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Show 4 l Senator' Clark : ' Denies Charges t t "Washington, Feb. 17. Senator Clark t f Montana was on the witness stand c before the senate committee on elee- 1 tions for about four hours today, and r v hi :i Die committee adjourned for the d;iy only his examination in chief had 1 been completed, leaving his cross-ex amination for next Monday. 1 His testimony related solely to the t charges made against him in connee- , tion with his election by the legislature t of Montana to the United States sen ate during- its sitting last winter. He denied c-xjilicit ly and categorically all I the charges of efforts by hims-'lf or t witn his connivance or consent to cor rupt members of the legislature in. his behalf, contradicting many of the statements made by witnesses for the -' i Jjioswution. t He admitted having paid an aggre- Sate or about jn.'.OOO during the campaign, cam-paign, but said these expenditures were for U pitimato purposes only. The large ' outJnv was due to the fact, he said. I ( that he contract. -d to pay all the ex- j Im :is s of a campaign against Mr. j Italy's rule, tyrannical and opposed to j ( llie best interests of the state. ( Justice I'iggott of the Montana su preme ourt v. ;ls recalled to make some ' ', additions to his testimony. He said, I among other things, that he and Justice i Hunt had consulted as to the wisdom ! of a criminal proceeding against Dr. Traeey on account of his advances toward to-ward Judge Hunt in connexion with the Wellcome disbarment case. He said tl; eousultat ion had been more a mat ter of speculation than anything else and that both seemed to concur (hat the situation did not call for such action, ac-tion, as they thought Pr. Traeey was more sinned against than sinning. Justice I'iggott also added to the por tion of his testimony concerning Juc tico Hunt's statement of his intervim with r. Traeey. saying that he ha boon impressed with Mr. Hunt's state mniit that there "was a party ove hen ." je paid that in Helena, comini from Butte was also referred to a: "coming over." and that therefore tin expression seemed to connect itself witl the. presence in Helena of the specia train party from Butte. This opinion he said, had beon expressed in a con-Versa! con-Versa! inn with Attorney General Nolan Justice Piggott also said he wished tr modify his opinion concerning the mo-lives mo-lives of Mr. Corbett in coming to see him in August last, saying that his mind was not yet clear on that point; that he had no belief on the subject. While Justice I'iggott was testifying Mr. Clark came into the room. Justice I'iggott was followed by Chief Justice Theodore Brantley, also of the Montana state supreme court, making the third and last member of that body to be examined in this case. He said that on Aug. 5 last, when Justice Hunt had his interview with Dr. Traeey and Justice I'iggott his interview with Mr. Corbett, he was on the Pacific coast. He had just heard of the Hunt-Tracey interview upon his return in the latter part of August. Justice Hunt had then made a full statement to him. and advised ad-vised with him and with Justice Piggott Pig-gott as to the wisdom of proceeding against Dr. Traeey. They had advised against such a course. Chief Justice Brantley related an in-1 in-1 terview with the Rev. Dr. A. P.. Mar- t tin, principal of the college of Monta na, a Presbyterian institution of learn- .. ing. located at Deer Lodge. The chief justice is a member of the 1oard of trustees of this institution and Senator Clark is its president. The witness said Dr. Martin had come into his ofiice and, requesting an interview, had shown him o. letter signed by Senator Clark, one sentence of which was as follows: "See Justice Brantley and ask him not to allow that good man Wellcome to be disbarred." After reading the letter Justice j r.rantley said he handed it back, saying say-ing he was only one member of the court and could not control its action; nor would he if he could. Ho had also assured Dr. Martin that there was no prejudice in the court against Mr. Wellcome, and that he v.ould have a fair trial. The chief justice said he was not sure that the y lMter shown him by Dr. Martin was in Senator Clark's handwriting. The interview had occurred in his office of-fice in Helena the latter part of October Oc-tober last. Senator Chandler announced that Dr. Martin had been sent for and that Dr. Traeey was now on his way to Washington. Mr. Faulkner then asked for a decision de-cision as to whether Pen Falk was to be allowed to testify concerning White-Fide's White-Fide's alleged effort at bribery of himself him-self (Falk). I This raised the question as to how ni::r:- witnesses should be called for impeachment purposes. Mr. Faulkner said he desired only to impeach the tes- Jtimony of three witnesses. Whiteside, Clark of Madison county, and Jackson of Salt Lake City. Mr. Campbell said he would not call any impeachment - . witnews providing the Whiteside epi sode was not entered upon. The decision de-cision of the question was again deferred de-ferred and Senator Clark was called to the ttand. Clark's appearance