Arizona republican., 1904-03-25
When He Became Attorney
 for the RiaItO Company
SEN. BURROWS DEFENSE
The Government Rests Its Case-Dam- aging Letters and Telesrams Show ing the Relation ofthe Defendant to the Grain and Securities Concern.

with having illegally accepted fees from the RialtO Grain & Securities CO, Of St. Louis. The action of the government came IS a surprise to the defense. shortly after Judge Chester II. Krum for the defense had started his opening address, Senator Burton and Frederick Lehmann, associate counsel for the defense, held a hasty consultation and MT. Lehman, inter- rupting Judge Krum, secured a con- tinuance until tomorrow morning. s
 In concluding it's evidence the gov ernment showed by the testimony of Postohice Inspector Cochran of Wash ington that he had been requested by 1 Senator Burton to call at his (Bur- ton's) office on the afternoon that ! Senator Burton's indictment was | made public in Washington.
 ''I told him." continued Cochran, | that as l had been a witness before | the grand jury could not discuss-the evidence. but the indictment was found | under section No. 17S2 of the revised ! statutes.
 MT. Burton told me that he had ap- peared before the postofficc depart ment, rot as q United States senator, but simply as an attorney for the Ri alto Grain & Securities Co. l pointed out to him that my understanding of , the section of statutes was the fact that he had acted as an attorney for | the Rialto company was responsible 1 for his indictment.
 J. H. Aubere, a Washington news | paper correspondent then took the stand. He testified that he had ob- tained a dictated interview with MT. Burton at about 3 o'clock on tine after noon the indictment was made pub lie.
 Shortly after o'clock that night" continued Aubere, Mr. Burton visited my office and requested that he be al- lowed to read the interview which l had prepared from notes I had made in the afternoon. I submitted the manuscript to Senator Burton and he | scanned it carefully. The only change -sssst-7Fs4atie .5svsthe original was that at his dicta1en, I inserted the following words: "I did rot act as an attorney for the Rialto Grain 6, Securities Co. before the pOstofice department in any matters"
 Inspector Cochran was then recalled and in reply to questions stated that the time of his visit to Mr. Burton was shortly before , o'clock on the after noon that Senator Burton is alleged to have given the interview to Aubere.
 When he was first questioned h. spector Cochran testified that MT. Burton had visited him at the post 4 office department, the date he could not remember. he said, and inquired regarding complaints against the Ri alto company
 At that time there had not been any complaints" continued Inspector Cochran, and I so informed the sena- tor. On February B. 1902 1 received telephone message from Mir. Burton asking me to call on him at his office. ; After discussing several matters in which the Brooks brokerage company, the predecessor of the Rialto company, !; was involved, Senator Burton told me he wished to represent the Rialto company in matters before the depart ment for which he was to. receive large fee.
 He assured me that he did not wish to artlgoniZe the department. He also said he had consulted several of his collea gues in the senate and they as sured him that his connection with the Rialto company was legal and that many senators had increased their in comes in similar ways. Senator Burton said he had lost $7o,nO0 recently for which he was not legally responsible. but which he wished to repay, and that his fees would revert 10 that use , w. J. VickeIy, chief postohice in spector at Cincinnati, testified that he had accompanied Inspector Cochran to Rurton's office on the evening the in dictments became known in Washing ton. He substantiated Cochran's testi- l I that he had appeared 'only as an at torney for the Rialto company before the postoffice department and not as a
 United States senator.'
 Hector McRae, who said that he was comptroller for the Rialto company on March 26, 1905, testified. II was called into the office of Mir. Mahaney. the vice president, and there met Senator Bur ton. AJr. Mahaney. in the presence of Burton, told me the senator had sev- cred his connection with the Rialto company, giving as his reason that all matters before the postofIice depart ment had been. cleaned up."
 Perhaps the most damaging testi- . money offered in the trial was the fol- lowing letter which was read this
 morning:
 Washington, D. C., Dec. (, 1902. "Mr. Thomas B. Harlan, St. Louis. My Dear Harlan:LThere is no man
 by the name of J. H. Bowman who is postoffice inspector. This man Bowman in impersonating a. postoffice inspector has violated the statutes and
 laid himself liable to punishment The
 man operating in Colorado is also a
 fra11d. There has gone from this office
 no instructions whatever about the Rialto company, and there is nothing
 ir this office against you at this time.
 The letter at St. Louis, as you know, , is in the hands of MT. Dice there. l