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 was a contest on for United States Senator. Scott had hopes. Bourne had had them, but he had nothing left but a small minority of legislators. These he owned, however; they had cost him $25,000. Scott wanted Bourne's legislators, so on the last night of the session he wrote the agreement printed below, and Wm. M. Ladd, the leading banker of Portland, wired it (hence the verbal errors) to Salem. Here it is:

"In case I receive Jonathan Bourne, Jr.'s, support for United States Senator at the joint session of the Legislature to-night, I hereby agree to use the full power of the Morning Oregonian and the Evening Telegram to defeat John H. Mitchell at the next senatorial election, and elect Jonathan Bourne, Jr., in his place.

"I further agree that if I receive the support of Jonathan Bourne, Jr., for United States Senate in the joint session of the Legislature to-night, that if elected I will turn all the Federal patronage over to Jonathan Bourne, Jr.

"I hereby further agree in lieu [view] of receiving the support of Jonathan Bourne to-night at the joint session of the Legislature, that whether elected or not, I will pay to Jonathan Bourne $25,000 in United States gold coin."

Scott didn't get his senatorship; Brownell threw it to Fulton, but that is neither here nor