The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-08
.BRIBERS HAVE
GIVI( BOND
Rroderick and cIarklS up $4,000
Each After Thei iictmcnts
by the Grand
Jury.
MISSING TYPEWR1TERs !
seventy-one Machines are All Ac-
counted for and Had Not
Been Taken
Away.

SPRINGFIELD, July s.--Senator
John Broderick of Chicago and Repre-
sentative Joseph S. Clark of Vandalia
indicted by the Sangamon County
grand jury in the legislative bribery
scandal. appeared in court before
Judge Creighton and furnished bond
in the sum of $4,000 each to answer
to charges made. in the new indict-
ments which were returned against
them. They were accompanied by
their attorneys, former State Senator
Thomas S. Dawson, of Chicago, Judge
Thomas F. Feans of Springfield, coun-
ty Judge of Jersey county, and former
Probate Judge Clarence S. Jones Of
Springfield, and also Ben M. Kirlin
and Richard Egan, business men Of
Springfield, who were the bondsmen
of Broderick and Clark on the old in
dictments, and who also went on their
bonds.
Broderick is indicted on seventeen
counts to the charge of bribery. He is
charged with bribing Senator D. w.
Holstlaw of Iuka to vote for Lorimer
| for United States senator and with
| bribing other members OF the legisla-
ture not named in connection with
the jack pot investigation.
Clark is indicted on the charge of
| conspiracy to bribe in the letting OF
contracts for the new furniture of the
senate chamber and house of repre-
sentatives. It is charged that he con
| spired with Senator Stanton G.. Penn.
berton of Oakland and Senator D. w
Holstlaw of Iuka, all members of the
commission with him to award the
contract, and with A. B. Johnston OF
1 Springfield, representing the Ford &
/ Johnson Company of Chicago, to lei
the contract to the Ford G. johnson
/ Company, which was the highest bid
i der.
The mystery of the alleged missing
typewriters which were purchased fol
4 the use of the Forty-sixth General AS
sembly is solved. 1t was. stated b.
the City Club of Chicago that an in
lrvestigation had been made and tha
seyenty-one of the typewriters which
had been purchased for the use of tn,
General Assembly were missing ant
/, that it was presumed that they hat
been appropriated by the legislator
for their own use, or stolen.
Secretary of state Rose made an in
|vestigation, and an invoice show
that all the machines are accounts
for.
Supt Beck of the statehouse has
book in which is entered the date an
number and make of each machin
purchased and who is in possessio
of the same. He has a receipt fror
the person who has possession of tn
! machine, its number and present locs
tion With the exception of four m;
chimes, all of these machines are no.
in the statehouse, either in stocl
, stored in room on the fourth floo
of the building or in service in som
of the departments.
s There are but four of the t-pewri
ers out OF the statehouse. Fish Con
missioner Nat IF. fUhen, of Urban
has one: E. e. Caldwell of Pellil
chief fish warden of the state, anotl
er; Senator Albert ]. Olson of Woo
stock. another; and Representativ
> Guy L. Bush of Downer's Grove tn
fourth.
Secretary of State Rose says h
: will gladly have the invoice exhibite
: to any one who is desirous Of seem
it and will take him about the bull
ing and locate each machine by i
number