Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-07-15

money, amt SAID L. sHOw much
niohey are You giving?" "Well,'
says he, ''there is hundred dollars
in it for you; you will get a hun-
dred dollars" I" made some remark.
i don't remember the exact words,
but it was to the effect that was not
in the market, and if was l would
sell for 4 good deal better figure than
that Mr.. Cooley then enjoined Sc
crecy upon me-to say nothing about
it. The next offer had came from
Judge Haag. was standig at the
reporters table one day
Q. wish you would state, if you
please, the date of the first eonversa-
tion, If You can. You cannot of
course give the day of the month,
but as near as you can. 1t was at
the Neil TTouse, l understand? A..
Yes, sir; 1 cannot state exactly the
date.
@. Which session? A. This
session, because / was understood to
be for the bill last session.
Q. Perhaps you may recollect it
by reference to the stage of the bill?
A. No. sir; l cannot; l was not
Watching the bill very closely then.
Q. Was that before the bill had
been voted upon the first time? A.
Yes, sir; it was before the bill had
been voted upon the first time.
n Tho sFcN fh., A
The first time this winter.
@. Fix the date as near as you
can rs to the time of Cooley's meet
ing you in the House. A. When /
met him ut the Sergeant, alarms
desk?
Q. Yes, sir. A. / don't know
it must have been three or four days
after the first trial, but l cannot fix
the date exactly.
q. Before the first vote? A.
Yes, sir; before the first vote; .he
bill had been, | think, postphied.
Now We come to Judge Haag. ] was
standing, as | said, at the further
end Of the reporters desk, table
similar to this one we sit around
here in the committee, and Haag
came and took-me over to his desk,
said he wanted to talk to me; l sat
down opposite him, and he drew his
chair up to me in a sort of confiden- |
tial manner and said: "There is not |
much money in this Wood county |
said he, 81 won't make |
much out of it; you can make hun
lred dollars if you will vote for that /
bill, and you might as well turn in
and help us any how" Let me see,
| think | can give the conversation
right along. Well we went on chat
tering abont it-I was drawing hin
Dut-and we got into a conversation
about political matters. | might as
well be plain in this connection, that !
came down here pretty mad this
winter. regarded that thing up
there as a sort of neighborhood |
quarrel in which | hadn't much IN
5erest. / had been favoring Haag
last winter, and he didn't favor me |
much when the time came. How
ever, that has nothing to do with |
his. The conversation drifted along
N that way for awhile. "Well," he
'ays finally, "then help us, and the
lext day, as quick rs the bill passes,
somebody will hand you a cigar,
which you will unrOll and find a hun
lred dollars there" He said no
more about it at that time. We
,arted.
Mr.. Campbell. Do you smoke,
Ir. Gordon? A. Not that kind of
igars. Laughter.) Well, there
vas nothing further definitely said
bout the matter for sometime, eX-
ept references to it, that | had bet
er come in and help, that l was fool
sh and all that; and | believe that
Tas the end of that matter. The
ext person that had money around
With him that | met was Hiram Muir
in, member from Mercer county.
The day the bill was defeated l was
Ot there. 1t only lacked one vote,
nd the general supposition was that
had stayed away on purpose. 1t
Vas great mistake. However, my
rife and l came down; my wife came
own, / think, after l did; she took
seat at Mr.. Bakers desk, which was
'ack of mine, forming q sort of tri-
ngle this way with the hall, and she
Tas sitting there, and l was leaning
pon Mr.. Bakers desk. Mr.. Muir
in came along a little drunk, and
Ie said he had got drunk over the de-
cat of the Wood county bill, and he
to say something like this
Il don't know that | can remem-
,er the exact language-"Gordon,
on ought to have been here this
lorning; there were fifty-One votes
Or the bill. If you had been here
he Speaker would have voted for it,
nd carried it," and. said he, 81 had
lst one hundred dollars in my
ockct for you if you had. The bill
.ould have carried" After that he
ad little conversation with my
life, and / moved off to my desk.
he fact of the matter was, | wanted
, get rid of him. He came and put
is arms or his hands ON my shoul- 5
ers and went on talking about it,
lat he had a hundred dollars in his
Dcket, in q general way, not that he
ad it for me after that first time,
lat he had hundred dollars IN ms
ockct. He seemed to be really U
roud of that hundred dollars
hat | believe is the extent oil my
on that subject.
These extracts must do for the
resent. They show that 500 sums C
ere loose in that General Assembly, b
I'd though the evidence is princi- i
lily circumstantial, still it is suffi- !
emily direct and positive to lead .
lr Judgment as it did that of the c
to the conclusion that s