The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-28
GOLD HILL BILL is
ASKED TO ANSWER
People Here Want Full Explanation Of That North Carolina
Gold Mine" Proposition the Senator Had on Few
Years Ago and They Want No "GoId Bricks"
OPEN UP, SENATOR, AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF SCANDAL
Make Full Breast Of the Affair and How 1t Was That Wye
Beaf Could Not Run for Congress unless He Took Some
Of That Mythical Get-RiCl- Quick Mining Stock

The visit here today Of United States Senator William g.
Chiffon OF Charleston for the purpose of delivering campaign
address tonight at the announcement that
qshers would pass through the ae offering stock in North Caro-
1914 '
AS the propoundng questions campaign orators appears
TO be popular pane this might be well Senator Chill
ton in his address here tonight question why he e
plotted North Carolina gold mining stock United States Senate
stationery at the time mentioned.
According to the newspapers of June and 5 1914 various
persons the country had been receiving communications on the
e letter paper Of the Senate committee of the United States
Senate in which William E. Chiffon of West Virginia chairman Of
mine While acknowledging interest in the mining venture ac
roag 70 he newspapers Of that date Senator Chiffon dscamed
io t9e extraordinary use OF the stationery of the
Senate committee He tried to shift the blame upon clerks
But the appearance of these letters among curb brokers of
New YORK mad somewhat spectacular character and in other
quarters brought to definite foundation stories which had been
circulated IN Washington for time that section the SEN
ae ana others Democratic ociadom in the hroe
ncpen gold fever that dreams being dreamed fabulous
fortunes to be drawn from the bowels of North Carolina
tain that senators letting their friends the good thing
that clerks and pages who fortunate enough mixing
from the banks buy stock and that all basng the sun
shine radated by Walter George Newman promoter who had
mad something OF a record in mining ventures.
The scandal attained such proportions Washington and in
tne eastern money eenter where is recalled number of
Senate for official investigation into the exploitation TO the
North Carolina gold mining proposition Before either Senator
Chiffon Senator Lee Oveman North Carolina who was also
accused the scandal had acted the matter Laoe
had served emphatic notice that he would present resolution ask
ing for an inquiry and would urge its adoption by the Senate The
accused Senators thus forced the gnomnious and h
ang spectacle of asking for investigation themselves which
was done by Senator Ovema The resolution introduced in the
Senate authorized the employment special committee of five
senator's to make the official investigation
The resolution in fact was the drawn by Mr. LaFoete
appeared that the accused senator's too embarrassed get
for themselves The senator from Wisconsin yielded
in favor Of Mr. Oveman after Senator Chiffon had told him that
such resolution was to be submitted he should permit it
from him (Chion) or from Mr.. 0verman. 81
The inquiry authorized to include not only the
Senate stationery but also the sending Of employee of the
uy department at the governments expense to the North Carolina
proprty for the purpose Of investigating the mine
The senator should tell the people what the proposition was he
offered Wyie Beal following which Beall called the
Judas Iscariot
Mr. Chiffon will likely dodge this proposition in his address
here tonight for obvious The explanations he has h
eo made of his connection with this scandal have not been
explanatory.