The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 30

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1903. FURNISH THE PROOF OF CORRUPTION Hall Says Pratt Ba Gold. APTAIN CHARLES F. HALL, master of the steamer KEdith, who was promised a position by Commissoner Pratt in return for a pavment of $3900, but who | was subsequently ignored by =| | gained for His | 1 | obtaining the position of pllot through the | means of Commissioner Pratt? A.—I had a| | friend ready to put it up. S Q.—Who was that friend olan. | { Q.- 1l us who Joe Nolan is? A.—The | shoe m: 4 | Q@--In pursuance of that contract with Cap- | | | tain Pratt, when id he tell you you could b i the position, and whose position did he | | Pratt, that offictal having decided to gec- 1 could get? A—Captain Haskell's, - st ¢ ¢ " in pursuance of the contract with pt the offer of Mitchell Tyson of $4%50 B e e yua ot | o gave direct testimony orther? " © ety g the )t The Call's cha went away for awhile? A.—Yes, sir. [ | - 5 the feuth of The Cgis cheng ' for things to culminate? A.— | | th His testimony is as fol- we M A 3 s 7 At ree vears a 9 " consideration? . ALEXANDER ADMITS RECEI ts of fact he was positive | proved most damaging | 4 while you were away. did vou re- | | Captain Pratt? A | nally, but from a friend | | working on the coast all the time, | | 10 sent me a telegram and said this would be all ready on a Monday when I would get | | back Q. —Did you come here on Monday? A.—I | | got here on Friday and saw Pratt and he said | | it was all off. | Q.—You met the Commissioner himself? A=Y Q—Di u any reasons for its being | | 1 aid, ‘*Alexander, it was his | | appoint Captain Tyson had given him | 2 erefore_your bid had been raised out sig | Q eive your appoint- | | et eive my appoint- | | ment Mr. Emmons rd That is all for me. No further que any question Captain Hall? | | aptain Hall, 1 would like to what s your business? A.—I am a riner sail out of this port on steamers, A—Yes, sir. it @ COIN Continued From Page 29, Column 7., Es ch sioner8? A.—Did I pay that over to the C %, that he has paid you for repa A—N SCENE OF TRANSACTION. All right. Let us get back. How did W —1 say sc he laid the f the fund w ve charge of that fund? I told them 1 was be so, which 1 had it by to go into your pocket? put it in my pocket, but t in any fund for char- thing of that sort? e did that with that money, and t $4 A.—Yes, sir. did you create it? A.—Create it? you are confin give you any date: 1 & after you rveceived it fror 110 you create the fund and eac mer pay this money into the fun er separated it or relegated any an was to pay out of his own accord whosoever he might see fit any part, t the advice and consent of the three aptain, do you mean to say that after vided this $4200 by three, kept a third paid Captain Leale a third and Cap- Tait & third, that you afterward col- it together and put it in e fund some- A—1 do. Q.~—~When @id you @o that? right awey. That is my idea. Q.—Who had charge of the fund? has charge of the fund? THREE CUSTODIANS. A.—Divide that by thres and you; this old rooster (indicating himself)—divide it by three, $4250. Q —1 want to get at who has charge of the ind—that divided by three. Who has charge £ 417 A.—1 don't know about those gentle- I suppose they kept it in thelr bank, I suppose they have a bank account. I have a small bank mecount. Q.—We are getting at. T suppose, an under- standing. The fund that you have spoken of nsists of three separate funds? A.— it does me right down. 1 can A—T think A.—Who © —Each Commissioner has charge of his particular third of that fund? A.—That right Mr. Wasd: Q_—Bach one of you thres men, then. got $1416 667 A.—I suppose that is it. Q.—And you have it yet?' A.—Yes, sir. Q-—When was this money paid by Captain RUPTURE An experience of many years in treatinz Rupture enables us to tell on examining a case whether we can cure it. We charge nothing for examination. We do not cut or hurt you. you pay for it, not before, Can anything be fairer? names of scores we have cured. Fidelity Rupture Cure 265 Kearny Street, San Francisco day on which you r was it before Tyson's ap- rd? A.