El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-07
Jeff Davis. the Demagoe. Is
pi11oried By His Own Words
John Temple Says of DemagOgs"

lands today that he had received lee
and would receive more on the passage
Of the Arkansas sunk land bill, now
under consideration by the committee,
says the Hearst news service. reporting
the event. Continuing 1t says:
TT is the opinion of some senators
that Davis has violated a criminal
statute for which he can be tried and
if convicted sentenced TO the peniten-
tiary for not more than three years and
further punished by a fine not more
than three time the amount asked, &C
cepted or received.
Davis Loud for Reform.
mo man in the senate has Numbered
louder against fraud. corruption and
graft than the senator from Arkansas
His voice has frequently been raised IN
behalf of the doctrine of civic and polit-
ical purity, the same voice has admitted
to the house committee that in the pas
sage of the bill. to quiet title to about
100000 acres of swamp lands in the
eastern part of Arkansas, over which
there is a dispute as to ownership be-
tween the United States. Arkansas, the
ST. Francis levee board and some squat
tiers. he is financially interested in as
much as he has received a fee and ex-
poets to receive another from the st.
Francis levee board.
Section 10 of the revised code says:
Punishment Prescribed.
Any member OF either house or con-
gress who asks, accepts or receives any
money or any promise. contract, under
taking. obligation, gratuity or security
for the payment of money, or for the
delivery or conveyance of anything of
value, either before or after he has
been qualified or has taken his seat as
such member. with the intent to have
his vote or decision on any question,
matter, case or proceeding which may
be at any time pending in either house,
or before any committee thereof, in
fluenced thereby shall be punished by
a fine not more than three times the
amount asked, accepted or received and
by Imprisonment OF not more than three
years
Senator Burrows declares that sena-
tor Davis cannot be reached under the
statutes invoked against senator's Mitch
ell of Oregon or Burton of Kansas, but
that he has violated a general law, I'M
der which he can be prosecuted.
Confession rs Reported.
Senator Davis's confession before the
house committee, taken from the steno-
graphic report of the meeting follows:
Senator Davis=I confess there is
Just that much of selfishness in 1t to
me because there is good fee If L can
recover the price of that timber. 1 do
not care where it goes, TO Arkansas or
to the St Francis levee board. but I
would rather it would go to the st.
Francis levee board
when the committee met to receive
senator Davis's revised copy of the
stenographic report il was discovered
that the senator had cut out that por-
ton confessing he was to receive a fee
and had inserted:
4 an attorney for the St Francis
evee board for the recovery of this
timber
There was a disposition or the part
IF the committee to challenge this alter
alton.
Chairman Mondel asked: What is
your recollection of what you said%
Senator Davis: 3ust as it now ap
pears in the corrected copy
Chairman Mondell: My recollection
does not agree with that.
Material Change Forbidden.
''The committee. after lengthy exc
cutive session. declined TO permit sena-
tor Davis to revise his remarks so that
there should be material change He |
was permitted to make alterations III f,
rerbiage only. The original steno- !
graphic report will be printed in the |
committee records