Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-02-15
CASE OF CLARK.
Evidence Is More Favorable TO
= !. Montana Senator.
Statement OF Ex-consul Macrum
Stirs Up the House.
Trying to Exempt Big Slice Of Vanderbilt
Estate From Inheritance Tax.
STORM on COAST OF FRANCE.

Washington, Feb. l5.-The senate COM
mittee on elections to-day resumed in-
quiry into the election OF Senator Clark,
OF Montana. Edward b. Coyne, Judge
OF the county court, Livingston county,
New York, testified that Mark Hewitt, q
witness for the prosecution In this case,
had spoken TO him last October OF the
Welcome disbsrment case and In re-
sponse to inquiry said that Welcome
did not stand ghost OF a chance"
That II did not make any difference
whether Welcome was guilty Of the
offense charged, as DAILY owned the court
and the case was being conducted with
view OF getting money for the Clark
case that was to come before the United
States senate.
The next witness was Justice Hunt, Of
the Montana supreme court. whose testi-
mony created profound impression. He
detailed four conversations with his fam
lily physician, DIR. william Tracey, OF
Helena. In two OF which he believed the
doctor attempted TO lay before him
proposition to brlbe him In the Welcome
disbsrment case. which was at that time
before the court. Of which the witness
was member. On August 3, the doctor
said TO him: There is a party here who
has got 100000 who wants to put II up
II that case can be thrown out OF court"
Hunt said he replied to Tracey: "Not sll
the money In the United and Anaconda
mines together. with every dollar Daily
and Clark are both worth, and what
there is In banks. would induce me TO
sacrifice my conscience. The Welcome
case must 20 forward Just "a any other
case would"
Justice Hunt said after this that Ira.
cey had appealed to him to get of the
bench on account OF his health. and said
II he would accept q proposition he could
20 abroad and visit the Paris exposition
and have nothing TO worry about and
thus indefinitely prolong his life. Hunt
said he replied that he much appreciated
what the doctor said about getting of the
bench but could not see his way clear TO
accept the proposition. On November "a
Dr. Tracey asked him II no change had
come over his mind. Hunt said
he replied that he supposed their
last conversation had ended the
matter. as he would not swervs from his
position ito save my own life or the lives
OF my children" February the doc
tor showed him what WAS apparently q
copy OF telegram which informed him,
the doctor, that some one told the senate
committee at Washington that the JUS
tice would testify before the committee
that DR., Tracey c@ered him bribe Of
100000 In the Welcome case. The doe
tor then said: "You know never offered
you bribe, and | was only joking In
our conversations concerning the Well
come case" Hunt said he re-
piled he wished he could believe he was
only joking, but could not put that con-
struction on the proposition. He
did not. however. believe Tracey meant
actually to bribs him, but simply to lay
the proposition before him. In answer
TO questions from members OF the COM
mittee. Justice Hunt said he tirst related
the fact OF the propositions being made
TO him on the night OF August 9th, when
his associate, Justice Piggott. had come
TO his house and related that he had been
approached on the same day. At the
close OF direct examination. Mr.. Faulk
ner, on behalf OF Senator Clark, made
formal motion to strike the testimony OF
Justice Hunt out OF the record, because
II failed TO connect the name OF Clark
with the proceedings and was entirely
collateral.
The motion was oyerruled, and cross
examination proceeded. Justice Hunt
said before DR.. Tracey made the PROPOSE
ton he considered him man OF pre-
eminently good character. He did not
believe the doctor stopped TO think OF the
enormity OF the proposition. When asked
why he did not bring the matter TO the
attention OF the public prosecutor, Judge
Hunt replied he WAS so humillated he did
not care to disclose 1t. One question
brought out the fact that Justice Hunt
is a republican, ss is also Justice Brsnt-
ley. who has been summoned to appear
before the committee. The committee
adjourned until 1880 .. IN.
Vanderbilt Estate.