The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-09
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
BLOCKS OF FIVE UNDER DIS.
CUSTOM.

Senators voorhees, and Etlmunds
Give the Senate Their Views Oi
the Celebrated Dudley Circular
In Indiana.
WASHINGTON, January S.-SENATE.-
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
district attorney at indianapolis, had in.
terlered in his official capacity to prevent
the arrest of w. w. Dudley on a charg,
of feloniously violating the election laws
of Indiana at the last presidential cleo
ton, and directing the attorney general
to report what instructions the depart.
ment of justice had issued to Mr.. Cham
bers on the subject, and to furnish cop
les of the corresponding. and proceeded
to address the senate. He spoke of tn,
crime az having infis5ed au indellibl,
stain on that nieraerASr election, and
impeached the integrity of the political
result that followed. The fact of tn,
crime was universally known. and prac'
tically confessed by its perpetrator and
his coadjutators; and yet by constant
vigilance in obstructing the law and IL
denying and preventing justice, the Grim,
had thus far gone unpunished. The bene.
ficiary of the polluted ballot box, now in
high place. had felt compelled to shield
the corrupt instrument of that success
from the penalties due to such notorious
gull. 1t was high time, he said, tina,
that most disgracetul and most alarming
episode in the presidential election should
be fully understood by the whole people
and that the proper degree of RESPONSE
bility should be assigned to the instru.
ment by whom it was pcrpetratcd. and
to those who tried to hide the offence.
He should nothing extenuate nor augh,
set dow in malice; but iorbearance on
the subject had long ceased to be vir-
tue. In the estimation of all honest peo
pie in Indiana and for those alone, he
spoke.
Mr.. VOORHEES, sent to the clerks desk
and had read the notorious Blocks OF
Five" letter and went on to say that the
days and weeks which Immediately fol
lowed the publication of that polluted
and pOlluting campaign document would
always be remembered for the rapidity,
audacity and fecundity with which tn,
most self evident ialsehoods were con-
ceived and put forth by the republican
press in order to avert odium and to cs
cape the legal penalties of an organized
attempt at wholesale bribery. This doc
ument. emanating officially from the ma
tional republican committee, and never
that an ample corruption fund was
ready in hand, and gave explicit direc
tions for it's use by agents selected foi
their skill in such rascality. He spoke OF
Dudley as the immediate personal repre-
sentative, in the national republican
committee, of Benjamin Harrison, then
candidate for the presidency, 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 twins. When,
therefore, the scheme OF bribery and cor.
ruption was exposed on the 31st of Oc'
tober as far and as fast as the lightning
carried the shameful story, was it to b,
supposed that Dudley was lett without
advice, instruction and assistance! Sen.
ator Quay, chairman Of the national re.
publican committee, and senator from
the State of Pennsylvania, arrived at In
dianapolis and held repeated and pro-
tracted conferences with those who held
the fate of Dudley and the interests of the
republican party in the hollow of their
hands. 1t was not for him (Noorhees)
to presume to determine the precise char
| acter of the men or subject.
| Mr.. Quay--I state to the senator from
Indiana that it is not true that in Indian
apolis conferred with those who held
the republican party in the hollow OF
their hand 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 republican party in their hands.
Does Il 'nator deny that he called on
Prcsid, Mt elect Harrison in lndianap.
oils
Mr.. Cuas-I called on Prcsidcdt elect
Harris a.
Mr.. Voc hees-Certainly you did. The
senator will not blame me il draw biI
inference mat he wanted the prosecution
of Dudley stopped, and that he went to
indianapolis to see him, and that he did
say certain things in quarters where il
would do the most good, and with an
emphasis which was not forgotten.
Mr.. Voorhees, went on to speak OF Dnd
lcy's threats to use dynamite which ht
had in his pocket in case an attempt was
made to inflict punishment upon him
and also to criticise very severely tn,
part which Judge Woods was repre-
scnted as taking in preventing the find
ing of bill of indicl against Dudley
He spoke of Judge Woods course as be
ing conspicuously shameful. In view o
the indignity. injustice and open out
rage inflicted on the people of Indiana
in the name and by the authority OF th'
republican national committee, aidet
and abettcd by the action OF the fedora
court, it would not seem strange that al
n representative of that insultcd pcopl
he should like to know by whose instruc
tions and by what authority Of law |
responsible law officer Of the government
in indianapolis, selected and appointc,
by the administration, felt himself war
ranted few weeks ago in ordering tn
United States commissioner not to issu
a warrant for Dudlcy's arrest when h
ycntured to return to Indianapolis 70
! the first time in more than Il year, char
. actcrizing at the same time Dudley's let
ter as an honorable and patriotic publ
: document. In behalf of the people Of Ii
J diana. he desired the ottorncy.gencral c
the United States to inform the senat
whether the action Of his official subol
dinute in interfering with the Unite
States commissioner was inspired by hi
instructions. or met now with his az
proval! He asserted that the distric
attorney of the United States had II
more legal right over the action Of til
| United States commissioner in issuanc
, of, or refusal to issue warrant than h
had over the appointment of ministe