—Before we ap-| | state, beca Can’t you tell 1 am the big- | you my | about ist of June, 1899, that | | oney, was it not? A.—First of | you would drop that for awhile | | n sight all the while, becauss | nxious to dispose of that question, | | { vou would rely upon Eschen and b by “vou will probably hackle him. u, and 1 wiil rely on what Q.—1 was going to ask 3 You placed that money in | A.—Did 17 Well, 1 may day, a part of it, or| | remember that. I do| | tell ye —_——————— % u speak about, | o | : | ng thaf they do the | *& FILOT COMMISSIONER CHARLES H. S. PRATT IS FRESENTED A STARTLING VALENTINE. | THOSE WHO CONDiICTED NEGOTIATIONS FOR PURCHASE OF POSITIONS GIVE FULL DETAILS. n speclal it anywhere? A.-— bank books or e whereabouts this $1400 and | .2 > > cived o the gaztor | * ause the supposition is that I got hat, and those gentlemen have | Comtinued From Page 29, Column 6. d they have their versions. We ense. moneys without talking and ewhat. 1 do not belleve any has done it without my knowledga neither do I belleve that they slly in possession of it than I myself. nderstand you to mean by your here jg no record of any bank book that_will show deposit of this s You merely put it with the oney? A.—That is what I dic u stated about $1000 more that you been entertained by them, and as to the confession of Commissioner Alexander, to them it was an enigma. But the denun- clation of their testimony came later, and their confidence departed. Captain Frank Maurphy present position to Pilot” Anderson, -was called out of order, owing - to the fact that he was ill, and interrogated; but be- who sold: his heard of there? A.—TYes, sir. —How about that? A.—1I am glad to ger | fore the examination of the witness had r. McLaughlin here—I be he is | procceded to any extent Senator Emmons stralght fellow—that was a long tme | grated that he considered it ‘advisable to we had, or had noi, made a pilot mine £o on in the order of proof and ex Captain Murphy some other time. Q.—1 want mer v your version of it Cap- n 1 will give it to you the best I know how. 5 il hat is x‘m)‘r A —Pretty soon after we | tain Murphy was therefore excused unti made a pilot—I ain’t certain whether we had | this morning. - I Beine & Bior Commiaiabonor, | Prominent among the points brought t long before this conversation I will relate | out during the.day was one to the effect or coming out of Shreve's. I get 3 of these assertions, hot hopping along. This had not come on | L0 St 8t the bottom e and it was through his cross-examination me, this rheumatic (indicating on hands), but = | I was troubled with my eyes, could noi see | that the fact was developed that it was good, stopped up and water running. When I | only after it had been thrust upon them { liest come along there, Whom should 1 see walking | t1iat the members of the State Central up the street—you khow what stree mean. ol ‘u or McLaughiin? A —\'res_l ‘,.,_"nm. Committee agreed to consider the advisa- was go along the street, and that was the | billty of accepting a few hundred dollars t time I had seen him since the Legislature | in one instance only. ndjourned ai that time, and I have hot seen * 3 8 When the Senate committee was seated him—have not been able to see him before or > o & since_in the State Central Committee's office | at 10 0'clock in the rooms of the Police end Republican headquarters, You see, I am | Commission, Hall of Justice, Chalr:x])a’n a Republican. I am proud of that. I v 7 irectoe e called. fhe Major: ? Hefors that' T was oid. and T was | velch directed that the roll b Official Stenographer Vaughan assumed this duty, and it was found that the full committee was present, there being pres- ent in addition to Chairman Welch, Sen- ators Shortridge, Knowland, French, Wil- very much bothered all along to find out who told me about a thousand, and Ed Griffith and 1, who were not just at that time on the live- terms, because 1 knew his father and Coptain Knowles and used to pay him thou- sands of dollars—especially Knowies. So th . could not be anything 1 ®hought going on | liams, Byrnes, Ward, Bunkers, Plunkett Where young Knowles or young Grif would not | and Emmo kng if sald to me, and I think it was not Senator Welch then suggested that the very far from his door, well, now, whether he e says you are about Taade ‘one I won't Q.