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THE MINORITY REPORT SHOWS CLEAR,
LY THE JUDGES CoMPLICITY IN
THE CONSPIRACY TO STEAL
DEANE's SEAT.
(FRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT Of THE TBIBuyE1
Albany, April 1s.-The reports of the Maynard
Investigating Committee were submitted to both
houses of the Legislature at late hour tonight.
NO discussion or the controversy occurred in either
house. 1t was agreed that the reports should
be printed, and action had on them on Wednes-
day morning after one hour of debate. All that
has been anticipated has duly happened The
majority report says, as it was bound to soy.
that the crimes by which the Senate was consti.
tuted were acts of wisdom and righteousness. In
effect it says that any crime. no matter
how black, which has the effect
of putting the Democratic party in power should
be hailed as of angelic inspiration. The majority
go the whole length of the thorny road pointed
ont to them by Maynard himself in the letter he
addressed to the Court of Appeals. They say that
Deputy Attorney General may properly repre-
sent political interest pending for action before
State Board Of Canvassers, of which body he Is
the statutory advisor; that he may properly take
physical possession Of election return on its
way to that board, and may dispose OF it a.
lie pleases; that he may nullify DEGREES
of the Supreme Court, and by seizing the records
Of their solemn judgments may cause their opera.
ton TO fail.
Tie audacity Of this fraudulent Legislature
no, / will not say that the Legislature is not
audacious it is bad, stupid. cowardly the parti-
san majority is made up of moral bats and cringins
jackdaws. The audacty is that of David B. Hill
their master, and it is an audacty which has
no dimensions. 1t is equal to anything. 1t has
been equal, in this report, TO the declaration
that the Court of Appeals approved
the Mylod return and directed it to be
counted that Judge Maynard's advice in
every respect vindicatcd by the decision of the
highest court: that the impudent lies he told in
his letter concerning the effect and intention OF
the stipulation were the truth; that he had the
authority of the Controller to possess himself
Of that election return, and that this authority
was ample That his acts and those Of Hill. Rice
and every other Of the thieves were not merely
right but bounden dutS. More than this the
creatures of Hills daring and shameless crimes
could not have been asked TO say: and. if asked at
all, certainly no less should have been demanded.
Three of the Senators sitting here tonight were
never elected. One was beaten by majority OF
7s; another by a majority of l.762, and the third
by a majority of 3S2. For three months they have
attended these sessions and have voted and acted
as Senator's. They got here as the direct result OF
David b. Hills infamous deeds. In one case no
succeeded though by acts of tyranny and wrong,
in plishing a result which on its race az
least WAS legal In the second case the results
would have-been legal but for the fact that 10
was brought about by the vote OF the man IN
whose behalf Maynard stole that return. The con-
stituton of the Senate turned his vote. and that
was the vote of fraud. He came here a re-
turn which the Court Of Appeals declared to be
illegal and erroneous" and which II forbade
the State Canvassers for that reason to count.
lie came here because Isaac II. Maynard stole
the corrected returns, which, by Judge Barnard's
order had been created to take the place of the
fraudulent one And his vote seated another de-
feated candidate and gave Hill, Murphy. and
Croker sure majority. How could men who had
been willing profit by these acts refuse TO certify
70 their rightfulness? How could they fail TO say
that it was Maynard's duty to steal and, il his
duty, that lie ought 10 be commended for having
done it: and, if he i, an object Of
praise that his appointment to the bench
of the Court of Appeals was worthy
and wise; and, if all these things
are so, that the people ought to he happy and
proud at the situation in which they find them
selves with this excellent Senate. this iudcious
Governor and this clean and correct Judge?
There are 10 dissenting voices among the major
ity-of course not! The Assembly majority il
scarcely worth considering. Sulzer is its ablest
and purest figure and his ability and purity
might be increased 10 the full resource Of the
multiplication table without hurting anything
except possibly, his feelings. But on the Senate
Committee were those honorable Democrats those
worthy Senators who had said they were going TO be
Judges in this maiter-Alc Mahon Parker and Nc
f,l .lnip taTlrh hoS
tation, and far mas appeared, without
blush. Mcmahon was the good man who IN
dgnantly repudiated McCarrcns candidly knavlsh
declaration that the Democrats were going 10 give
Maynard certificate of character
9" l. at least, said Mcmahon, will do my duty
judcially."
At the proposal TO employ his law partner; M ;, Nj:
Fiero, as counsel To the committee. lie said ne
couldn't think Of sitting on committee as
ddge with his own partner appearing neiorss
IL as a lawyer. Pure hightoned SensltiNe-souleo
McC cClelland il the man who dwells In an atHioS-
phcre of high morality, but comes down az every
roll-call To do humble service TO DAVID Is. HILL
This trio of honorable gentlemen pat their names
With Cantor's, Boodgood's and Roeschs. They
.erce that il is all right - steal election returns
and all right TO make judges Of electoral thieves
The minority report tells its own story. All
that those who believe i'll honorable politics, III
pure elections in common honesty and common
Justice can ask is that the people shall read IT, The
fraud created majority has done all il can TO drive
from the Democratic party every citizen who
places the smallest value on the public virtues
without which no government OF the people can
possibly survive. H. Il "