Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

Harrisburg. April lS.-The bribery in
Nestigation committee last evening rec
ommended to the house that criminal
proceedings be instituted in the courts
against nine persons for corrupt solicita-
tion in connection with the balloting for
United States senator. ana the Considcra-
tion of the McCarroll jury bill. The
latter bill. which was eventually de-
feated, was said to have been introduced
to aid Senator Quay in his then ap-
preaching trial in the Philadelphia
courts.
Tn" majority report reCit"s at consider
able length the testimony taken 10y the
committee, and says the evidence dis
closes clearly that undue means We're
taken by many persons to corruptly
solicit members of the house, both for the
purpose of influencing their official ac-
tion in reference to the McCarrrll jury
bill, and in reference to their official
action as to the election of a United
States senator This corrupt solicta-
tion, the report says consisted of offers
of money, position, advantage and poll
tiCal preference.
The report charges that, in furtheranCe
of an unlawful conspiracy to carry out
the scheme, rooms were maintained at
the Lochiel hotel in Harrisburg for the
purpose of having members of the house
brought there that they might be APP
| preached in reference to the subject
matters referred to. Those who main
tanned these rooms and COrruptly APP
preached certain members the report
continues, We're John j. Coyl", Charles
B. Spatz, Thomas Il. Moyles, Michael
J. Costello and Martin l.aWler.
Other persons are named as having
been engaged in efforts to corruptly so
liCit 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 paragraph is
] as follows:
In conclusion, your committee re-
| SpeCtfully report that there is, in their
| opinion. sufficient evidence against
| Charles b. Spatz, John r. Byrne, Par
ker Titus, Frank b. Jones, Monroe II
| Kulp Thomas NJ. MOyleS, Robert Evans,
! John j. Coyle and NJ J. Costello for this
house to direct that criminal proceedings
be brought against them in the courts OF
quarter sessions of Dauphin county and
il is recommended that these proceed
ings be Immediately commenced and
! vigorously prosecuted by the authority
of this house
SpatZ is at present a member of the
house from Berks county, and is a Dem
ocrat. kulp was a member of the Fifty
fourth and Fifty-hfth congresses from
the Seventeenth Pennsylvania district
and is Republican, Coyle. Costello
| Bvrne and Moyles We're formerly in the
legislature. Some are Democrats anC
some are Republicans.
The majority report is signed by five
of the nine members of the committee
Messrs. Fow (DemD, chairman; DiXor
OemD, and koOnt2, Randall and Younl
(anti-Quay RepubliCans).
The minority report is signed by Tight
DemD, and McClain Kreps and Noor
hees (Quay Republicans). The repor
reaches substantially the same con
clusions as the majority report. 1t
however, relieves from cenSure some o
the persons who We're named for rebuk
by the majority report, and 1t recon
mends that the testimony of anC
against Messrs Coyle Costello, Spat2
Evans, MOyles, Kulp, Byrne, Titus an,
Jones, be referred to the proper tribuna
for determination"