Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-22


| Bates, or any body else A. Not between No.
Boswell and Mr.. Bats, as regards any person
| selling votes.
| @. You have heard nothing of the kind A.
Yes, sir. l was present on one OCCASION, on a
| sunday evening; Il do not recoiisct the dat J
MT Boswell was in conversation with Mr.
yohDson, " ho was applicant, believe, for
| Cant Comm ssloner. and MI Boswell sad
tina. Mr.. johnson had not money enough; or. If
he had had money, he would have been elected
| Canal Commissioner
| q. Did he indicate no W this money was 10 b.
| applied A. No, sir. Ali that wa said IN re-
gard to that was, that Mr.. Boswell had expeud-
| Ell good deal of money, aud Mr.. BATES sand he
| ought to have his money back. That is all
| rpcollect; and, so far as assessing any men, or
Ior hnt,ing any asssssmsaI on me, 90 not
never said that 1 should pay any amount OF
| money.
q. Did you ever hear anything that Won d
| lmplicate Mr. Bates in a proposition 10 assess,
| for instance, the scavsnger, or any other per-
son, for large amount Of money, saw fifteen
hundred dollars A. No, SIR not with refer
ence to any office. 1 would not accept any
| such offer.
q. Were you ever present at any CONVERSE
tion between Mr.. Bos we'll and Mr. Peirce, or
| Mr. Bates. or nybody else, as TO the amount to
| be assessed T! A. No, sir.
| q. De you know auything of NJ. Bates be-
ing implicated in assessing persons who were
| applicants for office. A. NO. SIR
| q. What you referred 10 was the expense Of
| the general election A. Yes, sir.
CHARLES = BATES, Councilman from the
| Seventh Ward, sworn, and examined by Al
| derman Moore:
| of Aldermen or Common G. 'uncIl who sold his
| own VOTE or barganed for IN. lie of his own
VOTE or the vote OF any member or memoeIs,
| with view 10 confer Office upon any peI,ou
! who was an applicant for oiice before the
/ joint con INVENTION of the Mayor and City Coun-
els a. do not OF my own knowl6 dye.
What wish to say Is this: About two months
| ago J. Sayes Brown said to me, when L was
up in his room, "a. p Clark was telling me
| that they had started a bad report with refer
ence to members or Couneilmeu from the Sew
enth Ward: some of the Second Ward and Sew
| enth Ward mem bers of the lower Bo ird have
been selling your votes; that you have been
bought up Py person ina, ,nat have been elected
that, in connection with other subjects, in vcs-
tigated, and one night wrote the resolution,
and was intending to offer il when met Mr..
Fowler, who said he had one also looking to-
ward the same cod. We compared notes, drew
up another resolution, and it was passed. IT.
asmuch IS MIR. Clark had saId he had intorma.
ton impliC ting my-elf ana others in selling
votes. brought up the resolution. i guess
Kelly and Crocker were the memt ars TO u
the second Wa-d IRON whom MIR. Clark got his
information. and Baker and Boswell from the
Seventh Ward Soon after that MIR. Hine told
ME that Mr.. Boswell had said TO Henry o.
johnson, candidate tor Clnal Commissioner,
that To a trouble with him was that he had not
money; that if he had money, that would put
him through. Mr.. Boz well said also, in pres
ence of Mr.. Wilson, that johnson had not mo-
dred dollars TO defeat the members -Fowier,
Hine, and myself-and that Johnson had Rot
enough money to buy Republican members.