caused a ripple of interest throughout the room. After being sworn, tbe senator took his seat quietly and Mr. Faulkner immediately beg,;;) his question, the first of which brought out the facts concerning Clark's career, political and otherwise, in Montana. He said he had resided in Montana Fince ISC. most of the time in Butte, and had boon engaged in many occupations, occu-pations, the principal of which were merchandising, banking, mining and the reduction of ores. He had. he said, taken an .active part in politics especially espec-ially for the past fifteen years. Coming t the campaign of 1SS, he said he had entered it at the solicitation solicita-tion of a number of friends, "who had asked me to help them organize the -tote against what was railed the 'Daly power,' w hich I agreed to do, with their aid and assistance." I He then referred to the preliminary j meeting of his friends, the particulars J of which we'-c related by Governor 1 Ha user, in which he made the agree- I mont above related by agreeing to pay I all the expenses if the others would do I the organising and perform the work I necessary in the campaign. I i Relating further the motives aotuat- ing him in entering into this campaign 1 with a few of the state officers and I members of the legislature, he said he had sent out ome friends to feel the pulse of the state. He also stated that Democratic politics poli-tics in the state had been running wild for some years. The Democrats had been fusing with Populists and silver j Republicans and he was opposed to such a course because it resulted in the nomination of people who were not Democrats. The object was to so organise or-ganise as to break down the "one man ower'' in the state. After ascertaining these facts the senator said that he had very reluctantly reluc-tantly agreed to the proposition of his : friends, and to assist financially, fur- I nishing ruch funds as were absolutely necessary in a prudent way to accoin- i plish the object aimed at. I Mr. Clark said at his preliminary I meeting he had stated distinctly that I he would not be a candidate for the I senate and that he had not changed I his mind until after the election of the . I legislature. I I "Did you in accordance with your I agreement- witli your friends at that I meeting make any contribution to the campaign fund?" Mr. Faulkner asked, j "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Some days after this meeting I gave an amount which it was estimated would be neces-i neces-i sary to begin with. That amount was j S..'5r.,000. The second contribution was : made in October and amounted to $20.-I $20.-I 000. In November I contributed S-iO.000 and after I was elected I gave my son j Charles W. Clark a check for about 520,500 to pay expenses incurred during ! the sitting of the legislature in Helena, j "Upon leaving that e'ty, I had told my son to stay there, and settle up all ! bills that had been incurred. Upon his returning to Butte he gave me a state-I state-I ment showing disbursements amounting amount-ing to about this sum. These eontribu-I eontribu-I tions were all that were made by me in connection with that campaign." Explaining to Senator Hoar, Mr. Clark said that the first contribution ' of Jo"), 000 was necessary in organizing j for the legislative campaign, a great deal of money being required to get voters registered and to get them to j the polls. j "Did you ever," asked Mr. Faulkner, "directly or indirectly make any money or other voluntary contributions to se-ourerJie se-ourerJie vote of any members of the legislature for you for United States senator?" "No, sir, I never did," responded the witness, holding himself erect and looking look-ing directly at his interrogator. "Do you know of your own personal knowledge of any money being used to corruptly iniluence votes in your behalf?" be-half?" was the next question. To this the senator replied: "I do not. There were plenty of rumors about the expenditure of money, but I have ; no personal knowledge of anything of ' that kind being done." Senator Clark was questioned con- ' -iums ii eenei.-a units wnn senato Whiteside and Mark Hewitt and hi reported conversation with Represen ' tive Jackson of Utah. He deniei having any conversation with Jack son, and while admitting talking witl " Whiteside and Hewitt, he contradictec , all the statements made by them it their testimony which would in an way implicate him with corrupt meth ods in the legislature. He said that or j n"e occasion he had met Mr. Whiteside White-side at the Helena hotel, when the lat-' lat-' tor had come to him saying: " I "I have good news for you, I have J ; induced Senator Anderson to vote for you." ; Senator Clark said he had told . j Whiteside that he was pleased to hear j this, because he and Mr. Anderson had I long been friends and he had confi-. confi-. I dently counted upon his vote before the final ballot should be taken. Mr. Clark said positively Mr, Anderson An-derson was the only member of the legislature spoken of in this conversation conver-sation and he explicitly denied saying that Mr. Anderson could not be influenced in-fluenced by money