The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18, 1899. Hght, and it has been tele- jetor of the paper. es. and; 1 says, to You any fa- will not/do 1t Well, ¥ vioient and made killing people and Y “You had beiter teil the “Th ness—“Well, thag is just about said i the thing w kill me, and I satd ving the matter at got the door locked here, 0 be published.” He savs: ) and have you a 1at part of it I can only tell you this lshed as 1 am telling brought up this ont, I told flice and consult rietor of the paper on the i would be back in half passed_out and left him 1 ar r. Simpson. Mr. and 1 told him 1T would return s \fter some conversation was put on the wire and sent not go back to the hotel that I recelv information Mr. Herrin v recelved it Young in San Fr: a 1d me, he said, 1@ he t le Young told would vote for was ked him formation nans I told would be nd my unde re_opposed Mr. Wright ix money.’ vou during er thera and as > htm $800.”" is that told y hig office in i rancisco?"” = his office is, to know what Green, you, Mr. e the com- hat'”— at’— did Mr. with this d you suggested gave Pringle ght, and then » remark that he vhat disposition he got from me to 2Nt ha tha rd fight over at one expres- ust poured the e had to pay Prin- escribe to you the the campaign was con- ems for which he you that he “*And he got $16507 1 asked him the amount. Green did not give but when I.asked he said it was over he told you, Mr. did he he tell you dlrectly re- whose money 2" w. t ct term he to go to Her- ed him not to __he say whether for the ~money re- Did he sav whether he gav 1pts for the money receivedsn o o) A.—' No, sir. 1 did not ask him those questions, and he did not voluntesr it." Aty ie did make any e to Grant—getting money . _He said he prom- - Grant: he confd not said—or was talking he said he was K to Mr. Grant. He the money from ¢ promise that he would 1 said Mr Now Grant was given 't given any dates the mone I hav e dutes,"” “I want to know whether or different dates.’” was $200 and I do not know what the amount was; afterward $100. and the; n i $400, o n he told me ahout this Sutter Club transac. tion. and-Mr. Green did not tell me the amount at t time, Lut he said it was a 1=and dollars, I told. he told you thi talk?"” ¥ it » vou related ail the conversa- you have had with Mr. Gre this subjes i ith him. I \rticularly upon this if that i on I have had several talks v that it bears w 2ny written evidences such transaction s vou have e between Mr. Green and Mr. I have not.” Q. —*'Does not the charge in The Call in- volve a statement that there was written evidence?” : A ter asking iim to do this, and he told me e had the man's receipt for the morey, » Mr, Wright's nam J.‘A,\h d e -, also,that he had exhibited those receipts and letters, that ccoipt apd lette: bk 4éon't thir ‘T don’t befleve Mr. 7 think I|date of the Alameda convention—the nom- | just on the stand? vou will suppress | natin ngt publish almost sure'I can get | “Wright, I don’t think irns_out of/this fight: 1 cannpt suppress | mpson af ~ Chroni- | ng out of the room. 1 s and Mr. Burke. We ) [ pa Q. > | stand it_besides is ‘one other | 1 asked this things suggest. | 1im about this re- in, ‘I intended vl advised went to Grant's rs_or Grant's | we want, of course, Green told me he had nis lel»r Mr. Lardner—"Do you remember the convention?'" A.—"No, sir; I do not. I know about the affairs over there and I did not know | who Mr. Pringle was, or what office he was for, or anything of the kind. I don't know him now. . I hav 3 he was a candidate—that he was a Coun | cllman or something like that. Mr. Sanford—‘Wright told you, then that he agreed to vote for Grant for Sen- | ator for this money A.—*“He told me be had agreed to vote | for Mr. Grant, and that, as he could not under the circumstances he felt that he ought to return the money, and he was | 8olng to do so.” 23 | Q.—*Green told you the same thing? A—“Te did; said he was always for im; came_ there and told him he was in favor-of Grant, and was going to vote for him." Mr. Robert T. Devlin—"If I may be per- | mitted to ask, was the agreement to Vote | for Grant a consideration for giving this money—yon ask the question? Mr. Sanford—"That was the considera- tion, n't 3627 The witness—*He did not put it that | way. He sald he agreed to vote for 3ir. Srant, and went there for assistance, and got this money and. as he could not now vote for him—could not keep his V"Onl with Lim—he felt that he ought not to keep the money. A\Irr)'. l'\r-vlm— n any conversatlon that any vou had with Mr. Wright did he say that ‘hp had received money from Mr. Grant in consideration for casting his | Senator?” | A.—"He | from Mr. G Q.—"In a never told me he got money ant at all.” - conversation did he say he money from Mr. Green in of casting his vote for | had received | consideration | Senator?” A.—"He told me he received this money | through Mr. Green, and that he had promised to vote for Mr. Grant, and that | as he ould not, he would return the mone: | Q—"Did he say | ceived from Green wa | his voting for Grant A.—“He put it in as strong terms as that.” Q that this money re- in consideration of 2 in words. Now, Ve you anything else in this matter, ex- pt what you state, based upon the con- ersations between Mr. Green and Mr. 'right?"" AN got the information direct from Green and Mr. Wright,” Q.—“That is the only information that you have upon the subject?” 1 don’t know as I have any other lence as good as that.” “\,as anybody present, or have you | any other evidence? / only what he has told other | Q.