Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1890, Page 5

| ! VANDERVOORT KNEW OF IT. He Had Full Knowledge of Curry's Murderous Intention. MORE “OIL ROOM'" DISCLLOSURES. The Composition of ths Jadiciary Committee Not Oalculated to In- spire Confidence~Tho Al- leged Libel Oase, Unraveling the Plot, preliminary hearing of the State against Mr. E. Rosewater, charged with hav mg criminally liveled Paul Vandervoort, was continued before Judge Helsley 1n po lico court yesterday. The evidenco intro- duced was more conclusive in showing that Vandervoort was aware that Mr. Rosewater was 0 be assaulted by Curey and that he rojoiced over the dastardly outrage after its commission. Attorney C. A. Baldwin was ealied for the defense and testitied as follows Exami by Mr. Gannon: Q. Youare a practicing attorney in the city of Omahat A sir. Q. ~How long ou been such prac- tieing attorney ! wenty-one years in Omaha. Q.—I will ask you to state if vou remem. ber the case against Cuery? A.—-Very well, sir, Q.—1 will ask you to stats if you wore _as. socinted with it 1o any way! A.—1 hefed to defend Mr. Curry. 1 will ask you to state, Mr. Baldwin, from your acquaintance with that case, and the investizations you made generally, whether or not Mr. Edward Rosewater, tho defondunt here, had rcasons to believe and has reasonus 1o believe—good reasons—that Mr. Vandervoort and others had something to do with inciting the assault? A.—Well, 1 should say if he knew tho facts that I did, be would certainly have pretty good reason to think 80; yos, sir, Aud these facts were, many of them, known by thccommunity gen- erally, and 1t came out during the trial of the case—that 1s this—now, 1 want to bo understood in conucction with that case. When 1 went int) the defense of that case it ‘was expressly understood by mo--Strickland employed me—that if that assault that was made upon Mr. Rosewater was to be o deadly assault 1 would not as- sist in the defense; but I was ured by Curry and Strickland that the arrangement only wus to give him & good heking: that was the way, and not a deadly zssault; and then I asked them why in God's name did you have this billyin your ot; now, Curry, I won't defend you if you carried that billy—a man that woighed 240 pounds—to lick Rosewater. He said it ‘was there by accident, aud he did not intend to strike him with it, and on that condition I will blead guilty to a violent assault and bat- tery—but if you did not intend any wore, then | will defend you for the murderous as- sault, and I did. Q.—I understaud you, trom all you learned about the case Mr. Rosewater had zood rea- son to believe and has good reason to believe that this assault, whether deadly or other- wise, wus incited by Mr. Vandervoort and others! A.—That it was talked over by them; yes, sir—talked over by them before it oceurred. Cross-examination. Questions by Mr*Ma- honey: Q.—Mr. Balwin, you counselled with Mr. Curry as his attorney in that case! A.— 1did; ves, sir, Q.—A great deal of the information you have, or whatever—the principal information wliave respecting that case you got us a result of your counselliug with Mr, Curry as his attorney! A.—Yes, sir. 1 got it origin- ally from Strickland. Q.—As your nssociate conosel! A.—As assocuate counsel from Strickland. Strick- lana was appointed by the court. I was not, Strickland died. You do not know him. Strickland got me to help him, and what I knew about it in the tirst place before I was cngaged in the defense I knew from Strick- land. ‘Then I was not content at all. I went and talked with Curry in jail and then I knew from Curry, andall I know about 1t— Inever talked with these parties of whom you spoals 1n vegard to it; what I got I got from Strickland and Curry, Q—And from no one else! A.—No, I would not say from no one else. No, I got it from lots of other sources, you know. I got it from Porter; 1 gotit from the investi- gm.mn that was goiug on; I got it from ‘offey: I got it from lots of other sources, you know. Q.—Coffey was a co-defendunt of Curry's? A.—Yes, sir. —You defended Coffey also? A.—Yes, sir; but wo only made it assault and battery i his case. Q—And the information you got from Mr, Strickland and from Curry and from Coffey before the trial and during the trial was imparted to you in a professional capacity! A.—Yes, sir. Q.—Now, that is information that Mr, Roscwater does not know of and canuot know of, 1sn't 1t? A.—What} Q.—That is informution that Mr. Rose- water does not know of and cannot kuow! A.—Ob, I'would think differently; it was publi¢ notoriety, those things; I am not tell- ng—I um not speaking- - The information that came to you from Btricklund, Curry and Coffey was informa- tion imparted to you professionally? A. Some of it was and some of it was public no- toriety; yes, sir, - Q.—The information that was imparted to You professionally by Curry, Strickland and Coffey is information which Mr. Rosewater has not received and cannot recoive, isn’t that ~truet A.