Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-18
REPORT on BRIBERY CHARGES.
Persons Named nv Attempting Cor

HARRISBURG. PA. April l7.-Majority
and minority reports were presented TO
the House this evening. from the COM
been investigating the charges Of attempt
ed bribery I'm connection with the ballot
ing for United States senator and the
consideration OF the McCarren jury bill
in the House The latter bill, which was
eventually defeated. was said to have
been introduced to aid Senator Quay in
his then approaching trial In the Phila-
delphia courts. The majority report re-
cites at considerable length the testimony
taken by the committee. and SAYS the
evidence disclosed clearly that undue
means were taken by many persons to
corruptly solicit members OF the House,
both for the purpose OF influencing their
official action in reference to the Nc
Carrell jury bill and in reference TO their
official action as TO the election Of u
United States senator.
THE METHODS EMPLOYED.
This corrupt solicitation the report says
consisted Of offers of money. position.
advantage and political preferment. The
report charges that in furtherance Of an
unlawful conspiracy to carry out the
heme. rooms were maintained at the
Lcchiel Hotel. in Harrisburg. for the pur-
pose Of having members of the House
brought there that they might be ap-
preached in reference TO the subject mat
ters referred TO. Those who maintained
these rooms and corruptly approached
certain members, the report continues
were John j. C0yle. Charles r. Spatz.
Thomas B. Moyles. Michael !. Costello.
ana Martin Lawier. Other persons are
named as having been engaged I'm efforts
10 corruptly solicit members. Some Of
these are passed over as merely deserving
censure, but in the concluding paragraph
Of the report nine persons are named.
against whom the committee recommends
that legal action be brought. This para
graph IS as follows:
NINE PERSONS NAMED.
I'm conclusion. your committee respect-
fully report that there is I'm their opinion
Spatz, John r. Byrne. Parker Titus.
Frank y. Jones. Monroe IT, Kulp, Thomas
VI. Moyles. Robert Evans. John !. Coyle.
and VI. j. Costello for this House TO di-
rect that criminal proceedings be brought
against them in the Court Of Quarter Ses-
sions OF Dauphin county. and it is recon-
mended that these proceedings be imme-
diately commenced and vigorously prose-
cuted by the authority Of this House"
Spatz is at present a member OF the
House from Berks county. ana is a DEM
ocrat kulp was a member Of the Fifty
fourth and Fifty-ffth congresses from
the Seventeenth Pennsylvania District.
and is a Republican Coyle Costello.
Byrne. and Moyles were formerly I'm the
Legislature. and some are Democrats and
some Republicans.
The majority report IS signed by five Of
the nine members of the committee
Messrs. Fow Democrat, chairman;
Dixon OemocraO, and Koontz Randall.
and Young @nti-Quay Republicans.
MINORITY REPORT
The minority report is signed by Messrs.
Tighe OemocraU. and McClain, Kreps.
and Voorhees, (Quay Republican,. 1t
reaches substantially the same conclu-
sions as the majority report. II. however,
relieves from censure some of the per-
sons who were named for rebuke by the
majority report, and it recommends that
the testimony for and against Messrs.
Coyle, Costello, Spatz, Evans. Moyles.
Kulp Byrne, Titus. and Jones be referred
to the proper tribunal for determination"