Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — TURNS IN BRIBE MONEY. [ARTICLE]

TURNS IN BRIBE MONEY.

Montana Senator Give* Isve*tig*tin< Committee S3OJKMJL The managers of United States Senator dark's campaign deny emphatically the charges made that they attempted to bribe members of the Montana State Legislature in the interest of their senatorial candidate. The Senate and House met in joint session in Helena to hear a report of the com•nittee appointed to investigate alleged attempts at bribing members. The committee produced and exhibited $30,000 in sl,000 hills, which Senator Whiteside ot Flatbead County claimed had been paid him and three colleagues to vote for W. A. Clark of Butte for United States Senator. The money was ordered deposited with the State treasurer, subject to the order of the Legislature. Whiteside testified that he had induced Senator W. A. Clark of Madison County. Senator H. L. Myers of Navalti County and Representative Garr of Flatbead County to see the Clark managers. According to tbe testimony, they had done ■O, and Clark received $10,000; Myers SIO,OOO and Garr $5,000. They had given the money to Whiteside and be had turned the whole amount over to the investigating eouunittee.