—Some of it and some of it is not. Yes, Mr. Rosewater could not have known—yes, he could have; Ttold it in court to the jury; and all I was going to say he could not have known was that the intention was uotto make a deadly assault—no, sir. I will tell you—during the trial of that case I believe } fought it just the best [ could; I toid all [ knew—I balieve 1told all I knew, aud perhaps more |laugh- terl. Yes, sir; thutis honest, I tried to save Curry from the ppnitentiary, and I will tell you now that it was ouly upon the ex- press condition—I told Curry If “there was any arrangement to make a deadly assault upon Rosewater I won't defend you;” if the arravcoment was to fio and give hum. know what I said—*a hell of a licking" — something like that—then it was a brutal operation and you are not guilty of assault with iutent to kill. Now, I says, you are not; Idespise both, but au assault and battery ‘not un ussault with intent to kill; and I gued it in the supreme court on just that pnnmg’ls. By Mr. Gannon: QY You took it to the A.—Yer 1o try 1t any more. We got only $75 allowed from the "state for defending him, and Stiickland fell down and broke his arm; 1 went and signed Strickland’s name for the money, the commissioners allowed it Satur- duy—1 went up and signed Strickland's name, per C, A. Baldwin—wkich is on record now—carried the money up and laid it on Strickland’s bed, and he had it all; and then the next time I was not willing w defend bim uvless I was ussigned; and Strickland was one of these kind of fellows that could coax me to do most anything, and Lesaid *'go on defend it, and you shall have the balance of the puy.” The balance of the pay was bnll{ 835, but Strickland ot that. by Mr. Mahoaey : %—Ynu defended ham the second time! "A.—Yes, air. . —When you took charge of that case you took charge of 1t on the understanding there ‘Was not suy assault contemplated except to Erotify an assault and battery! A.—That is Whut Curry toid me; yes, sir. Q—And that was your impression? A. ~Impi I knew all ubout 1s; and if ne bado’! that slungsbot he would bave been flued for assault aud battery—he would :: Ve been seut to jail, and iv would 1ot buve depleted hus ol vory much. ‘Then your understanding was that there was no deadly assault iutended tuere 7 that assault was mude! A.—My " understanding was that Curry did not in- tend 4 deadly assault, not oue minute; now, that is what Curry tells we; whother Le wesnt o kill him or not I do uot know; but that is what he made me believe, us his at- " torney, that he never intended anything only _ t give bun a Jicklag. Q.—You have belisved that all the time? A.—Oh, Iargued it 50 loug t wroug | have got the opinion that— ., Q.~Al that fourtoen years you have be- heved thati A.—I will tell you, I do how- estly thiuk s0; I do houesily think that | arrest] Curry originally intendod only to give him a lioking, Mr. Gaunon: Q.—Mr. Baldwin, as a lawyer, u know if one man incites another to the commission of an agiravated assauit und ho commits murder—if he has been in- cited—will you tell the court the punishment meted out to the party who incites him. A.—The court would not ask me. By Mr. Mahouey : Q.—Mr, Baldwin, what have been your reiations to_Mr. Rosewater enerally, “friendly! A.—Waell, sometimes riendly and sometimes—now, twenty years ago—eighteon vears ago Wwe wers very friendly; then thore was a time when he pitched into me; that makes me—that would mako me spunky for a time; and he never pitched into me—he never did me any wron, until after T defended Curry—and [ ney blamed him for it, and I do not now. We are just on ordinary business speaking torms. 1 go and look at his boautifal place and tell him it is nice; [ never did any law business for him in my life, and none against bim. Q.—Your personal relations with him at the present time are friendly! ~Yes, sir, friendly; they are, as any man_in town, al though 1 have no busi transactions, pt | have taken Tun ever sinco it was fourteen incties by seven. MR, ROSEWATER'S TESTIMONY. Mr. Rosewater was recalled and testified : xamined by Mr. Gannon—Q.—Mr. Rose water, Lhere was somothing said int Toss. examination of Mr, Sumner Johnoss ahout ving Lincoln after you proferred harges. Will yon pleass explain to the court about that?” A.--1 had made cer- tain ardangements some time provious to the adjournment, or rather supposed adjourn- wment of the legislature —which was -ordi- narily to last forty days—to go to Cleveland and meet my brothers there, who had quite an interest in Tie Ber, and the purpose was to arrange with them to join me in deeding the propeaty which at that time was owned by Tnr Bee Publishing company to the new company, called The Hee Buildiug com- pany, for the ccnstruction of The Bee build- g, and also with a view to procuring the necessary losu or makiog arrangements to carry on the construction of that building. ‘I'hat was my purpose in going from Lin- coln, Q.