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their assistants were as follows: BY
| Charles W. Clark, SOS, 600; by McDermott
| $22. 000: by Davidson, agent. 22,3OO; by
| Welcome. S25, GOO; by Steele, $1l, 600; by
| Corbett. $4,000; by Whitmore, $4,000; by
| Cooper 81 500 mainly furnished by Charles
| W. Clark; and the amount Of these ex-
penditures Senator Clark himself PAID 10
his son. The advances and payments made
| by Senator Clark to his committee and
agents. as admitted by him, amounted to
| about SI39, GOO of which sum Charles W.
Clark received from him on August II,
1895 s35. GOO; October II, $4,000; Novem
| her 20, $40 coo and February 10, 1900 $20,
| 592; and in addition to this Sl39, zoe Sem
| ator Clark paid s., 600 to McDermott one
| of his agents; $1,000 TO Welcome. his at
torney. and 5000 to E. c. Day, a member
| of the Legislature.
! None of the members Of his committee
| or their assistants made the sworn returns
required by law, nor did Senator Clark
himself make any return
The Witnesses.
! The committee deals at considerable
! length with the alleged transactions with
! II. W. Mclaughlin. E. p Woods. W. E
| Herman and d. G. Warner In treating
Of Carr. Geiger. Fine, Bywater, and Beas-
ley. the report says:
MIR H. II. Carr member Of the Legis-
lature lodged package during the session
| with Mr.. Peeler of the bank of Kalispell.
After the Legislature adjourned he OBJ
, tanned the package went to his home, and
! in the name of Miss Wickham, his wife's
aunt, milliner, who had lived with him
I for seven years, purchased a ranch for
! $500 for which he paid in currency. in
[ Guiding a thousand dollar bill which
money he said he obtained from his wifes
] aunt believing she had accumulated and
| kept ii in a box in her room in his house
| Mr.. Carr had been a poor man, with
: little or no property, earning sometimes
$50 or SIS a month as a notary public,
sometimes nothing. He had in cash $I5
, or $50 when elected and borrowed $50 10
| go to Helena with. His wife's aunt paid
board in the family at the rate of $3.50
week. He had no previous knowledge OF
how she had accumulated this money. Mr..
! Steele had obtained interviews with him
before the Legislature met with view to
securing his vote, and after his arrival he
, figured in the Whiteside exposure.
MIR. John H. Geiger was a Republican
who, after Mr.. Whiteside's exposure, was
seated in the Legislature as Senator in
! place Of Mr. Whiteside, on the 18th Of
! January, by the votes of the Republicans
| and the Democratic supporters of Senator
/ Clark, on the ground that his name on a
few of his ballots mad been marked at the
wrong end. and on the 2Sth Mr.. Geiger
voted for Senator Clark. He was man
! with no regular occupation. entirely
| without means and borrower of small
sums. During the session Of the Legis-
| lature he received and carried home with
| him $500. After accounting for one or
| two petty sums, he claims that he OBJ
tanned his money by faro gambling and
through 81 100 in bills which he found n
! his room and believed came in connection
with some bills pending in the Legis-a
ture which Mr.. John b. Welcome was
| carrying through as an attorney.
Mr.. B. F. Fine, a member of the Leg
! islature and a mining operator with no
property, in May after it had adjourned,
in pursuance of an agreement made our
ing the session by Senator Clark after his
election as Senator, received $1,000 from
Senator Clark's bankers, and since that
date has received other moneys, max ng
the sum of $1,000 in all, which has b en-
all his earnings since his nomination his
only other business being the hunting up
of testimony 10 disbar or irupeach Mr.. W.
A Clark, of Madison County, one of tie
principal witnesses against Senator Clark
to do which no steps have yet been taken.
Mr.. Stephen Bywater, a Republican
30 years OF age, and a railroad conductor,
voted for Mr.. Clark for the first time On
the eighteenth ballot on which he was
elected. On the Sd of March. Immediately
after the Legislature adjourned, he de-
posted in the Montana National Bank
$4,000. He accounts for ii by saying that
he brought from Kalispell, his home,
$4,000 in currency, which he kept with him
during the whole session of the Legisla-
ture, and saying that he received on March
8 $4,000 from his brother for the purchase
Of stock in mining company In British
Columbia, but he produced no writing in
confirmation of his statement as to either
the 600 or the So GOO. He did produce a
prospectus and letter showing that there
was such mining company and that he
was its President, and Mr. Peeler,
broker, with whom Mr. Bywater kept an
account, testified that Mr.. Bywater also
kept package OF money not included in
the bank account.
Mr.. w. W. Beasley, Republican Rep
resentative, first voted for Senator Clark
ON the eighteenth ballot, when he was
chosen, and that night, or the next night,
he left Helena for st. Paul having in his
possession about 5000 in currency. at
least 81. 600 of which was a thousand dollar
bill. He claimed that he had taken this
money with him to Helena and carried it
in his vest pocket during the whole ses-
sion. By no writing did he show whence
he received 1t or what he did with it. He
because he was in embarrassed circum-
stances in the sheep business and was
afraid Of law suits. When he was elected
he owed board bill of nearly $500 and
while in Helena took out a life insurance
policy and gave a note for the premium
All the time he had a bank account in the
Thomas Cruise Savings Bank at Helena"
Additional Evidence.
The committee continuing. reports that
while the findings of the committee are
justified by the foregoing admitted and I'M
disputed facts, with their attendant cir
eumstances standing alone, those facts are
strengthened by additional facts. including
various unsuccessful attempts 10 secure
votes by offers of money, which, although
denied, are found by the majority of the
committee TO be sustained by the prepon-
derance of the testimony. Ii would I'M
necessary cucumber and extend this re-
port to attempt to give these additional
facts in detail"
The alleged exposure by Frederick
Whiteside is fully discussed, as follows:
In the opinion of the majority there
was no affirmative disproof produced by
Senator Clark at any time showing that
the facts In connection with the $50 600
exposure we're not true. The charge that
the accusations and the exposure resulted
from conspiracy formed and carried for
ward by Mr.. Marcus DAILY was a necessity
of Mr.. Clarks canvass and defence But !
Mr.. Daily and Mr.. Conrad and others who
were suspected OF conspiracy denied all
knowledge of the $50. 600 of which $27 600 |
was in onethousand- dollar bills which
had been produced by Mr.. Whitesde as
the money furnished by Mr.. Welcome in
the attempted hfiberies. No one thousand /