The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-05-30
Special Dispatch % tI,e In. ..U-Ter.1
informal HEETISG OF MR. EILDES'S
INVESTIGATING COHEI1TEE.
Sensible Democrats satisfied that a
bIganr'C BIdndcr hes Beer Made.

Sensible Democrats SailSEed That
/ bIganU'c BIdnder has Beer Made.
I WASHINGTON, d C., May - The
i Democratic mem bgIs OF the Florida
/ Investigating Committee Ead sl in
I formal consultation tO-ISy, - which
I II VS. decided - commence opera
/ t!oEs to-mOrrO~. 1t was The decided
/ sentiment, aisO, Of these members
l that tue matter should Ue closed before
Z Con ,ress adjourned. "A most of the
I important evidence mas alreaty been
I formulated, l. is believed that the
/ Committee can get through hy June
4 18th Il the --latest
! The feeling OF sensible Democrats
does not chaugs-that the party has
/ made q mistake in re-nPeniug the
/ Presidential question: and while but
/ few Districts will be lost at the North
on account OF agitating It, several
/ Districts will be lost in the South.
Casey Young, OF Memphis, said in the
| meeting of the c2Usus, when 1t was
/ decided to pass the resolution "Gen-
/ tlemen, 1 will abide the action OF the
caucus, and vote for ycur rcsOiutiOni
/ but my doing 80 viii cost me my seat
/ in Congress"
! Secretary Sherman continues TO pre-
sent bold front. lie was at the Capt.
| tOl to-day, and had tue Committee
/ held formal session he would have
requested that permission 6e granted
/ his request to appear at It's sessions
| through cOSusel. He il exceedingly
agitated, and acts like a guilty man
| PLAYING a game o. bluff against big
odds. He told u reporter OF the Star
to-day; 81 am glad that this matter
! has got beyond lying newspapers and
cuwardly inuuendOes. Specific charg-
es have been made, and what want Is
an open hearing and no favor. Th.s L
| intend to have, and II / succeed in
gaining such . hearing, the men max
| ing the charges against me will be
convicted as liars and libelerS, and
perhaps something worse"
| Carter Harrison, Of Illinois, and
BENJAMIN Wilson, Of West Virginia,
tried their hands to-day at enlarge
ment of the investigation. EarrisOn's
resolution proposed to extend the in
VestigatiOn to South Carolina and Or.
egOn only, and with it was coupled a
resolution declaring that it was not
the purpose OF the House, through the
| Investigation, to snuul, or attempt to
annul, the action OF the Forty. fourth
| Congress declaring Hayes and Wheel
er elected President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. The otfer-
! ing OF this resolution threw the House
] into a temporary excitement, for
! many entertained q fear that the
scenes of last week would be revived,
and neither side was in humOr for
| further filEusteTing. The first point
made against it was that it was not
question of privilege, IS was claimed.
The Speaker pro tCHt., Mr.. Sayier, ex.
pressed the opinion that 1t was ques-
| ton OF privilege, but he submitted the
question to the House to be determin-
ed by the majority. The Republicans
Iesorted to the tactics Of last week,
and a majority OF them refused to
vote, and thus on q division left the
House without a quorum. This was
done under the advice Of Hale and
Garfield. On the Democratic side
there was more or less agitation, for
the resolution took them completely
by surprise. The members Of the
! Special Committee were especially an
moved, because they had not been
1
took Harrison to task for his action,
and fer time they had quite an ami
mated discussion. Failing to get q
quorum on a vote by tellersr the yeas
and NAYS were demanded, and only
| thirteen Republicans voted; slXty-One
Democrats and ten Republicans voted
that it was a question OF privilege
and fOrty-seven Democrats and three
Republicans voted that it was not,
when Harrison became convinced
that he could not get q quorum, and
Withdrew his resolution, but did 50
with bad grace and in a bad humOr,
Wilson was Immediately on his feet
with question of privilege also, and
then offered his resolution, which diff
fered from HarrisOn'5 in two points.
First, it authorized the Committee to
Investigate frauds touching the Presi-
Dental election in any State, provided
they have probable cause to believe
thai such frauds existed. In the next
place, it made no reference whatever
to the Presidential title, leaving the
question an open one whether it was
proposed to attempt to annul the elec-
tion of last Congress or not. n mo-
ton was at once made to refer the
resolution to POtter's Committee, tut
that was rejected by vote of 50 yeas
and lis nays, the latter vote being
made up largely OF Republicans,
though q large number of the latter
refused to vote. Meantime the DEM
ocratie leaders had brief consultation
and determined to let the resolution
pass.
After the result of the vote on ref
erence had been announced the
question was put on its passage and 1t
was declared passed by a UiuG U0ce
; vote. The affirmative vote all came
from the Democratic side, and when
the negative was called there were
not more than two or three responses
for the Republicans wanted that the
Democrats should pass it, just as they
did POtter's original resolution. Ke'
publieans, in explanation OF their
course in refusing to vote for the Har-
rison resolution, say they believe the
movement does not mean an attach
on the Presidents title, and they dC
not propose by their vote to have II
20 to the country that there is no in
tent to assail the tenure OF President
Hayes, when they believe the con
trary to be the fact. The fact thai
forty-seven Democrats voted thai
Harrison's resolution was not . ques'
! ton of privilege shows considerable
detection, since these same membe
: voted ten days ago that POtter's was