The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-06

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Other. 49,
ANOTHER CLEAN BREAST, BUT NOT
MUCH CLEANEa THAN THE FIRST.
Colonel John W. jenkins was the only
I witness examined before the Bribery In.
lVestigation Committee Saturday. In an.
swer to the usual preliminary questions,
he made the following statement:
81 was employed as counsel In the, in
terest Of what Is generally known as the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company,
Tor the purpose of representing to- the
members Of the Legislature, many of whom
ance and propriety Of the passage Of the
bill, and I took very lively Interest In the
matter, and acted somewhat prominently
as one Of its friends. / noticed this man
Hinton in the lobby for several days. and
l supposed he was ut work In the interest OF
l those opposing the passage Of the bill. he
came to me one day whilst this bill was
pending-I think it was the day before the
final vote was taken in the House-and asked
| me If FL
WANTED ANY MORE VOTES FOB THE BILL!
told him we wanted #.
ALL WE COULD GET.
He said that he could control five or six
votes in the House, and wanted to know
how much would give him to do so? /
said to him, sHinton, I don't believe you can
control your own vote, andyou have great
deal Of presumption to come to me and say
einia Legislature. I don't think you have
any influence either In or out Of that House
He then said that was mistaken, and he
could prove it to me, and went on to say
that at the time of the election for members
OF the Legislature he was the
PRESIDENT op THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION
in the county of Fluvanna, which was rep.
Presented by Mr.. John Henson, and that
through some manipulation Of his he
SECURED THE ELECTION OF HENSON
against his opponent, who, he said, ought
to have had the certificate, and would have
gotten it but for his management. He
also mentioned the names Of quite mum.
Der Of the members Of the House,-at least
tive or siX-Mr. Henson, Mr.. Lipscomh,
and Mr.. Andrews being among the num-
Der, and told me that he had had CONVEX
satlon with them, and that they had
AGREED TO VOTE PoR OUR BILL
on condition that or some one else repre-
senting that side Of the question would
put up ..r
| FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS APIECE
in his hands, to be given to them after their
votes were recorded and as for compenSa-
ton, he was willing to take j..
ANYTHING he COULD GET. ..-f .s~
He would leave that matter entirely to me.
| told him that the proposition sounded to
ME to be very ridiculous that if those gen.
tlemen knew him as we'll as did they
/ would not d.
TRUST HIM WITH FIvE-CEET PIECE.
| In that connection he mentioned the
names of at least two gentlemen, members
| Of the House, with whom was very init
mately acquainted, and whom knew to
be unapproachable with any such PROPOSE
\ ton, which verified the conclusion that ]
had first come to, that he (Htnton) was III
AN UNMITIGATED FRAUD.
He kept up the conversation by saying that
he knew he could control Andrews's vote,
and that andrews, he knew, would vote
against the bill, and that it would take
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO DO IT.
/ told him that I was counsel for MIR. An
drews in matter then pending, and that l
knew him very we'll; that Andrews had
assured me that he was friend OF the bill.
and therefore it was unnecessary to talk
about Mr.. Andrews any more. He then
said that we were paying other men Tor
working for us who couldn't control any
votes that he knew
l WE HAD THE DOTS ON Mr.. HENSON,
and could control his vote. Said l, Very
we'll; so ahead, and 60 to work on it, but
don't bother me any more about
coupled with that, that so far as the BDney
be used in that way. WELL said he,
who is the head man in this concern!'
/ told him that Mr.. Burgess was
VERY ACTIVE MAN,
and that he had better go and see him. He
replied that he had seen Burgess, and Bur.
CESS had sent him to me. 10 get rid Of
him, then told him he had better 20 and
see Judge Morton. I saw or heard moth
ing more of Mr.. Hinton until few days
after the passage Of the bill in the House,
when some one, I do not know who now,
told me that Hinton was using my name in
connection with MISUNDERSTANDING that
he nor Andrews had been paid, and that
he had put the matter in the hands Of Cap
showed me two letters-one addressed to
Judge Morton, purporting to be from An
dreWs, which / pronounced at the time
TO BE FORGERY,
because did not recognize it as the hand
writing of Andrews, with which was &C.
tquainted, having been his counsel. The
other letter was addressed to myself. Capt
Parker having explained the nature of the
, communications, l don't think I read eithel
of the letters entire. / read enough Of the
one addressed to me, however, to see thai
it was a sort of threat that if 1 did not pay
him some money for himself and some fol
Andrews that he would come before THU
committee. I told Capt. Parker that die
not
OWE THE scoUNDREL ANYTHING,
and handed him back the letter, sayins
that 1 would hunt him up and 8 60 fol
him. l saw him twice before had an op
portunity of speaking to him. / finally
caught him in the rotunda here, and asked
him why he was coupling my name will
this transaction. He said he hadn't use(
, my name ut all. I told him he was
, for had already seen his letter. He ther
went on to say that he had secured An
drews's vote by promising to pay him 500
because he thought sd
WE WERE PAYING THAT FOR VOTES,
and relied on us to do what was right abou
the matter. / told him that he was abou
) the tenth man who had been to me askins
for pay for controlling Andrewss vote, ant
that it wasn't necessary for him to bother
me any more about the matter. He ther
said he should 90 before the committee
; Said I, Very we'll, go.' He bothered mt
!, about the matter of different times for two
or three days. He finally came in one day
crying, saying that he
HADN'T HAD ANYTHING TO EAT FOR two
| DAYS.
and that he hadn't anything at home fol
his wife and child to eat, and that as every.
\ body else had got paid, it was nothing more