The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-18
MARTIN LETTER.

At this 1uncture "a member Of the COM
mittee asked Mr.. Clark in regard to the
letter of Dr. Martin, concerning which
Chief Justice Brantley had testified
earlier in the day. Mr.. Clark replied
that he had no recollection concerning
the letter. He thought he might have
written it, as his relation with Judge
Brantley was friendly, and as he knew
the relationship to be so between Martin
and Brantley. He was questioned closely
as to his recollection Of the authorship
of a letter written last October or No
vember. He replied:
II may have written the letter to DR..
Martin to see Justice Brantley but l
certainly did not go to the extent of ask
ing him to suggest to Judge Brantley
that the proceedings against Welcome
should be stopped. | admit that l was
greatly. interested in Welcome S case,
being convinced, as the letter referred to
says that he is both grand and a good
man. / do not however, wish to be un-
derstood, If did write the letter, as sug-
gesting any means of approaching him
which was not perfectly legitimate. AS
to recollecting whether | wrote the letter,
/ repeat that / cannot say positively. L
have correspondence almost as large as
any man in the United States. l write
from fifty-to a hundred letters per day,
and 1t is not probable that l would re-
member if 1 wrote this letter on a mat
ter / did not consider very important. If
I did write it, merely did so to have DR..
Martin use his influence with Judge
Brantley to see that justice was done Mr..
Welcome
WARREN INCIDENT.
Mr.. Faulkner, asked Mr.. Clark concern
ing his acquaintance with Rev. B. War
I, MAJ oir,ie+ rry1,A Rn1
for the prosecution. Mr.. Clark said Mr..
Warren had come to him during the SEN
atorial contest expressing great interest
in his contest, stating there was mem
Der of the legislature, whose name he did
not mention, whose vote could be obtain
ed for Mr.. Clark.
'I told him." said Mr. Clark that that
would be nice, and l would like to have
the vote Mr. Warren then said to get
the vote would require some money. /
told him.. Mr.. Clark went on, that I
did not expect to secure any votes as a
result of pecuniary consideration"
After that Mr.. Warren had asked him
for contribution for his church and had
asked him to send the check, if he gave
one at all, to him personally. He had
promised to do this, and had afterward
sent him a check for 500 for the church,
making it payable to Mr.. Warren, person
tions than this with Mr.. Warren, and he
pronounced as absolutely false the state
ment made by Warren that he CLARK
had urged him afterward to get for him
the vote of the member he had spoken Of
Questioned closely upon Mr.. Bickford's
taking $1,000 to Missoula to lift Woods
mortgage Mr.. Clark said he at the time
knew nothing about it. He did not know
his son had given the money to Bickford
| ha in
| timony here.
SON IS WEALTHY.
did your son have access to your ac-
| counts so he could have given Mr.. Bick-
| ford that amount of money in your in
terest?" asked Mr.. Hoar.
THE son is a man Of wealth himself,
said Mr.. Faulkner.
Let the witness answer" said Mr..
| Chandler
my son had drawn on my account.
but he did not do so in this case. He
could easily have given money on his own
| account
Replying to a question he said his son
| had not even, since the details of this
transaction were brought out in this in
J quiry, explained 1t to him. He had not paid
| Mr.. Bickford anything for his services,
except for his expenses and his regular
| salary.
Replying to question by Mr.. Faulkner
concerning the relationship to himself Of
his son, C. w. Clark. Welcome, Bickford,
A. j. Davidson, A. j. Steel. William Nc
| Dermott and others, Senator Clark said:
"They expressed to me sentiments of
friendship in my political affairs, and
some of them suggested means of man
| aging the campaign and some of them
were authorized to look after things gen.
erally.'
Had they any authority to do anything
in financial way more than to pay incl
| dental expenses?'
| "They had not, If 1 am to understand
/ your question to be whether they had
authority to pay out money for unlawful
purposes. They had no authority to pay
out money for any other than fair and
| legitimate purposes. "
Wen on Foul.
NILES, O.. Feb; H.-Leudon Campbell,
| of Pittsburg and Art Sims, of Akron,
/ fought here tonight. The bout was to
| have been twenty rounds. but it ended
suddenly in the fourth, when Sims was
1 given the decision on q foul.