Show CHARGES H Gf AGAINST G I T Tf f T A I 1 Senatorial Inquiry Into Them Be Begins Begins 1 gins Before a n Special Com Committee THE NEBRASKAN DEMANDED IT ITIs Ills Is Purpose is to Disprove Them amid nud He lie le Courts the time Fullest luc Investigation Washington 11 31 Tho senator lal Inquiry Into Inlo time the charges against t Senator of oC Nebraska began to today today day In before the tho special committee In II Senator Hoars Ilonis committee room Time Tho Th which wait wal Instituted upon Ullon time tho of oC Senator Dietrich Is for tor time tho th purpose of ot disproving the tho charges on ott which h tim senator was waa Indicted last fall fallIn fallIn In Nebraska and amid nl which were rere dismissed dl on demurrer The he committee consists of ot Senators Hoar of o Connecticut Spooner Cockrell Cockrel all ami Pettus All Al of eC tho the members of at the Iho committee except Mr Ir Spooner worn present ent when the Inquiry began Senator Dietrich was IR In rUen with wih his Attorney U It UA I A 4 leat of Hastings Mr repeated his hil wish wih tint tho limo Investigation Imst a atlon lion tion should be ho lime tho fullest st possible LEOPOLD hAhN HAIN Leopold Hahn postmaster at Hast l C I 1 l lags from 1897 1197 to 1901 was cs the tho first s Ho lie le was waB succeeded In lIm that of fice fieo by Mr 1 Fisher In III reply roth to ques lons by Senator Hoar 1011 Mr MI Hahn lahn re cc kited n a conversation aton with wih Fisher 1 on April Arl 23 1901 relative to hil Fishers appointment i ni Its postmaster Ho lie Je risked me mime 10 said Mil the witness what time tho ollice paul paid I toM toll Coll him rOO Ho o said Bald that was wan what Dietrich wanted him to 10 pay Pl for Cor or the tho th chico olce He lie le also ailo Wal tout told lol me mIte le that Hint Adam Atam had paid Mid that Dietrich hud had asked him SOO or 10 a it 1 year ar for Cor time tho four our years lars He lie II naked n ked me mime what I hall hail patti paid Ren Sen titer I tor Thurston for my may 1 appointment and 1 said Not ot a it cent celli ant Tho Tue Th alto also said that Fishier Fisher had questioned him bUn na aim al to whether ho lie Wish Wisher cr er would have to pay pa a n note noto for or 1210 If It he houll give ule otto one ant nail tho the witness said Ito lio had volunteered to 10 Investigate that point for him hll and lied hal done dono so io 10 legal advice that such a n note hub 1010 would not be ho negotiable At t a n later Inter date Into had come comae COle to bit hi store storo with William Dutton Pulton and amid they had announced ed Id that lint they th the were fur for the tho ot of fixing up chit nl the ho post pORt Ho lie then Ho lie lt was wan Wil toll told tol afterward that tho limo matter later had been heen lie then thel I mm produced II a memorandum u in which t Ii Icim 1111 ho Ito said emmIl he had bad made land on 01 the time day cia of the C conversation 30 minutes after It I oc Ut occurred Replying to a n question from Mr Hoar Mr lr Ir said paid that when Mr Mm Dietrich was IS elected ho lie hail had allen up nfl all 11 Idea Ien of icing being continued ns as IS post ost master because he ho hInd hit understood from various sources that Dietrich tras Wi nf at IC ter ler bite bin hi scalp Asked If It hit hil feeling was vas wal very er r friendly he lie hI admitted that It was wn not nol HOOD 1001 Mr 1 r also situ testified to good gOOi and wild salmi Mi that Fisher hail had Dietrich loyally had hall told tol him that he lie Fisher friendly to him bin for Cor hilt but bu hind had told loll him ho bo WIS satisfied lots that ho could not IOl get let it Mr lImit ant an the time said MImI lust he ho had Imad Known knon Fisher r for Cor or 25 years He lie 1 said Mi that had told lold him that Dietrich had hll saul n 1 to tn him hll that I IM el was Ilna to give 2 50 00 Tho The witness added that Im lie had hall halll talked talker with wih Breed leed more mora than IMn ana ant that d had toll fold him th tit story of his imie offer WitS true trite lol I 1 was WIS a n candidate r the position of ot postmaster before the tho senatorial light ht began sail said ull the willies hUt but hil Mr h Dt jh eim soul 81 to 10 eer body that I could not have tho tue pwe Hi II I hall had always s fought me before ulna I 1 tar m I ar r of c e while wim I Ic I imd amid loyally y 1411 n 11 it itI He Ho I to admitted a thi Ihl be Ime h had bad frequently raid that It I wn 1 n a 1 lung lout road coal that Imail no DC turning nut ut ul be h would roe fee flint when hl term was 18 out that tl t ho h did dil not nOI get 1 another nother election clon He lie te would not admit ad imil t however Ii thit t he lie hail said salmi that he lie would spend to heat beat Dietrich He lie le hail had hll given cl Mr Ir Fisher h I his word vord of t honor flint he Ime w ull not fop tel t 1 the timi he conversation onN but bUl admitted 11 L that he lie hind had the I lie memorandum m to 10 his deputy half nn an hour miller after It I wan written After Aier I hail had written It I I II thought Id Ill better show It to him tutu so I that some omne on oil would w ull know JIO of oC It In Incase Incao case cao of ot my lILY IY death he said sal JOHN D U POPi John D I Pope was 08 the next t witness He lie Is a it former Nebraska state sinto sena semma senator tor lor nn nit ni attorney who Imo Mr Me r Halm lahl testified fied limed had advised as ns to 10 II flit course Fisher would ul have hl to In It pursue with the note nota tot for 2500 which Fisher had told Hahn I ho lie I wanted to tl ti give to Dietrich for tor time tho I |