—"So far as you are concerned, that is based upon the conversations with Mr. Wright and with Mr. Green in the con- anybody else present besides you and fr. Wright?” The they ked to see me alone—called om the members of the staff. Yot in a position where me away | Q—"Then nobody heard the conversa- tion except the parties—you and Mr. Wright?” : A.—"T don’t know that they heard it | Part of our conversations were held in the room. where there were ozen re- . but they were all bus Q.—*In the conversation with Mr. Green | was anybody present besides you and Mr. ot engaged in conversation. “Did anybody else hear it or under- u and Mr. Green? knowledge.” ., in_The Call ‘He ' (referring to Mellick— morning it Wright) told the story of his wrongs to several persons, among others being two esentatives of this paper and was un- sparing In his condemnation of a man who. having sold his honor, refused to abide by the bargain he had made. A.—"Who does that refer to? h, Green. That it became known that Wright had taken Grant's He did tell that to several peo- Q.—*“And who was the other represent- ative of The Call? It says “Two repre- Sentatives of this paper.” Was one of them SIS A g the othes —+And who was the R My understanding is that he told Mr. Burke practically the same thing— that he was a confidential operating — | —— —, and told, I don’t know whether ‘mond or_somte of the others.”” | "The chalrman—*If I did not misunder- stand you, Mr. Leake, you say that, at the time that you had this conversation with Mr. Wright, and he told you about | having recejved this money, that you al- ready had information of that fact? A.—“1 had it from Mr. Green. —*Oh.” R =\ Green had told me betore I had | that conversation.” Q.—"The first knowledge you had was from Mr. Green?” A.—"T charged Mr. Wright with recely- ing the money. He admitted it. He did | not tell me voluntarily.” . Q.—"You escape the point. A.—'Excuse me.” Q.—"Had you any information in your possession of this transaction prior to vour talk with Mr, Green and Mr. Wright or either of them?” — . de Young told me." Q.—Oh, 3y . Mr. de Young told you nothing of his having received money Irxm Grant?” . 0; but he said he got the money from another man, but did not tell me who the other man was. He told me about the Herrin proposition—about play- ing both ends against the middle.” §ir.” Deviin 1 would like to ask the witness one more question about Mr. Green. Did Mr. Green, in any conversa- tlon with you, say that he had ~iven money to Mr. Wright in consideration of | Mr. \wright voting for Mr. Grant for | Senator?” | "A—"Gave it to him with the under- | standing that he was to vote for Mr. | Grant: told me that explicitly: no ques- tion about It, because Mr. Green was a bécause he had gone back on | pretty m | Bis woras Mr. Mc! | fled that Mr. Wright, when he met in the Golden Eagle Hotel, just vou had_ received his message from Burke, told you he wanted to see you alone. In whose company were you? A.—"“Mr. Levings and Mr. Burke, and— well, there were a hundred® people in there, but there were probably five or six joining in this little beverage.” —“*Who went with you to the Golden nerney—'‘Mr. Leake, you testi- you after Eagle A’?— 1 took Mr. Levings and Mr. Burke for the purpose of hearing the conversa- ton, ang Mr. Wright would not talk to me 'in_their presence.” Mr. McEnerney—“Now, then, I suggest to you, gentlemen, .f you have a copy of that Call of last Saturday morning Sun- day morning—that you let Mr. ~Leake have it. He may have overlooked some- thing. The matter was then fresh in his emory."” M he chatrman—*“That Is satis.actory to me. I don’t want to look through it. The witness (after examining paper— “This does not suggest anything now.” The chairman—""There is nothing on the other stde, 1 guess. 1 read that principal “No, I don’t thunk of anything now, ! . Chairman.’ M'x‘:hec chairman—"Will you gentlemen of the committee have anything further to quire_into?” m.\'lur{rBacon— ‘May I ask a question?"” The chairman—"Certainly, Mr. Bacon.” Mr. Bacon—"Mr. Green. in his conver- sation with you on Friday night, as I understood you, sald that prior to the ayment of any money by him to Mr. (‘\'h 1t, that he went to 'his office one time and found Mr. Wright there?” A.—*Mr. Green was temporarily absent, and when he got back he found Mr. Wright there” | MILTON J. GREEN’S TESTIMONY. Milton J. Green, being duly sworn, tes- titied as follows: o The chairman (Q)—"Mr. Green, are you acquainted with the Hon. ¥oward = E. Wright & s, sir. “And with the Hon. U. 8. Grant A—"Yes, sir.” Q—What business you bear to Mr. Gra: 1 " A—"Well, I suppose I am his attorney | and political manager—one of them.” ‘The manager of his candidacy for the United States Senate. A-—"Yes, sir.” “By the way, what is your name? There has been some alspute about your ey Siton 3. “J. on J." at San Francisco?”’ relation, if any, do nt?"” since learned that | vote for | | ous epithets. ar all he sald, because he | | had become very wel acquainted with | him; that his record in the embly two ‘years ago was a creditable one, and cersations that you had with Mr. Wright, | | in Senator Perkins’ campaign, and that I And then t I had | been very friendly to Mr. Wright, and knowing that he had expressed himself as friendl Grant_in_his aspira- | the Q—"Do you know Mr. Leake, who was A—*Yes, sir; I know him. I met him since 1 came to Sacramento.” “Do you remember of having met Mr. Leake in the Del Paso saloon in this city a few days ago?’ A.—"I was in there with him one even- ing. Yes, sir.” .—*Do you remember the substance of the conversation that yoy had there with im?” Well, T would not undertake to give 1t. "No, sir.” | “You remember a part of 1t?" A.—"'Yes, sir. Q.—“Will you kindly state what was the | subject of your conversdtion, and what was there said between you and Mr. Leake A.