—One moment. So that the members will understand exactly what you mean by that, what do yon mean when you say make & pilot or about to make one. ~A.—About to make ne. What do I mean by that? A.—We have nothing to cover up. | it to know the real meaning of your Do you mean to appoint a pilot? A —Yes, sir, appoint a pilot. Q.—That {s &ll T want to get at. A,—Appoint & pilot. TELLS OF ANOTHER OFFER. Q.—Go ahead. A.—He eays, “‘Mr. Commi sioper (fine title, fine) you elther have made or are going to make a pllot."”" I walved my just il feeling toward him and learned about a thousand. *“What, do you mean a_thousand dollars to me?” 'I am going on 78, and I could bear that better than some of you. ‘*You are to receive a thousand dollars, T think, or such a matter—I did not know how or did not care or want him to tell, but I do not think that Grit said it was for appointing a man-or make a pilot or have wear. hear there is a thousand dollars, ‘1 says, that don’t belong to us if we get a thousand doliars, nefther Leale or Alexander, what shall we do ‘with it, can you inform us?’ I had hunted up the records to see whether the same sum had been accumulated by other Pilot Commission- ers, but ready for the thousand, all_the mame. B0 1 told him about a thousand. - *‘What. shall 1 do with that, major? We are Commission- ers. Shall I pay that into the State Central Committee?” I do not know whether you will “but they are poor enough and we be glad to have it.” I says, “‘Very well, will you accept 12" 1 don't want any part of it. I do not want any bothes have bofher enough.”" 8o I just wheeled about— this was four vedrs ago—and went homeward to the office. Not knowing anything about the thousand and not seeing the major since, I felt a little chagrined, but in the meanwhile Knowles—his 1ips are sealed in death—had ex- amined the books back, the records from the other Commissioners which we had succeeded, and there was no- mention of any fund of any Burpe by T wher nePoimied | BUt ol |ikina or any collection in tnat way, but no #and dollars was to go to the Commission. | MoDey came. That Is the way the major has told it to some person. . Well, there was a *housand there, Q.—You mean to say that you did not re- ceive the thousand? A.—No, nor never heard of it before or since. - ” Q.—You do not know whether you made pilot or not? A.—No, I cannot swear on that; 1 cannot swear on that. There are the facts as near as 1 know. Q.—Do you know of any other money being pald or offered to you during your office as Commissioner? A.—No, sir; neither pro nor con, and I emphatically deny that anybody bhas been guiity of wanting to give us money because to give it to me in coln looks A but T want to uee it for a just and lawful pur- pose. ¢ Q.—Have you any objection at the present time to repaying that money to Captain Eschen that was pald to you and that has not been used for any funds? A.—Have I any objection? Q-—Yes. A.—If T am nformed corfectly that we had 1o right to recelve it, of course 1 do not object to paying it back to him—to 80 to the source from which it came. Q—Then it Aid not come from him? A.—T never said it did not. He brousht It into my office. Q.—You just now raid you would give it back to him so that it would go back to the source from which it came. What was that source? A.—We find out that the past Com- missioners had no fund and we were not likely 10 have any to pay out. Well, I do not know but what a little of it went for charity. I understood that widows and orphans of pilots who had died were entitled to our generosity, etc. And that 18 where I suppose the fund is. Q.—JHow much have you given in charity since you recelved that? A.—In charity? I can- not tell you that. 1 think some of that same money 1 paid into the State Central Commit- tee, but 1 aid not enumerate to them that John Brown and Richard Roe and Alexander apd all this sort of thing or Mr. Pratt or Mr. ale had pai¢ anything. Q.