Show congressmen IN ITs I 1 some of them 0 to o a tery very grot great and uncomfortable depth STILL qUES slit she idiller tiller ia flatter ater Be becoming comia BOM sor I 1 I 1 in n and bore more troublesome ciomo to so some in of thou interested therein feb 3 in the silver pool investigation today to day it waa was developed that the letter from parsons to owenby was in regard id td stock of the Bato polia polis mining company in in mexico parsons wanted U A en by to induce the man named by fowler to b buy a y omo 0 of I 1 the companas comp anys bonda bonds aw owenby e by had bad this read merely to show that his his staf standing iding with parsons was different from what parsons stated to the committee lowenb on enby eaid said his contract arrangements with donald were vex bat witness was to nive give all the information be he could possibly get bis his personal expenses were ere to be pail paid and he waa was to share and share alike with those who went into the purchase 0 of I 1 silver donald was to carry silver ell ver for him and agreed to carry ounces lor for bisTers his personal onal expenses in washington washing to bo he drew r ew on donald donald never paid witness anything on the silver leal deal witness said donald told him be donald had bad information of six six million ounces of silver being purchased by the five banks and brokerage houses be he had named he ire believed donald named borne some of the persons for whom purchases were mado made and witness mentioned the name of tive live ketchum of new now york as one of them he ile insisted en on this statement and again wanted to give names BO 80 as to make his story clear but payne replied it would be little short ol 01 an outrage to permit the names of of any respectable man to be given unless witness had other than hearsay ay testimony donald owenby said aid told him t the he parties to the silver pool got into a wrangle that he donald had got out of it and therefore could not make anything out of it for witness donald took that method ol 01 repudiating the with witness fether silver purchasers sold out at a and witness feared figured he ought to get 15 cents an ounce on ounces or between and 40 owenby said he also received inform ailon from dvid david T littler bill hall assistant cashier of the hanover bank and J L cunningham canningham of being interested 1 in n silver speculation witness mentioned the names of cogg congressmen owenby ox en by tali he lie bad had no dircie d arg t personal a I 1 knowledge of any congre congressional elonar s liver speculation the statement in correspondent elevens stevens publication that the largest p ol 01 was 0 one of I 1 sena tora tors and new york cap capit 1100 it alieta alista and that it waa was interested to thy the extent of 7 ounces was based bv by witness principally on statements statement made ayr y littler who eaid said the men were freqUent frequenters eril of chamberlains lie ile had stated tar stevens that impecunious congressmen were mere permitted to borrow mone money y on their individual notes without it hOut security for the purpose of carrying silver donald save gave him information n ile alfo o told stevens that cullom teller cannon and others were not in the bool ilia his statement about jool cullom wa wai from personal knowle knowledge ago witness went to senator cullom stated be was interested in silver purchases and in in a polite way Is stated that a number of congressmen w were ere interested senator cullom stopped him at once and told him to go no larl further herl that he be cullom never speculated P at and never would allow any oneto one to carry silver for him the Oat emente made in publication ial b by mr ir stevens were gone over ever care carefully item by ite item mand and witness in each cae case said he bad had made substantially that statement |