—'“Well, T don’t know. I didn't charge my mind with the conversation, but as I recollect it was that—I think we were dis- cussing Mr. Wright and _his attitude on the Senatorial! question. The fact that he had voted for Mr. Bulla in the first and second ballots and afterward changed to Colonel Burns.” Q.—"'Speak little louder, please.” A.—“We were discussing Mr. Wright and the action he took in voting.” Q.—"Now. what was said by you and by him on that occasion. You have only stated the subject matter of your conver- sation.” A.—"Well, Mr. Leake used some very harsh terms regarding Mr. Wright."” Q.—""Can you state those terms?" A.—"I wouldn't undertake to say what they were: but they were :f)probfl- And I think I stated to him in substance that Mr. Wright originally had been friendly to Mr. Grant, and that | afterwards b; %ls vote had shown a change of heart, in voting for Mr. Bulla and subsequently changing from Mr. Bulla to Mr. Burns. And I think I termed him a political harlot. And Mr. Leake wanted to know if Mr. Wright had ever Pledfefl himself to Mr. Grant, and I said no; but that he had expressed a friendly feeling for Mr. Grant upon various occa- sions—not only to me, but to other peo- ple—to mutual friends, I think I went on to state that Mr. Wright met Mr. Grant about a vear ago and knew that he was a candidate for Senator, and that he went to lunch with him at the Palace Hotel, at the grill room; and a few days after I understood that Mr. Wright had ex- Pressetl himself on the Oakland boat as being charmed with Mr. Grant. and that if he was elected to the Legislature it would give him a good deal of pleasure to vote for Mr. Grant. I told Mr. Leake that I had been a friend of Mr. Wright dating back to the Senatorial campaign of two years ago when he was interested now that he was a man of pleasing address and that I understood he expected to go back to the Assembly and was to be Speaker. At about that time the primary election was held in Alameda County, at which the delegates were elected to the County Convention to choose or to nomin- ate the full county ticket; that there was quite a strife in the city of Oakland be- tween various aspirants on the county ticket; that there the wards one or more c: , and com- binations were formed between the vari- S ndidates in different wards in dif- El to Mr. tlons—t s v, I had been friendly to him, and T had met some peo- ple who were_interested In the primary election with Mr. Wright and I had sald that T was willing to make a contribution to_the cause.” "Fhat is, Mr. Wright's cause?” A.—"“Yes, Mr. Wright's cause—the nomi- nation in which Mr. Wright was Interest- ed—and that I did so. But that Mr. Wright had never at any time asked me to do so, and that 1 had never asked Mr. Wright to vote for Mr. Grant at any time in my life and that there had been ng promises on Mr. Wright's part that he would vote for Mr. Grant. 1 think I also told him about a loan I had made Mr. Wright of $750, and probably related the circumstances, which are as follows; I cannot remember the exact date, whether it was before Mr. Wright was nominated or afterward. I received by mail one day a letter written from the Sutter Club in Sacramento, signed by Mr. Wright, stating that he was on his way to ants Pass, Oregon, to close up an im- portant real estate transaction involving about $85.000, and out of which he expect- ed to make a profit of $2000; that he was owing an obligation to a party in Berke- ley which would not fall due until No- vember, but the party had written him a hurried note, stating that it would be a great accommodation if he could meet that obligation at that time. And my recollection is that the letter stated -that he had recefved the word at Sacramento after he had left home, and he asked me as a favor if I could not send my check to this party, or, better stlll, to telephone for the gentleman and have him come to my office and pay him the money and he would refund it to me from his share of profits of this transaction.” Q.—"You say this letter contained that information?" A —*“Yes; this letter. I have not seen the letter since the day it was received, but I am pretty certain I am giving the substance of it. I did send for the party, telephoned for him. He gave me the man’s name and the number of the tele- phone. And the gentleman came over. He was a man I never had seen before and never have seen him since, and I gave him the $750 and took his receipt for it on account of Mr. Wright, and I have that letter and that receipt.” very Q.—“‘Are they present with you?" A.—*No, sir; they are In San Fran- cisco.” Q—"You were served with a_subpena to bring all matters of that kind here. I presume you have not had the opportu- nity to do so?” A.—''No, sir, none at all.” You have not been out of this Q city?” A. .—"No, sir. The subpena was served on me this afternoon about half-past 1. Q.—“Had_you any other conversation with Mr. Leake relative to any money transaction between you and Mr, Wright? .—'‘Nothing, except what I have stated.” >, Q.—'Did guu tell Mr. Leake anything to the effect that the assistance that you had given to Mr. Wright from the primaries on to his eléction was with the under- standing that he should vote for Mr. Grant for United States Senator?” A Zmphatically not. I never told him anything of the sort or anything from which he could draw that inference.” Mr. Mellick—"You told Mr. Leake at that time that it was over $1000 that he had got of you, did yon not?” A.—"“That inciuded ‘the loan, yes sir.” The chairman—*"1 wanted to ask right in that connection, Mr. Mellick, how much money did you contribute toward the candidacy of Mr. Wright in Berke- ley, as you have stated?” A ‘&'ell, I think it was—it was all be- fore the primaries.” Q.—"All before the primaries?" A.