The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-04-12
YOUNG DISMISSED
Charged With Betraying Sc
crets of the Senate.
HIS FRIENDS ARE INDIGNANT
Senator Sherman Demands that the Oour.
tesy of the Senate be Upheld,

Many Senators Say the Action of the
senate ia Outrageous
WASHINGTON, April 19.-The United
States Senate in secret session yesterday
declared vacant the office of executive
clerk, held by Mr.. James Russell Young
of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. 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 a number of those
who voted to thus stigmatize him to OBJ
serve the precedent of Senatorial cour-
tesy in sustaining the Committee on
Foreign Relations which reported in fa
vor of declaring Mr.. Young's office va
can't
The Senate went into secret session at
1;10 o'clock on motion of Mr.. Cameron,
who secured Mr.. Young the position of
executive clerk. Immediately after the
doors were closed Senator Henderson
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-
gponsible 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 a short debate on this reso-
luton, Mr. Henderson speaking earn
estly in favor of it's adoption as an act of
Justice to Mr.. Young and his subordiuates
en- the executive force, and Mr., Sherman
opposing it with equal vehemence.
Many Senators were absent when vote
was taken, and the resolution was re-
jected by a small majority.
Then Mr. Sherman called up the reso-
luton declaring vacant the office of
executive clerk, reported favOrably
from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tiOns.
Mr.. Sherman said that the committee
had reasons for believing that the Office
should be declared vacant; that it had
had evidence of Mr.. Young's guilt, and
that the committees word had been
given that Mr.. Young was not the proper
person to hold the Office. He also made
some comment on the largeness of the
executive force, contending that the
executive secrets were contded 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.
Mr.. Sherman urged upon the Senate
the necessity for sustaining the COM
mittee, and limited that if it were not
sustained that those Senators who voted
against the adoption of the resolution
would be guilty of a violation of Sena-
torial courtesy.
MIR. Hale, who introduced the resolu-
tion for Mr.. Young's removal, made an
earnest appeal for its adoption.
He contended that the betrayal of Ex-
ecutive secrets had reached a point
where stringent methods for it's stoppage
should be resorted to- He was particu-
larly severe on Mr.. Young, and made the
charge that he was guilty of the allega-
tion brought against him. Mr.. Hale is
not member OF the Committee ou For
eigu Relations.
Senators Henderson and Paddock made
earnest appeals Tor 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 knew
only too well where accounts of eXecu-
tive proceedings came from; they knew
that they did not emanate from Mr..
Young.
Senator Henderson was particularly
vehement in his denunciation of such a
course as the Committee would have the
Senate pursue; to make scapegrace out
,f IL iKrah inn Of A
position he had filed well and cast upon
him a stigma which he did not deserve.
Senator Cameron read a letter from
Mr.. Young claiming the right to be
heard, requesting an investigation and
asserting his entire innocence. Mr.. Cam
eron made short appeal in behalf OF
Mr.. Young's retention.
Other Senators also spoke in behalf OF
Mr.. Young, some of them urging an
investigation, but Mr. Snerman's per-
sonal appeal for the exercise of Sena.
torial courtesy in sustaining the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations had 1t,
effect, and the resolution was adopted
by a majority Of ten. 1t was directed
that Mr.. Young be informed of tn
action of the Senate.
The session waXed warm at times ant
was interesting by reason of its persona
aspect. Many Senators privately eX
pressed themselves in conversation witt
colleagues after the final vote mad beer
taken, that the action of the Senate wa
outrageous, and some Senators VIII
voted Tor the resolution acknow ledgel
that they had been actuated in so voting
by the appeal for the Endorsement OF th
Committee on Foreign Relations NOR
than by the merits of the case.
Newspaper correspondents In wash
ington were treated without gloves b
Nj. Hale and some others in favor of th
resolution. An effort will be made b
Senators who believe Mr.. Young ha
been treated unjustly to have the de
tailed vote on the resolution made public