Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-12
The House

The House.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-Breyce. of New
York. rising to a question of privilege. read
the language used by WOODBURY., of Ne.
vada, in reference to ex-Congressman Hew-
lit having apologized to the British Minis
ter for Offering a resolution Of inquiry as
to the case Of O'DonnelI, under sentence OF
death in Great Britain. Bryce then read q
long statement from Abram S. Hewitt, Civ
ing the history OF the matter. The House
then went into committee of the whole on
the tariff bill.
The message of the President transmit
ted yesterday returning without his ap-
proval, the bill for the sale of certain New
York Indian lands in Kansas was referred
to the committee on Indian affairs. Bryce
again got the floor on q question of privi-
lsge in the Hewitt matter, and had sent to
the clerks desk and read a statement
made by Minister West in 1884, denying
that Hewitt had E~pologized to him for his
part in the transaction. These documents,
MIR. Byrce thought. were sufficient to
THE CHARGES
which had been brought against a relative
OF bis by marriage and an honorable gen.
tleman. Continuing, Bryce said it was
plainly the purpose of the gentleman from
Nevada (Woodburn) to excite against
Hewitt the feelings of a warm hearted and
generous people with those struggles for
liberty. / heartily sympathize, as I often
Hewitt say he does himself. 1 can
only state that | did not seek this contro-
versy. 1t was thrust upon me, and I could
do otherwise than to try to vindicate
a gentleman for whom / have the highest
This vindication I have made.
l % leave the matter to the calm
sense OF the House, without regard to par.
tl%sanship, and to the sober Judgment of
the American people, which is always right.
WOODBURY., OF NEVADA, A
he had never in his life knowingly made 81
charge that he could not substantiate. He
did not regard the denial OF the British
Minister as a denial of the charges. In fact |
it was an admission. 1t was NO better
authority than the gentleman's (Bryce's) !
hat he was a relative by marriage to
When he (Woodburn) made this
he was informed by a reputable
Gentleman in Washington. who was on the
at the time; was one of the commit
Zee OF three re~presentive Irishmen delegated
the Irish organization OF America to |
investigate the truth OF the charge made |
Hewitt. That gentleman stated
20 him and said
HE corLD PROVE 1T
as the result of that investigation, Hew-
TT was found guilty OF the charge. One of
he committee was a correspondent of the
New York Irish World, and another was
)'Meaghre Condor, and upon their state
nents in addition to the current literature
the day he made the change and did not
AXE it back. He needed better authority
han a letter over the signature OF A. S
levitt, an interested party and defendant,
BRUMM, OF Pennsylvania,
aid Bryce would bear him out in the state.
nent that after the controversy a few daysa
go, they bad looked over the record to-
ether and that he (Brumm) had then and
here agreed that the gentleman might
ither not publish anything in the Record
.i.h reference to it OIL he might strike out
he word apology" and insert the word
or that he might fix it up
q any way to suit himself consistent with
be truth. The gentlemen had fixed CD the
The Record was not as it should
9, but ne had no objection to the manner
which the gentleman had seen fit to
FIJI n UP, I,
ut when the charge was made that no ex-
was made by Hewitt, be still
laintained that the charge was false, pratt {
asst not correct. His recollection was J
He lit had made an explanation on 5
le floor, but whether it was made on the !
Dor or not, the explanation 1.-THE mildest :
that hScould use) was made by Hew-
3 before the COMMITTEES on foreign affairs.
ewitt appeared before the con. mittee and 8
AIDE q statement, but it was not made in q