—*All before the primaries. I dld not advance any money after the primarles, but to the best of my recollection it was 900, Li “To whom did the money directly go? To Mr. Wright in person? A.—“Well, Mr. Wright talked to me about that to-day, and he was under the impression that it went to his friends in Berkeley. My recollec- tion was that I handed some of that money to Mr. Wright.” Do you know how much?" No; I do mot. 1 cannot remem- Q. ‘Have you any memorandum or re- cord ert v&;il determine that matter?” —*No, sir."” A O.—Whose money was that? A.—Well, it was money that Mr. Grant had given me from time to time to spend in his campaign. 0.—It belonged to that fund, did it? A.—I presume it belonged to L / that fund. Mr. Grant, course, knew nothing of it. 0.—You say you presume it did. As a fact, did it belong to that fund? A.—Mr. Grant, of course, sent me money from time to time, and of course I presume I will have to account for itin some way or other—yes, sir. 0.—And this money that Mr. Grant sent you from time to time, did it have for its pur=- poses anything other than the advancement of his candidacy as a candidate for United States Senator? A.—Yes, sir; he sent me money to buy some stock in a mine in Tuolumne County. 0.—But this money that was expended in Berkeley in the candidacy of the Honorable Speaker of the Assembly was not connected at all with the purchase of mining stock in Tuolumne County, was it? A.—No, no. Q.—'“Now, have you any means, Mr. Green, whereby you could determine the persons to whom you paid the money taat to the Berkeley campaign?” No, 1 cannot. My recollection was that most of it was given to Mr. Wright to deliver to the gentlemen who were In- terested in the fight in Berkeley, and still I am not positive about that. That is my recollection.’” Q.—"“Did Mr. Wright report to you the method in which he had disbursed this sir, I don't think he did.” Q.—Did you understand at the time that this money was expended for the purposes for which it was to be used?” A.—“Well, I think this: I think that I had sald to some people who were inter- ested {n his campaign, who told me that Mr. Wright was a_ candidate—I had said that T was a friend of Mr. Wright's, and I never had asked him how he was going to vote for Senator, and did not_desire any promise or pledge from him—I think I sajd that T was willing to assist him by making a contribution; but what disposi- tion was made of the money of course I don’t know." : Q.—'“What was your object in paying out Mr. Grant's money for Mr. Wright's election?” A.—"To secure the election of a Repub- lican Legislature.” Q.—*. manager for Mr. Grant you ing out money to elect a Repub- <lature?”” A.—Yei e Mr. Mellick—"‘But this was before the i fon was made, Mr. Green?" of Y Q—"The nomination did not have any- thing to do in an overwhelming Repub- lican district with the election of a Re- publican Legislature, did it? A—"“Well, of course it then diffi- cult to tell whether that district would be—whether there would be a fusion in that district or not. Besides that, of course, it was all in the line of the gen- eral purpose of electing a Republican Lr?.lzlslalurc and assisting in the election o “No, it was not in the election. You it was before the primaries? You g ";”tho money before the primaries were o Now, then, you were simply inter- in getting a friend of yours nomi- nated?"” A.—“Well, in that particular case it was a gentleman that I was satisfled was a friend of Mr. Grant's. I never had asked him; I never had extracted a promise from him or a pledge of any sort. But he had expressed himself on numerous occasions as being friendly to Mr, Grant.” Mr. Sanford—*“You would not have advanced the money had you not thought he was friendly to Mr. Grant, would you? A.—“Yes, sir; I think I would.” Mr. Mellick—*Did you advance any for his opponent—a Re- publican ?” A —No, sir.” Mr. Lardner—"Do you know Mr. Prin- gle well?” A.—"1 was introduced to him—well, I met him twice and both times I was In- troduced to him."” Q.—"Do _you know what his greterences were for United States Senator?” .—*“No; I never inquired.” The chairman—*“Had you any con- versation with Mr. Wright _prior to the payment of that money as to how he felt toward Mr. Grant's candidacy? A.—“Oh, ‘Mr. Wright had spoken to me on several occasions. He knew I was in- terested in Mr. Grant and he had spokeh on several occasions—I would meet him at the hotel and sometimes on the boat, | and the subject was brought up and he spoke about Mr. Grant—what a filne gen- tleman he was — and I used this term: That he was a charming gentleman and it would be a very proud thing for him to do—to vote for him If he went to the Legislature.” r. Lardner—“Did I understand that !'1%1 let him have $900 independent of the $750 was the loan Jeu Q.—"$750 was thetloan: $800 independent of that: $1600 in all, Mr. Green.” A.—"That {s my recollection; yes.” —“The $750 was paid to Mr. Yeazell and 390 was the contributlon you spoke - —""Yes, Yeazell. I suppose that is the name. It was a_very peculiar never had seen it before in print.” .—*Was that loan of 3750 made after Mr. Wright's election to the Assembly or before?"” A.—"Well, that was before.” £ Sanford—"It was after the nomina- A.—"That is my impression, that it was after the nomination.” Mr. Mellick —*“This whole $16560 was Mr.Grant’s money?”’ A.—“Yes, sir; 1 think it was. The $750 was. | think Mr. Grant was in the city at the time | received the letter.”” Mr. Lardner—““Who drew the check? How was the money paid?”’ A.—I think that Mr. Grant drew the check; that is my recollection.”” Q. — “That check?” A.—**No; the $750 check.” Q.—“Did you take any re- ceipt for the $900 contribu- tion?”’ A.