Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-27
EVIDENCE CLEARS
GOULD, AID AYERS
HinCkIey DenounceS WaIsh's
Attitude-HoIdS "ProofS"
Are Not Convincing.

BY the Associated Press
No one could read the testimony OF
Ross Thompson, who was associated
with Senator Gould. Republican
Maine. in the incorpora ton of the
st. Johns and Quebec Railway Co.
without concluding that the Senator
had no part in the turning over OF
100000 to a political party in New
Brunswick, Frederick G.. Hinkley
counsel for Gould, testified today be
fore the Senate committee investi-
eating the matter.
Thompson had testified that Gould
had no hand in the transfer of the
fund to Premier Flemming of New
Brunswick in 1912
Assails Walsh's Attitude
Hinckley said Senator Walsh
Democrat, Montana, who asked for
the investigation, had never re-
ferred to Gould as Senator in argu-
ment before the committee yester-
day, and that this attitude would be
resented by the people of Maine.
The rule of law in fraud cases
Hinckley declared, holds that the "evi
dence must be clear, full and convinc-
ing" and that nobody would hold that
the evidence against Senator Gould
came under this rule
If the committee is to accept the
contention Of Senator Walsh that Sen
ator Gould is guilty of bribery and
perjury, Hinckley asserted, it must
also hold that the other witnesses had
perjured themselves to aid Gould.
mo case is made out at all and it
would fall in any court of law" he
shouted. Bear in mind that Sena.
tor of the United States has been
charged with bribery and then with
perjury. I cannot understand how a
fellow Senator could so far forget
himself In his apparent zeal as to
charge a fellow Senator with serious
things"
Parallels Villa Case.
Huxley said the $1,000 transaction
was parallel to forcing payments from
American ranchers to Pancho Villa
to get their cattle over the Mexican
border.
Would these cattlemen be con
sidered unfit for society because of the
payment of this money!" he asked
Here is a man whose integrity never
has been questioned before being sub
jected to such charges"
Senator Walsh told the committee
that a telegram sent Tuesday tC
former Premier F'lemming. inviting
him to appear, had not been delivered
because physicians attending Elem
ming would no: permit it.
Meaning of Testimony Disputed.
The hearing yesterday revolved
around a discussion of the meaning
of certain testimony given by Senator
Gould
Hinckley declared that Senator
Walsh had sought to impeach the tes-
timony Of Senator Gould by quoting a
part of the testimony offered to the
committee instead of considering it
as a whole.
The argument centered around the
pronoun a." Senator Gould had testi.
fed that when he appeared in New
Brunswick before Justice McKeown
and declared that he had given Pre-.
mier Flemming 100000 as a contri.
button to his Conservative party, he
meant that his railroad corporation
had made the contribution and that
it was done without his knowledge
or consent.
Senator Walsh attacked this testi
mony as absurd. adding that if that
were the case, Senator Gould had
placed himself in the position of a
man, who, knowing that a crime was
to be committed and with power t.
stop it, had not raised his hand
against it and had profited by the
favors that accrued from the pay