The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-28

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Washington, Feb. 27.-The proceed
ings Of the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections in the case OF Sena-
tor Clark of Montana today dealt with
the bank accounts of some of the mem
bers Of the Montana legislature. One
+ of these accounts was that of Repre-
sentative Stephen Bywater of Flat
/ head county, who deposited $4,000 in
the Bank Of Montana at Helena on the
Sd of last March, after the adjourn
ment Of the legislature.
Mr. Bywater was put on the stand.
/ He said that he had brought $4,000 OF
( this sum to Helena with him and kept
it in his trunk all winter, while $1,000
he had received from his brother as
purchase money on a sale of mining
stock He declared that he had not re-
ceived any pay for his vote for Mr.
Clark for the senate, but said that Mr.
/ Whiteside had ted him that ne could
get $4,000 for supporting Mr.. Clark.
Other witnesses of the day were
N-AEAh LAlthElAS VI LiiE montana state
supreme court, 7. G. kurtz Of the Mon
tana National bank both new wit
nesses, ana Attorney General Nolan,
Mr. Whiteside and r. 8. PelIer re-
called.
Montana Election Laws.
Attorney General Nolan was recalled
TO add to the information already given
by him concerning the Montana cleo
tion laws. This he did, citing all the
provisions OF the state law bearing on
the subject. Mr. Nolan stated that he
had given small sums of money to per
sons who had gone over the state in
search of testimony in this case. The
money had been supplied by Mr.. Camp
bell. Re had also procured $500 from
Mr.. Cainpbed as a git from Mr. DAILY
for the editor of an agricultural news
paper in Helena.
Another item charged to him was
$500. which had been advanced to pay
/ the expenses of witnesses in the Well
come disbarment proceedings. This
money hac been received from Mr.
/ Campbell and most of It adv anced by
the state treasurer to secure him for
the payment of these expenses. Mr.
Nolan said that he had advised the
state treasurer to pay these expenses
upon the assurance that the expendi-
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Paid Expense Money.
Among others to whom MIR. Nolans
account showed that he had paid ex-
pense money for collecting evidence in
the dlsbaunent case was the clerk of
the state supreme court Mr. Foster
/ seized upon this fact to put the wit
ness through a pretty severe sharp
I croSS-e8amlnatiOn TO show that this
official was transcending his official
. duties, the case being before the court
CT which he was an official Mr. Nolan
said that the clerk had gone to several
points TO investigate evidence. He had
paid him $35 purely for expenses ana
not as an addition to his salary.
The question of the payment of $500
10 Helena newspaper was also gone
INTO al length The money was given
10 man named Greenfield. who. it an
/ peared- was also a correspondent of
some eastern papers. Mr.. Nolan said
that after the Wbiteside exposure
nIty-tWo OF the ffty-six papers in Mon
tana were engaged ia denouncing Mr
{ WhiteSide, and this condition of affairs
being placed before Mr.. DAILY. he had
volunteered to give the man $500
Mr. Nolan also detailed a conveTsa-
Jion with Greenfield, in which he said
! that the latter had told him that Mr.
/ Clark had tried 10 change his Green
field's) account Of the Whiteside cpl
sode. which he had resisted, and that
then Mr. Clark had offered him employ
ment at $40 a day.
The Fixed Legislators.
Henry G. Rickerts, clerk of the Mon
| tana state supreme court. was put on
) to cOntrovert the testimony given by
Thomas F. Lyons to the effect that Mr.
! Campbell had offered him s. 600 to
make false statements before rnis COM
mittee. He said he had seen Lyons on
the day Of the Whiteside exposure.
/ when Lyons told him of his connection
/ with the Bribery of members Of the leg
/ islatuTe Lyons then said, according
TO the witness, he had fixed two
members Of the legislature, and that
another would vote as he wanted him
-
In March last he said he had another
! conversation with Lyons. in which the
/ latter had told him that ne had made a
little money out OF Clark's election.
mentioning $1,000 and saying that he
/ not only had that amount. but more
/ Mr.. RiCkerts said that at this time Mr.
Lyons had also told him that the pur-
chase Of the Warner property by c.
W. Clark was not bona fide, and that
the property was sold for taxes in 1899
/ On another occasion Lyons told him
that he had told Nj. Campbell all he
knew of the proceedings in the Clark
interest.
on cross examination Mr. Rickerts
said uhat his interest in the Clark mat
ter Was due to the fact that he had as
sisted in the election OF State Senator
Warner as an anti-Clark man. and was
disguised with the course he had taken
in voting for Mr. Clark. What he had
done was done with the view Of expos
/ ing Mr.. Warmers conduct.
Promised to Keep Secret.
Continuing his testimony. Mr. Rick
erts said tl,at he had failed to place
the facts in his possession before the
grand jury because he had promised
Lyons be would not reveal his secret;
he had not told it until after Mr.. Lyons
hime IF said TO him that he had told
sir. Campbell
Mr. T c. Hurts, cashier Of the Mon
tana National bank of Helena, was put
on the stand 70 give testimony concern
ing the bank deposits made by mem
bers Of the last legislature from Au-
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