like other members He also denied having told Whiteside that C. W. Clark, Mr. Wellcome nor any one else was his agent. . Mr. Clark admitted that he had met Mark Hewitt often during the sitting of the legislature as Mr. Hewitt had professed to be a friend of his in his senatorial contest. Their conversations had, however, he said been so completely com-pletely devoid of feature that he did not remember any of them. He was sure he had never told Hewitt, Hew-itt, as the latter had testified, that he considered Whiteside reliable, for he had not talked with him concerning Whiteside: that he had never "told Hewitt after the Whiteside so-called exposure that he would make the people peo-ple believe that Mr. Dalv had furnished fur-nished the 530.000 used by Whiteside in that exposure, and that he had never told Hewitt that he would have his son or Weilcome or any one else see Tom Lyons, with a view to satisfying him. He did, however, remember that Hewitt had told him that Lyons was making some trouble about his expenses expen-ses in tne senatorial campaign. With reference to the testimony of Legislator Jackson of Utah, Mr. Clark said he had no recollection whatever of having met that gentleman and that he was ire that he (Clark) had not tried to influence Jackson's vote for Mr. McCune for United States senator from Utah. He was equally sure that he had made no corrupt or improper proposals to Jackson in that connection and that he had not told him that he (Clark) had jus purchased the vote of a member of the Montana legislature legisla-ture in his own behalf. Equally certain was he that he had never said to Mr. Jackson or any one else that Senator Hanna of Ohio had I secured his election to the senate by corrupt means. "I am absolutely positive," said Senator Sen-ator Clark, oonclnrUnn- .. ) timony concerning Jackson, "that I ' t never had any conversation with him j or any one else relative to the manner of Senator Hanna's election, and I want to say that every word of Jackson's testimony which related to me was ab-i ab-i solute! v false." At this juncture a member of the committee arked Mr. Clark in regard to the letter to Dr. Martin of the Montana Mon-tana college concerning which Chief Justice Brantley had testified earlier in the day. Mr. Clark replied that he had no recollection concerning the letter He thought he, might have written it as his relation with Dr. Martin was very intimate, as wa:i also his relation with Judge Brantley, and as he knew the relationship to be so between Martin and Brantley. He was questioned closely as to his recollection as to the authorship of a letter written last October or November. Novem-ber. He replied: I "I may have written the letter to Dr. Martin to see Justice Brantley, but I certainly did not go to the extent of asking him to suggest to Judge Brantley Brant-ley that the proceedings against Well-I Well-I come should be stopped. I admit that I was greatly interested in Wellcome's case, being convinced, as the letter referred re-ferred to savs, that he is both a grand and good man. "1 do not. however, wish to be understood, under-stood, if I did write this letter, as suggesting sug-gesting any means of approaching him. which was Tint perfectly legitimate. As to recollecting whether I wrote the letter. let-ter. I repeat that 1 cannot say positively. posi-tively. "My correspondence is probably as large as that of almost any other man in the United States. I write from fifty to 100 letters a day, and it is not prob- .il.U T .,-,,1. . ...i., I c.t liicl i ...un iriiiciintrr nnemer I had written this letter on a matter I which I did not consider very important. import-ant. If I did write. I simply "did so to have Dr. Martin to use his influence with Judge Brantley to see that justice jus-tice was done Mr. Wellcome." When the committee reassembled in the afternoon, Mr. Faulkner continued his direct examination of Senator Clark. He asiked Mr. Clark concerning his acquaintance ac-quaintance with the Rev. B. E. H. Warren, War-ren, the Methodist minister who testified testi-fied for the prosecution, i Mr. Clark said Mr. Warren had come to him during the senatorial contest, expressing great interest in his campaign, cam-paign, and had told him t 5 was a member of the legislature. ' se Lame he did not mention, whose vote ctuld be had for Mr. Clark. "I told him." said Mr. Clark, "that would-be nice, and that I would like to have the vote. Mr. Warren then said that to get the vote would require some money. I told him," Mr. Clark went on. "that I did not expect to secure se-cure any votes as the result of a pecuniary pe-cuniary consideration." After that Mr. Warren had asked hirr for a contribution for his church, and had asked him to send the check, if he gave one at all, to him personally. He had promised to do this, and had afterward after-ward sent him a check for $100 for the church, making it payable to Mr. Warren War-ren personally. He had never had more conversations than this with Mr. Warren, and he pronounced as absolutely false the statement made by Mr. Warren that he (Clark) had urged him afterward to get for him the vote of the member he had