—I1 will ask you to state whether or not ¥ou had announced your purpose previous to that time? A.—IL had anoounced it; 1t was well known in the oftice and by Mr. Johnson and other employes who weroe working at Lincoln for me—that is, before the adjourn- ment, or rather before the ordinary session was expected to adjourn. I also notified the chairman of the committee. By the court—What committee was this? A.—1It was the investigating committeo ap~ pointed by the speaker of the house of repre- sentatives to ascortain the trush or falsity of cuarges which I had preferred in gonoral terms against the judiciary committee of the house. I had charged the judiciary commit- tee of the house with being in collusion with parties who wore trylag to defeat the anti- gambling law and contractors who were down there trying to get the ch r that had been passed by the senate mutilated in the Louse and defeated, and I charged at that time that this was done corruptly and by conspiracy of the parties ougaged in ma-~ nipulating the charter. When the commit- ‘tee was appointed by the speaker they re- tired into one of the committee rooms above the house and I was called for—subpwnad to appear bofore them. I there gave them an outline, or rather placed in their hands a written statement covering the sources of my information and an outline of alt the facus that 1 expected to prove to sustain the charges. Q.—Did_you give them the names of the witnesses! A.—I don’t think [ did. I simply stated that T would bring those witnesses or et thom there. I stated the facts—the cir- cumstances that showed a collusion of mem- bers of the judiciary committee with gam- blers and with other parties, and after hav- ing furnished that statement to the commit~ tee, the committee took arecess. Ihat niyht a caucus, or rather a meeting, was hetd by the lobby and the parties in the legislature who were acting in concert for defeating the gambling bill and other legislation; and they arranged that the next morning a mo- tion should be made to add to the committee a number sufficient to give their side—the *‘boodlers’ side, as I would call it—tho pres ponderance. The next day that was carried out, the committee was enlarged so as to absolutely control the action of the commit- tee; aud thereupon the committes, after 1t had been thus reorganized, decided to hoid their sessions with open doors, ana let me come in and give the names of my witnesses, lot the subpoenaes be issued in pulio_and make, ns L thought, a perfect farce of the whole proceeding. The very next day the legislature adjourned, and many mombers went to Omana to attend the anuual meet- ing of the Grand Army. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Dempster, came up to Omaha. 1 took him into my office and there gave him the names of the members and everything, verbally. 1 stated to him, ever, that 1 did not belicve it was possibla now, with the open door arrangement, to get all the witnesses upon whom I relied either to testify, or in fact get them subpenaed. Quite a number of these witnesses would have been implicated themselves and it would not stanad to reason that the parties implicated who had contributed money to the fuud that had been raised for tha defeat of the bill and parties who had been in con- ferenca with ~ tho judiciary commit- toe would—if they were asked fo tell it in open court—have given any information. In fact, thoy could have crossed the river at Council Bluffs aud avoid a subpena at any tume, as soon as the committee decided to hold sessions openly. ‘The chairman talked that over with me and I told him, furthermore, that I was going.on to Cleveland and would be gone porhavs ten days, or porhaps less—a week possibly—and that if they sull persisted in carrying on the investigation and there was any hopo of getting car witnesses 1 would proceed with it. Q—What if anything did you say to_him about sending you a teleeram? A.—I did not say anything to him; 1 sent ono myself. On my return, when L reached Chicago, L saw in the Chicago Times a tolegram stating that the house of representatives had cen- sured me und passed 4 resolution barring me from the floor, although I am an ex-member and entitled at all times to the floor, Lhis report was false, but acting upoun that re- port, 1 imwediately mlsfrlphed to the speaker of the house that 1 was on my way buck and -would return to Lincoln within forty-eight hours and go before the commit- tee and as nearly as possible try to substan- tiato my charges, After 1 got to Omaha I received a response from tne speaker that the house had already practically tabled the whole busincss and that my presence at Lincoln was no longer required. These al the facts in connecsion with the anti-gam bling bill. Q.—So, as a matter of any suggestion that you went away to avoid a subpeeua is not truet A.