St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-09
DUDLEY ROASTED TO A TURN.
Voorhees, Denounces the "Blocks
OF Five" Business.


OF Five" Business.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The senate
to-day debated at some length Mr..
Voorhees, resolution for the investiga-
tion of the .''blocks of five" scandal,
and after amending, agreed to it. Mr..
Voorhees, called up his resolution i'm
mediately after the conclusion of por-
tion of the morning business, and pro-
ceeded to address the senate upon it at
some length. He said the crime of Mr..
Dudley had inflicted an indeiible stain
on the election of 1888. and impeached
the integrity of the political result
that followed. The crime was prac-
ticallY confessed, yet the benefi-
ciary of polluted ballot-boX, now
shield the corrupt implement of that
success from the penalties due to such
notorious guilt. Mr.. Voorhees, sent to
the clerks desk to be read the cele-
brated ''blocks of five'' letter of Mr..
Dudley. He said that the days and
weeks that followed the publication of
this letter would always be remembered
for the rapidity, audacitY and fecunity
with which the most Self-evident false
hoods were conceived and put forth by
the Republican press to avert the odium
and escape the legal penalties of an Or
ganiZed
ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE BRIBERY.
Mr.. voorhees, spoke of MIR. Dudley as
the personal representative of BENJAMIN
Harrison on the National Republican
committee. He said that after the pub
licatiOn Senator Quay went to indian
apOliS to see those who held the
fate of the Republican party in the
hollow of their hands and that it was
very natural to assume that when he
called on President Harrison there it
was to secure for Mr.. Dudley immunity
from prosecution. Mr.. Voorhees, criti-
cised very severely the part which
Judge Woods was said to have taken in
preventing the finding of a bill of in
dictment against Dudley. He SAID he
desired to know whether the action of
District Attorney Chambers in ordering
United States commissioner not to is
sue warrant for Dudley's arrest was
authorized by the attorney general, and
he would like to know also what right
the district attorney had to issue such
an order. He thought Chambers should
be dismissed, and that this was the best
opportunity the president would have
of disavowing his sympathy with Dud-
ley's crime. Mr.. EdmundS offered
substitute for the resolution as follows:
That the attorney general be and hereby
is instructed to inform the senate what IN
structions, if any. the department of Justice
had given to s. n. Chambers, district attor-
ney for the district of Indiana, on the sub
| ject of the arrest of w. W. Dudley and his
exemption from arrest: and by what author
| ity OF law any such instructions have been
given and thatcopies of all such correspond
| ence be transmitted to the senate
Mr.. EdmundS said that if Mr.. Dudley
had done all that he was charged with
| he certainly committed Of not crime
| against the United States) crime
| against that class of public morality
| which the senator from Indiana had $50
| beautifully described. Still, it was
! impossible that the Dudley letter had
| been forged. or SO altered as TO make a
morally innocent political letter appear
a morally guilty one. He referred to
| the Morey letter. and said that he was
| glad the leaders of the Democratic party
had apparently reformed. Laughter
| in the galleries.l Mr.. VOORHEES, asked
why Mr.. Dudley was skulking and hid
ing if the letter was forgery. Mr..
EdmundS replied that he did not believe
that Mr..
DUDLEY WAS SkULKING ANYWHERE.
Mr.. Voorhees, charged that every eff
| fort had been made to get Dudley with
| in the limits of the state of New York
| to prosecute his libel suits against the