Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-03-03

with Mr.. Ingalls, suggestion. / be
lieve he hesitated in only one or two
of his answers.
Mr.. Marsh-"Now that you have Of
fered as many suggestions to the wit
ness as you could, will you listen to the
answer?'
Mr.. Hambrecht-"I want my objec-
ton ruled on"
Mr.. Marsh-"The question has been
answered"
The witness modified his statement
with regard to Mr.. Blaine, by saying
that perhaps he was little too strong
in his assertion, but he felt positive
that he did not give that information
to Mr.. Blaine
Mr.. Marsh-"Do you remember a
conversation with Mr.. Blaine in which
you referred to Mr.. Ekern as your
friend and asked Mr.. Blaine to pre-
vail on Ekern not to run as an indie
pendent candidate?"
Mr.. Edmonds-T have no recollec-
lion of it whatever
He didn't know the approximate
amount of expenditure, the witness
said, until about the time of the gen.
eral election.
Mr.. Marsh-"Didn't you have in
your Office statement which pur-
ported to be an account prior to the
time you say you met Mr.. Blaine?"
Mr., EdmOndS-"NO."
Mr.. Marsh-"Didn't you discuss it
with Max Cells?"
Mr. Edmonds-"I don't recall it."
Mr.. Marsh-"Doesn't it impress it.
self on you as the incident with Mr.
Blaine?''
Mr.. Edmonds- mo, sir. 1t does
not"
Mr.. Marsh-"Didn't you have some
account showing an expenditure above
100000. | am talking about the time
when you discussed with Max Cells
the filing of the account"
The witness was not clear on this
point
Mr. Marsh-"Then you don't deny
that you probably discussed it with
some MANI"
Mr.. Edmonds-"No. 1 can't denv
it,
The Evening Session.
Mr.. Sackett and Mr.. Puelicher were
examined with regard to the items
that Mr.. Edmonds' testimony left
open. The check to Mr.. w. L. Smith
was one of the stumbling blocks in
the examination. 1t is in the stub
book between two stubs that were
identified by the managers, and in
reply TO the chairman's questions,
stated that they had no knowledge of
it.
When Mr. Sackett appeared before
the committee the first time he tes-
titled that he picked out the cashiers
checks with Mr.. Puelicher. They rec
ognized those that belonged to the
Stephenson account by the names the
checks bore. Mr.. Smiths check is not
mentioned in the specific account
The chairman seems to have know
edge that that check was paid out in
the campaign. The managers say
they have no knowledge of the check
and disclaim it altogether. Mr. Sack
EFT only said that it is possible they
overlooked it. He yielded to the
chairman, however, that it is possible
they overlooked several other checks.
He refused to admit that those checks
would increase the total of the ex-
pense account for Mr.. Stephenson.
The first time Mr.. Sackett testified, he
averred that he picked out the checks
carefully and that there could not
have been any omissions. If any
checks were not picked out as belong
ing to the campaign, they would only
account for some of the items that
checks could not be found for. The
total could not have been affected as
that checked up between his account
and the account of Mr. Puelicher
Mr.. Sackett will continue his tes-
timony at o'clock this morning.
In cross examination, Mr.. Bray
discovered that only forty-fve cents
were paid out to the Free f'.ess.
This, the witness testified, was for
subscription. He demanded to know
# the managers had not carried any
advertising in the paper. Mr.. Sackett
thought that they did not, but was
not certain. The Koch advertising
agency would be able to give infor-
nation on that. He admitted that
bills paid for advertising did not in
clude, as far as he knew, bills from
the Free Press. If that paper got
any money for advertising, it came
from a fund outside of the 100000