Q. What day was that?
A. I won't be positive—it was either Saturday evening or Sunday evening—no, I am sure it was Sunday evening.
Q. What was the conversation about—in what connection did he offer you those arms?
A. The way it came about was this. He came over to Allegheny to the telegraph office, and asked some man outside where Mr. Ammon was, and he said inside the office. He asked if I would see him. I knew him by reputation, and I met him in the private telegraph office—he came in there. He told me he would like to have ten minutes of my time. He then sat down, and then asked me to give him the wages that each man was paid on the road—brakemen, firemen, engineers, and conductors. I sat down and talked with him awhile, and gave him those figures. Then he asked me whether the majority of the railroad men were single men or married men, and I told him they were married men. And he said he could not blame the men for striking, and that he hoped and prayed they would stand out like men, but not be guilty of any violence, and that as long as we did that we would have the support of every citizen of Allegheny county. And he said that if we wanted any assistance or any help, that he would give both money and arms—he said I will furnish a hundred stand of arms, and I know another prominent citizen who told me that he would also furnish arms. I thanked him, and my attention was called in another direction.
Q. Did he mention the name of the other citizen?
A. He did.
Q. Now we would like to have the names of those individuals?
A. I have no objection to giving them to the committee privately, but I don't want them to be known.
By Mr. Means:
Q. You said if the soldiers fiddled, you proposed to dance?