The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-30
NGRESSION
SENATE.

election committee, reported SpoffOrd entitled
to the scat now occupied by kellogg. Hoar
presented q minority report of himself, Cam
eron and Logan. Both reports were read.
kellogg is charged with corrupt and fraudu-
lent conduct. The minority report declares
that the only change in the facts since kellogg
took the oath is that the party majority in
Congress has changed, and it is sought by
mere superiority OF party numbers for the
first time to thrust a Senator from a seat he
holds by virtue Of the express and deliberate
final judgment Of the Senate. This act is
characterized as a great political crime to be
classed with rebellion. with the Maine con-
spiracy, with the overthrow of the Southern
State governments. The people of the United
States will thoroughly comprehend the action
of the Senate in this matter and judge
whether the views of the Southern people,
taken back into citizenship, mean anything.
They thoroughly discredit the evidence on
which the majority report is founded and say
it is unworthy the lowest case on record and
has been completely disproven. Hoar said
that the minority desired nothing more than
a full publication of facts and began to read
areport which occupied an hour and a half.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Hill's majority
report on the Kellogg case goes into the case
very fully. 1t alleges Kellogg to have been
guilty Of a conspiracy to fraudulently use his
guberna:orial office to prevent free elections
10 the Legislature in order that Republicans
only might be elected that failing in this, he
cOnspired to change the result as termed by
the election commission; that he prevented
the legal Legislature from assembling in
New Orleans by the use of force, money,
promise of office, and other corrupt means
that lie conspired fraudulently to have Pack
ard elected Governor to aid his election to
the Senate that he excluded members-elecl
OF the Assembly and admitted members not
elected that he secured government offices
for his co~-conspirators. Hill moved that the
report be recommitted to be Gales up next
Monday.
Hoar, Hill, Carpenter and Thurman de-
bated the question, in which debate Carpen-
ter asked what would prevent kellogg from
reopening the case at the next session if
Spotford were seated now.
Thurman moved to take up the Geneva
award bill. Lost-50 yeas to So nays.
Kellogg made a personal appeal to the
Senate, setting forth that Hill had declared
publicly and privately that he would drive
him from the Senate, and that, being judge of
the case, had prejudiced it before he took or
called for any evidence. He declares Hills
statements false from beginning to end, and
that in the 1900 pages of testimony there was
not a line connecting himself directly or lndi-
rectly with any manipulation of the returns
or with the returning hoard. He accused
Hill of taking every means of prejudicing
the public mind against him. He declared
that Spot1ord had brought disreputable men
to Washington. He notified the Senate that
he would, when the resolution came up, show
the American people whence came the c0td-
carb of corpsu at ColfaX and impress the
truth on the people. He asserted that the
committee had not allowed him fair play. He
would show Hill to have cut out whole pages
of testimony favorable to him (Kellogg). He
analysed the unfair proceedings of Hill in a
most scathlng and personal manner, and said
that every affidavit produced against him in
New Orleans was either forged or paid for,
and that he could prove this to be a fact
there never was as foul a conspiracy set afioal;
he declared every member of the Legislature
was politically honest, and there was no
bribery. Even Nichols government, with
packed ~iuries, failed to indict him.. a good
deal had been said about the custom house,
but nothing about money paid witnesses
against him., though one witness SwOre posi-
lively to receiving money to vote for SpOtiOrd.
He thought he could compare his character,
moral and otherwise, against Hills, and his
bitterest enemy would concede him to be
UNNECESSARILY superior to Hill in moral or
physical courage.
Coke, from the Ommitte on Indian affairs,
reported favorably a bill to accept and ratify
the agreement submitted by the confederaled
bands Of Ute Indians for the sale of their
reservation in Colorado, and to make the
necessary appropriations for carrying out the
anne. Placed on the calendar.
Coke said the bill was very important its
early passage might avert an Indian war, and
he would have it up as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Edmuuds pre-
sented the memorial of Mcbride, calling
ate nJion to the exclusion of gentiles from
tho lands in Ital hU tho rrocant cyeta,,, ,F
locating toy sites. Referred.
Edmunds also offered a resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Interior for informA-
ton as to the number and extent of pate nts
issued for land i'll Utah and whether any dis
elimination in favor of the Mormons had been
shown ill such issues. Adopted.
Allison, by request, introduced a bill appro-
priating money for the erection of a peniten-
tiary in Dakota Territory. Referred.
Teller gave notice of an amendment in
tended to be offered by him TO the bill ratify-
ing the agreement with the Ute Indians. The
amendment provides that from the amounts
provided for the Indians there shall be paid
during life yearly to Mrs. A. D. Meeker,
widow of n. c. MeekeI, 81, 900; to Josephine
Meeker, $1,000 to Mrs. Sophia Price, 81, 900;
to Mary and John, infant children of Mrs.
Price, $500 until they are u years old to
George ID. Eskridge, 500 to Mrs. Sarah NJ.
foSt, Sooo TO the surviving parent OF Arthur
l.. Thompson, $500 to the father of Fred.
Shepherd, $500; to the surviving parents of
Wilmer S. Eskridge, $500. The persons
above named are sufferers by or relatives of
victims OF the Ute massacre. 1t also provides
that nothing in the act shall prevent the
settlement of the Southern Utes OF Uncom-
pahgre Utes on the lands of the Uintah res
ervation IN Utah, if any of said Indians
desire to settle there, and that any Ute Indian
desiring to sell land owned by him may apply
to the United States circuit court to sell the
land, and the court may order such sale if
after examination it thinks the interest of said
Indian requires it, prorided, that no such sale
shall be ordered to pay any debts of said In