The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-21
EVIDENCE IN ROMAN
 HEARING CONCLUDED
ARGUMENTS TO BE HEARD BY COMMITTEE ON SOME
 FUTURE DATE.

Senator Homan's Lawyers Put Up No Defense Being Content to Have the
 Matter Settled on Their Arguments
 George L. Fox Examines More
 Witnesses-Works Himself Up to a
 High Pitch of Earnestness--To Fight
 to the Last Ditch--Spending His Own
 Money-Has Already Expended $43
 Hartford, March 20.-lAll the evidence in the case charging Senator Franklin L. Homan of New Haven with violating the corrupt practices act was in this afternoon when the hearing before the senate committee on contested elections came to an end about o'clock George L. Fox, who brought the petition in the general assembly asking for an in- yestigation into Senator Homan's ac- tions before and during the election of November last was on hand to day  with several witnesses and, as at the hearing of last week was assisted by his counsel, Attorney Talcott H. Rus sell of New Haven. Senator Homan' S attorneys were Judge Isaac Wolfe and Assistant City Attorney Samuel E. Hoyt and Frederick L. Perry.
 At the opening of to-day's hearing Mir Fox requested the committee to grant him an all day hearing in New Haven, where he could have plenty of men on hand to testify at much less cost than was necessary in order to bring witnesses to Hartford. Mir. Fox, however, was able to get enough of his evidence in to satisfy him and argu- n.ents on the case will be heard some time in the near future, the exact date being left to the committee to name, Senator Homans lawyers put up no defense whatever, being satisfied to have the matter settled by the conn mittee on thir arguments.
 To-day's hearing was taken up prin- cipally by long speeches by MT. Fox, Judge Wolfe and Lawyer Russell, all though several witnesses were exa1nin- ed including Mir. Fox himself, Cornelius ilShanley, a saloonkeeper; J, J. Spright- | ly, the democratic registrar of the Fourth ward; Michael Gibbons, Burton F. Cannon, John Brennan, Assistant Town Clerk Cox and others During his address to the committee MT. Fox worked hfmelf up into a high pitch of earnestness in his efforts to impress up- on the committee the fact that he knew Senator Homan had violated the law, the evidence, he admitted, being princi- pally hearsay. After stating at one time that he was going to fight the matter to the last ditch and that he simply wanted the true facts in the case brought out he pounded the table with considerable emphasis and declared that his blood was up and that he was going to see the matter through to the bitter end Mir. Fox stated that he al- ready had expended $43 in order to get evidence before the committee and that he expected to spend more time and mony in following up the case. He stated that he had been told that the police were in collusion with Saloon keeper McCrann on election day and for that reason anyone could enter the saloon and get a drink. This is the saloon that MT. Homan was alleged to have been seen coming out of on elec- ton day. Some of the evidence put on to-day was to show that many demo- crats had been seen passing around Homan pastors on election day, which accordtng to Mir. Fox was a violation of the law, provided, he added, that the men receive money for so doing.