The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-03

you talk. 1t must stop now; stop
here.
Van Wyck-I am glad my friend
comes to time. 1 tried to do it, but
the force of facts are against it.
You are, began Cameron, threat
eningly, stopped, and then said
You talk too much; do not talk any
more in that way.
Van Wyck-I do not pretend that
the attorney general took any
money; but when he put his sigma
ture to these vouchers, when he al
lows so much dayfor hotel expense
when he at one time allowed $50
for telegram, and at another time
5 cents when he allowed 81 cents
for a message; when he allows
Bliss not only travelling expenses
but sleeping cars and so cents for
porter. | say he does things which
any man in his senses knows not t.
be right. 1 don't pretend that he
obtained any of this money himself;
but this way of extracting money
from the treasury is no better than
the star route method, none what
ever.
Logan said this proceeding of the
Senator from Nebraska was so re-
markable, so unprecedented, that he
would ask the Senator whether the
papers which he was referring to
were the original papers from the
attorney-general's Office.
VanWyck said they were copies
which had been called for by the
Senate resolution.
"Did the papers come into the
possession of the Senator" asked
Logan.
Unto the possession of the SEN
ate," replied VanWyck.
Logan-Does the Senator intend
to refer them to committe?
VanWyck-I intend to 10 so.
Logan-But the Senator takes the
opportunity of making a general at
tack on the attorney-generaPs de-
partment without reference to any
report or anything whatever, except
to get this harangue before the
country. Continuing, Logan said j:
The course of the Senator from
Nebraska is so undignifed and so
wide a departure from the usual
method of proceeding in the Senate
that, without desiring to enter into
the merits of the case, he felt justi-
fed in saying he if such speech
made by any man out of doors,
while the trial of these men charged
with robbing the government was
going ON the country would under.
stand the speaker as an attorney for
the defendants.
VanWyck said he felt it his duty
to ascertain whether the charges
made againt the department of JUS
tice were true, and whether the
treasury department sent vouchers
bearing the attorney generals OWL
sign manual, "Brewster," show
ing that $3.50 per day was paid one
of these attorneys, there was nc
need to wait for the report of any
committee, and he felt it to be his
duty to make this "harangue" a;
the senator called it, and get the
facts before the people. The senator
from Illinois saidi ia man out doors
made such a speech he would be re.
garded as an attorney for the de-
PENDANTS. Is it possible, said Var
Wyck, that is the way the gentle.
man, or attorney general makes
these charges? If what 1 read is
true, and it is true; surely, it de-
mands another answer than that
l do not want to see the treasury
plundered, as plundered it is by
conspirators, star reuters, or in any
other way. In no country where
justice is decently administered,
would it be possible to have an
ordinary criminal prosecution pros
ecuted as this star route trial has
been. Not once, but twice
the treasury has been robbed OF
what had been saved through the
efforts Of the acknowledgements
was now being spent by lawyers
getting $3.50 a day. 1 want this
extragance to stop. / move these
papers be printed and referred To
the judiciary committee. The mo-
tion was agreed to.
The Senate took a recess until
rs p. m.
The Senate at I 80 a. m. agreed tC
the conference report on the tax
and tariff bill, 50 yeas and 81 nays