spoken of. Referring to Mr. Warren's statement that his sons had been discharged from employment at Clark's instance. Mr. Clark said ht did not know that Warren had any sons. Speaking of his relations with the witness Cason, Mr. Clark said Cason had brought a letter of introduction from his brother-in-law. Cason had told him that Representative Marcyes (Rep.) was a warm friend of his, and that, he (Cason) believed he couid be of benefit to him in getting Mr. Marcyes' Mar-cyes' vote, j Mr. Clark said that afterward when he found he could not be elected by Democratic votes, he snt for Cason and asked him to use his influence with Marcyes. After seeing Marcyes, Cason told him that he had found that member mem-ber very triendly to him (Clark). He then told Mr. Cason to go to his son or some one else and get money to pay his expenses to Helena and return. The next time he met Mr. Marcves he told him he was obliged to him. That was the extent of his conversation conversa-tion with Mr. Marcyes. "It is absolutely false that I held up my hand, indicating that Marcyes could ! have $10,000 for his vote, as Cason tes- j titled, nor did I. by any movement or words of lips indicate that I expected him to secure a vote for me for a corrupt cor-rupt consideration." said Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark admitted that he had thought well of Mr. Cason, not only because of the letter of introduction he I brought, but because Cason had been j with his friends in a combination of ! Democrats and Republicans in a cam- ! paign in Rutte. j In reply to a suggestion from Sen- j itor Chandler, Mr. Clark said he had j written a letter to the Republican cau- j us of the Montana legislature outlin- i ng his attitude on the tariff. p x utr ijucriiiiii iitiu iiikl diipni ill wie s legislative campaign in Yellowstone ' county and he had at that early date j written a letter to Mr. Foster of that . county. Writing to the chairman of the l Republican caucus he had reiterated j the views expressed in the Foster let-j let-j ter. He had not preserved a copy of r the letter, but if one could be found he . would be glad to produce it. Senator , Chandler insisted that the letter should . be found, as it was evidence of the . pledge he made to secure Republican votes. Mr. Clark said he had sent the letter ; to Mr. Hobson, chairman of the Republican Repub-lican caucus. Mr. Clark stated the contents con-tents of the letter to the caucus. He ; said that he had taken the position that "in the distribution of the duties on various articles he thought that raw materials should be provided for and share in the advantage of the protective protec-tive tariff to the extent of materials produced in our own state, euch as wool, lead, hides and barley." Returning to Cason Mr. Clark said j he had sent him a check for $500 after the adjournment of the legislature. This he had done because Cason had complained com-plained to him of the condition of his finances and because of the good opinion opin-ion he had of him. Speaking of the Republican votes cast for him. Mr. Clark said he had told all Republican members of the legislature legisla-ture that he would not accept their votes if they would insure his election, unless he could get a majority of the Republican caucus. His reason was I that to accept fewer than a majority of the caucus would subject them to accusations of accepting bribes. j I "There was so much scandal at the i time," he said, "that I thought right I to protect them. I wanted to have the : election beyond reproach and I did not ! want to compromise any of these people." peo-ple." j He had meant to adhere to this no. j sition even if he had fallen only one J short of a majority of the Republican I I caucus. The letters to and from Dr. Ector ' were then taken up. Explaining one i of his letters to the doctor, he said he j thought the matter related to Repre- 1 sentative Woods and that Mr. Bickford ! was looking after the matter, hence ' the expression in his letter that "that ! matter is left entirely in the hands of i I Mr. Bickford." i He had not known that Mr. Woods ! was in debt as that subject had never ! been brought to his attention. He had 1 expected that Mr. Bickford would look ' after Mr. Woods' vote. He had no per- . sonal interview with Mr. Woods until after the legislative election. Mr. Clark said he was in the habit . of turning matter? of detail over to others who have particular matters in , hand. He had, he knew, spoken to Mr. j Bickford on the subject, and he thought I it probable that he had turned the letter let-ter over to him. ' "Mr. Bickford." Mr. Clark said, in re- I ply to a question from Senator Hoar. was the only one I knew well in Mr. Wood's locality, and I would naturally turn the matter over to him. He had no authority to act, except in a legitimate legiti-mate wav. "All I expected was that he should hold Woods in line and prevent the people by whom he was surrounded, who were unfriendly to me, from getting get-ting Woods away from me. He was authorized to use only persuasive means, and was not authorized to use any money. I had nothing improper in my mind, and I