Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-07-02

pEUuuCe W SHOW up any suSh iiauu
or prove the charges against Clum or
his associates. Pierce and the Home
stead had but three representatives
at the trial at any time, these being
Robt. Haines, Pierce's regularly EN-
ployed attorney and lobbyist, and his
brother, Austin Haines, an Iowa boy
educated at Grinnell and Harvard
and having literary talents we'll cul-
tivated. Pierce himself sat in the
background with nothing much to
say and evidently being an interested
and surprised spectator of events
thus unfolding and surrounding him.
The Panama-Pacific Exposition
had several members present and
was represented by three attorneys,
Emmett Tinley, of Council Bluffs,
Judge Bollinger. of Davenport, and
B. F. Swisher, of Waterloo. Witnesses
were regularly subpoenaed as in
court, Senator Kimball presided as
judge and the rest of the committee
acted as the jurors to hear all and
prepare for the verdict.
| Evidence Is VOluminOuS.
For three full days this hearing or
investigation went on, the attorneys
scrapping over little points of law
and procedure, and objecting to GER
tain evidence as in court Gradu-
ally it became a fight of the Home
stead people to defend themselves,
and Haines frequently protested and
spoke against certain evidence which
he intimated was intended to lay a
foundation for damage suit against
Pierce and the Homestead presum-
ably by Woodwork Clum.
| Attorney Haines made the opening
statement Of the case and presented
typewriter copy of the evidence
taken before the Pitt committee in
the Senate last spring, secretly, and
on that evidence he stated they rested
their case. He stated it showed that
$4,000 of funds of the Commission
were unaccounted for and that no
satisfactory reports have been made,
that Woodwork Clum, the secretary,
drew salary after the exposition clos
ed, that certain property of ths l.
mission. belonging to the stat i'd
never been returned to the state. and
especially that certain typewriter
for which s100 was paid was q Sec
ond-hand machine and was missing
when the exposition was over. Also
claimed that Woodwork Clum had
paid to r. E., Bales sum of about
S45 out of Commission money which
was personal debt. u
| In all, six serious cha =. were
made and insisted upon in the Home.
stead against the Commission and
against Clum.
/ Emmett Tinley, for the Commits
sion, told of, the vast amount of prep,
aration and clerical work that was in.
volved in the exposition and stated
that Mr.. Clum received salary oi
$4,000 a year during that time, hall
of which was paid by the Greater
Iowa Committee and half by the state
funds. He said they could present
to the committee the correct story
of the exposition and its valuable re-
lations to foreign nations and bust.
ness. He stated that full reports had
been made and that vouchers for all
moneys spent had been filed, and
that expert accountants had gone
over these reports and checked every
item. He stated that the Commissor
received no money from any conces.
sions as claimed by Pierce.
| Witnesses Examined.
Thus organized the hearing went
on with Austin Haines, the first wit.
ness. He was asked about his
charges concerning the typewriter al
legged to have been fraudently pur-
chased. Asked regarding is charges
that Woodwork Clum paid himself
checks amounting to $1,000 out of the
state funds he stated in one answer.
"No, have no proof that he paid
these checks to himself"
He also admitted that he did not
know at that time on what basis Mr..
Clum's salary was paid, that he does
not personally know Mr.. Clum, nor
that he was putting in part time for
the Greater Iowa Association, for
which he was getting pay. Also that
his information regarding the matter
was secured from the first -four re-
ports filed and from r. E. Bale, then
secretary of the executive council.
Ex-Gov Geo. w. Clarke testified
that the fifth and final report of the
Commission was handed to him be-
fore he left the office of governor on
the 18th of January, 1917. He was
not sure whether it was ever approv-
ed or not.
Mr.. Brandt, of Clinton, testified that
he had sold two new typewriters that
were delivered to the office Of the
Greater Iowa Association in Clinton,
and was paid sl0O for the one that
went to the Commission.
T. V. Murphy and Mr.. Oates, of
the Clinton Advertiser, were examin-
ed regarding the purchase and sale
of this typewriter.
| Pierce On the Stand.
| Jas. NJ Pierce. publisher of the
Homestead, was placed on the wit
ness stand and kept there for half a
day Wednesday. He stated he is
past II years old and does very little
OF the writing for the Homestead
and had not written anything for ten
wears but depends on his assistants