Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-09

since appeared as 33l.
Odd you not a moment ago say you
knew nothing Of 331? Al said ! didn't,
and I didn't; / knew nothing about senate
o.~You Knew Of the bill then before it
was numbered as 331? Al knew the
bill before it was numbered 331, but don't
know who presented the bill or anything
else. wasn't you to 20 through with this
question now; / want you to go clear
through.
RIGG TELLS ALL HE KNOWS.
r is right, and we are going
right through. Have you mat oii' A
Yes, sir.
Q.--please present it as testimony to this
committed? Al have one; ! don't know as
/ have the original bill or anything OF the
kind. CWitness produces the bill, which Is
marked exhibit al 80,
o-Js that the only gambling bill you
have had in your possession TINS winter!
A-Now I want to go through and tell ABOUT
this now. DO you want me TO tell ABOUT
this?
o.-Yes. sir. A.-Let me start from the
beginning. Captain -0'Malley came down
hers sometime In January; ne says, you
are lust the man l want to see. Rtgg.'
said. -"al right, come upstairs We went
upstairs and he said: Here is something we
want to get through this legislature; want
YOU to look It over" Aside from this there
were some reasons why this bill should pass.
Il OIL -hHbN "a ~
haven't got them at all; | don't Know what
has become of them; and he says: What
do you think about it?' We'll" l SAID, {!
don't know, from the looks of that 1t would
take about So, 900 or 81 500 to get II through;
he said. 81 am going to Denver tonight and
will be back here Monday or Tuesday ana
let you know" He got back here about
Wednesday or Thursday. 1 think 1t was. OF
the following week. This was probably Fiji
day. I will say he was here, ! don't know
A., .wan 1nu hn uog hnra hut / think 1t
was about Friday. He was going to Denver
and would be back here the next Monday
or Tuesday; expected to be; l think he came
the Wednesday or Thursday following, and
he came Town and he says. There Is $500
deposited In the Omaha National bank" and
he says, 81 have got q copy of this" and he
says, when that bill goes through he
says. t.all you have got to do is to present
this copy to get the s., 500 Ct the bank: That at
will see about it. You know 1 am on the
republican side, and 1 don't know what l
eau do with this thing" | said, Il will see
about the thing" Lee Herdman roomed
right across from me and | spoke to him
about the thing; he wanted to know what
there was In 1t; ! said SO, 500 contingent; he
said, ~ can't handle it for less than 20 per
cent So that must have been only a day
or so before / went to Omaha when he said
that, When l was in Omaha that is what
caused me to write what you have there,
that he wouldn't handle 1t for less than 20
per cent.
DEALINGS WITH O'MALLEY.
Odd Captain O'Malley say anything in
regard to the parties who were said to nave
deposited this money? A.-No, sir, he
didn't say who the parties were. He said
the money was deposited.
Odd he say what bank 1t was in? A.
Yes. sir.
Q.-What was the name Of the bank? A
Omaha National. He said this had been de-
~rtNa ,,t No, Ill
Ollie didn't say who had deposited 1t?
A.-No, sir, he didn't say who had de-
posted 1t.
Odd you talk over with him in regard
to the use you would make of this money
in case you undertook this matter? A.-No,
Q.-You didn't discuss it? A.-No, sir.
Odd he refer to any senators who
were supposed to be favorable to this bill?
A.-No, sir, and no member of the legisla-
ture. either.
Odd you refer to any senator's in your
conversation with him? A.-No, sir, and no
member Of the legislature, either.
Q.-You mean to 'say'that e,said that you
could get $4,000 simply by putting this bill
In motion and watching it until it got
through? A:-By passing the bill. = (
Odd you tell him anything about What
would have to be done in order to. get this
bill passed? A.-No, CTR, he didn't seem to
care about knowing. ~ .
Q.-Simply was going to put 1t into your
hands to do it all? Ayes, sir.
Q.-And this is the bill that did pass?
Alt is as far as 1 can understand. I
haven't compared 1t at all. but from the
reading of 1t it sounds like the identical
bill.
Q.-Did you ever say that this was the
Same Identical bill which was passed? A
No, sir.
Q.-Never said that? A.-No, sir.
@Q.-Never wrote 1t? Al wrote to Cap
tain O'Maliey that senate file No. 331 had
passed, and 1 would Hike to hear from him.
= Q.-Is that all you wrote A.-Well, 1
fs anything else 1 did write l will acknowl-
edge 1t.
Odd you write anything in between
these two letters that you refer to? A
Between the one written at the Oxford
hotel and this?
Q.-Yes. Ayes, I did, too. I told him l
had to give it up, because / couldn't get
anybody to introduce it in that way, which
was the fact; that Is. introduce the bill with
out any money.
Q.-You intimated it would require money
to get it introduced? Al never approached
a single person on the bill at all. Now, l will
show you another thing: l drew up a diff
fereTt. bill, which l had another person try
never introduced, and the only bill that /
handled or tried to have introduced or get
somebody TO introduce. (Referring to bill
marked exhibit "B').
Q.--WUO ulu. introduce II. Al DON'T
know. who it was. He tried to get to intro
duce 1t because I didn't handle it at all. /
gave it to another party to handle.
Q.--Who was that other party? A.--Shall
/ answer that? Now, this bill is almost
identical with the other, except will give
tho exccption-eXcept the reference to the
criminal code sections PA and 215. This
refers to the act and mentions sections
$50 and SSH Of the Consolidated Statutes of
the state Of Nebraska, 1898. and to repeal
said original section; with that exception it
is identically the same thing.
QUESTION OUT.
Senator Murphy, Chairman--Tha Is prac-
tically the same question we decided before.
Senator Ritchie-I understood Mr.. Rigg
said that bill was never introduced?
Rigg-lt never was.
Senator Ritchie-l do not see what figure
that would cut II it was not introduced.
R~iggAThat was the only bill ! ever tried
to or ever gave TO anybody to introduce or
have 1t introduced; that was the bill that
was given to me to have introduced and l
was surprised when j read 331 and read
the title and ali, because ! knew pretty we'll
where 1t came from and everything, but !
hadH't-tried that bill at all.
Q.-You knew where 1t came from? A.
That Is. l thought | knew where 1t came
from. l supposed 1t came from the same
place.
Q.-Do you know who drew the bill that
O'Malley brought you? Al do not; he