Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-26
OHIO ELECTION FRAUDS.
THE INVESTIGATION OF MAR
SHAL LOT WRIGHT.

Report of the Sub -COmmittee-Fraudu-
lent Voting and Intimidation of VOt-
ers PrOven-NO Warrant for the Ex-
Penditures The President Requested
to Remove Wright-The Minority Re
port.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-Representa-
tive Springer, in behalf of himself and
Representative Van Alstyne, of the sub
committee appointed to investigate the
conduct of Marshal Lot Wright in the
Ohio October election, has prepared a re-
report. Representative Stewart, the re-
naming member of the sub committee,
will offer minority report when the sub
Ject is submitted to the full Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of
Justice. The members of the committee
avenOt yet received the printed testimony
taken in the investigation. They assert
that they will not agree to any report an.
It'll they have had an opportunity to ex-
anime it.
VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY.
Mr.. Springer will submit the views pre-
pared by himself and agreed to by Mr..
Van Alstyne at a meeting of the full CON-
mittee, to be held probably on Friday.
He declines to give the report to the pub
lie until it has received the attention of
his committee. 1t is a very long dOcu-
ment, and contains a review of the testi-
mony taken both in this city and in Gin
cinnati. 1t concludes as follows:
From the testimony taken by your commit
tee 1t Will appear that the deputy marshals
appointed by Marshal Wright were largely IN
excess of the necessity of the situation; that
they were appointed as Republican partisans
and political workers. and in most cases
prostituted their official positions to partisan
ends; that they were armed with reyolvers
and other deadly weapons furnished by the
National Committee of the Republican party; /;
that many of such deputy marshals so an
pointed and armed were notorious criminals
and men of known vicious and brutal habits
and many of them were non residents of the
State of Ohio; that many of such deputy
marshals, acting under orders of Marshal
Wright aided, abetted and encouraged frau
dulent voting and tae intimidation of voters,
and
COMMITTED GROSS OUTRAGEs
upon the elective franchise and the rights of
honest voters; that the employment and pay
ment of special deputy marshals on the day
after election was without legal warrant, and
al moneys paid to such persons for services
on that day were illegal, and the sums so paid
should be returned to the United states
Treasury; that the appointment of deputy
marshals who were not residents of the State
OF ONO was without warrant and constituted
gross usurpatlOn of authority, and that he
appointment of deputy marshals was in many
DINER respects irregular, illegal and an un-
warranted
ABUSE OF HIS OFFICIAL TRUST.
Wherefore your committee are Of the Opn-
ion that Lot Wright, United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Ohio, has been
shown by the testimony to have committed
high crimes and misdemeanOrs; that he has
been guilty of usurpatlOn of authority and
violation of the law in the manner set forth in
the preamble to the resolution adopted by the
House of Representatives on Dec. 2 last.
In view of the impracticable nature of i'm
peachment proceedings, especially at this
late da} of this Congress, your committee
will not recommend the adoption of ARTICLES
OF impeachment in his case, but they do
recommend the adoption of the following res
OlutiOn:
That the Clerk of the House OF Representa-
tives be instructed to transmit copy of the
report and testamOny in the case
Marshal for the Southern District
OF Ohio, to the President Of the United States,
and that the President be respectfully re-
quested to Immediately remove said Wright
from the office, and cause the Attorney GEN
eral to institute such proceedings in the
courts as may be deemed necessary in order
to recover the sums illegally paid out by him.
and TO institute such criminal proceedings
against him as the facts in the case may re-
quire.
THE MINORITY'S DISSENT.
MIR. Stewart, it is understood, will radi-
cally dissent from MIR. Springer's views,
and Will assert that the latter's report
has no basis to rest upon in the evidence
taken by the subcommittee; that, on the
contrary, there was good reason for the
employment of deputy marshals, and
that there was no intimidation and no
outrage upon the suffrage, except the
arrest of Republicans by the police to
prevent their voting, and the assault
upon peaceable citizens by Democratic
thugs