Show MO NT AN A SCA ND A I Senate Committee Hears Several Sev-eral More Witnesses PROSECUTION NOT THROUGH State Representative Fine Although ft Friend of Senator Clark Detailed n Story from which the Prosecution Evidently Derived Much Satisfaction Satisfac-tion He Stated that Ho Had Received Re-ceived About S5000 from Mr Clark Since Adjournment of Legislature Efforts to Bisbnr State Senator Washington Jan 2tTlie Senate Committee on Privileges ami Elections today adjourned over until Monday In Its Investigations of the churgoa of Senator Clark of Montana VltncsKos for tIme prosecution were absent and Senator Faulkner for the defense Indicated Indi-cated a desire that none of those who are to be called as witnesses on that aide testily until the prosecution had completed its case While no positive statement was made lo this effect the committee indicated quite positively that time Clark UnesseH might be called by the pinsecutlon after Monday The principal lYltncscs today were Mr Ector recalled and State Rcpre sentatvc Fine The latter though a frientl of Mr Clarks gve testimony from which the prusecuton evidently derived niuili satisfaction He said that he had received about 5000 from Mr Clark since the adJounniHnt of the Legislature in orklnp up testimony looking to the disbarment of Senator Clarks namesake State Senator Clark of Madison county Mont who voted n opposition to the Senator Some of time letters written by Dr Ector the Missoula dentist to Senator dark which liave been missing for a week or ten days arrived und were today to-day presented t WHERD IS MURPHY The session was opened by the reading read-ing of a dispatch from Columbus O saying that the absent witness Murphy Mur-phy had been In that city last week In reply to Inquiries Faulkner and Hartman both said they know nothing as to the whereabouts of Murphy TILT rETWEEN LAWYERS The presentation of the Ector letters was not accomplished without a tilt between the two exSenators Edmunds and Faulkner who are engaged as j counsel on the two sides of the controversy contro-versy Faulkner staled that two of the letters had failed lo arrive in the package llrst rerelved from Butte but that ho had wired Root to make a search for them and if they could be found to forward them EDMUNDS ASKS QUESTION Edmunds wanted to know who Root was and said so far ns appeared here the postmaster or the street Inspector of Butte might as well he asked to supply sup-ply letters Had Mr Faulkner opened the letters Mr Faulkner replied that ho had not opened them but that all the lottcis hearing on the Investigation were there ECTOR LETTERS READ Charles AV Clark substantiated Mr Faulkners statement saying that all the Kctor Idlers received were hem e presented Thr letters were then read There were live or six of Ihcm nd di eased to Mr Kick ford and four to Clark All were Identified by Mr I Ector who was again placed on tho I taiid There were mily two letters dated pi lor lo the November election of ISPS Thes were tInted at Stephensvillc and re lated lo time con lest WHAT ECTOR NEEDED In these he slated that the opposition to Mr Woods the candidate for the House that he was supporting were working like fury and that the Clark man need some encouragement To make a thorough canvass of the 000 voteis of timt < country icquircs the stuff he vnld and added that ie wanted at least 500 EFFORTS TO HOLD WOODS The next two lellers of date respectively respec-tively November 17th and met Just after af-ter the legislative election referred lo the efforts made to hold Woods and op poslllon to get him He told of WoodBa debts and paid he had agreed to bo bound by whatever he did In the Pt eta isesThe The later letters fiom December 7 1898 to October 31 IS9D related almost al-most entirely to Mr Ectors efforts to collect what ho thought was due to him for his efforts In Senator Clarks behalf WANTED HIS DUES In December he wrote Mr Clark Bay ing he did not know to whom he must apply for ills dues Of course he said I am after what there Is In It for moOn mo-On March 1st he wrote Mr Bickford asking him about the JO per centum of his fBlckfords receipts from Clark which he Ector considered he was lo have STRIKE WHILE IRON IS HOT It was also in March that ho wrote his second letter to Mr Clark in this luter he reviewed at length his efforts In Clarks behalf expressing his con tinued loyalty to Clark and his determined deter-mined opposition to DulylHin Jf you BtrJh Willie time iron is hot ho wrote You can stampede the Irish king He also said in this letter that two of Dalys IIKII had promised 5000 lo him during tIme Senatorial fonieHl for information in-formation us to larks movements but that he had refused to entertain the offerOPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY FOR A STAKE In the following June he wrote to Mr Bickford saying that he had come to the concIiiBlon that H was useless to depend upon receiving anything through Bickford lie had he said another an-other opportunity to make a stake and he did not propose to let that opportunity opportu-nity go by as he had the opportunity which had presented i itself In the winter win-ter before ECTOR PLEADS POVERTY x The last letter of the series was dated October 31wt last timid was addressed to Mr Clark In this letter he asked If he was to expect anything In the let leis he pleaded poverty and debt as the controlling reason for the pressure be was trying to bring to bear upon Mr Clark AN ORIGINAL CLARK MAN On crossexamination