The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-01-21

pOluCCu W investigate the same charges,
were invited to be present, but they
did not participate officially and there
will be two separate investigations. ].
j. Sullivan, II. NJ. Daugherty and CYRUS
Huling were present to represent Sem
ator Hanna, Maj. Dick and others.
but the committee voted four to one
against allowing any counsel to par
ticipate.
The committee in executive session
decided not to allow any attorneys
and adopted other rules of procedure.
1t was decided to hold executive SEES
sions for business and to take testi-
mony in public. The committee went
from the committee room to the
senate chamber when it was ready
to call witnesses and a crowd
awaited them. The committee consists
of Senators Robertson, Finck and
Long, democrats, and Senators Burke
and Garfield, republicans. Senator
Burke was one of the leaders of the
opposition to Senator Hanna Senator
Garfield is the only member of the
committee who voted for Hanna, and
the votes taken were four to one
Senator Burke presided and Judge
Robertson examined the witnesses. In
the executive session Judge Robertson
was appointed prosecutor. All mem
bers Of the committee asked questions
except Senator Garfield. There were
four witnesses examined Tuesday night
as follows: Samuel Pentland, proprie-
tor of the Neil house, where Senator
Hanna had his headquarters; Shepherd
M. Dunlap, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Co.; w. L. Truesdale,
manager of the Postal Telegraph Co.;
Frank ?. Ross, manager of the Tele-
phone Co. Nothing new was developed
during the session of four hours. The
witnesses refused to answer some ques-
tions and to produce their books and
copies of messages.
Mr.. Pentland refused to produce his
books to show who paid for rooms at
the Neil house and for other expenses
and was given until Wednesday night
to do so.
Manager Ross wanted to consult his
superior officers before telling who
was connected with the private tele-
phone in the Neil house by their long
time till Wednesday night.
Managers Dunlap and Truesdale
were given till Wednesday night to
produce copies of telegraphic messages
sent and received by the managers for
Senator Hanna.
The investigation will drag along
for some time if no more progress is
made at future sessions than was made
Tuesday night AS the senate stands
10 to II against Hanna with Senator
Burke voting with the democrats, it is
quite probable that there will be some
report adopted in that body to trans
nit to the United States senate. In
the house, the vote is So to So the other
way and the house investigating COM
mittee may do little more than look on
at the senate investigation. Owing to
the majority in the house being diff
ferent in political complexion from
that of the senate, it is
impossible to secure the adoption of
a Joint resolution for an investigation.
The charges are made by Representa-
tive Otis, member of the house, and
the investigation in parliamentary
uSageS would belong to the lower
branch of the legislature, but the fac
tional lines are such as to cause the
senate to investigate the alleged at
tempt to bride member of the house.
The workers in the recent senatorial
contest are keeping up their fight on
the same old lines in the investigation.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. Ex-senator
Burke, chairman of the committee in
vestigating the bribery charges made
by Representative Otis, did not issue
any subpoenas Wednesday for addi-
tiOnal witnesses as expected. He
stated that the committee would be en-
gagged Wednesday night in getting the
hotel proprietors to produce their
books and the telegraph companies to
furnish copies of messages.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2O.-The investi-
cation into the charges of bribery at
he recent election of United States
enator reached a crisis Wednesday
night. No matter what may be the
final result of the investigation. there
will likely be several witnesses ar
rested for contempt. The committee
had seven witnesses subpOenaed for
Wednesday night, but they were not
all examined because none of them
would testify.
The senate committee Tuesday night
. examined Samuel Pentland, Frank P.
Ross, w. E. Truesdale and Shepherd
M. Dunlap, who then asked to confer
with their attorneys and were excused
till Wednesday night for that purpose.
When they appeared Wednesday night
they said their attorneys held
that the senate had no jurisdic-
ton in the investigation of the
alleged bribery of a member of
the house and had advised them not
to answer any further questions be-
fore the committee. They all followed
the advice of their attorney, as did Mr..
Hollenbeck, who was not on the stand
Tuesday night. When the committee
ound that the advice of attorneys was
being followed uniformly by all wit
nesses called, the open session was
closed and the committee went into
avecutive session on DlanS for further