The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03


bers of the Montana legislature. One
Of these accounts was that of Repre-.
sentative Stephen Bywater of Flat
head county, who deposited $4,000 il
the Bank Of Montana at Helena on tbs
Sd of last March, after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature.
Mr. Bywater was put on the stand
lie said that he had brought $4,000 OF
this sum to Helena with him and kept
it in his trunk all winter, while $4,000
he had received from his brother as
purchase money on sale of mining
stock. He declared that he had not re-
ceived any pay for his vote for Mr..
Clark for the senate, but said that Mr..
Whiteside had told him that he could
get $4,000 for supporting Mr.. Clark.
Other witnesses of the day were
Clerk Rickerts of the Montana state
supreme court, T. c. Kurtz Of the Mon
tana National bank, both new wit
nesses and Attorney General Nolan,
Mr.. Whiteside and r. g. Peller re-
called.
Attorney General Nolan was recalled
to add to the information already given
by him concerning the Montana cleo
ton laws. This he did, citing all the
provisions of the state law bearing on
the subject. Mr.. Nolan stated that he
had given small sums Of money to per-
sons who had gone over the state in
search of testimony in this case. The
money had been supplied by Mr.. Camp
bell. He had also procured $500 from
Mr.. Campbell as a gift from Mr.. Daily
for the editor of an agricultural news
paper in Helena.
Another item charged to him was
$1,000. which had been advanced to pay
the expenses of witnesses in the Well
come disbarment proceedings. This
money had been received from Mr..
Campbell and most of it advanced by
the state treasurer to secure him for
the payment of these expenses. Mr..
Nolan said that he had advised the
state treasurer to pay these expenses
upon the assurance that the expendi-
ture would be made good.
Among others to whom Mr.. NOlan's
account showed that he had paid eX-
pense money for collecting evidence in
the diSbaIment case was the clerk of
the state supreme court. Mr.. Foster
seized upon this fact to put the wit
ness through a pretty severe sharp
cToss-eXamination to show that this
official was transcending his official
duties the case being before the court
of which he was an official. Mr.. Nolan
said that the clerk had gone to several
points to investigate evidence. He had
paid him $50 purely for expenses and
not as an addition to his salary.
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 ap-
peared. was also a correspondent Of
some eastern papers. Mr.. Nolan said
that after the Whiteside exposure /
fifty-two Of the fifty-siX papers in Mon /
tana were engaged in denouncing 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 conversa-
ton with Greenfield, in which he said
that the latter had told him that Mr..
Clark had tried to change his Green |
field's) account of the Whiteside cpl 1
sode, which he had resisted, and that |
then Mr.. Clark had offered him employ /
ment at $50 a day.
Henry G. RiCkeTts. clerk of the Mon !
tana state supreme court. was put on |
TO contTOvert the testimony given by |
Thomas +. Lyons TO the effect that Mr.. |
Campbell had offered him $4,000 to /
make false statements before this COM |
mttee. He said he had seen Lyons on |
TIE day of the Whiteside exposure, |
when Lyons told him Of his connection |
with the bribery of members of the leg
lSld TURF l1N OIlS llitli odINl. dtGOIhlllS
10 the witness, he had fixed" two /
members of the legislature, and that |
another would vote as he wanted him |
to
In March last he said he had another
conversation with Lyons, in which the |
latter had told him that he had made a /
little money out of Clark's election,
mentioning $1,000, and saying that he
not only had that amount, but more.
Mr.. Ricl1erts said that at This time Mr..
Lyons had also told him that the pur-
chase 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.. Campbell all he
knew Of the proceedings in the Clark
interest.
on cross examination Mr.. Rickerts
said that his interest in the Clark mat
ter was due to the fact that he had as
sisted in the election of State Senator
Warner as an anti-Clark man. and was
with the course he had taken
i'm voting for Mr.. Clark. What he had
done was done with the view Of expos
ing Mr. Warmers conduct.
Continuing his testimony Mr. Rick
erts said that he had failed sto place
The facts in his possession before the
grand jury because he had promised
Lyons he would not reveal his secret;
he had not told it until after Mr.. Lyons
himself said to him that he h~7 told
Mr Campbell
Mr.. T c. Hurts. cashier of tn, %
tana National bank of Helena, was put
on the stand TO give testimony concern
ing the bank deposits made by men,
bers of the last legislature from Au-
gust, 1898, to September 1899 He also
brought the accounts Of Senator Clark
and Mr.. Welcome. All of them were
referred to a subcommittee for exam
nation.
Mr. W7hiteside. the first witness Of the
case. and who, in some respects. may ]
be considered the prosecuting witness,
was recalled for rebuttal purposes. He 4
first related his meeting with Ben Hill
in Butte, when the latter made his
affidavit as to the transactions in Hell !
ana. while he was there supporting Mr. /
Clark for the senate.
Mr. Whiteside said he had not sug- :
gested to Mr.. Hill any statement to be :
made in the affidavit Hill had init (,
mated at that time that he wanted :
financial assistance. but none had been :
hen given him. He denied that he had ;
given Mr.. Hill any money for testify ,
ng in the Welcome disbarment case.
Dr that he had given any money for r
Dr. Minshall :
Mr.. Whiteside also referred at some
ength to the testimony of Mr. Jas
luith and the witness Ringwalt He !
was especially emphatic and sweeping
n his contradictions of Ringwalt. as :
serting, practically, that there was no +
ruth i'm any Of that witness" testimony !
Referring to the testimony of John ;
Burns. Mr.. Whiteside said he had new !
n told Mr.. Burns that he meant to /
job Mr.. Clark. for he had no such in
ention; his intention however, was to q
show up bribery wherever it appeared. +
He had never todd Burns that he had I
been offered 100000 to leave the state,
rs he had received no such offer. Mr. /
'Vnitesde said that be had not re- i