Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-05-01
LEE QUITS OFFICE.
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
Does the Expected Thing
Senator Rubey, of Macon County,
His ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
Senate MutiIated-HickSx- and
Page I'm Contempt,

St. Louis, April 27-Lieut. Gov
| John A.. Lee has resigned. His resig-
nation was mailed at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon to Gov. Dookery
at Jefferson City. 1t bore special
delivery stamp and was delivered to
the governor before he went to his
office this morning. 1t becomes inn
mediately operative, under the law
without any action on the part of
| the governor. By operation of the
| constitution Senator Thomas L.
Rubey, of Macon county, president
pro TEN. of the senate, who repre-
sents the Ninth senatorial district,
succeeds Lee Senator Rubey is re-
garded as one of the foremost men
| in the senate and his legislative rec
ord is without spot or stain.
John Alec is said to have admitted
that he had aided. Daniel J. Kelley,
the legislative agent of the baking
powder trust, in disbursing money
used to defeat the repeal of the anti
alum bill in the state assembly of
1901. Lee, according to one source
of information, about March IS, 1901,
received from Legislative Agent Kel-
ley $4,000. 1t was all In bills of de-
nominations of 500, or less, and was
given to Lee with the express under
standing that he should distribute it
among the senators. This was when
the first repeal bill was introduced,
and it is alleged that Lee accepted
the money at hotel in this city ana
two days later repaired to the La
clede hotel, where he. had called a
meeting of the ''anti-altlun combine"
Some information, secured here, is
not inconsistent with the theory that
Farris may have done what Lee is
accused of doing, knocking down."
He deposited $4,000 i'm one bank the
day he reached home from the 1egis-
lature, but it was checked down to
about 81, 200 in very short time. The
legislature adjourned March 10. Lee
says he paid off on March 90 Farris
made the deposit on March p. He is
supposed to have left the Laclede
hotel with $4,000 in his possession,
the money to be used by himself and
certain other senators, members of
the same committee.
Senate Records Were lTutilated.
ST. Louis, April 2s.-Witnesses tes-
titled before the ST. Louis grand jury
yesterday that the records of the
Missouri senate were falsifed two
years ago to, make the journal show
that the alum bill had been reported
by the committee of criminal iuris
prudence, before final adjournment.
The senate, journal, it is said, shows,
that the bill WAS reported before the
senate, adjourned, when in fact it
was held until the senate had passed.
cut Of existence as a lawmakinge
body and then placed on the records
as OF a date several days before.
The grand juries of ST. Louis and
Cole county will inquire further. into
this new development of the case.
Hickox and Page in Contempt
jefferson City, Mo-, April 28.-CiF-
cult Judge HAZEL yesterday held Cole
Hickox, senate clerk, and Editof 1.
n. Page, of Bonne Terre, in, contempt
of court for refusing to tell the
grand jury where they secured cur
rency bills of large denomination
lature. They will apply to the SUI
preme court for release on habeas
corpus proceedings to-day. HickoX
broke down and cried when the YER
dict was rendered, but he refused
10 O1fulSc uOW re CdUlC pOSSCS-
sion of the money.
A Weeks Work at Jefferson City.
Jefferson City, Mo-, April 2S.-The
grand jury investigation of legis-
lative boodling was resumed here
Monday. Attorney General Crow and
| his assistant, Sam B. Jeffries, are
| conducting the investigation and have
a weeks work before them. The
! first outside witness to arrive was
j. 7. Glaves, of Fredericktown, who
is cashier of a trust company that
received a deposit of two $1,000 bills.
These bills are supposed to have be-
longed to the "alum" payment of
$4,000 which was made in $1,000 and
| $500 bills.
impeachment of Legislators Demanded.
| Sedalia, Mo-, April 28.-The Demo-
crat editorially calls upon Gov. Dock
cry to convene the legislature in ex-
ira session in order that all members
indicted for boodling may be inn
peached.
1 Masons to Lay Cornerstone.
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