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

An Unwilling Witness.
Washington Jan. 12.-There We're
again four or FIVE witnesses before the
senate committee on privileges and
elections today in connection with the
attack upon the right of Senator Clark
of Montana to his seat in the senate.
one Of the witnesses, State Senator NY
ers, produced a letter from c. W. Clark.
son Of the senator, telling him Myers
he had forwarded $500 as d retainer for
him as attorney in connection with the
coal interests Of the Clarks.
| A dentist named Ector also displayed
/ letters from Senator Clark himself re-
ferring to Mr.. W. NJ. Riekford as a rep
reSentative of his and that while he,
Clark, knew nothing of EctOr's claim
Tor services, his policy was to remu-
nerate all that served him.
Probably the most important witness
of the day was H H. Carr, a member of
the legislature who had voted for Mr.
Clark for the senate. He is one of the
men in whose name money was turned
over to the state. Mr.. Carr said while
this money, 5000. in $1,000 bills, had
been shown to him by Mr.. Whiteside
and he had. marked the envelope con-
taining il, Mr.. Whiteside had not said
anything to him about voting for Mr.
Clark.
Want Bank Books Produced.
The COMMITTEES began its session to-
day with a request from the prosecution
TO have the books Of the Thomas Cruise
Savings bank at Helena, Mont, show
ing the deposits of A J.. Davidson and
man named ToOle, brought before the
committee. The original subpoena had
only called for the deposit slips. The
point was not decided.
E. L. p. EctOr, a dentist at Missoula,
was the first witness. He had partici-
pated in the campaign in Ravalli cOUn-
ty in the interest of Z. p. Woods, who
was the Democratic candidate for the
legislature in the last campaign, and
who was a friend of Mr.. Clark Ector
said he had acted at the instance f
Mr.. BiekfOrd, one of Mr.. Clark's man
ayers.
Letters from BickfOrd were exhibited.
In one of these, written after the legis-
lative election, BickfoTd referred to the
presence of ''Our friend" in Hamilton,
and asked Ector to ascertain his finan-
cial condition. EctGr said "Our friend
was Mr.. Wood, and that he replied to
this letter, saying his Indebtedness was
Sc. 500 and that $1,000 would probably be
necessary TO settle all his debts. After
ward Bickford had given him $1,000 to
give to Wood. He had then refused to
accept the money, telling Bickf0rd it
was all off" as Wood had told MIN
that he could not afford to sell HIM
eels
Wanted All He Gould Get.
The witness said Biekford had prom
Used to pay him for his services. but
that no specific sum had been men
toned
He asked me how much I expected"
said the witness, and I told him ]
wanted all / could get out Of It. l
continued by saying. No doubt you will
make a stake out Of it he asked me
how 10 per cent would do. 1 said, That
would be satisfactory, as l have no
doubt you will get $4,000 or $4,000 out
Of it. "
II appeared that no settlement was
made with him by Mr.. BtckfOrd and
that Mr.. ECt0r wrote TO Senator Clark
about the matter. There was a CORES
pondence with that gentleman begin
ming Dec. 10, 1898. and closing Nov. 8,
1899 These letteIs were read to show
that Mr.. Bickford had been the agent
Of Clark in the senatorial race.
In the first letter Clark g3id the mat
ter concerning which Mr.. EctOr had
written him had beea lift ent rsiy in the
hands Of Mr. BickfOrd, ana that he
would confer with that gentleman con-
corning the matter.
In the second letter dated Jan. IS.
1899 Mr.. Clark spoke of the fact that
he had just been elected, saying Bick
ford was wild with JOY. adding that
while he had no personal knowledge as
to what he had done. he never disaD-
pointed any one who had helped him"
Should Be Remunsrated.
The last sentence was practically re-
peated from Paris. in April last. and in
another letter, written from New York,
Nov s, last. In the New York letter
Clark said he would refer Ector's mat
ter to Biclsford. and in the Paris letter
he said it was his desire that any one
who served hir1 should be amply re-
munerated.
One Of the letters of the series was
signed liz typewriter. and the defense
Objected 10 its admission. This ObJec-
ton brought out the first division in
the committee. Senator's McComas and
Caffery casting the only votes against
admission. CrOss-eXaminatiOn was
postponed until the defense should look
up the letters received from EctOr.
p
Der Of the last Montana legislature
from Granite county testified that he
had been approached by Mr.. Bickford
when he went TO Helena previous TO the
meeting Of the legislature and asked
to vote for Mr.. Clark.
Another Open Hand
Il said" the witness testified. that
might do so if there was enough in IT,
~ cold E1n Hn0 n
then asked me if half that amount
would not be enough. 1 replied no. and
we separated.
Sullivan said that afterward he had
again met Bfckford and that the latter
suggested So. 900. He had told Bick-
ford then that he could not vote for
Clark under any circumstances and he
had seen him no more
Sullivan said his purpose had been to
lead BiCkfOrd on and that he had not
expected 10 vote for Clark, even f the
offer Of $40. 600 had been accepted. The
witness stated that he is now the pro
prietOr Of the Florence hotel at Butte
Mont. and the cr0ss-examination was
devoted TO showing that this hotel is
owned largely BY Marcus DAILY. The
witness said he paid his rent TO Mr..
Hennissey, and did not know whetbar
Daily was the owner. He admitted thar
his patronage was largely from among
the miners of the Anaconda conpanv's
mines, and counsel brought out the fact
that whereas before the legislature met
the witness had been the nTonrieter Of
a saloon. payin~ $50 a month, ne now
pays 5000 a month for the Florence
house.
An Unwilling Witness.
Anthony Dougherty of Helena proved
10 be the first witness who was anpsr-
entity unwilling TO testify. He was hef4