| Show ITS COMING OUT ExKoTcrnor Foraters Erldence 1 the Ballotbor FOIgi7 Inrrstljallon HIS STATEMENTS IN CROSS CXAMINATION Aoslorortujnes ntpnleOla lioma Territory Bill Before the Home Committee fly Telecraph L the 70155 I roltAltCtlH TE1TIMOXV iplost 1 Ny Abns be BnllollM 0 orel WASiii > CTOxJan IS KxOor crnor Foraker ruumetl his State meut before the House commltteelu the ballotbox forgery today On cross examination ho said ho had i been on friendly relations with Senator Sen-ator Sherman last summer and in I fact had never ben on any other ten wIt him that he knew of Ho did not know Senator Sherman wan In the country when he got the forged paper Hu had not mel tone tliu taper to McKIulcy or liuttcrworth HU relations hall nI ways tieen pleasant with tIm former nutS with Uie latter up to the tIme of his wltnt nomination Witness ntor Vitnseia integrity had bail 110 ru jilcl6u aa to Wooda Grosvenor asked wltntRi did not t think I strange that after Wood had I said ho had 1 paper on August IStli I he should Imo banieil witness to and delayed Its production to long Wlnl did notthiukbewaabaOletl I and attributed Woods delay to I reluctance t give up the paper Yitnets somehow got the Imjires Ion tnt It was In McLeans Cot Co-t todyirosvcnor asked If ho supposed I McLean would willingly give up a paper that would injure Campbell In I the campaign Wlne replied that that was Woods business lie had not the slightest 1 doubt of the geuuinemtsof eof McKinlcyc or indeed any of the signatures Urosvcnorasfccd Governor Campbell Camp-bell before the campaign had not L borne 1 good reputation WItnos replied that ho did not know him until hr was nominated unt DomlUte From that moment ha heard no end I of tore about him nnd ended by getting bad opinion about him Grosvenor As I he was not Hr prfeed to see that Senator Sherman lad signed such 1 super I Witness replied that his mind had I been go prepared after believing Mo m MeI Kinley and liutternrortli had signed I It I that he might as well believe SHERMAN HAD SIGNED IT for be had n good an opinion of them as of anybody Grosvenor asked why witntfa had not cmmuulcl with some of tIn persons whoso name were on the paper before taking further steps lie replied that when he got the paper Sherman and Jtatterworth were beyond the ocean and he had not time to communicate them He was In the midst of a campaign making speeches As for Mckinley lie did not know what be might have done I he had retained posH pos-H alon of the paper t make any use for It but hJ signature seemed so conclusive that he had no doubt abut IL It would seem rather indelicate in-delicate to go to a man you believe guilty nnd talk about the matter He could b expected to deny his gulll of course and then too before be-fore he got through with it he had ound a man HaUtcad who knew just what to do with the paper and witness had told Wood he did not know what to do with It Wit ness said Campbell had charged that he fwltnvssl was IntimtMl In the ballotbox matter nnd referring to witness statementabout a million dollars of trust money in the bill for somebody bad raid No nobody but an infamous scoundrel would make such I statement Witness read that speech on his way to the hal at Marietta where be was to speak that night and felt I due to himself to make an answer Thereupon for the first time and only time In the campaign he referred cmpIgn erred t tho papers Ho sold that inasmuch D the matter had been nude public he bad seen tliote papers would and In hIs Judgment never DENY THAT SIGNATURE He was satisfied of that notonly b cause of Campbells speech which read liken very confession of guilt guit He Campbell did not deny his sig nature saying be could not do so begot some other taunt William L Walker of Utica Michigan said he managed to secure se-cure for Wood the aulografli of several sev-eral Congressmen and senators including in-cluding those of liuttcrworth Mc Kinlcy nnd John Sherman Wood had told witness ho wanted the autographs tnt to put at tIlts foot of Lbs photographs and then to comt pare with the names on a controc or as Wood termed It 1 land deal Ilichard G Wood iris then sworn He gave his residence as Clnclnnat iiinl his occupation as 1 mechanical expert The chairman banded epr Thelalnn hllnde wit ness exhibit hA nnd asked him t he bad ever seen I before Witness recognized the document He first saw It before tho election be tnougnt In October He had got the heading drawn in Gen Birneys office in this city and the names were written on tho paper In Cincinnati Cin-cinnati b Wilward cnlt by Wlhnut A young lan named Davis wrote the lint optx situ the signatures This work was done In the ofllie of Murray who l Is I a patent solicitor for the company Jlctor ballotbox cmpn Chairman Are those names written here Intended to be fanira l lies of the gentlemens 11 gentemens autographs 1 WllncsnTiity They WlnCThl were written ac cording to pieces of paper I had nc secured pper cured Tho cr witness gave 1 humor ous account of his ncunt attempts to be appointed smoke inspector b h1rtor had seen Governor Foraker and the latter told him he could pet him the place t It were not pledged The pllg Te do governor said he wanted witness to A JJTTIK HUSTLING or I favor for him Witness asked what he could do and Foraker said there was