The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-09
MONDAYS PROCEEDINGS,

MONDAY PROCEEDINGS.
TOPEKA, KAs. oct. 6.-The sub-com-
mittee on privileges and elections arnounc
ed this morning that the committee pro
posed to termidate the investigation on
Wednesday.
VIM. Higgins was sworn bv the memoir
ialists and testified that Hallowell had
asked him to 90 to Neosho Falls and meet
Ingalls, and see whether there was any
chance for him for U. S. District Attorney
that witness had seen him and Ingalls, I'D
said Peck was going to resign and ii HALO
well would 60 to work for him he could
have the appointment; that witness had
written Hollowell to that affect.
Geo. X. Peck swore that neither Ingalls,
nor any other friend of Ingalls,, had,
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY,
requested or suggested his resignation as
L. 5. District Attorney. He had resigned
on March Goth, and he had sent his resig-
nation by mail and it was the only res igna-
ton he had ever signed.
Jas. p. Fsrnham was. recalled to prove
whose bills were Ircluded in the bill OF
ssh, 10, charged against Merritt. Bills OF
various amounts were shown TO have been
PAID FOR ONE OR TWO
members Of the prior Legislature and for
several of Ingalls, friends.
John ID. Knox testatied that David Aud
had procured from him book OF drafts
and that some drafts had been torn out OF
it.
DR.. Il. Wagstaff testified tina, in his pres
ence Z. B. Purcell had raid seven hundred
dollars TO Il ID. Baker, of Salins, in room
-, on the morning of the election, and
that afterwards Purcell had asked him to
get Fl ye hundred dollars back from Ander-
son, who had received it for his vote for
Horton, and that witness was in the room
when a man came ard asked Purcell to
save hundred dollars for Wait, of Lin
coin, and be understood it had been paid.
J. X. Hallowell said he had no remem-
brance of receiving such letter from
Higgins SIS he said he wrote. He received
one from higgins in which ne said he had
seen Ingalls, and the matter could be ac-
complished, and witness explained that the
words referred to
THE OBTAINING OF PASSES
for his wife, and TO the removal Of papers
from Empire City to Baxter Springs,
and to sT eeches they desired Senator In
gals to make in Cherokee county.
The evidence OF McClintock, Towle, But
terbough and Coates, taken before the
House investigating committee, was ad-
mitted in evidence.
Charles Collin swore that McClintock had
said that the rumor that he had been
PAID MONEY FOR HIS VOTE
for Ingalls, was a lie (; that lie had new
er received money from Ingalls, or his
friends.
r. 3. Shadduck testified that he had
never paid McClintock $500 for his vote
for Ingalls, or any one else.
The memorialists withdrew the chsrges
of corruption made against o. G. Rich
ards.
The Associated Press Agent intended to
announce Friday that the charges against
Lee, james, George, and Weaver Of Wyan
dotte county, we're withdrawn on that day.
J. X. Hudson, for the memoralists, al
frmed that j. F. Legate had told him tt at
the last legislature has been the
pAMNDEsT CORRUPT ONE
he ever saw in Kansas; that Legate had
said he cav money pass on the floor OF the
House and said the election as compared
with that of Caldwell was teu-fold worse.
There was no cross examination.
ID. A Rudolph, of Topeka, swore that
winter Col. A. c. Dawes had said he was
for Ingalls, and that he would be elected;
that Dawes had said there was $4,000
here to help Ingalls, election and
that witness inferred that Davis had
brought it. Geo. S. Smith, for the respond
ent, testified in relation to the charge
against d. f. Ballard, that he knew moth
ing about it; had seen Ballard year and
a half ago and had seen him since about
six weeks ago. No cross examination.
The memorisIis:s did not examine
another witness brought TO support the
charge.
A. H. Horton, Chief Justice Of the
Suprsme Court, was placed on the stand BY
the memorialists and said he had never
borrowed six hundred dollars or q cent
from S. c. Mcrrey and that neither he nor |
his friends, in his knowledge, had used
improper means to secure his election. de |
produced letter from II. ID. Baker which |
said that If he had known that Andersons |
testimony would be before the legislative |
committee he would have
gone before it, but that
ANDERSON HAD BAD CHARACTER
and he thought no one would believe his |
statement; 80 he should do nothing. This
etter WAS written last March. In the cross
witness said ne was not &C
Iuainted with Baker and had not given
iim any letter to Purcell; that he had
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