Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-22
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.

VoAJ ~At AOOO' | SENATE-After preliminary business tn Senate took up the report of the Election committee in regard to the charges agains Senator Payne. Mir. Pugh advocated th' position taken by himself and Messrs. Sauls bury, Vance and Eustis to the effect tha there has been no expression of 8 belief o1 suspicion on the part of any member of the
 the remotest degree by act or knowledge with
 anything wrong, criminal or immoral in his
 election, and that no further investigation
 of the charge should be made. He revived
 the report submitted by the minority and
 observed that no evidence to warrant prima
 facie case and an investigation had been
 found, that no fraud which changed the re-
 suit of the election had been discovered.
 MT. Hoar followed. He cited many au-
 thorities showing that the testimony pre-
 sented to the Senate committee wss suffi-
 cient to warrant an investigation. He then
 made eaustic review and severe criticism
 of the investigation of the Ohio committee
 for not compelling recusant wit
 nesses to testify. The witnesses,
 he said, should have been pressed
 to testify. MT. Hoar entered into 8 review
 of the testimony presented to the Committee
 on Privileges and Elections, dwelling espe-
 cially upon the wonderful and unexplained
 prosperity of certain members of the legis-
 lature who voted for MT. Payne. The ma
 jority of the committee seemed to stand on
 the ground that before an investigation is
 ordered a complete case must be made. He
 thought this unusual and unnecessary. The
 question is what is before the Senate now.
 It is whether there is sufficient testimony
 to lead to the belief that an investigation
 would develop a case. He (Mr. Hoar) dis
 claimed any personal feeling He would not
 utter word unjustly against the amiable
 and venerable Senator from Ohio. This is
 an lmpersonal quest1on-a question of pure
 governments a question whether men of
 wealth may corrupt the government-the
 people. The greatest and most serious ques-
 tion now before the country is the purity of
 elections. We have taken foreigners into
 our concerns and affairs, but nothing threat
 ened the country's interests so much as the indifference about pure elections. We can
 bear almost anything but corrupt ballot
 If the decision of the committee is sustained
 this corruption will be easy.
 MT. Hoar was followed by Mir. Logan, who declared at the outset that he would not let garbled testimony and outside influences lead him to do an injustice to man; to do an act unwarranted in law and fairness. The Sen ator from Massachusetts (Mr. Hoar) had used garbled statements for the purposes of se- curing outside prejudice in this case It was no higher than children's play.
 MT. Logan denied that there was any evi- dence of bribery. The fact that Payne was not known as candidate up to very short time of his e ection was no evidence of fraud. Two or three Republicans held seats in the Senate similarly. It did not follow that the possession of money by poor mem- Der of legislature at the time 8 United States Senator was elected means bribery, nor does it follow that the election of millionaire indicates bribery. There must be evidence of fraud. The suggestion that MT. Blank was summoned to tell of a MT. Blank who heard that MT. Blank knew of something was not sufficient. Payne's name had been mentioned for the Senate long before his election. MT. Payne was Union man during the war, had given up his means to support the war and sent son to the front. The Republicans saw at glance that his election wss for them injurious and did all they could to defeat it. MT. Pendle- ton, being the author of the civil reform bill, was opposed by members of his party in Ohio and some of the Democratic politicie IS had determined to defeat him. When Payne's name was suggested it was received with favor by not only Democrats, but many Re- publicans. NIT. Payne received the caucus nomination and was elected by the legisla- lure, Democratic legislature. MT. Pendle- ton afterwards came back to the Senate. Of course the Democratic Pend!eton papers howled against the election of MT. Payne, while the papers that favored MT. Payne some Republican and some Democratic) took he other side. Bitterness grew up and smoke was seen ve1ywhere and there were charges of corruption. The Cincinnati Com nercial and other papers commenced the widest howl and the legislature was forced
 o make the investigation. It did so on charges made by Donovan. He went be- ore the committee and swore he knew lothing. There was nothing in the that proved the charges which had been made The legislature ent this mass of rubbish to the Senate. There was not in it an iota of testimony inn olicating Mr. Payne. MT. Logan quoted rom the testimony and said that is the character on which we three men, as good as the Senator from Massachu- etts, shall be heraided all over the land as laving sacrificed principle. will defend ayself here and elsewhere against mud throwing and hurl back what they may ay against me. I have been threatened and warned. But would rather be right than o have all the offices or compliments that 1 ould be bestowed upon me. There is not l III office in the country that would make me l 10 wrong to any man in the Senate for po- itical purposes. In order, he said, to show | he intense feeling against certain individu- l is he read what had been said about Repub I he party. This did not seem to be an in l restigation of the Senator from Ohio as much | IS an attack upon three Republican Senators. l Why is it that they so consistently attack | ,ne day Logan, the next day Evarts and the l lext day after killing off these two men | ,hey say now is the time for our hero. It l hows that this part of the play is to destroy l f possible Republicans who are in this Sen | lte instead of busting the Senator from ! Ohio. Well, am ready to be destroyed. l am no help to anybody. It will not hurt anybody to kill me off. Some friends tell l ne had better let the Cincinnati Conner ,ial Gazette alone, but am going to read rom it as evidence against myself. The paper is very influential paper. It is own d and edited by a man named Halstead. He is gentleman of wealth and influence md it is easy for him to trample upon @ creature like me. Halstead thought that lincoln's brains ought to be knocked out dalstead thought Grant was a drunken old osfer. Halstead thought Senator Sherman vas dishonorable, corrupt man. Hal itead said once that James G. and a villain who should be executed. I did lot believe it about Blaine. did not be- ieve it about Sherman. did not believe it .bout Grant or Lincoln. Halstead is the nan who got up this case. MT. Logan quot d from the Commercial Gazette an article against himself and Senators Evs-ts and Tel CT. The presidential boom of two distin yuished Republican Senators can now be l.s'l away to rest, the article said. That, said MT. Logan to Mir. Evarts. means yourself and he Senator from Ohio, NJ. Sherman Qaugh- ;er.) There is nobody else spoken of who s an aspirant for an office of that Xii, d laughter.) I have been reading these ex- ;racts to show how these gentlemen worked lp the people of Ohio. They must destroy some one and hence their attack upon Re oublicans. We never cen find any hing to say against our enemies, put must attack one another. In the Commercial Gazette find this: "Three Senators voted with coal oil. The Ohio mem oers are incensed with Logans act and say it kills him forever as to his chances for the ''Lordl" he exclaimed, 1T did not know that I ever had any chances for u MT. Logan read other extra
 them. In conclusion he said he had been actuated in this matter, not by impulse, not being aggrieved, not by attacks, but by a calm and deliberate examination of the testi- nony and of the law in the case. He had