The record-union., 1891-03-19

he twitness) approached Leake's desk he
saw some scraps of a rOll-cal1, and re-
| marked: Sam, you've torn up my roll
calln' Mr.. Leake replied he had not,
and witness then began to examine the
papers, and found a piece of brown ma
Mia paper with the figures $500 on it, also
piece of paper such as is used to inclose
greenbacks, with the figures "3-l6," rep
resenting the month and date. There
were other wrappers with the figures
1000, $500 and $500.
Witness asked Mr.. Leake who had
been in the office, and he replied that
Judge Dibble and another gentleman had
been there. Witness then sent for D. NJ.
Burns, Senators Heacock and MCGOWAN
ana others. After examining the papers
and consulting about them, Mr.. Burns
sent for Mr.. Dibble, but his interview
with the latter was not in the library
office. The desire to have the Attorney
General called seemed to be unanimous.
There were scraps of roll-call among
the papers, the one to which witness had
already referred.
Mr.. Estee said there was no talk, that
he knew of, of any crime having been
committed, but he believed the papers
were turned over to the Attorney-Gen-
eral for such use as he might see fit to
make OF them. He fEstee) had made no
charges against anyone in connection
with the matter. Neither himself nor
any friend of his, so far as he knew, had
ever had key to the private door of the
library.
To Mr.. Crandall witness said he did
not think any papers We're taken from
the basket before the gentlemen arrived.
The reason they were sent for was that
Judge Dibble, who was Mr.. Felton's
friend, had just occupied the room, and
the papers found there indicated that
money had been used for some purpose.
and he confessed that-when he saw
dollar-marks on the ewrappers-ito occurred
to him that they might have reference to
the use OF money IN the Senatorial con-
test, although. he never believed that Mr..
FELTON, had himself used money to aid in
securing his election.
To General Hart witness stated that he
had not used dollar in his own behalf.
| nor had any person for him, to his knowl-
edge; furthermore, he had no knowledge
of money having been used or promised
in behalf of any other candidate for the
Senatorship.
To Colonel Jackson witness said he
could not say why MIR. FELTON, was sent
for, unless it was that Mr.. De Young was
out of the contest. lie did not then be-
lIeye, nor does he now, that either Mr..
FELTON, or Mr.. De Young had used money,
or authorized its use, in their behalf, and
wished It understood that he was not
! ter.
THE MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE.
During all this time the mysterious
package of scraps had remained sealed
on the table before the committee, and
several persons remarked, soto UOce that
perhaps all the testimony taken might
prove to have been useless when the con-
tents we made known.
The committee decided, when Mr..
Estee had concluded his testimony, to
open the package. When this was done
a number of sealed envelopes were found
within, with memorandum showing
that the scraps had been sealed in the
presence of Senators Heacock, MCGOWAN
and Preston, Assemblymen Burt and
Mccall, Speaker Coombs, Colonel d. M.
Burns, M. M. Estee and Attorney-Gen-
eral Hart.
1t was suggested by some member of
the committee that the envelopes be not
opened until morning, which suggestion
Mr.. Saloman combatted, claiming that
! it was only just to Judge Dibble and Mr..
| Marion that the contents be made known
at once, as their names had been used in
connection with the affair in way to re-
! fleet upon their integrity.
Attorney General Hart stated to the
committee that the envelopes contained
probably two hundred scraps of paper,
and it would be difficult matter, under
the most favorable conditions, to match
and paste them together so that they can
be read. The committee surely could not
do it then and there, and he advised that
the work be put Off until morning.
| This suggestion was finally adopted,
and the committee adjourned until $50
| O'Clock this morning.