The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-03
VOORHEESAFTER ASCALP
THE STORY OF a CORRESPONDENT
AROCSES HIS IRE.


SENATOR as Offering to Help Defeat
Judge Dallas in Exchange for Votes
Against Judge Woods-Other Sene-
tors stand by the Senator From
Indiana
w.sHrvGToE. Feb. 2. In the Senate to-day
Senator voorhees,, Using to:a personal ques-
zion sent to the clerks desk and had read
washington dispatch to the Philadelphia
prsss With the beading. THE Senate west
,,g time in obedience to senatorial cour-
,a.vu "Vorhees fails TO sustain his charg-
90 y "His scheme to defeat Judge Woods
animation not supported by the repub-
Leans be bad counted upon"
The dispatch went on to state that the
canate judiciary committee had wasted
ooother session ont of senatorial courtesy"
10 sepstor Voorhees,; that the ttempt Of
senator VOORHEES, to form coalition with
the republicans wss q fat failure; that some
of the republicans. like Senators Quay,
Cameron ana higgins, were OPP
posed co the nomination OF
George NJ Dallas of Pennsylvsnia, and
that senator Voorhees, hRu proposed that
III these dIsaruntled republicans would in
duce enough of their party to aid
the democrats IN defeating Judge
Woods nomination the democrats would
reoinrocate aud aid iu defeating Dallas -
The dispatch ends with q statement that
the plan would not work, aud that it was
now reasonably certain that all the nomina-
lions would be confirmed noxt Monday
without dissenting vote among the repub-
licens
THE SENATORIAL COURTESY.
MI. Voorhees'remarked that as to the refer
euces to senatorial courtesy" he had
nothing to say and nothing need be said.
The senatorial courtesy" sneered at by
plackguards and scouudrellv people out
side was simply observance of the decencies
of life, which obtained among
gentlemen. Some of It had
been extended TO him by the
judiciary committee, for which he made
his profound Acknowledgements; but the
delay was not more than a week or ten days
at the outside. He had nothing to say
about the case of Judge Woods. 1t WAS
still under investigation, and witnesses had
vet to be examined. 1t passes his under
standing how this man" the correspon-
dent knew what the decision OF the COM
mittee would be.
AN OFFER TO TRADE DENIED.
His principal object, however, in having
the article read related to the last para
graph, where the statement WIS made ex-
phctly and unqualifedly that he had made
proposition to certain senators that for
their assistance III the defeat Of Judge
Woods confirmation he would favor a
movement on the democratic side OF the
chamber to defeat Judge Dallas of Phila-
delphia. A grosser lie than that it would
lie hardly possible for his satanic
majesty to conceive. Such @ wish, or
thought, or suggestion bad never entered his
mind OF emanated from his lips. On the
contrary, had as he thought the appoint
ment OK Judge Woods was, improper and
unfit as lie conceived and knew that Judge
to be for judicial position, he would feel
himself dIshonored and diskraced beyond
redemption if he received, lot alone made.
suggestion to defeat an honest aud COM
tent man like Judge Dallas for the sake of
getting clear Of the appointment of q man
like Woods.
GOING FOR THE CORRESPONDENT.
Senator Voorhees, called the attention of
the committee on rules to the publication as
most outrageous act He would offer no
resolution on the subject because it was per-
sonal to himself, but it created a question in
every mind how long and how far the Sen
ate would tolerate such business They had
seen men put in prison yesterday for libel
Ing member Of the Senate, and if the
same rules we're put in operation against the
man who could pen thing Of that kind
and publish it in such widely circulated
E"FoA as JIlb pulA GTeSS, WOutU
be better for public morality and better for
the deceucy and honor OF the country He
simply wanted TO brand that miserable con-
coction Of e dishonest heart and brain as he
had done.
CAMERON ALSO DENIES IT.
Senator Cameron said that SO far as his
name was connected with the subject the
statement was a lie from beginning to end.
senator Voorhees, had never spoken to him
on the subject Of the confirmation OF Judge
woods or Judge Dallas.
senator Quay confirmed the statement Of
us colleague az to the absolute falsitv of
tle charges made in the dispatch. II was
utterly false and without foundation. He
naa never heard such a suggestion from the
senator from Indiana, and the fact was that
ne quay had been alwaYs in favor of the
continuation Of Judge Dallas.
senator Higgins declared. for his part,
quay there was no truth in tho dispatch and
~ IuSnhoaton for its publication.
senator Wilson, a member of the judi
eary committee, stated that that commits
.ee, IN The treatment of the Woods Gaze had
nuI departed from its usual con-
%ryaElye course and would not de-
Ea't from it. The case would
w. w. treated as it should be, and a
spor' would be made in due time, without
buy previous disclosure of what it was to
w. ANY reflection on the committee es to
myulgng any secret in the case was
iIuuy without foundation. Nothing moro
A.. .0,'s sad or done on the subject, the SEN
endar Va