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Show IMPEACHING TESTIMONY IN THE HERMANN TRIAL rORTLAXD. Or., Fob. 7. Gathering up tho loose ends of evidence in the trial of former Congressman Binger Hermann, charged with conspiring to defraud the. government of public, lands, was a more extended process than counsel coun-sel expected. Uounsol for Hermann said new evidence had developed bear-in"- on Hermann's effort's to have the lieu land law of 1807 amended or repealed. re-pealed. , Effort was made also to impeach the testimony of M. L. Patterson, a government gov-ernment witness, who had. testified to the presence of Hermann and F. P-Mavp. P-Mavp. an Oregon politician, in Ihc office" of-fice" of the purveyor general of Oregon in Pcpt ember, 1001. William M. lipeoe. a resident of hn-gone, hn-gone, Or., who according to his testimony, testi-mony, was clerk to tho committee on public lands iu 1h national house of representatives from ISOo to lOOi. testified tes-tified tliat Hermann appeared belore the public, lands committee at least once and urged that the lieu land lnw of 1S07 be repealed, or at least modified so that persoiiH owning lands within a "overnmcnl reserve could be compelled U, take land of no better character outside out-side I he reserve. |