The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-17
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ACCUSED BY SISTER
Congressman Hull Charged With
Conspiring to Defraud an
i Heir of His Father. -.
Mrs. Morris Files Dispositions to
Effect That Codicil to Will
Was Changed. .....


:Des Moines, Iowa, March 17.-Congress-
man j. A. T: Hull chairman Of the COM
mittee on military affairs, is made the OBJ
ject of sensational charges by his sister
Mrs. DR.. j. W. Norris. In dispositions filed
by the latter resisting an application in
the courts of Pueblo, Col, by H. T. Hull,
to have real estate belonging to the Dr.
A. V. Hull estate sold, in order to pay
ella i'm which had been filed. -. 49,
Mrs. Morris sWears that OH the evening |
Of; the funeral Of her father, DR.. A. "
Hull. her brother. :, Congressman Hull
showed. her. the will and codicil;* but it !
was undated and the codicil followed the I;
will on the same piece of paper that
when she visited the courthouse, at Pueblo
last fall she found an entirely different in |
strument containing the date the codicil
being written on a separate piece of pa
per, of a different color, and in an en-
tirey different hand. |
She says it was months after the will
was filed when, through the efforts of her
attorneys, Congressman Hull, the. execu
tor produced the codicil. She charges in
her deposition: H. =;
"It was withheld from probate because
it benefited" me by money and mark of
approval, and Cancelled the legacy Of said
|A.V. Hull to his daughter. Eliza Jane
Potter"of Des Moines, which made her and
her brother, J. A. T. Hull, conspire to de-
fraud me- ""....''.
s.. The State chalrmanship. <:'.:~
! The question of who will be the next
| chairman Of the republican state central
committee is receiving much attention.
The Cummins leaders, who hope to get
control of the committee, are casting about
| for man for chairman: but have not fully
| settled on anyone. There was talk for q
time that S. X. Way of Wesley, commit
teeman from the tenth district. would be
made chairman. but there have been new
developments since and it is announced
! Mr.. Way will not be a candidate. 1t looks
now asi if George G. Scott of Sioux City
will be settled on as the most available
man. He is the member of the committee
I from the eleventh district and is affiliated
I with the Cummins leaders politically.
! Charles W. Phillips of the second district,
|:secretary of the committee, has also been
mentioned for the place. ->.''
| Neither of these would stand any show
for the Craftsmanship If the anti -Cummins
men should be in a najority on the COM
rnittee. In case the opposition to the gov
-ernor sways the committee, there is talk
of Burton r. Sweet Of Waverly for chair
man. He is representative from Bremen
county and was a candidate for the re-
), publican nomination for congress in the
!; Third district when successor to Hend-
/ erson was named last fall E: -
Elker Defeated. :,~s.A2y
i The primaries in Decatur county, have
! resulted in defeat for DR.. B. L. Eiker
I who was a candidate for senator IN the
) Decatur -Ringgold- Union district. Marion
F. Stookey was favored for the senate b,
: a small majority. Eker was a pronounced
Cummins man. while Stookey belonged
: to the oposition faction. The contest
. however, was not strictly along Cummins
, and anti-Cummins lines as a local cour
house wrangle complicated the situation.
It is probable Stookey will be endorsed
! for the senate by the other two countie!
> in the district. The anti-Cumrnins. men
however, are alarmed lest the Cummin
men bring out ex-senator j. B. Harsh o
| Union county as a candidate. Harsh is
= Cummins man, and last fall completed.
4 gained control Of the machinery of Uniol
: county as against the anti -Cummin
: forces that we're in control
Harsh Is strong in Ringgold county an,
could probably be nominated If he wen
after the. place It is thought unlikel,
9 here that he will run.