The age-herald., 1898-01-22
INVESTIGATING
 BRIBERY CHARGES Session Held by Ohio Legislative Committee at Cincinnati. STEN0GRAPHlC REPORTS Of Conversation Over the Long Distance
 Telephones Were Made. SAID TO BE A MATTER OF RECORD Horace B. R.F [, Manager of the Gib- son lined Last Night. TT. ELL, ATTORNEY FOR OTIS
 Ay
 In I thy Statement, Alleges That H. II. Boyce, Agent For Hanna, Offered Him
 S1,0OO.OO to Act as Middle
 Man With Otis.
Horace B. p.F'f, Manager of the Gib-
 son. lined Last Night.
,LS ! ELL, ATTORNEY FOR OTIS

Cincinnati, Jan. 21.-The legislative com- mttee Investigating the Otis charges of bribery in the recent election of United
 States senator at Columbus, held session
 here tonight and will continue it's sittings tomorrow. The committee came from Co., lumbus today to examine witnesses resid- ing in this city.
 It is charged in the resolutions adopted separately by both branches of the Ohio
 legislature, that H. H. Boyce, of New York, in the Gibson house here few days before
 the balloting for United States senator be-
 gan at Columbus, made a proposition of
 bribery to Representative Otis. The mem-
 bers of the committee and others spent some time early in the evening at the tele-
 phone used by Boyce.
 The Great Southern hotel at Columbus
 (which was the headquarters of the anti-
 Hanna men during the recent contesD was called up, and while the committee was talking in the private office of the Gibson house with parties in Columbus stem | ographer was at the telephone downstairs
 in the hotel office taking off all that was
 said This showed how all of the conver- | sations of Boyce with certain parties in l Columbus were taken down. It is alleged that the conversations were all taken down and are matter of record sH Horace R. Dunbar. Horace B. Dunbar, president and man.
 ager of the Gibson house, was the only
 witness examined tonight. He produced
 his hotel register, showing that Henry II.
 Boyce of New York occupied room 226 from
 Jan. to Jan. 10. MT. Dunbar testified to
 having his suspicious aroused and to the clerks watching Boyce.
 n Tr n clerks, arranged for stenographic report of the conversations Boyce had over the telephone during the day. The night clerk took down the conversations at night. The
 arrangements were always complete for reports of whatever went on over the teie-
 phone wires when Boyce was using them. MT. Dunbar rected many of these con- yersatons over the long-distance telephone In one of them the major was called up | at Columbus and said:
 "Shane and the president would arrange l things on Saturday"
 Boyce replied: Have seen one Of the party. Wants me Friday. How can I handle him?''
 The reply from Columbus was: suppose O. betrays you; what thenY'
 Mir Dunbar said that Boyce replied: NO l no tales.'
 l MT Dunbar testified that Allen Q. My l ers sr.. who was in Columbus one of l the managers against Hanna, was cali I cd rnon Friday night, January 2. by Jer- | ry Bliss, and told of the situation nere l and what Boyce was doing. Myers advis- ad Bliss that A man named Holenbeck would leave Columbus for Cincinnati that fo Watcn- ed On January 8 Hollenbeck registered at the Gibson and was seen to communi-
 cate with Boyce. They watched all the movements of Honenbeck and traced him | to the Union Trust and Savings bank and to the different places of meeting as charged by Representative Otis Dunbar a Democrat. Before departing Boyce told Dunbar if he wanted to win some money to bet on
 Hanna. MT. Dunbar said he was demo- crat, that he was intimately acquainted
 with Allen O. Myers, Charles L. Kurtz, Jared P. Bliss and others who were re- gently engaged in the opposition at Co., lumbus to Senator Hanna. Tomorrow the stenographer clerks and others in the hotel will be examdneds It is announced by the committee that Col. | T. T. Campbell will be called as soon as he I can be reached and that Representative 1 Otis will probably be examined in Co- l lumbus.
 l Pending the negotiations and movements l of Boyce and TIollenbeck in this city, Col | T. T.. Campbell was active as the attorney 1 of Otis In a lengthy statement Col Campbell alleges that Boyce offered him s1 GOO as fee to act as the middle man with Otis.
 In his statement he gives what purports to be the movements of Hollenbeck after he left Schlapp's bank of the conferences Boyce had with him and Otis on differ