Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-12
YOUNG DISMISSED
Charged With Betraying Se-
 Crets of the Senate.
HIS FRIENDS ARE INDIGNANT.
Senator Sherman Demands that the Conr-
 tesy of the Senate bs Upheld.

The COmmittss on Foreign Relations Say
 They Have Proof of the Executive
 Clerks Guilt, and that He Was Not a
 Proper Person to Hold the Office
 Senate iS Outrageous.
 WASHINGTON, April 12.-The United States Senate in secret session yester day declared vacant the office of executive clerk, held by MT. James Russell Young of Pennsylvania.
 MT. Young was charged with betraying Executive secrets, but as proof of his alleged guilt was brought forward, and according to information obtained from sources thoroughly reliable he was leg islated out of office against the conscien- tious convictions of 8 number of those who voted to thus stigmatize him to ob- serve the precedent of Senatorial cour- tesy in sustaining the Committee on Foreign Relations which reported in fa- vor of declaring MT. Young's office va cant.
 The Senate went into secret session at 1;10 o'clock on motion of MT. Cameron, who secured MT. Young the position of executive clerk. Immediately after the doors were closed Senator Manderson brought forward his resolution provid- ing for the re-admittance to secret ses- sions of the clerks on the Executive force who have been excluded from the Senate on the ground that they were re- sponsible for the betrayal of Executive secrets.
 This suspicion was the outcome of fhe accurate reports which have appeared in the newspapers of the proceeding of the Senate in secret session on the case of Judge Woods of Indiana and the Behring Sea Treaty.
 There was 8 short debate on this reso- lution, MT. Manderson speaking earn estly in favor of its adoption as an act of justice to MT. Young and his subordinates en the executive force, and MT. Sherman opposing it with equal vehemence. Many Senators were absent when a vote was taken, and the resolution was re- jected by 8 small majority.
 Then MT. Sherman called up the reso- lution declaring vacant the office of executive clerk, reported fayorably- from the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions.
 Mir. Sherman said that the committee had reasons for believing that the office should be declared vacant; that 1t had had evidence of MT. Young's guilt, and that the committee's word had been given that MT. Young was not the proper person to hold the office. He also made some comment on the largeness of the executive force, contendinR that the executive secrets were confided to too many persons not members of the Senate, and that it was not strange that secret proceedings should come to the knowledge of newspaper men.
 Mir. Sherman urged upon the Senate the necessity for sustaining the com mittee, and hinted that if it were not. sustained that those Senators who voted against the adoption of the resolution would be guilty of violation of Sena- torial courtesy.
 MT. Hale, who introduced the resoIu- tion for MT. Young's removal, made an earnest appeal for it's adoption.
 He contended that the betrayal of Ex- ecutive secrets had reached & point where stringent methods for it's stoppage should be resorted to. He was particu- larly severe on MT. Young, and made the charge that he was guilty of the allega- tion brought against him. MT. Hale is not member of the Committee ou For eign Relations.
 earnest appeals for the rejection of the resolution.
 They stated in substance that the Com mittee ou Foreign Relations was going too far in attempting to secure the re- moval of hn honorable gentleman who was known never to have betrayed the trust imposed in him. Senators know only too well where accounts of execu- tive proceedings came from; they knew that they did not emanat0 from MT. Young.
 Senator Manderson was particularly vehement in his .denunciation of such e course as the Committee would have the Senate pursue; to make a Scapegrace out of an innocent man, deprive him of a position he had filled we'll and cast upon him 8 stigma which he did not deserve.
 Senator Cameron read Q letter from MT. Young claiming the right to be heard, requesting an investigation and asserting his entire innocence. MT. Cam eron made a short appeal in behalf of MT. Young's retention.
 Other Senators also spoke in behalf of MT. Young, some of them urging an investigation, but MT. Sherman's per sonal appeal for the exercise of Sena- torial courtesy in sustaining the Com effect, and the resolution was adopted by a majority of ten. It was directed that MT. Young be informed of the action of the Senate
 The session waxed warm at times and was interesting by reason of Its personal aspect. Many Senators privately ex- pressed themselves in conversation with colleagues after the final vote had been taken, that the action of the Senate was outrageous, and some Senators who voted for the resolution acknowledged that they had been actuated in so voting by the appeal for the indorsement of the Committee on Foreign Relations more than by the merits of the case.
 Newspaper correspondents in Wash ington were treated without gloves by Mir. Hale and some others in favor of the resolution. An effort will be made by Senators who believe MT. Young has been treated unjustly to have the de- tailed vote on the resolution made public
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