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Show FARWELL WASN'T IN IT. Tho Illlnole Senator Knew Nothing; of the Silver Pool. Chicago, Jan. 2. The recently published pub-lished story regarding an alleged silver pool mentioned the name of Senator Farwell iu connection with it. In an interview today, Senator Farwell said he never bought a dollar's worth of silver sil-ver previous to the silver legislation of last summer, While he was told that others were endeavoring to make something some-thing out of the anticipated fluctuation in price, ho steered clear of it. He knew, of course, that the price would go up and when some friends in London Lon-don called for his views he answered to the best of his knowledge. He received no profit, directly or indirectly, through the speculations of his friends. Regarding Re-garding the silver pool, he said that he had been informed that a pool did exist, but this did not come to him until un-til long after the silver legislation. There was no hint expressed concerning concern-ing a pool while the matter Wn before congress. The senator denied flatly that he was in anyway concerned in the bank failures, or thai he speculated in silver. |