Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-12
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, May -.
SENATE.


SENATE.
The Senate sugar Investigation and
the conviction of Elverton r. Chap.
man for refusing to testify was recalled
when Mr.. Allen, q member of the in
vest}gating committee, offered reso-
luton in the Senate to-day requiring
Chapman to appear at the bar of the
Senate and purge himself of con-
tumacy, as preliminary to executive
clemency. After long preamble pro-
viding that as Chapman is now an ap-
plicant, as it is said, for executive Glenn
ency and for relief from his sentence,
be it
Resolved, that it is the sense of the
Senate OF the United States that as a
condition precedent to receiving execu-
tive clemency in the remission of the
penalty imposed, the said Elverton K.
Chapman should be required to ap-
pear before the bar of the Senate
and purge himself of the said
contempt of which he is and
was guilty, by answering the ques-
tions which he contumaciously refused
and declined to answer during said in
vestigetion and make such disclosures
as the Senate committee then requested
him to make, or that may now be re-
quired of him by the Senate"
Close attention was given to the read
ing of the resolution and as it closed
Mr.. Gallinger, remarked: "Let it go
over"
"Do understand the Senator to OBJ
iect to the consideration of the resolu-
ton ?" asked Mr.. Allen.
Mr.. Gallinger answered that the reso-
luton was very long. Senators had
been summoned to committee room
10 testify. He had been summoned
and had testified that he never owned
copper's worth of sugar stock. The
resolution should be looked into before
this line of inquiry was resumed.
Mr.. Allen said the resolution did not
contemplate reopening of the investi-
CATION. II was confined to a require
msnt that Chapman purge himself as
prerequisite to pardon.
Mr.. Gallinger said he had misappre-
hended the scope of the resolution +;
still 1t would do no harm to let it go
over for "a hours.
81 hope the Senator will consent to
lot the resolution 90 to the committee
on privileges and elections" began MIR.
Hoar.
Certainly not; certainly not" said
Mr.. Allen emphatically.
Mr.. Hoar, with some asperity,
claimed the floor and said that MIR.
Allen could not say what he (Hoar)
hoped would be done. He would go
as far as any one, Mr.. Hoar said, to see
that this investigation and another one
as to the sale of bonds were pressed to
the utmost. "And l hope the investi-
cations will touch bottom, !" added MIR.
Hoar. 81 have no sympathy with any
body who would whistle either of those
inquiries down the Wind"
Mr.. Hoar spoke of the need of sus
tanning the power and authority of the
Senate. Chapman, he said, had been
tried and sentenced. But it was not
for the Senate to say that he ought not
to he pardoned.
81 think we ought TO summon him
here and compel him to answer" said
Mr.. Hoar, "and if he does not answer
then to punish him whether the Presi-
dent pardons him or not"
Mr.. Allen said he regarded Chapman
as victim rather than a criminal.
When before the committee Chapman
was very quiet and gentlemanly. He
simply declined to answer the ques-
lions, acting on legal advice. In that,
said the Senator, Chapman took the
chances of war. Mr.. Allen said he be-
lieved Chapman Vas more of an agent
than principal.
The resolution went over until to
morrow.
Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama, said the
committee on foreign relations at
meeting to-day had considered the
question of referring his Cuban resolu
ton to the committee and had not
reached an agreement. The committee
desired, however, that the resolution
90 over until noon tomorrow with a
view to having statement of facts LAID
before the Senate at that time. At his
request the resolution went over until
tomorrow.
A resolution by Mr.. Butler, request
ing the President for information rela-
tive to the sale OF the Union Pacific
Railroad, was presented and went over.
The Senate then took up the calen-
dar.
The Senate then went into executive
session after which it adjourned.
HOUSE.