The Newark journal., 1903-04-10
The Senate.


 The Senate.
 After defeating the Perrin bill seek ing to reduce expenses in crim nal cases by regulating the summonng of wit nesses. the senate proceeded with the Leatherman trial
 A ". Mcdonald testiiel that he had brought the injunction proceedings against the Garland Novelty Company, but not at instigation of defendants that he had never seen defendant in toxieated.
 Col NJ. NJ Duffie of Malvern stated that court was held twice a year at Malvern and that he had never seen the judge drunk
 J C Ross of Malvern had received appointments as commissioner in chan cery. and had never given or loaned the accused any money.
 r. NJ. Henry of Malvern testified that he had gone hunting and fishing with the judge and had never seen him in toXicated.
 Several other witnesses for the de fense testified that they had never seen the defendant under the influence of liquor and that his demeanor while on the bench was good.
 Judge Leatherman took the stand
 He denied the charge of drunkenness He stated that he had appointed W. H. Martin receiver in the Sumpter case had allowed him fee of S6,000 had borrowed s1500 from Martin Stated he had deeded Martin granite quarry thought then to be very valuable. Wit ness said his financial affairs had not been good; that he had spent a great deal of money helping his friends; had borrowed some money from clerks of his court as business transaction He declared that the charge that he had offered the election commissioners $75 to allow him to name election officials nh pi Tn Q borrowed s200 from S. A. Sammon. pro- prietor of q poolroom, the witness said he had a note to meet and asked Sam mons to loan him $200. which he did. The witness said he had appointed C. & Bell receiver of the City Savings Bank and had authorized Bell to loan out the money; that MT. Place had bor= rowed $400 of this money and had loaned him s150 on his due bill; that Place had turned in the due bill which he had paid later. The testimony of Judge Leatherman was not completed when the senate adjourned for the day. The House. After routine business, Mir. Gamma way moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendment to the insane asylum bill, prohibiting members of ! the board from giving employment to relatives. was adopted. The motion to reconsider prevailed and the amend ment was stricken from the bill.
 The Confederate home appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. An amendment by MT. Cate making the salary of chaplain sl00. who is also to be chaplain of the peniten- tiary, was adopted.
 An amendment striking out the anti nepotism section was adopted. House joint resolution No. 5 tGan- naway). was read. The resolution pro- poses an amendment to the constitution providing that all capital invested in this state in cotton and wooden factor ies during the next twenty-five years shall be exempt from taxation for 9 per iod of seven years after such capital is invested
 The resolution was discussed by a number of members and on motioxp was placed back on second reading 10 amendment
 On motion the house accepted Zn in vitation to visit the city of Hot Zprinrs the expenses of the trip to/be born, by the citizens of the vap9r/City