Daily Kennebec journal., 1890-02-21
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Assassination Of Deputy United
States Marshal Saunders.
Carses n Exciting md Sharp Spakel
Discussion IL The Senate.
Settlement Of the Site Of the Wosld' Q
Pair 10 Near at Hand.

| WAssYeroS. Feb. 3o.--In the Senate
the resolution offered by Chandler. calling
on the attorney general for informant N a.
to the assassination At z tincy. Fta.. of W
B. Saunders. Ui.ited States Deputy Mar
shsi, "a, taken up PA.eo re.umed bis
re nsrss and had the clerk read the various
documents. new.psper articles and the pro-
csedings Of pabl c meetinss denancistory
| Of the conduct and character Of the United
States court and its officers in the rorthsrn
district o. FioIifa These representation.
he said, might tend to throv come light on
the causes leading up to the ssd sGsis II
Quincy. He knew nothing OF the matter
mself, but did kuos that Saunders hsd
ALREADY exhibite; un6tness for the cfice he
held. II the killing Of Saunders vss the
result Of the facts snd circumstances dis
closed in the papers he read. the Senate
ought to have all the causes which led up
to il.
The responsibility Of Swsyne, (the
iadge,) Mizrll. The marshall and Walter
Che cl-rk) ought to be sscertsined. a. they
bad been shown to he connected With psrti-
stn prosecutions. He offered an amend
ment directing The attorney general to in
form the Senate whether any s6o-ts we're
maize by the department of justice to cor
rect the action Of the officers Of the curt,
which resulted in partisan ] ,ries. made up
mainly from one political party. and il 90,
10 report the sam. n the Senate. Also,
diret iirg the attorney general TO inform The
Senate -heiher he had any information of
an official letter written by Msrshsi Mel.
directing tat The names Of tried and true
republicans" be furnished for Jurors Of the
United Sta'es court. and what action the
department of justice had taken in refer
eDce TO communications Of that chars ct~r.
Hswlev ssid the remarks Of the Senator
from Florida aud The amend meut offer d BY
HIM, seemed to him (Hx~l-yJ to be .
premature apology for murder. Il WAS ev-
ident the amendment was intended to miri-
gate, in the judgment of the public mind.
the crime winch even q dem cratic paper
in Florida s,ignstz.d - most brutal. in
famous and co~ardly murder. The Ssna-
TOR (Pasco) had represe Dted Saunders -
not having been slwa,s good man. A
fair inference from his remarks would be.
there would not have been much objection
TO Saunders being killed. II it could only
have been done in less Objectionable way.
What (Hawlty ssked) had the bad char
acter of Saunders and of the administration
of lstice to do With the murder Of Saun-
der.b He (Hswley) did not care what
Saur ders had done last year or the year
before. He did not care how bad . poll.
tlcisn he was. He WAS snot by towards
and seoundrels for whom there WAS not .
shadow of apology to be made. He wish.
ed the Senator (pasco) to understAr d dis
timely his speech was regarded by the re-
publican Senators ss an attempt to make =
sort of left handed ap 'logy for the murder
and to evade investigation.
Pasco remarked that there was no neces-
sty for the senator from Kentucky work
ing himself up TO such pitch of excite
ment
Hswley-The senator himself worked
me up.
Pssco said he had merely called attention
to the grossly improper way with which the
dut es of United States judge and mar
shall in Florida were conducted. He made
no excuse for anybody, and had expressly
declined to discuss That question.
Call did not think there should be any
opposition to the ame ndment offered by his
colleague. He made no ustltcation Of the
killing of Saunders. But condemned 1t.
He declared there were fewer murders in
Florida in the last 10 years than in Connec-
icut or New Hampshire, or even the Ma
tional Cspi'al. He alluded to the outages
committed by federal officers in Florida,
and d, clared that such acts led desperate,
misguided men, to resort to la~less acts to
protect themselves. The first coDsidsra-
ton was to purge all judicial Offices Of cor
ruption and impurity. The law could not
be .xecu;ed by ministers of crime. Nor
could the natural and just sentiment and
ndrgnston which respected purity, virtue
and public hsnor, be repressed. He de
clsr.d he Senator from New Hampshire
{ (Chsndler1