Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
BUTTz TRIED TO BRIDE.


The Senate Committee Reports Upon the
Attempts to Bride Senators Kyle and
Hunlon to Vote against the Tariff Bill.
ARLINGTON, May g5.-rhe report
Of the Senate committee appointed to
Investigate the charges Of attempts to
bride Senators to vote against the Tariff
bi,. and the charges OF improper in.
tluenccs being used in connection with
the sugar sghcdule was submitted 10 the
senate to-day, SO far as Il concerns the
ATTEMPTED bribery Of senators Hunton
and Kyle. The committee in lis report
says:
II appears from the testimony sub.
mitted that certain Charles w. Buttl
Of North Dakota. but dpmicilel in
Washington since December last, where
he has been engaged as lobbyist aud
claim agent, did, on or about tic LIST Of
April of this year, at the house of Sena.
tor Hunton, in Warrenton, Va, during
the absence Of the Senator, say to his
son, Eppa lluntonhJr that he wnttld
pay him contingent fee of $4,000 ii
he would, by presenting arguments as
to the pending Tariff bill, induce his
father, Senator lIunton. to vote aga INST it.
This offer was declined at once and
pcremptorily by Eppa lIun.on, Jr., as
set forth in his testimony, .tnl the
whole matter was communicated by
him TO his father Senator Hunton
awaited himself of the first opportunity
70 disclose the matter to certain of his
friends in the Senate, as appears in the
testimony, and was III no other way
connected with the transaction.
II is also established by the testimony
that the same Charles W. Buttz, during
the month Of March last past, APP
preached senator Kyle OF South Dakota
with proposition that $4,000 would
be paid to him Senator kylc) ii he
would vote against the pending Tariff
bill. The said Buttz. when making this
proposition, also stated to Senator Kyle
that the money was in the hands or con
troll OF an agent of certain bankers and
capitalists OF New York city, and that
the money was in Washington.
Senator kyle's testimony is confirmed
by that of Duncan McFarlane, clerk 10
the committee on education and labor.
Senator Kyle is shown by the testi-
mony to haze communicated this inter
view with But,z, and the offer made to
ttA'A4f ~ SGNNlHl h7NlstAbIo sllOIllJ ullGT
the said interview took place.
Your committee are abundantly iusti.
fled in stating that the facts above re.
cited have been established by the evil
dence, Notwithstanding the denial on
the part of Charles w Buttz, and they
refer the Senate 10 the testimony in
detail in support of this finding.
Your committee find nothing from
their investigation to impeach, in the
least degree, the honor or character of
Senators Hunton and Kyle
There is no evidence to show the
truth of Mr.. BUTTS statements to Sen.
ator Kyle and to Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr.,
that syndicate of bankers and capital
lists had raised sum Of money 10 be
used for the purpose of defeating the
pending Tariff bill or that there was an
agent Of such syndicate in Washing
ton, or that any money was in Wash
ington for that purpose.
Buttz denies that he made any such
statement, or that he had or has any
knowledge of the existence of such a
syndicate, or that he was the agent or
representative of any one. He further
denies that he had any money himself.