The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-05-06

lolnng place IN ricksns AounAs'
Redirect.
As general manager OF Governor
campaign, II any special
,oters' train had been run, would
have known OF IL. The
orders on the trains were to let any
man ride who had the badge. ! do
not know whether U. s. Joins even
voted.
Re-Cross- Examination.
Joins is rich. He has a faction. |
but his influence is not great among |
either Indians or white men / pass |
ed Joins up as court claimant and
did not even try to learn whether
he voted or not, or try to get him
to vote.
Henry johnson let Joins get on the
train, OF which | had active charge.
Johnson was an Indian but no rela-
tive of Governor Johnson, who is
relative of General Albert Sidney
Johnston. Henry Johnson was a
Johnston supporter. Joins lived, i
suppose, about 200 miles from the
voting place.
State Rests.
At 1890 when this witness re-
tired, after a short conference, Judge
Strudwick announced that the State
would rest its case here.
The Defense Begins It's Testimony.
Mr.. Justice, for defendants, offer
ed in evidence the various acts of
Congress relating to the organiza-
ton of Citizenship Court, amend
ments thereto, and other records
connected with the court. Next was
filed a certified copy Of the inchoate
contract between the Indians and the
law firm, which was disapproved by
the Secretary OF the Interior. Next
the act giving the Citizenship Court
power to fix compensation independ-
ent of the Secretary of the Interior.
He also filed the act OF Congress
| placing Indian affairs in the hands
| of the Commission, which was super
coded by the act creating the Citizen
ship Court.
Mr.. Justice read the endorsement
on the compensation contract by the
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs
JONES, dated February, 1903, which
limited the compensation to 5 per
cent, provided the total amount OF
compensation should not exceed
$4,000. This endorsement was coun'
tersigned by Secretary OF the Int
rior Hitchcock.
Deposition Read.
Judge Robinson then began the
reading of dispositions taken IL
| Washington and Oklahoma.
The first was from Joseph H. Pow
ell, of the Indian Department Of thu
Secretary of the Interior at Wash
ington, in the Office Of the Assistan
Attorney General. This affidavit de
tailed the payment of the $750,0Ot
lawyers fee in 1905 on decree of tn
Citizenship Court. This decree wa
filed in the Department in boxes ant
marked suspicious" On objection
by prosecution Judge Long ruled GU
this answer as incompetent at thi
time.
Further reading of the deposition
was suspended, until $3.50 O'Clock
, court at l o'clock taking recess unit
, that hour.
Part of Deposition Ruled Out.
Judge Long, on motion of prose
cution, ruled out all parts of thes
= dispositions mentioning that genera
reports in Oklahoma were that AID
ans reputation as a judge was bad
because at this stage the questio
2 was, were the defendants publishin
! the truth about his having bee
of deposition from United State
y Deputy Marshal reciting a declare
! ton he heard Adams make while tn
2 United States troops were Dustin
+ one governor and putting in on
D championed by Adams, was so Pre-
t fame and obscene, the reading wa
suppressed on account of the pres
ence of ladies, and Judge Long re
served it to be read to the jury
private.
Il The prosecution bitterly objecte
to this evidence as incompetent, bu
e it was admitted. All dispositions RI
: lated to some act or declaration {
g Judge Adams, which tended to sho
bias in favor of the law firm above
n the enormous fee by his court, br
p no act of corruption was recited. TIL
n prosecution contended that depoI
! ents were disgruntled lawyers, ma
n because they had not succeeded
= getting Indian claimants on the pa
l. rolls before the court had.
IS Third Day of Trial.
Greensboro, N. c., April 9Th
third day of the trial of ex-Senate
Il Marion Butler and his brother, LIE
ter F. Butler, for alleged libel
. Judge Adams by publications in tt
Caucasion charging him with offici
, corruption, closed this afternoon, wit
apparent prospect of being turtle
=" from conclusion than when it W;
g begun Wednesday morning.
y The defense has been readir
. dispositions from nonresident wi
70 nesses or examining and introducir
. records of court proceedings in Okl
homa or Washington bearing on tt
- Indian court cases nearly all day, tt
- afternoon being devoted to introdu
T. ing records in the Office of regist,
of deeds of Guilford County and ts