The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-25
Former st. Louis Senator Exam
ined by Grand Jury Regard
ing Transit Bill.
BILL" PHELPS UNLOADS MINE.
lobbyist Is Said to Have Played
Even With Senators by Sell
ing Them Joplin Zinc
Property.


was before the Grand Jury yesterday
though IT is not known to what he testified
Before going into the inquisitorial cham
| ber however. he vas asked by Circuit AT
| torney Folk if he had received $50 from
| former Senator Charles Schweickhardt oil
St Louis for pay on the Transit bill.
NO. | did not replied Mr.. Mott. About
/ fifteen years ago / went a bond for
| Schweickhardt and he had not paid it all,
That $3.50 was to discharge the old debt
| Schweickhardt in his written confession
| to Circuit Attorney Folk, said that he had
received $1.GJo in an envelope. from a boy
and that he had given the money to four
| Senators of whom Mott was one. Schwe!ck-
| hardt denied that he owed Mott money on
| bond.
81 paid that years ago." Schweickhardt
| asserted.
| Mott was also asked about mine which
| he and nine other Senator's had bought in
Jasper County during the session of 1899
| According to the story current in lobby
! circles, Colonel Bill Phelps had been bled
| so successfully by coterie of State Sena-
! tors that he rigged up game on them to
| get some of the money back
At that time the speculation in zinc mines
was at its height. Phelps and one two
| vi HIS mao q luIly dCIc tIdSl NiiASAi
\ might or might not have zinc under it.
| By playing to the cupidity OF some of the
Senators, he secured the active and aggres-
sive interest of some of them in the propo-
sition. He put private car at their dis
posal TO investigate the property.
PHELPS'S MINING SCHEME.
One Friday, the party went down to Jop-
| lin. Phelps has friends in Jasper County.
| as the last election returns will show. and
| the way the prospecting Senators were in
| Quoted into the mysteries of jack and its
1 by-products was a lesson TO the natives.
| As a result. company of ten State Senators
was formed with Mott as the president Of
| the concern. According to report, they
put in $1,000 apiece to buy the forty acres.
Then began a series of assessments. II re-
ports be true, which made further drains
on the pocketbooks of the interested Sena-
tors. The zinc had to be found. 1t is
said that more money will be required to
go deeper in the search for wealth for none
of the company can be said to have become
rich off the Phelps good thing"
Mott still thinks that ultimately the mine
will pay and yesterday insisted to Circuit
Attorney Folk that the money which was
invested will be returned, II not hundred
fold, at least in part. All of which illus
| trates the abiding faith which some men
| have in the triumph Of Colonel Phelpss
reputation for veracity.
From another source Circuit Attorney
Folk has found that $500 was spent this
spring to defeat the candy bly,. This is the
bill which was introduced by Senator Jesse
l.. Jewell Of Kansas City. and which would
have prohibited the use of any ingredients
excepting sugar.
CANDY BILL BOODLING.
In connection with the history Of the bill
| it is significant that John A. Lee received
| $1,000 from H. o. Havemeyer, president of
the Sugar Trust. during the middle of the
session.
Jewell was the personal representative of
Lee on the Criminal Jurisprudence Commit
tee of the Senate which acted on the meas
ure. and both he and Lee asked that it be
passed. However, it did not get through
the Senate until late in the session, and
then in such shape that the House did
nothing with it.
witness who was examined by Circuit
Attorney Folk yesterday stated that a we'll
known lobbyist took $4,000 to Jefferson
City TO pass the Transit bill in 1899, and
that the money was sewed in the lobbyists
coat, This is new version of the Transit
money, the suposition heretofore being that
this lobbyist took it to the Madison House
in valise, as we'll as in his inside pockets.
1t is not thought that the trial of Frank
H. Farris will take place in St. Louis July
l, the date set by Judge Ryan. He was in
dictod previously by the Cole County Grand
Jury, and Judge HAZEL has set that case
for July q. Under the statutes, the first
Indictment takes precedence. and when
request is made for a continuance 1t is
probable that Judge Ryan will grant it.
KELLBY'S RETURN DISCUSSED.
Senator Farris, his wife and daughter of
Steelville; Captain J. W. Farris, his ia
ther, of Lebanon, and former Senator
James Orchard of West Plains were in the
city yesterday. A subpoena was issued for
Orchard, but it was not served.
The question of D. ]. Kelleys return to
st. Louis is agitating the minds of more
than one Senator. He is now in Quebec,
| Canada, and, it is said, that the only rea-
| son he does not come to ST. Louis and
confess is that he does not wish to involve
his employer. William F. Ziegler, of New
| York City. Circuit Attorney Folk, so far.
has refused to make any concessions. and
kelley's return is in allegiance
The witnesses before the Grand jury yes-
] terday afternoon were former Senator F.
W. Mott, Adolph Rosenthal of the Valley
| Liquor Company; James Holm of the An
heuser-Busch Brewing Company and Henry
]. Bier, stock broker. To-day Mr.. Folk
will have several witnesses before the
Grand Jury, including Councilman George
| D. Markham, who was asked to pay money
| to rass insurance legislation; Adolph Ro-
seminal. who will be asked concerning GER.
tain legislation.
| INDICTMENTS RETURNED.
| The forty-eight routine indictments re-
turned yesterday are against the following
persons:
Murder. first degree-Theodore Otto Charged
with shooting and killing Frank Langley on May
\ 20 in front Of the Century building
Murder. second degree-George Johnson
Robbery. first degree-Michael Walsh. James
Phillips and VIII Brocly.
srIsn 3 ss Wia aeelse s and in
Thomas ca. Louis Russell '''"'''s D'e
| Grand larceny.Jesse Robinson, Theodore
sehweeke, Annie Hall, alias Davis, Fred Leon
son and Arthur Chandler.
Assault to kill-Charies Tuener August woeh-
! Ter, Richard Rice. George Williams Louis Buck
| sTer; Gus Champion, Albert Patton. Ed Pfsterer.
Criminal assault-Frank Icons O., Gilbert
Watts
| Feionious neutrality-suspicious. Thompson.
| Forgery in the second degree-George A. Pit
man.
Embezzlement-william Hollngsworth. alias
| Charles Miller.
| False pretenses-George A. Pitman
| Cheat and fraud-M b. Dillon
| Malicious trespass-Fred GRAY.
| Assistant Circuit Attorney Hancock stat
| ed yesterday afternoon that he will file In
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