St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-15

Mr.. V o0rheeS replied to Mr.Chandler.
He said the presumptiOns were in favor
of the VirGue, intelligence and capacity
of the states to send to the senate men
who were fit for that high position, and
the presumptionS were that the repre-
sentatives of other states would be
better employed in minding their
own business than in criticising
the action of state in choOs-
ing its senators. What was to be
said of the senator from North
Dakota? 1t was to be said of him that
during all these fourteen or fifteen years
he had been subject to the laws of the
United States, subject to the laws of the
District of Columbia, subject to every
law which had been infracted. He had
not been in Canada or across the water.
He had stayed under the American flag
and stood it out like man. No indict-
ment had been found against him. 1t
stood confessed and absolute
injured by him had no word of COM
plaint against him. And yet that was
the base which had been seized upon as
one calling for the direSt punishment
that could be inflicted. What was the
proposition but proceeding in the way
of 'attainder." which Webster defined
as proceeding used to stain, to taint,
to blemiSh, to Sully mans character
and to corrupt his blood ? 1t was simply
An InquisitOriaI Process
outside of all constitutional limit. he
desired the country to know that, on his
side of the chamber, they would lnveS-
tigate within the limits of the cOnStitu-
ton, and not beyond them.
MIR. HOar asked Mr.. Voorhees, to de-
fine exactly his meaning.
Mr.. Voorhees, take the position that
an unfit senator may be imposed upon
the senate, though it has not been done
in over a century; but that if a state
should have the misfortune to elect a
man blackened with crime, it is the
misfortune of the state; and find no
power given to us to organize ourselves
into tribunal of morals. and to try him
for his Otfenses. L may join with the
senator from Massachusetts, III sup
posing that such an embarrassment
may arise; but that would be less
OF difficulty and more tolerable to
good government than it would be to
claim the power to try the senator from
Massachusetts, or to try the senator
from Indiana. or to try the senator from
New Hampshire, from all that has been
alleged against him. Some laughter
and applause in the galleries, which
was reprmanded by the vice PRESIDENT
l mean not to say all unkind thing at
all; but when we argue this question,
we have to argue it as lawyers, with
freedom. have heard alleged of the
senator from New Hampshire very
Grave and Ugly Things.
l have heard men say that while he
was secretary of the navy he built three
or four ships, which made but one trip,
and that was to the bottom OF the sea.
More laughter in the galleries have
heard it alleged that the contractors re-
tired from their work, rich, contented
and infamous, all at the same time.
l have heard these things said.
Hampshire believe that these
matters should be taken out of
newspapers, and that l or any other
senator should, without word of teSti-
mony, rise here and arraign him? What
spectacle is presented to the country
of great and strong party being silent
on the subject of the alleged sins of one
that speck can be found OIL any,
body on this side of the chamber they
clamor as did the Pharisees of old
when the Savior said to them:
Take the beam out of your own
eve, so that you can see clearly to take
the mole out of your brothers. eye."
That is what | complain of; l did not
want to be provoked into an acrimoni-
Gus discussion; but l ask the country to
take notice that the Democratic party
is standing on the rock of the conStitu-
tion, standing OH its limitations which
cannot be ignored. The senator from
New Hampshire would turn this body
into the most miserable and most
Contemplate ConcIave
of inquisitorial process that the world
has ever had any knowledge of. L
would want to leave the senate with
lOathing and disgust rather than serve
in body which claimed the right to
supervise the morals of the senators
from other states and to enter into
judgment upon them. 1t might be that
the senator from North Dakota had suf-
fered misfortune. He had never sought,
however, to evade the laws of the country
and today he returned among those
whom he had injured, without single
claim being made against him. Com
mend me to the man who has led life
of that sort. will take him with his
faults; will take him with his defalea-
tion; will take him with every step of
error before l will take for my guide
the philosophers on the other side of |
the chamber who set themselves up as
inquisitors into every mans life but
their own.
Mr.. Hansbrough testified to the good
qualities and high reputation of Mr
Roach for the ten or twelve years tha
he has resided in Dakota. Their rela-
tiOns, he said, were agreeable and
pleasant, and he had very high re-
gard for his colleague. He regarded the 4
whole affair as very unfortunate oc-
currence for his colleague and for his 4
state. He. then branched off into COM
plaint of interviews and statements I
published
In the st. Paul Globe
and the Minneapolis Tribune on the
authority of one Mr.. LaMoure, of Penn
bna, disparaglng to himself, and he
asked Mr.. German whether he had in
his possession any documents, affidavits
or papers bearing upon his (Mr. Hans
brOugh's) election to the senate.
Mr.. German pointed to Mr.. Hans
brough's statement as an illustration of
Yipers and miserable slanderers, and
disavowed all knowledge of charges
against Mr.. Hansbrough. The senate /
had had enough of the subject
for today, he thought, and he there
fore moved to proceed to executive
business. He Withdrew the motion,
however, to enable Mr.. Harris to move
TO lay the resolution and substitute on
the table. AS that motion was unde-
batable, and as ME Patt iniimated a..
desire to reply briefly to Mr.. Voorhees,,
Mr.. Harris withdrew the motion. After
an executive session the senate adj
journed till tomorrow.
The final adjournment of this extra
session of the senate may take psace
IN.