had no reason to suppose sup-pose that Mr. Bickford had anything improper in hits mind." He knew nothing, he said, of the indebtedness in-debtedness on Woods' ranch, which it was proposed should be carried for i him. "Nothing was said to me by any liv- ing person which would lead me to suspect sus-pect or suppose that such a condition existed." he said. It was a surprise to him when the cletai's of the transaction for the relief of Woods' mortgage by his son and Mr. I Bickford was brought out in the testimony. testi-mony. I questioned closely upon Mr. Bick-ford's Bick-ford's taking $7,000 to Missoula to lift Woods' mortgage, Mr. Clark repeated that he had not, at the time, known anything whatever about it. He had not known that his son had given the money to Bickford until the matter was brought out in the testimony here. "Did your son have access to your accounts, ac-counts, so that he could have given Mr, Bickford that amount of money in your interest?" asked Mr. Hoar. "The son is a man of wealth himself." him-self." said Mr. Faulkner. "Let the witness answer," said Senator Sena-tor Chandler. Mr. Clark said: "My son had drawn cheeks on mv apnimt i. j:j a. . -- out uiu noi do so in this case; he could easily have drawn this amount of money on nis own account." In reply to a question, he said that his son had not, even since the facts of this transaction were brought into this inquiry, explained to him. He had not paid Bickford anything for hi services except his expenses and his regular salary. Replying to a question by Mr. Faulkner Faulk-ner concerning the relation to himself of his son, C. W. Clark. Wellcome, Bickford, A. J. Davidson, A. J. Steele, j William McDermott and others, Senator Sen-ator dark said: "They stood to me in the relation of friends promoting my political interests, inter-ests, and some of them composed a committee which had undertaken to disburse funds in the campaign, and who were authorized to look after' matters mat-ters generally." "Had they any authority to do anything any-thing in a financial way, more than to pay incidental expenses?" "They had not, if I am to understand your question to be whether they had i authority to pay out money for unlaw-l unlaw-l ful purposes. They had no authority ! to pay out money for any other than s fair and legitimate 'purposes." The examination-in-chief wa6 con-; con-; eluded at 4:30 p. m. In executive session the committee decided not to receive Falk's testimony i concerning Whiteside's reported effort i at bribery, as purely collateral testi-i testi-i mony, but it is understood notice has been given of a motion for reconsideration. reconsidera-tion. The committee also discussed the question of the advisability of sending for witnesse.-i for the purpose of impeaching im-peaching the testimony of witnesses already al-ready heard, but reached no conclusion on this point. There are about thirty such witnesses wanted on each side, and the expense of bringing them will be about $18,000 or $20,000. Washington, Feb. 19. Senator Clark of Montana was again today the star witness before the senate committee on j privileges and elections, notwithstand-i notwithstand-i ing Dr. Treacey was also heard. I Treacey. Justice Hunt's physician, oe-i oe-i cupied the entire forenoon sitting and j a part of the afternoon session. His statement concerning his interviews with Justice Hunt corroborated the testimony of the justice in all essential details, except that his recollection was that $.",o,0;mi. and not $100,000, was the amount mentioned by him as the j price which the justice would get for I having the case thrown out of the j supreme court. I He said Justice Hunt was an intimate j friend, and he asserted his motive to be, in taking the course he did. to test his ability to withstand the corrupting influence of money. He had received no funds from any source to pay the bribe suggested, and had been promised prom-ised none for that purpose. Mr. Clark necessarily went over much of the ground covered by him in his testimony Saturday. He was cross-examined cross-examined by Mr. Campbell, and insisted insist-ed that he had spent no money for corrupt purposes during the Montana senatorial campaign. He gave a detailed de-tailed statement of expenditures for political purposes during the legislative legisla-tive and senatorial contests, which footed up, as Senator Turley announced, an-nounced, to $139,000. "c "tuttiru inau ma -uijf purpose in I entering upon the campaign was the j overthrow of Mr. Daly's rule in the state, which, he said, was so tyrannical ! that he would not desire to continue j his residence in the state if it was to j continue. I It was said today that Mr. Daly i would go on the stand in rebuttal. He is expected any day. Before Dr. Treacey proceeded. Chairman Chair-man Chandler produced a copy of the letter sent by Mr. Clark to the Republican Repub-lican caucus of the Montana legislature. legisla-ture. It was addressed to the chairman of the caucus, and was as follows: "Helena. Mont.. Jan. 16, 1899. Hon. S. S. Hobson Dear Sir: In reply to j your valued favor of this date, requesting request-ing me to define my position