San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-07
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Interview With Senator EYarts--His
Report on the Washington
County OutraRes--VieWs
Of the Senator on
Other Matters.

Dhlly
An interview with Senator Evarts
yesterday, at his residence, showed
the subcommittee on privileges and
elections, of which he is chairman,
has had printed the majority report,
ninety pages, in pamphlet form, of the
Washington county case. 1t is the
work of the chairman. Today 1t will
be submitted to the committee, then
he presumes the members CONSTITUTE
ing it's minority, will want to submit
an adverse report, which will con.
sumo further time, but he says the re-
port will be laid before the senate
shortly, when it will be debated.
The report, it is hardly necessary
to say, is carefully drawn, coming
from the source it does. Mr.. Evarts
says he has supported the conclu-
sions the committee came to by ex-
tracts from both democratic and re-
publican with esses. No copy of the
report will be given to the public I'M
til it has been presented to the senate
and acted on by it.
He says the senate's inquiry into
the association of Joe Hoffman,, of
Washington county, will probably
not be farther Investigated at this
session. He was surprised that no at
tempt had been made by the friends
of James Holt to discover his assassin,
who was murdered at the same time,
especially as his brother was very
Inn,nnraf q
sumed that Holt was killed uninten-
tionally, but your correspondent laid
some facts before him, which satisfied
liberately planned. He admitted then
that it could be readily seen why the
assassin remained updisturbed.
He believed Senators Coke and
Reagan were now convinced of the
necessity of calling a halt OH such
outrages. The nation, he with much
positiveness asserted, cannot abide
this state of affairs much longer, with
part of it dead to it's constitutional
obligations-it is too much of a burden
for the other section, thrifty and pro-
gressive, to bear.
"If Mr.. Harrison" using his words,
sis as judicious and competent as it is
expected he will be, and [ believe he
has those qualities, then we will
fully work out the southern problem
in the next four years.
He said he could not vouch for the
dispatch received here directly after
! Clayton's murder to the effect that
Mr.. Harrison said, on being notified
| of it, that cit is terrible. There has
been nothing since Mr.. Garfield's as
sassination more disgraceful to the
state or people. Such outrages will
| have to stop.n but it w8s presumably
| correct report of what he said, and
such as the outrage would call forth
He thinks the reward offered by
the Governor of Arkansas, and the
expressions of regret by the demo-
cracy of that state over Clayton's
murder is simply for effect. And this
is the opinion of all republican men,
bers of congress here that the writer
has spoken to, who believe firmly
that the plot to murder Clayton was
fully concurred in by the leaders of
the opposition in the state.
Mr.. Evarts still opposes an extra
session of congress, ut admits those
favoring it in his party are large
ly in the ascendency. He be-
lieves the territories will be ad-
mitted this session, but when
asked if New Mexico would be given
statehood also, replied, that is the
bone of contention"
When asked if he deemed the Sa-
moan question a serious one, he said
it would depend upon what would be
developed; at all events the honor of
the nation must be upheld.
The senator has been counsel in
celebrated cases, the first he was re-
tanned in being that of Col. Monroe
Edwards, the noted fOrger and Texas
swindler. This was in 184l, less than
two weeks after he hung out his
single. His opinion OF his first
client was not of an exalted kind.
J Referring to the Beecher trial
whom he represented, he said he
spent half an hour interrOgating
Tilton indirectly to satisfy himself
that a question he desired to put
would he answered favorably to his
= client, and when he had thus render
o ed assurance doubly sure, he got the
wished for reply. The senator
makes it decidedly pleasant fol
v the interviewer, as he does no
a act as If he had the positive and neg
alive poles of a battery in his hands
> but treats one courteously, patient
: ly, and gives his opinions deli6er
9 ately. F. ID. j.