The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-29
SILVER POOL SECRETS.
MORE LIGHT ON TaB DELAY IN
MAKING The EXPOSURES.


Gen. Boynton Stands by What Cor
respondent Dunnell Sent to His
Psper-Correspondeat Stevens Tells
OF the Conversation Between Gen.
Boynton and Mr.. Payne-Dockery
Tells Why He Favored Delay.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-Gsn. H. V.
Boynton testified before the silver pool in
vestigation committee to-day that he had
sent message to Mr.. DunnelI of the New
York Times on which his dispatch was
based stating that Messrs. Dingley aud
Payne had said il they had known that
Senator Vest would implicate Senator
Cameron they would not have called
him. The witness said he accepted
the full responsibility for it,
though he would not himself
have used just this language. In response
to Mr.. Dingley, Gen. Boynton said that q
gentleman of as good reputation as any
man in this town, who was here by sum-
mons of committee, said to him that being
in the room he had heard-he wished par
ticularlv to say had not ''overheard"-the
conversation between Messrs. Dingley and
Payne.
NATURE OF THE CONVERSATION.
1t was to the effect that Messrs. Dingley
and Payne were talking in regard to the
testimony that had come out affecting Sem
ator Cameron, and each was apparently ex-
planning to the other that ne had no knowl-
edge or expectation that such testimony
was to come out, expressing surprise at the
testimony, and practically apologizing co
each other that it had come out in the in
vestigatiou. He therefore said that Mr..
Dunnell was justified in sending out the
dispatch. Gen. Boynton declined TO give
the name of his informant.
DINGLEY TRIES TO EXPLAIN.
Mr.. Dingley suggested that it was en-
tirely possible that he might have said he
regretted exceedingly that any congressman
should have done any act which made it
necessary that such facts should be brought
out. But that was very different from a
statement that the committee would have
kept the testimony out, or had purposely
delayed 1t. That was totally untrue. As
matter of fact, both he and Mr.. Payne
wanted to continue the hearing on Monday,
but Mr.. Oates wanted an adjournment.
UGLY LOOKING FACTS.
Gen. Boynton was then permitted to
make a statement in connection with the
matter, which he had for some time been
endeavoring to make. He said that the day
before the investigation began Mr.. Stevens,
who was in the same office with him, re-
ceived a message that it was the desire of
the committee that he G5tevens) should
either be late the next day or prolong
his testimony. The purpose of the
committee was to adjourn Immediately
after the conclusion of bis testimony until
the next Wednesday, because Senator Vest
would not appear and give his testimony in
| reference to Senator Cameron until after
frxllA udaN - xu1F ks.I
| heard the same thing two or three days be-
| fore. Taking all these things together, he
| thonght the conclusion reached very rea-
| sonable one.
In response to a suggestion as to where
the committee could get at the information,
Gen. Boynton suggested that a good deal OF
information might be gotten out of Mr..
| Tanner and Representative Taylor. The
committee might also get some information
| from kilograms sent by Messrs Littler,
| Tanner and others.
WHAT STEVENS OVERHEARD.
w. B. Stevens, the Globe Democrat cor
respondent, was recalled and detailed the
conversation previously referred to between
| MIR. Dockery and himself, in which delay
| in the testimony was suggested. He stated
that that suggestion for delay in the testi-
mony did not come from the committee
OF any Of Its members, and Mr.. Dockery
| that the gentleman to whom Gen. Boynton
had referred with respect to the Dingley-
| Payne conversation was himself. 1t was q
| partial conversation. Then, turning to Mr..
| Dingley, he said: "You began talking in a
whisper, became more earnest, raised your
voice and were talking loudly before you
| got through. / heard Mr.. Dingley say
| something to this effect: 1T was an entire
| surprise to me (meaning the Vest testimony.
l nO knAw w1 q
| to any such thing as that You
| turning to Mr.. Payne) said: 4 had no idea
| what he was going to say 1t struck me as
| il you were each taken by surprise and
| were trying to explain it to each other.
| There seemed to be expressions that the cir
| cumstances under which the testimony was
| brought out were peculiar, and that you
| regretted the time at which it was brought
| out"
| AN INTERRUPTION BY THE COMMITTEE.
There was general interruption by mem
bers of the committee at this point. Messrs.
| Dingley and Payne said that while they
may have said something of the sort testi-
| fed TO by MIR. Stevens, they had no purpose
| except to. get at all the information as
| promptly as possible, and they thought the
| publications were not justified. Mr.
/ Dockery said that the statement of Mr.
| Stevens with regard to the desire to delay
| Senator Vests testimony was substantially
accurate. though they did not think he had
| said Senator Vest did not want to testify.
| He (Mr. Dockery) probably expressed his
| own desire not to testify until Wednesday.
| He did not mean to convey the impression
| that the committee desired that "Yes,"
said Mr.. Dockery, ~ wanted to fllibuster
| against time"
DoCKERY's REASON.
In response to a question, Mr.. Dockery
said in explanation Of his course: Ser
tainly, did not want to bring out the
| testimony concerning Senator Cameron
| until Wednesday. l have no concealment
| about that now. During the time the
| resolution was pending before the committee
| formed belief that there were parties
who might desire to use that testimony
| in respect to another bill 1 was informed
| by a senator that another gentleman had
approached him q do not use approached
| in an offensive wayl and suggested to the
senator that it would be just as we'll to let
| the resolution for an investigation drop. To
| that suggestion the senator approached re-
| piled that he could not afford to do that and
| that he wanted the resolution passed.
SOME OF THE BOYS IN THE SOUP.
"The senator then asked the gentleman
why he wanted it dropped. This man
/ replied that he did not care about it himself,
| but that he understood that some of the
| boys had bought silver; and the impression
| the senator got was that they were nervous