The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-27

to Further the Contest of the
States Senate-FinaIly Pleaded
WEAKNESS, and Was Excused I'm
til Today-Inquiry Nearing Close.
WASHINGTON, Feb. s26.-Marcus DAILY,
the millionaire of Montana, was the prin-
cipal witness of the senate committee on
privileges and elections today. He was
on the stand for about two hours and
at the expiration Of this time was ex>
cused on the plea that he was not well,
and the questioning process fatiguec
him.
Mr.. DAILY confessed that he had CON.
tributed $4,000 or $4,000 to the prosecu-
ton of this case, but asserted that he
had not entered into any conspiracy be-
fore Mr.. Clark's election to injure him.
He had not contributed any of the $780,
600 used In the Whitesides exposure. In
conclusion he rendered his checks and
check books for the past five years for
the inspection of the committee.
Mr.. Clark listened attentively to Mr..
Days testimony.
When asked If he knew that Mr.. Clark
became candidate because of fraudulent
primaries, Mr.. Daily said this could not
be the case, as the primaries were not
fraudulent and were not so attacked
until Mr.. Clark had been defeated a,
one of the county conventions.
Mr.. DAILY said he did not know the
other contributors to the campaign, ex-
cept that he understood Mr.. Clark gave
$500. AS to the campaign in Silver Bow
he said he thought the candidates fur
nished most of the money. He had given
$500 to Silver Bow and the candidates
had taken care of the rest.
= THAT was a small contribution
unused Mr.. Faulkner.
"Yes," answered Mr. Daily, 81 was not
much interested"
'Then when you are Interested" pur-
sued Mr.. Faulkner, ''you pull out more
freely?"
MIR. DALY'S PURSE.
"It depends upon how much 1 am in
terested," answered Mr. Daily.
The witness preserved smiling face
throughout the investigation.
the advances to prosecute this case. He
himself was sick, so that after being
present at the conference when the agree
ment to contribute was made he told
his secretary to advance the sums to
Mr. Campbell as 1t became necessary.
He did not place a limit upon the adj
vances. He had kept no personal ac-
count of 1t, but three or four days ago
he telegraphed from New York to the
bookkeeper at Anaconda and learned that
the amount was 500 GOO to $4,000. He said
his promise to contribute was after Mr..
Clark had accused him and others of a
''villainous conspiracy"
Mr. DAILY explained his acquaintance
with Mr. Whitesides who had built q
block at Butte for a firm in which Mr..
Daily was interested.
Mr.. Faulkner then took the witness
over the converse ton with Corbett, and
! Mr. DAILY denied the conversation as given
by Corbett. He denied having said that
every one of Clark S family would be
sent to the penitentiary.
81 have not the slightest personal feel
ing against Mr.. Clark or the members
of his family declared Mr.. Daily, "and
any statement of that kind is a villains
Gus lie.''
Members of the committee suggested
that no testimony had been given that
Mr.. DAILY was unfriendly to Mr.. Clark 5
family.
LAUGH ON FAULKNER.
''But 1 am dealing with that chaps
question:" answered Mr.. Daily, amid a
roar at his designation of Mr.. Faux
ner as that chap
Mr.. DAILY declared that he had not sent
/ a telegram to State Senator Cullen be-
fore the meeting, telling him -(Cullen)
that he DAILY would be on the train the
next day Cullen was then a conductor
on the Northern Pacific railway and Mr..
/ DAILY said 1t was not probable that he
would have discussed the senatorial ques-
ton with him. He was quite positive that
he had not told Mr.. Cullen that any man
who voted for Clark would be published
as a boodler and bribe-taker." He
remembered casually talking with Cullen
as he passed through the train, but no
reference whatever had been made to the
senatorial question. II am sure of that, "
said Mr.. DAILY, "for was not sufficiently
interested in the subject at that time"
Mr. Daily also denied authorizing the
sending of money into Flathead county
during the state campaign. He also said
he knew of no money being spent in the
legislature for the passage Of House Bill
No. 124. 81 wish you would go into that, y
he added. Neither the Anaconda COM
pany nor the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany supplied cent for that purpose. l
believe that Mr. Clark and his friends
contributed as much as any one to the
| passage of that bill, because they were
equally interested, but whether they con-
tributed money do not know. 1 do know
that l did not contribute money nor au-
thorize any. My instructions were to
use no money for that purpose. 1 told
our friends to stand up and be counted,
but that l would spent no money in that
direction"
Mr.. Daily said no doubt Mr. Toole's esti-
mate of the amount of money contributed
in behalf of Anaconda during the capital
contest was about right. He had not
handled the money, but he did not think
the amount exceeded $350,000 The com
panies which might be described as SUBJ
sidiary to the Anaconda company had
given 5000, 000
CAPITAL CONTEST.
Continuing the discussion of the capital
contest, Mr.. Daily said that unquestion-
ably some money was sent to Missoula
county to influence the result, but he was
sure no such sum as $4,000 had been
sent there in Anaconda's interest. He
denied that he had promised the people
of Missoula to build railway in Missoula
| county. The witness declared he had sup
ported the Democratic ticket in 1894, and
that he had not advocated the election Of
Hon. Lee Mantle for the senate.
Asked what part of the state was dis
tinctively Democratic, Mr.. Daily smiled
and, looking at Mr.. Clark while he point
ed to himself, replied:
1.-The western part of the state, where
l live. Mr.. Clark and I both live in that
mort opd that NAV account for IT