Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BANKERS AS WITNESSES. Throwing Light on the
 Bribery Matter. EFFORTS TO TRACE THE MONEY. Sessions Bills Nearly All Ac-
 counted For.
 AN INTERVIEW WITH GRANT His Warm Approval of Gonk-
 Iing's Course.
AN INTERVIEW WITH GRANT
NEW YORK.

| NEW YORK.
 1 Wheeler Coming up Strong A Large In- | crease I'm His Vote-The Bribery Inves- | t,eatiot-Banlers Put oii tine Stand- | Their Knowledge efAssembIymen'sA Ac- | eounts-Sessions' Ba nk Bills Account ed ] For.
 1 ALBANY, June 16.-In the joint convention
 to-day but one ballot was taken for each va-
 cancy, Conkling gaining one over his vote of | yesterday, polling 32 as against 31 yesterday. l For his vacancy Wheeler had 3s, Cornell II,
 Jacobs 51 and Lapham 12, there being 12
 votes scattered among the other candidates ! In the vote to fill the Platt vacancy Depew l boiled 54, the same as yesterday, Herman 52, | Platt 27, his vote yesterday, and Cornell 12, Il votes being distributed among others. | The convention adjourned after taking one | ballot. After the ballots MT. Brooks sent up l resolution for joint convention for final adjournment. Discussion followed on MT. ' Husted's point of order that no action of the
 joint convention could be superior to the | federal law. There was much curiosity to
 see how the chair-Lieutenant Governor Hoskins-would decide. Finally, the deci- sion was just what it has been known for l weeks was Mir. Hoskins' idea, namely, that the Legislature must sit until both branches ! of the Legislature agreed to adjourn sine de. The investigation of Assemblyman Brad- ley's charge that Senator Sessions had at- | tempted to bribe him to vote for Depew
 was resumed this morning, w. A. Graves. of r. r1 <.E city, being the first witness, from whom the committee tried to obtain 6 statement of Mir. Sessions account
 with the firm. After MT. Sessions had given his consent that his account should be ex- posed, MT Graves refused to produce the books. but agreed to examine any particular items inquired after. Mir. Graves testimony showed that Senator Sessions, two weeks be- fore Bradley's charges, had asked to have his stocks sold; that the sale was made, and that he was paid $6, 616 in large bills by Mir. Graves two days before MT. Bradley's state- ment in the Assembly. This announcement, MT. Bradley's friends thought, was conclusive of Sessions guilt, but on cross examination it appeared that Mir. Graves had casually met MT. Sessions last evening, and the latter had in his possession roll of bills which Mir. Graves identified as the money he had given to MT. Sessions, the sum being within $500 or $4oo of the original amount. Being asked in regard to the matter, Mr.. Sessions pro- duced the money which he received from MT. Graves, and they were identified by the latter.
 Assemblyman Bradley was recalled and Al -s.-k l. IL room where he met Speaker Sharpe. MT.
 Bradley handed it to Counsellor Bangs, who read it aloud. Bradley testified: I had no appointment with MT. Sharpe in his room that night know General Conway; he has never asked me to vote for General Ire maine did not want to talk to reporters until made my statement to the committee it was not out of regard to MT. Sessions or tenderness for his character that I refused to make statement to him.
 At II o'clock, while Orsim Jones, of Chau- taqua, was on the stand recess was taken until D. m.
 The committee resumed its session at 3:15. Orsini Jones was sworn. He knew Charles F. Ingersoll Bradley did not on June 8th tell witness that on that day Ingersol1 had talked to him. Witness met Bradley at g o'clock. Bradley asked witness if he knew
 where Sharpe's room was, that he wanted to see him. Went with Bradley to Sharpe's
 
 desired to say something of a private nature, stepped back and Bradley said, ''You come in too." and both stepped inside Then Bradley told Sharpe he had been ap- preached and given money to vote for De- pew. When Bradley said it was the Senator l from his district (Sessions) who gave him the money, Sharpe said that couldn't be and was excited, witness thought. When witness saw \ the nature of the matter he was anxious to get away; didn't like it when he heard 1t was 1 his Senator. Witness was excited and did not want to hear any more and but barely re- | membered what he heard. Cress-examined Was Grant man. Witness said there was some feeling in Chautaqua county against Sessions for voting against Grant at Chicago. | District Attorney Bradley Ca cousin of Brad | 1ey) felt very bitter toward Sessions for his conduct at Chicago. In the present Senator ! ial contest witness business here was to aid, 1 so far as he could, the election of his candi-
 dates, Conkling and Platt The balance of his testimony corroborated the above and re- lated to politics in his county.
 w. A. Newton, teller of the Union Nation l al bank. was sworn. He gave an account of l the banks transactions from the middle of May to June 9th. June 9th he paid to a
 man witness didn't know 5000 on check signed by Senator Wagner. After witness
 had given considerable testimony and was being cross examined MT. Peckham arose and opposed furth r hearing of such testimony
 on the ground that the testi-
 mony had no bearing on the case.
 Sessions was charged by Bradley with having
 bribed him on the sth of June. Witness was discharged.
 W. A. Graves, of Spencer, Trask & Co.,, | who testified during the morning session that
 he had paid out two large sums on the 9th | instant. one of $1 ,5OO to Senator Woodin.
 the other of $2,O00 to some one else, was
 put on the stand. Witness thought the pay
 ment he made to Sessions on the 7th of June | Gin the morning witness made this payment occur on the 4th) was the only
 large payment made by him on that day It was $6,616. Sessions got that
 sum as the balance due him on the closing | out of his account The account was the sale of two hundred shares of Lake Shore.
 Sessions asked him to close up the account | as he expected the Legislature to adjourn any day and didn't wish to leave any unfin- ished business behind when he went
 home. There was not a single $500 bill in the package he gave
 Sessions. There was an interval of five hours on the 9th of June between the time he paid Senator Woodin $1 800 and the time he paid Sessions $2.000 in the afternoon. He was certain there was no $500 bill in
 either payment.
 George Austin was sworn Bradley testi fled that he had not told Austin in Clean on the 4th of June that he had voted the last
 time for Conkling and that he could get money for voting. Witness said Bradley had told him so, and when witness read that
 Bradley testified that he never told witness
 that money could be made by selling votes, and that he had not told him he had voted the last time for .Conkling, he was sur prised and so were his neighbors whom he had told about the talk in Clean. He
 wrote to Sessions offering to come and testi- fly. He was stranger to Sessions and was against the return of Conkling and Platt
 Witness met Bradley this morning Bradley
 asked witness if he was going to testify that he had told him in Clean that he voted the last time for Conkling. Witness said he was. Bradley then asked if he also going to testify about what he had said in Clean about
 money by selling votes. Witness answered that he was going to tell that too and all that was said.
 Adjourned until g a. m. to morrow.