The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-02
THE Only Strike Ever Heard Of Says Bill Dickinson Small That Ddr


hearing on the bill that at the pres
ent time the American bank note
company has a monopoly of the
printing of securities.
Gov. Sulzer sent for Senator Still
well when Mr.. Kendall reached the
executive chamber yesterday and
asked the senator to face his accuser.
According to Kendall Senator Still
well did not deny having received
the $3.50, but claimed he was entitled
to 1t as a fee for having drawn the
bill. THE governor told him about
the other matters, but Stilwell did
not reply" continued Mr.. Kendall.
The governor then demanded that
Stilwell resign, but he declined.
Detailing the alleged transactions
with Stilwell concerning the legisla-
ton, Mr.. Kendall continued: "Sena-
tor Stilwell told me that he did not
want anything for himself, but there
were four members of his committee
the Senate codes committee-who
would not act unless they got $500
each. He did not give the names of
these senators. He wrote me let
ter inviting me to call on him at his
Office, 261 Broadway and talk the
matter over. | went to Mr.. Still
wells Office and we talked it over. /
was getting a little wary and said:
That $4,000 is only for reporting 1t
out of the Senate codes committee
he said, Yes and | said, What
about the Assembly codes commit
tee.' He said, do not know about
that. / will have to canvass that
committee and | will telegraph you
Monday. There will be number in
the telegram and you will know from
that number what it will cost you to
get 1t out of the Assembly codes com
mittee.
Later he sent me the following
telegram: Fifteen is the hight num-
ber. l knew by that that 1t was go
ing to cost $500 to get the bill re-
ported out of the Assembly codes
and $4,000 out of the Senate, and re-
fused to pay it. | thought 1t over,
and the next day / called Stilwell on
the telephone. told Stilwell that
unless those bills were reported out
of his committee Immediately /
would send the governor a telegram,
which read TO him as follows: Still
well refuses to allow my bill to be
reported out of committee unlesa
pay $500. How am / to get iusfice?'
"Stilwell' asked me to give him un-
til o'clock that afternoon and said
he would call me up Shortly before
5 he called me up and said the bill
had been reported out of the Senate
codes committee. | said l wanted 1t
out of the Assembly committee. He
said he did not think he could do
anything with the committee. | said:
You've got to. You get 1t out OF
that committee or I'll cut loose
everything I've got on you Stilwell
asked me to give him until the next
day, when he called me up and said
1t would be impossible for him to get
1t out that day, but he would get 1t
out the next day. Then xet morning
he called me up and said the AS
sembly committee had reported the
bill out"
Late yesterday after Senator Still
well, rising to question OF personal
privilege, told of having been called
to the executive chamber and con-
fronted by Mr.. Kendall. Kendall
never opened his mouth" said Sena-
tor Stilwell. And | said: Governor
IL anything this man has said would,
warrant statement of that kind
from you. 1t is lie. II is untrue.
You nor no one else has a right to
tell me to resign and resent such a
statement coming from you and /
will not resign" The senator de-
clared he should be given an oppor-
tunity to explain and that he should
be either "vindicated or branded one
way of the other" The investigat-
ton was ordered without dissent.
Mr.. Lewis, the revision clerk, said
Senator Stilwell asked him to draft
the bill for Mr.. Kendall because the
latter did not want the legislative
bill drafting department to do it as
he feared he stock exchange would
get next to it and have a joker Slip
ped into it." He claims that as a
lawyer he had a right to draw the
bill and to charge $3.50 for his SER
vices. He denied he gave Senator
Stilwell any part of the $3.50.