Show = 4 PIjTUP i JOB I II I I Montana Legislator Denies I i Statement Made by I I L 11 Yhithsid t 1 I I H E IS s VERY EMPHATI interesting Story Told by Representative Jaqueth E INTIMATES FORGERY I HI Wns j One of the Members of the Legislature for Whom Whitesido Asserted He Held 5000 Paid by Mr Wellcome for Mr Clark for His Vote and which Was Afterward After-ward Turned Over to the Senate Another 7 Witness ExState Auditor V Cook Denied Very Positively the Statemcnt Mode by Speaker Stiff Before tho Investigating Committee Commit-tee Another Witness Testifies that Ho Went to Helena for the Purpose Pur-pose of Drinking Booze and Haying Hay-ing a Good Time V ing Tme Washington Feb GThe two most Important witnesses before the Clark Investigating commission of the Senate today were Representative Jaqueth of the Montana Legislature and A B Cook exState Auditor Mr Jaqueth Is one of the members in whose name Mr YVhltesIfle claimed to have received 50UO for voting for Mr Clark for the Senate and Mr Cook had been represented repre-sented by Speaker Stiff of the Mont Mon-t im IToiiKCjnB having tried to Induce nywlovolevfor iCinohej consideration Both denied these charges Mi Jaqueth said he never before saw the envelope in which the 5000 said to have been intended for him had been placed Mr Cook declared that he never but Once talked with Mr Stiff concerning the contest for the United States Senate Sen-ate and then Mr Stiff had brought up the subject suggesting that he might cast his vote for Mr Clark for the Senate Sen-ate for 30000 but that he Cook had said that he was not interested In the Senatorial contest to this extent A half dozen other witnesses were examined all by the defense and each in refutation of some testimony offered by time Prosecution At the opening of the session Mr I Campbell attorney for the prosecution produced the affidavit of I Hill which that gentleman had testified had been altered by i himself and Mr Campbell Campuel I Mr Campbell said he luid made no changes in the document WANTED LETTER RESTORED I At this Juncture Attorney Foster of Senator Clarks side asked that Mr Campbell be compelled to restore to Air 1 I nickford the loiter which had been stolen in V Us transmission He re ferred to tho letter from BIclcfoid to Ben Falk which Hill said had been taken from him and takCn opened by CJamp bell when he was taking it to Falk and which Campbell admitted he had read but which he said Hill had opened CAMPBELL RESENTS REMARK Mr l Campbell resented Mr Fosters intimation that the letter had been stolel saying this was absolutely untrue un-true and adding that ho would turn the letter over to the committee when called for Chairman Chandler Bald I this would be satisfactory V PAID HIS OWN EXPENSES V James Ryan of Butte was the first I nltnefcs He knew Representatives Normoyle and Murray that Normoyle had asked him Ryan to face Clark for him and ascertain whether he could not got some money for him Nonnoylo I out of the contest That Murray had told him that if he could get a purchaser pur-chaser for some lots of his for 2500 he would not come to Washington to testify I testi-fy He saJd he had gone to Helena In Mr Clarks interest during the session of the Legislature but he had paid his own expenses V V HAD A GOOD TIME What did you do In Helena asked Mr BIrncy I drank whisky principally V princi-pally was the reply I helped Mr Clark by having a good time with the boys I Robert Fair of Buttc alpo contradicted V contra-dicted Mr Normoyles statements declaring de-claring that he had never made any suggestion to that gentleman to the effect that he could get 510000 or any Other sum for voting for Mr Clark ire had not he said participated in the Senatorial contest WHAT CAMPBELL PROMISED V William Gallick a wholesale liquor dealer said he had never tried to induce in-duce Representative Murray to vote for Clark thus contradicting previous testimony tes-timony put In by tho prosecution This I witness also stated that William 11 I Rector one of the witnesses for the prosecution had told him that Congressman Con-gressman Campbell had promised him that if ho Rector would swear before toe State Supreme court what he Campbel told him to swear he Rector Rec-tor could have the Job of exporting the books of the Silver Bow company which would not take more than two wlJ or three months and for which he could have 2000 or 53000 The witness also said that Rector hud told him that