The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-14

Washington. Jan. 13.-owing to the
failure of Witnesses to appear. the sen
ate committee on privileges and cleo
tions today adjourned the hearing in
the Clark senatorial contest case until
next Wednesday
The principal witnesses heard today
were N. /. Hewitt and Charles NJ.
Jackson. G. W. Clark. son Of the asena-
tor. was also before the committee for
a few moments TO testify 10 the disap-
pealance OF certain letters written TO
Ais father
Both Hewitt and Jackson related con-
TersiatEons alleged to have been held
witch Mr.. Clark Mr.. Hewitt said Mr.
Clark had told him he had perfect con-
nuenCc in STATE Senator Whitesde as
a friend and had said he had paid his
supporters all he owed them"
Mr.. jackson is a member Of the legis-
lature Ce Utah, and he testified that
In trying 10 influence his tJacksOn's)
vote in that body. clark had told him
De had used money to secure his own
election 10 the senate, saying ehis was
common practice among aspiring men
If means
Can't Find Letters.
When the senate committee be-
gan it's session today. the de-
Tense sfSAed that they had been un-
able To ind the letters written to Sem
ator Clark and Mr. Bickford by the
dentist, EctOr. who yesterday produced
their letters TO him. Il was then de-
cided TO have c. w Clark, son of the
senator. make a statement as to the
disposition of the documents. but Mr..
Clark being absent, Mr.. Carr was re-
called to afford Senator Tluley an op-
portunity 10 question him confer ring
his visits 10 Helena prior 10 the meet
ing OF the legislature last winter. Carr
said the principal object Of his visit
was to see about resignation as United
States commissioner
The first regular witness of the day
was n /. Hewitt, a miner who was in
Helena during the session of the legis-
lature ia 1899. He said that Charley
Clark had asked him to see Senator
Myers and offer him s., coo for his v6t
for Clark for senator He had accord
ingfy talked with Myers and testified
that thar gentleman had told him. af-
ter first declining the proposition to
say to Clark that if he was disposed to
do 50. ne could put $4,000 in the hands
of Whiteside, to be paid to him Myers
IN case he should vote for Clark.
Money For Myers.
Watt said that CIark's son stated
that this arrangement was satisfactory
and he afterward told him that the
money for Myers had been given 10
WIKI side, and that his vote was as
sured
Mr.. Hewitt said that during the SEN
atorial contest he had talked frequent
" with Senator Clark. once he had
demonstrated with the senator concern
ing Whiteside as well known support
er Of Daily, but the senator had he
said, assured him that Whiteside's
fidelity was assured, because of the
fact that he (Whiteside) was in trOu-
bic with the Clark opponents over a
building he was constructing in Butte.
The witness also said that be had seen
the senator at his rooms in the Helena
hotel a short time after the Whiteside
exposure and asked him what he pro-
posed to do, when the senator re-
piled:
There is only one thing to do. and
that Is to make the people believe the
Daily gang have furnished the money
and have put up a conspiracy against
as"
L asked him." continued the witness,
IF he could make that stick, to which
le replied, There is no trouble about
he deal, because if We put UP a good
excuse the people VIII BeleNe US, and
Ke can again get the members togeth-
r.
Treaehery Was Feared.
The witness also detailed a CONVERSE
ion which he said he had had with
senator Clark on the eve Of she inves-
igaton by the supreme court, "a which
he told the senator Tom Lyons, one of
he senator's workers, had threatened
20 go TO court and testify against Clark
because the latters friends had not
kept their promises 10 him. Accord
ing to the witness, the senator had then
replied:
4 don't owe these (using q profane
phrase anything. I have paid them
all they asked. I am under 30 obdga-
ton to them, and ] expect item 90 do
as they agreed to do by me.
Mr.. Hewitt said, however. that Clark
added that he would have his son see
Lyons He said that Clark had often
spoken to him OF his son and o. Messrs.
Welcome, Bickford. Steele and others
as his friends in the senatorial fight
Welcome and Charley Clark were re-
gaTded as the senator's special repre-
sentatiVes.
Just Drifted IN.
On examination Hewitt said he
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