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against him.
The report Of the committee that in.
Yestigated Ballar6s office says, In
part:
One witness testified that he was IN
a certain insurance mans office some
time about the early part Of July,
1911, and this insurance man was
complaining about being unable to get
the insurance commissioner to exam.
inc his company and issue 1t license
to do business In the state, and this
insurance man said to him, 1 have to
have that license It is worth money
to me to get IT. and am willing to
pay for it He said he would pay $500
to get It fixed up that day This wit
ness said he told this Insurance man
that $500 was too much; that he could
get It done for 5000. The insurance
man wrote out check for $500 to
himself and went to the bank and
brought back to the office the cash,
the insurance man saying that he
would give this to get the license at
once
This witness said he went to the in
surance commissioners office, as he
wanted him to also look over some pa.
pers Of another insurance company,
which that company had been trying
to get attended to for some time This
witness said he told the insurance
commissioner about this second com
pany and that he said he was very
busy; would try to get around it, but
would not say when. Then the wit
ness said he told him about the first
company and the Importance Of the
license, but he said he was very busy.
The witness further testified that, I
said Why don't you just get over
busy spell for few hours and go over
there? | said, There is $500 over
there for you which you can earn
pretty easily il you will 60 over there,
and ! said, You 80 to the other com
pany and attend to that matter and
there is new hat In 1t for YOU The
witness said that the insurance COM
missioner jumped up and said he
would meet him down there. He said
the insurance commissioner met him
at the place where there was to be D
hat in it and fixed that matter up, and
arranged to get the hat. That the in
surance commissioner then went to the
other office, and upon arriving there,
went into the private office OF the in
surance man. After they had been in
there few minutes the insurance man
came into the next office and said, HE
took the money and it is all right
now.
Another witness also testified that
this insurance man went and got this
money and that the insurance man
said He took the money. There were
three witnesses who testified that it
was the talk around the office that
the insurance commissioner had taken
the 5000 The books OF the company
license show that Mr.. Ballard got $500
about this time Another witness tes-
titled that the insurance commissioner
said when he was at the first office
that he had to go to another office at
that time.
This insurance man testified that
he gave the insurance commissioner
5000 about this time; that he thought
he paid it in cash, but that he always
gave checks for license fees; that he
had the insurance commissioner to
help him out at night and he gave this
money to him as a present because he
did not charge for his work, and that
about the same time he gave the insur-
ance commissioner a panama hat This
insurance man would not deny that he
went into the next office and said that
the insurance commissioner took the
money, but said that he did not re-
member about saying it.
"Three witnesses testified that this
insurance man gave the insurance
commissioner $4,000 insurance
policy in this company with the first
years premium paid up. One witness
said that he knew that the insurance
commissioner did not pay the commits
sion part and his recollection was that
the insurance man paid the other part
Of the premium. The others state that
the insurance commissioner did not
pay any part Of this premium. The
books did not show that the premium
was paid We checked up the books
and were unahla tn find whpra tha in