The Portland daily press., 1900-04-24

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amountea to abeut s1ss,oOo. OF which
sum Charles Y. CLARK rsosiysd from hlm
on Autdsi u, 1893. ss5, 900; 0etoblF II,
$40, 900; November %, $4,000. and Fsbru-
ary i9 1900. s2o,59a. and In addition to
this, eiso.000 Senator CLARK paid e5, 00D
70 MoDsrmott, enc Of his.agents; %. goo
TO waIlcome, his attorney, and o. O0U 10
E. Q. Day, . mem bsr OF the legislature.
B-Nons Of the mem bsrs of his commit
tee or their assistants made the sworn re-
turns required By Law. nor did Senator
Clark h.msslf make any returns.
Sections 10 IS deal with the business
Transactions Of Mr.. Clark and Of his rep
rsssutatives with mem bers of the legi ala
ture. including the purchase OF Rsprsssn-
tstive McLaughlin's property. the tender
Of %, coo to Rspressntstive Woods ., raise
the mortgage on bis ranch and the sub
sequent sale of the ranch, the establish
ment OF bank after the adjournment
of the Legislature largely through tse
efforts Of Senator 1isrney and Represen-
tives Evers,le and Shovelin OF Broad
water county. the sale OF lots aud tthsr
property In jefferson county to o repre.
sentative Of r.Clark By Senator Warner
the conduct Of Msssrs. Carr, Giegsr,
Fine, Bsasley and Bywster, and tns
present to Of IS, 900 to Representative Day
after the adjournment OF the legislature.
The COMMITTEES remarks for the maiori-
~ only Of its members;
1.-THE three sccussrs (whiteside, Myers
and State Ssnator Clark,) undoubtedly
occupied the position OF uetec Ives. who
wilfuily deceived the parties with whom
they ware dealing and against whom
they made charges. On tne other hand,
the parties against whtm they testified
and VINO make the dsniAls are charged
with orinss, TO whioh, II guilty. they
would be quite certain TO add the offense
of falss swearing.
| "If Messrs Clark Of Mad s IN, Myers
and Whit de testified falsely. they
must have contemplated in the begin
ming conspiracy Of the beat charao:er
to be followed up by perjury Of the
worst sGt. and they must hare intended
Ito pass through ordeAis In the courss Of
the invssti cations which would be made
| to which it cannot be inferred that they
were willing to subject themselves mere
IL to prevent senator Clark from becom
ing Q United statss senator.
"In the opinion OF tins majority thsrs
was NO Affirmative disproof produced BY
senator Clark at any time showing that
the facts in connection with the $50 w
were not true. The charge that the ac-
ousai ons cf the exposure resulted from a
conspiracy formed and carried forward
By Mr.. Marcus ialy, Was necessity OF
Mr.. ClArk's canvsss and defer 50. But
Mr. DAILY and MIR. Conrad and others wbo
we're suspscted of conspiracy, denied all
knowledss OF tho SO COO, OF which s27,
Oc0 was in one thousand dollar bills,
W hich had been produced by Mr.. Whits-
side rs ths money furnished by M. Well
come In the attempted bribaries, No one
thousand DO lar bills were shown to have
been In the hands of any Of the alleged
DAILY conspirstors.
| The report pnows from t1e testimony
that these large bills were In the hands
OF Clark's supporters and adds;
at is important t. state. in visw OF tbs
difference of oItnion 10 the committee
conference concerning the credibilty OF
Aessrs. Clark Of Madison, Myers and
Whit side, that the whole comD tee lind
that II all the testimony concerning ths
$50 600 and all the testimony Of Mt.
Whitsside and Mr.. Clark of Mari on
were laid aside there would Ill remain
committse to lind, as they de, that Ar.
| Clark's ell ,ction Is veil. From the hribtT-
i 70 which have been eLtab he'd, tha ma
tority of the committee f. / Justified In
| finding that there were other successes
in procuring by corrupt practices the
votes Of members OF the legiElaturs
where the facts naturally cAnnut he oi
rsotly proved.
"The conduct of the R'pusli,sn rem-
bsrs of the leei:l.ture wLo, on the 2sth
day Of January, lsft their Repui oah
candidate and voted for Senator Clark
and gayo him his election. Ia the opinion
OF the majority Of the committee, calls
for special criticism. There was an alb
sJl1ts deadlock and no pessi billy Of the
election OF Democrat without the all
Of the Republicans. 1t Is difficult to ne
|
ator ClTk. Senator CiaIk's candidacy
had been tsinted ON the 10th Of January
by the Whit side exposure. The facts ex-
posed had not bsen disproVed on January
2s.
1.-The reasons giTen for the Republican
votes for MIR. CLARK, seem TO be pretenses
and covers. Mr.. CLARK, who had bfen
negotiating with Mr.. Hobson. the 4eader
of the Republicans, wrets letter on the
10th sf January In which he declared
himself to be in favor OF tariff on
Montana products. Come Of the Rspub-
licans said there ought not to b. dead
lock and that 1t would be better to have
. Democratic Senator than n vacancy.
'sThe committee do not say that the
votes CT all this eleven Republicans were
Improperly secured, but that those OF
Gsuger. Beaslsy and Bywater were, as has
already been found. The circumstances