Ogden Daily Standard | 1890-01-21 | Page 1 | At the Capital

AT THE CAPITAL cournos coraler getting a lions large share 11 THE HOISE ROUSE AD AID A 1 Ringi hinging cl atter from an dhein Di ein into the chit strike fallacy hen men llau a chance Clia nrc ALIS AUS FOOL or r the into ibe the great bing bans crouley jn 20 when the special pe c lal house committee investigating the ballot box forgery met this morning mayor mosby ot of cincinnati was placed upon iho the stand lie ile edified eti tidied fied to receiving letters from various persons wood for the position ot of smoke inspector one of the li it ti tiers era was from governor foraker who villo eaid said he be had promised to endorse woods application if he promised him foraker certain political information about prominent men walters who testified saturday regarding wood was wits recalled rec billed today to day and eaid eald after woods first visit to washington he got several letters from wood about a patent cannon in which governor campbell campbe I 1 was coed to be interested interest eci and wanted fb ins i c congressional g rees ional record as obtained oba 1 I ined ed copies of all of campbells bills and the gun run patent tile latter had bad been issued ti tj one knebes and thre three quarters assigned to J E campbell camptell of hamilton ohio wod wo d came back to n and rold cold witness two or three times he lie had bad seen mr mclean one sunday morning wood bought bough t the cac guati papers and atler after it oking at them deemed much excited he ile damned tom campbell and said old snorting horse has made a damned fool of him felt witness s understood him to mean II alstead witness saw the redaction published wood wrote a letter to tom campbell paying saying he was a damned skunk and he could put him in the states prison wood ws recalled recal ltd ad asked by the chairman when it first occurred to him to out nut the name of james E campb 11 en on the paper wood said foraker had bad said to him he understood those fellows were making a g a nd i rate cate to push th atin ballot bix bill an and d that john II 11 was at the bead bead of it foraker took campbells bill out of his ilia p eket and asked abut ab mt its progress eaid said he lie underwood under camp camp bell butterworth mckaley and and others were interested turner aided why wood bad the names of s put on oil witness s sad s iid he cared nothing about their jamrs lie wanted to make up un a sandica e of about twenty names lie fie wanted a good many ohio men waned to make it nonpartisan non nou partisan and ox fix it itse a it be used for cariol turner asked who suggested the names and witness replied foraker told him who were in in the syndicate foraker wanted aim to get some new now jersey and 11 clagan names tito other names were thrown n in for fill and to make it non p irti Fan turner asked wo d it be he as a reputable nt cit zen and republican would that paper palter off on governor for alter aheras as genuine witness s replied in the negative tie ile give gave foraker the paper to ue use in campaign headquarters he ile thought foraker was the smartest man in the state and that he would shako shake that paper in in face and with out letting him fee tee it declare be he bad had his ilia signature there to a c contract cin tract he ile thought the governor was smart enough to know how bow to use a paper he ile had told him he ha hal I 1 abt what he be wanted but it would not stand much and no questions were asked witness had gotten instructions as to what the governor w anted wanted an aal i had foll followed owed the order 11 F A milwida cincinnati draughtsman told how he lie saw davis preparing the papers and tracing signa edres with a lib glass milward told him bat that w s no a good way and showed how 0 o trace with ith piper divisek claimed to him that there was no arm in it that the paper was to be given to go governor vernor Foraker who would know at once it was a Iri zery it nep ness wrote the names of McP horson and stockbridge davis said they wanted to show it to the tile democratic committee and make them give up a paper they had then they would destroy the document some time after witness saw the publication in the commercial gazelle he fie went down and told halstead Hal sead nil all about it that gentleman did not believe him ile ll 11 brought out the photographic copy and showed shoed bow how he lie bad had traced the names li hastead alstead asked if he lie had written the Al Mcl elberson herson and de signatures and when he fie told him be he had he lie replied that be he halstead alstead II had pinned bis his faith on those signatures Big natures george J Bl murray urray of cincin cincinnati ti a lawyer and patent solicitor eaid said ra he bad had known wool for about six years ears ami and bad had taken out patents for wood in september Bap Sop wood asked witness to draw up a ballot box contract to the oce one in washington would help him to his place as smoke ioB wood wool wroe out five cr eix six 3 and witness to a shape hap gge it u up I 1 for 0 r him and have it type written ritten nev several cral days das later wood came in hurriedly and eaid said Govern governer gr foraker wanted atie piper arg ally witness put it in in shape afler its publication li cation atnes saw who told him he had no intention