Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-13

her Htcu 10 lunNenCc me In an
manner whatever, ! 10 not know hr
man being to-day, SO far as ! am awar,
VINO IS a stockholder or interested In IN
bcn Teicphono company. | had n
motive other than arising from the feel
ing that tho publication OF these hct
was IN the nature Of news and Ia N,
nature OF public service. Continuing
Nlr' fulliHer said all Of his books an,
papers, private or otherwise, were at IA,
olspoSaloi TIE committee The publication
instead otbcipg either hastily orcarelcssl,
Ntntured upon hsd been very carefully
considered. lie had the manuscript fol
lhree months IN his pix, on-hoic bcfor,
ipuptshlug H. His CORES pondent al
Warrington, who had furnished the man.
usorlpt, had been instructed frequenti,
uuilng that time @ ascertain whether the
matters therein stated were true or not
INC statements were published ouly after
NC hAu asceftaincd from the corr spOnd.
ehi thst ne had made every effort to
ey,liy INC correctness OF the stat menis,
only after repeatedly emphasizing that
ucsIe on MS part % maze sure that
! everything was correct, aud only when
ene nope nc entertained that certain luen,
more particularly Que gentleman, mitsh
rid himself of the possession OF nm stoss
Whlvh, while not Involving any vetalitv
at AL, did seem 10 him an act Of imnr,s
priciy au,l OF public nuiSerttion.
Only wien that hopo entertained for
three months had been ,llsappnlnted and
he had felt assured the matters we're cor.
rect, only then had he published these
records, as they might be termed. Ha
eNprcssed.a willingness To answer. IYnon
crosse Naminatlon Mr. Pnlitaer said he
ala not know a stakeholder m any rivnl
company OF The Electric, lie he
sired, even more than the committee, 10
ascertain whether any paper had been
improperly Influenced.
Mr. Ranuey asked Il Mr.. Pulitzer knew
any Official who held any OF the Pan. Elce.
trio stock
Pulitzer replied that he did.
Ranney Any one connected with either
house OF congressg
Pulitzer replied that no knew senator
Vest, who himself SO stated, had some ~
the stock, not donated, but bought He
had been barely introduced TO Senator
Harris and knew Mr. Garland, and per.
sonally liked him very much. Outside of
the two gendemen named IA Tho
publication he did not know any
person Ia congress who had
any interest in the Pau.Eloctrlc
company, and he did not think there was
any. The committee knew everything
he know about that.
Rauney' You do not own any Bell tel.
ephone stock
Pullt2eri do not own a single share
of telephone stock or any speculative
stock OF any kind. ! have made il my
rule and principle TO oschew any specula.
ton whatever. | not only do not own
any Bell telephone stock, but | do not
know anybody holding any interest In the
company. He had never thought or said
That there was any evidence of
any vonality or corruption. lie
never regarded IL In that light,
but only as matter OF Official impro.
prieiy or indiscretion of questionable
taste, In the publication OF the letters
he had printed everything that he felt
justified Ia printing from Il public stand
point. Everything else he bad tried TO
exclude.
A motion was made to put MIR. Casey
Young upon the stand but he protested
against the proposition, as IL would re-
qGlre him TO reiutc charges before he
Knew what he WAS charged with.
The committee finally decided TO hear
j ii. Rogers. On being Invited he took
the stand He said he had invented
number of electrical devices which had
been transferred 10 the Pau-ElcctriG com.
pany lie gave n history OF the organlan-
tlon OF the company with Gen. Johnston,
Gen, Atkins and Senators Harris and
Garland rs incorporat0rs, who were not
TO pay any money for their
interest, Gov, Blown OF Mis.
souri, came Into the company
on the same terms. Some other parties
embarked Us tue enterprise, but paid Tor
their stock The company sold state
rights usually for from $4,000 10 $40. 900,
With royalty on the Instruments aud 4
certain proportion OF the local stocks
The aggregate OF the dividends paid by
the company was between $50, 600 aud
100000 The witness believed that the
stock he had been selling wasI
oI value depending ia part
on the correctness Of Garland's
opinion MS lawyer. He had depended
not only on Mr.. Garland's opinion, nut
on the fact that the pan-Electric instru.
ment was superior TO the Bell instrument,
aud on the possibility OF selling II TO the
Bell company. The suit brought by the
government last summer against
the Bell company was the
next subject OF investigation
and the witness said that the only confer.
ence he had with any Of his associates
PRIOR TO the bringing OF The suit had bren
with Mr.. Young some time ia July. His
father was also present. The CONVERSE
ton was held at the witness house
Young came there aud informed them
that the government would bring suit
Rogers, ST., asked whether Garland
had promised 10 bring suit |
Young replied, Eyes" Rogers, ST.,
said; "Mr. Garland has promised Ho
will do IT," Mr. Young said that Mr.
Garland had dciicacy about conducting
the suit himself and that everything
would be left 10 Mr. Goode Mr Rogers,
Sr, asked whether Mr.. GoOde would net
u the matter were left with him. Mr.
Young said that was al right, that Mr.
Goode was our friend, or friendly 10 MS.
He was not our chemy, and h. VI !
Young believed he would rather
have Mr., Goode than Mr.. Garland. |
The suit was instituted about one or two
months after that conversation. The |
witness had no conversation with Mr. |
Goode In regard 10 the suit. Rogers, ST., |
had asked Senaior Harris whethcr, n |
the event of postal Telegraph legislation, l
he would have any deiicney IN owning |
Pan. Electric stock Harris replied that
he would not ia the least that
he would rise In the senate |