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BOLD BRIBER BUTTE.

BOLD BRIBER BUTTE.
Report Of the Special Committee % the
Senate Investigating the Alleged At.
tempt to Corrupt Senators Kyle and Hun.
ton-The Charges Against Chas. w.
Buttz Said to be Fully Sustained by the
Evidence.
BRIBER BuTrZ.
WASHINGTON, May o6.-The special
committee appointed to investigate the
charges of attempted senatorial bribery
on the part of Charles W. Buttz sub
mitted their report to the senate.
Buttz is found by the committee to
have made the attempt at bribery,
despite his denial, and Senator's Hunton
and Kyle are exonerated from all
blame.
The report Of the committee consists
OF two printed pages, and the testi-
mony given before the committee, sew
enty-six pages. Amoug other things
the report says:
TT APPEARS FROM THE TESTIMONY
submitted that a certain Charles w.
Buttz, of North Dakota, but ddoniciled
in Washington since December last,
where he has been engaged as
lobbyist and claim agent, did, on or
about the 1st Of April Of this year. at
the house of Senator Hunton, in War
renton, Va, during the absence of the
senator, say to his son, Eppa Hunton,
Jr., that he would pay him contingent
fee of s25, 900 if he would, by present
ing arguments as to the pending tariff
bill, induce his father, Senator Hun.
ton, to vote against it.
THIS OFFER WAS DECLINED
at once and peremptorily by Eppa
Hunton, Jr., as set forth in his testi.
mony. and the whole matter was com.
municated by him to his father. Sen.
ator Hunton availed himself 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.
1T is ALSO ESTABLISHED
| by the testimony that the same Charles
w. Buttz, during the month of March,
last past, approached Senator Kyle, of
South Dakota, with proposition that
$4,000 would be paid to him Senator
Kyle) if 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 control of an agent
of certain bankers and capitalists Of
New York city, and that the money was
in Washington.
SENATOR'S KYLE's TESTIMONY
is confirmed by that of Mr.. Duncan
McFarlane. 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 offer made to
him, to several senators shortly after
the said interview took place.
THE SENATOR'S HONOR UNIMPUGNED.
"Your committee are abundantly
justified in stating that the facts above
recited have been established by the evil
dence, notwithstanding the denial on
the part of Charles W. Buttz, and they
refer the senate to the testimony in de-
tail in support of this finding.
''Your committee find nothing from
their investigation to impeach in the
least degree, the honor or character o.
Senators Hunton and Kyle.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE
To show the truth of Mr.. Buttz's state
ment to Senator Kyle and to Mr.. Eppa
Hunton. Jr.. that syndicate of bank.
ers and capitalists had raised sum OF
money to be used for the purpose of de.
feating the pending tariff bill, or that
there was an agent of such asyndica te
in Washington. or that any money was
in Washington for that purpose. Buttz
denies that he made any such state
ment. or that he had or has any knowl.
edge of
| THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A SYNDICATE,
or that he was the agent or represent.
ative of anyone. He further denies
that he had any money himself.
If, during the further prosecution Of
the investigation with which your
committee is charged, any evidence be
discovered or suggested tending to sup
port the statements made to Senator
Kyle or to Mr.. McFarlane, or to Mr..
Eppa Hunton, Jr., by Charles W. Buttz,
! it will be
| PROMPTLY LAID BEFORE THE SENATE.
Until then your committee are com
peeled. upon all the evidence submitted
to them. to the conclusion that the
statements of Charles W. Buttz are
| wholly untrustworthy.