—**No, sir. The chairman—"Did Mr. Grant know Is the $900 of your contribution of 3600 to Mr. Wright's candidacy? A—“No, sir; he don't know it to-day.” Q—"Do you manage Mr. Grant's money absolutely upon your own judgment and without any consultation with him as to how it shall be expended in the manage- ment of his Senatorial race?” A—"Yes. Oh, not altogether on my own judgment. Of course there are other gen. tlemen interested with me."” Mellick—“Who are the other gentle- “‘Mr. Brown—Mr. James P. Brown." “And who clse?” ‘Well, T should say that is all.”” Mr. La Baree—“Mr. Shine?" A—“Well, simply as a friend.” Mr. Lardner—*“Was this $300 an absolute gift, or was it ex- pected that it was to be re- paid ?” A.—*“Well, it was a contribu- tion to the fund; don’t expect to be repaid at all.” Mr. Mellick—* hat was to he!p his nom- Ination; not his election?” A. i’es; it was to secure his nomina- tion. ._“And it was a part of the money that was given you by Mr. Grant to f:.ll’lhel’ Mr. Grant's BSenatorial aspira- tions?” A—“Well, I cannot say that way. Mr. . Grant sent me mon There is no particular money that I was to pay out for that or no particular money that I was to pay out for buying mining stock. 'Well, was It for any other purpose Q. that he gave you the money separate from mining stock or for contributions during the legislative campaign?” A.—"No. My recollection i3 that those were the only two purposes.” Q—Well, then, this money, this 8900, was not for the Tuolumne min- ing stock, was it? A—Well, it was not expended for that purpose, no, sir. Q—So it must have been to further his Senatorial aspirations? A—Yes, sir. Q—Now, then, in what way could it further his Senatorial aspirationr? A—Well, here was a gentleman who had been & member of the Legis- lature; he was a candidate for renom- ination, end I had understood from him that if he was elected he expect- ed to be Speaker. He stated to a number of people that if elected to the Assembly he expected to support Mr. Gr:ont. And, while this money was net advanced as a consideration for his voting for Grant, and there was no promise exacted that he would, yet it helped Mr. Grant’s Sen- atorial aspirations by sscuring the nomination of a gentleman who had prviously, and some ttme previously, announced that if elected, he would vote for Mr. Grant. dl%’er“Dm Mr. Wright sr;lo%kg requests at nt times for this s , sir.” .—Were you present at a time when Mr. Wright was in there talking to Mr. Grant and you came in when he wanted $200 to buy Pringle off?” No, sir.” s —'“Were you not present when he got for some such purpose?” A.—"“No, sir. My recollection is, wheth- er he told me or somebody else told me, lhas a portion of this money had been used for the purpose of liguidating Mr. Pringle’s election expenses.’ Q.—"“Was not there a time when Mr. Wright and Mr. Grant were together in the room when you came in, and then, after you came in, he got some money off you?”’ A.—"T don't remember it at all; I don't remember that.” 'Or Mr. Brown?" .—“I don’'t remember. I know that T understood from Mr. Wright or from some one connected with his canvass over there that Mr. Pringle had withdrawn just a day or two prior to the primaries and that Mr. Wright, at the suggestion of some of his friends, had offered to re- fund Mr. Pringle the amount of his cam- palgn expenses.’” Q.—“How came you to give the $900? Was it on the order of Mr. Wright, or did he come to you for {t?" A.—"My recollection is that it was Mr. Wright.' XThe chairman—"At one time or several times?"” A.—"“Well, T think it was on two differ- ent occasions.” Q.—'""And how was it delivered to him? In cash or by check? Or otherwise?"” A.—"It must have been cash; that is my recollection.” Q.—"“And not by check?"” 1 cannot remember that.” —*"How do you remember the amount? Have you a memorandum of it?"” A.—"No, sir.” Q.—"You expended money in the in- terest of Mr. Grant’s candidacy without keeping any account of it at ail?” ! 7\10 I kept no account of it."” Q.—*“Have you kept a book account of the amount of money expended in the in- terest of Mr. Grant's candidacy A.—''No.” Q.—“You have not A.—"No. T haven’t kept any book ac- count at all.” Q—"By what method do you keep an account of the money you have expended in Mr. Grant's cam slin’.’" A.—"Well, 1 think—I never kept any book account, I know. T used to receive money from Mr. Grant by checks, and I think I kept a memorandum of the checks."” Q.—"Do you have one banking institu- tion with which you to business with ref- erence to this money—keeping it on de- posit?"” A.—"No, sir.”” —"You do not keep it on deposit?” A.—"No, sir.” Q.—*Do 'you know how much money you have received from Mr. Grant in the in- terest of his candidacy?"’ A.—"I don’t remember. Q.—'“Have you any memorandum, check book, receipt book or other account or memorandum by which you can deter- mine how much you have received from him for that purpose?” A.—*"1 think I could ,yes, sir."” Q.—'“How long would it take you to se- cure such evidence?"’ A.—"Well, I should have to go to San Francisco to get it.”” Mr. La Baree—“Mr. Green, how did it happen that Mr. Wright came to your office and got this $%0? Did he come ;‘here voluntarily, or did you send for im?" A—"No; he came voluntarily.” Q"I thought you said he never asked you'— A—"Well, he never asked me, but I had been talking with some gentlemen who were interested in his canvass about it. He never asked me for any money. And 1 had said to_them, speaking about Mr. Wright, that I was willing to make a contribution to that cause over there; and I presume some of those gentlemen must have told him; that, of course, I knew the friendly relations existing be- tween Mr. Wright and myself.” The chairman—Then, when he came, who first spoke about the money to be used In his candidacy—you or he?” “Oh, I could not pretend to say.” ‘Do you not remember at all how the matter arose, that you came to give the money?” A.