The Portland daily press., 1890-01-09
VERY MUCH LIKE THE MOREy LETTER.
Dudley's Assailants Find Themselves
Put on the Defensive. q
The Resolution of Inquiry Adopted
After Having Been Amended.
Claims OF the Farmers Presented in
the Tariff Hearing.

WASHINGTON. January SIN the Senate
today after some routine morning business.
Mr. VOORHEES, called up the resolution offered
py MN yesterday, reciting newspaper re-
port that Mr.. Chambers, United States
district attorney at Indianapolis interfered
In his official capacity to prevent the arrest
OF w. w. Dudley on charge of felonious,v
violating the election laws IF Indiana at the
late presidential election, and directing the
attorney General to report any instructions
taat the Department of Justice had issued to
Mr. Chambers on the subject, and furnish
copies OF any such correspondence. Mr..
Roorhees proceeded to address the Senate.
ne had read by the clerk the notorious
= biocRs a,sS Of Five letter, and declared that
II emanated officially from the National
republican Committee and was never disa-
vowed. He called attention to the intimate
personal relations between Col Dudley and
PRESIDENT Harrison, and charged Senator
Qnay with using his influence in behalf
Oh 0ol. Dudley, which Mr.: Quay denied. He
criticised the action of Judge Woods and
represented him as taking part in prevent
ing the finding of an indictment against Col.
dudley. He asserted that a district attorney
o1 the United States had no legal right over
d sne aciioa .S a OF an United States Commissioner
Ior his summary dismissal. He said no bet
yer opportunity could offer for the President
70 Gefne his connection with Col. Dudley
and his crime.
;, Mr.. Edmunds offered an amendment for
the preamble and resolution, to strike out
the preamble and make the resolution read
That the Attorney General be, and hereby is
instructed TO inform the Senate what instruc-
IONS, II any, the Department of Justice had given
5: n. Chambers district attorney of the dist, let
CT Indiana, on the subject of the arrest of W. w.
Dualey, or MS exemption from arrest aud by what
authority Of law any such instructions had been
gwen, and that copies of all such correspondence
be transmitted to the Senate.
Mr.. Edmunds intimated that the Dudley
letter might have been forgery, like the
Morey letter. Mr. Voorhees, asked if it was
a forgery why had not Dudley brought the
libel suits against the New York papers to
trial, and why had he skulked and hid him.
self in exile the past twelve months or more.
Mr.. Edmunds said he did not believe Col.
Dudley was hiding, and did not know that
he had libel suits pending in New York.
Mr.. VOORHEES, said that every possible effort
had been made to get Dudley to prosecute
his libel suits, but they were unsuccessful.
Mr.. Edmunds asked why the Democratic
district attorney in Indiana had so long de-
layed in bringing Col. Dudley to book for the
crime which the letter suggests. He COM
United States district attorney to bring the
jury. BE produced and read a letter
sent out by Mr.. Whitaker, of Mar
tinsville, Indiana, chairman of the DEM
ocratic county committee, September 7, 1888,
which used precisely similar expressions as
used in Dudley's letter as to supplying
list of doubtful voters. Whitaker describes
them as fl9aters and directs that they be
closely looked after. Mr.. Edmunds said its
likeness to the so-called Dudley letter was
so perfect and peculiar that he should be
bound to saw If q Juror that the man who
wrote it wrote the Dudley letter, and palmed
II off as letter from the National Repub-
lican Committee.
Mr.. Edmunds's amendment was agreed to
by party vote and the resolution, as thus
ammended, adopted. After the disposal of
routine matters, the Senate proceeded to the
of executive business and at
o'clock adjourned