The Washington herald., 1913-08-21
outright. large loan shark" establish
ments in Washington.
May BE Other ..Jackpots.o

outright. large 'loan shark" establish
| ments in Washington.
May BE Other "Jackpots.o
One remark IL Horning during his
afternoon testimony may we'll be taken
| as an indication that the more than
SLIGO represented in these two funds
was not the only Jackpot" against
which the Dyer measure was forced to
| contend.
This new lead does not come as a
distinct surprise, as those who were
fighting for the bill for years believed
| at the time that most OF the money used
TO defeat the Dyer measure came from
outside sources, many of the loan Offices
In Washington being but connections o.:
systems which have their headquarters
and directing offices In the big metro
politan centers.
The committee was much interested In
the statement that Horning had paid
large fees from both funds to two firms
of lawyers. He paid Henry E. Davis,
it was said. 5000 from each fund. al
though the work, inasmuch as only one
bill was involved. was much the same.
He paid In addition, 1850 to the firm
OF Tucker. Kenyon a. Macfarland for
work on the same bill. Davis got Sc
first for opposing the entire bill-that
fee coming from the larger fund-and
later. ST., for opposing the provision
in the bill which extended its provisions
TO local pawnshops-the second fee COM
ing from the s3,73i pawnbrokers' fund.
Horning could not be sure that his
pawnbroker friends or the loan sharks
knew that they were paying Mr.. Davis
5000 between them. He said, moreover.
that though he had broken a lifelong
practice and required Mr.. Davis to give
him a receipt for the $2,Oo0 paid out of
the pavnbrokers' fund, he had never
shown this receipt to the other two con-
tributors to this Observation-Disclosures and
Burnstine.
And although HorninE swsre that he
had de- landed the receipt from Davis
because Heidenhcimer and Burnstine
protested-that $4,000 was too much to
pay Mr.. Davis. Heidenheimer has sworn
that his recollection was that Mr.. Da.
Wis received u. 500, and Burnstine has
sworn that he had NO idea what Mr..
Davis received.
day morning. after a meeting in the
rooms of Henry E. Davis, at which
Horning and Burnstine We're present,
that he still believed that Mr. Davis
received only sl,5J, although Mr.. Davis
believed he received 5000"
expressing skepticism as to the genuine
ness Of the Davis receipt. and Mr.. Davis
who sat at the counsel table, invited
Representative Nolan to settle the mat
ter outside. after a question Mr.. Nolan
had put.
II object to that question:" exclaimed
Davis. "as it implies that the receipt was
for this occasion, and l |
will say to the gentleman thatI will |
settle the matter with him outside the |
room"
81 mean to Imply just that" replied |
Nolan, without becoming particularly ex-
cited over the challenge" ana as to go
ing outside, I am ready at any time"
In the afternoon, Representative Cline |
asked HoIning pointblank:
Didn't you get that nice, clean.
freshly written receipt yesterday morn
ing in Mr.. Davis Officer"
mo, sir; did not" replied Horning, /
but without great emphasis.
Explaining the fact that he had ex-
pended, only about $500 OF the 500
loan shark fund. and was holding the
remainder in his vault, Horning said that II
shortly after he had collected the money
he realized the impossibiIity Of defeat
ng the entire bill, and decided to save
he remainder OF the fund to use in
the constitutionality of the
aw after ita enactment. On the other
,and, he believed that there was some
rope that he might have knocked out OF II
he bill the provision which extends its
'estrctions TO Iawnsnops. ror tnar rea-
'on, he said, he collected a second fund II
the xS,73i '.Jackpot'-from pawnbrokers II
md started in on a new lead.