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Show new a congressman, hut then n sta'el senator. Foolker voted for U10 hill as did Tavls, nnd It was phm1, not-wlth not-wlth standing the efforts of the rare-track rare-track Interests and the alleged use of a fund hlch w is placed at $"Von noo Cannot Find Keenfi ond Whitney. Travis' testimony and the c nmii-toe'd nmii-toe'd puhpoonoc of .Iaiu,3 Keno and Harry Payne Whitney, two millionaires, mill-ionaires, whose hohl.y Is hn-Fin rapine, were ihi most development of t.'d iv's hearing, resumed 'after an adjourn-merit adjourn-merit on October 22. El fort 9 to find Messrs. Kcene and Whitney have so far been without success, and Urn Itricc, chairman of the committee, Is plowing Impatient. Both men have been mentioned In previous testimony ns having hcen present nt a conference at Delmon-Iro's Delmon-Iro's at which the allied corruption fund was rased nnd the committee- Is anxious to examine them. Travis' story nf todiy addeil two new- Dames to the list of scna'ors "approached S1C0000 to Travis for Vote. The amount offered him. he explained explain-ed was to he paid In two Installments, S2J.0nrt dow n and $"0 MOU after his vote had been cast "Pld yon ever hear of any legislator legisla-tor bein? approached?" In was asked ' Yes. I took luncheon with Senator Fuller and Senator Carpenter one day, and they told me thry had been approached. ap-proached. Senator Galop also told me he hail hern called on tho telephone." "Would you Know the man who approached ap-proached yon if you saw him agalu'" "Yob, 1 think so" KEENE AND WHITNEY ARE m HIDING NEW YORK, Nov. IS One hundred hun-dred thousand dollars to vote against, the anti-race-track betting bills in 190S was offered to State Senator Eugenes M Tavls of Brooklyn, so ho twore on the stand today, testifying before the legislative committee. A mysterious little man whose nam.) he does not recall made the offer In the lobby of the senate, ho said. In behalf of Former Senator Frank Gardner, Gard-ner, be added, confirmed It In a subsequent sub-sequent telephone conversation. Gardner Now Under Indictment. Gardner Is now under Indictment, charged with having similarly, though with a smaller umount, tried to Infl i-enco i-enco Otto G. Foolker of Brooklyn, |