The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-04-29

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Herbert Griffin Post of the American
Legion and the ,Woman's Auxiliary
held at the county court room on Tues
day night, May 3. This is the regu-
lar meeting night for the Legion and
the members of the Woman's Auxilia-
~ have been invited to meet with
them to assist in the preparation OF
plans for the decoration Of the graves
of the soldiers. of the late war who are
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dictment on b bribery charge. sched-
uled to take the witness stand at 8 a..
IN. today it is probable that the. Bond
committee win wind up this phase of
the bribery investigation before adj
jourhment tonight. Unless some un.i
forseen development occurs, the com
mittee will be ready to resume the in
vcstigation in its broadcast scope Mon
day. '' .'
The time yesterday was consumed
with the dissemination OF Reese
T. Amis, managing editor of the Ten
nesean; and the examination of Chas.
B. Forbes, editor of the Tennessean,
Senator j r. Kemper, Representative
b l.. Rawls. both of Robertson county,
and Harry A. Wilson, chief clerk Of
the senate.
The entire morning was taken up
with the cross-examination of Mr..
Amis, during which, as on the day be-
fore. frequent clashes of counsel took
place, and the committee several
times had to caution the attorneys to
keep within the scope of the Clabo
case to avoid extraneous matter.
Mr.. Forbes was called to the stand
at 2. p. m. At the opening of the di-
rect examination, which was conduct
ed by Gen. JEFF McCarn, the witness
made it plain that he objected to any
reference to Il conspiracy or alleg-
ed conspiracy" or to connecting his
name with any such combination.
When W, A. Knight, who conducted
the crossexamination referred to the
witness as "a member of club, y
which had been organized to clean up
the legislature, Mr.. Forbes again
showed his resentment.
The witness and counsel for the de-
Tense engaged in numerous tits, but
for the most part they were of the
good-natured variety At one time. Mr..
knight evidently intending to, prove
that the witness was biased against
Senator Clabo because of his having
voted with the back tax interests,
asked:
"Who wrote that editarial in the
Tennesean this morning.
mot to give you a short answer"
the witness replied, "but that is none
of your business"
This line of questioning was shut
off by the committee, as was every
other effort to involve the Tennessean
in the investigation.
Mr.. Forbes was permitted to tell his
own story leading up to the arrest of
Senator Clabo He was permitted to
refer to notes and quoted from them
frequently.
He said that he stopped at the of
flee of the Tennessean on Sunday
night, April s, and of being introduced
by Mr.. Amis to Mr. Felts He, said
that he was asked to accompany Mr..
Felts to the Office of General McCarn,
and that he did so and that later Mr..
McCarn. Mr.. Amis and Col Lea joined
them there.
At this conference, he said, he was
asked to pick out bill upon which
Mr.. Felts could get busy. He suggest
ed that senate bill 1914, known as the
safes TAX DILL might be the most deSir
able measure, but was not sure as to
its status. He told of making a visit
to the room of Senator Frank D. Full
Ter, chairman of the finance. ways and
means committee, at the Tulane Hotel
later on, and of having obtained from
Senator Fuller the desired informa-
ton concerning the bill in question
He said that he told Mr. Felts that the
bill was in the hands of tho commit. /
tee, but that he would make an effort
TO have it reported out
The witness said he saw Mr.. Feits
about the capitol the next day and no.
ticed that he was getting acquainted
with the legislators.