of using the tile paper that way that it was only intended to prevent the democrat democrats from usiri the topp letter budjen n had bad photographed graphed it and sent some members of the committee corn matteo with it to halstead Hala lead to have a squib published just enough to warn the Damoc democrats be rats not to luvish the letter Hals eai snatched the whole hole thing As there was no denial published the witness was in doubt as to wit whether ther the paper was a forgery or couteter counterfeit feit cooj promised to get it back and arid witness finally fenall resolved if campbell bad had signe signed such a paper be lie must stand the consequence a lewis st I 1 had eadlen ien eaid said the day after fourakers Fo nom nation lia tion lie told him he would have th opposition of a number of leading republicans in III ohio who ho were jealous of him film Witt witness leAS went on to tell the governor gi vernor abbit the campbell billot box bill and that butterworth mckinley SIc Kinlay and others were interested the governor was staggered bat but they bad had no opportunity to continue the conversation at that time later on wit nois met wood WOW and they talked abut tile bill wood wanted witness to give him a letter to the mayor to help out in in the smoke inspect airship witness told him he wood was a prohibitionist prohibit doniat and witness would help only a republican wood declared be had voted lot or and finally witness 4 t 1 I 1 promised to say may something to the lie ma major 1 or meeting wood laor wor he fie told wit witness ess he had been to washington wahington wa hington and and pot rot that ballot box paper and gave it to foraker he lie claimed ito to have gotten it irom from well nilan sir air Mc Leana private tec detary afterwards after warda saw the paper in in fo Foa akers kerB vot possession session and noticed two names sheman and cox which w were er not on the paper when be fan saw it in 1883 1898 ilia first knowledge of the paper waa was in august 1888 when T C campbell wanted a candidate for sheriff defeated and in talking tal knit with aladden ean ke of the ballot box bill which campbell Oam wanted introduced campbell Cana predad a paper bearing some signatures saying they were prominent men fit to the box and willme willing to support the bill for its general introduction witnel recognized the wimps of campbell butter butterworth worth and eckh ley but T C campbell would not let him look closely at the paper witness had bad c based his statement to governor for alier alter upon the signatures exhibited by T C campbell and woods explanation that the paper was an agreement part of a contract ot the men bad a and nd that they were to get stock for pushing the bill adjourned until next week ae IDE washington jan 20 among the petitions presented and refe referred were the from the american federson lede Fede riton rAon ti i labor in favor of the blair bill in favor of a pervice service pension vension to all surviving soldiers pol diers of the lite late war for tho the repeal of the limitation on arrears of pensions for the free coinage of silvor silver for a law to prohibit pr speculation in grain and ot yr r farm products among the bills reported from the committees and placed on the calendar darwe were rethe the following to provide fir the admission of thesta the state teof of wyoming into the union to pi ovide a temporary government emment for the territory of oklahoma fasco addressed the senate on the paragraph in the presidents desage regarding elections elect ons he ile said an ix attempt was about to be made to beize the electoral machinery of the states the power of the general government over state elections had been sparingly exercised in in the past there had been no political campaign with a plank in in ita its platform pla form claiming the right to exercise c control over elections in in the tile states the me message w ge ol 01 the president nt he paid said had contained no syllable in favor of free and honest elec ele eions except ai to the sup of the vote of colored people atthe at the S auth there was no evidence before the country of any such pup pre sion lie ile brer presented anted some elec tion statistics in different sections to prove that the pliant silent voter is increasing in in every section of the coun try 11 chandler Chandl pr said there wag was one c citizen of 1 erida if adi who might he be termed a silent voter that man was john burr a colored cit zen of madison county florida who in october last having been to 3 jacksonville as a witness concerning p tilt 1 t cil CA autra outrages es was killed on hii return to madison c muty by democrats of that county on account of tle testimony be he had pian he ile also ro reminded minded pago of other political murd re ris and ont razes in in Ft florida orila pasco ewed wed the belief that eee ti kiil ni in exl alonda F orida ever fince ance the memorable one of 1876 were as far fair peaceful and und quiet as in new e england it ws not riot surprising there were some irregularities then because senator chandler ii and id been teen one of the principal agent stin the florida election fraud in in 1876 and lie ilia demoralization resulting from that had not entirely disappeared the allusion to his conille course in hon flori dain da la 1876 was w as taken