Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-09
THE PAGE IMBROGLIO.

Present Aspect OF Tie C0Se--Ihe JtGDe'S
11dherehts Satisfied, not J.sbiIaat---
Outline of the Testimony presented Yes
te'day---1 Nc,c Batch Of Vitncsses Ayviped
Last Erening.
The Page impeachment continues to drag
it's slow length along. The committee hay-
ing held, yesterday,a morning and afternoon
session, and adjourning at late hour to
nine o'clock this morning. The nature of
the testimony given yesterday cannot be ac-
curately OF even approximately stated, furth-
er than that its general bearing was decided
ly in favor of the accused, and in direct con
travention of that adduced on the part of the
prosecution. Indeed, it is already pretty
generally admitted by the partizans Of both
sides, that in all the material points of the
case as thus far exhibited, there is direct
conflict of testimony which cannot be, by
any possibility, reconciled but must be
weighed and adjudicated Oh the theories of
probabilities. In plain phrase, in reaching a
conclusion, the committee will be under the
necessity Of accepting the testimony of one
side, and rejecting wholly that of the other.
and vice versa-so direct and conflicting has
it been from the outset.
During the forenoon session, Judge Page
himself was the only witness examined. In
the afternoon, however, some five witnesses
gave in their testimony, the leading points of
which the GLOBE reporter succeeded in
cleaning as follows:
j. M. Greenman, attorney and counsellor
at law, in Austin, testified i'll relation to the
Cuddy, Collins and Meany wniskey prosecu-
tions. He stated he was the attorney for
these parties, who we're prosecuted for non
payment of the inebriate asylum tax: that
| there was never any argument OH those
cases whatever, but that Judgment was af-
frmed by consent of the defendants
| E. O. Wheeler of Austin, testified that in
the Woodland case where Judge Page was
charged with having entered up judg ment
(he being party to the case, he, Judge
Page ,never made an order therein, but that
the clerk entered up Judgment, the same as
if the matter had come into his Office by de-
fault.
Fla. Richardson testified in relation to
occurrences at the celebrated whisky riots in
Austin; that there was great rioting and dis
turbance at the time Judge Page came on
|
cally contradicted that of Baird and others
of the prosecution.
Frank Ticknor, merchant of Austin. and
Messrs. Greenman and Wheeler all testified
to the character of the charge made by Judge
Page to the grand jury. The testimony Of
Messrs. Ticknor and Greenman was cor
roborative in all respects to that of o. E.
Wheeler heretofore given in these columns.
Hon. Gordon 3. Cole, of Faribault, was
also one of the witnesses examined yester-
day. His testimony was, in relation to the
Davidson and Basford libel suit and was to
the effect that it was through his (Cole's)
personal solicitation as attorney for the
parties that Judge Page consented that a
no11e prosequ5 be entered in the case
The above is substantially the drift Of the
testimony given yesterday, as far, at least.
as could be CLEANED under the peculiar cir
cumstances of the case Every day the COM
mlttee apparently became more hardened in
the quality Of on-commitalism and in the
discrimination to keep the cleaners of news
IN the dark as to what is transporting within
their closed doors. The afternoon session
lasted until nearly half-past five O'Clock.
when the committee adjourned to 9 O'Clock
this morning.
Late last evening, The GLOBE reporter
learned that ten or eleven witnesses. ali SUBJ
pnned in behalf of Judge Page, had lust ar
rived, and would (some of them at least) he
called to testify this morning. From present
indications it is not probable that the
testimony will be closed before We'd
nesday of next week, if then