The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-26
WILL Be UP AGAINST IT
w. A. Clark Must Answer the
e. Ugly Bribery Charges.
AFTER HOLIDAY RECESS
Senate Committee Propose to Give the
Matter Thorough Investigation-Mr.
Boyce Castigates J. L. Kennedy
OF the Industrial Commission.
Washington Bureau of the Standard.
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Washington, Dec. 23.-As soon as he
holiday recess is over Senator William
A. Clark will be up against it, and the
United States senate committee on
privileges and elections will begin
thorough hearing of the testimony re-
lating to the debauching of the Mon
tana legislature. There is much inter
est in the case in Washington, ana "a
New York and other Eastern neWspa-
pers have been giving it a great deal
of attention. 1t cannot be said that
the comments have generally been
complimentary to Montana, and they
certainly have not been fiattering to
MI. Clark. The figures which have
been given as forming the per capita
basis on which Mr.. Clark secured the
Montana legislature have rather stag
gered the newspaper commentators
Ihey are far beyond all previous sug-
gestlons of compensation in the various
financial arrangements that have pre-
vailed in senatorial elections in other
states. All Of the newspaper comment
has been distinctly in favor of a rigor-
Gus inquiry into the charges, and this
Is known to be the sentiment of a ma
jority Of the senate. Therefore there
cation by the committee will be long
and thorough, and that MANY wifi
nesses will be summoned from Mon
tana. probably nearly all that have
peen heard In the Whiteside and Well
come cases, and presumably some new
ones. The summoning of witnesses
will be entirely in the hands of the
committee, which will determine who
shall come, and which will pay the
expenses of witnesses and their per
,t,i11 10
for Mr.. Clark's representatives to as
sert that they are brought here at the
instance of any individual personally
hostile to him.
The committee in charge of the in
vestigation is composed of able and
experienced men, embracing among its
members several able lawyers and
some who have had eminent expert
ence on the bench. That there will be
careful, complete and satisfactory in
Yestlgat1on goes without saying. 1t
would of course be something unusual
for the senate to unseat one of its
members on other than partisan
grounds, but there are many reasons
for believing that Mr.. Clark's repre-
sentatives will find that there is a great
deal Of difference in the composition
of the United States senate and of spe-
cially selected grand juries in Lewis
and Clarke county.
John B. Welcomes visit to Washing
ton was only flying one While here
he had several conferences with Sena-
tor Clark and the latter's counsel and
private secretary. He has now de-
parted and his whereabouts are not
more clearly stated than that he is Gin
Mexico, managing some coffee planta-
tons" that he is supposed to own in
partnership with the senator This
rather indefinite disappearance leads to
the following paraphrase of an ancient
verse by Mother Goose:
Little grains of Coffee,
y Great big bags of Dough,
Wary of his welcome, t'sE5'
Where did Welcome go?''
Wherever he has gone Brother Well
come is undoubtedly within easy reach
of hot wire announcing that he is
needed in Washington to transact
some more business for the best client
he had while he was in active practice
in Montana.
The senate has had printed as
public document a letter in which
President Edward Boyce of the Western
Federation of Miners has castigated J.
l.. Kennedy, a member of the United
States Industrial Commission. In this
document Mr. Boyce takes a few falls
out of MIR. Kennedy for sentiments ex-
pressed by the latter in an interview
published upon his return from the
western trip of the commission. This
interview, which appeared at the time
in the Standard, took radical posi-
ton against the Western Federation of
Miners and the union miners of Shes
hone county. In Mr.. Boyce's letter he
attacks Kennedy with characteristic
vigor. He says the commissioner is "a
traitor to the cause Of organized labor"
and "a degraded political turnkey will
ing at all times to sell his manhood
for soft job" He characterizes him
as Benedict Arnold for branding the
union miners of Shoshone county as
murderers and lauding their oppressors
for their tyranny. He adds that the
whole Kennedy interview is false. ly-
Ing ana malicious and says that Ken
1edy ought to be condemned by every
labor organization and labor paper in
the country. "Workingmen can easily
imagine" continues Boyce, chow much
confidence they can place in man
whose principles can change with such
lightning-like rapidity to enable him to
obtain lucrative position under any
political party. In his lying interview
Kennedy quotes Senator Shoup and ex-
Senator Dubois as being well satisfied