—You pald that to the State Central Com- mittes on your own check then, didn't you? ers. 1 had supposed that I saw the major coming along, and I says, *“Major, how do you @o7” " He turned around and had a_ good, hearty handshake. Now then I saye. “We a Pilot” Commissioners, and 1 hear there is a thousand doliare for the Pilot Commissioners. I am one of the Pllot Commiesioners and I When you are cured Call and get L ou_and how it came about, 1 supposed | that any part or portion of the bribe tnings would—1 could see these smillns | yaoney received by the Pilot Commission e N L cane © T 2tnind to mec | ers had never been demanded by the Re- my appointment. I was | publican State Central Committee. Chair- coming down from Dr. | man Welch was aggressive in his efforts I A.—On my own check? s ¢ committee fix on a number to Constitute 4 quorum. Mr. Shortridge moved that, it Tequire six to find a verdict. This brought forth o long diseussion. Mr. Knowland thought & majofity of the committee would be sufficient, but Mr. Emmons sug- gested that according to parliamentary usage the committee could not by any ac- tion it took find a verdict one way or the other, but that a majority and a minority report could go in. Mr. Shortridge said that his idea was that when the report made up to have'it the report of the whole committee so far as possible, and have the Senate give it as much weight as possible. Mr. French offered as a sub- stitute for the whole matter under dis- cussion that the matter be brought down to a final report by the majority and minority. This motion was carried. Mr. | Shortridge then asked for a reading of the resolution under which they were em- powered to act, and the following resolu- tion, offered on Monday, February 9, by | Senator Emmons, was read: ' 1t Whereas, Commissioner that Pilot Las been has been charged Charles H. 8. Pratt gullty of bribery: and whereas, those charges have been made by the San Francisco Call, o reputable paper: and whereas, the sald charies involye the integrity of the sald institution known as the Pilot Commission; therefore be it Resolved, By this Senate that said charges are of such a character thet they should be investigated by this Senate and that a Coni- mittee on Commerce and Navigation should be designated by the president of the Senate, with power to send fbr persons and papers, and re- port as to the evidence in the premises. Mr. Shortridge then read the resolution which appeared under Senate proceedings of February 10 in order that it might be in the record: Mr. Presider merce and Na: introduced by advire that i a Committes The Committee on Com- ation report on the resolution ator Emmons as follows: We rezolution be adopted, and that on Commegce and Navigation be Q.—Yes. sir. —You understind me to say that I paid that all out? Q.—That is what I am trying to get at. A, —Dama it, it won't take long to get at that, because 1 am here to give you facts, \2-—You have not paid it ‘all out?’ A.—No, sir, How much of it have you paid out? A.—I am not going to say because 1 cannot remember, but I will tell you a hundred and elghty odd dollars in my judgment went at the time the gentleman lost the steamer. POLITICAL DONATION. Mr, Bunkers—Jordan? A.—Yes, sir, Jor- dan, because I heard examinations in the courts about that and I had to know some- thing for myselr. Mr. Pratt thought it was not. right to reinstate that captain. I talked with Captain Leale about that and we cleared the man, and I think.we had a number of meetings on that occasion, Q.—I want to ascertain something and you can answer yourseif without further explana- tion. A.—Let us have it, Q.—Is it not a fact that the money You re- celved out .of that proportion you kept out of that $4250 you mingled with your own funds? A.—Separate? Q.—Did you keep it separate? A.—Mixed up. Q.—With your own personal money? A.— Yes, sir, Mr. Knowland—You made a donation to the Republican State Central Committee, did you Dot? A.—I g0 up there very frequently. Q.—1I say you made a donation to the State Central Committee? You say you have donated certain moneys to the Republican State Central Committee? A.—Every two years I donated and sometimes between. Q.—Was it out of this $1416 66, this separate fund, that you donated that money? Did you tell any member of the Republican State Cen- tral Committee that the money that you were about to donate was coming from that fund, or from your own personal money that yoa were offering there as a Republican, that you seemed to be very proud of it? . 