—It s {err«nl preposterous, because the speaker kuew about it and the chairman of the committes knew about mfi golng, and the speaker was acting 1o fu «concert with me in this whole matter, Ihad notitled the speaker when that snti-gambling bill passed the seuvate that there was no doubt there was afund being raised and that they were going to have a hoodlo gang in the lobby to interfere with legislation; and it was agreed upon that tho bill would be roferred to the committee; and I was in coustant accord with the speaker in looking llpul,:leu partios that were being tampered with, Q. —Who was the s) er of the house at that time? A.—Mr, Harlan, —~You published at that time all you ew about this mattert A.—I did not pub- hish all I knew; I published a great deal that I'knew; I did not give the names of parvies; I simply published, after I returned and theso charges were made that [ had triea to ran sway—I published, I think, over my own name & general atatement covering the fac that 1 had gone before the committee an given them the information, that the chair- man allowed me to withd: my paper at mhovn request because that paper might be misused when the committeo was enlarged. That paper contaived an account of the ‘whole wnnpiru{. . ~Were you in the city of Omata at the time the charges wera made for which you qaused Mr. Vandervoort's ana Mr, Wilcox’s A.—I was in the city that wmoraing, yes sir; that day. Q.—Whaere did you gothen! A,—The very first thing I did after breakfass was to go to the office, and just as soon as I picked up the Repudlican and saw this thing I picked up wy hat and put on my overcost and started right dowa for the office of County Attoruey Matoney wnd requested vhat au ivformation be X s alleged 1ib i agawst Mr. Vander- voort is contained i the article which Mr, Mabloney offered in evidencel A.—It is in Tue Omana Beg of January 8, 1890, Q.—And it was intended as a reply to the attuck made upon you tue day before by Mr. Vaudervoort in the columos of the itepubli- Caui A,--liwas inteaded ia wae first viace OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY A8 A roply to a 80) of letters that had ap peared over the name ot Vaondervoort and ver the name of Broatch and also some anonymous letters that I believed Vander- voort wrote—that have all the earmarks of his, that appeared in the Republican. . —\Whero were you when those letters appeared! A.—The first letter abpeared 1 think on December 6, in the morning. 1 was leaving the city on that aftornoon, as I had very urgent business o go cast, and could not reply. The otter letters wore all published after I had been away from here, during my teip to Chicago, Washington and New York. Q.—And this article wus a general reply to ali the charges! A.—This ariicle was a genoral reply to cover practically the main points that had been made. Mr. Vander- voort, for instance, had charged me with going to Wisner on the train that had a ogation to escort the body of Frank Welch to Omaha fora public funeral; he chargod that [ had pursued Welch to his death, got on the train and came near being mobbed at Wisner by the people of Wisner, And on that point I simply stated that there was not scintilla of truth in it, because I had never been in Wisner; never got off at that town 1 my lhfe; never had been on that train going to Wisner; had never any thin, to do with that transaction or pre- transaction. That is one of the in- tal things. There were other mattors rolating to the oity that I replied to, . Q.—1 will ask you to state—there may be an objection, but you will wait for it 80 as to shut off somo unfair newspaper comments— was thero any truth whatever in_ the chargo made by Vandervoort against you for which you had him wrrested! A.—There is not. Cross-examination—By Mr. Mahoney—Q. —Mr. Rosewater, you don't mean to say that this article published in Tur Bee on January 8 was in reply to the article published in the Republican on January 4, do you! A.--No, it was in reply to articles—a number of them —-that had been published during my ab- sence, whilo I was east. Q.—That is, it was a roply to articles which you considered” werc attacks upon yourself personally? A.—Well, they were articles misrepresenting a great many mat- tors 1 which the general public here had an interest. -the question of the public building and the city printing and 8 number of mat- tors of that character in which charges had been made or misstatements had been made h I wos more or less mixed up or to bo mixed up. = Q.—When vou wrote this article of Jan. or which appeared in Tis Ber of January 3, it was for the purpose of re- pelling the charges “which had been made aguinst yourself | A, —It was really for the purpose, in the main, of setting the vublic mind correctly upon these matters that had been misstated here while I was gone, Q.—So far as they relate to yourself per- sonally? A.