Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-28
A FALSE SENATE REPORT
Investigated and Senator EiHlI
Implicated.
SOME CROOKED COMMITTEE WORN
Discovered - The Spurious Document
Slips Through the
Departments,
SPITE AGAINST ASSOCIATED PRESS.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Senate
Committee on Postofices and Post Roads
has to-day been investigating the pubica-
ton at the Government printing Office of
an alleged report Of the committee and its
circulation through channels provided for
public documents. The document, which
made its first appearance yesterday, bears
the usual formal Senate heading and is
numbered Report 81, Part 3" Members
ofthe committee were at loss to understand
how this document Of which none of them
had ever heard before, could have worked its
way through the Secretary's Office, where
alone official headings are affixed. The
clerk whose duty it is to record and put
the heads upon documents of this character
as they are received from the Senate, being
called upon to explain, said the paper had
never passed through his hands. The man.
uscript having been sent for, it was found
to have been received from another clerk
in the Secretarys Office whose duty it is
to order such extra work as may be requlr-
ed by the Committees and Senators at the
Government printing office, and it was also
found that an order for two hundred extra
copies for the use of the Committee accom-
panied it. This clerk explained that the
paper was brought to his desk March 10th
by late clerk OF the Committee on Post
Offices and Postroads, bearing the usual
headings in due form with an order for two
hundred extra copies 10 be printed for the
use of the Committee The printing clerk
supposipg the document to have
been passed through the regular
channels and the order iaitselt being prop.
. one sent the manuscript to the printing
Office. The document is entitled report on
postal telegraph-in Senate l. 5" The
first five pages consist Of "que-tions pro-
pounded TO the president of the Western
UBion Telegraph Company" and the re-
naming thirty one pages are devoted to
press comments on the action of the AS
sociated Press, in furnishing reports of
the Presidential election" 1t is not
intimated that any questions to
the President OF the Western Union were
answered; nor does the document state any
reason for the repubicstions of attacks upon
the Associated Press, which are in q large
part from the columns Of papers which
have never been able to secure the facilities
of the Associated Press. a line Of the
printed heading indicates that the docu.
ment is printed under authority received
NAY 2Tth. 1854, six months before the pub
lication of the press comments which form It's
chief part The ex-clerh of the committee,
who also acted as private secretary to its
late chairman Senator Hill, was sent for to.
day by members Of the committee, and in
reply 10 their inquiries said he had acted
in the matter at the instance OF Mr.. Hill. A
motion viii be made in the Senate in be-
halt Of the committee to have
thus report suppressed. Mem
bers of the committe charitably
assume that Hill was ignorant Of the fact
that he had no right to make report as
from the Senate Committee twelve days
after he ceased to be member OF the Sen
ate.
Charges of Corruption Denied
Senator Teller received the following
telegram from Denver:
Your presence IS not necessary. Hill
denies that he made any charge and says he
does not know Of any corruption or
use of money" This is signed by mem
Der of the Colorado Senate. l. refers to a.
legged statements made by ex-senator Hill,
and published as interviews, to the effect
that his (Hilrs) defeat sad Teller election
was secured by corruption and moEey. The
subject has been under investigation by
committee of the Colorado Legislature.