The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-25
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MORE RHCALCITRANTS FOUND BY
THE OHIO SENATE COMMITTEE.
Allen o. Myers. However, Was Not in
owing of Hanna's Friends.

CINCINNATI, o., Jan. A.-The legisla-
tive committee tonight closed it's investiga-
ton 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 wit
nesses have been examined here since last
Friday, most of them bJng employees of
the Gibson House, of telegraph and tele
phone companies and of the Union Saw
ings and Trust Company. Jared p. Bliss,
Allen o. Myers, ST., and E. II. Archer were
the principal other witnesses. They re-
turned to Columbus tonight with the COM
mittee. The attorneys and three members
of the House committee also returned. AS
the evidence of Representative John c.
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 witnesses refused to testify
because their attorneys advised them that
a Senate committee has no jurisdiction in
investigating charges made by a member
of the House. The employees of President
Schmidlapp's bank and Hon. Harry NJ
Daugherty, chairman of the Republican
state central committee, to-day declined to
either be sworn or to answer questions be-
cause the committee had no jurisdiction.
When II. II. HOllenbeck was en- route from
Columbus to Cincinnati Jan. he received
a dispatch signed II. d. and the COM
mittee asked Mr.. Daugherty if he sent that
dispatch. Mr.. Daugherty declined to answer
questions and continued to argue the ques-
ton of jurisdiction till he was excused sub
ject to call for punishment for contempt.
When Manager Page, of the Western
Union, was asked to produce the II. D."
dispatch and other messages, he said the
company now had none of its messages as
far back Jan. 10. And he did not know
whether they had been taken across the
river to their Office in Covington and New
port. KY, or sent to New York, or where
they were. Chairman Burke announced that
as soon as the committee was through with
ali the willing witnesses proceedings would
at once he begun to bring all of the UNI
willing witnesses before the bar of the SEN
ate for punishment for contempt.
Allen .. Myers, Sr. was the first witness
before the committee to-day. He was at
the Great Southern Hotel, in Columbus Jan.
Z where Mr. Kurtz and others opposing
senator Hanna were then stopping. His
son, Allen .. Myers. jr., clerk at the Glib
son House, in Cincinnati, called him up that
night and told him of Boyces movements
The next day his son reached Columbus
with copies of stenOgraphic reports of
Boyces talks from Cincinnati over the tel
ephone with the Hanna headquarters in Co
lumbus. As the matter pertaned to Repub-
Means, he turned 1T all over to Kurtz and
introduced his son to him. Kurtz told
Myers that Hollenbeck would go to Cincin-
natl with money. Myers detailed the
shadowing of Hollenbeck from Columbus to
Cincinnati :, and back. also the carriage
drives of Boyce about Columbus.
The testimony of Myers caused quite a
stir, especially when he became very angry
on the ss-examination by Senator Gar
field. He denied that he was ii party to
any conspiracy in getting up the Boyce-
Honenbeck story about the bribery of Rep
resentative Otis. Mr. Garfield told the wit
ness he need not reply to anything that
would incrminate himself Myers became
Intensely enraged, and Chairman Burke mad
difficulty in proceeding with the inquiry
y. III. Archer of Columbus, deputy state
railway commiSsioner, testified to follow
ing II. II. Hollenbeck from Columbus 10
Cincinnati and pointing him out to Bliss
and the detectives at the depot. Archer
testified rapidly. without questions being
asked. He told about ''shadowing' Hollen-
beck from the Neil House to the Columbus
depot. watching his movements on the train
and even in his berth all night. Hollenbeck
carried his valse to the toilet room 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 con-
ductor along the route. The rest of Arch
Cincinnati and Columbus that had been COW
cred by the witnesses last Saturday. Arch
other Republicans in seeking the defeat of
Hanna that he was not employed as a de-
tective. but had worked for weeks for the
Harry NJ. Daugherty, chairman of the Re
publican state executive committee, was
called but refused to be sworn because he
claimed the committee had no jurisdiction
in the Otis case. He had, as legal counsel
so advised other witnesses, and would fol-
low that advice himself. He was asked if
he sent the telegram signed 'B. D. TO Hol-
lenbeck, while he was on the train, but he
refused to answer this question, and all
others put to him, on the ground that the
committee had no jurisdiction.
Archer on being recalled testified that
T. J. Mulvihill, one of the Democratic lead
ers against Hanna, was also on the train
with Hollenbeck. Archer got Hollenbeck' s
kilograms and Mulvihill answered them.
signing Hollenbeck's name TO messages sent
to Major Dick Hanna's manager.
Detective Miller was recalled to explain
the telephone talks of Boyce and others
with Major Rathbone and others at Han
mas headquarters. Miller had four men be-
sides himself "shadowing'' Boyce and HOl-
lenbeck Detective Siessinger followed Hol-
Boyce back. The trail was lost in Column
bus, Boyce and Holenbeck only stopping
there between trains
f. b. VOORHEES,, vice president and director
OF the Union Trust and Savings Bank was
called. but refused to be sworn because his
attorney, j. w. Warrington, advised him
that the committee had no Jurisdiction.
While Mr.. VOORHEES, said he declined to an
swer questions, ne was kept on the stand
a long time. Many questions We're asked
sent Jan. and and about Cashier Caylor
coming to him regarding II. II. Hollen-
beck's credit VOORHEES, refused to state
whether he knew, or met, or ever received
notes or letters from Hollenbeck. He re-
fused to state whether Cashier Caylor came
to him with Holienbeck and whether the
latter had an order or draft for $4,000 or
any amount.
Rudolph Koehler, cashier of the Union
Trust and Savings Bank refused to be
sworn and declined to answer questions
He said President Schmldlapp was absent
Jan. and 8. He saw Vice President Voor-
heis on those dates. but refused TO answer
any questions about Hollenbeck. on the adj
vice of Vice President VOORHEES,. He de-