The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-29
BRIBERY CHARGE
 MADE IN JACKSON Grand Jury IndiCts Former Member of Legislature B|LBO MAKES CHARGES State Senator Declares That He Was
 Paid in Certain Sum If He Would Lend His Support to Leroy Percy

Jackson, Miss, March 2S.-Froal a maze
 Of accusations and denals. hearing on
 the charge that money was offered a
 member of the state senate in exchange
 for his vote for Leroy Percy. the re- | gently successful candidate for the United States Senate from Mississippi, the sur | face developments tonight, after one of the most strenuous days the Mississippi capital has experienced in years, are: | A grand jury indictment charging L. c. | Dulaney of lssaquena county, a promi-
 nent planter, with rendering brbe to State Senator Theodore ,Bilbo. The refusal of the grand jury to indiet
 MT. Blbo for accepting a brlbe A resolution pending in the upper
 branch of the state assembly demanding
 the expulsion of the second party to the
 alleged transaction held in abeyance un-
 til tomorrow morning, when a statement will be made by MT. Bilbo.
 | All this came in rapid sequence after formal declaration by Senator Bilbo
 that during the recent legislative caucus
 he had been approached by MT Dulaney
 and rendered 5000 if he would lend his
 support to MT. Percy; that a part of the
 amount, $645 was to be paid immediate | y, the balance after the election of Sem
 ator Percy; that he accepted the tender to | be used as evidence in support of charges
 that irregular methods were being used | to encompass the defeat of MT. Varda-
 man, of whom he was a supporter. and
 that the money he received he handed
 to a local minister with statement of ] facts.
 This, MT Blbo declares, he told the
 Hinds county grand jury.
 According to MT. Bilbo he planned to have the alleged transaction occur in a
 certain room at local hotel that he ar | ranged for witness to be secreted in | the room, and that he was taken to an- | other room in the hotel by mistake and
 there were no eye-witnesses.
 | The charge is without foundation, insist | those who favored the election of MT. | Percy as against the several other candi- dates, including former Governor James | K. Vardaman.
 | w. A. Percy of Memphis, brother of
 Senator Percy, Is in Jackson and in vigor- | ous terms declares the charges ground less as does MT. Dnlaney. ss. as ssas Up to a late hour tonight Du1aney had | not been arrested.
 In the senate until late in the after ] noon the members remained in executive
 session threshing out the charges and | considering resolution presented by
 Senator Dean looking to the expulsion | of Mr. Bilbo. At the request of the lat | ter, however, action was deferred until | tomorrow to permit his conferring with | friends.
 1 Each side insists that thorough in
 vestigation will be had and to this end
 nearly a score of grand jury subpoenas
 were served today on the governor of | the state former Congressman John AL | len and others prominent in state af- | fairs.
 Besides the developments of today an
 investigation is pending seeking an ac- | counting in detail of the disbursements
 made of several state funds at the hands | of former Governor Vardaman and as
 consequence of it all tension among
 partisans is strained, personal feeling is | intense and none will forecast what the next several days may bring forth. | Charges and COuntercharges Jackson, Miss March 2S.-(Special)- | There are rumors and charges and coun- | ter-charges here tonight as to bribery in | the senatorial contest that resulted in the election of Leroy Percy as senator from | the state of Mississippi.
 | It Is stated that the grand jury has 1 indicted Hon. L. c. Dulaney, a prominent | citizen of Issaquena county, and former senator from that county, on the charge | of bribery. and that gentleman does not | deny it. He was seen at the Edwards | house tonight and stated that he under | stood an indictment had been found, but that 1t had not yet been returned to the court. The true bill was voted on by the jury and carried, but it has not been re- ported to the court and may never be, as | it carried by a narrow margin. Messrs. | VIII A. Percy of Memphis and Walter | Percy of Birmingham both of whom are here. state that the indictment has been | found as above reported. but that 1t has not been returned to the court. | The indictment Is found on the unsup- ported testimony of Senator Bilbo of Pearl River county, but it is stated that
 his charges are backed up by statements from Representative Cowan to the effect that MT. Dulaney also offered him $500 for his vote for Leroy Percy for the Sem ate. and that there was about $2000 more where that came from, which was to his credit These charges are denied very strenuously by the gentlemen implicated.
 and their political friends are of the OplTlCl they VIII pC opiC to pioNC ticHi false
 During the session of the house today
 Representative Van Boddie had ys,d a terrific roast of Senator Blbo. but after it WI discussed at some length 1t was withdrawn and expunged from the rec ords. In that resolution MT. Boddie de- clsred he believed MT. Bilbo and his po- litical friends had made up the purse of
 $65O and had matched up the charges of corruption for the purpose of strengthen
 ing their charges of bribery and making
 good their contentious of prostitution in the senatorial race during the months of January and February. As stated, the resolution was withdrawn. Speaker Street having taken the floor requested It's withdrawal.
 Mr. Dulaney has not been arrested, and if the indictment has been returned against him he does not know it, save from hearsay. He believes that it has
 been found from reports that have reached him, but says 1t has not been returned to the court The matter has stirred up the greatest excitement that was ever known in this section. and de- velopments are looked for tomorrow that
 will be of great interest. as the state sen- ate will go into particulars.
 
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