The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-17
QUAY PUTS In A DENIAL.
EVERY CHARGE AGAINST HIM DE-
CLARBD FALSE.

ne 6e2lnS Dy heIuJlnX the statement
that He Used State Funds in Personal
Speculation-The Insinuation that Hs
Robbed a Widow Indignantly Re-
PEELED Bribery also Denied
WASHINGTON, Feb. l6 Senator Quay
answered the charges of fifteen years in
fifteen minutes late this afternoon. The
scene was the Senate chamber, the subject
under consideration the diplomatic appro-
priation bill. the audience most Of the re-
publican senator's half Of the democratic
senator's, twenty-five people in the public
galleries and dozen newspaper men in the
press gallery. James Donald Cameron had
gone up town early in the afternoon and
was conspicuous By his absence. Senator
Quay was at the capitol early in the day,
with the typewritten copy Of his speech,
from which he afterward read. He told
his friends on the floor that he would speak
this afternoon.
"When9" asked democratic senator.
40, between and O'clock said SEN
ator Quay.
"How longF" asked the democratic So e =
tor.
80. for 10 on Is minutes, ;" said Senator
Quay.
"Do you think you can answer for all
your deviltry in that short timer asked the
democrat, jokingly. THAT'S more than
most of US can do.n
Senator Quay thought 1t was ample time
for bis purpose, for his remarks, originally
much longer. had been boiled down by re-
peated revisions, so that they had become
very much condensed.
MANY REPUBLICANS OBJECTED.
Brief as they are they were all too long
for some of the republican senators, who
protested to the last that they were entirely
unnecessary and were better uusaid. But
Senator Quay was not to be deferred. 1t
may have been part of their scheme to pre-
vent his getting them 10 to-day that took
| the Senate into executive session early in
the day, kept it in executive session until
| nearly 5 O'clock, talking about the PROPOSE
ton 20 incorporate and subisize a Pacific
ocean cable at $250,000 a year for fifteen
years. Senator Quay was not tired out, as
the schemeys had hoped, but sac Though it
| all quietly awaiting his chance, while the
newspaper correspondents who wanted to
see him in his most dramatic moment
| waited wearily in the Office Of ths SecreN
tary Of Senate, being shut out of
their own gallery upstairs by the new ex-
ecutive session orders of the Senate. At
last the electric bells all over the Senate
wing announced that the executive session
was over, and the newspaper men sped up
stairs to their gallery. The foremost mau
| found Senator Quay on his feet already
reading through his spectaclss his manu-
| script, which he held with both hands. The
| general galleries we're empty, and only q
few people came into the room while he
was speaking, but almost all the republican
senators were listening inteatly In the gray
cold silence which Senator Quay's voice
loudly seemed to break.
SOME OF THE LISTENERS.
Senator Quay was fanked as he stood by
Senators Evarts and Davis of Minnesota
Senator Hoar, who had been out, came in
while he was speaking, and got good seat
| where he could hear. Senator German sat
| IN the very foremost seat on the democratic
side. Senator Reagan, who usually occu-
pies that SCAT had gotten a chair and taken
it over on the republican side OF the Vice
Presidents chair, where he sat facing SEN
ator Qua with the Vice President 10 kins
over his head. Senator Gray of Della ware
had come over on the republican side 10
hear. Senator Carlisle sat in Senator Gray's
seat. Senator Faulkner, Senator Quay's
chief friend on the democratic SIDE strained
every nerve to hear from his own seat. No
member of the Pennsylvania delegation was
present, Mr.. Hit of Illinois being the
only prominent member of the House in the
chamber,
| HOW HE READ IT.
Senator Quay's voice was clear and his
tones firm, but his voice is not strong
enough to fill the Senate chamber, espe-
cially when it is comparatively empty, and
the democrats had difficulty in hearing all
that he said. The stenographic reporters
would have been obliged TO sit near him il
they had not waited for his manuscript.
The general effort TO hear him made the
feeling more terrible and the scene more
| impressive. The early twilight made the
hulighted chamber dim and chill, ard per-
haps made it hard for Senator Quay to
| read. but if so he did not show it. lie read
with confidence and without nervousness,
aud the elocutioaary effect was much better
.han in his eulogy <upon Representative
Randall, his only other set speech in the
Senate. He attempted no gestures. bus kept
his hands on his manuscript, laying down
| one sheet after snothe: on his desk as he
read. He read rapidly, but gave due en-
| phasis TO the words "llen or "falsehood"
| wherever they occurred
RECEIVED IN SILENCE.
| There was no applause when he finished
! Gnd sat down. There had been no Interrupt
| tioE while he was speaking. Neither Sena-
| tor Evarts nor Senator Davis said anything
| to him, nor did any one else for minute or
two. Then Senator Morrill, of Vermont, the
Iabner Oh Cne senate, came up ana gave MIN
a paternal pat. Afterward Senator Chaad-
Ter congratulated him, and later Senator
| Hiscock sat down beside him for a moment,
| but he was one of those who protested
against the speech, and did not seem to be
offering congratulations. Senator Quay
having freed bis mind after go many
months consideration, will now feel free 10
! 60 to Florida, probably w ednesday, to re-
store his health. which his face showed to-
| day was in bad condition. The statement
that he is to resign the Craftsmanship of the
republican national committee, now that he
is no longer under fire, is once moro made.
HIS sPECULATIoNs.
Senator Quay said in part:
The first assertion concerning my official acts
| is that at some time or continuously between
the years OF 1879 and 1881, alone, or acting
| with another, or others, used moneys of the
| state of Pennsylvania for speculative or private
| purposes. / denounce this statement as abso-
| lutely false. In 1877 the Democratic party of
| Pennsylvania elected the state treasurer and
auditor general, the financial officers of tae
| commonwealth A year or two later, pending
their terms of office, became engaged In stock
| operations. In some transaction
was associated and Jointly Interested
with a gentleman who was at that time
| cashier OF the state treasury, The
transactions proved seriously disastrous. and
| was compelled TO pay portion of his losses as
| well as my own. In doing this 1t became neces-
essary to supply an alleged deficiency he had
| caused ip the treasury. As a portion of the
fund for this purpose borrowed $4,000 from