on the I tariff question, I beg to state that I j am in favor of a high protective duty on wool, hides and on every other j product of this state, in order that producers pro-ducers of raw material shall get an I equitable advantage in the distribution I of tariff duties. It is manifest that the j present schedule is inadequate to discharge dis-charge the expenses of the government, and there will -necessarily have to be an increase and readjustment. "The manufacturing interests are entitled en-titled to t-nough o protect them against cheap foreign labor, , and they should be satisfied to allow the producers of raw material to have an equal advantage. advan-tage. "I maintain that no representative of this state in the national congress should allow himself to be committed by caucus or otherwise to any policy that would be in conflict with or prejudicial preju-dicial to the interests of the state. I Yours sincerely, '; W. A. CLARK." Dr. Treacey was, questioned bv Senator Sena-tor Chandler. .He testified that after arriving in Washington, Saturday last he had met Senator Faulkner, counsei for Senator Clark. The first question asked, referring to the incident of Aug. 5. the date of his first interview with Justice Hunt, referred to his association associa-tion on that day with Mr. Corbett, J. S. M. Neill. Mr. Clark and Judge Hunt. He said he had seen Justice Hunt that day, but none of the others mentioned. Dr. Treacey related all his interviews with Justice Hunt and also with Attor- , ney General Nolan. He began with his first interview with Mr. Hunt, on Aug. 5 last, and his report was a practical repetition of Justice Hunt's testimony except as to the amount named. He said that at the first interview he had invited the judge to his office and had taken him into his operating room where the interview- occurred. "I told the judge," said the witness, "that I had a funny kind of proposition to make to him." The witness then went on to say that he had told the justice of the arrival ! . n Helena of a special train, and said he I i told the judge that there was a party :here that would give $50,000 if he would i dismiss the Wellcome disbarment case j 1 rhe judge promptly said that he could iiol conquer sucn a proposition and left He had also seen Justice Hunt later in the afternoon at the latter's own home and had renewed the suggestion of the forenoon. He said he had told the judge of the i rumors that he was under Mr. Dalv's Influence, and thta the latter would insure in-sure his re-election. The witness then said he had told the judge that if he could docently do so he would like to see him get the money to be had out of the case. The judge had refused at both times to entertain the proposition, as he had at subsequent interviews three or four weeks later. Dr. Treacey said he had never had any authority from an:' one to make a proposition of bribery to Mr. Hunt, but he had not told the judge of this circumstance cir-cumstance until he was notified that Judge Hunt was to be summoned to Washington. He had then told the judge that he had no $50,000 or $100,000 to offer him and no authority from any one to make such an offer. Referring to his interviews with Attorney At-torney General Nolan the witness said that when he spoke to that gentleman about the Wellcome case the latter replied: re-plied: "I've got 'em over a barrel." "I told him," said the witness, "that he'd better get $100,000 out of the business, busi-ness, destroy the stenographic notes and get out of the business. He seemed to feed pretty good over it," continued the witness, "and I took it that he thought it a good idea. It was all pure 'josh.' and he knew it was." J After a second interview the attorney general had given him a half dozen ducks and the next dav had sent him a piece of venison. Asked from whom the suggestion came that he should approach ap-proach Judge Hunt as he had done, Dr. I Treacey replied: i "They came from n nersnn. I had known him for ten years- and admired him more than any other man in the state. My only motive was to test his official integrity and to find out whether wheth-er he was all right. I had heard rumors ru-mors that he was identified with the Daly people, and there were many rumors ru-mors unpleasantly involving his name. I wanted to know about that." "Then," suggested Senator Chandfer, "you went deliberately to work to test the Virtue of your friend as a judge?" 