The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-23
CHANDELIERS BIG JOB
He Leads the Conspiracy Against
Governor Hill
TO GUST HIM FROM THE SENATE,
But 1t VIII Not Succeed Because the Fraud is
Too Transparent Even for Re
publicans.
HERALD BUREAU.

Corner of Fifteenth ana @ Streets
WAsHIN GToN, Dec. 22.-[Special tele-
gram to THE HERALD. THE biggest job of
political thievery that has been attempted
since Mr.. Tilden was cheated out of the
Presidency is now in progress in New
York and this city. By an odd coincidence
Senator William E. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, who was the prime mover in
the first steal, is equally prominent in the
one in question. What | refer to is the eff
fort to deprive Governor Hill, of New
York of his seat in the United States
Senate. Governor Hill, for reasons which
are generally known, has seen fit to con
tlnue as chief executive of New York in
stead of coming down to Washington and
| taking the oath of Office when Congress
assembled on the 7th instant On the 1st
day of January Mr.. Flower will be in
augurated as governor of New York state
and Immediately thereafter Governor Hill
will present himself at Washington to dis
charge his duties as Senator. Some of the
New York Republicans, who realize that
their hold on the United States Senate is
gradually slipping away from them, have
decided to
ROB GOVERNOR HILL OF HIS SEAT.
1t is their purpose when the governor
presents himself at the bar of the senate to
take the oath of office, for Senator Hiscock
OF New ork. to rise in his place and pro-
test against it on the ground that Mr.. Hill
has invalidated his right to the seat in re-
tanning the governorship after his election
to the senate. Mr.. Hiscock will at the
same time present written protest signed
by some of the New York republicans to
this effect, and ask that it be referred 10 the
committee On elections. If they can secure
favorable report from the committee they
will then attempt to GUST the governor by
the united vote of all the republican
senators.
In this expectation they are likely to be
disappointed The new chairman of the
committee on elections is Mr.. Teller, of
Colorado. Mr.. Teller is
BROAD GUAGE MAN.
He will consider this case, as he would
consider any other case that might be pre-
sented to him, from judicial and not from
partisan standpoint. am positively as
sured of this, and no one who knows him
would think otherwise His Repu blican
associates on the committee are Messrs.
Hoar, of Massachusetts; Mitchell, of Ore
gon; Chandler, of New Hampshire, and
Higgins, OF Delaware. Mr.. Mitchell is
quite as fair in his way as Mr.. Teller is,
and so far as the present case is concerned
think that even Mr.. Hoar may be counted
upon as doing what is just and proper
Those who remember Mr.. Hoar only as
the former chairman of the committee and
the gentleman having in charge the OBJ
noxious force bill of the last congress, will
be slow TO believe this. But have known
Ion tCT4
he is IN party matters violent partisan
always, when legal proposition is pre-
sented to him, he forgets his partisanship.
and Is DESTROYS only of reaching a conclu-
sion IN harmony with
THE LAW AND THE FACTS
in the care. 1t may therefore be assumed
that Mr.. Higgins and MIR. Chandler will
find themselves il lonely min ority of two,
for the four Democratic Senators will nat
urally unite with their three Republican
associates in a strong majority report
against the unseating of the Governor.
l know, too, that Senator Sherman, of
Ohio, and other distinguished Republicans.
feel strongly upon this subject | was talk
ing with Senator Sherman about it on the
day before yesterday.
THE OHIO SENATOR
is at all times refreshingly direct and car
did in his utterances, and he did not hest
tate to say that he did not believe a case
could be made against Governor Hill He
said there was nothing in the law that pre-
vented man from filing two Offices pro
vided they were not inconsistent with each
other. He added that Governor Hill had
an entire right to remain in the executive
chair until it suited him to come to Wash
ington, and that when he did this there
ought not to be, and there would not be
on NH i
him of his seat. Under these circumstances
it is quite probable that the conspiracy
against the Governor will fail of accom-
plishment, and that within a few days
after the reassembling of the Senate next
month, Governor Hill will take the oatn of
office and proceed to discharge the func-
tons OF Senator from the state of New
York