Show IN i 1 t 11 preliminary business details attended to wednesday LEXOW commission AT WORK i eximina examining rig into the ore great it new hew york police scandal goos GOBS K Y on washington dec 4 1 the senate was in session for only half an hour today as the leaders of the majority desired to caucus on the general order of business before proceeding with the business itself there was time enough however for mr lodge n of massachusetts to liae hae passed two resolutions for information which promise to bring C up the hawaiian and bluefields Blued Blue elds fields incidents before congress 0 for comment and probably criticism there was the nual delu deluge delue 0 e of bills and petitions incident to tile the opening days of a se session sion norie none of them however being of public importance when the senate convened at noon today the senators showed a desire to enter N without delay upon the leal iteal business of the session mr blanchard of louisiana offered a resolution reci reciting tinz the circumstances cum stances under which the sugar bounty wa was cut off after the sugar 0 crop for 1894 was put in it directed the committee on appropriations to include in the urgency d deficiency c fici ency bill sufficient to pay the bount bounty y the present year the bill went over vet vest of missouri offered an amendment to the rules with the view of cutting off protracted debates in the senate it provides that after a measure has been debated thirty days it will be in or Alea dorany senator to move to fix adt final vote this motion is to be put without debate or delay delav and if carried the ori original vinal question is to be voted on at the time fixed vest said lie would address the senate tomorrow on oil the need of this reformatory rule lod lodge a e of massachusetts offered a i evolution which was adopted without dissent calling 0 on the secretary cre tary nef ef the navy for the official letters of admiral walker which iu in command of the united ignited states naval vessels at hawaii lodge 0 raised another international al question 1 by y a resolution calling on oil the president for the correspondence concerning and for information concerning the attitude of nicaragua the resolution reno lution was adopted without comment quay of pennsylvania offered resolutions of respect to the memory of myron B wright aright Vr ight the late member of con congress ress from pennsylvania at 1230 the senate adjourned arid and the democratic senators went into caucus WASHING 1 0 ON dec 4 the session of the house today ia as exceedingly cee dull and uninteresting the attendance was small and there was no clash claga of any kind A bill bi I 1 provid provi fi g for the dedica diun tiui of the and chattanooga park in september IS and tor for the establishment of a national Dat ional military park on the site of the battle of shiloh u mere ere passed tilt the remainder of the day dav was devoted to a fruitless discussion of the printing 0 bills there were exact exactly y 00 meL members abers on the floor when llie alie house met at noon today the democratic leaders decided j jast before the house was calletto called to older to plunge immediately into routine bubines bu ineide e mr air outhwaite frum the committee on oil military ai al fairs called lip ap the bill for the dedication of the and chattanooga national park the bill appropriates the date of tho the dedication was fixed at september 19 and W 0 18 9 r the bill passed mr outhwaite aate then called up the bill introduced by henderson of loya iowa for the establishment of a national military park paric at the battlefield lit ld of shiloh it carries an appropriation of mr henderson explained that options on land for an average of to f 12 per acre had been secured the lill bill provides for a commission of theolo from the from the armies 0 of f if tennessee ennesser enn essee ohio obi 0 and in mississippi issis sippi after the adoption of an amendment reducing tho the appropriation to 7 ann the lie bill passed mr richardson of tenn asee then pre presented dented the conference report on the pending hill bill mr air richardson chardson Ui occupied the lie hour explaining the minute detail of the lie conference report which was subsequently vigorously attacked lly y mr dunn of new jersey after further debate the report went over and the at 55 1 p ad journea until tomorrow A DAY WITH THE LEXOW J new york dec 4 the first witness called before the lexow committee was chas E Danise ux bookkeeper of tho the french cooks society lie ile did not however have lave soine oine i of the books which mr thought necessity and his examination avas as adjourned until this afternoon edward ednard 11 lloy lei real estate deader dealer was then called to the stand 1 how long have you yon bee been out of the asi ego bohld swindling business lie he was asked 1 I 1 was never in it 7 the witness stated slated that lie ho jail had been engaged in selling and buy in ing Aut austrian trian bonds for ten years mr goll goh put a number of questions ques ions designed deigned to show that the gitnes had been pr emitted by the police to conduct a swindling ling bu business sirle s he was dismissed with ciders to produce tomorrow the books used in his transactions mr andrews commissioner of street cleaning was sworn and entered a general denial of tile harge charge 0 of bribery while an excise commissioner brought 0 by a witness named tomlinson august lewis lewia was called to tile the stand and contradicted statements as to the 0 ranting 0 of the sale of licenses then ilien andrews was recalled and stated that he be was not positive about tile the man but that a man claiming burning to be lewis had appeared before elore the board and that tile license icente had been granted him mr goff pr pressed eseed andrews for 1 or an ex explanation iou of why a license should have been refused one person and granted to another known to be tile the representative of the first to conduct a saloon upon the same premises premise there were several animated passages passa es between counsel arid and witness andrewss evidence was not concluded when the committee took a rices after recess mr goff excused all witnesses except those connected with commissioner andrews Andrew Bs case until ia tomorrow mr andrews resumed the sand then mr G goff off wanted to know if there had been a hearing before the full lioard board on oil the ap application of lambert the witness could not le member lamberts application had been refused witness said there hail had ioan a hearing in imin the lewis case but mr goff could find no record decord of it and called a witness to show that lie he had bad all the records in the ease case you yon say sav you 3 ou always wrote opinions long for refusing licenses why was none written for refu ref usim bing th 1 notorious curtoni and a long one written of