The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25

services independently of your actual
! expenses? l do not.
Not a cent? Not a cent.
And you would receive it If he were
to offer it to you? ! would not.
You would not? L would not take it
from Mr.. McCune.
So that your services are purely out
of friendship, and nothing else? My
services are purely out OF friendship,
and nothing else: yes, sir.
And you feel that you can afford 10
leave a lucrative business and engage
in business for couple Of months Tor
d man without receiving any consider
alton whatever from him, do you? No;
l don't feel that l can afford to, but |
do many things 1 cannot afford to, Mr..
Evans.
1t has not been demanded, you say?
II was not that night; ! have talked Of
leaving since then, and have been ash
ed not to-
Who asked you not to? Mr.. Harris
has urged me not to leave.
Has Mr.. McCune said anything to
you about it? I don't recollect; my i'm
preston is that he has asked me to
stay, but l am not sure that 1 ever
put the matter of my leaving TO him.
Now, what do you mean by saying I
had not been your friend in the way
you said McCune had been? l meant
just exactly what ! said, Mr.. EvaEs
that I had received commissions on
business through Mr.. McCune. which
have not received through you.
\ DRIVE AT EVANS.
Well, do you regard me as being cap
able of being able to furnish the vol
ume of business Mr.. McCune is? 1 vas
not discussing the volume; l was not
discussing a matter of quantity; it vas
have had no evidence from you at
all.
Mr.. Thurman object to Mr.. Evans
and Mr.. Sloan working W the insur-
ance business here
The Chairman-The objection is sus-
tanned. Proceed.
You say that on Tuesday night. after
the dinner at the Vienna hotel l will
not ask you in that way. Mr.. Law went
with McCune to the Vienna restaul ant,
didn't he? l don't know.
Well, thought you stated that they
did go a little ahead of you? l said
that they we're in there ahead of me.
Then you don't know how long they
had been there before you came? Not
exactly; 1 have fair idea. though.
How do you have fair idea? Be
cause | went in, and they invited me to
the table with them, and l gave my
order to the waiter, and he had Just
taken theirs.
AT all events, they were in there some
time before you came, because they
were sitting there? Yes. sir.
You don't know the length of time
they had been there? No, sir.
Nor what they said while they were
together there? No, sir; not before l
went in there.
You say at that conversation the sill
yer question was spoken Of? Yes, sir.
And Mr.. Law discussed it somewhat?
Yes. sir.
What arguments did Mr. McCune use
in favor of it. Well, when Mr.. Law
talks it is hard for anybody else to
think, and could not tell you.
NOT GETTING EVEN WITH LAW.
You are trying to get even with Mr..
Law, are you, on that expression?
don't have to get even with Mr.. Law
Will you be good enough to answer;
you said McCune and Mr.. Law discus
sed the silver question? 1 don't recol-
lect saying that.
Don't you? No, sir.
Don't you remember saying that Mr..
McCune said that he was as good a sill
yer man as Frank Cannon? Yes.
Didn't he say as good a silver man
didn't ne say he was as much in favor
of the tariff on lead as any other Dem
ocrat? Yes, sir.
Then there was some mention made
by Mr. McCune, wasn't there? There
is a difference between mention and
Well then. now 1 will ask you did
McCune discuss the lead question, that
question or7the tariff? He did not.