—"“Well, my recollection is that I was talking to some frierids of his about his candidacy, expressing my friendship for him and that I felt interested in his can- didacy, and I was told after that he was on his' way to see Colonel Burns to get some money to help him in his candi- dacy. *You heard that?” A.—"Yes, sir; and that he had said that he disliked very much to go to Colonel Burns to get any assistance because Mr. Grant was his personal preference.’ Q.—"Who told you that?” \ A.—“Well, 1 don’t think I ought to an- swer that question. It's a gentieman that is not in politics at all.” Mr. Mellick—""On_what grounds do you refuse to answer, Mr. Green?" A.—'He is a gentleman that has never been interested in politics at ail and I should hate to bring his name in.”” .—*“It seems to me it would be a proper question If he understood that he was go- ing to Colonel Burms. It seems to me that we ought to find out where he rot his {dea. Don’t you think so?’ AA—"&;here who got the idea?"’ Q.—"*Where this friend of vours that told you Mr. Wright was going to go to Burns to get a loan. Don’t you think that would@ be very necessary at this time for us to find out whether Colenel Burns vas making contributions to the different ones in the campaign?” A.—"“Well, that is a phase of lhe case that of course—that is a phase of the dis- cussion that 1 did not care to bring out.” The chairman—"It seems to me that it is o proper question, but I submit the matter to the committee.” Mr. Mellick—"‘Of course we do not want to drag anybody in here or their names in here without there is something that can be got from them. ‘The chairman—"Here is what may be a new mine— a new trail—a new prospect. If Mr. Green cannot tell us about 'any improper use of money on the part o. Mr. Burns, perhaps this friend of his can. That is the proposition.’ A.—"T don’t think so at all. That is my judgment; that the only intimation you \ could get would probably be to corrob-| consequence of the ship’s company hav- what 1 have now stated. oraty Q.—“Well, did you ever have any con- ing strewn on the decks orange peel, pips of pomegranates and other objectionable versation with Mr. Wright with reference | debris, the order was given that no fruit to whether he contemplated seeking Mr. | was to be allowed on board, while the Burns with the purpose .of to assist in his candidacy? A.—"“Well, I cannot recollect on that point. ow I got the information, and my judgment is 1 got it from this gentle- man whose name 1 have withheld.” Mr. Mellick—"But, really, Mr. Green, it seems to me that that person is liable to be somebody of importance in this inves- tigation. Don't you think s0o? Might be?” A.—"I don't think so, Mr. Meilick. If any one disputes the statement I have made, why then I wiu e you gentlemen the name of this party.” The chairman—*Then you say, I under- stand you, this is partly Inference, Mr. Green, that you had heard that Mr. Wright was about to go to Mr. Burns for money and thought you would prefer to assist him in Mr. Grant's interest rath- er than to have him, or what Is the fact with reference to that?" A.—"The fact is, I had spoken to these friends of Mr. Wright a week or more before I had ever heard this story about his going to Mr. Burns—probably two weeks before.” Q.—"“Well, that brings us back again to the old trail. What led up to the get- ting of this $300 of you by Mr. Wright?'’ getting money A.—"It is the conversation that I had with this gentleman and friend of Mr. Wright.” Q.—“Then did you volunteer to give the money to his race’ A 3 yes, sir.”” Q.—“Learning the situation of things, you go to Mr. Wright and say to him, 1 want to contribufe to your race over there _’a,ng let me give you so much money A—"No, sir; T did not.” Now I want to get at all the facts.” A—"I said that I made that suggestion to his friends; not to Mr. Wright.” “To Mr. Wright indirectly through his friends. Now, did Mr. Wright tell how hel was to use that money?” 0, sir.” Q—"Do you know, as a matter of fact, to whom the money went?" A—"1 do not. Mr. Mellick—"Now, it does seem to me, Mr. Chairman, that that person becomes uite important. Suppose when Mr. 'right goes on the stand he should say that his friends simply went to Mr. Green on thelr own hook and asked for this contribution, ‘I didn't consider that I had any obligations whatever.' " a%fi‘:} Vell, there was no obligation; not Q—“Well, there was a contribution for some purpose. You did mot give money without some purpose.” .—"Well, I contributed the money to my friend—a gentleman who announced On numerous occasions, a month before that, that he was friendly to Mr. Grant's aspirations for Senator."” Q.—“No, but the point was that I ha ot connected the money that you gave Mr. Wright, because you gave it to some third party.” The chairman—*“He said that his was that Mr. Wright got the you remember the that suggested that to you?” Suggested that I give—" Q—“You say that his friends suggested that there be a contribution?” 5 It was voluntary on my part. Enlrely so.” that canvass were in- s in Berkeley and Oakland.” Q. Who were they?" A.—"“Well, one of them was the gentle- man that afterward informed me that Mr. Wright was going to meet Colonel Burns to get some money to make his canvass.” The chairman—*Did the friend that you speak of ever say to you anything about Mr. Wright's going finally to Mr. Burns for money A No, sir.” Q. You did not know that Mr. Wright ever did seek moneéy of Mr. Burns?" A.—"No, sir; I know nothing about it of my own knowledge.” Mr. Lardner—'Did you pay the $300 to Mr. Wright before or after you heard that he was going to Mr. Burns for as- sistance?"" A.