The morning call., 1893-04-15
NOT THEIR AFFAIR.
Voorhees, on Senatorial
Honesty.
BETTER KEEP HANDS OFF
Roach Wants to Be Investigated, but
There Are Some Other Sem
ators Who Do Not.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

WASHINGTON, April IA The object of
the proposed Investigation of Senator
Roach of North Dakota was precipitated on
the Senate this morning by Roach himself.
he said he was perfectly willing that the
investigation should proceed. He had de-
sired an investigation, but yielded to the
advice of older Senators.
Hoar asked for unanimous consent for
the passage of his resolution calling for an
investig alton.
George objected on the ground that the
Senate had no power to make an investiga-
ton, as the matters involved acts prior to
and uncOnnected with Ruach's election.
German moved the appointment of a coK:-
mitlee to inquire into the power of the SEN
ate to make an investigation under the cir
cumstances.
Chandler spoke In favor of the Hoar
resolution. but yielded to an effort made by
Hoar to have the time fixed at the present
session for taking a vote on the admission
of the three Senators appointed by the
Governors of Montana, Washington and
Wyoming; but objections came from the
Democratic Senators, who said. however,
that they would confer upon it.
The resolutions for an investigation of
the claim of Ady to seat in the Senate for
the State OF Kansas, and for an inquiry into
the conditions of the Territories of Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah and Oklahoma as to their
fitness for admission as States, heretofore
offered, was taken up and agreed to. and
Chandler then proceeded with his argument
in support of H0ar's resolution. lie made
numerous and volumin nous citations from
English and American history, bearing on
the question whether expulsion from
parliamentary body can be based upon acts
committed before the accused person had
become member. He claimed that prece-
dents established that right.
VOORHEES,. replying to Chandler, said that
presumptions were in favor of the virtue,
intelligence and capacity Of States 10 send
to the Senate men who were fit for the high
position. and the presumptions also were
that the representatives OF other States
would be better employed in minding their
own business than in criticizing the action
of State In choosing its Senators.
The proposed investigation was simply
an inquisit0rial process outside of all consti-
tutional limit. He desires the country to
know that on his side of the chamber they
would investigate within the limits OF the
constitution, and not beyond tham-
Il have heard alleged" said voorhees,,
"Of the Senator from New Hampshire some
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 to the bottom
of the sea. l have heard it alleged that the
contractors retired from the work rich, con-
tented and Infamous, all at the same time.
l hear these things said. Does the Senator
from New Hampshire believe these matters
should be taken out of the newspapers, and
that l OF any other Senator should, without
one word of testimony, rise here and
arraign him? The Senator from New
Hampshire would turn this body into the
most miserable and most contemplate con-
clave of inquisitorial process the world ever
had any knowledge of. l would want to
leave the Senate with loathing and disgust,
rather than serve in a body which claimed
the right 10 supervise the morals of Senators
from other States and to enter into iudg.
ment upon them. It m ght be that the
Senator from North Dakota suffered mis-
fortune. He never sought, however, to
evade laws of his country, and to-day he
returned among those whom he had in
jured without a single claim being made
against him."
Hansbrough testified to the good qualities
and high reputation held by Roach Tor the
ten or twelve years that he had resided in
Dakota. He then branched off into COM
plant Of the interviews and statements
published in the st. Paul Globe and the
Minneapolis Tribune on the authority of
one Lamoure OF Pembina, disparaging to
himself. and he asked German whether he
had in his possession any documents, affi-
davits or papers bearing upon his Hans
brough's) election to the Senate.
German pointed to Hausbrough's state
ment as an illustration of the folly of listen
ing to the tattling of vipers and miserable
slanderers and disavowed all knowledge of
the charges against Hansbrough.
After an executive session the Senate sd-
journed TIL tomorrow, when the final ad-
journment of the extra session may take
place.
In executive session the nomination Of
Ambrose W. Lyman was confirmed as Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the district
of Montana.
The following combinations were also
made: August Belmont & Co., fiscal agents
of the Navy Department. London; Daniel
M. Browning of Illinois. Commissioner OF
Indian A fairs.