Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-23

Woods has left Montana and gone to
New Mexico.
Referring to Tierney's connection with
Of $25. 900 Of which he took $500.
Shevlin took $1,000, Eversole $1,000,
nearly all of the $4,000 passing through
Tierney's hands in currency.
His $1,000, he says, he took from the
Messrs. Darcy & Co., but whence this
$500 came he did not show by any writ
ing whatever
Referring to Garr's story about secur-
ing money from his aunt with which to
purchase the ranch, the committee re-
marked:
He had no previous knowledge of how
she had accumulated this money"
Reference to Days connection with
Clark. is as follows:
-'E. G. Day was Senator Clark's candi-
date for speaker and was defeated in the
democratic caucus, receiving rs votes
against 30 votes for Stiff. Mr.. Day was
the leader of Clark's forces in the legis-
lature during all the ballotings after the
second.
On Feb, 13, Senator Clark personally
wrote letter directing that IS, ,0O0 should
be given to Mr.. Day for his services in
the legislature and as a retainer as cOun-
sci in the future.
This amount was received by Day
through Welcome and Davidson on the
23d day of March, the day after the leg
islature adjourned
After detailing the circumstances, the
report says that while the findings of
the committee are justified by the fore
going admitted and undisputed facts,
with their attendant circumstances
standing alone, these facts are strength
ened by additional facts including vari-
GUS unsuccessful attempts to secure
votes by offers of money which, although
denied. are found by majority of the
10 l><1 too I,1yo
derance of testimony.
The committee adds that 1t would un-
necessarily cucumber and extend this
report to give these additional facts in
detail, but in addition to these unsuc-
cessful attempts at bribery, certain other
alleged attempts are narrated. because
there is difference of opinion in the
committee concerning them"
These later attempts relate especially
to former state senator Whiteside's con-
nectfon with the candidacy of Senator
Clark and his efforts to expose the SEN
atOr's methods.
Testimony relating to Whiteside, State
Senator Clark, State Senator Meyers and
Representative Carr is then outlined and
the committee remarks for a majority
only of it's members.
1.-The three accusers (Whiteside, Mey
ers and State Senator Clark undoubt-
edly occupied the position of detectives
who wllfully deceived parties with whom
they were dealing, and against whom
they made charges. On the other hand,
the parties against whom they testified
and who make deniels, are charged with
crimes to which if guilty, they would be
quite certain to add the offense of false
swearing
The majority of the committee under
all the circumstances appearing, are not
willing to consider the situation as one
! of equilibrium under detectives, on one
hand, and the alleged law on the other.
If Messrs. Clark of Madison, Meyers and
Whites. lie. testified falsely, they must
have contemplated in the beginning. a
conspiracy of base character to be fol-
lowed up by perjury of the worst sort,
and they must have intende. to pass
through the ordeals in course of the in
vestigatlons which woul dbe made, which
it cannot be inferred they are willing to
subject themselves, merely to prevent
Senator Clark from becoming United
States senator. In the open majority
there was no affirmative disproof pro-
duced by Senator Clark at any time
showing that the facts in connection
with the 10000 We're not true.
The charge that the accusation and the
exposure resulted from a conspiracy
formed and carried forward by Marcus
Daily was the necessity of Clark's canvass
others, who We're suspected of conspir-
acy, denied all knowledge of the 100000, of
which $27,0 900 was in one thousand dollar
bills, which had been produced by White
side as the money furnished by Well
come in attempted bribery. Non one
thousand dollar bills were shown to have
been in the hands of any of the alleged
DAILY consiprators."
j. The report then shows from the testi-
mOny. that these large bills were in the
hands OF Clark's supporters and adds: In
connection with the consideration ot
these last four cases OF attempted brib-
ery-of Clark of Modison, Meyers, Carr
and Whiteside, it Is important to state In
favor of difference of opinion concerning
the credibility of Messrs. Clark of Madi-
son, Meyers and Whiteside, that the
whole committee find that if the testi-
mony concerning the $4,000 and all ot
Madison, were laid aside, there would still
remain sufficient evidence in the case tt
lead the committee to find, as they do
that Ciark's election is void.
From the briberies which have beer
established, a majority of the committee
feel justified in finding there Were
other successes in procuring by corrup,
practices, evidences of the members o1
the legislature, where the facts naturally
cannot be directly proved" OF the con
duct of republican members of legisla
ture, who voted for Clark the COMMITTEES
saws: 49,. .,o
bers who left their republican candidate
and NOteO Tor senator OIaIk dId gave MN
his election in the opinion of the majority
of the committee calls for special criti
cism There was an absolute deadlock
and no possibility of the election of &
democrat without aid of republicans.
1t is difficult to account for these re-
publican votes for senator Clark. Sen
ator Clark's candidacy had .een tainted
on the 10th of January by the Whiteside
exposure.
The facts exposed had not been dis
proved on January 28th. The reason.
given for republican votes for Clark seen
to be pretenses and covers. Clark, wht
had been negotiating with Hobson, tht
leader of the republicans, wrote let
ter on the 10th of January, in which HI
announced himself to be in favor OF thu