Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28
BANK ACCOUNTS SHOWN.
Deposits Explained to the Clark In
vestiEatin8 Committee.

Mr. Whiteside was recalled TO the stand
in rebuttal at the afternoon session of the
Clark committee yesterday.
He first related his meeting with Ben Hill
in Butte. when the latter made his affidavit
as to the transactions in Helena, while he
was there supporting Mr.. Clark for the
Senate Mr.. Whiteside said he had not
suggested to Mr.. Hill any statement to be
made in the affidavit. Hill had intimated
at that time that he wanted financial as
sistance. but none had then been given him.
He denied that he had given Mr.. Hill any
money for testifying in the Welcome dis
barment case, and also that he had given
any money for DR.. Minshall-
Referring to the testimony of John Burns
Mr. Whiteside said he had never told Burns
that he meant to Job Mr.. Clark, for he
had no such intention: his intention, how
ever, was to show up bribery wherever 1t
appeared. He never told Burns that he
had been offered 100000 to leave the
state. as he had received no such offer.
Mr.. Whiteside said that he had not only
rot received any money for his part in the
senatorial investigation, but that he was
in debt. 10 the extent OF several Thousand
dollars.
The subcommittee on the papers in Mr..
Kurtz's and Mr.. Peller's hands having
completed its work returned and reported
that certain Of the documents should be ex-
amined. These gentlemen were then re-
called and the accounts put in. All of them
were as follows: By Mr.. kurtZ-Stephen
Bywater, $4,000 deposited March 3. 1899:
Z. C. Day. 5000. deposited March B. 1899;
Michael Shovlin. $500, deposited March
~. 1880: l.. C. Parker, two certificates of
deposit, 81 60 each. February, 1899; w. Z.
Tierney, certificate of deposit, Sl4.25S May,
1899. BY Mr.. Peeler-J. L. Jaqueth, two de-
posits. aggregating $500 on drafts from
the United States treasury; J. H. Geiger.
various memoranda after April IL. 1899, in
Guiding a certificate of deposit, May Il.
1899
Mr. KurtZ explained that the Tierney de-
posit was connected with the opening of the
state bank of Townsend. and that the
money had been collected from various
quarters.
State Representative Stephen Bywater of
Flathead county, being called, said that he
counts of the bank of Montana as exhibited
by Cashier kurtz- He said that he had
brought $1,000 in currency with him when
he came to Helena and had kept it in his
trunk during the sixty days preceding. The
other 5000 did not belong to him. but had
been handed TO him by his brother. Quite
a large part of these two sums was in $500
bills. Mr.. Bywater said that he was a rail-
road conductor with a salary of S12J a
month; that he had saved some of the
$1,000 from his salary and had sold cattle
and mining stock for the remainder. He
had also bought ranch for 5000 in April
1879
Mr. Bywater also said that his brother
lived in the state OF Washington and had
brought him 5000 with which to pay for
stock in the Croton Mining Company of
British Columbia The brother had re-
manned in Helena for twentyfour hours,
but the witness said he did not know where
he had stopped. Asked what he had paid
for the property. Mr.. Bywater said that he
was one OF the original lOcators of the
mines owned by the company. and that the
cost to him had been 500 or $500. He had
used the money for the development of the
property.
on cross-examination Mr.. Bywater said
thar he was a republican; that he had
voted with the republican caucus, and that
he mad not received any money for his vote
for Mr.. Clark. Speaking independentIv
Mr. Bywater said that Whiteside had told
him that he could get 5000 for his vote
for Mr.. Clark, but that he had told him he
would not take II. and after that had
warned people against Whiteside.