Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-15

More Witnesses Summoned Before
the Grand Jury.

the Grand Jury.
| FRANKFORT, KY, April 14.-Before tn,
! joint legislative session convened today i
was learned that the grand jury had decided
| to go deeper into the bribery charges anC
would devote another day to the nvestige
| ton. Then the legislature will act. Reso
| lutions were read today Tor an investigation
| Deputy Sheriff Sullivan served another Ions
| list of Witnesses among them the woman
| who says she saw DR.. Hunter go into thu
| Gaines residence, the member who says h
! saw him enroute there, an official who Ii
| said to fave begun the negotiation with
| Gaines and another whose name has never
| been mentioned. The question of the elig
bility as a juror of the republican who Is
said to be opposing indictments is said alsC
to be up before the jury.
Before the balloting began the Blackburn
democrats asked that the absentees be called
| and answer present" as did the boltns
| republicans, showing they had made up theil
minds to vote on all roll calls. The com,
pleted roll call showed present 1874; six pairs
and sixty-three necessary to a choice.
There were no material changes on The
thirty-sixth ballot, which gave Hunter 61
Blackburn A; Martin, 12; Boyle, 6; Stone,
necessary to choice, 63.
There was no motion to adjourn and the
thirty-seventh ballot begun. Again there
was no change and the ballot was a copy
A deputy sheriff arrived at the capitol at
II o'clock armed, with subpoenas for Rep
resentatiye Clark, one OF the anti-Hunter
men, and half dozen newspaper correspond
ents. II was also stated that a subpoena
had been issued for Mayor Todd of Louis
vile. who has been in Frankfort a good
deal of the time endeavoring to assist DR..
Hunter. hut the deputy was unable to find
Mr.. Todd. II was stated that John w.
Gaines, father OF Captain Noel Gaines, who
brought the charges of bribery against
Hunter, had been summoned before the
grand jury and that he would swear that
one of the most prominent men in Louisville
had offered him money With which to buy
votes for Hunter.
At the beginning of the Thirty eighth bal
lot IL was observed that the vote of Hunter
81, opposition SO, left the latter exactly
strong enough to win. All stuck to first
choice on the third ballot for the day.
During the fourth ballot the gold dem
ocrats said that they would not propose an
adjournment till the republicans asked for
II and the republicans said they would never
ask for 1t. There was no material change
In the vote. Sandwiches and other refresh
ments were ordered.
During the sixth ballot Representative
Lyons, the Hunter leader, went over to Sen
ator Clarke and began talking to him. Clarke
asked him some question. Lyons answered
him facetiously and Clarke jumped up and
started to knock him down. Lyons jumped
back and Clarke was caught by members
around him. The lieutenant governor called
to SergeaIt-at-Arms Summers, saying:
ARREST those men at once"
Summers took him at his word and pulled
Lyons along toward the wall, when mutual
friends explained that Lyons did not intend
to make trouble. When the roll call was
done Mr.. Goehel said some confusion had
resulted because OF the "scrap" and he
wanted a recapitulation OF tho vote. which
showed no material change
Senator Bronston moved a recess till to-
morrow noon. The republicans voted mo"
and the gold democrats helped them to de-
feat the motion.