The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-02
PURELY ORNAMENTAL WITNESSES,

Ia very slim indeed. The counsel are re
quired to state what they can prove By a!
witnesses before subpelas are allowed
Both aides are urged to bring their wit
nesses on the stand with a little delay a
| possible after their arrival here
and Witnesses are promptly notifies
Of their discharge, and their discon
tinusnce of their per diem Immediate,
upon their release from the witness st*nd
All holiday and iunketing attendance i
thus cut of, and those who lInges to watcl
the progress of things at the court house, o.
to take in the delights ard gayeties Of tn
State Capital, must do 80 at their own ex.
pense. Psrhsps this ia all right-it Ger
tainly does Lot follow CT necessity that it j
not all proper, because not strictly accord
ing to the customary way OF doing publi
business. We do know that
MILLIONS OF PUBLIC MONEY
are being constantly frittered, fooled ant
thrown away in a great variety Of ques
tionsble and Improbable Ways, and 60
always has been, and 60 fear, for lon
lime, anyhow, it will be.
But take it that there are reasons pc
culiar in this case for SO much watchful
ness at the sPigot. The members OF tn
committee are doubtless convinced by thi
time that there is nothing in all this hu
and cry of corruption and bribery raise
against Senator ingalls,. They must b
satisfied that it is only a Job put up by
set Of political scalswags and sorehead'
with 10 object in view but the qualification
of private piques and males. In othe
words it is piece of despicsbly small bus
iness, kept on foot by
DEsPICABLY SMALL MIN,
and ough. to occasion only q small outls
of money on the part of the Government
In that view Of the Gaze we can easily III
ders,and why it is tina. the amicably Fedat
old gentleman who is chairman and chis
spokesman Of the committee takes such car
to direct the management in a spirit Of fri
galiiy. Let the affair be conducted chespl
az possible, it viii coat far more, than (goo
results considered) it will amount to.
But it is to be hoped, and in justice "
have the right TO expect, that conside
atoms of economy will not prevail to Ii
extent OF giving all parties concerned
full and impartial bearing. Men repre-
senting all parts Of the State participate
in the election, ard the State is terrific
torially extensive. 1t will not do to mea
ure distances here on the scale that they q
in Delaware, which does not cover moi
ground than some of our counties. Wi
nesses have 3 long way TO travel, an
com ing here involves
TINE AND MONEY.
A number Of the mem bers must nesds
! here not merely for testimony, but for d.
tense. They have been charged with &C
of bribery which may damn them for a
time in the estimation of good citizen
unless it shall appear from the records {
this investigation that the charges wer
conceived and connected without any four
dation in truth and good reason. SOM
and in fact the most OF these persons, ar
in limited circumstances financially, an
it is no more than right since the Unite
States Senate has digni6ed the accus alton
against them with . hearing, and has Ell
tablishei an open court at topeka wherei
their sccusers are free to appear and max
good these accusations, by any amount c
croo ked swearing or even
| DOWNRIGHT PERJURY.
if that should be demarded-it is no NOR
than right claim under such circumstar
ces, that a liberal provision be made 70
the betrayal of their expenses as is usual
made for witnesses in ordinary judicia
proceeding. Every facility should b
extended to Messrs. Stumbaugh and f ,ger;
and their less open, though really NOR
msndscious partners in their bust
ness, to substantiate not onl
all charges with giving bu; with receivin
brides, SO that they may not have it 10 say
as they said of the investigation last winter
that they might have proved every thin
and more too had they Only had fsi
chance.
FOUR DAYS OF THE INVESTIGATION
have already elai SD and only five witness
es have told their story. Walton, Chic
Clerk ct the House, testified simply IS tt
the politics of the several members Of tn,
Assembly and Of the ballots taken ia the
Senatorial election. Wood presented to the
committee a diagram of the rooms and
passages in the Tefft House occupied by
Ingalls, and his friends during the term Of
the election. The testimony Of Playter is
the old story of last winter. There was
everything in this mans manner and face,
while before the com mittee, to indicate the
sneak and trickster, while the cum and sub
stance of the evidence itself smacks so
plainly of scheming and blsckmailing that
it is calculated to injure nobody but Playter
himself, if that were a moral possibility.
II. c. Fisher, of Harper county: This
witness brought with him upon the stand
an air OF freshness and simplicity excellent
ly betting the representative of region
where everything is new and undeveIopec.
His testimony was simply immense" H
heard that m orey was being used by Ingalls.
His curiosity to find out if this were so i'm
palled him to visit Irg alls room on the lest
evening before the final ballot. H talked
with the Senator, and in the course Of the
INTRODUCED THE SUBJECT OF MONEY.
leg Ais referei him to Jim Merritt. Mer.
ritt cent him up stairs to room number III,
and shortly after followed him up to the
room aforesaid. There he found lu1uri-
ant moustache and face somewhat rudy,
10 the possession OF an individual to him
unknown. With that unknown individual
be struck up . conversation. That un-
known per,on then and there offered him
Il. use his own language-"Two Hundred
and Fifty to vote on our side" He saw
and recognized the same unknown iudi-
Vidual once or twice the next day without
making any further efor; to find out who
be was.
This is the sum and substance of Mr.. |
Fishers testimony, and Mr.. Fisher is one
of the PRINCIPAL witnesses for the Yne,or;