Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
eoss QUAY IN REPUTATION or THE
CHARGES AGAINST HIM.
He Saw. they Are All False To the Core
General senate and House
Proceedings.
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transcontinental lines of railroad. to be
Maid for by a new issue of legal-tendei
notes. and to be operated by the Govern
ment. also for the issue Of $4,000, 900 n
Legal tender notes, and for the loan of mo-
nav bv the Government at 2per cent. pei
annun on real estate security, not 70 eA
| coed 81. 500 TO any one person ana ue,
ciaring that the union would not support
any man for legislative office who does
not stand on the 0cala demands from DOT
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The conference report on the fortinca'
ton bill was presented and agreed TO-
THE HAMPTON SOLDIERS HOME.
Mr.. Plumb offered O resolution, which
was agreed to, calling on the Secretary o.
\ War for information as 20 the neeo o.
Greater accommodations for ex-soldiers al
| The National Soldiers Home of Hampton
va whether the men have been during
winter sheltered in tents, and whether
mart of the buildings that could have beer
used for their accommodation was used
for other than absolutely necessary pur'
On motion of Mr.. Hiscock. the House
Joint resolution TO correct an error OF
| punctuation in the tariff act OF 1880 gre
| iating TO twine) was taken from the calen
dar and passed.
TIE DIPLOMATIC ELL.
The Senate then proceeded to. the con
alteration of the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill.
SOUTHERN MISSIONS.
The following amendments reported
| from the Committee Appropriations were
| agreed to: Making the mission to Mexico
| n rst-class mission. ranking with the mis-
sions to France. Germany, Great Britain
and Russia, with salary OF Slf,5CO
striking out the item OF $4,000 for min,
| lister TO the Central American states ano
minister TO Guatemala and Honduras. and
| for n minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica
and Salvador. The Senate then went into
| executive session.
Mr.. QUAY EXPLAINS.
| The doors were re-opened at 4:50 and i'm
mediately afterwards MIR. Quay rose anc
| addressed the Senate in refutatlon Of
| charges circulated against him.
Mr.. Quay said, in part; The hrst as,
sertion concerning my official acts is thai
at some time or continuously between tht
wears 1879 and 1882 l alone, or acting witt
another or others, used moneys OF tht
| State of Pennsylvania for speculative OF
private purposes. j denounce this state
ment as absolutely false. In 1877 the De
mocratic party of PENNSYLVANIA elected th'
State Treasurer and Auditor. the genera
| financial officers of the Commonwealth
A wear or two later. pending their terms o.
| Office. I became engaged in stock opera
| tions. In some transactions / was asso
ciated and jointly Interested with.
| gentleman who was at that time
cashier of the State Treasury. These
| transactions proved seriously disastrous
| and l was compelled to pay
portion of his losses as well as my own
| During this time it became necessary K
supply an alleged deficiency he had caused
in the Treasury. AS portion Oh o iund i 10
| this purpose / borrowed $780, from th'
gentleman who is at present my colleague
| in the Senate. / gave him my judgment
| note therefor, the amount of which not
| / paid TO him dollar for dollar years ago
| Not until the beginning of the settlement
| of our losses was | aware that q dehciencl
| existed, and had every assurance that ny
associate was able TO carry his share OF thu
| losses. Nv connection thereafter was sim
ply with the aid OF friends to raise tn
necessary funds TO supply the deficit.
ANOTHER CHARGE.
eft is charged that again / used money
belonging TO the Commonwe OF Penn
sylvania TO purchase bonds or stocks, o.
| both, of a Chicago street-raliway company
was invited by friends in Philadelphia e
join in the purchase of a street-rallwal
| property in Chicago and did so. borrowing
money upon my own collateral from thu
Peoples Bank in Philadelphia. | stooC
upon the same footing with the other gen
| tlemen concerned, and it was perfect!
straightforward business transaction, ant
| had no connection in any wav with an.
public fund or public interest. The charg
| that securities belonging to the State o
| PENNSYLVANIA were used in these transac
| tions is false and impossible of proof. Tn
| only negotiable securities held by the Stat
of Pennsylvania are registered bonds o
| the United States, transferable only on tn
| books of the National Treasury by tn
| Auditor-General, the Secretary Of the Com
lnonwealth. and the State Treasurer, act
| ing conformity, after having filed certit
cate with the Governor IN their oticla
character.
AS TO DEFRAUDNo WIDOW.
Collateral to this last accusation is th
charge that / defrauded or attempted I
defraud the widow of deceased friend
This also is absolutely false. Their
breathes not upon earth man or woma
who can truthfully say that l ever dC
frauded or attempted TO defraud him c
her Of a dollar. Upon this point Chart
TO the dead and to The living forbids m
making any personal explanation. Samu'
Cuisine Thompson, a member OF the Phili
delphia bar and president of the Youn
Mems Democratic Association of that cit,
is one of several thoroughly conversar
with the facts, who can give them to th
public If they seem proper.
CHARGE NUMBER FOUR.
II come now to what might be calle
the fourth ground of criticism Of my pull
lie conduct. This was my action as a men
MIA in voting for the pardon of certai
members of the Pennsylvania Legislator
and others upon whom sentence had bee
passed for BRIBERY Mr.. Quay's explains
ton was, in brief, that he acted accordin
to written opinion of the Attorney GEN
raj, which was filed along with the decisio
of the Pardon Board, and he would do ii
same thing again.
Incidentally to this subject Mr.. Quay d
nounced as lies without shadow of foul
dation the charges that he had by threa
Lynch, and the "wondrous lyric of h
escape from Pittsburgh rioters in 1877 undo
the tutelage of Dill.
THE CHARGE OF bribery AND CORRUPTION.
Mr.. Quay then proceeded: 1T is nece
sary to pass to history somewhat ancieI
in order to dispose of the nebulous chare
of bribery and corruption as member
the Pennsylvania Legislature nearly twel
ty-fve years ago in connection with an a.
ton for libel against the then editor of tn
Pittsburgh Commercial. With characteristic
malignity my assailants have been carefI
to emphasize the fact that the case ws
never pushed for trial. They fail to stat
that the libel was retracted, and that th
defendants pleaded nolo conteadere. pa,
ing the costs of the case and th
fees of counsel. / may mention in passin
that in the preliminary hearing an effol
was made to show that was rich MAJ
the inuendo being that my wealth ha
been unlawfully acquired. had been pre-
thonotary of Beaver county from 1856 I
1861, when l resigned TO 60 into the Unto
army; had served as private secretary I
, Governor Curtain, as military agent of th
State in this city, as chief of State Depar
ment Of Transportation and Telegraph
} and for three terms had been q member {
the Pennsylvania Legislature. My reco
lection Is that the examination disclose
the fact that after nearly twelve years
industry and opportunity my fortune We
about eight thouAand dollars"
cHARors SIX AND SEWN.
. h The charge that he had once attempte
, to bride an acknowledgements supervise
Mr.. Quay denounced as malicious falls
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