The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-17

BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Jefferson City, No.. March 18.-Another
day probably will determine whether the
investigation into the alleged boodling on
the Davidson textbook proposition will
prove flash In the pan or bring forth evil
dence that would convict.
On the afternoon that the Investigating
Committee was appointed Speaker White
cotton announced that "one of the most
reputable members of the House. had told
him that 500 had been offered him for his
vote in committee When whitecotton
made the statement he referred to Repre-
sentative T. ]. Leonard of st. Louis.
Now 1t develops that Leonard will go no
further than to say that he met Represent
ative-naIning HMM the hall before the
committee meeting and the latter remarked
that he would give 500 If he could beat the
bill. Leonard has told others that he was
offered nothing. so that the Representative
is pursed on this point.
CHANGING $1,000 BILLS.
c. A. Dalmeyer, cashier of the Exchange
Bank, was before the House committee to-
day. 1t is said that he changed a LOCO
bill into smaller bills.
He Is said to know Of other financial
transactions. but not on the textbook mat
lei' uiu HIS ttStiihoHy WIS OF uttle value TO
the House committee. He will be witness
before the Grand Jury.
Jesse W. Henry cashier Of the Central
Missouri Trust Company, Of which former
Governor Stephens Is president. also ap-
peared before the committee but Is said to
have furnished little information regarding
Textbook Doodle He probably will be SUM
moned to appear before the Grand Jury to
tell what he knows about a 81 0O0 bill which
the clerk of a new Senator is said to have
had exchanged about the time the alum bill
was in the balance in the upper body.
l.. s. Page. who conducts a country press
bureau during the session Of the Assembly,
was a witness before the committee. He Is
said to know something Of the cashing Of
a 81 COO bill.
DOLAN INCIDENT.
Hugh Stephens. manager Of the Jefferson
City Tribune. where the State printing 10
done, together with two boy printers, told
the committee what they knew of the Dolan
incident. When all Is told. the textbook
talk will probably simmer down to the
circumstances surrounding the efforts OF
this young Kansas City member to post
pone meeting of the Textbook Commit
tee. of which he is member
He went to the office Of the Tribune with
his clerk and tried to discover IL in some
way the textbook bill would not be de-
iayed
Il would give $40 IL the whole thing was
In the stove" he is alleged to have said
When the different interpretations are
put on this incident, the case against him
falls or is sustained as the relator sees fit.
Dolan says he used the expression. IL he
used 1t at all, simply to voice his feelings
about his enforced absence from an anna
teur minstrel show in Kansas City.
Another witness was John c'F1re Alarm'')
Flanagan Of Carthage. who has been as
sisting William H. Phelps in his railroad
work. II he told any thing except
"reminiscences. the fact has not become gen.
orally known.
Phelps and Joe Shannon have both been
tee, and probably will tell what they know
about textbooks tomorrow.
CHAPLAIN IN HOT WATER.
OF course there Is a comical side to the
investigation. The chaplain of the House,
the Reverend ]. A. Russell, IL being con-
graduated for making the first confess
SION to the committee. Now Parson Rus
Sell Is a Cody man. but withaI he loves a
Joke. So, while discussing prospects Of ad-
jourriment with a Republican member, he
suggested that If the session continued long
enough past the statutory seventy days, he
would divide his S. per diem with the Rep
resentatiye who will receive only 81. The
parson laughlngly called this his contract"
1t was not long until the chaplain was
subpoenaed to appear before the commit
tee. He was very proud when he went in.
1t was different when he came out. Sam
O'Fallon, Republican member of the COM
mittee had been questioning him in all Sc
robustness about the contract" Chaplain
Russell tried to explain that II was ALI a
Joke, but OFallon. could not see It that
way. The parson was shocked that he
should be handled SO roughly.
Only when he was wiping the perspira-
tion from his forehead did the investiga-
tors relent and let him so In peace. Now