Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-15
|lIMs TEST|F|ES
ABOUT THE BRIBERY
 .ueAc1lON WITH SEN- ATOR BUTT.
,.,.. paid Him $1oo With a pomise of $4oo More
 Later.

.,,,,,1e. Feb. 14.-At the very
 ,,.,on of a whole day sof trying
 .,,. for Senator F. o. Butt, charg-
 uith bribing Senator R. R. Adams
 h sleo to influence his vote on the
 to capitol bill, Prosecuting Attor-
 photon played the trump card for
 s+ate and all but won point
 ;ob in the opinion of all who heard
 case would have been most dam
 ,o evidence for the defendant.
 |. trnmp card came almost at the
 ,o1usion of the cross-examination
 conator Butt, at a time when he
 heen on the stand under a cross
 If questions for three hours. It
 . in the shape of letters addressed
 T T.. Cox. alleged to have been
 itten by Butt. asking for the loan
 money and for transportation over
 Frisco railroad.
 Through citat on of former rul-
 gs in similar cases the letters were
 clnded from the evidence by Judge Pa.
 Senator R. R. Aaan2s. the star wit bss for the state, was then called. testified to the alleged transaction
 which he claims te have received loo from Senator Butt to influence (AdamsO vote on the cap tol bill. he transaction. te sail, took place hortly before the bill passed. He de ared his recollection was that it was ree or four days.
 q met Senator Butt one day shortly Efore the senate adjourned, said dams. "and we talked about the III, and he said he understood there las considerable money to he put up , the bill He said there was $500 in for those who veted for the meas fe told him I was against the bill. e told me that I could get $100 cash hd $400 later. I told him I would pink about the bill, but did not at resent believe could support it. A puple of days later I left the senate hamber to get a drink of water and bet him at the door. I told him |uessed I could support the bill. h. fantly he stepped up close to me and |ut a package of money in my pants ocket. When I went to dinner I ounted the money and found it was lN kept the money then until ller the senate adjourned, in fact ntl the Covington trial. One day, ' ont remember which, during the ovington trial I called Butt out of le court room at Little Rock and SKed him to take a walk with me. 'aen we got down on the street I 'd nm understood we would both ave to go before the grand jury, and ieturned the $100 to him, telling him tne tune thateI had decided it was Y ilsht that should keep the mon VI cross-exam nation he could not Memoer the day on which Butt put money in his pocket.
 senator Adams denied that he and 'u were not friends. He did not member the time of day when they 'Aea about the $500. He regarded as an attempt to bribe him. but at- ''ed little importance to.it. He ad- s'eo' under questions of Col. Sell ',<'nat he had talked to some peo- aoout having received the s1O0 'a' the time the Argenta bill was : Tie admitted he talked to Chris "'ose about getting the money. a'of Adams first denied. then ad- - = It, that he had had a conyersa- : z "l'h Dan Taylcr and Dr. Butler l,s own county relative to boodling the legislature. This was two eAs after lie had told Ledwidge " ne mad gotten the $10O. He ad. '. under cross-fire that he had . Niio"ins anything about bool- !, Ill 'ne legislature. He said he
 'eara talk of there being money. L "u seen none and knew nothing .a' Il of his own knowledge. He aamtted this conversation took se after he had been summoned
 e the grand jury at Little Rock. ,, s''u nc had known Butler and ,n. .ol intimately for years and had ,u, "ea"ldge but about a year. 'efe a you and Ledwidge making s ''ory to indict Butt?" asked Col.