| Show DOODLERS iN MISSOURI State Senator Becomes Penitent Pen-itent and Confesses TELLS ALL THAT HE KNOWS Weops Bitterly When Talking With St Louis Officer TLousnndDollar Bills Were Flying Around Through Legislative Halls in ThirtyEighth Assembly I I St Louis May 1C Unable to bear the strain of mental torture which he says he has suffered since the grand Jury Investigation In-vestigation Intb legislative boodllng wac Instituted former State Senator Fred L Busche went before Circuit Attorney Folk this afternoon and made a complete com-plete and farr nchlng confession of his connection with corrupt deals extending extend-ing over a period of eight years Busches declarations Involve several men of prominence and he named those who have been conspicuous at the State capital cap-ital as distributors of boodle TEAKS FLOW LIKE RAIN Later Busche was taken before the Brand jury where he remained an hour When he emerged from the Jury room tears were rolling down his cheeks With hls rose burled in his handkerchief handker-chief he hurried down the steps to the Eleventh street exit of the building ill will give you until Monday to tell all you know about boodling was the ultimatum which Circuit Attorney Folk served on the former senator the other dayAll All right Mr Folk replied Busche I will think it all over It has worried me a good deal HAD TO TAKE MONEY I had to do those things said Busche In reciting his story to tho circuit cir-cuit attorney There were circumstances circum-stances that made It fellow take money or else get the worst of It Buscho then went on to narrate his connection with legislation four years ago He prefaced his remarks by saying that all sorts of money was used at that time to Influence legislation Money he said I was offered on pretty nearly u overyinmg 01 importance anc steam and street railroad interests wero always I al-ways very active nnd their representatives representa-tives paid us FLOOD AGAIN FLOWS Buschc proceeded to name several senators who profited handsomely from legislation at the 1899 Cession and Included In-cluded ono or two who are members of the present assembly He broke down twice while conferring with Mr Folk and weeping bitterly said I am telling these things only to ease my mind BIG BILLS FLYING AROUND Going back to the Thirtyeighth assembly as-sembly when the bill to create a schoolbook school-book commission was one of the principal princi-pal issues before the Legislature Busche said that the school book trust put up a big fund I got 51000 he said and others got Just as much and some may have got more LET NOTHING GET A r A yOn y-On one occasion he said there was a resolution presented to have all bllsl held In committee I got 250 for holding up that resolution Killing bills by smothering them in committee was very common he said Because of the statute of limitations which prevents prosecution three years after the crime Is committed none of the men against whom Busche has testified tes-tified can be indicted |
