The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-03

the stock yards company was willing
to pay for these amendments, and, in
asmuch as had been a poor man all my
life and had done a good deal for the
reform movement, might as well have
some of it.
Odd you enter into any agreement
A.-Nothing more than said I would
see him again
Q.-When did you meet him again?
Am the room of the committee on
fees and salaries a few days after. I
held no conversation with him at that
time.
Q.-When did you next see him?
A.-Several days after in the same
committee room He again said that
the stock yards company were anxious
to have the amendments adopted, and
that the company would pay me $1,000
If would work for the amendments. l
told him I was not sure that the amend
ments were what the people wanted;
that it was a question of right and
wrong, and that / would have to give
this matter mature consideration.
Q.-When did you next see him?
Al saw him again in a few days in
the same committee room. Atthat time
he produced a copy of the house bill,
and said that the stock yards company
would rather have that bill passed than
the house BILL and that could have ST.
600 for working for its passage.
Q.-When did you meet him next?
About 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon in the district apportionment COM
n1ittee room. He told me that the stock
yards company were very DESTROYS of
seeing the Hanna bill pass, and that if
1 would come down on the floor today
and work for the measure, 1 would re-
ceive $1,000. 1 then told him that I
would be frank with him; that 1 was
simply using him to see what was 60
ing on, and that as far as I was con-
cerned the matter was at an end. At
that time Mr.. Tutcher produced a list
of names of members of the senate, who.
he stated, had been fixed, as an argu-
ment towards getting me in line for the
measure. 1 told him that I was in fav-
of the house bill, and he said he
would also be in favor of that bill if 1T
could be passed. but that enough mem
bers had been fixed to defeat the meas
ure.
Q.-What did he say when he left?
Ale asked me not to implicate him
and said he wouldn't inplicate me.
Cross examination of Senator Jumper
by Mr. Wilson developed nothing differ
ent from the direct examination. At
ter he was excused several other wit
nesseS were examined, but their testi-
mony only went to show that Tutcher
had been in the city for some time, and
that he had been seen in the room of
the committee on fees and salaries.
AS the last witness, Attorney General
Boyle called for Mr.. TUtcher, but in
compliance with the notice given by
his counsel, that gentleman refused to
move from his seat or utter a syllable
Mr.. Boyle then announced that the
prosecution was at an end.
Lieutenant Governor Harvey then put
the question:
rs the defendant guilty of con-
tempt?"
On roll call he was convicted by a
vote of % yeas to nays.
When the conviction was declared,
Attorney General Boyle stated that in
asmuch as the defendant was but a
middle man in the proceedings, he
hoped the senate would exercise lenien-
cy in the sentence.
Here Senator Sheldon moved that the
prisoner be reprimanded by the pres
ident and discharged, but Senator Cros-
san Immediately moved to amend the
motion by denying him the privileges of
the senate chamber and all other parts
of the senate and house during the re-
mainder of the legislative session.
The amendment was accepted and
the motion carried unanimously, and
Tutcher was Immediately released from
custody.