Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-16
SENATOR PA1NE,s ELECTION.
Three Reports To The Senate-Two n,
 Them Oppose An InYestfeatinn

Three Reports To The Senate-Txvo n,
 Them Oppose An investigation 8 WASHINGTON, July 12.-Three reports rom the Senate Committee on Privileges , and Elections upon the Payne case were sub
 mitted to the Senate to-day,
 The report signed by Senators Pagh. Salisbury, Vance and Eustis, the Democrat
 lc members of the committee, sets forth at
 length the public history of the case, recog-
 nizes the trarscendent importance of throw
 ing around the Senate of the United States I the highest safes uards against seating mem
 bers whose title was procured by bribery. ! fraud, or corruption, and describes the | processes by which the signers reach 1 the conclusion that there is no
 ground for further proceedings against Mir. 1 fayne. The report says that the comm it. 1 tees first act was to comply fully with the 1 first request of the Ohio House of Represen | tatlVes to make an examination of the testi- mony taken by the select committee at Co., l Iumous. Upon this testimony Mr. Hoar made report to the committee that after careful reading no evidence, opinion or statement whatever was found personally in- cuipating ME. Payne in any way with the
 corr apt use of money in connection with his
 election. Neither did such examination show that enough had been found to justify 4 the charge that the election was procured by
 by the corr dpt use of money.
 Senators Teller, Evarts and Logan unite ln report, In which, after reciting the cir | cumstances surrounding the Senatorial cleo
 ton in Ohio in 1891, it is said that no action l elected Senator Payne, calling in question ! the validity of his election, but that the new ! legislature constituted in January of the 1 present year had adopted the resolution un- der which the investigation of. Dona- vin's charges had been made. The Senate committee had found it prop CT to accept the presentation of the case set out in the majority and minority repoI5s of the select committee of the Ohio House of Representatives. The only constitutional waIIant for an investiea- tion in a case ike that presented is in the l clause making each House of Congress the ! . judge of the qualifications of its own mem : bers, and the clause confer1ing the right of 7 expulsion. The signers of the report do not < find that a case hes been presented that 1 ! would affect Mr. Payne with such turpitude e as would tolerate his expulsion from the Sen ate, nor that testimony is accessible tha'l ot ouches the subject of the personal ir o' ion of MT. Payne. @ney cannot to
 Senators Hoar and Fr4sas ssed by the ma tb b oncur with the vim a case is presented in I n ~ ority. TIsne duty of the Senate to permit l oI l Eb bieelltioners to present their evidence and n n lthorize the issue of proper process to aid in. occurring the attendance of witnesses. ,,,rris1
 enate is the only court which can ha-.eJ0o
 ction of the question. The co.'s or onle IL ay exercise jurisdiction of me on i'c tba Ala ibery, but could not decide wne.f .fnanoed mar N suis .1 oi all cota eisos +o -ofrea 70 listen the
 tbis Jvon1d be taken as declaration the st if 1s so iudif,tent to the or o ,estion yvIether it's seats 4re to be the sub. one ,t of hscter and sale pI may be presented wor
 a fa,T millionaire~as a compliment to the no eni The proposition set forth by Messrs' unti ,Ie and Buttorworth is recited by the re- the rt It is id effect that witnesses will be eil .nished to prove the purchase of the seat.
 the conclusion of the report is resolution
 ecting an investigation and recommen- S ion fo- it's adoption. ! the