The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-21
Hazen's Helper Makes IA Talk
Before the COurt-MartiaIi in
Favor of HIS Client! y
The senator From Missouri
and Van Wyck Lock Horns
in the Extra Session!
sENaTE--ExTRA SESSION.
senator Van wyck's Attack OIL III
south American Commission.

senator van NyCh's AttdCh OIL the
South American Commission.
Washington, March 20-The reso
luton for the appointment of the
Alaska commission was laid before
the senate, and Mr. Henderson moved
II be referred to the committee on
territories. A debate ensued, during
which Mr.. Van Wyck attacked the
South American commission in a Wig
orous style. lie said the first thing
they did was to go 10 San Francisco:
then to New Mexico; then to see the
New Orleans exposition, and that
each member was provided with
$4,000 Tor his expenses. The COM
mission consisted of two men and a
boy for its chairman, who remained
in Albany. The first thing these two
men and boy did was TO hire Il palace
car at 1856 per day, for which the total
payment was 81 Az before they got to
New Orleans. Then they furnished
themselves with supplies. Tie Utah
commission boldly charged for
lager beer and wine This commits
sSab iplaa9 Included F qSaRRsg i liza &heh
lie would ask his friends ON the re-
publican side of the chamber if it was
not time to stop this. The senate
was all the party had left, the demo-
Gratis had possession OF the other end
of the capitol. And of the adj
ministration. About January LIST
the commission got ready to start
from New Orleans. From the LIST OF
October to the LIST of January their
expenses were $4,000. Men who rob-
bed safes were comparatively honora'
bic. This money was taken from taN
PAYERS, who were hardly able to pay
So per night for lodging on Il Pull
man car, when they travelled. In adj
dition to this expense they paid fol
their supplies and their cook, ant
were allowed $500 year each be
. sides. The chairman of thecommission
: who never left New York, resigned
on the 25th of January and drew on
of the treasury 1869. II cost tn
government about $4,000 Tor thi
commission before the two men am
the boy got ready to leave New Or
leans. This reckless waste OF none,
was Il great wrong upon the peopl
who paid taxes. What made II worse
WAS the outrageous bills of that con
mission have been approved an
maid. He denounced this as wors
5 than highway robbery. He said I'll
man who enters house at n ght an
robs is honorable in comparison wit
those who robbed the treasury b
such expenditures as he had describe
IL MS worse, he said, than stealth
~ public lands, and here he referred
w the "back bone" patents as robbery
seven millions of acres at one deck.
Mr.. Henderson referred to the res
luton of Mr.. Van Wyck providir
for a committee to prepare dctail'
statement of expenses and improy
. ments of the Mississippi river, und
which, Mr.. Henderson said, his G.
league might be able to make Junk
ings from the headwaters to I
mouth of the river.
> Mr.. Harrison charged Mr.. V
Wyck with having offered the rei
luton merely for the purpose of
tanning pay for his clerk during rec
and with the view of saving the g
eminent the 81 800 or II 800 salary
n n clerk. lie offered a resolution I
U MIR. Van Wyck's resolution be rec
sidered, and asked that il be refer
TO the committee on improvement
the Mississippi river. LAID over
Mr.. Vest said Il was not his |
HIS nose to become party interest
lS2 a ,hS cSs@be Tn MI Mr. Van Wyck was
the boy who participated in the II
der of his own father he saw the
man was about to be beaten TO d.
We and as he could not help he thor
=, he would give him lick 10 help
AN out of his misery. For twenty
ANN wears he (yest) had been an intiI
ANU personal friend of one of the II
oC hers of the South American com
W sion. and his record, public ana
yate. was stainless one and
ont approach as that OF
nublic man could possibly be.
man who charged in his (Vests)
4 Ac once that Thomas g. Reynolds
ever, by extravaganza or other
ESS wrongfully taken one cent o
peoples money, made
1--WE ment which he (NesO
tradicted absolutely aud
aualifiedly. He was now IN Costs
and was performing the functit
roo manner so satisfactory
LOO the new secretary of state hat
|, AT he regarded him as one OF tn
= ~ officers in the service of the g
ment. Two men and boy, the
tor from Nebraska had said tn
was nearly fifty years old had
ACTS editor of one of the leading pap
Chicago. and had rendered VI
services. George Reynolds wo
compelled soon TO return tothi'
~. try by reason OF illness of nea