'I did," was the reply, "and I am very sorry for it." ' Continuing, he explained that he had expected a more indignant protest at the first interview than he had received receiv-ed Asked what "party" he had meant to !" J0 when he had told Judge Hynt could et 550,000 or $100,000 out of the case, the witness said he "did not mean anybody." "Then you told him what was not truf?? u"1. id' 1 miSht as well have told him that he could get a million." the witness said he knew of the presence pres-ence in Helena of the special train from Butte which had brought Mr. Corbett, Mr. C. W. Clark and others from Butte on the day he first spoke to Judge Hunt and had heard the gossip that the supreme court was to be bought. ' He had also heard that at that time Marcus Dalv's private car was there to take Judge Hunt's children child-ren away. Public gossip was. he said, constantly associating Justice Hunt's name with that of Marcus Daly and there was much talk that he was to be corrupted. He could not, however, give the name of any one person from whom he had heard the intimation. Dr. Treacey said that, while a Republican Repub-lican in politics, he had favored Mr. Clark's election to the senate. Recess. At the afternoon session Dr. Treacy said that he had met Mr. Corbett Saturday Sat-urday night after his arrival in Washington, Wash-ington, but that he had not talked with him concerning his testimony before this committee. After his arrival here he had engaged an attorney "because I wanted to see where I was at." After Af-ter seeing the headlines in the Chicago papers he had thought it possible that he might be looked '.-.pon as a criminal. I'pon his arriva! ir, Washington he had j I also seen Mr. Wellcome. Charley Clark and Faulkner, but that he had not talked with them at any length con- ( cerning this case. I Senator Clark was then recalled. He j said he had gone to Helena from Butte I on Jan. 4. 1 S::. just after the meeting j of the legislature, but that he had car- i ried with him no more money than he usually carried. Senator Clark detailed de-tailed the transaction with Representative Representa-tive McLaughlin, whereby he became owner of certain timber land owned by McLaughlin. Me stid the Anacinda company had practically secured a monopoly of the timber of the state. He had then asked Mr. Bickford. who had lived at Missoula, Mis-soula, to look out for any opportunity to buy timber. The latter had reported Mr. McLaughlin's ownership of timber land, together with other valuable property, and he had authorized Mr. Bk'kford to make the purchase. The property had been secured at a reduction of a third from McLaughlin's first figures, which reduction McLaughlin McLaugh-lin had made after he (Clark) had had an interview with him, in December, 1S9S. At this interview he had agreed w ith McLaughlin to organize the Western West-ern Lumber company and to make Mc- . Laughlin manager at a salary of $2'X) ' a. month. Replying to a question from . Mr. Faulkner, Senator Clark said: "There was never a w.ord said dur- . ing my pennnal interview with Mr. , McT.nil"-hlin cither Vii- tiln-i ATr nielr- ford or myself, concerning the senatorial sena-torial contest." Mr. Clark here submitted a statement showing expenditures on political account ac-count made by him from Aug. 1, 180S, to Sopt. 1. 1899. So far as the expenditures expendi-tures referred to the senatorial and preceding the legislative campaign they were as follows: Aug. 12. lSf.8, C. W. Clark, $35,000: Oct. 17, C. W. Clark, $20,000; Oct. 20, Walter Cooper, $200; Nov. 5. L. O. Leonard. $250; Nov. 7. G. H. Padley, $250; L. O. Leonard, $150; Nov. 9, ,1. H. Miles, $100; Thomas Kilgallon. $200; Nov. 10. C. H. Padley. $200; Nov. 11. John Leary. $50: Nov. 23. C. W. Clark, $40,000; A. J. Davidson. $5,000; Jan. 6, 1899, C. H. Padley, $250; Feb. 4, Z. T. Cason. $500: Feb. 6, George Alderm-an, $250;' Feb. 13. C. W. Clark. $20,592; Feb. 11. J. B. "Wellcome. $1S,000; Feb. 27, J. B. Wellcome. $90; March 2, Wellcome, $250; Wellcome, for John Simpson, $400; April 15. C. W. Clark, $950. Other items were' given covering the expenses of the campaign last spring. The senator said, in addition to these sum? he had made Messrs. Wellcome. McDermott and E. C. Day each a present pres-ent of $3,000. but he did not consider these donations in the 'nature of political po-litical expenditures. AIL these men had given a great deal of time to promoting his interests, ami he had been very glad to make the presents. None of them had expected pay and no money had been given them on their personal account ac-count until after the senatorial election. elec-tion. Mr. Clark said that all the large sums paid to C. W. Clark, -Wellcome and Davidson had been paid to carry out the agreement which lie had entered into to pay the expenses of the proposed pro-posed campaign to rescue the state from Daly. He had questioned no accounting ac-counting from them, having the utmost confidence in them. He did not know j what they had done with the money. Speaking of the reasons which caused him to go into the campaign, Mr. Clark said his friends had represented that if there was no change they were liable to move out of the state. "It was estimated," he said, "that it would take $35,000 to control the committee com-mittee and that $75,000 would be necessary neces-sary to control the legislature. There was no limit and I agreed to pay whatever what-ever might be necessary. I knew it would take a great deal of money to i carry the state where so much money ! had been spent in previous elections." j Mr. Clark said, in response to Senator Sena-tor Turley, that it was true that in the first state election- he. Governor Broadwater, Broad-water, Governor Hauser and Mr. Daly had each contributed $40,000 to the Democratic campaign fund. Asked about the cost of the contest j over the location of the capital, Mr. j Clark