The long and detailed discussions about the treatment of the stock tend to rebut such statements and the failure to refuse a share implies that it must have been worth taking so much trouble. The stage was thus set for the crucial scenes. In order to induce the phony sheik to invest in the Piney River Mine. there was a series of offers by Senator WILLIAMS to exert his personal and official influence to obtain Government contracts and to voluntarily assist in the enactment of private immigration legislation. There was a refusal to accept a money bribe for the private bill. but its mitigating effect is somewhat diluted by the glittering prospect of millions of dollars of profit contrasted with a probable paltry payment of cash to the tune of several thousand dollars. The elements of the act were thus all present: A personal pecuniary interest. an official with the ability to intervene. and an offer by that official to do so in a way that may generate personal gain for him.
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