The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-14


Eyes, sir"
| "Who else?' I'll
Gan the members of the board"
"As secretary of the board did you
record the vote takeny"
"No, SIR
sDo YOU know of your own knowl-
edge that the board voted to grant that
| TRANSCRIPT
"Yes, i do"
"Who voted?"
81 can't tell i was busy win the
| records and the chairman announced that
the vote to transfer had passed."
"Did you voter"
"No sir. But according TO MIR. Reeds
| ruling a member who is present ana does
not vote can be counted as votin g."
"Is Mr.. Reed a member or the Doard OF
| license commissioners?"
"No, sir; but he is a great authority
on parliamentary law"
'sThen according to Mr.. Reed you con-
slider a vote has been taken In the afiirma-
tive when there has been no vote at allf"
Once more the crowd laughed Loudly
and a%pplauded vigorously :. When the
noise had subsidized Mr.. Mccarthy con-
tinued by asking Mr.. Nixon what
the chairman said when the vote was
taken.
"He said, the transfer is granted.
"Did you make a record OF itT'
eyes, sir"
"Read it,"
Mr.. Nixon proceeded TO read the record,
which was the same he had read when he
brought up the original record book
which Mr.. Mccarthy insisted on having
produced. The same questions were asked
as TO why the names OF Crandall ana
Burke appeared, and the same explana-
tion, that they were the bondsmen.
TIA MANDAMUs CASE.
During the long questioning which
took place at this juncture the only new
or material point brought out was that
the transfer was granted on the 10Th OF
November and that the certificate was
not issued until the 2Sth Of Der.
Then the full record of the mandamus
case was read by Mr.. Mccarthy, showing
that on the 23d of December Tobias Burke
had applied to the Supreme Court for a
writ to compel the license board TO trans
fer the license in accordance with their
vote OF Nov. 10; that the citation to Mr..
Nixon as clerk of the board was returna-
BILE on the 18th of December; that on that
day. after a hearing the court ordered a
peremptory mandamus TO issue compel-
ing Mr.. Nixon, as clerk, to endorse the
transfer on the license as prayed for by
Burke.
Then came another volley of questions.
''This transfer was granted on Nov. 10,
and you declined to endorse IL on the
license; what was the reason for THAR"
DtCduSt IDtTt WIS II QutSIlOn do w
the strength of the objcetors."
"What do you mean by that?"
swell, whether the remonstrapts COW
cred ground enough to warrant a refusal
to grant the transfer"
"When was that question raised?"
sit was talked of some time before the
license was granted and Ii was looked into
afterward."
THE MAN WHO INVESTIGATED.
SLOW long afterward-a week?"
81 couldn't say"
"Was it ten days or two weeks?"
sit might be; but / can't say"
"Who looked into the matter to see IL
the directors had strength enough?"
MIR Durham"
"Did you assist him?o
"No, sir"
"Did anyone else?"
"Not that / know OF; Mr.. Burnham was
qualified TO attend to that matter"
"We don't question MIR. Burnham's
qualifications or those of any member OF
the board; but did Mr.. Burnham make a
report?o
"He did"
Then Mr.. Mccarthy wanted to know il
MIR. Nixon had made any record Of this
report and was told that he hadN not.
Following this came questions as to
whether, after the vote to transfer the
license, the witness had been instructed
not to endorse II to which he replied he
had not received any such instructions.
The witness was asked whether MIR. Burke
called to have the endorsement made and
replied that Mr.. Burke's man had called
probably three times but that the witness
had told him he had better wait awhile
on each occasion. The only formal de-
mand in writing for the endorsement of
the transfer on the license was that re-
ceived from the court in connection with
Burke's mandamus suit.
Mr.. Mccarthy wanted to find out Mr..
Nixon's reason for failing to answer the
mandamus proceedings and was told that
1t was because the witness had left that
matter in the hands of his counsel, the
city solicitor.
MIR. WATERMAN OBS UP.
AT this point Committeeman Waterman
bobbed up with the question:"Don you
know what that vote was; was it unani-
mousf"
"No SIR"
Amy against it'"
"Do you mean to say that you do not
know the two members who voted for
and those against it?'
Just here MrS Mccarthy took up the
examination again and finally Mr.. Nixon
told him that Mr.. Paine and Mr.. Burn
ham voted for the transfer. Receiving
tnls ICDhys hN
Gan the other members were present?"
eyes, sir"
"And you didn't voter"
"No, SIR"
"Did Col. Studley voter"
eyes, sir he voted against the transfer"
"Did Mr.. Sprague vote'"
"No, sir.n
'"Then with Mr.. Paine and Mr.. Burnham
voting in the affirmative, Mr.. Nixon and
Mr.. Sprague not voting at all, and Mr..
Studley voting no. the vote was declared
In the affirmativep"
al don't know how the chairman made
up the vote; but he announced 1t as car
RED.
Once more Committeeman Waterman
bobbed no: "Why don't your record
show that?" he demanded. "Why." he
continued, "you couldn't tell from 1t
whether it was a license for a horse that
was transferred
~"Probably you know more about horse
trades than you do about records" was
Mr.. Nixou's retort.
TO Chairman Fuller Mr.. Nixon again
explained that two member voted To