Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-10
SECRETARY OF STATE QUAY

His Dismissal PetitfOned for lSecauSe of His
COnnection'With the Riot Bill Bribery.
A petition to Governor Hoyt asks him
to dismiss Secretary of State Quay, and to
resist the removal Of Attorney General
Palmer who refuses to recommend KEN
ble's pardon. The petition gives the fol-
Living extracts from the testimony taken
before the legislative investigating COM
mittee, pages 26, %, 81, relative to Quay's
connection with the bribery conspiracy:
MIR. Quay's Note to MIR. Emery, Requesting
Him to Call and "See'' Him.
Harrisburg, April Is, 1S79.-My Dear
Sir: am told the Allegheny resolution
is now up in the House. 1t will be a
tinality, of course, if the motion to recon-
slider is defeated, and it will be difficult to
make any arrangement with it's friends, if
they are successful. If it is at all worth
while to present Mr.. Shiras's proposition to
the council, you had better have the vote
upon the motion to reconsider postponed
until afternoon, and see me after the ad-
jOurnment. Yours truly. NJ. S. Quay.
The Corrupt Proposition Communicated
Through MIR. Shiras.
Testimony of Lewis Emery, jr.:
Q. Did Mr.. Shiras say to you that in case
you voted for the riot bill tho Penn
sylvania railroad would give the oil men
all the legislation they desired? A. He
said, sir, that if they would assist in the
passage of the bill that he would guaran-
tee-that he felt assured that he could
almost guarantee-the passage of the anti
discrimination bill and free pipe bill, and
would kill the oil tax that there would be
no tax upon petroleum and further than
| that, that he would see that the Interstate
commerce bill was passed if possible; that
they had now power enough to do it.
Owe did not understand you to say
that the Pennsylvania railroad-- a:
say that had learned before l left there
that the Pennsylvania railroad was making
this proposition.
MIR. Quay Urges the Corrupt Proposition OH
MIR. Emery's Attention.
Lewis Emery, jr., (sworn with uplifted
hand):
80. l went to my dinner, at the Lochiel
hotel and as l came out from dinner the
clerk in the Office told me that Mr.. Quay
! would like to see me, and he says: Il will
send for him /; he sent to the billiard room
and MIR. Quay came out and we sat in the
| window, right next to the big safe, where
| we hang coats behind the door, and said
| to him that had received his notes he
| said, yes, he had received mine in reply,
! and that we were in such condition we
! could not do anything in the proposition
that had been made to us. Well, says he,
was at Philadelphia a week ago last Sat
urlay, and was up to Mr.. Cassatt's Office
| to get some passes while there Mr.. Cas-
satt brought up the conversation; he said
that he would be very much pleased if he
III occicf in y,aScinu tho rinf hill 0r,l
| that they were very anxious to have it
passed, and he wished he could see what
he could do with the oil delegation to get
their assistance, and he said that he would
do SO, and he said that Mr. Cassatt would
see that all the propositions that had been
made to us would be carried out, provid-
ing we would support the bill when it
came up again. Says |, it is dead.
What Secretary Quay Wanted to Know.
Well, says he, perhaps not perhaps it
can be revived, and what 1 would like to
know, in case it is revived, is as to whether
we could get any assistance from your
country, and told him that thought he
could not get it up in the House. He says
he didn't know. Says l, believe you do
know l believe you cannot pass that bill
in the House ; believe there are too many
independent men in the House to pass
the measure it even could not be got
ten up again. 1 told him it didn't
matter where it came up, could not
support the bill in no way: and he said
better take the matter before our people,
our delegation, and see if they would not
consider it, and l told him would, and ON
the evening of the 18th, think it was,
submitted the proposition again to the
delegation. think there were ten of them
altogether and they said that they would
not consider any overtures whatever that
if they had got to be punished with an Oil
tax because they would not support the
bill, why they would submit they would
not change their front a particle. The riot
bill could stay where it was.
Mr.. Quay Endorses 1Ir. Emerv's Testimony.
Hon. NJ. S. Quay, sworn.
The testimony of Mr.. Emery, 1
think, is nearly correct. l have taken it
from the newspaper reports and believe
it is correct, with the exception of one or
two unimportant particulars.