The Indianapolis journal., 1890-02-05

mistake after he had published the retrac-
tiOn. as that complicated the case badly.
That was all there was in the story of his
attempt to shield Wood.
Referring to the story that the committee
had suddenly adjourned for two weeks
because it had discovered something very
unpleasant. and the lid was hastily closed
on the boiling pot, and further that Mr..
Ohio to consult him. the witness said that
he challenged inquiry, and denied that Mr.:
Grosvenor was his counsel. or that he had
seen him since last summer until he got
here. He served notice now that he was
going to have little fairer treatment from
Mr.. Halstead and his paper than he had
had before. There was a limit to human
endurance.
Mr. Turner asked about the six million
appropriation bill.
Witness read from the patent specifca-
tion to show that his gun would not answer
the requirements of the guns called for in
the appropriation bill. as his gun could not
be made larger than six-inch bore, while
those provided for in the fortiiication
bill were to be ten-inch guns. Mr.. Hal
stead had all of these facts before him, aud
yet persisted in his insinuations. The
chief of engineers had also pronounced his
gun to be worthless, in which sentiment ho
twitnessl earthly concurred.
The chairman exhibited the forged paper.
and asked witness if he knew anything OF
it that would aid the committee in it's in
it was evident from inspection that tho
paper was forgery. but he knew nothing
directly about it's origin.
Mr.. COgswell said he was under the i'm,
preston that witness had discovered that
Wood was a man of bad character as soon
as he believed him to be the forger.
The witness replied that many facts came
to his knowledge that Wood was a low fel>
protested to Mayor Mosby against his ap~
pointment.
In answer to Chairman Mason, witness
said that the ballot-b0x bill doubtlessly
described the Wood box. The bill author
lied the Attorney general to purchase the
boxes at S25 or less, but no more. He had
never heard that any of the persons whose
names appeared on the forged paper were
interested in the ballot-box bill until he
saw the Commercial-Gazettep publication.
He referred to a publication in that fam
lily paper" that he had called upon the
President and urged him to get the Mills
bill out of the way In order that he might
get his ballot-box bill through Congress.
1t was needless for him to comment upon
that to congressional committed He had
never heard that Mr.. Grosvenor was in
terested in the ballot-box bill.
To Mr.. Foraker witness said L. {. Camp
bell had talked about his bill and he either
had, or witness procured for him, a copy Of
Senate bill. Witness told him he must
restrict the price of the box, as he could not
introduce q bill without the maximum
that the bill commanded positively the At
torney-general to buy one box for each dis
trict, and that the box was described as .
patented box. He did understand, now
ever. that the Attorney general could pay
less than S25 but no more for the box. He
did not understand that the Attorney-gel-
eral must pay s25 if the company refused to
sell for less.
Mr.. Foraker wished to know if witness
believed that the Attorney general was
O.
fused to sell at a lower figure.
He replied that he did not so believe-the
Attorney-generaih had an option:
Governor Foraker replied that some peo-
pie were simple-minded enough to believe
that the bill permitted the company to nix
the price of the box within S25.
Mr.: Cogswell remarked that the bill would
speak for itself.
Governor Foraker read from witnesses
speech an extract wherein he speaks of a
telegram received from Morton Hawkins, a
reporter OF the Cincinnati Post, calling for
public refutation of the ballot-box trust
friend who had said he could vindicate him
with a document. which had been sent for.
Witness said that he had read that tele-
gram. Mr.. Hawkins was now Adlutant-
personal friend was. The witness was
at sea at first TO know whether
the document Exhibit Al or signature, or
whatever it was, that was forged. III he
had seen the paper lie could have said at
once it WAS a forgery. He had seen the
published fac-simile in the newspaper, but
there were various reasons why he did not
make a specific denial that he had signed
the paper, one of which was that he did
not want to scare off Wood, for whom he
was having search made.
Governor Foraker remarked that the tes-
timony showed that Wood did not leave
| Cincinnati until Oct. S.
Witness replied that he could not find
IA haA f.IA ~ %l<.x <.<xI D. Al
been hiding in Covington. Witness knew
| of no document that he had been waiting
| for which would vindicate him. This closed
| the testimony for the day.