St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-16
No Disposition Of the Pro-
posed Investigation Of
Senator Roach.
Lee Mantle's Case Also Goes
Over to the Regular
Session.
A st. Paul Man Appointed to
Be Secretary Of the Turk
ish Legation.

ish Legation.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The extra
ordinary session of the senate (atter
running exactly six weeks closed today
The proposed investigation OF the
charges against Senator Roach, of North
Dakota. formed the chief topic of the
davis discussion. Three speeches were
made upon 1.-TWO of them by the Re-
publican senators from Connecticut,
Messrs. Platt and Hawley, in affirmative
of the right and duty Of the senate to
make the investigation, and the other
bv MI. Mills in distinct denial OF either
the right or duty. Allied to the same
subject, though figuring under the
guise of a question of personal prlVl-
Iege. were remarks by Mr.. Chandler,
Mr. Voorhees, and Mr.. Hansbrough. NO
aisposition was made either of the mat
Ter or of the question as to the admls-
sion of the three appointed senators
from Montana, Washington and Wyom-
ing.
The recent action of Commissioner
Blount, in Withdrawing the American
flag from the government building in
Honolulu, was the ground work OF res
olution offered by Mr.. Lodge, directing
the secretary of state
To EnfOrm the Senate
by whose authority the flag was low
cred. In addition to this information
Mr.. Butler wants the senate to be in
formed, at the same time. by whose au-
thoritv it was hoisted. The resolution
and amendment went over without ac-
tiOn, objection to immediate consldera-
ton being made by Mr.. German. The
president had informed committee OF
the senate that he would have no fur
ther communication and an executive
session was held between and =
O'Clock. at which all obstacles to final
adjournment were Smoothed away, and
alter the doors were reopened and some
little matters of committee investiga-
tons adjusted, the senate adjourned
sine die.
Mr Plat in his remarks on the Roach
ease recited the charges against the
North Dakota senator, and submitted
lin reply to a suggestion TO MI. NOor-
heesl that it was not a question OF
morals. but that it was question OF
criminality. The question is whether
. the senate has the right and power TO
make this inquiry. Ii 1t ba5, conceive
that its duty is plain. Ii a convicted
criminal who has just finished MS tlme
in penitentiaTy should be sent here by
= ha ai V
PoyyerIess 10 Reject
him or TO expel him? | think that no
precedent can be found in the United
States or England, or any other civil
lied country, where the doctrine mas
been upheld that the senate or the house
is held down Gn judging Of the quail
fcations of its members) to the rigid
constitutional requisites for election as
senator or member. On the contrary.
although the precedents are in the nat
ure of the case of a few, it has been al
Ways held that Jurisdiction is given TO
jnGuire and investigate under such cir
cuinstances. Will it be cOntended that
we should be obliged to admit physical
leper. if a state should elect him to the
senate?
about il?
Mr. Platt-I would eXpel him. 1 would
refuse to receive him in the first case,
aud If received without acknowledge
ment Of his disease, | would eXpel him.
Could Aaron Burr come here and say.
~ am thirty years OF age; l have been
citizen of the state OF New York for
nine years. and would the senate have
been poWerless to have made any other
INQUIRY into his qualifications? Would
moi the great, notorious fact (eyen the
hope he has escaped the clutches OF the
law that he had been engaged in
A FreasOnaBIe Conspiracy
and against the United States have been
a fact which the senate could have con-
sidered? If Aaron Burr had presented
himself here with the credentials of a
sovereign state | think that the senate
would have discovered that it had power
to INQUIRE into some other than the con-
stitutional qualifications of a man seek
ing a seat in this body. l do not know
that, in the case of the senator from
North Dakota, the inquiry would result
in expulsion. Speaking for myself, L
desire to say that no amount of insinua-
ton by senators on the other side
of the chamber will deter me from the
performance of what l conceive to be a
nlain duty in this matter. If there be
anv senator on this side of the chamber
against whom any other senator can
bring a charge of criminal diShonor for
ANYTHING which he did before he became
a senator, | not only will vote for an III
uuiry. but l want to vote for it. If it is
believed that there has been within the
last five years any senator on this side
against whom there is a reasonable pre-
sumption that he was guilty of criminal
dishonesty before he became senator,
there would have been some senator on
the other side of the chamber
Not So Tender-Eearted,
not so fearful of WOunding the sensible
tiles of their brother senators as the sen
atOr from Indiana, who would have III
trOduced a resolution of investigation.
Mr.. Mills made an argument against
the right of the senate to investigate
and Mr.. HaWley arguing in support oil
that right and in favor of the proposed
Investigation. Senators Harries anC
Sherman, who had been appointed {
committee to wait upon the president
reported that they had performed thai
duty, and had been informed by The
president that he had no further com
munication for the senate at its present
session.
MI Hansbrougn rose to a question o.
personal privilege, and began by eX-
pressing the hope that the senate would
not adjourn without giving his col
league (AIr. RCach) the opportunity
asked by him yesterday. Mr.. Voorhee.
interrupted and said that the senator
from North Dakota was not speaking Il
question of
Personal Privilege.
The nresidiny officer OIr. Faulkner