Show HOAR IN DOUBT f seemed to disbelieve the statements made by senator clark Washington Feb 20 when the committee on elections resumed its settings today the cross examination of senator clark was continued by mr i campbell the first inquiry related to t the memorandum of expenses supplied from the books of his bank lie had had prepared this statement yesterday by the senator he said he i not only destroyed his checks but al 1 so the check stubs but was confident 1 that showing made was correct he had destroyed the checks in this instance as he was in the habit of doing about every six months and not be cause he felt there was any special reason for getting rid ot them at this time in reply to questions mr clark said so far as he knew the committee acting in his behalf had not filed any statement of expenditures as required by the montana election law he had made none he had not considered himself a candidate when the members of the legislature were elected k money supplied by him later was for the purpose of paying expenses already incurred and not as a senatorial can didace what explanation did mr wellcome make when he made his demand on you tor he said as well as I 1 remember that ha had drawn upon his account he will however be able to tell you about that I 1 required no detailed statement from him feeling confident the expenditure pend iture was made in a legitimate way asked about the reports that his son had bought a large amount of property from state senator warren mr clark said he bad made no inquiry of him because he was iv convinced that the reports were untrue 1 I asked neither him nor wellcome nor bickford nor davidson nor steele nor any of these men in regard to any of the reports of bribery because I 1 w as sure they were absolutely false he said the charges were made by men in whom I 1 had no confidence and they went in one ear and out of the other his son he said was in the habit of conducting business affairs without consulting him and as for the charges of bribery in connection the transaction be did not believe them hence he bad made no inquiry and did not know that the 7 offered for the property had come out of any money furnished by him in connection with the campaign referring to one of dr actors let aers concerning representative woods mr clark said he understood that mr woods was a good natured man and liable to be by those who AW him first he did not believe he as seeking or would take a bribe he believed however that dr ector him if was intimating that he wanted pecuniary remuneration for himself HP announced however that he merely glanced the letter over and 10 M bickford Bick tord the latter remark aroused the interest of senator hoar who asked a number of questions showing incredulity in the matter but mr clark insisted that he did not know dr ector and that he had given little attention to the latter related to the vote of a member of the legislature mr Caro asked mr dark about the purchase of ex senator powers stock in the fergus county bank in which state senator hobson chairman of the republican caucus of efio montana legislature is a partner mr dark said he had understood after his election as senator that senator powers was incensed at hobson tor voting for him clark and had told hobson that he must find a purchaser tor his powers stock of which he owned ago shares the senator said he bad investigated the matter finding the stock to be dividend paying and told powers he would take it provided n was at par this offer was made later after he had gone to europe and mr johnson cashier of clark Jr others bank had consummated the trade paying for the stock on his account account mr clark testified concerning the lon of made by him to the roas co but said so cr as he knew this firm had no con with state senator hanna at this juncture mr campbell asked mr clark to submit his account bloks showing bis expenditures since the beginning of the campaign in montana mr faulkner objected he said mr clark said he had made a showing of all his political expenditures and that he was not bound to expose his per dional and business expenditures the question was raised in connection with a correction made by mr dark of his testimony of yesterday concerning the date of his presentation to representative day he said that instead of doing this on february ast 1st he had done it on march ast 1st the prosecution contended that if one mistake bad been made others were likely to have been mr campbell said that all the prosecution asked was that the some one appointed by the committee should have the opportunity of examining the books the prosecution had no desire to pry into his private ac bounts or to be present at the examina ion no decision was reached at the time and senator clark was temporarily ex cubed to permit mr frank corbett to be hoard concerning incidents growing out of his visit to helena on a special rain in connection with C W clark and mr whitemore on august ath last he said he had not at that time known mr never having been introduced to him until early in november of last year senator turley asked why it had been necessary to take a train to helena on august ath in connection with tho wellcome dla barrient bar mient case could not the business of conferring with the helena attorneys have been transacted over the telephone he asked mr corbett replied that in consultations concerning this case the telephone wires had never been used information had come to him thai Well comes helena attorney said he did not mean to file any answer he had told charley dark that the matter was a serious and important one and should be attended to abe trip was made for that purpose said mr corbett and the idea that I 1 had anything to do with the bribing of the court is simply insane he declared he had received no mes sage from J S M nelll to come to helena as there waa a possibility of doing business with the supreme court and explained that he held a mortgage against mr nelll senator faulkner asked having reab justice testimony have you any correction to make of your statement formerly given to this committee mit tee 1 I have not said the witness my statement is here with justice alg gotts and will have to stand when the committee met in the afternoon senator dark resumed the stand the problem as to the requirement that he should produce his bank record was decided and he produced his bank record exhibiting the record for the first halt of march 1899 which showed the transfer of to representative day the other expenditures shown by the statement were not read but the members of the committee were permitted to look over tho document the record showed that was paid with two certificates of deposit |