this katt case asked mr goll goff mr andrews evaded the question in the made by the witness at the time he bo said that I 1 E x probate justice white personally aila vouched couched for lewis ex elx elro bite bate justice andrew white was then put on in the stand did you you ever see that man august I 1 low cis is before asked mr god while lewis stood beside bebide liviu 1 I never did did you ever go go with him billi to tile lie excise isoard board to vouch for hin him no sir I 1 never did white was then lot lato t go ile he looked relieved i eli eved mr andrews andr e ws took his bis place on the stand he reiterated his conviction that white had vouched couched for lewis which white again denied inspectors collins and haggerty were compelled to resign from the excise department on account of theft and sale bale of nn an old license in order that the purchaser might secure a new one how did these men obtain these things asked mr goff 1 I dont know 1 l they stole them did they not 1 if I perfume they did and yet yet after this thiis breach of the ru rules es odthe of the the they were only asked to resign sili aid mr gon goa sarcastically yes anil and the matter was kept hushed up ill is muc ciuch hns as possible 1 I believe it was wag mr god Goll then turned his attention to avocation clerk bigand who secured his position on th the e excise board through tile influence of andrews the latter admitted bisland feut ent a year to ili hiis Andiew andrewss ss wife in california ile he algo admitted bruwer bran er jacob pert had discounted one 0 or ills notes no one else had done so ile he kept an all account at the lincoln national dank bank ile he had once scorn in supplementary proceedings that he owned no real estate li he frequently deposited checks at the lincoln bank to the order 0 of mr bleik in the excise E ment this was to avoid judg anent for creditors of the deforet det f I 1 star of which lie ho had ben a ft ock c k link halder xer these aggregated GOO coin commissioner mission c ra A lid id bews test testified i fled lie had recently deposited 1000 at the lincoln dank bank which lie he had borrowed of senator george geore geor r e plunkett mr goft goff manifested some surprise now as a matter of fact was not that 1000 1000 another bribe he asked no sir it was a loan was wa it not a loan in consideration for contracts plunkett alun sett 11 got ot from your department no ilas has he any contracts with your department lepart ment at all only tile the scow contract in the lower bay and was wa this 1000 ever paid back to plunkett yes ye how was that done 1 I borrowed 1000 from thomas J 1 dunn to pay it well Vl ell why did vou borrow tile the money from dunn this brought 0 out the fact that commissioner A andrews sec secured tired his present situation through 0 charles W V dayton bioni whom lip borrowed several thousand dollars some years ago agu r dayton told t the be wit 4 ness nass that lie he needed the money anil and lie commissioner bor borrowed money front aa idunn with which to pay day to rt ajr li I 1 ju u were in in jail several years ag ago oTere were you yoli not mr andrews was tas a asked ct I 1 three weeks yes ye answered wv commissioner andrews andrew mode modestly stiv for t SS refusing to turn ov over er certain 4 tai money y in in your your hands to tile the prope j authorities authorities s N o sir for contempt of court aadil A adin order to gt ga 0 out of jail you promised you would i ka go back to your or of dialect actor and eatn earn enough money to pay jhc thc 0 rendered agal against i ast youve ii a was twenty years ago arid and I 1 ba dl remember all the details of I 1 e rt NT jut crit desei ila t very cent of it paid and do do you mean to say that you do n not ot know you 3 are a default in ing receiver now 1 I am not tile hearing was adjourned until tomorrow tona orrow rat at 10 mr golt goff said to the witness if we need you again mr commissioner we will send for you you KOLBS DOCUMENT NT birmingham alabama dec 1 I 1 R F kolb who claims to be governor of Alaba alabama uia today completed a ines message sage to the legislature which ali he signs lus governor and which wi will I 1 be transmitted to that body tomorrow the message is also alo adi essed to the people peaple ot of alabama and is a long jong and in many respects revolutionary document as it recommends commends that his followers do not pay their taxes for a while ile iio burthe furt lie r says says 1 I further ad vise those collectors who value the cause I 1 represent and which will assuredly prevail 1 to delay all payments payment of state taxes into the state treasury until an impartial li hearing carin 0 has been had of our complaint under a fair and honest contest coo test law when it is remembered that the tax collectors in thirty eight out of six sixty ty six counties in the state are arc kolvites Kol bites it faill R ill be seen that if they take ili his advice the kolb gov ernin crit will find strong support sup p ort and alabama Ala bima will be threatened with anarchy in his message kolb says the revolutionary conditions of cur slate govern D nio nt I 1 t M must 11 s t INC become con e tile the subject puli of our continued and moot contemplation the plans of usurper so alar alarming minN to you are kratin in nothing to reduce ou to in an abject and final submission to their unbridled will wil anil and you have seen your just deni demands andr for the full execution of the election bastell by stell of governor and other state salute officers olli cers secured to you liv bv sacred t constitutional guarantees s ct mide aside by tile the le Leis Liture itself only a creature of the conti coa li tulion I 1 declare to you with out fear of contradiction that if the party in control of your government lie not ari ariestea ested it iii its mad careen no elections can call be h held eld in alabama under the law and constitution tie ile then reviews the provisions of the constitution and says because the legislature of did expressly revoke the sections of the civil code however I 1 unperfected which seemed to allow a contest content of election of governor and state officers by refusing on demand to restore them or to substitute others of a reasonable and practical nature you are perfectly justified i in n declaring there can ie be no election of governor or other oilier state officers under the constitution of alabama binding on you which is tainted with fraud it at the ballot box ile he then urges the legislature Leai slature to enact contest laws and advises his friends to or ganie 70 clubs to assist in the general object of his appeal the message concludes if colonel oates and his faction fear not the truth if they court equity and are ready to abide by justice they will hesitate at nothing to remove the color of dishonor from his title to teoffice tM office ice b he i q 1131 |