Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-01

Fun T0Xe of tho BooF6B 6e0oomo00ot1On.
Following is copy q tho, paPsr filed
With Governor Hoyt by the pasdda board
which Id 10 the release Of the kSfslstive
roostes:
To His E1celleney Henry n Hoyt, Gocer-
nor Of Rsnnsylrania.
The board of pardons recommend that
so much of the sentence of the court OF
quarter sessions of Dauphin county, i'm
posing imprisonment by separate and
solitary confinement at hard labor in the
Eastern penitentiary on VIM. H. Kemble,
Jesse r. Crawford, VIM. F. Rumberger,
Emile ]. Petroff and Charles B. Salter for
the crime Of corrupt solicitation of men,
bers of the Legislature, be RENTED, and
that the remainder thereof imposing pay
ment of fine and costs and disqualification
to hold any Office Of trust or profit under
the commonwealth, be executed, for the
following reasons
The act of 1874 defining the crime of
corrupt solicitation provided for simple
imprisonment. No power is lodged in the
courts by the constitution or laws to add
to or impose conditions not contained In
the statute. The sentence in these cases
superadds to the statutory punishment
Guc COuulIlOHS OllttU IuC I'LL "''ssAA
be by separate and solitary confinement at
labor in the penitentiary, and that the
prisoners shall be fed and clothed as pro-
vided by law.
In numerous analogous cases the su-
preme court of the state has decided such
enlarged sentences unlawful and by the
common law imprisonment to the peni-
tentiary has always been regarded as infa-
nous. In view of the foregoing facts and
of the severity of the punishment remain
ing to be executed for the offense recently
made punishable, and for which these are
the first convictions, We make the fOregO-
ing recommendation.
lSigned) HENRY w. PALMER,
Attorney General.
NJ. S. QUAY,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
AARON K. DUNKEI.
Secretary of Internal Affairs.
CHARLES w. STONE,
Lieutenant Governor.
The fines in all the case, $1,000, were
paid in the morning, together with thu
final settlement of the costs, which amount
ed to nearly $4,000, before the court con
rened. 1t is stated on good authority thai
each attorney received $5, 900.
An Irreparabls Wrong.
Harrisburg Independent.
The deed is accomplished The riot bill
corruptionists have been pardoned, ant
Pennsylvania justice has been made to bov
her head in shame.
This act is disgrace to the common
wealth. 1t will cast an everlasting stigm;
of shame and reproach upon the official
who perpetrated it and, more than all, j
will inflict serious blow upon the politi
cal party through the agency of who's
leaders this great wrong has been commit
ted. As has been well-said, the Repnbli
can party had it's birth in a great mora
feeling. Its youth was splendid with
grand purpose and in its manhood it struc]
down human bondage and saved tn
Union from the profane hands o
the spoiler. But evidently the mis-
sion of the party has ended. Th
brave men who died on Southern battle
fields did not perish that their chi
dren should become prey of legislative col
ruptions they did not languish in South
ern prison-pens that our free institution
should become password and reproacl
and the administration of the laws
solemn mockery We repeat that this &C
of the board of pardons to-day will strik
the Republican party with fatal weakness
and curses loud and deep will fall upo
the heads ofthose who have sacrificed
great principle to shield wealthy criminal
from the just penalty of violated law.