Connecticut western news., 1894-05-31

Senators Kyle and Hunton Were Fxonerst-
 ed and Buttr, the Alleged nrIb~r. Was
 Aceosed-Ths investigation sun contin-
 ues, However.
 WASHINGTON, May a6.-The report of the senate committee appointed tu investigate the charges of attempts to bribc senators to vote against the tariff bill and the charges of improper influences being used fin connection with the sugar schedule as submitted to the senate today, 70 far as concerns the attempted bribery of Sen. ators Hunton and Kyle says;
 "lt appears from the testimony submit ted that certain Charles w. Buttz of North Dakota, but domieiled in Washing ton since December last, where he has been engaged as lobbyist and claim agent, did, on or about the lst of April of this year, at the house of Senator Hunton in warrenton, Va. during the absence of the senator, say to his son, Eppa Hunton, IT., that he would pay him a contingent fee of s25 900 if he would, by presenting ar guments as Co the pending bill, induce bis father, Senator Hunton, to vote against it.
 This offer was declined at once and per emptorily by Eppa Hunton, Jr., as set forth in his testimony, and the whole matter was communicated by him to his father. Senator Hunton nvHiled him self of the first opportunity to disclose the matter to certain of his friends In the senate as appears in the testimony, and was in no other way connected with the transaction.
 Kyle and uunton Nlndlcat@d.
 "It is also established by the testimony that the same Char :. w. ButtE during the month of March ,ast past approached Senator Kyle Of south Dakota with a prop osition that sl4,0o0 would be paid to him Senator Kylel if he would vote against the pending tariff bill. The said Buttx when making this proposition also stated to Senator Kyle that the money was in the hands or control of an agent of certain bankers and capitalists of New York city and that the money was fin Washington.
 Senator kyle's testimony Is confirmed by that of Mir. Duncan McFRrlnnc, clerk to the committee on education and labor
 Senator Kyle is shown by the testi- mony to have communicated this inter view with Buttz and the '.ffer made to him to several senators shortly after the said interview took place.
 Your committee are AbundRutiy tusti- | fled in stating that the facts above reclted have been established by the evidence, not withstanding the denial on the part of Charles W. Buttz, and they refer the aen- ate to the testimony in detail In support of this finding. Your committee find noth- ing 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 Mir. Buttz's statement to Senator Kyle and to Mir Eppa Hunton, IT, that syn dicate of bankers and capitalists had raised a sum of money to be used for the purpose of defeating the pending tarin bill, or that there was an agent of such syndicate in Washington, or that any money was In Washington for that purpose
 "Buttz denies that he made any such statement or that he had or has any knowledge of the existence of such syn. dicate or that he was the agent or repre- sentative of any one. He further denies that he has any money himself"
 Investigation Goes On.