~—No, sir; so far as they related to the public aiso. For mstance, the city printing was a question in which the public was interested, because it was charged that T haa got through or tried to get through a fraudulent contract in the matter of the city printing, and'it was charged that tho city had been robbed in some way during the time Tue Bee had tho official advertising, and 1t was charged that Architect Myers, who had been tho first architect of the pro- posed city hall building, bad cost the city a very largo sum of money. and that the losses waich the city sustained by reason of the various changes that had been made by tho two or three succeeding councils were more or less due to Myers. And there was also the Dodlin granite that incidentally came in, in which ‘i Bee mentioned that the coun- cil bus been manipulated and had caused a necdless waste of at least $4,000 iu the ex- penditure of money for the foundation and cijy hall basement. Q.—That article of January 3 was written for the purpose of correcting the impression that had been created or sought to be created by certain articles appearing in the Republi- can? A.—Well, that was one part. Part of the article was written partly on Broatch, partly on Vandervoort, Q—Yousay it was written for the purpose of correcting o false impression that might have been created by this publication? A.—Mr, Vandervoort is & publicofficial, and I wanted to refer directly to his conduct as a public offcial, and since then as a manipulator of this Dodlin gramte business, and to show that he was not such a person as could bo relied upon, whose statements were not to be relied upon io general and whose conduct was not such as to commend him to the public. Q > you think that to remove the false impression that has been created by those publications in the Republican it was neces- sary to make the attack upon Mr. Vander- voort! A.—If I could show that Mr. Van- Aervoort was a person of disreputable associ- ations, or association, for instance in these oil rooms, which were for the purpose of debaudhing members of the legislature and leading them from their ‘ra(.h of duty to their constituents—if I could show that, it Seems t0 me Was to we very pertinent that he was not a proper person to be trusted here with manipulating our city council and Retting contracts here. That was a very important thing to me, at least I thought so; and the other matter I simpiy replied to, to show his lack of veracity—that he was not such a person as could be relied upon in any shape. Q.—When that committee of the legisla- ture was enlarged, Mr. Rosewater, who had the appointment of the additional members? A.—The bouse: they appointed them. I don't just remember; I was notin Lincoln at the time, [ think after I hud preferred my charges and had been before the com- mittee with closed doors I came up to Omaha that night for some business, with the inten- tion to go back the next morning, When I got back they had already made the chaunge: I dou’t remember whether it was directed by the speaker or not; T think the names were suggested by one’ or two of this gang of conspirators—as I would call them—and that those names were put inthere in pursu- ance of the agreement made that night in the oil rooms, or in the adjacent rooms to the oil rooms. Q,—You do not know, as a matter of fact, that the speaker had been given the power to appoint the additional members? A.--No, sir; for I was not in Lincoln. Q.—If the speaker did have the power to appoint the additional members you would have nothing to fear from the commitiee? A.—That would depend if those members were suggested by the speaker or the floor; they went to work and passed a resolution ordering this investigation to go on with opea doors, and immediately named the addi- tional members. Q —If the speaker had the power—if it was left to the speaker to appoint the addi- tional committeemen—you would have no reason to fear that there would be improper men appointed! A.—Iu the main, yes, Q. —You had confldence in the speaker? A, had geveral confidence In the speaker, but I knew that s number of those who were added belonged to the peculiar combination who were already acting mrel.hsr In every job and in every ctooked thing. Q bpeenas were never Issued for the witnesses to come before that committee? A.—No, sir; except for myself. 'Q.—That was at the time of the first secret session? A,—Yes, sir, Q.—It was not really tricd whether you could get this testimony before the open committeet A.~No, sir; it was never in- unld;:d. becauso it was manifestly a farco and 5 Q—You would not waut to try the men secretly! A.