The Brookhaven leader., 1891-06-04
MORE coFFEYvILLE REPORTS.

The Republican Members OF the Coffeyville
1 Committee Make Their Report-They
Reach Opposite Conclusions From the
! Alliance Members-Senator Carroll Also
Makes Report.
! TOPEKA, Kan, May 2s.-The repub-
lican members of the Coffeyville in
vestigation committee submitted their
report to the governor this morning,
, finding every body innocent and de-
nouncing the alliance for its sus-
picions. Senator Carroll, the dem
ocratic member of the commit
. tee, could sign neither the report
of the alliance nor that of the Repub-
! lcan mem bers and submitted one of his
own. The report of the Republican
! bers is a brief effort, containing
between Is, 900 and 20, 900 words, while
| the separate report of Senator Carroll
contains 1, 900.
From the same evidence the alliance
and rep blican committeeman arrive ut
exactly opposite conclusions. Senator
| Carroll hates the alliance more cordially
| than does any republican in the state,
| but could not sign the republican re-
| port and do his party justice. The
| partisan reports leave the entire matter
| Just where it stood before any investi-
| CATION was ordered.
The republican members gave their
conclusions in five pages of type writ
ten matter, while forty-fve pages give
their argument and reasons for the
finding. After reviewing the steps
| taken before the house of representa-
tives for ordering the investigation, the
| republican report declares:
THE investigation, instead of being
instituted for the laudable purpose of
exposing and Furnishing crime, was
urged and advocated to crafty feelings
| of personal hatred and desire for re-
venge and was taken up and forced
upon the people of this state by the
| alliance party at an expense of S12,
or more, for political buncombe merely
for the sole purpose of endeavoring to
smirch the republican party and gain
some political advantage.
| 1--WE find further tnat the explosion
was not the result of any conspiracy
instigated by the republican state CEN
| tral committee nor one in which any
member of that party nor any employe
of the state was implicated, as charged
the resolutions. The proof is clear and
| convincing that the use or explosion of
| dynamite was no part of the plan of the
| republican state central committee for
conducting its campaign; that it had
nothing whatever to do with the eX-
| plosion at Coffcyvillc and was in no
wise responsible therefor, and that
Henry Booth, Bion S. Hutchins, E. 7.
| Greer, c. A. Henrie and George w.
| Poorman were not in any way con-
nected with the explosion nor accessory
| thereto"
The republican end of the committee
! further declares that there is no evil
dence tending to show that the failure
| to investigate the explosion was due to
neglect of officials, and that the ap-
pointment of C. A. Hcnrie as clerk in
| the bureau of statistics was in no way
connected with service rendered by him
as dynamiter
The republican report is signed by
Senators Kimball and Mohler and
| Representative Bishop
CARRoLL's INDIVIDUAL REPORT.
Senator Carroll's report is bitter de-
nunciation of everything connected
with the investigation. He declares
that he cannot subscribe to either the
republican or alliance reports and says:
THE Coffcyville explosion happened
in the year 1883. 1t was charged upon
! the republican party by members of
the union labor party and by members
! of the republican party it was charged
upon the union labor party and upon
the national order of "videttes," a
secret political organization which
then existed mostly within the union
labor party. This political party, trans
formed into the alliance party, coming
into power, this explosion and the
charges that had been made in refer
ence to it, were considered to be of
sufficient political Importance to war
rant preliminary investigation at an
expense of many thousands of dollars
! to the people of the state. The investi-
CATION has been had. No good has been
done. No one has been shown to be
guilty and those who claimed to know
so much before the investigation, when
put upon the witness stand, knew moth
ing except what Mrs. Grundy had told
them.
| "The general report states truthfully
that this was a political investigation,
political quarrel in fact between the
republican and the alliance parties
am in hearty sympathy
. with the alliance report in its animad-
versions upon certain unconscionable
disciples of Ananias who deliberately
invent falsehoods to deceive the public
for political effect and then go upon the
witness stand and unblushingly testify
to their own shame. There should be
no distinction between the political and
the private liar. The standard of
morality should certainly be as high in
those matters which affect the public
veal as in those which relate to the
private concerns of life.
1.-The evidence shows that C. A. Hen
rie was intimately associated with the
anarchist Parsons when he was in To-
peka in 1888, and that he was hired to
go to Cincinnati and New York in the
interest of the republican party. II
would seem that Henrie was in the busi-
ness of betraying his associates for hire
and that he aided in exposing the order
of 'videttes' with which he was con-
nected"
Senator Carroll is of the opinion that
! the evidence is not sufficient to show
that Henrie was connected in any way
with the explosion. He adds that. un-
der the circumstances, Henrie should
never have been appointed to position
on the labor bureau