The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-01
SIMS AND BURGESS EXPELLED

more of the matter than had been told him.
 MAYOR SAYS SENATOR'S CON-
 PISSED.
 Mayor Charles E. Taylor said that Mr. Dunaway had called him into the matter, requesting cooper ation, and that he offered the pros ecutor the use of the police force. Mayor Taylor testified that MT Dunaway had called him up about ? a. m. last Saturday morning and that the accused senators, J. K. Riffel, McGaryey and two or three officers were present when he ar rived Mayor Taylor said that Sims told of his relation with Me Garvey, saying that McGarvey had approached him relative to trad ing stamp bill at the senator's room in the Freiderica hotel, inti-
 
 900 to have the bill killed. The mayor said that Mir. Dunaway asked Sims if McGarvey had given him $1OO and that Sims denied it. McGarvey declared that he had giv- en the senator the money, and Sims said nothing in reply to the cold Ciro1c also told of trip to McGarvey' S room at the Hotel Marion with Senator Burgess, and said that he had told McGarvey that he did not want to take any money in the room, and that the meeting at the alley was then arranged.
 Concerning McGarvey's statement at the investigation in Prosecutor Dunaway's office, the mayor said that McGarvey testified that he had given Sims $100 at the Freiderica hotel and $90t in the alley, and Burgess $1,00ts ill the alley, and that he had i9eived in return the original copy of Senator Burgess trading stamp bill. The mayor said that Burgess and Sims were present throughout McGarvey's statement and at it's conclusion admitted the truth of what he had said ALSO SAYS THEY CONFESSED J. K. Riffel testified practically .o .l,o co,,,o o;ro,D,etopoae ipol,,dad ad in Mayor Taylor's testimony; that McGarvey recounted the entire transaction, including the offer of the bribe for the bill, it's accept ance and the transfer of the money for the bill, which he said both Senators Sims and Burgess corr6b- orated.
 SENATORS EXCUSED FROM
 FASTENING
 Following MT. Riffels statement, Senators Sims and Burgess again appeared before the committee yes |terday morning i'll response to call, with Mir. Rogers and Mir. McHaney, their lawyers. Both lawyers ar gued that inasmuch as the senators were then under indictment on very serious charges, it would not be fair to compel them to testify before an Investigating committee, whose decision would affect only their regulations, but would perpet- uate the testimony. They said, however, that the senators were willing to testify, but that it was the advice of their attorneys that they do not do so.
 Senator Sims said: "The only thing l want to say is this: l have nothing to withhold whatever, and am perfectly willing to make a statement, but on the advice of counsel whom I have retained, they advise me not to do it, and l will have to be governed by their ad- vice"
 The committee agreed not to ask the senators to testify and they were excused.
 STENOGRAPHER WAS UNDER
 THE BED.
 Fred l.. Satterfield, court re- porter, testified that he was under the bed in room 300, Hotel Marion, during the conversation between McGarvey and the two senators. He said that he had been employed by MT. Dunaway He said that McGarvey was in the room when the senators came in about 6 o'clock. A previous test of the "de- ltectaphone, he said. had proved unsuccessful because the noise made by street cars confused the sounds. The detectaphone, which he said was a small boXlike affair with a perforated transmitter that could be concealed in a waste basket or elsewhere about the room, connect ed by wire with a receiving ap- paratus like telephone operator headgear, was later used in MT
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