The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-04-08

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All Of Little Rock was agog OF
Saturday, especially that part
Par6and, and about the state capitol
1t sMhisperedjatound for day
Or Two That the Iron Mountain rail
road ,hadJagents in little Rock who
were watching the'progresg VI the
Frqirp4d@ con1rnissio9 bilE ana when
ever they saw 4 chance to buy &
'nssbBerR9ff III Put t5bfS%0Hd against il
they did not hesitate to do so. Or
Saturday 1iofaing The exposure Of
these two men was made by Repre-
sentative Yancy, who o.had een'giv
en 800 to vote and, work against
the bill, He teIlsla mightystTaight
tale about the matter, giving dates
tofo meeting With aDeane Aand'"eoS
and conversations had 1t would be
impossible for him to make up such
a tale had he been given months to
conjure his brain for SO straight
forward story, We therefore ac-
cept his statement as true, and
now it looks as though the broad
hints thrown out about the Legis.
lature being purchased, onthe oc-
casiop when the bill was first, intro
duoed and defeated, have little
tinge off, the truth 4 in ,themI BY
this we do not charge that all who
Voted asaipst'f 'fRebDAw4rh(b rh(bdught,
for we do not belieyeatb6B were;
Bqt q lssprfiscciiSegpti Y lumber tRy'Ft
chased who perhaps had enough hin IN {
fluence to carry the point of the
railroad in defeating the bill
While Nancy Was making his expos
ure in q speech he attacked num-
betjof Representatives, among them
being W, II, Jones, Of Marion. ..
Since the abSvc was written ahd
put in type, we haveg.receiYeai 5d-
ditional matter fromS tile epitor,
Mr.. ]. W. Gardner, who Is i'll little
Rock, ON the subject, which is as
follows U&OHU &.I on
AFTER ~Yancy closed his speech,
Jqpesand Others denied inmosFpit-
ter terms all yQfr rthe @IegatiqpPrpf
Yancy5 as TO- any corrpptipna that
it looked as ifhe {Xancg) was act
ing as the tool Of Coy ,Clarkea who
was attempting to blacken the
character of those who .had voted
against the commission, acting in
the matter.like the midnight assas.
sin, who stabs his victim in the
back, Other members spoken of
byYancy denied any impure mo-
tives or actions in their opposition
to the comniSsiop At one time in
the House it looked decidedly war
rish, as Yancy and Jones came,pear
getting together in a5,hghtS ana
there was sQnedoging undcnthbles
by reporters and others, as "squally
tines '1prevailed,GgW
Sundays Gazette containedstrong
deplas from Iron Mountain officials
osto corruptian enlarged against
them by ,YAney& A... ia
Public opinion in the city tonight
Sunday is divided as to the charge
of bribery and corruption, ID the
fight against the railroad commits.
sion bill a majority seem to think
there ID. Something IN II, We are
.ol this opiuiop,at thistime, but dc
not believe al who opposed the
commission were influenced wrong
fully or were corrupted, ,aaa giGl .
SUNDAYS PISTOL EPISODE na,i,,
Ia About 2 o'clock today Sunday al
'Greason's Hotel, as a result of the
strong language used by represen
tattve"W2 R;"Iones, ofMarronc coun
ty, against Gov Clarllei lStterle call
ed at the hotel to'see him In refer
cnce to themltttfs 51onca was sit
5tng, or standing In the office o
said hotel, talking with a number
OF gentlemen when the Governor
came in, and told him he wished {,
sec him privately in Ia room &
themselves tBis request Jones re
fused saying 10 Clarke that If ii
hTd anything to say to hirH, 70 Sa,
IL In the Office, Clarke then spa
In Jones' face, when the latter strucl
AZ him With bis asti Clarke, 9cdgeo
and drawing his pistol tried TO shpo
Jones' Jones at once grabbed Clark,
arobhd I'D Body ,ogef' the arms, ant
thdb pftteBted bidi 4tpht' 'uSidk IN,
weapon Representatives. slBfhl
Roberts and WIZ tf'opg1lRel