The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-24

\ S, sir, was the reply. Some day
after this meeting gave an amour
ID which it was estimated would be neces
lie sary to begin with. That amount wa!
ID $4,000 The second contribution wa.
= made in October and amounted to $40
600. In November l contributed $40 90;
and after l was elected l gave my sor
le Charles w. Clark a check for about
: S20,500 to pay expenses incurred during
e the sitting of the legislature in Helena
/ Upon leaving that city, / had tolC
. my son to stay there. and settle up all
= bills that had been incurred. Upon his
IL returning to Butte he gave me a state
n ment showing disbursements amount
:. ing to about this sum. These contribu-
. tons were all that were made by me
. in connection with that campaign"
{ Explaining to Senator Hoar. Mr.
e Clark said that the first contribution
Of $4,000 was necessary in organizing
for the legislative campaign, great
deal of money being required to get
voters registered and to get them to
the polls.
Did you ever" asked Mr.. Faulkner
/. directly or indirectly make any money
or other voluntary contributions to Sc
cure~She vote of any members of the
legislature for you for United States
SENATOR"
mo, sir, never did responded the
witness, holding himself erect and look
ing directly at his interrogation.
DO you know of your own personal
knowledge of any money being used to
corruptly influence votes in your be-
half?" was the next question
To this the senator replied: Il do
not. There were plenty of rumors about
the expenditure of money, but 1 have
no personal knowledge of anything of
that kind being done"
Senator Clark was questioned con-
in h r.Frpa f1.,,,--
Whiteside and Mark Hewitt and his
reported conversation with Represen-
tive Jackson of Utah. He denied
having any conversation with jack
son, and while admitting talking with
] Whiteside and Hewitt. he contradicted
all the statements made by them in
their testimony which would in any
way implicate him with corrupt meth
DDS in the legislature. He said that on
one occasion he had met Mr. White
side at the Helena hotel, when the lat
ter had come to him saying:
have good news for you, l have |
( induced Senator Anderson to vote for |
you
Senator Clark said he had told
Whiteside that he was pleased TO hear |
TINS, because he and Mr.. Anderson had |
long been friends and he had conf |
IDENTIFY counted upon his vote before
the final ballot should be taken.
Mr.. Clark said positively Mr.. An
derson was the only member of the
legislature spoken of in this CONVEX
satIon and he explicitly denied saying
that Mr.. Anderson could not be in
nuenced by money like other members.
He also denied having told Whiteside
that c. w. Clark, Mr. Welcome nor
any one else was his agent
Mr.. Clark admitted that he had met
Mark Hewitt often during the sitting
of the legislature as Mr.. Hewitt had
progressed to be friend of his in his
senatorial contest Their converse tions
had, however, he said been so com
pletely devoid of feature that he did
not remember any of them.
He was sure he had never told Hev-
lit, as the latter had testified, that he
considered Whiteside reliable, for he
had not talked with him concerning
Mhiteside; that ne had never told
hewitt after the Whiteside so-called :
exposure that he would make the peO ,
pie believe that Mr.. Daily had fur
nlshed the $4,000 used by Whiteside in
that exposure and that he had never g
told Hewitt that he would have his {
son or Welcome or any one else see :
1 ON Lyons, with a view to satisfying
NM He did, however, remember thar :
heWltt mad told him that Lyons was G
making some trouble about his expen- +
ID.
With reference to the testimony of !
Legislator jackson of Utah, Mr.. Clark +
SAID he had no recollection whatever =
d having met that gentleman and that \
ne was sure that he (Clark) had not
-rled TO influence JacksOn's vote for "
MI McCune Tor United States senator h
rom Utah. He was equally sure thar q
ne had made no corrupt or imnroner .
TO Jackson in that connection c
and that he had not told him that he y
Clark had just purchased the vote
II member of the Montana Iegisla y
ure in his own behalf ~
Equally certain was he that he had h
leVer SAID TO Mr.. Jackson or any one p
Use that Senator Hanna of Ohio had -
occurred his election to the senate NV -
orruot means. -
L am absolutely positive" said Sen u
tor Clark, concluding his direct tes- i,
imony concerning Jackson. that I "
lever had any conversation with him +,
r any one else relative to the manner -,
1 senator Hanna's election, and | want m
o say that every word Of Jackson's
estimony which related to me was alb h,
olrte!v false" ~
At this juncture a member of the "
ommittee asked Mr.. Clark in regard -
D the letter to DR.. Martin Of the Mon ~
ana college concerning which Chief N
Justice Brantley had testified earlier ~
] the day. al
Mr.. Clark replied that he had No ~
collection concerning the letter He ~
lOught he might have written il as 80
Is relation with DR.. Martin was very =.
lumate, as was also his relation with W.
Judge Brantley and as he knew the ~
relationship 10 be so between Martin
I'd Brantley
He was questioned closely as to his ~ ~
collection as TO the authorship of a,-
tier written last October or Novern "a
sr. He replied:
! may have written the letter to DR.. ~
artin to see Justice Brantley. but I o.
rta1nly did not go to the extent of ~ ~
skiing him to suggest to Judge Brant- -i''
Y that the proceedings against Well
me should be stopped l admit that Iol
was greatly interested in Welcomes W
Sc, being convinced. as the letter re- th'
rred to saws, that he is both a grand an
ID good man. no
Il do not, however, wish to be under me
BOD. If ! did write this letter, as sug- Or
sting any means Of approaching him
llch was not perfectly legitimate As COZ
recollecting whether 7 wrote the Let Mr.
:, ] repeat that l cannot say posi- yol
-elv. g
My correspondence is probably as sci
-ge as that of almost any other man
the United States. I write from fifty Tor
100 letters a day, and ii is not prob n
le thaI WOULD remember whether She
had written this letter on a matter DO
itch l did not consider very import ORA
t. If I did write l simply did 81 to ow
We DR.. Martin TO use his influence Il
III Judge Brantley to see that JUS his
e was done Mr.. Welcome" thi.
When the committee reassembled in inq
afternoon, Mr. Faulkner continued pal
direct examination of Senator Clark exc
asked Mr.. Clark concerning his ac- sal;
lintance with the Rev. B. Z. H. War r
J. the Methodist minister who testi- ner
Tor the prosecution. Of
lr- Clark said Mr.. Warren had come Bic
him