Show An Interesting Affidavit A friend hands us the following with the request that it ba published It is clipped from a Denver paper f he startling information contained in the affidavit should be known to criiry voter Mr Frederick A Luckeub is a citizen of Denver and is will and favrably known to many of Colorados leading business men STATE OF COLORADO county of Arapaho Ara-paho as Frederick A Luckenhach being first sworn on oath deposes and says I am 62 years of age I was born in Bucks county Pa I removed 10 the city of Philadelphia in the year 1846 and continued to reside there until 1868 when I removed to the city of New York In Philadelphia 1 was in the furniture business In New York I branched into machinery and inventions inven-tions and am the patentee of Lucken bachs pneumatic pulverizer which machines are now in use generally in eastern part of the United States and in Europe I now reside in Denver having removed from New York two years ago I am well known in IJew York I have been a member of the Pioduce Exchange and am well acquainted ac-quainted with many members of that body I am well known by Mr Erastus Wilman In the year of 1865 I visited London Engl md lor the purpose pur-pose of placing there Panneylvania oil properties in which I was interested I teak Wi th R 9 letters of inftocluoHan to i many gentlemen in Lnodon among them one to Mr Earnest Seyd from Robert M Foust ex treasurer of Phi la delphia 1 became well acquainted witn M Seyd and his brother Richard Rich-ard SpYd who I understand is yet living I visited London thereafter every year and at each visit renewed my acquaintance with Mr Seyd and upon each occasion became his gueat one or more time joining nig family at dinner or other meals In February 1874 while on one of these visits and while his guest at dinner I among otuer things alluded to rumors afloat of Parliamentary corruption and expressed ex-pressed astonishment that such corruption corrup-tion should exist In reply to this he told me he would relate facts about American Congress that would place it far ahead of the English Farliarment in tbat line So far the conversation was at the dinner table between us His brother Richard and others ware there al BO but this was table talk between Mr Ernest Seyd and myself After the dinner ended he invited me to another I room where he resumed the conversation conversa-tion about legislative corruption He saitlf ml wiltnleJisze mejour honor as a gentlemen i not to divulge what I am about to tell you while I live I will convince you that what I said about the corruption of the American Ameri-can Congress is true I gave him mv promise and he then continued I wentjto America in the winter 18723 authorized to secure if I could the passage of a bill demonetizing silver It was to the interests ol those I represent rep-resent the governors of the bank of f Englandto have it done I took with me 100000 with instructions if that was not sufficient to accomplish the objtct to draw for another 100000 or as much more as was necessary He told me German bankers were also interested in having it accomplished accom-plished He told mehe was the financial adviser of the bank He said I saw the committee of the House and Senate and paid the money and stayed in America until I knew the measure was safe safeI asked if he would give the names of the members to whom he paid the mon ev but this he declined to do He said Your people will not now comprehend th6 far reaching extend of that measure meas-ure due they will l in after years What t > < r y u may thin of corruption in the Lettish parliament I assure 1 would not have dared to make such an attempt here as t did in your country 1 expressed my shame to him for my countrymen in our legislative bodies The conversation drifted into other uttjecis and after that though I met uji mny times the matter was neyer rsiln reierred to signed i 1 FREDERICK A LUCKEKBACH Subscribed and sworn to before me at Denver this 9th day of May A D 183 Sinned J JAMES A MILLEB OJerk Supreme cjurt state of Colorado UiobeDamoetit 4 |