The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24


A. 1t has not.
Q. And what evidence of an indebted
ness do you hold?
A. l think Mr.. Green holds some evi-
dence, but do not. The letter was a re-
quest to Mr.. Green and not to me.
.; Previous to that you had given $500,
had you not?
A No. sir.
Q. Did you have any knowledge of 5000?
ever
Q. Did you draw check or give money
to any other Assemblyman upon the re-
quest of Mr.. Green?
A. did not give this to Mr.. Wright
either. l gave this to Mr. Green, and he
did as he pleased with it, and I did not
give any money to any Assemblyman
whatever.
in any legislative district 1 mean con-
tribute to any?
A. The only contribution that I made
was for the election of Governor Gage
outside of my contribution to Mr.. Green.
Q. That was to the State Central Com
mittee?
A; No; to my county committee.
The .chairman-Before you leave that
line of questions about the letter. want
to ask question.
Mr.. Mellick-All right.
The chairman-You dropped remark,
1 think, that Mr.. Mellick did not catch
to the effect that there was in this letter
a promise to repay-the $3.50. Am 1 right
| about that?
A. That is my recollection.
Mr. Mellick-No, did not catch that.
The chairman-But you read the letter?
newspapers at the time, and L read the
letter and threw it down on the desk and
went on reading the paper, but 1t is my
recollection that he promised to pay it
back. / thought he promised to pay 1t
back as soon as he came back to town,
but I did not see him again for a long
time, and of course l did not expect it. L
thought he may have perhaps paid it back
to Mr.. Green,
Q. You do not know whether he has
paid 1t to Mr.. Green or not?
A. l see in the paper that he has not
paid it back, but otherwise 1 know moth
ing about 1t.
Mr.. Mellick-You expected Mr.. Wright
to vote for you, did you not?
A. hoped he would.
@. And what was the hope built upon?
A. Well, it was built upon the fact that
| saw him personally at Mr.. Green's Of
flee and because he was extremely pleas
ant to me personally. He took pains
when he saw me to talk to me and on one
occasion he said that my only competitor
pected to be pledged-to give a pledge to
his constituents before he could get
through the campaign that he would not
vote for Mr.. de Young. Otherwise [ had
not any promise from him whatever.
Q. He never gave you any promise of
any kind?
The chairman-Did Mr.. Green, with your
knowledge and consent, at any time spend
any of your money with the understand
ing that a pledge or promise or under
standing should be entered into with any
of the legislative candidates for the. AS
sembly or the Senate? That in consider
alton of that money they should vote for
you as United States Senator?
Q. Did you ever instruct Mr. Green
other than your instructions that his eX-
penditures should be legitimate, that he
should not pledge any person to vote for
you to whom he gave financial aid in your
race?
A. No, I never did.
Q. Well, that is for the purnose Of get
ns a the o9 Of YOU your cdnsder
Grant, as being illegitmate for Mr..
Green to expend your money in such
he assisted with it pledge to vote for
you as United States Senator, if they
were elected?
O. And then, when you instructed him
that the expenditures of your money
should be Legitimate, you meant to in
pledges by the use of your money?
Mr.. Burnett-Did you instruct him to
A. No; / did not. I instructed him to
use only legitimate means in my cam
O. What do you mean by legitimate
A. Well, this case that I speak of, where
this gentleman went about the State max
ing Republican talks. I think that was
perfectly legitimate. ! think it would be
legitimate to pay the hack hire of an AS
semblyman to take him about on his cam
paign to make speeches. | do NOT know
that I ever figured out just what was le
gitimate, but I certainly would not think
it was legitimate to pledge a man in re-
turn for any favor | granted him.
Q. If l remember Mr. Green's testimony
correctly he testified that when he hand
ed you-that you were in his office at San
Francisco when he received this letter
from Mr.. Wright asking for loan of
$3.50; that he handed the letter to you
and said that 1t was all right whereupon
you drew your check for $780, That is
Mr.. Green's testimony.
A Well, that is what I testified to ex-
actly, except I did not remember whether
it was the same day or the next day that
he told me that was all right
O. The question that want to ask here
is what you understood by "All right"
when Mr.. Green said that was all right.
What did you understand? What did that
convey to you?
A. We'll. it was perfectly safe to lend
the man the money-Mr. Wright,-I had
seen him good many times. OF course,
/ did not know much about his past his
tory, but he looked like man worth
Q. How much did your campaign for
United States Senator cost you, Mr..
A / have not figured it out
Q. Well, in what way did you advance
the money TO your agent!
A. By checks.
@. On what bank?
A. Well, on the First National, I think,
in San Diego.
@. Well, between what days? Did YOU
advance him money in any other way ex-
cept by checks on the First National?
A. / think one day l drew a check on
the First National and got the money
myself and handed it to him. but it was
a check on the First National. That was
check for 5000.
O. Was that the only check you drew
in that way?
A 1t is the only one I recall yes.
@. Can you tell the committee approxi-
mately how much money you advanced
Mr.. Green?
A. No; l cannot.
O. When do you expect Mr.. Green to re-
port to you?
A. AS soon as ever this campaign is
over; as soon as ever a Senator is elected
and he will have a chance to rest up a
little bit.
Q. Your bank account, suppose, would
show the amount that you advanced to
Mr.. Green, would 1t not?
A. Yes, sir.
O. Well did you advance any money to
any other agent, say Mr.. Brown?
A I never advanced any money at ALL
except to or through Mr.. Green. I never
gave Mr.. Brown any checks.
O. Did you keep press copies Of your
letters to Mr.. Green?
8. Did you preserve any of Mr.. Green's