The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of the Senate and the House
OF Representative.

Were Republicans except two-Payne, OF ONO,
and Cockreli, OF Missouri. The twenty-four
votes against the measure were all cast by
Democratic Senators. Henry =. Henderson, OF
Michigan. was nominated by the President TO
be Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court OF
Utah. The President also nominated these post
masters: w. ii. Bowser Warsaw, Ind Fred
erick ii. Bates, Elmhurst ILL., +; William n.
LOOMS, Shawneetown, Ill. Emanuel NJ. Funk,
Manning. Iowa Isaac ID. TOLL Petoskey, Mich. !;
Otis q. King, kenosha, Wis ; William A. Nc
Allister, Vinton, Iowa. The House OF Repre-
sentatives, in committee of the whole, rejected
amendments to the river and harbor bill strik-
the charge Of the Mississippi River improve
ment out OF the hands OF the Mississippi River
Commission.
/. THE reports in the Payne election came
up In the Senate for consideration or July 81.
Senator Pugh, in advocacy Of the position taken
by himself. Senators Salisbury. Vance. and
Eustis. contended that there had been no ex-
press belief or suspicion on the part OF any
member OF the committee TO the effect that Mr..
Payne was connected in the remotest degree
with anything wrong. criminal, immoral in
his election, and that no further investigation
OF the charges should be made. Senator
Hoar presented the views OF himself and
Senator Frye. He argued that such an
investigation was due TO Senator Payne and
contendei that the charges were made by in
diyiduals and bodies Of sufficient weight to
compel the Senate to investigate them. Sena-
ment of Senator Hoar and TO sustain the views
expressed In the report signed by himself and
Messrs. Teller and Evarts. Senator Logan
quoted from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
an article against himself and Senators Evarts
and Teller, speaking of Mr. Evarts as II repre-
sentative Of coal oil in the Senate, and saying
that Teller was not worth talking about. Con-
tinuing he read from another extract Il state
ment that Senator Camden, whose intimate
relations 20 the Standard Oil Company are well
known had telegraphed to prominent Demo-
carry the Senate, and that they Were prepared
TO pay $4,000 each for them, and said: Il say
that any man who will publish such an in
famous SANDER and such villainous lie as that
upon honorable members of his own party is
unworthy, of recognition anywhere. Senator
Logan then detailed the of the
Ohio Legislature in electing Senator Payne,
and afterward in investigating the charges
against its own members. There was
not, said the Senator in the evidence taken be-
fore the committee Of the Ohio Legislature one
single iota of testimony duplicating Mr. Payne,
directly or indirectly. Senator Teller Coli next
took the floor and said he was not
on trial He had defense To make
either 70 the people of Ohio or any other
State. The committee had kept steadily and
truthfully in the line Of the Irecedents. The
State of Ohio had made no demand Of the Sem
ate. What had newspaper clamor to do with
the question when it came 10 the American Sen
ate? He believed the Ohio newspaper con-
vention called for the purpose of COM
polling recreant Republicans TO forswear
themselves and perjure themselves in the in
terest of political success. In the House Mr..
Morrisons concurrent resolution, reported from
the Ways and Means Committee providing for
the adjournment OF Congress on July D, after
being opposed by Mr.. Reagan, Mr.. Weaver Mr..
Bayne, Mr.. Hepburn, and Mr.. Willis, was
passed by vote of las to SO. Then struggle
arose for priority of consideration between the
interstate commerce and the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bills which was resolved-yeas 142,
nays GIN favor of the former.
THE PAYNE election case was the subject Of
another debate in the Senate on July % Sem
ator Teller said, in regard to the resolutions
presented by the Ohio editors and the extracts
from the Democratic papers declaring their
opinion that the election was procured by
corruption, that it attempt to
compel by convention of political ed
itors the determination OF political question.
Senator Sherman said he rose TO perform the
most dsagreeable duty of his life. He had
known his colleague (PayneD since he had
rived at the age of manhood, and he believed
that, whatever corruption had occurred in the
process of the election, no knowledge of such
corruption WIS brought to his colleague. He
believed also that If the investigation
granted his colleagues honor would not
be touched 10y the testimony that
would be produced. There was gen
eral belief in the State of Ohio that
the election of his colleague mot with his
knowledge had been accomplished through
gross fraud and bribery. Whether not suffi-
cient evidence had been laid before the commit
tee OF the Senate it was for the Senate to say.
here to pat the question ON its inquiry.
Senator Frye, in supporting the minority re-
port, said the question was whether bribery and
corruption had been used, an | not whether the
Senator from Ohio had himself been n partici-
pant in il. Bills for public buildings IT Carks-
burg, w. Va. Springfield, Mo-. and Nebraska
City. Neb We're passed by the Senate. In the
House of Representatives Mr.. Hatch Mo-, from
the Committee Agriculture, reported the
oleomargarine bill, with Senate amendments,
and with recommendation that they be non
N. referred
of the whole.
MR.. HoAR's resolution for an investi CATION OF
the election of Mr.. Payne was defeated in the
Senate OH July %, the vote standing yeas II,
nays "A. In discussing the Payne case, Mr..
Hawley Conn., argued in favor of an investga-
ton. He said the demand for ii was not mat
ter OF rumors or of newspapers. but it was a
great cutlery from outraged people, If there
We're any truth whatever in these declarations
from the Legislature and from the Demo
cratic papers. He certainly could not see
how in justice and dealing with the
question on broad considerations, the Senate
could refuse to order IN investigation. Senator
Evarts New York. closed the debate in an argu-
ment against further investigation. 1t was not
TO be dodbted, he said, that the Senate was
master Of the question presented and was I'M
der no law or restraint, except that imposed by
the Constitution. But, by the same reasons, the
scope and boundary of the Senate's mastery and
duty limited and fixed by the same firm
instructions OF the constitution. Inc senate
had no power and no right to investigate the
conduct of on political party mt the request of
another. 1t had no power to investigate the dis
cords of party at the request or invitation of a
faction Of that party. 1t had no power to meas
ure, to estimate, any right or wrong that did not
touch the ext mt and authority and scope and re-
suit that was measured to IL by the Constitu-
tion. While the Senate, continued Senator Ev-
arts. should have great Difference for great
State of 100000 of people, no constitutional
distinction could lie drawn between such a
State and one the size OF Rhode Island or
Delaware. He then quoted senator Payne's
letter TO the Chairman of the Ohio Legislative
Committee. inviting aud challenging the
most thorough and rigid scrutiny. and Offer
ing for inspection his private correspond
ence and books Of accounts. and Chairman
Cowgill's reply that IL there was any testi-
mony tending TO inculpate him Paynel in
any degree with any questionable transac-
ton his request would he acceded 10. Gould
any person, he asked, require n more early,
a more prompt, a moro universal proposition
from the Senator? The fact that the
Ohio Legislative Committee did not call on
Mr.. Payne was proof that it did not consider
there was anything before IL which re-
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