3 You said nothing to the Republican State Central Committee about your having a fund there and that the money you were going to give to them or was to give to them came from that fund? A.—No; said nothing. Q.—Was the $180 that you claimed to have given to Captain Jordan or some others after the sinking of the Rio Janeiro—did you tell t parties that that money was taken from a fund that you had for charitable purposes? A.—You have got the cart before the horse— let me get the horse where it belongs. Q.—All right, sir. A.—We were not agreed as commissioners to the discharge of that captain by reason of pegligence or due care or anything of the kind. We were not lkely to agree upon it. So I had everything I could collect and so when we came to an examina- tion of this captain we had not excluded any- Yoo T have got what I have got and o ratt, Q.—1I desire you to answer a previous ques- tion, caplain. “You claim that you donated :en;;n money to the State Central Committee? en. —Did you state to anybody of the State < empowered by resolution in this Senate to go to San Francisco for the purpose of ascertal: ing the facts charged in the resolution, with Dower to send for persons and papers, anl that they be empowered gemerally to send for pers sons and papers throughout the State in ord. to report intelligently to. this S and we further request as a committee thai Senator E. J, Emmons he added to the committee fur the special purpose of this investigation. Also, Mr. Prestdent, the Com tee on Com- merce and Navigation, resolution of Scnator Suching the charges of bribery against one of the Pilot Commissioners, begs leave to report as follows: We recommend that your committee have leave to visit San Francigeo and there hold @ session of the committes In regard to =aid charges. That we have a sergeant-at-arms and a com- petent stenographer to ajtend said committer. That we have the power to subpena persons and things to testify before sald committee. That leave of absence be granted said o mittee until 11 o'clock Monday morning, said leave commencing Friday morning. That the mover of the resolution, to wit, Senator Em- mons, be added to the committee for this spe- cial investigation. The above resolutions were made a part of the record. Before proceeding to the examingtion of witnesses Mr. Emmons suggested that the committee go into e: ecutive session to decide on the order of calling witnesses and formulate their pro- ceedings. Mr. Shortridge opposed the idea unless some good reason could be shown, Mr. Emmons explained his idea more fully, and an executive session was taken for a few minutes, after which the public session opened. . ‘With the monotony of the breakers that shift the sands of the outside bar, con- fessions and assertions proving the guilt of the accused came rolling in. The com- mittee will again assemble this morning to continue its investigation, but there is little left to do. The commission stards convicted and the truth of the charges of The Call is established In each and every detail. m- Central donated was taken from a fund— from a portion of that $4250 that you and the other two Commissioners had received from Committee that the money that you as taken Mr. Tyson? Did vou make that statement to any member of the Republican State Central Committee or did you convey to them the f that you were donating that money out of your own private purse? A.—No. Q.—You told them that that was your dona- tion as a patriot to Republicanism as a cause? A.—Did not tell them anything. Q.—Did not tell them anything? they know me. 1 said, tion down.” Q.—Then that ddpation you made to the Re- publican State Central Committee is not out of that fund? That fund is Intact so far as that is concerned? A.—Did I tell that? No, I did not tell them that. Told them nothing. Q.—Then the Republican State Central Com- mittee had nothing to do with this fund? A.— No, never heard of it. This story has never been conjured up by me, and it may hurt some, but I must tell the facts. Q.