The New York herald., 1868-04-12
The STATE CAPITAL.
TAe Corruption Observation-Disclosures Of
Mr. Glen-The Erie Railroad Litigation.

The Corruption Observation-Disclosures Of
Mr. GIen-The Erie Railroad Litigation.
ALBANY, April IL, 1868.
Mr.. Glen, Of Wayne, rose to question of privilege
this morning, and offered his resignation as fol-
lows
STATE OF NEW YORK, ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,(
ALBANY, April II, 1868.
TO the Honorable the SPEAKER of the Assembly -
On the LIST of April preferred charges in writing
invovlng the Official integrity OF some OF the mem.
bers OF this House. My relations with all OF
them were Of the most friendly character In making
those charges knew no interest or party. Neither
~ those charges nor at any time since nave aieged
that all the members OF the Railroad Committee or
al the members of this House who voted for the
adoption OF the Erie Railroad report were influenced
by corrupt motives though am satisfied that some
A committee was appointed to investigate my
enarges. My physical strength was sucn tnat
ass sna eSoS hEt @y du
the House and myself required without
the aid OF counsel. asked authority to employ 1t.
This was denied me- On the eth having returned to
Albany, received a subpoena from the committee
and appeared before them few minutes before the
meeting OF the House. All its members were present
They asked me to make statement OF my know
ledge Of the matter charged. l told them that one
OF the members was directly implicated by my
charges and that thought 1t improper to make any
disclosures before him until had communicated
with the House. After celebrating few moments
they required me to proceed, , ,,
dence accompanying the report. Without taking
the evidence Of any other witness the committee
adjourned. Immediately went into the House,
where offered formal charge against Mr.. Frear,
with q request that he be relieved as q member OF
the committee. The unwillingness of large portion
Of the House to have that charge read was painfully
evident.
The committee reported on the 10th inst, entirely
generating Mr. Frear, and the House, without hav-
ing read the testimony, adopted the report In their
report the committee endeav0r to harmOntZe the
suS q cear sst eFs and
interpreted some remark Of Mr.. Frear to mean what
had testified TO- when IT, as they assume, Mr. Frear
morally impossible that could have understood
him TO say any such thing.
] have no fears that an intelligent public are 80
credulous to believe that would beg money, as
consideration for my VOTE from two persons one so
notorious as Mark NJ. Lewis-and then vote against
vored to obtain money, and afterwards charge the
same two persons with an attempt to corrupt my
fsii to Zee the S utter %possiby Of the statement
that positive evidence OF my alleged corruption was
known to Mr.. Frear and another for thirteen days,
during nine OF which portion OF this House rested
under q charge OF corruption at my hands, without
any revelation of the fact being made until had
upon oath charged him with an attempt to brihe my
presence nor yet afterwards, when from the OOr OF
the House charged him specially.
But the refusal of the committee to delay entering
upon the investigation even for few minutes after
the statement made by me- then the evident hostility
Of large portion of the House to the reading OF my
charge against Mr. Frear; the uncOntradcted state
Ment Of one Of the committee upon the floor Of the
house with my evidence before them tnat tney knew
Of nothing to impeach any member, and their evil
dent attempt to lessen the total and rrecOncieable
divergence between the evidence OF Messrs. Frear,
Lewis and myself in order the easily to exOner-
ate the former; with the deliberate perjury Of Alex.
Frear, to say nothing OF that Of Mark NJ. Lewis hav
ing satisfied me that there reasonable hope that
the committee will thoroughly investigate and Impair
ally report upon the charges preferred by me, and
thus vindicate the honor of this House, hereby re-
atgn my seat as member of the House.
ELIJAH M. K. GLEN.
The document was ruled out Of order.
Mr.. d. Burns moved the expulsion Of Mr. Glen.
The point was made that this motion was out OF
order under the ruling that the document was out
Of order there was no business before the House.
Mr.. Glen has given effect to his resignation by
Withdrawing from the House.
An attempt was made at one O'Clock this morning
- enter the room Of Jay Gould at the Deavan House
for the purpose Of conveying him to New York as q
witness In the Erie litigation. The local police have
been applied to- but they refused to lend their assist
ance as the warrant under which the New York dep
uty sheriff is acting expired on the Sth inst.
An attempt was made to get the new Erie Railway
bill up In the Senate to-day but 1t failed on account
Of not receiving the requisite twothrds vote. 1t
was then made the special order for Tuesday next,
Immediately after the reading Of the Journal and to
be considered until disposed Of
The East Side Market bill has passed the House.
The Senate has passed the bill for the extension OF
Lexington avenue.