—'“Well, T do not remember whether the money was actually pald after I gained that information or not. I know that I had volunteered to assist him, probably two weeks before I ever heard of that Incident.” Q.—*“Well, did that information you got induce you to pay it over to Mr. Wright?"* A.—"No, sir; not at all.” Mr. Devlin— ‘May I ask one question, Mr. Chairman.?" s The chairman—'Yes, sir.” Mr. Devlin—''Mr. Green, you and Mr. Wright have haenvpersona friends for two years or more? A.—Yes, sir.” Q.—*Were you Interested in his canvass two years ago A.—"Yes, sir, Q. contribution that you have spoken of of $300 you state was given voluntarily by you either to Mr. Wright riends to secure his nomination?"’ Ves, sir.” 'Was there an{‘ understanding or agreement that Mr. Wright should vote for Mr. Grant or any other candidate for Senator in consideration of having re- ceived—either he or his friends— that $9007"" “Absolutely not.” A. Q. t the time that Mr. Wright ap- plied to yvou for a loan of $750, was there any consideration or agreement that therefor Mr. Wright should vote for U. S. Grant or anybody else for Senator?"” A.—"No, sir. The subject was never mentioned.” Q.—*'Never mentioned?"” A sir.” o, sir. ‘Did Mr. Wright at any time ever promise or ngree with you that he would vote for U. S. Grant for Senator?"’ A.—"He never did. And I never asked him to.” Q~—""You never asked him to?" A “Nor Q.—“In the conversation that occurred between you and W. S. Leake in the Del Paso saloon in Sacramento city did you tell Mr. Leake that Mr. Wright had broken his promise in nof voting for U. S. Grant?” A.—"I did not.” A.—“Did you tell Mr. W. S. Leake at that time or at any other time that you had given Mr. Wright money in consider- f his promise to vote for U. S. .—"I never told Mr. Leake or flzybcdy else so. it is untrue.” Did Mr. Wright know whose money this was when you paid it to him A he did not.” Q.—“Did you lead him to infer that it was your own money individually ?"* A.—"The subject never was discussed at all.” Q.—"I am referring now to the $900.” “The subject was never discussed.” Q.—“The 1 understood was Mr. Grant’s own individual check?" A.—*Yes, sir.” % Mr. Mellick—""Has that $750 been paid back?"’ A.—"No, sir.” Q.—“Why do you count one a contribu- tion and the other a loan? Why do you make the distinction?"” A.—“Well, because I was perfectly will- ing to contribute to the election of a Republican Legislature, and I did so. In that instance—that $750—Mr. Wright came up and asked me to advance as a loan for him, and it is so considered, and he owes it _to-day.” The chairman—‘They were different in character—the two transactions?” A=Y sir.” 0, sir; Report still coming from Sacramento at 2:45 a. m. when paper went to press. English Officers’ Mess. What is the average cost of messing per day, or the price of breakfast, juncheon, dinner, without allowance for wine or beer? The average cost in any well-order- ed regiment is 4 shillings per day; it has been known to be done cheaper, and, of course, in some cavalry regiments and “crack’ corps, the amount {s considerably higher. Howéver, a shilling a day may be taken as a very fair average, and wo cannot say that we think the sum to be at all of the way. N The house dinner in the cheapest recog- nized London club comes to half a erown, including table money; and there are few places, we fancy, where one can get a gracefully served breakfast and Tuncheon, with no lack of variety, for the combined sum of 18d. In fact, it is only falr to state that the ordinary charges for daily messing have been brought within such limits that those of- ficers who may not have much private means may_ be enabled to live in a com- fortable and suitable manner.—Chambers' Journal. — e —————— ‘When Jacky Is Angry. According to advices received at Ports- mouth from Gibraltar a_strange state of affairs exists on her esty’s steamer Majesti¢’ (Captain Prince.Louis of Batten- berg), flag ship of the channel fleet. In hours for smoking re also curtailed. Dissatisfaction ~ was felt by the crew, and on the night of the 9th inst. matters came to a During one of the 4 were cut as well as the guys of the derrick, and an eight-inch hawser with a hawser reel butterfly bolts of the torpedo ha some gun gear were thrown c The men responsible for the da not been d 5 The captain mustered the cres dressing them the m not the work of one who were curs and co and ad- done was property would not be ruined In that manner. mander would have ord, right round the was not sufficient to s struction, they would h three. op the wanton de- ave two, and even All ‘leave has been stopped. tving operations have been ordered to recover the missing gear. Much bad feeling has been created on the ship, as all the men are made to suffer for the misdoings of a few.—London Chronicle. —_— e NEW USE FOR X RAYS. Chemists Are Using Them in the Study of Metals and Crystals. The X rays are fast becoming useful servants of society. Not content with making us of them for surgical pur- poses as a means of locating the posi- tion of such foreign substances as a bullet or a needle in the human body, scientists have impressed the r: into their service for the purpos f ex- amining the internal structure of metals and alloys. A thin section of the metal is cut and a photograph taken by means of the rays; if the metal is homogeneous it is shown to be so by the photograph obtained. If, however, an impurity is present, or the section is that of an alloy, the photograph is not uniform, but betrays the presence of minute crystals formed within the mass of solid metal. A specially striking case is that of an alloy of metallic sodium with gold. On throwing such an alloy into alcohol the sodium is dissolved