up by chindler chandler who denied ti ue tie e charge that he be hid had then ben bed of the state canvassing board bo ird and ha had d promised if the stae waa was ca for hay ilay n P the majority maj rity of the returning board would ha be taken care of ingalla will not speak upon this a subject b je ct tomorrow to morrow but will add addrean restal u the senate on the butler bill on thursday A after after fter an executive session the senate adjourned THE HOLSE washington jan 20 several bills viere were introduce 1 I 1 antong them ono by K ko 0 I 1 ly of kansas appropriating 00 07 for r a monument to tue tile muro sol d die e is and sail rs of ah the late war referred kerr of iowa offered a resol resolution u tion providing provi diniz tor for the disposal of the f funds found in the office of the late bergeaux at arnn referred the house then went IWO in 0 committee of the whole on the oklahoma town site bill action wag was taken on several eral sections ai at d otlie bothem were passed over temporarily the committee rose and dunnell from the committee on the eleventh census reported back the senate bill increasing the into matu com compana comp cna tion of supervisors super visors of ol the tile c census ensue from to 10 0 rasped liitt of illinois from the committee on forian affairs re report portel ei back the various arlda worlds or lda lair fair bills and andi they were referred to the special ommittee committee having charge of the subject ct adjourned TUE THE DEITH IE nil RECORD solicitor general chapman of or the supreme coart a victim or r pneumonia washington WASHING TOS jan 19 solicitor general orlow W V chapman of now york died this morning at his home in this city of pneumonia his death following eo so closely on that of walker blaine has pro produced a deep impresa sion of borrow sorrow liere here ilia end was as peaceful and he be cassad passe i away aur sur r rounded by hia his difo A adorney torney general miller Alil lr who ho lias has been with him almost constantly during bla his illness alerv miller and dr Jo linson the attending physician lie ile had an ann atuck tack of influenza but recovered vered from th tha attach attack a and nd insisted upon immediately imme diatel r resuming e quan his duties at the otlie office 1 ilia lie ex po lore resulted in a elapse rl n lapse apse accorn act oin parilea by serious complications in addition to the grip ilia lite remans will be taken to hia ilia homo home in binghamton li N Y for interment deceased was about go 00 years of ag age and for a long time waa livas a resident of I 1 binghamton N Y whore where he biroan wre an excellent reputation as a lawyer laev er he lie was appointed solicitor general last may alay after the adjournment of 0 tile premo coutt but in a short lime time since then lie ike hail had ton estimation as a lawyer and a man in the minds mm Is of the members of tilts supreme court and bar OTHER DEATHS NEW york jan 19 charlea edward jr tor for many yeara editorial writer for the daily bews died tu day of influenza inu nena jan 1 19 i hon ilon frederick chae clime iraa irali surer of dartmouth collean and judge of the probate court for graf gralton ton county die died probate today to day of influenza i UL A ak at aa almaa 2 la CHICAGO jan 19 theobald fore I orb taa ta 1 president of the chicago gas company I 1 n y 1 1 died 1 ed tonight to night of influenza mr air t 1 1 was one ot of the lite frera foremost ost men in the gas business and was wits widely known mr nan jan 20 frenz aseliner ls I 1 eliner lie the distinguished musician musician end composer la Is deal at the age of 00 jan 20 george albert prince of schwarzburg burg and stadt is dead lie wag was a russian cavalry officer aged 52 HC HE DILS DIES HIRD official Phil lill avont bat cat with Esi KOita ibe the ii 11 washington jan 20 henry A phillips rhill ip of now yok chief of ilia middle division of the tile pension office whose resignation was recently do banded by the commissioner of pensions has written the commissioner a 9 aelter ett a r from which thi follow follo Ainz me extracts are made 1 I that you will not d ny that this reque request lit ia is cot trot of your motion but prompted by lie the secretary of the interior I 1 must respectfully fully decline to re beien igei and so ro place my neck in bostion for the ax of the execution jer alio who just now ia is so busily engaged in completing the work begun on the pensions of myself m self and others over a quarter of a century azo ago on the southern battle fields four of the beet best men of this office have reported that the action in my case was in accord with the evidence on file in the case why does not the secretary of the interior give me an all opportunity to defend by oath and by professional testimony aliat I 1 now receive 7 he w never have held the power ho lie now des president hair son woul would I 1 never haye have had the power to put him where ha is it if mv my comrades and myself in lie ilia state ot of new york had not riot labored with more efrece than he did in missouri last lait fall in biddi bidding ing g gf hotl od hye bye to this office aa as I 1 undoubted lly shall as aa soon as the ax can be swung I 1 ehll be thankful that for a brief seison at leapt I 1 have had a chance to servey serve my Y suffering needy comrades in this