| Show HOW DI DID CLARK MONEY GO aD GOThe The Senator Ims 1 Dos Does Not Knew Where It Wa We Spent II lie but Doled Out Ont fIts Ibe Cash ah 1 as I It n ai No I Washington Feb reb When the tho Sn Sen Senate ole ate committee on elections resumed Is its sitting today the ot of Sentor Senator Ciak WIS was continued by Mr Ir Campbel Campbell the he Ural first inquiry related to tolie the lie memorandum ot of expenses supplied yesterday by the sentor senator 10 lie said he had prepared this statement from the books ot of his bank Je lie hll had not de deI I hil his but aIo also the cheek check tube stubs hut bUI Was the tho showing made mado was correct lie hal hail destroyed the checks In thi this Instance ns as ho he wOl In the habit of doln doIng about every overy sl six months and not ho he felt there any special reason for tor get getting rid ot of theta them at al this time In reply to Mr Clark sold Bald so 00 tar far as ho knew the committee acting In his behal behalf In th the campaign bad not med filed nn any statement of expenses as re required b by the Montana eleton election la lale law le lie hal had made none 10 He had not when the ored a candidate member members of the legislature were elete elected Money Ioney by him later ler was 1 for forthe the tho purpose of paying expenses alrod already Incurred and not as a a senatorial can Where did get the 00 he paid during the tho sessIon ot of the legisla legislature ture I presume ho checked on his own cc ac account count but I dont dont know What explanation dill did Mr Ir make when heade his demand upon you ou for no lie said laid all as well as al J I remember that he be had drawn upon hIl his own account Je lie will vIii however be able to tell you about that I requIred no detailed statement from him feeling confident the expenditure was 11 made In I a mute mate way ay Asked about the report that thul his lon son had bought A large amount of property from State Stale Senator Warren Mr Ir Clark said ald he had made no Inquiry ur of him because 11 lie was thoroughly convinced that the reports were untrue I 1 asked neither him nor nor Hick Dick Hickford tor ford nor Davidson nor Steele not not any ot of the men In regard to any of the tho reo re porA porta or of briber because I 1 was sure ur ho he said they were false the charges were made by men In whom I had no confidence and they went In ono one ear and out of the other Is Ills lon son tie he said was 18 In the tho habit ot of conducting hl his own business affairs without consulting hIm and n as fur the charges charge of brIbery In connection with the transaction be IUd did not believe them hence hI he had made no Inquiry and did lot hot know that the 0 paid an for or this property had haa come out of any of the tho mOM money furnished liy by him II in cn con connection with the campaign to one of Dr let lei leiters letters concerning Representative Wo Woods 11 Mr Clark sid said he understood Mr WoOs wits ri d a lol good natured man and lable liable to 0 ho In influenced liy by those tholo who saw le lie be it did not l be behove hove tl ho he was seeking or would take tako n a bribe bribe Ho He bellevo believed however that Dr Eater Ector himself wa was intimating he wante wanted pecuniary ton lion for tor himself Jl lie lid said however that lie he had merely glanced the leter letter over oer and I it to Mr lr This latter remark aroused the interest 1 0 Senator Hoar who Aske staked 1 a number of questions showing incredulity In inthe the matter but Mr Clark Insisted that h be did not Dr and that Ito he had givet ghen attention to the Itte letter I It related to the tho vote or of n a number 62 f the legislature Mr Campbell aked asked Mr Clink about the purchase of Powers et stock k In the county bank In which State Senator Hobson chairman of the Hl Republican caucus of oC the tho Mon Montans Ion tans lana legislature t Is a a Mr Ir Clark said ld he hd had understood of tr tor hl election its al Senator that Sene Sena tot tor Power ivas 1 ot at for voting for him Ind and had toll told that he must timId 1 a fur for his hll stok stock of r which hl Its owned shares The senator said Kid ho he h had d Investigated the maler matter finding tho stock lock to be paying and hal had told laid Mr tr Power that ho would take it Il I it was offered at bar This oter otter WM was male made laer later otter after he had gone to Europe Europe And Mr Ir Johnson cash let ler of Clark Brothers bank had cn can the trade paying for toi forthe the stock on his account Mr Clark ailo also testified concerning the loan of SUo made b by him to the Mercantile company but bUI said so 10 tar far a as le he knew this firm had no connection with Ith State Stat Senator Hanna lianna At this Mr Cr bel asked aked Mr r Clark to submit his account books showing his ox expenditures since the be beginning ginning of the campaign In Montan Montana Mr Faulkner objected No decision was u leh reached at al the tIme and Senator Clark was VS excused to per permit pr mit Mr r Frnk Frank Corbett to be heard concerning incidents growing out of hil his visIt to helena Helenn on a specIal train In connection with Mr e C W V Clark and Mr Whitemore on August lat last Mr Ild said th idea that he ha had any thing to do with bribing the supreme curt court Is Ilm simply insane |
