Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-25
A Few Samples of Putrid Pol
itics in Montana.
A PUGILISTIC PREACHER.
He Gives Racy Testimony in the
Clark Bribery Case.
A LAWYER DEFINES A LIE.
He Identities Letter Written by Him
and Then Admits that Every State.
ment Contained Therein was False
hood.

menttOnta1neuE EhereLh was fafse-
hood.
Washington, Jan. 2O.-The hearing
yesterday before the senate commit
tee on elections in the case of Senator
Clark, of Montana, developed four
new witnesses. They were Represen-
tative Cooney, T. Z. Butler, II preach
er named Warren, who was chaplain
of the Montana house of representa-
tiyes, and Il lawyer named tason.
Mr.. Warren said that he had resign
ed his ministry in the Methodist
church after giving his testimony be-
fore the Montana supreme court be-
cause of ScandalOuS reports that were
put in circulation about him. He
said that previous to going to Helena
he had had a difficulty at Sweet Grass.
"A man called me a bad name," he
said, and | knocked him down and
gave him a thrashing.'
Isn't it a fact" asked Mr.. Faull<-
ner, that you were charged by MEM
bers of your congregation with em-
bezzlement and fornication?"
Mr.. Warren replied in the negative,
saying there had been no official
charge. He said that the stories cir
culated after he had given his testi-
mony charged him with drunkenness,
embezzlement and immortality.
Il. I. Cason, an attorney at Butte,
told how he had been sent for to come
to Helena to use his influence with
Representative Marcy, of Custer
county, and that when he went there
he saw Senator Clark, who told MIN
he would like to have him see Marcy
and talk with him and that Mr.. Mar
cey had not been approached; that
service being left to him (Cason), as
he could handle him better
He authorized me to say to him
that he would pay him $4,000 for his
vote for him (Clarl<) for the United
States senate" said the witness.
Mr.. Cason said he had seen Marcy
several times and after satisfying
himself that Marcy would vote for
Clark, had so reported to him. He
had not, however, made any sugges-
tion of money consideration to Mr..
Marcy. Afterward Marcy had voted
for Clark and on February he (Ca-
Sonl had received letter from Mr..
Clark enclosing a check for $500 for
professional services" This letter
Cason said that the only services he
had rendered Mr.. Clark were in con-
nection with the senatorial race.
Mr.. Cason identified a letter he had
written to Albert q. Hall, of Wash
ington, ID. C., a brotherin-law of Sem
ator Clark, who had originally intro
duced him to the senator. This letter
thanked Mr.. Hall in profuse terms for
Cason'S Introduction to Mr.. Clark and
spoke of that gentleman in the most
eulogstic terms.
Mr.. Cason identified the recanting
letter he had given to a Mr. Root 1t
covered three pages of foOlscap and
was read by the witness amid rOars Of
laughter by all present, this laughter
being to the abject character of the
language used.
do You pretend to say that when
you wrote that letter you knew it was
not true?" said Mr.. Faulkner.
"Why, certainly" responded the
witness.
'.Then you confess here to having
written and signed three pages of lies
in that letter." said Mr.. Faulkner.
In his reply the witness gave the
second unique definition of a lie that
the hearing has brought out.
NO, | do not" he replied. y con
fess to writing the letter, but | cont
think any statement is ever a lie which
is made with the understanding that
if is false