The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-03-08

HOW SENATORS POMEROY AND
CALDWELL GOT THEIR SEATS
IN THE u. s. SENATE.

;, In IdE v. .. SENAIE.
. Elections with MOneyin Them
= How the Pacific Railroad
a Got Their Agents Into
s the Senate.
Official report of the Investigating Committ
of the Kansas Legislature.
Mr.. President, the iSenale and House Of RepT
seEtatires:
4 The committee appointed by IL
= foregoing resolution met On 26th (
J. January, 1872. and organized an
issued subpoenas for witnesses, an
adjourned until Tuesday, the Both {
= January, and on that day met an
Y proceeded to take the testimony {
witnesses, and continued from day I
day and ceased the taking of test
mony the 23d of February, 1872
We summoned to appear before u
persons within the State, of whom
is alleged they knew something {
the subject matter OF inquiry, an
> the testimony of those who appeare
was taken. Under the the authorit
of the concurrent resolution tn
committee employed James Chew a
their clerk, who reduced to writin,
all the testimony taken, which testi
many is herewith submitted ant
made part Of our report:
| From the testimony taken you
committee find: That at the senator
isl election OF 1867
LARGE SUM OF MONEY
was used, and attempted to be used
in bribing and in attempts to bribe
and influence the members of the Leg
islature to secure the election of S. C.
Pomeroy, E. G. Ross, and Thomas
Carney, Perry Fuller, and others in
their employ.
See the report of committee ap-
pointed in 1867, in House Journal OF
1877, from page 957, 971, inclusive
also see testimony herewith submit
ted Of George A. Reynolds, l. S. Ksi.
loeb, r. D. Mobley, S. d. Mcdonald,
Thomas d. Ortine, Joshua Wheeler,
William Skruggs, d. R. Anthony,
Ed. Russell ct al. 1t also appears, In
reference to that election, that S. c.
Pomery and Sidney Clarke, in March
1866, jointly paid one thousand dol
lars, and promised to pay further
sum of two thousand dollars, for
which they executed their joint
notes to NJ. w. Reynolds, who has
recently been appointed Register of
the Land Office at Neodesha, in con-
sideration that he would use the col
umns OF his Journal at Lawrence, to
secure the election of S. c. Pomerov
to the United States Senate, in 1867,
and Sidney Clarke to Congress in the
fall of 1866. 1t also appears that S. c.
Pomeroy paid an addition of afurther
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars
to the said nj. w. Reynolds. 1t fur
ther appears that M. w. Reynolds
sued up those notes in the Douglas
County District Court. and the de-
Pomeroy and Clarke, plead
ed therein an illegal consideration for
the notes, and that findings of the
court upon the trial upon the merits
were for the defendants and that the
judgment against the plaintiff, Rey-
nolds. That Reynolds had the case
prepared for the Supreme Court. and
there directed his counse not to proceed
further inthe cause, and that shortly
he was appointed to the public
office he now holds.
'fToo THIN.'
From the deposition of Pomeroy
and Clake, taken and used in that
case, il would seem that the payment
Of the 81, 900, and the promise OF the
$4,000, wss to advance Republican
sm in Kansas. snd to secure a
victory at the election in
he fall OF 1866. When such testi-
nony as this is named in the light of
he well known fact, and the subse
1uent demonstrated truth that the
State was then Republican by a ma
ority of -, without the aid of
zee Lawrence Journal, its talsity is
apparent. That the 81, 900 was paid,
anG the $4,000 promised to be paid.
vas so paid and promised to be paid
% subsidize the Journal in the inter.
,st of S C. Pomeroy and Sidney
Clark personally is q fair conclusion
rom the testimony. (See the testi-
nonv OF Geo. A. Reynolds, w. w.
vr o. Q. ronCToy
Sidney Clarke, and Geo. A. Reynolds,
md the findings of the court. As
, thorough investigation OF the sena-
orial election of 1867, by reason of
he lapse of time since that dete, abso-
utely required for its preparation and
much more time than
he ordinary length of q legislative
ession, the committee were forced to
,e content in that regard with what
hey could CLEAN from witnesses
brought before them for the proof of
,ther facts, yet from all testimony
before the committee on thatquestion
We hsve no hesitation in recording our
veil established conclusion IhatmOney
vas used in large amount, and in
CORRUPT AND CRIMINAL WAY
,y candidates for U. S. Senator, and
,y their friends with their knowledge
In relation to the election of 1871,
he testimony shows that Sidney
Clarke was q candidate for election
o the office of u. S. Senator in 1871,
md that his friends engaged for him,
which act he afterwards ratified, some
lightly rooms at the Tefft House.
That in addition thereto he rented
md fitted up on the opposite side OF
be street from the Tefft House, and
md on the corner of Kansas avenue
md Six h street, suit of fine rooms,
which was, during that canvass, de-
ignsted ss the "soup bouse" and
bread riot,' where refreshments
we're kept; that he deposited with
he Kansas Valley National Bank,
when he came here, twenty-five hun
ired dollars, which was drawn out
~ Mr.. Adams. on authority from
Clarke; that Sidney Clarke overdrew
lis account about sixteen hundred
lollars; that he offered to members
If the Legislature appointments to
,ffice and payment Of the expenses
If election of members of the Legis-
ature for their votes for him fer
United States Senator; that he told
z. S. Stevens to make whatever ar
.angements he pleased with Caldwell
n regard to his { (Clarke's) expenses;
hat Stevens paid about $4,000; that
his friend d. NJ. Adams, with the
knowledge of Clarke, undertook to
purchase Senator Woods vote with
.he promise of an office, which prom
se was secured by a certificate OF
deposit in the Kansas Valley Nation
ii Bank, for the sum of $4,000 act
ually issued: that Mr.. Wheaton, of
Fort Scott, friend of Mr.. Clarke's,
who was here endeavoring to secure
Clarke's election, offered 10 buy the
vote of w. c. Webb for Mr.. Clarke
Tor the sum of $4,000, at Fort Scott,
in December, 1870.
These things all conspire to place
the fact beyond question that Mr..
Clarke intended to use, and was
endeavoring to use, and with his
knowledge permitted his friends to
use, and endeavor to use, money and |
other valuable considerations, in an