The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
REPRESENTATIVE CARR is
A C0NSUMMATE HUMOR|ST
He Told the Bribery Investigating Committee That His
Statement That He Was Offered Money Was a
Joke-Talked Bounty Claims With Steele-Whit-
more Bought Warmers Land


| that we both fully agree that 1t is
| wrong and should be ended at any cost
| Mr.. DAILY has frequently said - me
| that under no circumstances would
| he contribute any money for any pur-
pose in politics beyond the legitimate
use of money for campaign expenses
in a general way in county and state.
@. Mr.. Toole. has Mr.. Daily given
you any money, or instructed or d.
rected you to use any money in the
interest Of any senatorial candidate, OF
for the purpose of defeating any sen
atorial candidate who may come be-
fore this legislative assembly for cleo.
ton?
@. Has. Mr.. DAILY, with your knowl.
edge, used or expended any money fol
the purpose of electing or defeating any
candidate for the United States sen
ate?
A. No. sir.
@. Has the Anaconda company. OF
any one connected Herewith, used OF
expended any money for the purpose OF
electing or defeating any candidate for
the United States senate?
A. No, sir.
Q. Have the managers of the Ana
conda company, or Mr.. Daily, irt'aliuat-
ed or in any manner threatened or CO.
creed any members of this legislative
dSSeHDly III relation TO lNelF vote Ior
United States senator?
A. No, sir, not to my knowledge.
Q. What connection, If any, have you
with the Anaconda company and the
managers and the different owners
thereof?
A. l have no direct connection. Have
not been an employe of the Anaconda
company for 10 years. I worked at the
Anaconda smelters about two years
whom T frat n IN the ctafa Of
tana, some IA years ago, and since then
I have been contracting and Eining,
sometimes for myself and sometimes in
association with Mr.. Daily.
Q. Where is Mr.. Daily now? Do you
know?
A. I understand he is in New York
city.
Q. Do you know whether or not Mr..
Daily has anybody in the city of Hell
ena for the purpose of electing or de-
feating any candidate for the United
States senate?
A. 1t is probably we'll known that
Mr.. Daily AMI his friends do not desire
the election of Mr. Clark. l will say
for myself aside from any relations [
may have with Mr.. Daily in business
or in any other way, that I do not con-
slider Mr.. Clark or any other man who
makes use of money in attempting to
purchase a seat in the United States
senate fit man for that place.
Q. Mr.. Toole. do you know of any
of the agents of the Anaconda com
pany, or the managers or Mr.. Daly.
using any unlawful means by way of
brides, threats. intimidation or other
wise, towards any members of the
sixth legislative assembly?
A. No, sir s
A Clean, Honest Man.
@. Mr.. Toole, state, if you know,
whether or not Mr.. Daily has any spe-
cial candidate who he is trying to
elect to the United States senate.
A. No, sir. Mr.. DAILY said to me in
talking the matter over, before came
to the city of Helena, that any hon
est, clean democrat that may be cho-
sen by this legislature would please
him; that his view was that a man
should be honest and clean and that
this was all that the people of the state
could expect.
care to, your financial condition and
your general relation to the Anaconda
company and Mr.. DAILY.
A. My general relations to the Ana
conda company and Mr. DAILY are very
friendly. My financial condition is this:
l own house and two lots in the city
of Anaconda. I own 20 half acres Of
land in California. I owe to the bank
in the city of Anaconda an overdraft
of between So, 900 and $4,000. own moth
ing else of particular value
.. Mr.. Toole have you directly or
Indirectly, for yourself or for anybody
else whom you might represent, or
act for, used any threats or intimida-
ton either directly or indirectly to in
fluence the vote of any member of the
sixth legislative assembly?
A. No, sir.
Q. Do you know that any of Mr..
Days friends here are using money in
the interest of any senatorial candi-
| date?
A. TO my knowledge they are not.
@. Are they using money to defeat
any senatorial candidate?
A. To my knowledge they are not.
@. Do you know either directly or in
directly whether Mr.. Whiteside ever
had any conversation with Mr.. Daily
| with reference to the exposure Of brib-
| cry charges?
A. Not to my knowledge I never
heard Mr.. DAILY say word about it.
Q. Mr.. Toole, have you personal
knowledge, or do you know of any one
having directly or indirectly paid to
Mr.. Whiteside any money or other val
liable thing, or made any promises of
| reward, either politically or otherwise
Iof or On account OF the part he has
taken in the exposure of the bribery
charges to which he has testified?
A. No, sir. / feel certain that had
any such arrangement been made with
Mr.. DAILY, I would have known about
it.
Q. Then you both know nothing
either directly or indirectly, and have
| not heard of any proposition of COM
pensation promised, or any valuable
consideration whatever having been
made or offered to Mr.. Whiteside for
or on account of the part he took in
| this matter.
A. No, sir.
Representative Carr.
II. H. Carr being first duly sworn, de.
| poses and says:
| Y. Please state your name, age
residence and occupation.
A. Henry H. Carr; IS years old
| my residence is Columbia Falls, Mont.
my occupation is machinist and loco
| motive engineer.
Q. What official position, il any, d,
you hold in the state of Montana a
the present time?
A. Representative in the sixth leg
| iSlate assembly from Flathead county