—If Major McLaughlin had told you that he would have handled that thousand dollars would you have got it and given It to him? A.—You bet. Q.—You could have got It? A.—I think so. Q.—And the reason you did not get it was because the major would not handle it? A.— 1 had not received it at that time. Q.—You could have secured it If he had ex- pressed willingness to handle it? A—1f he ad and I had got It 1 should ha ven it to him, because I suppose he would have been the proper person to have received it. Q. —Where was the money at that time? A.—No, “Just put that dona: A.—1 do not know, brother, but what the devil bad it. Q.—How? A.—I do not know but what the devil had ft. It was told me, as near as I can remember, through young Griffith. His mouth is closed in death, and seeing no money, bearing of no maney, that then dropped. Q.—DId the other two Commissioners know of ‘this $1000 that you offered to give the ma- jor? Did they know anything about it at that time? You had talked to them before you had epoken to Major McLaughlin? A.—No. Q.—Then you are the only member of the commission that knew anything about that $1000? A.—They know since. I told them be- cause we found no donation. I got no $1000. If I had got it they would have known it. Q.—You say you could have got it provided Major McLaughlin sald be would have handled 1t? " A.—I didn’t say no such thing. Q.—1 understocd you to say so. A.—Under- stand me right. I think coming from young Griffith he would have known where the money was coming from and would have told me and there would have been a $1000 to dispose of and maybe it would have gone right with that fund. Mr. Knowland—That is all. Does any other member desire to examine the witness? Witness—I want to be understood, gentle- men. 1f you have been dealing fair, the Com- missioners want to be fair, and If I misunder- stood, it is from my memory. I had supposed that 1 was not going to be asked a great many questions, etc., but I am pleased with the Questions, and if T have hurt anybody or tickled anybody to death, I do not want thew Eschen Tells ot Coin He Delivered to Alexander. APTAIN J. C. ES HEN, senior | Q—Do you sber the time of day that <chen | this payme ag made? A.—It was between member of the firm of Eschen | Loi% PAFMEnt s nallel S ember | the $& Minor, shipowners and |iime of day- between 10 and 3. 2 b stevedores, § Mission street, | | Q-TDid you take as DS Sy the: ssmew? } who negotiated the deal that| 'Q —It was your understanding that that won for Mitchell Tyson his po- : m b‘n‘\‘:;:.x atd <..‘/:\1.n1\x {\:‘n‘nfin"‘:\:‘ g - sition and resulted in the breaking off of | particular instructions as to what the mous | negotiations between Commissioner Pratt | was for. g g V" The ¢ man u are not in the ha and Captain Charles F. Hall, was, next [ .o o oo man: @ O Sieing them | to Commi: oner Alexander, the most im- it some un: -\;u A sty portant witness of the day. He testified that it was he that pald to Commissioner Alexander the $4250 that secured for Pilot | Tyson his position, though his capaeity A—2 o purpase Q unt in the deal was that of an agent between | over such an amount of money. | the pilot or his representatives and the | gr‘"“‘:{g{;fi"fi g B 209 2 Pilot Commission. His testimony was as | ™G ", Wi given fo you by = | be_given to Captain Alexande: | Are you acquainted with Captaln Alex- | ‘ij“fl* Aheve S . PEspw—- . une of the Pilot Commissioners? A.—I |™ - connectic 1 known him? A.—- ghborhood of twenty ity years, something How long have ¥ 1 suppose in the or more than tw ty years You remember having an Interview m on or about June 5, 15997 A.—I1 do. 0 you remember at that time of giving Sum of $42507 I do. on) = | he did. 1 Mr. | tor. au The chair Q—Will you state, ta the circum- | | stances of that interview, what took place | Other membe: | there and what was said? 'A.—Well, I cannoc | Money w remember the exact language. I know that I | conver n. bro ght in the 5 Mr. Alex- 0 and gave it to 2 What did you tell them It was for? A.— | FAILS TO REMEMBER. Well, I do not remember what [ told them ft| o ‘oo "\ pove eaid 1t was satistactory was'for. I do not remember the language R e od G Do - Q-—As a matter of fa A.