The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-13

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state Auditor Poindexter testified
that A J. Steele had promised to I've
MN Sso.e00 10 secure the vote OF the
/ three members OF the legislature from
BeaVerhead county FOR Mr.. Clark. ne
/ tfolndeXter) 70 have 5000 FOR his ser
] wees, but that he had never approached
+ the members because he was opposed TO
Clark election. and had only agreed TO
I see them for him to prevent others
! actine IN the capacity Of a go-oetween.
The comm ttee adjourned until o'clock,
( before eross-examinaticn.
The cross examination of Mr. Poin-
dexter did net develop anything Of i'm
4 portance.
One Of the $4,000 Men
State Senator Myers was the next
witness. He was one Of the members
/ who turned $1,000 over TO the legis-
1 iatiNe investigating committee. stating
/ that 1t had been put in Whiteside's
/ hands for him on the condition that he
vote for Clark for senator.
Myers detailed not only the particu-
lars OF his taking the money, but also
other circumstances leading up TO this
! episode. He said that he had first
| been approached after his election as
q senator by DIT. Minshall and Bick-
ford and his vote for Clark had been
I requested. He had been told by those
/ men that if he would agree to vote for
clark the latter would appoint him at
/ tOrney in connection with his coal in
/ terests at Bridger. He said he had
/ declined this offer. but NOTWITHSTANDING
TINS he had received a letter from c.
W Clark, son of the senator, written
from Butte, Dec IA, 1898. This letter
was put in evidence. In it Mr.. Clark
{ stated hn4 no 4 Id 70. Tfr
shall $500 as "a retainer for his serv-
ices in the Bridger coal mine"
Wanted to Expose Bribery.
Mr.. Clark. Mr.. Myers said, had af-
/ terward asked him not to read the let
/ ter before the joint legislative assem-
/ bly,. He said that he had only agreed
4 TO Mr. Whitesides proposition to ac-
I cept $4,000 from Mr.. Welcome for the
purpose Of exposing what he believed
/ We're efforts at bribery. He said he
| had received the money from Mr.
/ Whiteside, the latter saying Mr.. Well
/ come could not see him then.
The witness said that after the eX-
posture in the legislature he had been
/ persuaded to go to see A j. Steele,
when the latter, he said, had tried TO
/ persuade him first to vote for Clark,
next to leave the state until after the
I
subsidized. and lastly to sign a state
ment denying his connection with the
exposure and cOntradicting his own
testimony before the legislative COM
mittee.
In each case Steele had asked him if
there was any inducement or consider
alton which would secure his assent,
and he had replied that there was not.
Badly Wanted Vote.
Mr.. Myers also said that Mark Hew-
lit had offered him $4,000 to vote for
Clark, saying Charley Clark had au-
thOrized him to make the proposition.
The latter had told him, he said, that
he could put up $4,000 with Whiteside
TO be paid to him in case he voted for
Clark
on cross-examination, DR.. Myers said
that it was his opinion that the atten-
tiOn of the grand jury which undertook
to investigate the alleged bribery was
given to withdrawing Mr. Clark
Witness declared he was not preju-
diced in this case. He said he had
gone into the combination as a matter
Of duty to the state. Re went into il
upon the advice Of John r. TOole. In
reply to a question he said ne knew
Mr.. TOOle and Mr. DAILY were on friend
" terms and he also knew TooIe was
opposed TO Clarks candidacy. He had
at first thought Mr.. Whiteside's propo-
sition a little unique" but after
thinking it over he had decided that it
was proper
Didn't Get the Job.
The witness said DR.. Minshau was to
have been appointed a physician at Mr.
ClaTk's coal mines but that instead Of
his getting the place it was given to
member Of the legislature who had
voted for Mr.. Clark
The last witfiess of the day was Her
~ Z. Carr, q member Of the legisla-
ture from Flathead county. Montana.
He is one of the members of the LEXIS
lature in whose name money was
turned over TO the legislative investi
eating committee by MIR. Whiteside and
the only one Of them who afterwards
voted for Mr.. Clark for the senate.
Referring to his transactions with
Mr. Whiteside, the witness said Mr..
Whiteside had been a warm supporter
Of his and he had listened respectfully
when Whiteside had asked him to 90
TO his room, and had complied with
his request when Mr.. Whiteside had
asked him to mark for Identification
an envelope containing $1,000 in 81 600
bills, which Whiteside had brought to
him at the Helena hotel during the
session of the legislature last winter.
Confidence In Whiteside.
He had no reason for doing this ex-
cept his confidence in Whiteside and
the additional fact that he himself was
an 'egregiOUs ass" He had. however.
put his initials on the envelope ex-
hibited yesterday in the committee as
the one 80 marked. he declared that
Mr. Whitesidp had never said any
thing to him about voting for Clark.
and that he haG kept his promise to
Conrad's friends to vote for him as
long as he had a chance of election.
He pronounced as untrue the report
that he had told Judge d. F. Smith that
he was TO vote for Clark and receive
$4,000 for so doing.
In reply to questions from Mr.. Camp
bell, Mr. Carr stated that since the
adjournment of the legislature he had
purchased q ranch fer an aunt living
with him. paying S3c00 for it. and that
he had also loaned $500 for her
/ Ssven years and he had never before
This aunt had lived with him for
transacted any business for her or
known whether she had money or not
The ranch was paid for in currency
one of the bills being Of the denOmina-
ton of s1,O00 He had had to vote for
J Clark in the end to avoid a deadlock
in the legislature.
On decentralization Mr.. Carr said
ne had never received any money for
voting for Clark or for promising to
vote for him. The committee. at $50
after seven hours sitting, adjourned
CHAMBERLAIN A JUDAS.