If J he Galllek could get Clark to give him 500 he would go to British Columbia O avoid coming to Washington to i testify Mr Jalluk said he had declined I V de-clined to undertake the negotiation V NOT SINCERE REFORMER State Senator Jerry Connelly of Granite county Populist testified that he did not consider that Mr Whiteaide bad been 0 sincere reformer because lad witness knew V ot frauds In elections In Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties that there was much talk of bribery in Helena but It all originated with the Daly gang that he had voted for Mr Clark but that he had received no money for his vote In voting for Mr Clark he voted the sentiment of 00 per cent of his constituents con-stituents and he resented tho Insinuation Insinua-tion that he had sold his ton thnt sld vote AGAINST DALY GANG lie said he was for anything the Daly gang was against and was against anything the Daly gang was for They arc blackmailers the whole lot of UHf he said bitterly He admitted ad-mitted that for some time he had felt very antagonistic to Campbell and Whlteslde i I Connelly said that Gov Smith had told him that Daly could be elected Senator but that Daly had not had the nerve to show up during the sitting sit-ting of the legislature in Helena WHY HE OPPOSED CAMPBELL lie said in reply to a question a to why he was opposed to Mr Campbell that the latter had been guilty oC treachery and then proceeded upon his own accord to attack exCongressman Hartman Haying1 that ho had every reason to believe that Hartman had Inducements to get off the ticket CAUTIONED BY CHANDLER Mr Connelly said In a statement previously pre-viously mado that the Daly element had charged fraud In Deer Lodge and Silver Bow counties and said he had I meant to say that the charges were against the Daly element the labor people peo-ple claiming that the Daly element was using the rankest kind of bribery As the examination branched into details de-tails of Montana politics fusion etc Mr Chandler cautioned the parties that this would not be allowed beyond those matters having direct bearing on this case At noon time committee took n recess until 2 p in RECEIVED NO ASSISTANCE George Carey of Butte was the first witness of the afternoon session He stated that he had spent last winter in Helena In Mr Clarks Interest and that Mr McDermott had paid part of his expenses Ho denied ever having made promises of pecuniary assistance to Representative Murray for his vote Mr Casey testified to the purchase of 57000 worth of sheep by himself and Representative Lockhart of the Montana Mon-tana Legislature which had been paid for with money borrowed by Mr Lock hart at the bank of Clark Bro In Butte R HODGESS STORY James M Hodges Receiver of the Land office at Miles City told of a proposition which he said had been made to him In Helena last winter by John R Toole a member of the Montana Mon-tana House of Representatives to assist as-sist in preparing for the contest of Mt Clarks sent He had asked Mr Toolcs assistance in the fight against the Rosebud Rose-bud county bill Toole had told him that ho would give the help but that in return he wanted his witness help Mr Toole had said to him that he and his friends had just been beaten by Mr Clark In the contest for the United States Senate that Mr Clarks right to the scat would be attacked that for this purpose testimony would be wanted that he the witness was wanlcdfor thlsTpurposc because It i was believed he could help hurt money would be furnished for his services l that he must know men who had been connected with the Senatorial contest and whose votes could be secured for a consideration and Mr Clark must be prevented from taking his scat by fair means IC possible and IC not by foul means WHAT WAS EXPECTED Did you understand asked Senator Turlcy that you were to go to witnesses wit-nesses and offer themmoney to testify falsely here 1 did was the reply Did you become indignant No sir I feared that to do so would lose Toolos support in the Rosebud billMr Mr Toole had told him that he wanted want-ed Republican for this work because ho feared he could not trust a Democrat Demo-crat 4 TO IMPEACH STIFF J A B Cook a ralhoad contractor of Helena was Introduced to Impeach the testimony of Speaker Stiff of the Montana Mon-tana House of Representatives He contradicted Mr Stiffs testimony flatly flat-ly He did not offer Mr Stiff 20000 nor had he tried later to get him to