St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-22
Senator Buchanan Will Keep
His Word of Honor With
Clough.
An Election May Be Had This
Noon, But There Are
Chances.

"WeIl, sir,' said Representative
Forbes yesterday afternoon to a GLOBE
reporter, II think that the decision of
tomorrow will see the senatorial fight
on again worse than ever"
Mr.. Forbes is representative Wash
burn leader, and his utterance has the
significance of being a fair reflection of
what large proportion of the Wash
burn men expect to happen to-day.
On the arrival of Senator Pope yester-
day morning on the summons of tele-
gram sent to him, the senate committee
appointed to investigate the bribery
charges in connection with the senator
ial caucus met in parlor of the Ryan
hotel and commenced its labors. Sub
peuas were issued for Representatives
c. H. Davis, Shoemaker, Law, Lightly
and Vollmer, and in the after
noon and evening still others were
summoned-F Fred L. Warner, Fl. &.
Stone, w. Il. Estes, Mr.. Polk, a
real estate dealer of Merriam Park,
and Representative Hanke. By
the insistence of Senator Ward, chair
mar OF the committee, the proceedings
were made judicial in their nature, each
member on the committee being sworn
to secrecy, also the attorneys present.
the stenographer and each witness.
Despite this quite little leaked out,
and of nature to show that the rest is
as bad. Startling developments may be
expected.
When Representative Davis was
called he went to Freeman Lane and
asked him, as his attorney, to accom-
pany him to the committee room, to
prevent him, as he expressed it, ''get-
ting tangled up.n Mr.. Lane did so, but
subsequently was surprised to find that
finally recaptured and testified after
supper last night. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Davis stated that he was approached
by Washburn leader who holding up
two fingers said to him:
"If you will vote for WaShburn it will
be worth that much to us, or not SYM
bolically expressed, $4,000. Mr.. Davis
is represented as being quite positive
that this came as a bribe. Messrs. Hop
kin and Lightly, original Sabln men,
were suspected of having been among
those who deserted the senator on the
last ballot. and they were up to explain
their sudden change of heart. But it
was left for Representative A. S. Cross
field to spring sensation when he ap-
peared bdesre the committee.
"Were nDu offered any money!" was
asked of him.
Il was" he replied.
"Who by?"
"a Sabin man, or one who was con-
Sidered to be So"
''Ot course, Mr.. Crossfield, you under
stand" said Senator Ward, "that it is
not necessary for you to repeat this
outside"
Mr.. Crossfield could not see this. He
told the committee that he would not
take the oath of secrecy; that he did
not consider himself to be amenable to
the committee. and that he felt perfect
ly free to say outside just what he
pleased. And that was all of the salts
faction got out of him.
Mr.. Crossfeld's testimony is taken to
be in harmony with that of Repub-
lican senator and a strong Washburn
man, who walked into the Sabin head
quarters Friday or Saturday and said:
cd d-n it, both sides spent money,
and the only trouble with you fellows
is that Washburn had the longest
purse"
Before the senate committee G. D.
O'Brien appears as attorney for Gen.
Washburn, and w. W. MrWin for the
committee. Mr.. Hillman, of the district
court, is StenOgrapher. Senator Ward
said last evening.
1.-The heinvestigatiOn will not be finished
by tomorrow, since we must await the
coming of important witnesses from La
Crosse, Mower county, Redwood Falls
and the northern part of lthe state.
We shall probably file preliminary re-
port this morning."
Although a matter of much specula-
ton, there seemed to be no doubt last
night but that this preliminary report
will state that evidences of corruption
have been found sufficient to warrant
the continued labor of the committee
and the Withholding of any decision by
the legislature as to who shall be SEN
atOr.
Whether it has reached the committee
or not, one case is particularly talked of
where in a certain room on the second
floor of the Merchants the mortgage on
the farm of certain member is said to
have been paid off in consideration of
his voting against Sabin. a third party
accidentally discovered the transaction,
and it was reported last night that a
subpoena is out for him.
One of the parties present at yester-
days senate investigation summed the
situation up last night for the GLOBE
in the following words:
"The committee has enough evidence
to warrant the overthrow of the caucus
decision aid the Introduction of new
candidate for senator free from all taint
of this nature. 1t will be fearful blot
upon the Republican party if it permits
certain candidates to go to Washington
after this"
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Representative Crossfeld says that
any senator or representative willfully
staying from the senate or house to-day
is nnen to imneachment ..Whv9,, ..ke-