Show EXPLANATION MADE MADEl BY SENATOR OLIVER I HE TEllS ABOUT TilE THE iNDICTMENT Vice President of the Silver Peak Mining Company Ex- Ex plains to the Senate That He Knew v Nothing About It o o 4 Jimmie hll lUm in r of 4 In I Chi lie Us St n r I 4 Sliver duo to derided I hat It ON he hc should caplain ca- ca 1 I Im hint plain thi filter Lot Li I of the CO 10 II L OI Rising to a question of ot personal privilege I lIege in the Senate tOlla today Senator lor Oil Oli Oliver appeared this morning morn morn- ver er said There fh ro a dispatch from Crom In In the public press lag ing certain of nr that stating Goldfield Nov ov tho the officers and amI directors of a Nevada mining company compon among amon them myself directors had ho been In Indicted In- In as ono one o of the tho In-I In grand Jury for h by the tho county conspiring to defraud the state stalo of ot certain cel Is alit tain taxes on bullion hull Ion The Tho charge rendered a I. I false that tho the company controller anti and that the statement to the directors and ana officers sanctioned false raIse Continued ou on lage l'age o Seven EXPLANATION MADE BY SENATOR OLIVER Continued from C One ChaC lime bookkeeping In order to carry out that conspiracy It nit Is la duo due to lo this Senate Senale of oC which I have but recently become a member to state stale that 1 have havo no personal knowledge knowl edge edgo of tho the facts upon which th these so cases are based I never had any an- Intimation Inti Int- mation mallon oven ovon that such proceedings s were contemplated or pending I know nothing about them thom whatever until ad advised advised advised ad- ad by telegraph My II yesterday esterday understanding understanding un un- un- un Is Ie that m my name with sev- sev oral others Is UI Included In the list of defendants m merely rely because we wo happened happened hap hap- to bo ho directors of or tho the company c nt in Submitted u to u Officer Details lu iu matters of ot this l kind In Involved Involved involved In- In in this proceeding wore ere not submitted submitted sub sub- to tho the genera of officers fleets of the time company but were attended to b by tho the local management In Nevada In jus justice Jus- Jus tice tico to these the e latter officials however it should be bo said that In rendering statements of ot profits and amI taxes due lue tho they were advised nd at evor every step b by byone ono one of ot the tho most eminent law firms In Jn that state the senior member of ot which whelm h hIs Is la now the representative for tor Nevada r In time the Congress of the United States Since learning of the Incident I Iam Iam Iam am assured that no Illegal al acts wore committed as charged By tile merest accident I 1 heard Incidentally a few tow days ago o that lint thero was a 0 contention between the authorities of ot Nevada and the tho company as aim to tho tIll amount of or taxes lax properly due but I assumed that It was merely such Huch a dispute as may arise arAso In the tho adjustment of or an account of or that nature with any company and that If Ie It were determined finally that the corporation In III question had hall not met Its obligations full fully this timis would bo be done ilono In the ordinary course of bURIne busl- busl U ne RI R. R I I desire to make male m my denial of or any Rny complicity In this affair either cither constructively con con- or actually as emphatic an and sweeping as possible I never el have havo knowingly violated tho tim laws of any state and under tinder no circumstances would I consent to or bo be a R p narty In their violation by bv men with whom I might be associated In business |