Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-09

Inc NefOdllW report OIL MI. Marcus
Days examination before the Clark in
yestigating committee at Washington not
having been published and in view of the
fact that they are historically valuable
and vastly entertaining, the Inter Noun
tain has procured from the official records
} the important questions and answers,
which are as follows:
Q. What did you contribute to the
campaign of 1898?
A. l think it was about 81, 500.
Q. In that election or n other have
you ever attempted to coerce the men or
control their vote?
A. No. sir; / never had to.
@. Have YOU, ever since the time you
have been in Montana attempted to die
tate the actions of the public officers in
any manner whatever?
A. I never did. l never thought of it.
had no desire to.
Q. Did you see Mr.. Whiteside and talk
with him before o left for the east
after the election?
A. Not unless 1 seen him on the street.
@. Did you talk with him about the
senatorial race?
A. l did not.
@. Did you have any arrangement
with him or any other person either di-
rectly or indirectly whereby you We're to
put up any none for the purpose of de-
feating Mr.. Clark?
A. No, sir: l did not.
Q. Did you put up my money to Sc
cure the election or defeat of any person
by the legislature?
A. No. sir. Not one dollar, nor at any
other time.
A. At the Netherland hotel in New
York did you say to Frank COrbett IF
Clark shall show his head in that legis-
lature. if he shall be even nominated you
y = ~ xv,:11 no~ 1000 lsS.. yl-~o %l4o% 1r,:1y
drive Clark and his friends out of politics
in Montana forever and will drive, some
Of them into the penitentiary?
A. No: positively I never made any
such statement publicly or privately to
anybody.
Q. You heard of the $50. 900 that was
exhibited to the legislature?
A. I heard of it first in New York. I
saw it first in the morning papers and
got a telegram from Toole after the vot-
Ing.
'1atQ @. Did you have any part in putting
up the $50, 900 or any part of it?
A. No, sir; I had no part, nor I never
thought of the like.
@. Did you tell Senator Cullen on the
Northern Pacific: IF o fellows elect
Mr.. Clark I will see hat he never takes
his seat in the United States senator"
A. I never made such a statement.
Witness denied all knowledge of Will
AnAAA ~ olAu lIIS jim . 1CI & I
to send him to Flathead county to help
elect Whiteside.
@. When did you first make White
sides acquaintance?
A. When he began building in Butte.
@. Did you at any time ever attempt
to cOerce the members of the legislature
in their votes for or against any man for
y. S. senator or any measure pending in
the legislature?
A. No, sir: I never did.
@. Did you ever try to influence any
member for such a purpose?
A.. No, sir: I never did.
;, @. Have you ever attempted to in1u-
ence either directly or indirectly the
judiciary of the state of Montana or other
public officers in the discharge of their
duties?
"A No. sir; I never did.
@. Did you ever promise to pay any
person or any legislator any money to in
fiuence them?
A.. No. sir: I never did.
O.. Mr.. DAILY you are contributing to
pay the expenses of this prosecution?
A.. Yes, sir. Mr.. Clark after his cleo
ton was reported in the Butte Miner to
have said there was a Villainous conspir-
acy organized to defeat him and that
DAILY put up the money. I called a meet
ing of my friends who with me were ac-
cused of being in the conspiracy and I
agreed that l would put up my portion of
the money to pay for the investigation
Mr.. Clark courted. At that meeting were
members of the state central committee.
q. How much money have you paid
out in pursuance Of hat agreement?
A. I think it will amount to between
$40. 900 and $3.50 I paid that myself.
Q. Do you know what Others have
paid?
A. do not. I do not think it is a great
deal.
Acting chairman: To who did you
pay your money?
A. l sent the money to Campbelrs
office.
paid to lawyers and o much to wit
nesses?
A.. I do not know. I have been sick
most of the time. Very shortly after that
] was taken sick and I had not been pay
Ing n attention to it till the last few
days.
cROSS-EXAMINATION.
@. BY Faulkner-Was the campaign of
1898 a very earnest one and did it not re-
late to fusion?
A. 1t was earnest and fusion was dis
cussed in a general way.
@. Was not fusion an issue throughout
the state?
A. I do not n what happened
throughout the state. I did not know
what was going on except in Silver Bow
and Deer Lodge counties.
@. You took no interest in the politi-
cal situation in Montana outside of those
1.-TWO counties?
A. That is all.
Q. All your information was simply
hearsay without knowing anything about
It at all in other counties except what
You read in the papers?
A. Absolutely. That Is correct.
G. Will you give to the consniffee the
number of democratic voters in Silver
Bow county?