The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-06

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my umbrella the asernoon of the hard
rain while she was engaged in putting
water and towels in there for the even
ing, and to my requesting her to put ia
bic in my room on which to do some writ
ing that night, from which remark, heard
by certain ladies' sitting near by at the
time, the gossips started that the lady
with me there that afternoon must be my
stenographer
Judge c. c. Smith, Hawkinsvile, Ga,
who will testify that he visited Indian
Spring the week of the gossip there con
corning me, but was not called there by
me or any one else in connection with
said matter.
Hon J. e. Mercer, Leary. Ga. This
witness may be out west, and not at
home, but / want to show by him that he
was a casual visitor at Indian Spring at
the time of the gossip, and was not called
there by me or my friends that he claim
ed to know G. Faulkner. and the women
there his house and that having talked
to them about the affair, came and urged
me TO write a note of apology for any
remark to them construed by them as
implying improper in connection with
! money and treating, and to pay them
some money which would settle and hush
the matter up, which l refused to do,
apologize and pay for.
Hon j. L. Beach, Brunswick Ga, will
testify l was his guest at the Wigwam
hotel the week of the gossip; that l left
on Friday morning, going to Atlanta, on
my way to Mount Airy; that he wrote
me at the Kimban house, Atlanta, Satur-
day morning, informing me of the gossip;
| that l returned Sunday afternoon, in
quired about it, and, claiming there was
nothing in it, and it could amount to moth
| ing left on Monday for Mount Airy; that
| he talked to G.. Faulkner about it, and
understood he was just trying to make
money out of me as blackmail; that he
| knows the reason of my calling by the
| house of G.. Faulkner, where the women
| in question were staying, being, as claim
| ed by me, to get him some peaches, and
that there was no foundation for any of
the gossip or the Looking Glass article.
Miss Leila Bradley, near Macon, Ga
This is said to be the young lady to whom
1 made some improper remark at the
| spring, or in going from it, and although
not definitely located, is said to live near
| Macon. She will testify that 1 made no
| insulting remark or improper proposal to
| her; that while something was said about
money and treating, L may have referred
| to treating them at the confectionery
! store and bowling alley near the spring,
| if we met there again, and that she re-
fused to be a party to anything being
! said or done about 1t.
publishers of Looking Glass, Atlanta,
| Ca To show the source of their informa-
ton for the article in question, and that
| ii was prompted by a purpose designed I'M
| justly to malign and injure me.
Confidently expecting to establish my
| innocence and the utter falsity of all the
charges made and implied against me in
| the Looking Glass article, and to be fully
and overwhelmingly vindicated, 1 am
very truly yours, j. l.. Sweat,
Judge S. c. b. G.
Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 4, 1897
! Replying to the supplemental charges
made yesterday. Judge Sweat says:
! ITO Hon Thomas B. Fielder, Chairman
! Committee: Dear Sir-In response to no
tice from your committee, l. this day. sub
! mitted a list of witnesses by whom will
| disprove the Indian Spring charges made
| against me by Senator Carter. am now
| advised that Senator Carter has requested
| you to subpoena witnesses by whom he
| homes to sustain other and additional
! charges against me this day and for the
! first time suggested. l submit that while
! the authority and jurisdiction of your
! committee does not extend to the consid-
| Grafton of any charges other than those
! made by Senator Carter in the Senate ana
! transmitted to the House, and which
| charges only your committee is author
! lied to investigated and while it is ike
| wise submitted that your committee mas
! no greater power than that conferred upon
! if by the House resolution, yet, inasmuch,
! as Senator Carter, on this, the last day
upon which it is competent, under the
! order made by your committee to submit
! a list of witnesses by whom he expects 10
| nrove the charges as originally made, has
! seen proper to prefer other and additional
| charges against me, l waive any question
! of YOUR jurisdiction, touching such addl-
! tional charges now specifically made, and
! earnestly request, and in so far as l may
| do so demand in justice to myself, that
| Won subDoena the witnesses now request
| ed bv Senator Carter, to be subpoenaed,
| and that YOU fully and completely invests
! gate the supplemental charges made, and
! mat YOU submit a report thereon to the
| legislature when it reconvenes in Febru-
! airy.
.sIn addition to the witnesses named by
Senator Carter on these supplemental
| charges. I request you to subpoena in my
behalf the following parties, by whom l
will entirely disprove and refute the said
supplemental charges, to-wit: Judge S. c.
! Atkinson. r. D. Meader. John c. Lehman,
! G Downing, 4. H. Lane, II. 7. Dunn, D.
W. K~auss, W. II. Berrie, ]. NJ. Calvan,
Jr, e. Brobston, all of Brunswick, Ga;
r S. Long of Satilia Bluff, near Wood
hine: Capt John Richardson. A. c..
Wright and John j. Randolph of st.
Mary's. all in Camden county. Georgia.
Respoctfully submitted, in Atlanta, Ga,
on this, 4th day of January 1897.
~. L. Sweat.
"Judge Superior Court Brunswick Cir
cult"