The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-09
DUDLEY GIVEN AN AIRING
VOORHEES, HANDLES THE MATTER
WITHOUT GLOVES.

JuSt1ce-Mr. EdmundS Makes Lame
Revort - The Resolution Of Inquiry
Passes, Slightly Amended.
WASHINGTON, Jan. SIN the Senate to-
day, after some routine morning business,
Mr.. Voorhees, called up his resolution Of
fered yesterday in relation to the charges
that Mr.. Chambers, the United States dis
trict attorney at Indianapolis, had inter-
fered in his official capacity to prevent the
arrest of W. w. Dudley, on a charge of fe-
loniously violating the election laws of
Indiana at the last presidential election, and
directing the attorney general to report
what instructions the department of Justice
had issued to Mr.. Chambers on the subject,
and to furnish copies of The correspondence,
and proceeded to address the Senate.
He spoke of the crime as having inflicted
an indelible stain on that memorable cleo
ton, and impeached the integrity of the
political result that followed. The fact of
the crime was open, universally known, and
practically confessed by its perpetrator
and his conductors, and yet, by constant
vigilance in obstructing the law, the crime
had thus far gone unpunlshed.l
SHIELDED BY HARRISON.
The beneficiary Of a polluted ballot box,
now in high place, had felt compelled TO
shield the corrupt instruments of that sue
cess from the penalties due to such notorious
guilt 1t was high time; he said, that that
most disgraceful, and most alarming
episode in the presidential election should
be fully understood by the whole people,
and that the proper degree Of responsibility
should be assigned to the instrument by
h,, &ad ND 20 hoe h.
tried to hide the offense. He should moth
ing exteauate nor aught set down in
malice but forbearance on the subject had
long ceased to be virtue in the estima-
ton of all honest people in Indiana, and
for those alone he spoke.
THE NOTORIOUS LETTER.
Mr.. Voorhees, sent to the clerks desk and
had read the notorious "blocks of fiven
letter, and went on to say that the days and
weeks which Immediately followed the pub
lication of that polluted and polluting cam
paign document would always be
remembered for the rapidity, audacity, and
fecundity with which the most self-evident
falsehoods were conceived and put forth
by the republican press in order to
avert odium and escape the
legal penalties of an organized attempt at
wholesale bribery This document, eman-
committee (and never disowned) had pointed
out, he said, that an ample corruption fund
was ready on hand, and gave express
directions for its use by agents selected for
their skill in such rascality. He spoke of
Dudley as an immediate representative, on
the national republican committee, of Ben
Jamin Harrison, then candidate for Presi-
dent, and now President of the United
States. He had been put upon that
committee at the earnest request
of Harrison, and between them there were
the most confidential and intimate personal
relations. They had been political Siamese
fore, the scheme of bribery and corruption
was exposed on Oct 81, 1888, as far and as
fast as the lightning carried the shameful
story, was it to be supposed that Dudley
was left without advice, instruction, and
assistances Senator Quay, chairman of the
national republican committee and senator
from the state of Pennsylvania. arrived
at indianapolis, and held repeated and pri-
vate conferences with those who held the
fate Of Dudley and the interests of the Re-
publican party in the hollow of their hands.
1t was not for him (Voorhees) to presume to
determine the precise character Of the men
or the subject.
QUAY INTERRUPTS.
Mr.. Quay-I state to the senator from
Indiana that it is not true that in Indian
apolis | conferred with those who held the
party in the hollow of their
hands, or conferred with any one in regard
to the case of Dudley.
Mr.. Voorhees-The hands of those with
whom the senator consulted were rather
small, it is true, but to the extent of their
palms they did hold the interests Of the Re-
publican party in their hands. Does the
deny that he called on President
elect Harrison in Indianapolisa
Mr. Quay-I called on President-elect
Harrison.
Mr.. Voorhees-Certainly you did. The
senator will not blame me if draw the big
that he wanted the prose
cutlon of Dudley stopped, and that
he went to indianapolis to see him,
and that he did say certain things in quar-
ters where it would do the most good, and
with an emphasis which was not forgotten.
DUDLEY's THREATS.
Mr.. Voorhees, went on toj speak of Dud-
ley's threats to use dynamite, which he had
IN his pocket, in case an attempt was made
TO lntlict punishment upon him; and also
70 critlcise very severely the part which
Judge Woods was represented as taking in
preventing the finding of a bill of
Indictment against Dudley. He spoke
of Judge Woods course as
being conspicuously shameful. In
view Of the indignity on justice
and open outrage inflicted on the people
Oh Indiana, in the name and by
authority of the republican national COM
nlttee aided and abetted by action of the
FEDERAL court, it would not seem strange
that, as the representative of that insulted
people, he should like to know by whose
instructions and by what Authority of law
the responsible law officer of the govern
inent at indianapolis Selected and appointed
oy the administrator felt himself war
Tanted a few weeks ago in ordering the
United States commissioner not to issue a
warrant for Dudley's arrest when he vent
ured to return to indianapolis for the first
Ifhe In more than a year, characterizing
d1 the same time the Dudley letter as
an al honorable. and patriotic public
document III behalf of the people of
INDIANA II he desired the attorney general of
1ne United States to inform the Senate
whether the action of his official subordi-
Iiate In interfering with the United States
70 commission was inspired by hisinstructions
tr tr met now with his approval He asserted
suaG district attorney of the United States
.iaq 4 II no more legal right over the action of
a United States commissioner in the
ISSUANCE of or refusal to issue a
variant than he had over the appoint
nent OF minister to England. The
eoSn! ecIlon OF District Attorney Chambers called
ror Ut MS summary dismissal. No better op-
9Soortunlty could present itself to the Presi-
co.i oonO IMAM was now presented to define his
ooilnectlon with Dudley and with Dudley's
~ i,ie. ~ Benjamin Harrison was President