Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-25
Garfield Told Him He Needn't
Incri.ninate Himself.
DAUGHERI REFUSED TO E,TIFY.
Other Witnesses Also Would Not Answer
Questions In the Senatorial Bribery In
vestigation Hearing = The Committee
Returned to Columbus.

committee mas closed It's 1nNeStlgaG1On
in this city of the Otis charges of
bribery in the recent election of United
States senator. The senate committee
will continue it's work at Columbus.
Thirty witnesses have been examined
here since last Friday, most of them
being cmpolyes of the Gibson House, of
telegraph and telephone companies and
of the Union Savings and Trust COM
pany. Jared 2. Bliss, Allen O. Myers,
Sr., and E. II. Archer were the prin-
cipal other witnesses. They returned to
Columbus with the committee. The at
torneys and three members and house
committee also returned.
As the evidence of Representative
John G. Otis and of Colonel Thomas c.
Campbell will be very lengthy, they
were not called here, but Mr.. Otis will
likely be the next witness at Columbus.
At Columbus last week several wit
nesses refused to testify becauee their
attorneys advised them that a senate
committee has no jurisdiction in inves-
tigating charges made by member of
the house. The employees of President
Schmidtapp's bank and Hon. Harry NJ.
Daugherty, chairman of the Republican
stata central committee, declined either
to b. sworn OF to answer questions be-
cause the committee had no jurisdiction
When Manager Page of the Western
Union was asked to produce the s'H.
d. dispatch and other messages, lie
said the company now had none of Their
messages as far back as Jan TO- And
he did not know whether they had been
taken across the river to their offices in
Covington and Newport, KY, or sent to
New York, or where they were. Chair
man Burke announced that as soon as
the committee was through with all the
willing witnesses that proceedings
would at once be begun to bring all of
the unwilling witnesses before the bar
of the senate for punishment for con-
tempt.
Allen o. Myers testified that he was at
the Great Southern hotel in Columbus,
Jan. Z, where Kurtz and others opposing
Senator Hanna were then stopping. His
son, Allen o. Myers, Jr., clerk at the
Gibson House in Cincinnati, called him
up that night and told of Boyce's move
ments. The next day his son reached
Columbus with copies of stenographic
reports of Boyce's talks from Cincinnati
over the telephone with the Hanna
headquarters in Columbus. AS the
matter pertained to Republicans, he
turned all over to Kurtz and introduced
his son to him. Kurtz told Myers that
Hollenbeck would go to Cincinnati with
money.
Myers detailed the shadowing of Hol-
lenbeck from Columbus to Cincinnati
and back, also the carriage drives of
Boyce about Columbus. The testimony
of Myers caused quite stir, especially
when he became very angry ON the
cross examination by Senator Garfield.
He denied that he was a party to any
conspiracy i'll getting up the Boyce-Hol-
lenbeck story about the attempted bri-
berry of Representative Otis. When
Senator Garfield told witness he need
not reply to anything that would in
criminate himself, Myers became in
tensely enraged and Chairman Burke
had difficulty i'll proceeding with the in
quiry.
E. H. Archer of Columbus, deputy
state railroad commissioner, testified to
following H. H. Hollenbeck from Co
lumbus to Cincinnati, and pointed him
out to Jerry Bliss and the detectives at
the depot
Archer testified rapidly without ques-
tions being asked. He told about the
House to the Columbus depot, watching
his movements on the train and even in
his berth at night Hollenbeck carried
his valise to the toiletroom with him
and wherever he went. Hollenbeck
took his valise with him into an upper
berth. He did not undress in the sleeper
and received messages in care of the
conductor along the route. The rest of
Archer S testimony covered the shadow
ing in Cincinnati and Columbus thai
had been covered by the witness last
Saturday.
Archer said he was volunteer with
Kurt and other Republicans in seeking
the defeat of Hanna, that he was not
employed as detective, but had worked
for weeks for the good of the cause.
Harry NJ. Daughtery, chairman of the
Republican state executive committee,
was called, but refused to be sworn be-
cause he claimed the committee had no
jurisdiction III the Otis case. He had
as legal counsel SO advised other wit
nesses and would follow that advice
himself. He was asked if he sent the
telegram signed III. D. to Hollenbeck
while he was on the train, but he re-
fused to answer this question and all
others put to him, on the<sround that
the committee had no jurisdiction.
Archer, on being recalled, testified
that f. J. Mulvihill one of the Demo-
cratic leaders against Hanna, was also
on the train with Hollenbeck. Archer
and Mulvihill, got Hollenbeck's tele-
grams, and Mulvihill answered them,
signing Hollenbeck's name to messages
sent to Major Dick, Hanna's manager.
Detective Miller was recalled to ex.
,,laiu the talnDhone talks IF Rovca and