The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-20
COMMITTEE REPORTS PROOF OF
BRIBERY LACKING, BUT SUS-
TAINs PERJURY CHARGE.
MESSENGER TESTIF|Es
HERE WILL BE OTHERS IN
JAIL SooN," THREAT OF Ac-
cuSED MEMBER.
Newspaper Union News se.vice.

lower branch of the State Legislature
when that body, by vote of 60 ayes
and no nays, five members being ex-
cused or absent, adopted the report of
the special investigating committee,
composed Of Speaker P. B. Stewart
and Representatives Boone Best, p. ID.
Nelson, X. " Dunklee and Hugh
Taylor.
The report stated that the commit
tee had been unable to determine defi-
nitely that Howland had accepted
money as a bribe, but that it found
him guilty of perjury and recommend
ed to the House that he "be expelled
as a member of the House as being
guilty of conduct unbecoming mem
Der of this body and that his seat be
and is hereby declared vacant"
Meantime Rowland is in jail, being
unable to find anyone to go on his
bond OF $4,000 pending his trial on a
charge of committing perjury before
the county grand jury in telling two
stories in explanation of the receipt
of money by him on the floor of the
House the afternoon of Feb. 9.
Rowland has declared that he is pre-
pared to "let things ride" but to Rep
resentatives Ardourel and Daley,
Democrats, who went to visit him at
the jail, he is said to have declared,
bitterly, "Pm the first representative
! to land in jail, but I'll not be the last
There1l be more of you soon"
Because of Howlands arrest and
facts adduced before the grand jury,
the House investigation committee
Monday asked that it be continued,
with all plenary powers to conduct
further Investigations and hearings
into the case in hope of getting at the
real truth of the whole transaction.
The request was granted unanimously.
Denver, March 15.-Representative
William w. Howland of Denver was
| arrested Saturday afternoon on an in
I, formation filed with District Judge
Denison by District Attorney John A.
Rush, in behalf of the county grand
jury, charging Howland with deiiber-
ate perjury in his testimony before
the grand jury, relative to his receipt
of money Feb. 9 on the floor of the
| House chamber at the state capitol.
| He was unable to give $4,000 bail, and
was taken to the county Jail.
The Rowland case took an interest
ing turn Saturday as the result of tes-
| timony Friday night before the House
probe committe by DR.. Mary e. Bates
of the Women's Protective League, to
the effect that she had sent SIS to
Rowland to be transmitted by him to
Mrs. l.. l.. Hartzell, a private detec-
tive engaged by her to investigate Ju-
venile Court officers and matters,
when Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Ju-
venile Court notified District Attorney
John A. Rush that he would ask for
warrants for the arrest of DR.. Bates,
r. P. Rollins, undertaken; E. X.
Whitehead, secretary of the State HUI
name Society, and Frank l.. Rose, on
charges of conspiring to defame Lind
sey's character.
District Attorney Rush stated that
he would issue no such warrants until
Judge Lindsey presented evidence suf-
ficient to satisfy the district attorney
that his charges can be sustained in "a
criminal action.
The arrest Friday of Carl Gibson,
! messenger boy of the Postal com
pany who disappeared soon after the
Rowland probe started, brought out
story so entirely different from any
told previously that the investigators
confidently anticipate startling devel-
opments in the immediate future.
Gibson testified before the grand
jury that he carried the mysterious
package containing currency on Feb.
n l.. ~,
& Electric building to Howland on the
floor of the House, delivering the
message to a doorkeeper. He declared
inability to remember the office to
which he was called, nor could he de-
scribe the person who gave him the
package to deliver to Rowland.
| For the first time since the begin
| ming of the case the word "bribe" was
connected with it directly, when the
Information against Howland stated
that the grand jury had been investi-
eating certain matters with reference
to accepting and receiving bribe by
the said w. w. Howland." This in
fers that the grand jury has discov-
cred evidence stronger than that
brought out in the House of Represen-
tatives probe, and which leads to po-
| litical influences higher up
Two of the higher ups" were re-
ported to haze left the city Saturday,
and the grand jury refused to chance
| Howland's remaining in Denver over
Sunday.
| George G. Waterman, Howland's
| close friend and partner in the
| framed" story first told to the grand
| jury and the House investigation com
mittee, was before the grand jury Sat
| ur6ay, and later was closeted with
| District Attorney Rush. prior to How
lands arrest.