The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-08
GOVERNOR HAYS
 UNDER OATH

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 ed something from the bll, and said
 all right, or something like that.
 shook hands with him, and he gave
 the bill to Stewart 10 report. It was assumed by all present that he had signed the bill and approved it." On cross-eXamination Judge Rolfe
 said that the morning before the gov ernor told them he would sign the bin at o'clock Judge Rolfe said
 the governor had agreed that the commissioners snould he Rice, Kitch-
 ems and Bedding.
 Bradsher on Stand.
 Thai Bradsher, penitentiary com
 missioner, said at noon the governor
 sent for him andSurridge and read
 them a veto message for the bill The
 governor told them to go and advise
 the friends of the bill it would be
 vetoed so they could have time to he heard He said they should report back at 2:30 o'clock. He said they
 came back and urged the governor to approve the bill, and about { o'clock the governor sat at ais desk writing. Mir. Bradsher said he did not under stand the governor to say he would | sign the bill if they demanded it. but
 he did know the governor said he would rather lose his arms than sign il.
 On cross-eXamination Bradsher
 said the governor never told him that
 he would sign the bill, and never said
 who the commissioners would be. He
 said that he himself had insisted that Captain Rice be a commissioner under the bill, and that he had told Cap
 tain Rice that the governor wanted
 Senator Harry Harris taken care of
 under the bill. He said the governor
 had told him. if the bill was signed,
 he wanted Harris taken care of Harry Stewart Testifies. Harry Stewart secretary to the governor, testified that the bill was delivered to him in the afternoon, and | that the governor said Here, Harry, | report this bill" He said that he
 went to the other room to dictate
 the report, assuming that it was a | signed bill and that before he got started well, crowd gathered around
 to look at the signature on the bill,
 and that while he was thus engaged. he was instructed to return the bill. la ho hnH tg
 see if the bill was approved, but that
 he would have done so. He said no
 other vetoed bills had come to him.
 He said that the governor did not give him a veto message or any other
 paper when the bill was given over
 to him to report.
 Rice on the Stand.
 Captain R. R. Rice of Warner, who
 helped in the passage Of the bill, made some witness. He insisted on
 telling his story in his own way. He said that he would have to tell it all
 as it happened, and that the governor
 had been permitted to tell his story
 that way "He is no better than me, nor am | any better than nim," said Captain Rice. He was frequently in.
 terfupted, but he managed to get in
 most of the things he wanted to be known
 ''I was interested in the passage of the bill, through some of my Hot Springs friends. I talked with the governor more than others about the matter l was here with the Hot Springs crowd, and Governor Hays knew l was working with them. l was his close friend. One day ne came 10 me and asked me 10 go to Forrest City with him to attend meeting, to be back next morning. I said could not well go, unless I could be of service to him, because was not feeling well. and he said, Then Captain, come to my office to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock so I can talk over some matters with you.
 T went to his office the next morn. ing. He was excited. His face was flushed, and he was almost in tears. This was the first week was in Little Rock, and just after the legis. lature had gotten settled down to work. He said to me; That old one, armed Ben Griffin is being ribbed up by Joe Lyons and the whisky crowd to put over a resolution in the house to require to be made public the list of those who gave me my automobile, and who paid my expenses to Califor, mia"
 Governor Hays also said, I have been treated shamefully by Speaker Sawyer, and the Hot Springs crowd and it looks like l am going to have all the administration bills defeated, 1 and all the anti-administration bills will be passed
 T said to him: Governor. am surprised at this
 He then said to me that a peniten. tiary committee had been named bv Speaker Sawyer who would make a report showing the penitentiary farm conditions bad, and that would reflect on his administration He said that the committee were enemies of his | or of those who would ha ;ptouoo4ea