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

Mr.. Lloyd was chairman, and the
| contracts made by him? Yes, sir, and
the committee.
Can you state whether or not Mr.
Lloyd was not in favor of Judge King
for senator at the start?
Mr. Brown object to that.
Objection sustained.
Do you know for whom Mr.. Lloyd
has voted? 1 know he has voted fol
Mr.. McCune.
All the time? 1 think so.
B. T. Lloyd sworn. Examined by
Mr.. Dey:
Did you have a conversation with
Mr.. Dunbar at the Templeton hotel
during the early part of the session OF
the legislature? l think so.
Was the subject of the conversation
the payment of certain bills, claims
against the Democratic committee. by
Mr.. MeCune? I believe so.
Mr.. Brown object; it is irrelevant
and immaterial.
Mr.. Dey-I will withdraw it.
Who have you voted for during this
session of the legislature for senator?
A. w. McCune.
All the time? Yes, sir.
CANNON SUDDENLY TAKEN ILL.
John @. Cannon called for, but report
ed sick.
Mr.. Evans statement of what John
@. Cannon would testify to:
Mr.. Evans-Mr. Cannon will state, in
substance, that two years ago, while
the senatorial contest was on and when
Mr.. Moses Thatcher and Hon. j. L.
Rawlins We're being voted for, that
after the contest had warmed up and
some doubt had arisen in the minds of
~ Of lot
and a good many people as to whether
or not either one of them could be
elected, that Mr.. A. w. McCune saw
Mr.. Cannon, or Mr.. Cannon saw him,
and walked from one OF the hotels
around town and up toward the Tenn
pleton, and in the course of their walk
a conversation occurred between them
with respect to the situation as it then
seemed to them. Mr. McCune stated, in
effect, that he thought it was time that
the members of the legislature who
were voting for these candidates should
break up and cease voting for either.
He said he expected to be a candidate
himself and thought he had staid with
his, particular favorite long enough, and
that if the members would leave Raw
Inns and Thatcher and vote for some
body else he thought he could get most
of the RawlinS vote and some of the
Thatcher vote, and what votes he
lacked he said he would buy or could
very easily buy. This is, in substance.
what Mr.. Cannon will testify to. think
this will have a tendency to show that
Mr.. McCune had the disposition to do
the very thing which he is now charged
with doing here.
Mr.. Brown-The charge here specified
is the charge of a distinct act of brib-
cry, and is just as capable of being
separated from other charges as if it
were the charge of a crime; it is a
charge of a crime. This evidence can
not in any way tend to prove Mr.. Laws
statement or to prove that Mr.. McCune
offered him money.
Motion to override objection resulted
in tie. Mansfield absent; called in
and voted to sustain the objection
Objection sustained.
Fred Keller, sworn:
You are connected with The Herald?
Yes. sir; bookkeeper.
You keep the accounts? Yes, sir.
Did you bring with you a statement
of the accounts, showing the losses, if
any, of The Herald for the past four
or five months? No, sir.
Why not?
Mr.. Dey-You were requested to
Objected to by Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Dey-Can you state, Mr.. Keller,
the deficiency or losses for the months
beginning with the month of October
1898, down to the present time?
Objected to by Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Evans-Mr. McCune stated that
the losses were 5000 some months and
s1,500 some. We expect to prove by
this witness that they ran much high
err each month.
Objection sustained.
BYWATER ON THE STAND.
Representative Bywater. called by
the defense and sworn. Examined by
Mr.. Dickson:
You are one of the representatives
here? Yes. sir.
You are acquainted with Representa-
tive Lappish, or Lapish, or whatever
his name is? Somewhat.
Have you had any conversation with
him during the session of the legisla-
ture about a certain invention of his
that he is seeking to have patented?
Yes, sir; l have. He has an applica-
ton for a patent pending.
You may state the first conversation
you had with him on that subject? 1t
was in the house, early in the session.
He came over to my desk and asked
if | was Mr.. Bywater, a railroad man,
and connected with the mechanical de-
partment. l told him L was. He said
he was the inventor of a device an
Improvement on an air brake, an auto
matte air brake. and that when 1 had
time he would like to talk to me about
it, and, if possible, aid him in bringing
it before some of the railroad men of
the city. He said as 1 was a railroad
man, l probably could help him some
in that direction. I told him 1 would
do so at any time that he felt dis
posed. and he said he would like to
have me take it up as soon as I could,
which, subsequently, 1 endeayored to
do.
Did you report that to Mr.. Dunbar;
ever speak of that to him? 1 did.
Did you request him, or suggest to
him, that Mr.. McCune, being a rail-
road man, would probably arrange to
have the master mechanic of the Rio
Grande Western go over there and eX-
anime his device? Not exactly that
way. I can relate what occurred.
Tell how it occurred? After tele-
phoning from the county building here,
and failing to get in communication
with Mr.. Hickey, the master mechanic
of the Rio Grande Western, under
whose Jurisdiction / have been en-
ployed, I went up to the McCune head
quarters and went to the telephone
there, probably an hour afterwards,
and telephoned again. They were busy
again and / failed to get connection.
[ walked through the rooms there and
met Mr.. Dunbar, and remarked that L
had just been telephoning to Mr.
that L had had a conversation
with Mr.. Lapish that morning, and I
says, He has some invention, an air
brake device; / don't know much about
it," He explained it some, but not
very satisfactorily. HE desires me to
endeavor to get the railway men here
somewhat interested" And [ says,
Mr.. McCune is a railroad man. Prob