New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-14
LIVELY DEBATE IN THE SENATE
am ALIENS RESOLUTION SENT TO THE JUDI
cr.py coMMITrEE--A CHARACTERISTIC
,nr,,cty nv TIII,MAN,

C1ARY CoMMITTEE-A CHARACTERISTIC
SPEECH BY TILIMAN.
r..,,r.+on Nav 1s-The Allen resolution rela-
.,,o "a bringing Elverton r. Chapman to the oar OF
Tho Senate was taken up as soon as the ROUTINE
business was out OF the way to-day MI. Alien sAu
ha desired TO present some additional iac'' oea'
inc on tho subject The Senate snouio. III Juo"e'
IN itself take this matter In hand ana oeai Win u
r-oron,lv He could understand he said. the anxiety
=, Grammar tosehield those around him from the
oo,.oouences Of the sentence. But as the repre-
serta,ves OF seventy million people,, proceeded MI
Anon I'VE cannot afford 10 permit MI chapman
the representative Of powerful organizatoh' "hich
{. has besn charged exercises great influence over
this body. TO go unwhipped'
rrha discussion assumed legal and technical
chase Messrs Faulkner. OF West Virginia. White
OF California. and Spooner' OF Wiscons'ii' arguing
on the law applying TO Chapman
Mr. Hoar moved to refer the resolution to the
Committee on Privileges and Election
Mr. White argued that the pardoning power was
exclusively an Executive function, and II was not
for the Senate suggest methods TO the Executive
or to curtail that power. Answering question OF
Mr. Allen. Mr. White said the right OF the Ne
hraska Senator 20 urge this resolution was not
questioned but It was question OF propriety
whether the Senate should trench upon Executive
power.
Mr. Allen replied rather warmly that on ques-
,;ona Of propriety he would assume the RESPONSE
bility.
Mr. Pettus, OF Alabama. urged that the investi-
CATION be opened afresh. requiring witnesses to APP
pear and testify. instead of Furnishing them for
past misdeeds.
Mr. Chandler, OF Hampshire sa!d that II
there were any Senators who had engaged in specu-
lation OF sugar stock-which God forbid is the
case-then four years have obliterated the evidence
The old investigation had failed; the tree had
fallen and It ought to le 1t would be prepos-
ferrous proposition, he said, after the tribuatous
OF the committee. Of the courts and Of the news
paper press, that the witness Chapman should be
pardoned. Mr.. Chandler said he could not con-
ceiye that any Executive should grant such par
DON II would establish that after conviction and
the conviction sustained by the United States Su-
prcme Court, the accused person can go TO the
White House and get II pardon, or could come to
the Senate TO be relieved Of the conviction. He
could not believe any ouch lame and mpotent con-
clusion would come from the investigation.
SENATOR TILLMAN's SPEECH
Mr.. Tiliman was then recognized for a speech.
ut seems TO me-" he taid that We not after
Chapman; the original investigation not in
tended to punish Chapman. but to discover whether
any Senator this floor had been guilty of using
his official place to make money by specializing In
stocks which were influenced by his action as a
Senator on tho committee which reported the
Tariff bill i is not worth while 70 Try to- cover
Senator from New Hampshire will excuse me, /
do not intend that as any rejection upon his
language. but II does appear TO me that no treated
There are to-day IN the newspapers Of this eoun-
east iEnsd s. sosr;inondsaH q Is sIiian. =