—This was to be an mvestiga- tion* I have been connected with the im- peachment trial of David Butler; I have been connected with a great m-nfl public sud private nvestigations; but when yon want to ascertoin 1n a conspiracy and com- binatiou mude by parties who desire to do auy unlawful acts, you have to do it within closed doors and let each witness come in by himself. When tie doors are open aua every one knows wial every one elss is likely to be charzed with, the criminals will corroborate each other—co-operate with each other, or decamp. We have gone through with the thing u_nuwmber of times in Neobraska legislatures. The secret investi- are of the nature of grand jury. A prosecuting attorney you could not get & man to criminate himseif if ke was brought upon the stand if the answers Lo questions you put to him would make him a : but if you could assure him that be ~ would not criminate himself— that he would not be prosecuted if he gave proj evidence—so to speak turn alates evidence—you ean gethim. And that is what I oxpectod to do with the investigation— that tho men separated from each other wogw tell the truth und give away the se- crots. Q.~Then the purpose was to get the testi- mouy in secret of the accomplices? A.—Yes, sir, parties who had contributed to the fund sud parties who had conferred with mewm- bers of the legislature—to gel the exaou e, ol Q. —What was that commistee expected to do—was it uot expected to make a report which would practically blast the reputation ot certaln meu! - A.-—That comuwitteo was expected to thoroughiy (avestigate or sift all the acts, send for sych witnesses na thoy could flud within reach of a subpena and when thoy got everytultg down to bedrock thoy were expected 40 report to the house whether or not _any momber of the house had corruptly gono into any conspiracy with parties to defeat legisiation, or whethor any member of the house bad been bribed or re- ceived promises of bribos—brived for the purpose of defeating ‘logislation pending ia tuat house. ~That was in_effect trying and con demning those men by secret tribunals? A. ‘That 18 dono all the country over. Con- gress docs the same thing, Q.—Would it not hi' in effoor, trying and condemning those porsons who were mem- bors of the legislatur by secrot tribunalst A.—No, sir, L deny that; after the investi- @ator’s report there is a trial. When wo im- peached David Butler the house of represen- tatives prosented articlos of impeachment, and upon what! Upon testimony got within doors, and after that testimony had beon thoroughly sifted and procured we cited David Butler into open doors to defend him- self, and then we convicted him in open court, where he had a chance to defend hims self, the samo as any oth soner. Q —Mr, Vandorvoort was never connected in any way with those chargos you preferred against the judicial committee! A.—~He was simply working with them indirectly to defeatall Ingislution, and I was informed at the time that he worked with them to have this house thrown open, and worked on mt-;nlwrn in that way. [iwas not thore my- self. Q. —All you know of that was a matter of heresay? “A,—Yes, sir, Q.—You don't know personally of a single fact to connect Mr. Vandervoort with tne charges which you made against the judi- clary committeo! A.—No, sir. I have not charged it in tho paper cither. Q.—You were not in favor of the passago of tho anti-gambling bill, were you! A.—I was in favor of the bill. Q.—You were in favor of the passage of the bill A.—Yes, sir. Q.—Was Tne in favor of - the bill at that time! A.—I doa't know; I don's know what Tue Bee said, becanse we were carry- g on a very extensive line of investigutions at that period and probably sawd nothing, be- cause I had three or four men employed at the time to investigate® and ferret out the conduct of these mombers who were con- nected with boodle schemes, Q.—Was it at your suggestion that it went to the judiciary committee! A.—I talked it over with the speaker and suwgested to him that it go to the judiciary committee. Why did you want it to go to the judi- ciary committeo! A.—Because [ had no con- fidence in the committee and expected to got to the bottom of the scuemes of a lot of boodlors down there. Q.—It was arranged between yourself and the speaker that the bill should be referred 10 the committee in which you had no confi- dence at alli A—Well, I don’t know what the spoaker thought, I only know what I thought. Q.—In which you had no confidence? A.— Yes sir, I had no confidence in the commit- tee; Ihad, in fact, had means 1o see that it was not straight. Q.—Was that the same committee in whose hands tho Omaba charter had gone? A.— Yes sir, that was the samo committee; they had quite & number of things, Q.—That committes was originally ap - pointed by the speaker, was it uot? A.—Yes sir, that committes was originally appointed by the speaker and the chairman was ap- pointed at my instance. Q.—Who was tho chairman, Mr. Russellt A.ZMr. Russell; yes, sir, Q.—Did you suggest Mr. Russell because of any particular confidence you had in him? A.