New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-17
V4NTS TO BE INVESTIGATE.

| Senator Grover of Oregon, lately Governor
| of that State and the inventor OF the famous
| Cronin Electoral College, earnestly desires to
be investigated. 1t was, we believe, one OF
the conditions precedent to his being admitted
to a seat in the Senate, that he should rise up
at the earliest practicable moment after he got
| i'm and demand to be looked into. He did SO.
His first act as Senator took that form, and
his resolution referring himself to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections followed
| fast on the heels of his credentials. The
charges he desires to have Investigated are
embodied in thirteen memorials from Oregon
recitng that he procured his election by
bribery and corruption and other unlawful
means; also that he cOrruptly and fraud
ulenty issued a certificate of election to
the Justly celebrated Cronin and subse-
Guently bore false witness about 1t before
a committee of the Senate. The resolution
WAS agreed to without division, and the
Oregon Senator had the satisfaction of getting
his first measure through the Senate without n
dissenting vote. Subsequently resolution
was offered instructing the Committee on Priv
ilcges and Elections to designate suD-c0n-
mittcc to attend to Mr.. Growers case and re-
port at the next session. Yesterday Mr.. Sailis-
bury proposed substitute for this, instruct
ing the committee to appoint the Judge or
the Fourth Judicial District to take testimony,
issue subpenas, call for persons and papers,
lmprison for contempt and in short find ont
all about it, Mr.. COnkling raised the question
rs to the power of the Senate to legslate dur
inc session called for Executive business and
further consideration of the substitute was
postponed
So there hangs Grover. Sincerely desir-
ing to be inquired into and to be set
right before the country or led. out OF the
Senate by his large. convenient ear, he lifts
imploripg hands and begs the Senate to begin.
But the Senate dawdles over the question
whether he shall be ovcrhauled by sub
committee or judge, and gives him no salts
faction The public too has large interest
in the case. Curiosity has been on hp-toe
these many weeks to know the :" bottom facts"
in it. As to the means by which Grover Sc
cured his election to the Senate, people do not
much care, but the other features OF
the investigation interest them greatly
They are anxious to have the cipher
dispatches accounted for and the author
| shin of the "GObble" telegram settled
beyond dispute. Mr.. Grover has made oath
that he knew nothing about it, Mr.. Iliqen
knew nothing about it; Col. Pelton never
heard of such thing till it was produced be-
fore a committee of Congress- in short,
nobody sent it, nobody received it, and
nobody knows anything about it. What
the public wants to know is how the thing
was evolved. The popular feeling on this
subject is very much like that of the fellow
who searched diligently with lighted candle
for lost cent, "not that he cared anything
90 for the money, but he did want to know
"whcre the darned thing went to-" The pub
lie doesn't care so much about Grover but
does want to know where the "G0bble" dis
match came from and who received 1t, aEd
how it came to contain so distinct anu correct
n prophecy of Gov. Growers action.
1t is barely possible that Mr.. Grover himself
may be actuated as much by desire to have
| this mystery unraveled as to yiDdicate himself.
| He certainly ought to be interested in that
| feature of the inquiry, for it is plain case OF
mind reading, and he ought to find ont who 1t
is that goes around reading his interior pur-
poses and telegraphing them in cipher He
has our sympathy in these hours of suspense,
and orr admiration for his attitude as
searcher after truth. There have been several
statesmen before him who went out of Con-
grcss with an investigating committee hard on
their heels he is the first one to our knOwl-
edge who ever came in with demand to be
investigated "a his first official act.
THE LIFE INSURANCE BILL.
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