z. MIR: Boswell, then: put some of taese ru-
that We had been bought out, &c. The rumor
only implicated members from my waTd-Fow-
Ter, Hine, and myself
fCertain testimony duplicating Mr.. Bates
was here read, and he proceeded to sly:l
never dreamed OF any such thing L sup
pose this whole thing was got mp by Mr.. BIS
TnhnZnn "a loci lad in ha
last caucDs that we had, as Commissioner; anu
think every one, except Mr.. kelsey, vO.ed tor
him as Canal Commissioner. After he was de-
teated, Boswell $50 learn from Nj. PIERCE and
Mr.: Wilson, had been IT him, AID said TO him
what epeated He h1d been poisoning his
mind, and others. Now, that /; all with re-
spect - that. SO far as tax is spoken OF IN
his testimony, think L can also explain that
satI- -actorily. After having agreed upon tls =
persons as the ward nonmC as, BoS wei spoke
as having been ont OF pocket some three hun
dred dollars. Fowler told what he had paid,
and thought that ne had pad more than his
share, inasmuCh as IL was for the benefit OF
other wards as well as his. After this had been
talked over, IL was suggested that those who
were elected TO office ought ID pay some portion
OF The debt which had been iDcuTred-tna bills
OF Mr.. Boswell and Mr.. Fowler. was APP
pointed To look after IL; and il was also sUgg -
ted that fifty dollars should be asked of some
Office holders towards liz uidatIng the debt, OF
enough to pay the debt, and i was selc5ted -
assess the parties for the benefit OF Nj, BOs-
well. That was all there was about IL. AK
Mr.. Wilson as 10 the truth OF it. He was the
person who was present al Bos wells Office
when ne was railing out at me and Mr.. Hue;
he did not say so much about Mr.. Fowler-and
no man can say that 4 ever received a cent
from him 1or my vote OF influence A 6 srmln
named CollisueI came ID me lin poor circum-
stances he was) and wanted me 10 use my in
hueDce II getting him n situation. took him
TO the May or, but III the offices, except a few
honorary ONES, without pay, We're filed. He
then tod me that he would pay me for
any time and trouble il / would secura
him n place. L told him that we were pad IS
Council men, and that would accept no pay
for ary agency that might eXerc else IN his b.
half Now, with reference 10 Mr.. Bos well he
moved down near me. / knew him previous
TO that, aud considered him friend Up -
the time Of the election OF Aldermen from IN
Fifth Ward he counseilCd with me as to what
be was gong TO do; ne often submitted papers OF
bis TO me, 10 get my opinion OF them. His
''dead-leck," for instance, believe l rsWrO =
1t ali. IL was put NJ in such a shape that he
would have been made a laughing stock CT aud
reproached by the Democratic papers. Unul
Mr.. PlumsIll was elected Commissioner OF he
SIKH Ward over Boswell's friend, Langley,
everything went on Pleasantly. a day or TWO
after that, " hen walking down the s,Taa', be
said 10 me. "lOu did III of a pretty bu 81
II, in elecrirg that man Plumsill; be : ID
OF pr; ~ rooster; think they ought 10 have
! his picture took and hung up in the Council
Chamber" l said, II don't know as tbat Is
any et your business; All, further, Mr.. Plum
sill had been agreed upon by the members OF
| his ward-not Mr.. Langley; you have no rei-
offices which are not filled and in your own
ward" Soon after that the appointment OF
physician to the Seventh Ward came ~. 1
was talking with some one outside of the build
| ing here, when i noticed Fowler, Hine, BAKER,
and Boswell standing around the Mayor; and
went up. Just as 1 got there Hine SAID, Il
| don't know the man. suppose it is all right"
| "Who Is it!' says L. The Mayor said, 'The
| physician of the Seventh Ward" And sad
| abr. BrOokheimer!" And the Mayor sud,
| .'Ycs; thought of appointing him as physi-
| clan TO that ward Mr. Boswell
| recommended him." / asked Boswell
| who il was-whether il was that little Ger
| mani He said, Yes" Then L said TO HIM,
| Would you employ HIM # You wanted
| physician! Ii not, don't try to get him ap-
| pointed, for would have no man appointed
| physician to attend the poor whom l would
| not employ IN my own family" ''By Cd
says h, II don't belong 10 the same party that
| you work with" The Mayor then turned 10
| me ard asked, If i was willing DR.. Brook
| heimer should be appointed And l said,
| 'No; know of 10 man by that name who -
| a good physician. Then the Mayor asked NE
| who would recommend. / said, '.Dr. Meade
| Some one spoke up and said, "Dr. Meade had
| been defeated for one position, and would no.
! accept this one" "Then DIR. RicoTd," sand i
| Alter that ON one occasion, Boswell com
| menCed again: by d-n, IN work from no y
| until next June 70 defeat yen" L told him,
| "Icu will have your hands full If you want
| TO go before the people at any time, and COM
| pare noies, so lar our political acts con-
| Gel ned, am ready to meet you." don't no,.Cs
J HIM now any more than a hitching post l
| have been in The habit of spending good deal