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Show (By W.U.Telograph.) THE MISSOURI BOY BRIBERY. St. Louis, 11. The Republican's special from Jefferson City says that it is understood that a memorial was drawn up at the Planter House, St. : Lou'j on Sunday by several leading Democrats in and out of the legislature and forwarded to the committee on privileges and elections at Washington, Washing-ton, which contains some new testimony testi-mony in the alleged Bogy bribery matter. mat-ter. The purport of this testimony is said to be f at during the last senatorial senato-rial Democratic caucus, after Phelps determined to urge the Phelps men to vote for Blair be with this view called some of Phelps friends out of the caucus cau-cus acd told them that Phelps desired them to vote for Blair as he (Phelps) had been beaten by the money of Becy. A leading member who was working for Bogy came out of the caucus cau-cus room at this time and stated to members who were in the rotunda who were Phelps men that Bogy would give ten thousand dollars to be elected. |