The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-16
He FOUGHT WITH
BRIDES AS BOMBS
Sought to Stay the Supreme
Courts Honor.
THE CLARK CASE AGAIN
JUSTICES OFFERED ONE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND EACH.
TO AID WELCOME IN DlsBARMENT CASE
I'VE Can Get the Supreme Court, They viii
Come High, and the Scheme viii
Have to be Capitalized at
Five Millions"

Washington, Feb 15-Highly sensa-
tional testimony was developed today III
the investigation by the Senate Commit
tee ON Privileges and Elections of the
election of w. a. Clark to the Senate
from Montana. Justice Hunt Repub-
llcan member of the Montana Supreme
Court, testified that his family physician
Dr. Tracey, had made what he (the JUS
tlcel regarded as attempts to have him
consider a 100000 buibe to favor Law
yer Welcome, one of Mr.. Clark's attor
h%ys. in the disbament proceedings
against Welcome. The witness did not,
directly at least, connect Mr.. Clark with
this bribery proposition, so the latter's
counsel. Ex-senator Faulkner, moved to
strike the whole testimony from the Ne
cord, but did not succeed. Witness said
Ire did not make the matter public be-
cause he felt too much Inundated over
the proposition and also believed that
Mr.. Tracey did not realize the enormfty
of his offense.
The committee held Il night session at
which Justice piggott. also of the Mon
tana Supreme court, testified concerning
remarks made to him on two days when
DIR. Tracey had interviews with Justice
Hunt. Justice Piggott's statement Was
that Mr.. Clark's leading COUNSEL Mr..
Corbett. had come TO him and while ap-
panently under great excitement s&dd
that he had just been advised by Mr.. j.
5. NJ. Nell of Helena, that the Supreme
court could be ullduly influenced in the
Welcome disbarment proceedings, want
ed to know ii it We're true and spoke Of
denouncing any such attempt. Witnesk
Ind informed counsel that he never would
hear of such an attempt from him pig
goO, fer he would kin anyone coming to
him with Tribe offer
Mr.. Corbett spent two or three hours
talking with the Justice ON this coca
siun and the former said Mr.. Neil hld
said to him:
I'VE can get the Supreme court. They
will come high and the scheme will have
to be capitalized for about five millions.
Corbett then proceeded to say that he
had applied variolrs opprobiolls epth ITS
TO Mr.. Neill for slulh Il presumption. say
ing that he had secured n special train
and come over from Butte for the pIIr-
pose of heading off any effort i'll the line
of such an outrageous proceeding and to
assure him (the justice) that if anything
OF Une klllU WIS (ll(lSfT9ken they ndu
had nothing to do with it.
On cross-eXamination Justice PiggUtt
said that at that time he had no reason
to suspect that MIR. Corbett's motives
were not the highest, but after Justice
Hunt had related his experience he pig
gott) concluded ''that Mr. Corbett and
DR.. Tracey had conspired together to
make an assault upon the Supreme court
with their 100000; that they had made
their attack upon Justice Hunt and had
failed. and that Mr.. Corbstt knowing
Justice Hunt would tell me of this, had
come to prepare me against receiving his
version of the. interview"
attorney General Cornelius b. Nolan
of Montana, testified that he also had an
experience with Dr. Tracey. He had
conducted the prosecution i'll the Wtll-
come disbarment case. and while the case
was in progress DIR. Tracey who was; also
his family physician had come to him, he
said at three different times. suggesting
that he. fNoam could get money out OF
the case from Mr. Clark. The witness
said that he had chatted with DIR. Tracey
on the occasion of the first meeting until
the latter asked him how much did he
think would be required. Il replied SAID
the witness. If | should lend myself 70
such a scheme | think ought to be tn-
titled to S100,000.y
The doctor said he thought the sum
reasonable. Later on the same occasion,
after he had come to think the doctor
serious. Mr.. Nolan said he had told the
doctor to go back to Mr.. Clark and t!il
him that if his body We're skeleton
and filed with gold it would not be sllffi-
cient to buy him."
At the third interview Mr.. Nolan said
he had told Dr. Tracey that he had talk