The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19

Helena, NOV. 18.-lt required just 40
minutes elapsed time to finish up the
Welcome disbarment case this morn
ing 50 far as the evidence is concerned
1t is not likely that a decision will be
rendered by the supreme court for two
or three weeks yet. Both sides are
willing to dispense with making argu-
nents before the court and the court
! was equally willing to get along without
the arguments. But 1t was decided in
stead that each side should submit a
brief, setting forth the points thought
to have been made by each respective
side. The attorney general was granted
one week in which to prepare the brief
for the plaintiff and the defendant is
granted one week from the date OF fill
ing Of the attorney generals brief in
| which to file an answer. The attorney
general Is granted one week from the
| date of receiving the defendants brief
in which to make an answering brief
If he desires to make any. So that il
the full limit of time is taken it will be
three weeks from to-day before the
case is finally before the court for de-
termination. 1t is not likely, however,
that the full time allotted for the pre-
paration Of briefs will be required by
the attorney general, and perhaps not
by the defendant. either.
The proceedings of to-day were very
brief A representative Of the Stand
ard went on the stand to swear that
Senator Hoffman of Madison was sadly
mistaken when he testified that the
Standard, with a full report of the in
vestigating committee and the testi-
mony taken before 1t arrived in Helena
on special train the morning that the
report was made to the legislature in
joint session. The Standard did not
contain the report Of the committee
until the morning after the report was
made to the legislature. The attorneys
for the defense seemed to think that
the witness ought to have a copy of
the paper in question concealed about
his person, but the attorney general
reminded them that file of the Stand
ard could be obtained in the rooms Of
the Historical society. on the floor
above. The attorneys for the defend
ant sent for the file. Attorneys Day
and Corbett examined the file quite at
tentively for a time, but they did not
care to introduce the Standard file in
evidence, nor did they ask any more
questions.
Fred Whiteside was the only other
witness examined. He was on the
stand only a short time in answer to
certain matters brought out by the de-
fense.
Representative Hedges was to have
testified in rgard to some of the pro-
ceedings in the republican caucus and
in regard to remarks made to him by
Representative Hobson, but he did not
arrive in time. He wired that he was
on the train, but the train was two
hours late. The defense offered no re-
buttal testimony. ..r.-
The various legislators who were sub
poenaed by the defense and were in
Helena for the past two weeks did not
go on the stand.
Nearly ali those who have been in
this city the past two weeks in at
during the day.
BY the way, in the Standards report
of John r. Tooles testimony, the pub
lished statement was to the effect that
his business relations with Mr.. DAILY
terminated in 1896 So far the report
was true. But in his testimony Mr.,
Toole added that these relations-in-
he mi,
properties and the like, were resumed
in June of the present year.
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion w. W. Walsworth testified to the
fact that the Anaconda Standard, with
the report of the investigating commit
tee and the testimony taken before it,
did not appear in Helena on the morn
ing that the report was made to the
legislature. These reports were printed
in the Standard the day following.
Fred Whiteside was put on the stand
and said he had never been a Clark
man or Daily man. Mr.. Whiteside said
that in the Anaconda convention he op-
posed the fusion proposition. He had
the leaders opposed to the DAILY faction
meet in his room the night before the
convention and organize to defeat the
Daily faction in its fusion proposition.
He was also member of the demo-
cratic state committe and he voted
against the apportionment proposed by
the Daily faction. Afterwards in order
to moilify the DAILY faction he voted to
have the convention held at Anaconda.
In the convention he opposed the fus-
ion proposition.
Mr.. Whiteside said that he had done
business with the First National bank
of kalispell for number of years and
sometimes owed small amounts Mr..
Peeler was supporter of W. A. Clark