Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14
THE FIGHT AT ALBANY.
THE BRIBERY INQUIRY CON-
TINUED.
Bradley Gross Fxamined-TheS story
of Sessions Offer RetOId-AnOther er
BalIot-An Effort 40 be Made 10
Check Pairing.

ALBANY, June 13.-The investigation of
morning before the special committee of
the Assembly. Mr.. Bradley was called to
the witness stand. Mr.. Bangs, of counsel
for the committee, asked Bradley how he
had voted on the Senatorial question. He
replied that at first he voted for White and
Cornell, and later on for Conkllpg and Platt.
He had conversed with Mr.. Sessions as to
the way he had voted, and had given him as
q reason for such change of his vote the
feeling among his constituents, many Of
whom were friendly to Conklipg and Platt.
He had stated that he intended to change to
Conkling and Platt at the meeting OF the
stalwarts the night previous to his change
of vote.
Mr.. Bradley was cross examined by Mr..
Peckham at great length, and related in de-
tail the history of his life since 1875, and of
his political acts since the beginning OF the
present Senatorial contest. Nothing of i'm
portance, however, was elected, and the
committee took recess.
The committee reassembled at $50 D, m.
The question pending at the hour
of recess was whether question
as to who was present at a
certain meeting of independent stalwarts
should be asked. The Chairman stated that
the committee had overruled objection to it..
The witness then answered that there were
ten or eleven members of the Assembly
present, Messrs. Phillips, Boardman, Gates,
Root, Raines, myself and others. The con-
ference lasted about an hour. came back
with Mr.. Jones after our talk, about four
| O'Clock D. M, to the Delavan House. /
was walking about the Delavan when
met Mr.. Sessions. Mr.. Bradley then
! repeated his story of the circumstances at
tending the offer of money for his vote, and
proceeded. | would not then take the
| money because | did not want to sell nv
vote and did not want to expose him. l
had made up my mind then that l would
not take any money unless to make an ex-
| posure. / had thought of taking the
money for that purpose ever since
| it had been generally understood
that money was being used. but
did not want to expose Senator
| Sessions, and told him no, that 1 would not
take the money. | told him when he went
up stairs to see what he could do that he
had better not go. Mr.. Sessions was my
! Senator, and to expose him was not a
pleasant thing to do. Up to the time l took
! supper, and the Senator requested me to
have an interview, l had not made
up my mind to expose him.
went up to his room after supper,
because he asked me to call there.
When we got to the room locked the door,
and Mr. Sessions said: ''It's going to be a
good thing, all five of US voting for the
same man. l have done we'll for you. l
have got $4,000" had not up to this time
said word as to how I would vote, and the
last time | spoke to him l told him would
not vote with him. sHe took out the
money and counted it on his knee.
He then handed the money to me. l
said nothing, but bowed my head to indi-
cate that 1 assented. think 1 said yes
when he said it would be good thing, our
voting together. Mr.. Bradley then related
substantially as before how he took the
money, tacitly agreeing to vote for Depew,
and then went in search of Speaker Sharpe
| to turn the money over to him.
The joint convention met at noon, with
Lieutenant-G Governor Hoskins in the chair,
and proceeded to vote to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Roscoe Conk-
ling. with the following result: