The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-09

IOf All put TWO Men "hose "oEk ss
 to be Further Investigated-City
 Must Fay ConstabIes' BOnds-Voting
 Machines Again Tabled.
 The board of finance held it's regular weekly meeting last evening, which lasted from o'clock to nearly mid- night, most of the time being spent in consideration of the much talked of bills of the general registrars, which have been tabled from time to time. It was long af.er Il o'clock before the board finally voted to sign the bills with the exception of the pay for two men on which the more serious protests were made. Controller Rowe was au- thorized to inquire into the cases of these msn, and report back to the board at the next meeting. F. .s-....
 On account of the large crowd of peo- pie present at last nights meeting, ow- ing to the fact that all the Eighth ward workers had been summoned to attend, the meeting was held in the all dermanic chamber. It looked for awhile as though this city was to see another investigation similar to the po- lice investigator, because when all the evidence had been taken in the Eighth ward matter, protests were made con corning the First, the Second, the Fourth and the Tenth wards, with pos sibly more to follow. Did the board of finance take the same course as in the Eighth ward the witnesses would count up into the hundreds.
 Mayor Studley called the meeting to rider and the protest of Alexander Troup, concerning the Eighth ward was immediately taken up. The witnesses were all put under oath by Mayor Stud ley and the first one called was c. B. lMathewman, who was moderator of the ward on the last election day. MT. Troup examined all the witnesses. MT. Mathewman testified that MT. Troup had asked him on election day how many men were employed in the ward, and his reply had been that he did not know exactly, but that he thought there were ten or twelve besides him self, MT. Troup had then said that "it is better to have your memory clear, as want to use you later. MT. Troup then counted dozen men, and I told him that some were undoubtedly away to dinner. MT. Troup asked how many men had been sworn. told him I did not know, as they had been sworn in two batches.'' MT. Troup stated to the board that he did not object to MT. Mathewman being paid, as there was no question, but that he had worked all day. He then asked MT Mathew man if he had not definitely stated that there were thirteeen men in all, who had been sworn in, and MT. Math- ewman replied that he had not so stat ed. $ .e..5.. Ea.
 The next witness was Louis Chand- Ter, the box-tender. and he was follow ed by Henry $. Platt, the checker of the republican party, both of whom had spent practically the entire day at the polls. Mir. Platt was the party checker and not the official one. He had not challenged anyone. @. The next witness was George R.. Bradley who was in the envelope booth. When asked by MT. Troup If he had been at the polls all day, he replied that he had. Mir. Troup next asked him if he had seen him Group there all day, and he replied that he had, and he then said to MT. Troup, Did you get yours out of it?'9' MT. Troup laughingly re- piled that he probably had. 5=
 Frederick Carlson, the republican dep- uty registrar, was the next witness. MT. Carlson said that he had put in a bill for nine men, besides himself and that they had all done their duty. He thought that the whole twenty-one men named for pay had all earned it. MT. Carlson said, q heard from the moder- ator that MT. Troup had said that all the men were not doing the work ex- pected of them, and I offered to show them to him. I had heard it said that he was after the general registrars and wanted to meet them before the finance board" MT. Carlson testified that the men had been sworn in in three baSch- es. The ticket man was absent because he was in Waterbury,
 The next witness called was Thomas Burton, who was a booth tender. He stated that he had left the polls during the day only for breakfast and dinner. When examined by Mir Troup he said that MT. Larson had relieved him while at breakfast, but could not tell who had relieved him when he went to dinner. Mir Troup examined him closely on this point.
 F. F. Erickson Was 8 booth tender. He could not tell MT. Troup exactly how many booths there were.
 Lester Ullman was called, but it was stated that he was in Milwaukee, Jo- seph Ullman testified that Lester, Ull- man had acted as booth tender. MT. Troup remarked that it was unfortun- ate that Lester Ul1man was not there to speak for himself.
 Howard White was one of the reliefs. He had relieved Harry Bunnell, who was in Waterbury. Mir. Bunnell had also worked at the polls. J. M. Lar son had acted as an assistant. Edward Flanagan testified that he had given out tickets and also that MT. Bunnell had worked at the polls. MT. Troup had talked to MT. Flanagan at the polls, and said that there was no doubt but that Flanagan had been there.
 John Hut had been an official checker. He had seen MT. Troup talk ing to the moderator but did not hear what was said. Had he been able to Scontinued on Eighth Page.l