] The presence of President Calhoun at an Olympic Club dinner in July, 1907, met with strong objection. Calhoun was not a member of the club. He had, it was charged, been brought there by one of the employees of the Southern Pacific Company, who was a member. His appearance led to open protest. It was finally arranged that objection should not be made to him, on condition that he would not attempt to make an address. But the defense claque had evidently planned otherwise. A demonstration was started for Calhoun. He began a speech which brought members to their feet in protest. "I object," said Dr. Charles A. Clinton, one of the oldest members of the club, "to the presence here of Mr. Calhoun and I protest against his making a speech on the ground that the gentleman has been indicted by the Grand Jury for a most heinous offense; that he has been charged with bribing and debauching public officials, and should not be a guest of the club until he can come with clean hands. I do not pass upon this man's innocence or guilt, but feel that until his hands are clean he should not come to the club." The outcome was that, by action of the Board of Directors, Dr. Clinton was expelled from the club. The course was generally denounced. "The Olympic Club of San Francisco," said the Sacramento Bee, "has shamed itself in the eyes of every decent, honest, manly, self-respecting citizen in this State by its recent act, through its Board of Directors, in expelling Dr. Charles A. Clinton from membership. The offense of Dr. Clinton was merely that he protested, as every other honorable member of the Olympic Club should have protested, not so much against the plotted appearance in that club at a banquet, of Patrick Calhoun, indicted for high crimes, as against the subsequent effort on the part of some members of the Olympic Club to force Calhoun to make a speech and become the hero of the affair."