Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-16
Assemblyman Beach voted for Rogers
and AssemblYman ReitZ for Depew. The

Assemblyman Beach voted for Rogers
and Assemblyman ReitZ for Depew. The
convention adjourned to noon tomorrow.
Before the bribery investigation commit
tee this morning, Mr.. Sessions, State Sena-
tor, testified regarding his first conversation
with Bradley: 1--WE met In the hall of the
Delavan House. near the cigar stand, and
commenced talking. | urged him to vote
for Depew, as the only solution to the ques-
tion. He Bradley said: May be you won't
be disappointed in my final VOTE | con-
strued his remark to mean that he was now
voting for Conkling to please some Grant
men in his district, and that, after doing so
for time, he would finally vote for Depew.
| went to the Delavan House that night to
see Senator Woodin and Mr.. Barber. l go
down there to see them very frequently
two or three times week; sometimes Of
tener"
l also went to Mr.. Barber's room that
night. | have often seen members of the
Legislature playing cards for money there.
would rather not give their names. | have
not seen Mr.. Depew there since May "a |
invited Mr. Bradley to the interview the
night of June Sth for the purpose of telling
him what Mr.. Ingersoll had just told me
about the state of feeling among the people
of his district. thought it would cause
him to change his vote to Depew.
The committee reconVened at 3 p. m.
The cross examination of Mr.. Sessions was
directed mainly to drawing from him
whether he remembered a conversation in
the lobby or in Barber's rooms In which the
possibility of influencing Bradley with
money to vote for Depew was discussed.
Mr.. Sessions could recall no such converse
ton. After long cross examination by the
counsel for the committee on this point
Mr.. Sessions counsel put some questions to
him, and had read Mr.. Sessions former
testimony wherein he stated that nothing of
the kind had occurred to his knowledge,
the object being to emphasize the fact that
his former testimony was entirely consis-
tent with his answers upon cross -examina.
tiOn. Robert 81. Pruyn and Daniel w.
Wemple, officers of the Commercial Bank
and the New York State Bank of Albany,
testified to cashing checks for Edwards.
One on June 4, for 5000, was signed by
A. D. Barber. At the New York State
Bank Edwards has had an account for sew
eral years. There was a deposit on
May goth of S. 600. COL Young, AS
semblyman from BroOme county, testified
that Edwards had made indirect suggestions
to him of benefit accruing TO him in case
he should vote for Depew, and also that
Charles K. Graham, Surveyor of the Port of
New York, had asked for his vote for De-
pew, and that he (Young) had asked of
Graham for the Reinstatement Of friend in
Graham's department. Speaker Sharpe was
recalled and asked by Mr.. Bangs if on the
evening Bradley came to his room with the
money he had an appointment to meet him
there, and he replied that he had. He fur
ther said that If he had gone there in order to
engage in any conspiracy he would have
remembered 1t. 81 did not engage In any
conspiracy. l never heard of the charge
against Mr.. Sessions until it was made by
Mr.. Bradley" The committee then ad-
journed until nine a. m. tomorrow.