Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-02-13
An Honest Witness.

his administration complete in the
story Of the force bill.
An Honest Witness.
Judge Houghton testified in the Met
calf case, among other things, as fol-
lows; There were only three men that
worked on and solicited votes from.
These were DR.. Candy, Mr.. Powell,
and Mr.. Rhnehart of the Spokane
delegation. l had heard it commonly
reported ON the streets here that those
three men were not pledged to Squire.
So l called them together and told
them | would like to have them vote
for Judge Calkins, and il they would
DO SO | would give them sixteen votes
to locate the Agricultural College and
School of Science in Spokane county.
do not consider this exactly an hon
orablc proceeding, but it is common in
politics, and as | was exceedingly anx
ious to have that school located there
was willing to strive for it,
All this seemed plausible enough
but the Judge WAS submitted to a
course of questions and then the fun
began.
How did you know you could give
sixteen votes for the school in ex-
change for three votes for Calkins?"
al had been assured by the Calkins
managers that could get these six
teen votes"
"Werc the Calkins men willing to
trade the educational institutions of
the State about for votes for Calkins?''
asked Mr.. Goodman.
Apparently So"
Colonel Haines-You say YOU only
tried to work on three members. Why
did you not try to get others?
"Well, / have particular senti,
ment on that point. If man is
pledged. / don't want to talk with
him."
"Why don't you like to persuade
men who are plcdged?"
"Well sir, l haven't got the gall"
"How long have you been law
yer?"
About thirty years."
"And you haven't acquired that
amount of gall YETI"
No sir"
"Were you one Of the Calkins man
agers?"
al was"
Did you sign an open letter with
other managers which letter was pub
lished i'll II number of the papers of
the State?"
Il did"
"Did Henry Clarke sign that let
teri"
"No, sir"
"But he was as active in the sup
port of Mr.. Calkins as you were, was
he not?"
"Ycs sir, he was more active"
"Did you not make an appointment
for Mr.. Metcalfe to meet Mr.. Clarke
and tell him that anything Mr.. Clarke
would say to him he might consider
perfectly confidential?"
"No, sir. l simply introduced the
two men,"
Did you suggest to Clarke that he
could get Metcalfe to vote for Calk.
ins?"
"NO. told ex-senator Tom Payne
and Harry Clarke that l thought Mr..
Metcalle had been slighted by the
Squire men, and il he was worked all
right he could be induced to vote for
Calkins."
"Did you hear of any money being
used in the senatorial contest?"
"Oh yes. heard Of money being
used on both sides, but had no hand
in it, and made no use of money or
any other improper means"
"Did you not write II letter to II
man stating that representative VIII o
sold his vote on the tide land question
for $500 was foo, because he could
get IS 900 for it?"
"No sir! did not"
"You held out the idea to Metcalfe
that Judge Calkins would do some
thing for him ?"
"Ycs sir"
"You offered to trade an office for
voter"
"Practically."
"What sixteen votes did you pro-
pose to trade p
Here an objection was taken and
sustained.
al did not try the rest of the delega-
ton. They were pledged Squire men,"
continued Mr.. Houghton. al never
talked with Mr.. Lehman except after
the vote. He told me he voted for
Calkins because they wouldn't post.
pone the vote until after the investiga.
ton"
A DOCTOR in Berlin has discovered
that carbunkles can be cured by
squeezing a rats spleen and inject
ing the juice hyrodermically. What's
the matter now with the Chin
ese doctors They Use such medi-
cines all the time. In their ma
teria medica are dried snakes, gall
bladders, desiccated kidneys, powdered
eye-balls and various glands, organs
and parts of the bodies of all sorts of
rentilas fsh fowls and animals If|