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Show SENSATION IS CREATED Intense Excitement! Reigns Over West Virginia Vir-ginia Bribery Charges' Charleston. W Vr , Feb. 13 intense in-tense excitement was created in the hoti3e of delegates today when Rev-Thomas Rev-Thomas J Smith of West Union, Ded-d Ded-d ridge county, speaking on a question of personal privilege, declared that Delegate U. G. Rhodes and another man had thrust $500 In his pocke In 8 room in a Charleston hotel after, he declared, Rhodes and the other man had offered him ?2000 if he would vote for Colonel W. S Edwards for United States senator. Smith declared he did not know-how know-how much money hnd been put into his pockets until he had left the room Then he went to Delegate H C Williamson Wil-liamson of Tyler county, had him roant the money, inclose it in an envelope en-velope and return It to Rhodes Smith, explaining his position, said ho had refused to accept any money from Rhodes or the other man. whom he did not recognize, but Rhodes bad insisted It was not a bribe Smttb had been voting for Isaac T. Mann for senator. At the conclusion of his statement Smith asked the house of delegates to investigate the alleged attempt to bribe him In compliance with the joint resolution resolu-tion adopted yesterday, President Woods in tbe senate appointed Senators Sen-ators O. S. Marshall and O. A. Hood as members of the committee to investigate in-vestigate the alleged bribery in the legislature and Speaker George in the house named Delegates Sherman T Robinson. Charles A. Sutton and V. S. Wysong |