—Mr. Russell had ¢ollea on me and asked that I should write a letter to Mr. Harlan requesting him to appoint him chairman, This was before the house had orgauized and it was generully uriderstood that Harlan would be tho speaker. I wrote such a letter, but subsequently changed my mind about Russell, Q.—Did you change your mind before he was appointed? A.—No, sir; I did not know anything about him except that he had passed for a colonel, although he was never anything more than a private, Q.—Passea for what! A,—Fora colonel. Irecommended him as Colonel Russeil. Q.—Were any of the other members of the commiitee appointed at your susgestion? A.—No, sir, [ had nothing to do with the balance of them. Ay Mr. Gannoa—You recommended him at that time out of the goodness of your heart, and becauso he was a colonel? A.—In general. He had made a great many pledges 10 the people where o was elected. In fact, he had applied to me for assistance to get elected and I wrote some articles favorable to him I think. He had been generally pledged out there to be a good anti-monopo list, Van Wyck republican, and upon the strength of that and his request I wrote this letuer. Q.—You found him out after that; he was apledge breaker! A.—Yes, sir; 1 found ouf. afterwards that he was a rogue, By Mr. Mahoney—He was a Van Wyck republican, was he mnot, Mr. Rosewateri A.—Oh, he was a galvanized Van Wyck re- publican—he was an anti-Van Wyck repub- h‘::]un inside and a Van Wyck republican out- side. Q.—Do you know who alvanized him? A.—I suppose John M. Thurston and several others—who galvanized him into that. Q.—Who galvanized him—you refer to the Van Wyck galvanism? A.—The people of Colfax county. He could not be elected un- less he haa put on tnat coat. Q.—+He wore that coat all through the sen- atorial contest? A.—Siwply a wolf insheep's clothing. He had played that on the people until he got elected. Q.—Did he not vote for Van Wyck on every ballot for senator! A.—Hoe was pledged to vote for Van Wyck, yos sir, but he associated with the "anti-Van Wyck fellows and gave them all the inside informa- tion. Q.—Then a great many of those Vi Wyck men fell from gracei A,—Yes, there was testimony here to that effoct. Boodle will do & great many things, 7.1 HAYNES TESTIMONY. J. B. Haynes of Tie Beg testified that he the senate, session of 1887, for Tur w Vandervoort about the house and Rroat deal, apparently having busi- ness with members; knew what an o1l room is: saw one in the bascment of the capitol bullding; was in it; it was reached by a dark subway: the room was dingy und dusty— looked like an abandoned engine room; it was entered vhrough a crude slab-board door: & carpenter’s bench stood slong oue side of the room, upon which there were cases of beer and empty beer bottles; there wero also bottles of whisky, wine glasses and cigars to bo seen; there was an attendant barkeeper, whileé '8 man named Sahler did the honors when witness was in the room; several per- sons were present and all were invited to drink by Sabler; had heard Sahles was a lobbyist; witness knew of the existeice of the oil room some time before he saw it, which was near the end of the session. Wit~ neas was connected with the Union Pucifio road ns stenographer for General Ticket Agent Stebbins from 1851 to about 1886; part, of that time Vandervoort was connected with the passenger depantment; was told he drew a salary; saw, him sbout the ofiice frequently. , On cross-examination witness said he was in another oil room iui the capif building; it Was upstairs in the house wing—in an un. furnisbed committea, xoom; was uot in charge of a barkeepes;, there were whisky decanters on the mantsl and tkree or four cases of beer on the talle; the man who led witness to tho room had'a key and with it Raived admittance. Mr. A. G. Dahlstrom testified that he had lived in Omaha twenwdwo years. He was @ mail carrier at the tme Curry made his assault upon Mr, Rosewater, Ou the follow- ing day he, while workiyg at & mail table, overheard Vaudervoorty Reynolds, a postal clerk. and Dan Parmale# talking of the as- sault. Vaodervoort wds laughing over the assault and talking about it being a great Joke on Rosewater. y were glad he had a head g:t on him. Mr, Dahlstrom could not remember just the words that were used but was very confident tust they were making fun of Mr. Rosewater and expressing satis- faction that he had been assaulted, Al Fairbrother of World-Herald testi- fied that he was in Lincolo in the amlvln,v of ‘'me Bes during the session of the legisla- turo in 1887, and saw Vanaeryoort there al- most continually, He knew of the ‘“oil rouws,” aud had been in the but was not familiar with their operations, as he was not on the grouand floor. He was with Mr. RHosewater on that day that Caldwell bud beeo reported to have threatenca to kill Mr. Rosewater. Sumoer Johnson, @ re- porter for Tus Bes, bhad given Mr, Rose- water a uote explaining Caldwell's hreat. Mr. Fairbrother bad seen that note. 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