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Show GOT $10,000 ON UNINDORSED NOTE Testimony in Pennsylvania Capitol Case Expected to Reveal How an Unsuccessful Unsuc-cessful Bidder Profited. I HARRISBUBG, May 1. More testimony testi-mony on the transaction by which S. M. Williams of Fittsburg, Fa., an unsuccessful un-successful bidder for the $2,000,000 worth of electrical fixtures in the State capitol, was lent $10,000 on an unindorsed unin-dorsed note last August, will be taken np by the capitol investigation commission commis-sion "this week. Several Pittsburg men have been subpoenaed and, it is said, will testify that- Williams boasted of where and how he got this money and to whom h' also furnished other information pertaining per-taining to the contract. Yesterday, when upon the stand, Williams refused to deny that Congressman Con-gressman H. B. Cassell of Lancaster had lent him 'the $10,000 about the time he ceased trying to "get square noliticaJlT" with Senator Penrose for not forcing Joseph M. - Huston, architect archi-tect of the capitol, and John H. Sanderson, San-derson, general contractor, to give him a portion of the electrical fixtures contract. con-tract. Cassell is president of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Construction company, which furnished the $2,000,000 worth of metallic me-tallic furniture for the capitol, and it is not known whether he will be called. Williams is a former member of the State House of Bepresentatives and as secretary of the Pennsylvania State Board of Trade and the t homeless 26" he was in charge of the campaign for the 2-cent fare bill which passed the B resent Legislature and was signed by ov. Stuart. |