St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-30
Mr.. POWERS CAREER
Will Be Investigated by a
Committee Of the
Senate.
His Action in the Warfare
Against Roach Forced the
Inquiry.
Other Republican Senators
May Get in the Same
Boat.
Senator Roach Ready to Make
g Statement at the Proper
Time.
SneciAl 10 the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March %. - "If the
senate proposes" said Senator German
today, ''to investigate matters in the life
of member that happened long years
before his election, it will be proper to
make the investigation general. L be-
lieve allegations have been made in
regard to several members on the other
side of the house which deserve the
attention of the senate, in case this
policy is decided upon"
A bOmbshell fell in the camp of the
Hoars, the Powers, the Quays and the
Pettigrews today, and it came in the
shape of a formal notice from the Dem
ocratic senators that there will be no
investigation of the anonymous allega-
tions against Senator Roach, of North
Dakota, unless at the same time the
cases of several of the Republic
an senators are also considered.
Three years ago, in opposing
the admission of Senator Power.
of Montana, Senator Turpie, of Indiana.
literally fiayed him alive. saying among
other things that he was unscrupulous,
dishonest. unprincipled, impure, deflled,
political and social leper. lOthsOme,
and with the stencil and odor of plague
worse than that of the man who washed
seven times in Jordan to be cleanSed.
From another source came charge
that the Montana applicant for a seat in
the senate had once been indicted for
felony. During all these years these
Charges Against Power
were in the Congressional Record, and
no investigation was even ordered, the
pharisaical Hoar even voting to admit
him to a seat in the senate, to which he
had no title. This morning the Post
printed a portion of Senator Turpie'S
speech. and inumated that Power would
be proper person for the senate to in
VeStigate. This afternoon the Montana
man arose to question of privilege, and
stated that he was ready for an investi-
CATION, claiming that the charges in the
Post were false, but failing to state
why he and his partner, Hoar, did
not demand this Investigation several
as in the days when he had more gov
ernment contracts than all other North
western men together, and he made
this bluff for two reasons, the principal
One being the probability of the Demo
cratic seatorS taking up his case and the
Other because Of his position in the
Roach matter. From the start he has
been furnishing the anonymous senate
rial interviews regarding the North Da-
kota man. and this fact forced him to
attempt to square himself. Senator
Roach stands his ground like man. He
is ready TO make statement at the
proper time. and no amount of perSecu-
tiOn will force him to either resign or
give his enemies room for more of their
undcrhanded work. His friends in
Washington, as everywhere else, are
Indignant, and those who know both
him and Power have no doubt about
which one will stand the ordeal of an
investigation best. 1t is charged that
Power was induced TO take the course
he has through fear that Senator ROa ch
will canse some OF his old deals with
the government to be oYerhauled.