—1I suppose it was fo Captain Tyson as a pilot. ct, what was it for? the appointment of A atisfled der 8o sta va He did say That they w Q.—Were you_autnorized to use the money Captain Alexa | for that purpose? Yes, sir sir ¥ Q.—And, in pursu ¢ that authority, you | _Q.—That he had had the money given to vou? A.—Yes, sir. two members and th . | . @=And you carried out your instruetions? | I have mo clear recc | Yes, sir. | tion between' us. | s Captain Tyson appointed _subse- | Mr. Ward—When " v to your giving the money to Mr. Al | Captain Alexan A.—That 1 cannot remember. It | ber what you t | was just before or shortly after. I canmot re- | No: I have no ¢ - member the exact cire | 1 told him there was § Q.—And he was | Q.—For what? A Q.—Was this money n- | Q.—For what? A der or Carptain Alex other pur- | if 1 told him for wh: Pose than for the appointment of Tyson? A | simply I took the money down I do not know what the money was for reaily. | @ far as you recollec mc I do not know | carrie nd said to . Yes, sir. | if it was for some other pur) . Loy nd put it down on the counter You e i recaived tructions wh | | | 1 simply gave him the id you? What = . - not remember of re~| d 1t to see If it was rig | cet tions than to give it} 2 | to Mr . } other Commissioners were |~ Q.—But you knew what it was for yoursel, | did you not? A.—Well, yes, I suppose think | nk 1 und | | u_are an | whether and | Alexar | the money or not? | ber the conversation. when you rece at | = words passed, 2" As to w was for n What it was for > give It -t A—1 was instructed to give MONEY FOR APPOINTMENT. |it o Mr Alexander | .0 what tt was ho.fnm [& r\l-’xln,,\\l»xu der a'f\}'xug what | for? A.—That 1 do not remember. [ had a the money was —No, sir, 1 think not pretty good idea at it was Q.—Did he speak a w what it was | P°Q " {f¢ you In the habit of = {for? A.—1 think he aid. I think it was un- | mesh mency handin . J.m.nmmj. I think he understood what it Wwas | » man with its- being perfectiy susince for. L tory ‘and according to you: uction. A.—I Q.—How was the money paid over, captain, | .3 {0ld to give it to Mr. Alexander and [ in cash or in check? A.—In cash did i T iid not requirs any receipt fr Q—Where was it-pald? A—In Mr. Alex-| 30 It ey dd ot e ol M Al ander's office. ; ; e AL Q.—Who was present at the time, If any- | aRder- . o peities tha % A.—There was nobody but myselt and | @—How could vou & gl < g g Mr. Alexander. . 3 3 the [ e - e b oA instruet SUpD e parties Q.—Where was Pilot Tyson at that time, do K ming 2 e ety A g you know? No, I do not know where Cap- tain Tyson was i Nr. Emmons—I to_ask. other way 3 m in any s who.gave' you th you to give it to Mr. think that is ail I desire Mr, Ward—Can’t you recall auy of the con- | money X versation -between you and, Captaini Alexander | ander. sir i at the time the money was paid? -No. I arried out those imstructions cannot: | th was very dittle, if an prineipal thing was in handling the money, near as I remember: $4200—that is all there was to it, and I took my hat and left. | That is my recollection. | do not want them hurt. ‘Ea mittee the case which this paper pro rembdr is réady to pay this mo S 3 e s ;n. If ail the Tysons in tt d to present again members say they came fro the Pilot Commissioners and “Give me a part Bl Fom, R, hs not until we look int ARt axine apport matter t that we were not entitied to | charges tl >mbers dispose o -central committees or any | Commission have been guil - l e wili return the y SO as [ | men “in e commission will do-the same Poowe it ot S il TNk e M unkers: Q—I want to ask yo R e s, qu ; captain. n ecreating a fund | hav violated th vu:y sed the mouey that vou have always split them by the p and that th ways—doe h member t his i added a chapter to political toryv part, vou call that & chu i the State that for open violation £ 2. ZThat may not be the bster o ) e e SN i | put that is the old Ale: er. t aw x“ without pr 4 _The te "Fne chairman—You are excused from furthoer | mony of Mr. Leake in full i follov attendance until not posit My T 4 Here adjournment was taken until A.— Manager H ». m BY W. S. LEAKE : . §. 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