Show SMITH OUSTS CLARK CLARKI I Governor Revokes Appointment by Spriggs EE rItE NAMES MAGINNIS GIVES GIVES COLLUSION AND FRAUD AS REASON SEASON FOR FOB ACT A T 4 Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections Decides to Push Original OriginalS S Resolution Unseating Clark Casa Goes Goes Over Until Monday Gover Governors nors Protest is Received 4 Butte Mont May 18 Governor Smith today sent dispatches to Sen Senator Senator Senator ator JV W A Clark Senator Chandler chairman c irm n of the committee on privileges privileges leges I nd Iid elections and Senator Frye p e i tn af tile W nIt t l d regard dand revoked the action MUon of Lieutenant Lieuten nt Governor in n nam naming m ming ing Mr Clark to succeed to the vacancy caused by his own resignation tion and saying he had named Martin M rtin Maginnis of Helena to fill fiU the vacancy The governor gives as his reasons reas ns his opinion that the appointment of Mr Clark by the lieutenant governor was tainted by collusion and fraud The dispatches are practically the same that to Mr lr ir Clark reading I I have this day disregarded and revoked your appointment as United States senator made by Governor Spriggs on the instant as being tainted with collusion and fraud and have this day appointed Hon Martin Maginnis United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by your ton t on Those to Senators Frye and Chandler are of the same tenor notifying them of his action The governor also sent senta a 0 formal protest to Senator Chandler detailing his reasons He has also is issued issued Issued sued an open latter to the people of the state denying he had any knowl knowledge knowledge edge dge of the contemplated step when he left Montana for California He says he went to California at the request of Thomas R Hinds to look into the title of some mining property in which Miles Finler was interested He owed Finlen 2000 and thought by going he might earn a fee that would be ap applied applied applied plied on the indebtedness I shall shaIl prove by my conduct in the future he concluded that I was Vas not guilty of any wrong doing or any a y idea of wrong Miles Finlen is one of the Democrats In the legislature who voted against Clark Martin Maginnis was delegate j in congress for the territory when II I I Montana became a state |