Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-03-30
A Resolution Introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Hoar for an IMvestga.
ti0n,
Also Il Resolution for the Organization
OF the Senate Officers
Nominated.
mr. Maxwell Talks About the Appoint.
ment Of FOurth.Class post
masters.

given by Mr. Aoar that he would call up
the report of the committee on privileges
and elections as to the senators appoint
Cd by governors. Mr.. Hoar also offered
resolutions, which we're laid over, in
structing the committee on privileges
and elections TO investigate the allega-
tions Of criminal embezzlement made
against Senator Roach of North Dakota,
and to report what IS the duty of the
senate IN relation thereto.
In the republican caucus Senator VOL
colt of Colorado. ,.said, substantially: Il
have sat here patiently awaiting some
action on the part Of the democratic
majority of this body until patience is
exhausted. I have been informed that
leading democrats have advised the man
who was recently sent to this body from
North Dakota to remain here in silence
and that they would stand by him. 1t
seems to me that an investigation OF
NOTORIOUS CHARGES
contained il public print concerning a
member of this body, should be made
by the majority, particularly when the
individual is member OF the majority
party. This is not question of politics,
and must not be made one. But do
not propose to SIT here quietly and per
NIT the nations of the world to be
Informed in our newspapers that such a
man Is membe of our body, on an
equality with each and every member of
the senate Of the United States. If they
are true, we should know that fact
officially. Therefore, resolution of ID
vestigation must be introduced and
passed upon"
The senator from whom the informa-
tion is obtained says that it has been
decided that an
INVESTIGATION SHALL BE ORDERED,
and, if Senator Wolcott ampllfies in open
senate the speech which he made in
caucus, as he probably will do, the North
Dakota man will thereafter be useless in
the senate, save as one who can cast a
democratic vote when required to do so
by the democratic managers. He will be
ostraclsed by the members of body into
which he should have never permitted
himself to be projected. It is regarded
both as his misfortune and bis fault that
he should have sought and accepted a
senatorship.
Another telegram to Chicago paper
states that for the first time in many
years the United States senate will have
presented to 1t during the week resolu-
ton providing for the investigation Of
charges against the financial integrity OF
one of its members. The investigation
will cover the alleged irregular transac-
tlons of Senator W. N. Roach OF North
Dakota, who was one time cashier of the
Citizens bank OF Washington, D. G.
The proposition was discussed at the
republican caucus the other day and it
was decided that the senate had the
power to fix the qualifications of its own
members and pass upon their election
without respect to other action, and
therefore if the senate should determine
that the character of any man elected to
that body was such as to unfit him for
the honest and faithful discharge of his
duty it may unseat or impeach him. The
fact that Senator Roachs alleged crooked
financial TRANSACTION occurred fourteen
years ago and had no possible bearing
upon the position he now occupies, it
was held, would not operate to bar the
senate from acting.