St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-27
CAMERON AND SILVER.
The Don Knows Nothing of Any
Congressional Pool.

The Don Knows Nothing OF Any
Congressional Pool.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-In the silver
pool investigation to-day Mr.. Dingley
laid before the committee a letter dated
Jan. IS, from James I'll. Owenby to w.
B. Stevens, the correspondent of the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The letter has
been published. 1t was then explained
that when Mr. Dockery had asked Mr..
Stevens to withhold the letter the other
day, he did not mean that it should be
withheld from the committee, but from
the public. John Il. Tanner, Of Louis
Vile, ILL.,, the first witness of the day.
knew nothing of silver pools or tran s.
actions except one dealing of his own.
Senator j. D. Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, then took the witness stand.
His transaction, he said, consisted OF
the purchase of 100000 ounces of silver
for which he put up margin of $1,000.
1t was in the shape of certificates pur-
chased through S. V. White 81 Co., of
New York.
MIR. Dingley suggested to the senator
that perhaps he had seen the testimony
of Senator Vest and Mr.. Littler before
the committee The senator replied
that he had no cOncealment to make re-
garding his purchase of silver. The
testimony of Mr.. Littler was substan-
tally correct He bought silver just as
he would buy any other commodity. He
had purchased it without much thought.
He had bought through MIR. Ltttler,
early in June, about 100000 ounces on
a margin of $4,000 before the bill passed
the senate, and gave an order to him to
sell in ten days or two weeks. He kept
no memorandum Of the transaction. So
rar as he recOllected, the silver was dis
posed of in June. His profits were
! about 81, 100. He had no knowledge of
any other senator or representative. or
| government official having any interest
in the purchase of silver. Never knew
| Owenby, and knew nothing about the
| existence of the silver pool.
To Mr.. RoWell the witness said there
| had been no talk between MIN and other
senators about the organization of sill
yer pool, and to Mr.. Oates he said that
| no member of the house or senate had
ever asked him to exert his influence
to prevent the present investigation or
to get Mr.. Dockery to withhold his reSo-
luton asking for it.
In response to further questions Mr..
! Cameron said Senator Vest was mistak-
en- in his testimony when he said that
he (Cameron) bought the silver after
the bill had passed the senate.
r. d. Bogart, correspondent of the
Chicago Evening Post. was questioned
relative to statements made by him II
dispatches to his paper intimating that
there were persons who would not OBJ
ject to the present investigations being
dropped, and that Representative
Flower. of New York, was in the silver
pool, etc. In regard to the first, he said
he was reporting what was con- monty
said among Chicago correspondents
and some other statements were in
tended as mere pleasantrieS. Regard
ing statement that Mr.. Flower had
bought silver at 81 cents. witness said
that his impression was that he had
heard it from one Edward Curtis, who
was an employee of the st. Louis silver
committee. He had no personal knowl
edge of the matter.
E. &. Dunnell. correspondent of the
New York Times, was asked concern
ing dispatch sent to the Times recent