The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-28
One Man Deposited $4,000 I'm n Hell
ena Bank and Others Sums
Nearly Large.
MR.. BYWATER'S EXPLANATION
A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR TELLS
HOW HE GOT HIS WEALTH.
Says 1t Was All Legitimate and that
Senator Clark Paid Him Moth
fng-Other Testimony.


ings of the Senate committee on privileges
and elections in the case of Senator Clark,
of Montana, to-day dealt with the bank
accounts Of some of the members of the
Montana Legislature. One of these ac-
counts was that of Representative Stephen
Bywater, of F'lathead county, who de-
posted $4,000 in the Bank of Montana at
Helena. on the Sd day of last March, after
the adjournment of the Legislature. Mr..
Bywater was put on the stand. He said he
had brought $1,000 of this sum to Helena
with him and kept II in his trunk all win
ter, while 5000 had been received from his
brother as purchase money on a sale of
mining stock. He declared that he had not
received any pay for his vote for Mr.. Clark
for the Senate, but said that Mr.. Whiteside
had told him that he could get 5000 for
supporting Mr.. Clark. other witnesses of
the day were Clerk Ricketts, of the Mon
tana Supreme Court; T. c. Kurtz, of the
Montana National Bank, both new wit
nesses. and Attorney General Nolan, Mr.
Whiteside and d. G. Peller recalled.
Attorney General Nolan, of Montana
was recalled to add to the information al
ready given by him concerning the Mon
tana election laws. This he did, citing all
the provisions from the State laws bearing
upon the subject. Mr.. Nolan stated he
had given small sums of money to persons
who had gone over the State in search Of
testimony in this case. The money had
been supplied by Mr.. Campbell. He had
also procured $500 from Mr. Campbell as a
gift from Mr.. DAILY for the editor of an
agricultural paper in Helena Another
item charged to him was $780, which had
been advanced to pay the expenses of wit
nesses in the Welcome disbarment pro-
ceedings. This money had been received
from Mr.. Campbell and most of it ad-
vanced to the State treasurer to secure
him for the payment of these expenses.
Mr.. Nolan said he had advised the State
treasurer to pay these expenses on the as
surance that the expenditure would be
made good. Among others to whom Mr..
Nolan's account showed that he had paid
expense money for collecting evidence in
the disbarment case was the clerk Of the
State Supreme Court.
Mr.. Foster seized upon this fact to put
the witness through pretty sharp cross
examination to show that this official was
transcending his official duties; the case
being before the court of which he was
gone 10 several points to investigate evil
dence. He had paid him $S5. purely for
expenses and not as an addition to his
NEWSPAPER GIVEN $500.
The question of the payment of $500 to
a Helena newspaper was also gone into
at length. The money was given to a man
named Greenfield, who, it appeared. was
also correspondent of some Eastern pa
pers. Mr.. Nolan said that after the White
side exposure fifty-two of the fifty-six pa
pers in Montana were engaged In denounc-
| ing Mr.. Whiteside, and this condition of
affairs being placed before Mr.. DAILY. he
had volunteered to give the man $500. Mr.
Nolan also detailed a conversation with
Greenfield, in which he said the latter had
| told him that Mr. Clark had sought to
change his (Greenfield's) account of the
Whiteside episode which he had resisted
and that then Mr.. Clark had offered him
employment at $40 a day.
Henry G.. Rickerts, clerk of the Montana
| State Supreme Court, was put on to con-
trovert the testimony given by Inomas
| E. Lyons, to the effect that Mr.. Camp
| bell had offered him 5000 to make false
| statements before this committee. He SAID
| he had seen Lyons on the DAY OF the
| Whiteside exposure and that Lyons tod
him of his connection with the bribery
| then said according to the witness he had
| fixed" two members of the Legislature
| and that another voted as he wanted MIN
| to. In March last he said he had mad
| another conversation with Lyons. in which
| the latter had told him that he had made
| a little money out of the Clark election,
| mentioning $1,000, and saying that he not
| only had that amount, but more MT.
| Rickerts said that at this time Mr; LYONS
| had also told him that the purchase OF
the Warner property by G. w. Clark was
| not bona fide and that the property was
| sold for taxes in 1899. On another occasion
| Lyons told him that he had told Mr.. lamp
| bell all he knew OF the proceedings III 'he
Clark case.
ON cross-examination Mr.. Ricketts, said
| that his interest in the Clark matter was
due to the fact that ne nad asslsseo III ' ar
| election of State Senator Warner, as an
/ anti-Clark man, and was Disguised with
| the course he had taken in voting for
| clark. What he had done was done with
| the view of exposing MT ar"ei
| duct. ,,.,..
| Continuing his testimony. Mr.. Rickerts
| said that he had failed to place the Iacts
| I'm his possession before the grand jury De.
| cause he had promised Lyons that he wouic
| not reveal his secret; he had not told II
| until after Mr. Lyons himself said 10 MIN
| that ne had told Mr.. Campbell.
T. c. Hurts, cashier OF the Mon.an .a ,. Ia
| tional Bank of Helena, was put on 10 give
| testimony concerning the bank deposits
| made by members of the last Legislature
| from August, 1898, to September, 1899.
| He also brought the accounts OF Senator
| Clark and Mr.. Welcome. All OF them
were referred to a sub committee for ex
| animation.
WHITESIDE RECALLED.
Mr.. Whiteside, the first witness OF thu
case and who in some respects may be con
sidered the prosecuting witness, was re
called for rebuttal purposes.
He first related his meeting with Ber
Hill in Butte, when the latter made hi
| affidavit as to the transactions in Helena
while he was there supporting Mr.. Clarl
for the Senate. Mr.. whiteside said he hat
not suggested to Mr.. Hill any statemen
to be made In the affidavit. Hill had In
timated at that time that he wanted finan
cial assistance, but none had been givei
him He denied that he had given Mr.. Hill
any money for testifying in the Wellcom
disbarment case and also that he ha'
given any money for DR.. Minshall. Mr.
Whiteside also referred at some length
to the testimony of Representative Jaquetl
and the witness Ringwalt. He was es
| pecially emphatic and sweeping in his con
Predictions of Ringwalt, asserting prac
tically that there was no truth in any o
that witnesses testimony.
| Referring to the testimony OF Johl
| Burns Mr.. Whiteside said he had neye
told Mr.. Burns that he meant TO job Mr.
| Clark, for he had no such intentions. his in
| tention, however, was to show up briber.
wherever IL appeared He had never toll
Burns that ne had been offered 100000 I
leave the State, as he had received no sue
offer Mr.. Whiteside said that he hadt no
only not received any money for his par