Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-09
STEELE C0OSS-ExAMlNED
Tells AboG. Paying On: Moasy During the
Montana senssorsh;p Fight
Grard Jury Procccd:sas RuIed Out by
the Clark Investigating
Committee.

! A. ]. Steele was cross-exau,ined in til,
| Clark case TO-DAY. He said he had par,ici-
pated in the fall campaign of 1898 with Mr..
Clarks friends. He had made a trip to
| Great Falls before the Legislative election
and also another one after the election. On
the first trip he had taken 500. which Mr..
Davidson had given him. and ON the second
$500. Mr. Davidson mad also given him
money for expenses incurred in other trips
| made throughout the state. Witness said
that at that time be was q bankrupt, hav-
ing failed in business. He had kept no ac-
count of expenditures, but whenever he
wanted money he went to either Mr. David
son or to Mir. Welcome. During the sit
ting of the legislature he had received
$1,000 from Davidson and 5000 or $1,000
from Welcome. The largest sum obtained
from Welcome at any one time was 81 900,
which had been given him after the SEN
atorial election, when Welcome had hand
ed him roll of bills. telling him to pay
his debts and keep the rest. He had re-
ceived $1,000 from Welcome after the in
vestigation by the grand jury.
Mr.. Steele gave a partial list of persons
to whom he had paid money in sums of
500, they being persons working in the in
terest of Mr. Clark for the Senate.
Referring to the visit made him at Hele-
ma by Representative Carr prior to the
meeting of the legislature. Mr.. Steele said
in reply to Senator Turlev that his repre-
sentatfon to Mr.. Carr that he wanted to
see him about bounty scalps was all pre-
text; that in reality he had desired to see
him in Mr.. Clark's interest senatorial
candidate. He had, however, not urged the
matter when he found that Mr.. Carr was
inclined to support Conrad.
Paid Out $4,000 or $4,000.
In reply to questions from Senator Bur-
rows, Mr.. Steele said that during the cam
paign and the sitting of the legislature he
had received $4,000 or $4,000 for use in
politics. and that he had spent all this sum
except 500 or $500. which he had kept.
While Mr. Steele was the stand the
propriety of the use of report made by
Attorney General Nolan of the proceedings
of the Lewis and Clark county grand jury
In the Montana supreme court was raised
Mr.. Foster of Senator Clark's counsel ex-
pressed himself strongly in opposition of
this revelation of the secrets of the grand
jury room. Attorney General Nolan was
present and volunteered to make state
ment, but he was not permitted to do SO.
the committee deciding that the matter was
not material
Senator Tferney Explains.
State Senator W. E. Tierney Of Broad
water county was questioned especially
concerning his financial condition prior to
and since his election to the senate to meet
the testimony Of Mr.. Dolenty, a banker Of
Townsend, Mont, to the effect that Mr.
Tierney had paid off large indebtedness
to his bank since the adjournment Of the
legislature and shown many other evil
dences of improved financial condition Mr..
Tferney said that he had been instrumental
In organizing the State Bank of Townsend
and that he had paid his indebtedness to
Dolentys bank by transferring it to the
other bank, He had also sold more or less
property. The witness said that he had
considered himself worth about $4,000 re-
fore the meeting of the legislature. and
that there had been material increase
since. He also said that Senator Clark
had not been instrumental in the organiza-
ton of the new bank at Townsend The
notes owed at the bank We're not his IN
dividual notes, but were given by firms in
which he was interested.
The committee adjourned until tomorrow
before Mr.. Tierney had concluded