away, and crystal- line needles, one-eighth of an inch in length, of pure metallic gold are left. It would seem that, just as crystals of commion salt separate when a . hot solution of the latter in water is cooled, gold dissolves in melted sodium and separates in crystals when the latter is cooled, and the alloy solidifie That the new method of using X rays is likely to lead to important results in the study of metals is evident when we consider the light it is capable of throwing on the influence of small quantities of impurities on the com- mercial value of metals. It is well known that a submarine cable made from the pure copper of to-day will carry double as many mes- sages in a given t as a ble manu- factured forty years ago, when special precautions were not taken to exclude small amounts of impurity from the copper. Time is money in telegraphy, and the additional care taken to re- move the traces of impurity from the copper is repaid many times over by the increased capacity of the cable for transmitting messages. The presence in copper as an im- purity of a thousandth part of f{ts weight of the metal bismuth renders it absolutely usele: for electrical pur- poses. The presence of the same amount of bismuth in the gold used for coin- age would make the latter crumble to powder under the pressure of the die employed for stamping the coin. And the marvelous properties of hard steel are obtained by simply adding a very small proportion of carbon to soft, mal- leable iron. By means of the change in a metal can be observed; it X rays the internal due to an impurity is probable that the results obtained by such investigations will be of great industrial as well as scientific importance.—London Daily Mafl. —_—— Born in a Caravan. One of the most interesting personalities that Gloucester, England, annually enter- tains at its October mop fair is undoubt- edly Mrs. Ann Smith of Worcester, who attalned the extraordinary age of 109 years on June 10 last. A press representa- tive found her in her caravan recently, and was willingly given a few facts con- cerning her remarkable career. The cen- tenarian was born in a caravan at Char- grove, near Oxford, and has spent more than 100 years of her life in traveling about the country from fair to fair. For one so advanced in years her activity is astounding, and it can be safely said that she retains complete possession of all her faculties. Of late she has spent one or two of the winter months in a home at Worcester, where pends church twice regularly on Sunday, walking a quarter of a mile each way. She is nim- ble still in getting in and out of her cara- van, and can attend to all her Lousehold duties without assistance. The old lady has had sixteen children, of whom seven are living, one of whom has herself heen the mother of a like number of children. Enjoying a good appetite. she generally partakes of four meals a day, and al- though she takes but very little intoxicat- ing drink, she is an inveterate smoker, an old clay pipe being her especial friend. wrapped carefully in a_handkerchief when not in use.—Montreal Herald —_———————— English Army Jealousies. The -Kitchener crisis is about to col- lapse through thedeparture of Lord Kitch- ener for Cairo. It has, however, been an exceptionally severe crisis while'it lasted. Lord Kitchener has fo: s been worl ing patiently, perseveringly, intelligent! and without courting pubiicity. His or- ganization_completed, he advanced and captured Khartoum. But Lord Kitchener encountered the Khalifa, not Napoleon, and won the battle of Omdurman, not the battle of Waterloo. The court and the country have awarded a welcome to him ~which would have sufficed for Welling- ton. It is an open secret that the en- forced retirement of the Duke of Cam- bridge from the post of commander in chief and the subsequent appointment of Lord Wolseley to succeed him were not approved by the court, and it is common- 1y known that many officers are not ad- mirers of Lord Wolseley. The demon- stration in favor of Lord Kitchener ha therefore, been to all intents and pur- oses, a demonstration against Lord Wolseley, and, it might be added. against Sir Redvers Buller. The court, the army and the West End gave the pitch, and, of course, the populace roared even louder.—London Truth. e A Man Wich Two Hearts. William King of New Bedford. Mass., has aroused the curiositv of the Plainfield medical fraternity asethe most peeuliar example on record of a man with two hearts. King is visiting his cousin, Thomas_Martin, the Jail Warden in_this city. and has been examine. by Dr. Long of ‘the Muhlenburg Hospital staff. Dr. Long says King undoubtedly has two hearts. Both of them are capable of dis- placement and can be moved at will to different parts of the abdomen and sep- arated one from the other, so that the beating in unison can he noted. King is a colored man and claims to be 100 vears old and a veteran of the war of 1812 One of King's h on_the right and the other on the side. By a mus- cular movement he can move one to the lower part of the abdomen without throw- ing it out of beat with the othe He. also has two breast bones. which are movable. althoun~h one is held nlace hy the ribs. The other can be forced by muscular contraction to the abdomen and form a_complete wall of bone from the throat down. King has been examined by a number of eminent phyvsicians in Europe and America.—Philadelnhia Times. —_— e—————— Easy. “How can you tell whether a skull be- longed to a man or a woman?” asked Mrs, Butterpup of her spouse. “¢ it was a woman's the jawbones are abnormally developed—and now let me read,” answered Mr. Butterpup.—Pick- Me-Up. —_———— Some people flatter themseives when they are unable to get others to do it for them.