a little document drawn in Butterworths office and he wanted witness to get It and let him see IU Witness roull lot nnt Imagine I what document he meant and ask him The Governor replied Do you see what Uutterwotth Is doing lor the Ifcimblican pasjjn Knew replied that he noticed Butterwortli wasactlngratherpecu JIrlud wlneUngrthepu b rther po lng for the Cincinnati elncDmU Jiioutrer Tlu Governor land said Ilulferworth was making kinds of stabbing taM and raid if Etblng Ilk mil t UulUrworth wanted to put him down as disreputable ho I would show I him to bo disreputable Foraker had said You know it is common talk that lluttenvorth Is in every mounted scheme Witness had agrtcd with the Governor and said if ttabbin business was going on he guessed they could tab too guC Witness then gave a long descrip ton of his attempts to tvo dCIp ernor In rtJation to his appointment and created n burst of laughter by chance allusion to President Horn son as tOh whats his hil name Wood admitted setting nme admit up Jtng paper tu and said the pper Id to Governor did not ask llt Ik any questions Witness bad said It those was tho fellows bent he The could do to SId Wuff reIow Governor Gvror pro mIned not t hnvc the pr J18 paper Pub lbe Abut ten dy bebre b publication be met the Governor comlncout Of the Commercial cUe office and Foraker said no had beentaiIng to Habtead atd ha this lnttr wutigoing to rip lhti rl 5 t l tt Whtnem bad said thu p4t nOd wnnotguttenuproec told th GoVernor l tvit npbr rfle ° as 1111 tll Utf lt lUll n r L NOT FOB THE WORLD After the publication of the papers te pbllcaUon Murray told witness howould make nn affidavit that they were forgeries Ift tht tey them back If witness did not gel rck Wood told the Governor this nnd to he had the Governor replied that hi not intended It should b published but that a man cot It from his secretary secre-tary when the Governor was away The Governor badaddedOldmau Te GOeor laddOlmu we have got > ourselves In a bad bole I hvo know whether I am to b elected or not We will retract that ele DOt I dont know what t do at present but root aaiured It lllta retracted Wltnem said You had better 10 I WltC Sid will tko an af fldavir The Governor asked Wood to come to Washington to hunt up the cmo gun contract and that ho would attend to the matter When Wood Cincinnati bo asked n came back to ClncnDU Ike 1 return of the papcra and Foraker told hIm to go t lnld for them Witness Insisted that they should WltnC Jmbte not be published any more and For krb edt d nker promised I they would not be Wlthfn fortyeight Hours tho whole thing was published again WIt tllg wa criminal libel nets was arrested for clmhullb and obliged to give up his paper The chairman asked I anybody but witness knew lie had drawn up the wlUe Ho replied that Governor Gover-nor Foraker certainly knew from what ho witness had told him that Ho the jupcrs were not genuine did not charge 1 Foraker with know cnr Ho ing tlao1eperstoeru forgeries could not p Ulnt Ho could not to entered Into n conspiracy say that Foraker eukn 111 lI spiracy Chairman Did ho ask you to mimit the forgery COIr Witnes > I did not ask him whether I SHOULD COMMIT A FOKOERY Foraker wanted to get hold of a paper to get square will Ben Butter worth nnd witnew agreed to get I for him I waj not to be published but t b showu around political headquarter ct Tho chairman a ked I witness had procured the forel Wood replied that he had gotten up n paper for Foraker nnd if ho could make anybody believe I was gnu Install right He believed ho was beIng played ami hoped the politicians ticians would get along without his hereafter help bener belp closed thu examination nnd xGoviniorFontkerrald desired to ask no motions Grosvenor asked tho witness to bo present Monday IondTI Tlir Oklnlioma Hill WASHINGTON Jan IS Further irgumiMiM on the Springer Okli bon Terntory bill wero heard by today he Housu committee territories Miss Alice M Robinson missionary the Indians in ludiau ary among 11 II Iutltu erritory and a teacher In the In ijterian IndIan schools there I nd Ircssed the committee in expLiua r lon of the condition of thuludlans stud made a strong plea for ample irotectlon for the fullblooded Indian In nil action that the committee mny take on the subject Keprv eu tatiio Hon Arkansas also spokn for a short time before tho committee commit-tee Ho iwinted I out various instances in-stances where eo legal machinery I rovldtd in the bill was Inadequate to meet the exigencies of the case and indo sundry recommendations wherein they could b Improved Enslnnd 007 Portugal PARIS Jan 15The Amjlo1or tuzueso dispute continues to be the chief topic of discussion here lost night at a meeting in this city Zorilla spoke of the IIIUc1 uneasiness un-easiness in both Portugal nud SlaIn and predicts that a union of there two nations will ultimately be brought about uudft a single republican repub-lican government Henri Rochefort has written almost al-most the first moderate article on the subject of the African claims that has appeared anywhere in the French IMs Hu declares that England b done only what any oilier country similarly situated would have done This Is about thu only word in extenuation of Lord Salisburys behavior that has yet been heard ixibhcly from a Parisian Prlsla n |
