Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-12
r. Charging Senator With Solicit
4 oHS
ing a Bribe
e Is Made by General Insurance Agent Ramey.
Who Alleges That He Was Approached
by Senator McNemer

matter between them rour years ago.
he would have to introduce il. The
matter rocked on for a few davs long
ef, and during my absence from the
city NcNemer called up the Equitable
Office and asked if Mr. Ramey was in.
On being told that was out of the city
sc asked who attended to my business
! Wlllie | WAS gone. Our cashier told
him that he sometimes did. Mr. Me
Nemer tien asked him to come over
sac first prett% day-the day in ques-
non being rainy day. Mr. Cory did
ct 80. but waited my return until
March >. On Monday morning Mr..
Runaway, with Dodge & Johnson, came
III my office and told me that Mr.. Nc
Nemer had asked him if he was a
friend of mine. Upon being answered
in the affirmative. he requested him to
come over and tell me that senate bill
No. 33 was to come up, and ask
the matter. This was about the mes
sage as nearly as | can recall it.
After dinner went owed to Mr.. Meme
mers Office. Upon arriving there he
asked me to take seat. | remarked
to him that | believed he had called
ME up while | was away, and that Mr.
Dunaway had also told me that he
desired to see me- and | had come
over to know what it was about. He
said it was about the Butt bill that was
introduced, which he understood af-
fected few of the companies here a
good deal. if it should pass. He fur
ther stated that he had the only origin
al bill in his pocket, which he pulled
out and showed me, it being marked
upon the back in red ink, S. B. No.
2O3, McNemer' Now he says. there
are other insurance agents who have
copies of this bill, and they are the
only ones who have them and they
will never bring them up because they
are interested in insurance. | asked
him how the bill was killed two years
ago. His answer was: I stopped it.
You ask some of the other insurance
agents, who will tell you how. heard it
rnmored that there was sixteen or
seventeen hundred dollars paid to
stop this bill, but | know that this
is mistake, as there was $500 in
cash and 800 note given so if par
ties have said there was that much
ed him how should proceed to get
this bill withdra Wn-that | was new
general agent and knew nothing about
these things. He said that he knew
that | could know nothing about them.
and that no one could unless he had
been on the flor hundred or so days
that there were nineteen men in the
senate whom he could get to vote to
hang a man if necessary, and he knew
Just where to spot them: that there
were few he knew who would not
vote for the bill. mentioning one sena-
tors name asked him how he would
suggest managing the affair He says,
to make a long story short, will kill
that bill for $500. | told him | was
not interested directly in the bill ten
cents worth as | could take the man
agement of another state, but | would
submit the matter to the company,
promising to let him know whether
or not had seen any other general
agents, or what steps | had taken, at
4 p. m.
"Have Just stepped across to Mr. ,
McNemers Office at D. M, and told
him that | would write the home Of |
flee and state to them the facts as he
had presented them to me. and would ,
let him know their answer Monday |
next. Very truly yours,
"HARRY NJ. RAMEY."
"Now, NJ. President, you will see