Evening star., 1899-04-18
REPORT CHARGES BRIBERY
Outcome of the Legislative Investigation at
Harrisburg.
Several Persons Named ms Being
Guilty and Reco9,mendation
Made for Proaecution.

Majority and minority reports were pre-
sented to the house of sthe Pennsylvania
legislature at Harrisburg last evening from
the committee which hass for several weeks
past. been investigating The charges of at
tempted bribery, in oonnectien with the bal
loting for U1.ited StatesI senator, and the
consideration in the .hosse of the McCar-
rell jury bill. The latter BILL which was
eventually defeated vas 3said to have been
introduced to aid Senator Quay in his ap-
preaching trial in the Philadelphia courts.
The majority report reeites at consider
able length the testimony by the commit
tee, 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
Carroll jury bill and in reference to their
official action as to the election of United
States senator. This corrupt solicitation,
the report says, consisted of offers of
money, position. advantage and political
preferment.
an unlawful conspiracy. to carry out the
schemes rooms were maintained at the
Lochiel Hotel in Harrisburg for the pur-
pose of having members of the house
brought there that they might be approach
ed in reference to the subject-matters re-
ferred to. Those who maintained these
rooms and corruptly approached certain
members, the report continues, Were John
j. Coyle, Charles 3. Spatz Thomas B.
Moyles. Michael j. Costello and Martin
Lawler.
Other persons are named as having been
engaged in efforts to corruptly solicit MEM
bers. Some of these are passed over as
merely deserving censure, but in the con-
Guiding paragraph of the report nine per-
sons are named against whom the commit
tee recommends that legal action be
brought. This paragraph is as follows:
In conclusion, your committee respect
fully report that there is In their opinion
sufficient evidence against Charles b. Spatz,
John r. Byrne, Parker Titus, Frank b.
Jones. Monroe H. kulp, Thomas NJ. Moyles
Robert Evans, John J. Coyle and NJ J.
Costello for this house to direct that crimi-
nal proceedings be brought against them
in the courts of quarter sessions of Dau-
phin county, and it is recommended that
these proceedings be Immediately COM
menced and vigorously prosecuted by the
authority of this house,
SpatZ is at present a member of the house
from Berks county, and as a democrat
kuip was member of the F'ifty-fourth and
Fffty-fifth Congresses from the seventeenth
Pennsylvania district, and is a republican
Coyle. Costello, Byrne and Moyles were
formerly in the legislature Some are demo-
Gratis and some republicans
The majority report is signed by five of
the nine members of the committee, Messrs
Fow (democraD, chairman; Dixon demo-
craO, and hoontz, Randall and Young
(anti-Quay republicans.
The minority report is. signed by Tighe
(democraU, McClain, Kreps and Voorhees,
Quay repuhiicans). The report reaches
substantially the same conclusions as the
majority report. 1t, however, relieves from
censure some of therl persons who were
named for rebuke by the majority report.
and it recommends that the testimony of
ana against Messrs.. Ceyle, Costello, Spatz.
Evans, Moyles, Kulp, Byrne, Titus and
Jones be referred to the proper tribunal for
determination.