Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
EXHIBIT sd"
B. g. M. r R. Co., IN NEE. !
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| EXHIBIT SD"
B. e. M. R R. Co., IN NEE.
| SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE,
OMAHA, NEB,, Nov s., 1876.
J. q. Taylor. Esq. Acting Treasurer:
DEAR SIR-You please honor my
drafts made on you by T. NJ. Mar
que,te, or coun.ersigned by him, IN
il further instructions. Note that
account from the "Omshs Bee for
800 per month, and for the "Lin-
cola Globe" for s75 per month, may
be passed for s,I months from 1st
INST. | want to ses You on this matter
tomorrow. Yours truly,
(Signed) WV IRVING,
is a forgery. The proof shows that
no such letter was ever written by
VIM. Irving or receivei BY j. G.
Taylor, as it purport,, and that no
such authority was ever given to draw
or use money of the Burlington and
Miss uri railroad company in Me-
brsska, a In said letter stated, nor is
there any proof that any of the m
pioyees or persons connected with
laid company. ever used money IF
said corporation for political purposes
or to mfinence the late senatorial
election. Third, hat we further
believe hat there 10 no proof Whatever
that any money had been
paid, or that there ever
vas any agreement to pay any money,
for political purposes, either to the
"Omsha Bee" or "Lincoln Globe" u
to any one connected with said papers,
or for any other than for job work or
for advertising. or other rigbtful and
legitimate purposes. Nor is there any
proof that said railroad compauysends
messages over Its lines OF telegraph
for either Of said newspapers, free of
charge, but the preof is, that for all
matter sent over the wires by either
of said companies, they charged the
same as the associated press Charge
for Ike matter. The proof clearly
shows that ssid railroad company has
not used any money for political pcr
poses, or for any ether than legitimate
purposes; that the letters above mer-
toned and set forth were forged by
one j. d. Flanagan, who was at the
time a clerk in the principal office
of the B & M. railroad COM
pany in Omaha, Nebraska; that
and Flanagan, on or about the 18th
day of January last, also made al
affidavit, which is in evidence, that
the forged letters and slso the afi-
dsvit were placed in the hands of
Senator P. w. Hitchcock, on or about
the 18th day of January, 1877.
All of which lie respectfully sub
mitted.
S. v. MOORE,
]. S. GIBSON,
VIM. ANYaN,
LoRAN CLARK,
w. w. FITZPATRICK,
COMMITTEE.
page $50 W. c. Griffith, member
of the Legislature from Lancaster
county, called and sworn, and exam
ined In chief by Chairman Moore.
testified as follows:
Q. STATE what you know about the
allegations in this resolutions A. l
would like to have you ask me what
questions you desire. 1 don't want
to state all | have heard from outsiders
for the last two weeks.
Q. State facts.
Mr.. Gibson:-Then we have no
further use for this witness.
Mr.. Anyan %. State what oc-
Cured between yourself snd Hitch
cock and others, 1 think, the day be-
fore yesterday in the private room of
the governors office, in which you
represented you were shown certain
A, Our delegation from
Lancaster county went in there to
consul o11out matters anu his letter
up.
By Mr.. Brownie. Was the sena-
tor PRESENT. A. I think ne wss part
Of the time. He said, | understand
you think | have got a forged letter,
and that / am using it to insure my
election" or something like that /
told him / had heard there was a let.
ter of some character and | wene 10
Ind out whether it was an acknorl-
edged letter or genuine. Then [
AK n about the signature Of MIR,
and told tn m | was soy,n
what familiar with his writing. they
moved me a letter and rsk ID me
'bnut the initials II NJ NJ" J,nl6
lim | thought the two Ms j3oted
bis writing butt didn'e think the
'T's" did.
Y Mere you cal'ed ~ IN testify 40
Q the EenuIntss # r 10 signature I? A.
III" you cad the ietter over
= les IL Tns dated Burlington, l
Innh' ana addressed 70 Mr.. Mar
.uet'e' " Id zald, I'VE have made ar
1is'' fnts by which Saund Is and
o~ .hody | have forgotten the name
can draw on us at sight | think I
mat is the language I don't know
whether the wort 'money was men
toned or not.
Q What Was your conduct when
the iett'r was read 70 .y0ui 4 They
SAID Mr.. Marquette had sent this let
ter an had biguea mis- hamr on the
margin ct. NJ. M" l SAID ] don't
think that was his signature, and 20
was in the binding and let him come
there and deny OF acknowledges That
ne pur us maze haere. | went down
stairs aud told Mr.. Marquette 60
CONS up, ana when Mr.. Marquette
came up the 'etter vas not there II
think TIE papers were in Mr.. Yost'-
possession They had an unders an0
ing hat they were Z, meet some placs
lsas night and examine the papers
with Mr.. Marquette.
Mr.. Anyan @. What transpirea
When you re,urned with Mr..
Marquettel 4 l told them, I sid
gentlemen, here IS NJ. Marquette.
he would like to examine the letter
Mr.. Moore @ Dii MIR. Mar