Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-11
N0LANS CASE
IS CLOSED
In the Welcome DiSbar-
ment Proceedings.
THE FINANCIAL STANDING
Ut Representatives After Election
Was Not Allowed to be Ad-
mitted as Testimony.
THE FINANCIAL STANDING
Special to the Inter Mountain.

opNNiat " lte Inter Mtutlldlu.
Helena. Mont, Nov. 1.-THE Welcome
dlsbarnlent proceedings came to an ab-
rupt termination this morning so far as
the attorney general is concerned. He
rested his case before he had examined
a number of witnesses he had called to
testify as to the discrepancies before
and after the senatorial election in the
financial standing Of certain members
who voted for Clark. This was brought
about by the court sustaining the objec-
ton of counsel for the defense to the
evidence introduced as to the tinan-
cial standing of Representative Nc
Laughlin before anw after the election.
The attorney general had offered in
evidence copies of mortgages exc
cuted by Mclaughlin and their suisse
quent releases. After long by
respective counsel during which many
intricate points We're debated the court
ruled the evidence out. This made
the Introduction of other evidence along
those lines of no avail. Nolan accord
ingly said he had nothing more to offer.
He subsequently made an offer Of proof
as to what he could show relative to the
financial standing of Senators Hobsoi,,
Tierney and Geiger, simply making the
offer to which counsel objected and the
court will pass upon the points after ar
gument Monday. The Tierney offer
was eventually withdrawn when court
adjourned.
Last night it took under advisement
the adnissibility of the evidence of
Banker Berendes of Boulder as to Sem
ator Warmers account upon a certain
date. This morning the question was
Placed in a different shape by Berendes
being asked if he had transaction with
! Warner in 1898. He said he had loaned
him $500 the latter part of November.
The following January the senator had
$4,000 on deposit, some of which had been
deposited in 81 600 bills. No cross exam
i%nation.
The attorney general then offered in
evidence the mortgages executed by Rep
resentative Mclaughlin to the Missoula
Mercantile company dating as far back
as 1896, aggregating several thousand
dollars; also the release of said mort
cages filed Dec, 81. He claimed this
showed a sudden acquisition of wealth.
Welcomes counsel made extended argu-
ments again the admissibility of the evil
dtnce. At the conclusion of argument
the court announced that it would sus-
tain the objection. The attorney general
said that he had other evidence of The
same character but in the light Of the
courts decision he would not offer it and
therefore rested his case.
Mr. Wallace called Senator Myers to
the stand and asked him a number of
questions relative to his evidence before
the joint investigating committee as COM
pared With his evidence before the grand
jury.
Mr.. Wallace, addressing the court, said
that he presumed the court would hear
arguments Monday upon the motion to
strike out portions of the Anderson and
Myers testimony relating to the alleged
offer to Stiff and in fact all evidence in
which it was not shown the accused was
directly connected and in which the ele-
ments of time and place were issues. Tn.