The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-01

before the year had ended, with tn,
number of biographies that there wer,
TO write? Well, to be candid with you
did.
You were aware of the number O
| biographies that had been provided
! Yes. sir.
You think I was overpaid, do you
/ Tor the work? No; do not, but thinl
/ you were very we'll paid for the worl
YOU did, because ] understood the worl
was not completed yet. If the worl
had been completed, / think you would
have done it at very reasonable fig
ure for the 81. 400, but 1 think you told
me the work was only about two third:
completed, and 1 think that you re-
ceived very good compensation for The
work you did
Are You surprised that I did not com
plete the work, knowing the amount
/ of work there was on hand? No, sir.
Did you know that / had solicited
biographies from Judge King and
President William ]. Kerr of Logan.
No, sir.
You do not recognize any impropri-
ETY. in nay asking them for biographies
/ do you? Not if you want to ask them
You know they have no plates in
the history? No, sir
Mr.. Evans-You made mention of the
group of congressman? Yes. sir.
Didn't you discuss also educational
men? l think not; / don't remember.
ASKED KING AND CANNON.
BY Mr.. Howells-In mentioning your
group of congressman that you had in
mind, you mentioned among the lot
A. w. MeCune-he is the only man
who was candidate for the senate,
as belonging to your group?
Mr.. Whitney, asked Judge King,
also, and Senator Cannon.
Mr. Howells-The congressman?
Mr.. Whitney-They were, both candi-
dates before the legislature.
Mr.. Rowells-I mean of men who had
never been in congress and who were
prospective candidates.
Mr.. Whitney, viii answer by saying
that I thought that very probably Mr.
McCune might be elected to congress
but even if he We're not he was promi-
nent enough as a mining man and rail-
road man to entitle him to place in
the biographies.
Mr.. Howells-But not in the congress
sional group.
Mr.. Whitney-Not unless he was
elected, of course.
LAPISH'S STORY EXPLAINED.
D. C. Dunbar, being recalled as a wit
ness in behalf of the defense, testified
as follows:
Direct examination by Mr.. Dickson:
Mr.: Dunbar, are you acquainted with
Mr.. Lapish, representative? Yes, sir.
Did you meet him at McCune head
quarters at any time? Yes, sir, several
times.
Did you ever have any talk with him
there about an invention that he had ?
Yes, sir.
In which an application for a patent
was pending in Washington? Yes, sir.
Did you in that conversation say to
him that-speaking of that inven-
ton
MIR. Evans-I think you ought to ask
him the questions.
Mr.. Dickson-I am going to ask him
the direct question and then ask him
to state all that was said
State all that was said? Did I I'M
deIstand there was question asked?
Go ahead and tell everything you
know about that conversation. This
conversation occurred early in the SEN
ato1ial contest. l am not sure whether
it was not Immediately after the begin
ming of the balloting or about the time.
Representative Bywater came up from
the house one afternoon and said to me
that he had a conversation with Mr.
Iapish regarding an invention of his;
he said Lapish had spoken to him
about it, he being a railroad man, and
had suggested that he, Bywater. take
him over TO some of the railroad peo-
pie; he suggested to me or asked me
whether I thought it prudent and
proper that Mr.. McCune should tele-
phone over to the master mechanic Of
one of the railroads to meet Mr.. Lapish
here and look over this invention or
col m h mn n
be decidedly imprudent, in my judg-
ment, while there might not be any
thing misconstrued in it, there might
be a construction placed on it that
would rather tend to show that we were
trying to interest Mr. Lapish in some
manner or other"
JACKSONIAN CONSTRUCTION.
Sort of a Jacksonian construction?
Yes; so Mr.. Bywater dropped it;
didn't speak to Mr.. McCune about it;
my judgment was it wasn't the proper
thing for him to do When Mr. Lapish
came up, 1 think the next evening, or
shortly after this conversation, 1 asked
him TO discuss the senatorial question
with me; ! said 1 hadn't had an OPP
portunity of talking to him of the sena-
torial question. He brought up the
virtues of Judge Powers, and couldn't
understand why and others were not
supporting him. He made some OBJ
jections to Mr.. McCune, all of
which l tried TO answer, and
during the conversation, mere
incident to the conversation
in which he was referring to Mr.. Nc
Cune-a suggestion that perhaps Mr..
McCune was using money or financial
influence in some way; 1 said to him,
Mr.. Lapish' having in mind the con-
versation with M. Bywater l had had
with hin-''to show how prudent and
careful we have been in all these mat
ters,' said, "a friend Of yours, who is
as honest a man as there is in the
legislature, suggested to me the other
day the propriety of having Mr.. Nc
Cune send for the master mechanic of
one of the railroads here with a view
of looking over your invention, and
said to him 1t Wouldn't be wise or
prudent, and ! objected to it, and
never spoke to Mr.. McCune about it."
Further along in the conversation [
asked him what his patent was; I
said 1 didn't get much of an idea from
Mr.. Bywater, and 1 didn't know
1 could tell the committee very
much now about it; it was some con-
nection to an air brake, or something
of that sort, and ne told me that it
was pending in Washington, and dur
ing that conversation, in which he re-
ferred to the tendency of this patent
in some relation in Washington, he
made some insinuation, or reference,
that Mr.. McCune, perhaps. was a man
who wouldn't take much interest with
people living away out here, unless
they were distinguished people; that
is. intimating to me that Mr.. MeCune
might not pay attention to details and
the interests of his constituents. said,
Mr.. Lapish, l want to say to you, sir,
that l have known Mr.. McCune all my
life; / want TO say to you that if he is
elected United States senator, there
isn't anything that you want in Wash
ington attended to, or any other con-
no matter how poor or hum