Ector said that Woods had been an original Clark man and that he would probably have remained re-mained so unless corrupt means Were used on the other side He had thought it possible that Woods might be controlled con-trolled by getting possession of the mortgage I told Bickford that the best plan was to pay off the mortgage and then he would have strlhgs on him and thus have him solid DALY AN INCUBUS He had told Woods that he could get enough money out of Clark to pay his debts but he had depllnwl to enter Into the deal He had never had any authority author-ity to dispose of his vote Irt one of his letters he had referred to some one aa an Incubus To whom did you refer asked Faulkner To Marcus Daly came the reply promptly t I BRING CLARK TO TIME In another letter he had expressed the opinion that It was Important that Clark should sec Woods first but ho said that his purpose In this was aim ply to bring Clark to time ° In reply to a queHtlon as to whether he had been promised anything for coming to Washington lo testify In this iiino Ector said that Receiver Ranfl of IhoAJIssoiilfi I la nil olHio had advanced him 1M taking an order upon the committee JlST j A BLUFF In oni of your loiters yon speak of i liming irrelvod nn nTer of 0000 frcm i 1 the I opposition to Mr i CJark aald MY RiTiiey rn redirect otamlnuUoii Was i lint a fact No sir responded iho t witness That was a bin If Mr Eeior wan then oxciisetPaud the Iomniltlce took a reccss until1 oclock REFUSED TO VOTE FOR CLARK State Senator I F McKny UorO f i om rustor county Monr rnld In1 wns on of time four Republicans I uf 1 he Lfglsloluie who had refused lo YOU for Clark I He said ihe announcement 1 of lie Intention of the Republicans to change their ols to Clark vas not 1 Hindi until I the last Itypubllcaii caucus prior to the I elocilon of United lnlps Senator Thciv WIIM Very lltllo said nl this inurua and ufier tho I leu men withdrew the four i remained drcldlnt I to 1 tout liiiIh to vote for a RepublUan HP said he hnd been approached oncr or I Wict antl asked to vole for Ilnrk Among hose I who laid colon to FP him I i I was Senator Pit Ii lpis who snid ho roilld get lf000 for Ills vol He had declined lu cuter Into an agreement of the kind kindWAS WAS CLARKS FRIEND The neNl witness was IJ J Fine a i cinotic the member of the Lcgisaluro from Madison county t who said hu had bcHn a IYI < ml of Senator Cark for many u years and had been one of his active supporieiri In the I campaign tot the Senate Mr Campbell subjected the witness to a very searching Investigation He llrst i Inquired as to Mr Fines financial condition prloi to the electIon Tie had had h enough to live on and thought his ash amounted to about 300 or 5500 His business was then ns now that oft a of-t mining operator MONEY FOR HIS DAUGHTER Upon starting to Helena to attend the session of the Legislature lie had de posited SJOO or 400 for his daughter He had since that time deposited more money In the hank putting in as much as 200 nt one time In June but it was not true that W A Pollard held a cer tificate of 5250 belonging to him IN CLARKS EMPLOY Mr Fine said that lie had received the 52000 which he had deposited In June from the bank of W A Clark and hnd taken it fiom Butte al the instance in-stance 01 Mr Wellcome This was part payment for service and expenses in l work ho was doing for Senator Clark On an arrangment made with the Senator Sen-ator soon after his Senatorial election On this business he said he was still employed He had ever since then been engaged in working for the disbarment of Senator W A Clark of Madtson county He had been engaged to do this work by Senatoi Clark himself but no specific compensation had been agreed upon Since getting the 52000 ho l had received about 3000 making SOOO In all RENDERED NO ACCOUNT Since the meeting of the Legislature he l had not received any money from any other source than Mr Clark lie had i nocr rendered any accpunt to Mi Clark nor kept a memorandum book but had kept the whole majter in hfs diary On crossexamination Mr Flno slated he had been a supporter oC Mu Clark of Butte since 188S when Mr Clark was a candidate for Delegate tor Congress and was defeated the witness said by the treachery oC Marcus Daly NO MONEY FOR HIS VOTE In response to a question from Mr1 Faulkner he said he had never received any money from Mr Clark or any of his representatives for his yole for him HP also staled that wlile the In vestigation Into the record of Mr Clark of Madison was siill in pregrrSE he thought it had gone far enough to IIH sur his disbarment I whenever that t task should bo undertaken COLLECTOR BROWN J3XAMINEU The last witness of tile day was Mr Da Id C Brown a Democrat who had been Collector I of Customs for Montana and Idaho for the past seven years Mr Brown Is quite dent and questions were asked through an car trumpet He said he was a friend of Mr Clark but that he had never spent any money In the Senators behalf He denied emphatically em-phatically that 5000 had been placed to his credit in the bank of Fort Benton last January for the betiffit t of Mr J L Truscatt a member of time Leglsla um His business was large and ho was disposing of money every day but he could not remember the name nf any one person from whom he had re rolved money in cither January or February last He waa asked to pro duce his bank deposit book and said thai In order to do that he would have lo go to Montana after It The committee adjourned until Mon day |