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In Ye Olden Time

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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LlTTLE Rock, April - The spectacle of an honorable rueiiiber oL lh: Arkausag legislature, livid with rage, spittirjg in the face of the governor, of fchls oomnionwealth, as the instant repiy to a violent emission of executive saliva upon the angered features of tho lawniaker, and ;i Uourish of firearms in the hands of tho uur, was witnessed in tho lobby of son's hotel here yesterday afternoon, and was the result of Ibe sensational charges of bribery in connection with the railroad conimission bill Kprung in the house of representatives by YaHeey, of Phillips county. Jones, of Union oonnty, one of the principáis In the altercation of yesterday afternoon, had in the course of a speech on a point of personal privilege Saturday, denoimced Goveruor Clark as being at the bottom of tryr charges. He sfád that Governor Clark was a demagogue, and was going around like the assassin in the night with a knife stabbing in the back men who were his peers. Goveruor is Quick on the Draw. Yesterday afternoon Goveruor Clark met Jones in the lobby at Gleasons and requested a private interview with hlm. Jones replied that he would aeconipany the governor nowhere, and that if the chiof executive had anything to say to him to make it known there. Hot words foüowed aud in a flt of angerthu governor spat in Jones' faoe. Jones trembling with anger, returned the insult and as quick as a flash Clark had drawn his revolver, and tho diiïiculty might have resul ted in blooilshed bui for the quick action of bystanders, who disarmed Gowrnor Clark. The governor was later arrested by a constable and reloased on his own recognizance. He will, he says, picad guüty Co the charge of assaulc. Further trouble may ensue. The Scène 111 the JLegisIature. The bribery charges in the legislatura which led up to this scène were made solely by Yancey, nlthough hu said he liad taken Wagner into his eor.fidence. The briber was allesred to be T. L. Cox. Yaucey rend u type-written document to the effect that he had been paid íllXi to vote against the railway commission bill. He produced the nríoney, ÍI mrishing it above his head in a dramatic manner. He charged that the money had beun paid inm by Cox, aud that other members whom he named had also been bribed. Yanoey set a trap and caught them all; he saiil. A scène of contuaion folio ed. y said: "Cox told me to pay my bill where 1 was boarding, move to the Gleason hotel, al he would pay my board and fumisn me tnoney to drink with the boyn. Representativa Jones, of Madison county, told me ie had a room at Gleason's and was living like a king." Wbttt the Alleged Ui-iber says. T. L Cox, the man who was reported to have bribed Yancey, says that he paid Yancey out of mouey which had been given him iu defeating the MonroePhiilips county bill, in wbich Yancoy wís also interested. He claims that he is not and never ha sbeen a railroad lobbyist. The investigaron committee mee behind closed doors and examiued two witnesses. The members of the coinmittee refuse to divulge any part of the proceedings. The extitement created by the incident is intense and it ireely predicted that serious trouble will ensue.

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