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Mr. Adams. — Was not Van Buren here the last day we to»k 

 testimony ? 



Mr. Anibal — No, sir; he hasn't been here, and hasn't been able to 

 be out and I have a letter in my pocket stating to me that if he, Van 

 Buren Miller, had been able to come here, eren upon a bed, he would 

 have come here to answer the false charges of that man Bentdn 

 Turner. 



Mr. Adams. — I was told he was here. 



Mr. Anibal. — It isn't true. He is an old, feeble man, has been 

 stricken with paralysis, and is in his bed at home, and can not get 

 away. I have such a letter here showing this fact. , That sjnswers the 

 only statement that Mr. Benton Turner made against Van Buren 

 Miller. ■, 



What next ? Turner says Garmon told him he settled with the 

 Hartwell's for fifteen cents a log. Mr. Garmon tells you there isn't a 

 word of truth in it, that he> never told him so. It turns out, upon 

 an examination of the Comptroller's books, Hartwell settled with 

 Van Buren Miller, and that he paid him not only fifteen cents a log, 

 but thirty cents a log, fifteen cents for that he cut upon the property, 

 upon which he owned half an interest, and Hartwell sent his affida- 

 vit here stating the transaction was an open and fair one, and Van 

 Buren Miller was entitled to credence and confidence. That answers 

 two of the accusations that has been made against others; the one 

 falls of its own weight in reference to Mr. Garmon and these deals. 

 It is answered by Mr. Garmon, and Mr. Garmon gives you all the 

 reasons and arguments in relation to it, showing unquestionably Mr. 

 Garmon is true and Mr. Turner is false in regard to it. 



What is the next one ? It seems Mr. Benton Turner doesn't stop 

 at the members of the commission, does not stop at its warden, does 

 not stop at the foresters, but he even attacked the fair name of 

 Judge Kellogg, and Clinton county, because he happened to act as- 

 attorney, and he told you that at a particular time, at the Foquet 

 House in the village of Plattsburgh, he paid Mr. Garmon or Mr. Kel- 

 logg, the one or the other of them, fifty or sixty dollars, and gave his 

 check for it, for the discontinuance of the actions with reference to 

 the trespass on lots 213 and 214 Mr. Kellogg presents his statement 

 to you here — he was subpoenaed but could not come here — saying 

 that it is unqualifiedly false. He goes further than that, he goes 

 and sees this man at his own home, and asks him, as he states 

 in that letter: "Why do you charge me with that untruthfulness ? " 

 Mr. Turner has the cheek of a rhinoceros. He says instead of 

 paying fifty dollars or sixty dollars I gave you seventy-five dollars, 



