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fore ths bar of the House To show
cause Why he should NOT DO punished
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V. boyuton testified before the silver
pool investigation committee wednes-
day that he had sent the message 70
Mr.. Dannsl. Of the New York Times,
on which . dispstch was based stating
that Dinghy and Payne had said
thai they would not have gone
Into The Investigation IL they had
supposed that such . revelation re-
sardinS Senator Cameron would be
nadA The witness said he accepted
full responsibility for II. though he
would not himself have used Just that
language. General Boynton said that
I gentleman Of a. good reputation as
any man In this city, who was here by
summons Of the committee, said to him
that being In the room he had heard
he wished particularly 70 say had not
'overheard'-a conversation between
Mr.. Dinglsy and Mr.. Payne. IL was TO
tho effect that Mr.. Dingley and Mr..
Payne wero talking in regard 70 the
testimony that came out affecting SEN
stor Cameron, and each was apparent
" explaining TO the other that he
had no knowledge or expectation that
such testimony was to come out, ex-
pressing surprise 1T the testimony and
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that 10 had come out in the investiga-
ton. He therefore said Mr.. Dunnell
was justified In seSding out the dis
patch. General Boynton declined to
give the name Of his informant.
Mr.. Dingley suggested that it wasn't
entirely 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 DO brought out But
that was very different from the
statement that the committee would
have kept the testimony out or had
purposely delayed It. 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
General Boynton then said that the
day before the investigation began Mr..
Stevens, who was in the same Office
with him. received message that it
was the desire Of the committee that he
(Stevens) should either DO late
next day or prolong his testi-
mony. Tho purpose of the COM
mittec was TO adjourn immediately
after the conclusion of his testimony
until tho next Wednesday, rs it was
understood that Senator Vest would
not appear and give his testimony IN
reference to Cameron until after tho
following Tuesday. Witness had heard
the same thing two or three days be-
fore. Taking all these things together,
he thought the conclusion reached very
reasonable.
W. Il. Stevens, tho Globe Democrat
correspondent, was recalled and detailed
the conversation previously referred to,
which was between Mr.. Dockery and
himself. and in which . delay in tho
testimony was suggested He said
that the suggestion for delay in the
testimony did not come from the COM
mittee or any of It's members, and Mr..
Dockery did assert, Mr.. Stevens said.
that the gentleman to whom General
Boynton had referred with respect TO
the Dingley-Payne conversation was
himself 1t was . partial conversation.
Then, turning TO Mr.. Dingley, he said:
"You began talking in a whisper, be-
came moro earnest, raised your
voice and were talking loudly before
you Tot through I heard Mr..
Dingley say something TO this effect:
1T was IN entire surprise to me Imean-
ing the Vest testimony. did not
know he was going TO testify TO any
such thing Is that You
Turning to Mr.. Paynel said:
Il had no idea what he was
going TO say II struck me as IL
ron were each taken by surprise and
were trying 20 explain it TO each other.
There seemed to be expressions that
the circumstances under which the tes-
timony Wa brought were peculiar and
that you regretted the time At which 1t
was brought out"
There was . general interruption by
the members of the committee at this
point Mr.. Dingley and Mr.. Payne
said that while they may have said
something Of the sort testified by Mr..
Stevens they had no purpose except
20 get ell the information ~ prompt
ly - possible. and they thought
the publications were not justified,
Representative Dockcry said that the
statement OF Mr.. stevens in regard to
the desire 10 delay Senator Vests testi-
mony was substantially accurate.
though he did not think he had
said Mr.. Vest did not want to
testify. He fDockery) probably
expressed his own desire not to testify
until Wednesday. He did not mean To
convey the impression that the com
mittee desired that. Yes said Mr.
Dockery. 'I wanted "a alibuster against
time In response 10 inquiries Mr..
Dockery said in explanation OF his
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