accept the proposition nor held out inducements in-ducements to make hun believe that he could get 550000 for his vote He admitted ad-mitted that he had Invited Mr Stiff to visit the Montana club I but denied that after getting Mr Still Into the building he had taken him to a quiet room and opened up a conversation on the Senatorial Sena-torial question pressing Mr Stiff to I vote for Mr Clark for a consideration TALKED OF SENATORSHir Wo did talk of the Senatorial fight while In the club building said tho witness but Mr Stiff opened up the V question not I We had taken seats and the convci satlon drifted to the Senatorial Sen-atorial fight Mr Stiff asked me what 1 thought of the use of money In the contest and putting his hand on his knee he leaned over and asked me how I stood with the Clark people I replied re-plied that I was friendly with them r whereupon Mr Stiff said to me I ama am-a married man and have n family I should like to vote for Mr Clark for the Senate provided I could get enough lout of it I believe I would vote for him if I could get 50000 ONLY ONE CONVERSATION The witness said he had told Mr Stiff that hw was not Interested in the Senatorial contest to that extent and had not since talked with Mr Stiff on tho question of the Senatorial contest Mr Cook said that he had been Interested Inter-ested In Mr Clarks behalf but that being a Republican he had not participated V paled actively in the contest A L Jaquilh Republican Representative Represen-tative in the Montana House of Representative Repre-sentative said In contradiction of whirl the prosecutions witness Rector had said that he had never asked Rector to hold money for him not having known the mon monJAQUETHS V JAQUETHS DENIAL Jaqueth Is one of the members of the Legislature for whom Mr WhIte side asserted he held 5000 paid by Mr Wellqome for Mr Clark for Jaquoths I vote and which was afterward turned over to the State by Whiteside Mr Juqueth contradicted this story saying say-ing that Mr Whlteslde had come to his room and suggested that he could get money for hIs vote hut that he witness had told Whlteslde he wanted want-ed to hear nothing about the matter V Ho had not gone to Mr Nellls or Mr WeJJcomos room at Whltesldes request re-quest had never asked Whlteslde to hold money paid by them for his vote hnd never marked an envelope containing contain-ing such money nor had he ever re coJvcd any money for his vote for Mr Clark for the Senate He had he said only voted for Mr Clark because of the I decision of the Republican caucus In his behalf V and because ho considered I ho was carrying out the wishes of hln constituents I WIIITES1DE WANTED TO EVEN UP Mr Jaqueth said In explanation of Mr 1 Whltcsldes conduct toward him that ho had a quarrel with WhU ldt in L H when the latter said that he would get oven with him I Tho iUiess said that when he was elected to the Legislature owed the I bank at Kalispell about GOOO but that I he had since paid the note The payment pay-ment had been made with money received re-ceived on two 3000 contracts with the Government He was shown the envelope en-velope which it was claimed contained tho 5000 that had been given him by Mr Clarks supporters He said he had never before seen the envelope and that the Initials on it were not in his handwriting V WARNED BY COUNSEL COUSEL I He was asked to write his initials ndJl lodolns EO Messrs Gampball and Whifl side stepped up behind the witness Avhcreupoh Mr Hosier jot counsel for the V defense cautioned Mr Jaqueth not to display any private documents We have already had one letter stolen he said referring to the letter which Ben Hill had said Mr Campbell had taken from him CAMPBELL AGGRIEVED Mr Campbell replied to this remark saying that lie considered it an insult Chairman Chandler said he considered consid-ered Mr Fosters remark accidental and hoped that the language would V not be used again Mr Foster responded that he considered consid-ered the characterization accurate but that he would not again use the language lan-guage State Representative G F ing roil of Chester county Mont said he had not received any consideration for his vote for Mr Clark for the Senate and that he had never told any one that he was to get 10000 for his vote for that gentleman He Is a Republican and ho said he had only voted for Mr Clark on the petition of the leading members of his party In his own county Adjourned I Ad-journed until tomorrow |