New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-29
A FINE INVESTIGATION.
MAYNARD'S COAT OF WHrIEwASH Is ALI
READY.
DELoS MCURDY, MAYyARDs ASSOCIATE. WILL
BE HIRED TO APPLY IT. AND THE STATE
OF NEw-YoRK WILL FOOT THE BILL.

OF NEW-YORK WILL FOOT THE BILL.
tFRoM CORRESPONDENT or THE rRrBUyE.l
Albany, March 27.-The Senate thieves are
thoroughly frightened. They evidently don't
know where to turn nor what to do. They are
between whole legious of devils and vast oceans
of deep sea. After day of whispering and eau
cussng, of running back and forth from Sheehans
room in the Capitol to Hills room in the Delevan
House. they have adjourned the Maynard In
vestigaton until tomorrow afternoon with no
other result than the resolution of the majority
Of the joint committee to employ Delos McCurdy
and Hugh Reilly counsel. There is no doubt
they need counsel. They need it sorely. Their
predicament is that Of men who ale bound to do
the very thing they are bound not TO do. It only
needs to state this difficulty to show its embarra g.
ments. II they start the investigation and then
shut the door on the facts, they admit their guilt.
Ii they open the door their guilt will be demon
strated. They know that Mr.. Coudert's committee
OF democratic lawyers stands ready to prove that
Isaac II. Maynard stole that Dutchess certificate
and the State Board of Canvassers stole the State
Senate, and they know that absolutely the only
way Of preventing this being proved Is to CON.
oede it.
HILLS PARTISANs DOWN on HIM
There is tremendous outcry against HilI and
his Democratic partisans are louder in denouncng
him than his Democratic enemies II was he
who ordered the investigation to be made. When
the Bar Associations memorial came to Albany.
Cantor. McClelland, Roesch, Sulzer and the rest
of the regulars wished quietly to refer It to the
two judiciary committees and there let IL die.
Cantor frankly declared that the Legislature
would have nothing to do with it. that it was q
Republican-Nfugwump trick, that the Bar Asso-
citation was packed and that Maynard was good
Tn
and it cannot be doubted that the course Cantor
suggested was. from the Democratic point of view.
the wisest one possible But Hill held otherwise.
He had no more intention than they Of allowing
anything like real investigation. But he had
found his Presidential boom in great danger by
of these electoral crimes Democrats from
other States were asking him how il that
eminent members Of his own party were openly
and formally branding him a political thief.
Scores Of politicians from the South and West
urged him to do something to set himself right.
plainly intimating that if he didn't or couldn't.
he rendered his nomination impossible. ThuA
spurred he ordered his minions here to bring
about the investigation, intending that nothing
should be done before taking cursOry glance
at the public documents in the case. and that
this should be promptly followed by white
washing report which should straightway pass both
Houses with loud hurrah. and stand all over
the country as an offset to the report of the Bar
Association.
HILLS DICTATED REPORT READY
Hill came to Albany to dictate the report and
1t is now ready. If anything were needed to
show the despicable dishonesty of this whole In
vestigation business II is found in the fact tnat
the committees report was fully completed on
Saturday, two days before it had held its first
Al IL and
McCurdy, and when it is presented it will show
the best that their combined intellects can make
of the affair. When il is remembered that Hill
is the man who conceived the theft Of the Senate;
that he directed its every detail personally inter-
vening with all the power of the State Govern
ment to back up his robber band and 10 punish
those who dared withstand it; that Maynards
particular crime was committed, if not at Hills
express command, at all events in pursuance OF
his order TO Emans that the return must be re-
covered without fail, his action now in abandon
ing his duties at Washington, in coming here,
where he can have no proper business at all, in
taking personal direction of this Investigation"
and in calmly debating the report which his
obedent majority in both houses of the Legis-
lature of the great State of New-York will meekly
adopt, is assuredly spectacle for gods and men
When the Legislature adjourned last week Hills
plan lad been fully arranged. There was to be
one meeting of the Joint committee and only onc
They were to examine the Bar Associations repre-
sentetives, look over the papers submitted and
then formally adopt Hill's report after voting
down all propositions TO widen the scope of the
inquiry
DEMOCRATS WHO COULDN'T BE CAUGHT.
But there were one or two Democrats on the
committee who couldn't be brought into the deal.
and then the trouble began. Every effort to CO.
cree them only resulted in rendering them more
dogged in opposition. They defantly declared
that they couldn't afford TO lose their regulations
in the vain effort TO Maynard's. When Sem
ator O'Connor. on behalf Of the Republican men,
bers Of the committee, ssnt in his long list Of tho
names Of persons whom he wished TO examine, the
Democratic breach widened The Hill faction
pointed 10 Mr.. O'Connors demand clear proof
that the Republicans were bent stirring up an
awful scandal while those Democrats who were
solicitous of their regulations asserted, on the
other hand that it rendered bulldozing tactics the
more dangerous. OF course in whatever done
il was absolutely necessary that the Democratic
majority should be unanimous. TIE Hill men
gave way and allowed the impression TO 20 out on
Sunday night that the investigation would be
Thorough.
What they wanted. however. was delay-time to
think and TO formulate plan by which the small
but obstinate minority could be satisfied Chair
man Rocsch did not subpoena Mr.. O'Connor's long
list of witnesses lie had already sum-
moned the Bar Association committee TO be
present at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
and beyond that lie did nothing. But
when the hour arrived this morning for the
session to begin, Mr. Roesch and Mr.. Cantor
began TO talk about counsel. Senator O'Connor
and General Hustled, for the Republicans urged
that counsel quite unnecessary. The COM
nittee were all lawyers. They were supposed
10 he the flower of the legal profession in botsl
Houses. Why put the State to the expense Of
of dollars for more lawyers. when law
yers galore sat all around? What lawyer more
eminent or acute could he secured than
Mr. Roesch himself Mr. Cantor or Mr. Sulzera
But in despite of these graceful tributes, a law
yer the Democrats would have, and it presently
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