Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-08
TONEY'S TESTIMONY
 WAS SENSATIONAL

sir.
 @. How long ago? A. couldn't tell you.
 0. Was it since the legislature a1-
 iourned? A. Yes, sir. o. Are all the men living men toned in that list? A. ] think So
 except Thompson.
 0. Thompson was senator at
 that time? A. Yes, sir. l Q. Where is he now? A. He is dead
 Q. Died when? A. One day this week. I don't know what day, but think it was Monday Either Monday or Tuesday fby suggestion); Thurs day morning of this week. l Cross-examination by MT. Rhoton:
 0. Mir. Toney, you say you had no : connection with any combination for the purpose of getting money for the passage of or the defeat of bills in troduced in the legislature? A. Yes, sir; that is what I said. Q. Did you know w. P Richey oi Camden, Ark? A. ] did. Q. Do you remember the telephone bill, known as the telephone bill,' a bill which provides for the connection of the local telephones with the long distance phones? A. I do.
 Did Not Solict MOnay on the Tele- phone Bill. O. State whe ether or not in the Sen ate chamber or about the Senate chamber on the day or about the day that bill was to be called up, you talk ed with MT. Richey, and stated to him that you would vote for him on the bill; that is that you was going to vote as he was wanting you to vote but that you would have to have $500 for three of the others in there, and the men whom you were referring to as the three men--Butt was one of them? A. l will say that did not tell him that.
 0. Did you tell him in substance or effect? A. No, sir.
 Q. Did you have any conversation at all with him about having to get the money for some of the members with you? A. will say that I never met MT. Richey in my life until just about one Monday before the bill was called up. There had been several delegations to Little Rock from my town and from Texarkana and Little Rock in connection with this bill. I was supporting the bill at the request of local delgations and various busi- ness men and friends who live in my city, and who had requested me and recommended that l support the bill : had taken an active part in the pass age of the bill, because I thought it was just and should be passed l was chairman of the committee which reported favorably on it, and asked that it be made a special order 1t the time we returned same, and that was all about that telephone bill MT. Richey came to my desk in the Sem ate chamber, alone, and introduced himself to me; this was before the bill was called up. He talked with me called up for third reading, and I told him at that time that it would pass by two-thirds majority. If I remember correctly, I think Mr. Rich ey spoke to me some thing about the use of money, but that didn't have ref erence to the Senate, as recollect it now.
 Q. It was money for the use of the house? A. think so. He made some suggestion about it. but that was afterward, probably two weeks afterWard l don't remember whether that was the day it passed or after ward, but l know that told him that the bill would pass the Senate by at least two-thirds majority vote.
 0. Did you introduce him to any member of the house? A. I think 1
 
 introduced him to about twenty mem gers of the house.
 c. After you having introduced him. did he tell you to take charge of the bill? A. I don't remember. That has been two years ago, and l met and introduced so many people; you un- derstand there are a great many men come and go.
 0. You are off of the subject, MT. Toney. Now you state positively that you said nothing to him about want ing $500 for three of the mebers of the Senate? A. No, sir, l did not.
 Q. Positive? A. Yes, sir. c. Do you know Jno. B. King of TeXarkana? A. Yes, sir Q Did VOu have a conversation