The age-herald., 1900-02-20
SENATOR CLARK
 STILL ON STAND He Was Willing to Spend Money
 faI Political PuTity ABOUT THE s5,OOO DONATION That Was Given to Day Through .. Personal Friends. : MONTANA POLITICS IN A BAD FIX e.N es-s ise5
 A Large Amount of Money Had to be Legitimately Expended to De-
 feat Designs of the Ano- conda Company
MONTANA POLITICS IN A BAD FIX

Washington, February 1s.-Senator Clark. of Montana, was again today the star wit ness before the senate committee on privi- leges and elections, and pr. Tracy was also heard
 Dr. Tracy, Justice Hunts physician, oc- cupied the entire forenoon sitting and part of the afternoon session. His state ment concerning his interviews with Jus tiee Hunt corroborated the testimony of the justice in all essential details, except that his recolle sion was that $5,0OO and not $1000OO was tlhd amount mentioned by him as the price yAich the justice should get for having the Welcome disIbarment case thrown out of the state supreme court. He said that Justice Hunt was an intimate friend, and he asserted his motive to be in taking the course inc did to test his ability to withstand the corrupting influence of money. He had secured no funds from any source to pay the bribe suggested and had been promised none for that purpose.
 MT Clark necessarily went over much of the ground covered by him In his testimony Saturday. He was cross-examined by MT. Campbell, and insisted that he had spent mo money for corrupt purposes during the Montana senatorial campaign. He gave detailed statement of expenditures for po- litical purposes during the legislative and senatorial contests, which footed up, as Senator Hurley announced, $199.OOO. He de- clared that his only purpose in entering upon the campaign was the overthrow of MT. Daly's rule 'dn the state, which, he said, was so tyrannical that he would not desire to continue his residence in the state if it was to continue. MT. Campbell said l.. -TN-I in rebuttal. He is expected every day.
 Dr. Tracey's Testimony
 Senator Clark gave place at the begin ming of today's session of the senate com mittee on elections, as a witness, to Dr. Tracey. The change was made in order to permit the judges of the supreme court of Montana to be present while Dr. Ira cey was testifying, as his testimony was expected to deal largely with the interview between himself and Justice Hunt and Att torney General Nolan.
 pr. Tracey said that his alleged propo- sition to Justice Hunt was in the nature of, a joke, and that Judge Hunt knew it at the time.
 Asked what "party" ne had meant to refer to when he told Judge Hunt that he could get $5000O or $lOO,OOO out of the case witness said he "did not mean anybody"
 Then you told him what was not true?"
 ''I might well have told him that he could get a million
 Clark Makes Statement
 At the afternoon session Senator Clark was recalled. He submitted a statement showing expenditures of political account made by him from August 1, 1898, to Sep- tember l, 1899, which footed up owed s139, 900. Other items were given covering the ex- pense of the campaign last spring. The senator said in addition to these sums, he had made Messrs. Welcome, McDermott and E.-C. Day each present of 5000, but he did, not consider these donations in the nature of political expenditures.
 All the large sums paid to C. w Clark, Welcome and Davidson had been paid to carry out the agreement which he had en- tered into to pay the expenses of the pro- posed campaign to rescue the state from Daly. He had questioned no accounting from them. He did, not know what they had done with the money.
 Speaking of the reasons which had led him to gos into the campaign, MT. Clark said his friends had reported that if there was no change they were liable to have to move out of the state.
 Mr. Clark said in response to Senator Hurley that it was true that in tine first election he, Governor Broadwater, Govern or Hauser and MT. Daly had each contribu- ted $i0,000 to the democratic campaign fund Asked about the costs of the conset over the location of the capital, MT. Clark said that probably his friends of the opposition could tell more about it than he could. He had controlled $1OO000 and he thought the people of Helena had raised over $1OO, 900 to hold the capitol there. It was common report that the opposition, the Anaconda lompany, had spent million dollars to To- cate the capitol at Anaconda. It had not occurred to him that the large sums had been used ilegtimately.
 No Money to Influence Votes
 "I am sure," he said, 'that in the sena- torial contest no money was spent to in- fuence voters iliegitimatey. The election was for the purpose of overthrowing the one man power of MT. Daily, and this could mot be done with any meagre sum. Every thing was conducted in such high-handed manner that nobody could expect to receive recognition unless he bent the knee or crawled in the dust to those people.
 '.IIe had,. he said. personally seen men