The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-28

that he intended Ito carry this matter to
Washington.
Mr.. Campbell offered to submit White
sides bank account covering 1888 ana
1899, but the chairman ruled that this was
inadmissible. The object was to show thar
Whiteside could not have furnished the
$50 900, and that he did not receive s9o,ooo
for his services in the exposure
Mr.. Faulkner, at this point in the IN
| vestigation, offered TO the committee some
| copies Of the bank accounts of Senator
| Clark. Mr. Bickford, Mr. McDermott,
| Charles W Clark and Mr.. Cooper Ihey
| were referred to the Subcommittee LOT
| examination.
The subcommittee by which the papers
| brought by Mr.. Kurtz had been examined
! reported and Mr.. Kurtz was recalled
| The bank statement showed that there
| were two certificates of deposit of $1,000
| each deposited by State Senator Parker
| on February IS, 1899. State Senator By
water deposited SIS, 900 on March 3, 1888;
| State Senator Tierney deposited 81. 20 on
May %, 1899; Mike Shovelin, another mem
| Der of the Legislature, deposited $500 on
| March 2. 1899.
Mr.. Kurtz said that Tierney's deposit
| was the proceeds of bank stock which he
had sold.
Mr.. Pealer, President of the Kalspell
National Bank. was recalled. Mr.. Jacqueth's
account with that bank showed deposits
| of $4,000 on May 2, 1899, and 5000 on
June 5. 1899. Gieger's account showed
various deposits in the hundreds during
| April. August, September, and October,
| 1899.
A Conductors Evidence.
! Stephen Bywater, of Flathead county.
| was then called to the stand. He gave
his occupation as a conductor on the Great
Northern Railroad. He said he also had
| ranch and some cattle in Idaho and
| Washington. He had bought the ranch
| in May. 1899. and had paid for it $1,000 IN
cash. He also owned $40 acres in Idaho
which he had bought three years ego.
He owned a home at Kalispell, free of
| debt. He received a salary of $3.50
month. and had been employed for eleven
| years. He had been elected TO the Eegis-
| lature from Flathead county on the Re-
| publican ticket. After voting for various
| Republican caucus candidates he had
| finally voted for Senator Clark.
Now" said Mr.. Brney, ION March 3,
/ 1899. you deposited S15.o in the Mon
| tana National Bank. Was it in cash.
1T was in cash"
Where did you get that money!"
| II took $4,000 from home with me, and
| my brother, Ben Bywater, gave me $1,000
| That part of the money was not mine
I This witness said that he kept the $4,000
| in his trunk in his room at Helena during
the sixty days of the session OF the Legs
| lature On the morning of March his
| brother gave him the $4,000, and he de-
| posted it all in the Montana National
| Bank.
| Counsel for the memorialists attacked
the witness statement. He said his
| brother came from Portland, Oregon, and
| remained in Helena twelve hours. He did
not know where he stopped while there
| He Just met him and got So, 900 from him
as an interest in mining company, which
he, the witness, was organizing. The
members of the committee pressed the
witness closely and skeptically. He said
he had located the mining claims in Brit
ISL Columbia, and when his brother gave
MIN the s9,ee0 he gave him an order for
$4,000 shares in this company.
How the Company Was Managed.
The company had treasurer, but the
witness said he had kept the money and
paid the bills. The company had declared
no dividends. 1t was capitalized at s., co.,
900, but the $1,000 was substantially all
that had been paid in. He could only
name two other stockholders. and they
were neighbors. One had bought 500
shares at 10 cents share, and the other
small amount. He was president of the
company, but did not know whether any
ore had been shipped. The company had
been organized under The laws OF British
Columbia, but the president of the COM
pany had no knowledge as to what these
laws were.
He had never filed any statement with q
public officer, nor taken any oath in
forming the corporation. He supposed he
had read a part of the charter, but he did
not know single provision Of that instru-
ment. He did not know where his brother
is, nor what business he is engaged In. He
had paid some workmen at the company's
mines in checks drawn or the bank at
Helena. He did not know how much. He
kept no books. The company had five d.
rectors. They lived up in the mountains.
Under cross-examination the witness was
asked by Mr.. Faulkner:
did you ever solicit or accept any money
from Senator Clark or for voting for Sem
ator Clark"
mo, sir; ] never did
When his examination had been conclud-
ed the witness said: Now, have little
talk to make" He then said that White
side had offered him S., 900 to vote for Sen
ator Clark. Whiteside was the only man
who had said money to him.
The Morning Session.
The morning session opened with a
further examination of Attorney General
Nolan. one Of the anti-Clark witnesses
His testimony related chiefly to the cleo
ton laws of Montana and was of no pub
lie interest.
In accounting for the payment of some
sums of money Mr.. Nolan detailed circum-
stances as 10 the payment of $500 to a
newspaper man named Greenfield, and ac-
counted for IT by saying that Mr.. Clark had
desired to revise an article written by
Greenfield il relation to the exposure and
had offered him employment at $50 day.
and that when the witness had mentioned
the fact TO Mr.. DAILY the latter had author
.Zed him 10 pay $500 to Greenfield with tho
object OF encouraging and sustaining IN
independent newspaper. The witness men
toned, in that connection, that fifty-two
out of the fiftysix newspapers fBsMontana
had been denouncing Whiteside for making
public the bribery Of members of the
Legislature, and when Mr.. Foster, one of
the Clark counsel intimated that the wit
ness was committing perjury, Mr.. Hoar
resented the remark Indignantly and sew
eral members OF the committee Joined in
condemning IT.
The next witness was Henry G. Rickett,
Clerk of the Supreme Court of Montana
He was called to contradict the testimony
of Lyons, Clark witness. He said that
Lyons had told him that he expected TO 20
to the penitentiary, as he was as deep in
the thing as anybody else, having fixed
State Senators Warner and Luddy Also
that Lyons had told him he had made some
| money out of the Clark election and had
deposited 81, coo in bank in his wife's name
and had paid 81 600 trust deed on his