said probably his old friends of i the opposition could tell more about it . than he could. He had contributed S100.000 and he thought the people of Helena had raised over $100,000 to hold ' I the capital. It was common report that ! the opposition, the Anaconda company, I had spent $1,000,000 to locate the capital j at Anaconda. It had not occurred to him that the large sums he had contributed con-tributed would be used illegally. "I am sure," he said, "that in the senatorial sen-atorial contest no money was spent to influence votes illegitimately. If you lived in Montana you would not marvel at the heavy outlay. The election was for the purpose of overthrowing the one man power of Mr. Daly, and this could not be done with any meagre sums. Everything was conducted in such a high handed manner that nobody could expect to receive. recognition unless he bent the knee or crawled in the dust to those people. If I thought the despotism des-potism should continue I should tremble trem-ble for the future and would not want my family to remain there." He had, he said, personally seen men in Butte paid money for their votes in 1S9S." "Did you prosecute them?" asked Senator Chandier. "I did not," was the deply, "It w-as useless to do so as the Anaconda company com-pany owned the political machinery. To ask to have a man arrested would have been as useless as to try to buck up against a cyclone." The cross-examination was then begun. be-gun. It was conducted by Mr. Campbell, Camp-bell, whose first question referred to Mr. Clark's testimony to the effect that he had seen men paid for their votes during the election of 1S9S. The witness wit-ness did not he said, know -the men either paying or receiving the money. He knew they were not on his side. Taking up the political, move for the defeat of the Daly organization, Mr. Clark said he had not in the beginning any especial candidates, but that their purpose was to "sret some one whn could give us a fair deal." "Was it not generally understood," asked Mr. Campbell, "that Mr. Daly favored Mr. Lee Mantle, a silver Republican, Re-publican, for senator?" "It was generally talked of," was the reply, "but I have no personal "knowledge "knowl-edge of that. I forbade all use of my name at the beginning, wanting 'first of all to defeat fusion and break the power of Marcus. Daly." "You made a combination did you not with the gold Republicans to carry the election in Butte?" . "There was a combination made, but there are no gold Republicans there that I know of." "Then you had changed your opinion concerning fusion between August and October?" "I was in favor of any combination of respectable people that would break down the infamous organization which controlled the Butte primaries vour organization, which had become so notorious." no-torious." ' Mr. Campbell questioned Mr. Clark closely about the donation of $5,000 to Mr. Day, which Mr. Clark said he had I . ! given four davs after his election to j the senate. The witness said: j "Mr. Dav was a member of the es-islature es-islature and represented our forces in the Contest for speaker of the Montana house of repres;ntativei- he being a candidate for that office." Mr. Day, he added, was the recognized recog-nized loader in the house of the Clark forces. "Why did you give him the $5,000?" "I did it in consideration .of my friendship for Day and for the work performed by him in trying to organize the legislature and his work in control- j ling our forces. I recognized that he ' waa worthy of this consideration. Furthermore, we expected mere or less J litigation, of which Mr. Day was to j take charge. This is all I have paid j him and all that he has been paid, so far as I know." . in reply to Mr. Campbell s questions concerning the testimony given by Sen-i Sen-i ator Clark in Montana, the senator in-! in-! sisted that previous to the Whiteside ! exposure he had given no money to Mr. l Wellcome. Pressed to say whether he had not. asked his son whether he had not given Mr. Wellcome the money which Whiteside had turned over to the state, he replied: "I did not. I did not believe a word of it. I would not insult him or Mr. Wellcome by asking about it:" Mr. Clark said, he kept his own private pri-vate books, but that he had destroyed the checks covering the session of the legislature. . - - "I generally, destroy checks about every six months, and I think I destroyed de-stroyed these about the time of my return re-turn from Europe, in May, 1S99." . Mr. Clark thought v.r-ovo iiof records of the . bank would 'show the facts. Referring to the $T,.000 given Davidson, David-son, on Nov. 23. Mr. Clark declared that the money was expended in the state campaign, and before he had decided t6 be a candidate. : . "My motive was far higher than that 01 promoting my own candidacy." said Mr. Clark. "The movement was intended intend-ed to control the state in the interest of Dure De'mooracy." "You were bound to purifv politics Whatever the cost?" suggested Mr. Burroughs. Bur-roughs. "I don't look at it in that light at all," renlied the witnes3. Adjourned for the dav. with Senator Clark's examination still in progress. |