New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
CHARGES OF BRIBERY.
prNNSYLvANIA COMMITTEE RECON-.
MENDS ACTION.
.,.YoR1TY SATISFIED OF TRUTH OF THE
sTORIES-NAMES GIVEN IN THE
REPORT

harrisburg Penn, April 17.-Majority and
,,,nority reports presented to the House
.a,s evening from the committee which has been
,nvestgating the charges Of attempted bribery
., connection with the balloting for United
Gates Senator and the consideration in the
uouse of the McCarrel Jury bill The majority
,enort rectes at length the testimony taken by
the committee and says the evidence disclosed
clearly that undue means were taken by many
,ersons corruptly to solicit members OF the
House. both fo~ the purpose Of influencing their
official action in reference to the McCarrell
Jurv bill and in reference to their action
ss to the election OF a United States Sena-
Tor. This corrupt solicitation. the report says.
consisted Of offers of money. position, advan-
,sse and political preferment The report
charges that in furtherance of an unlawful con-
so,racy 10 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 approached
,n reference to the subject Those who main
,sined these rooms and corruptly approached
certain members. the report continues. were
John J. Coyle Charles b. Spatz, Thomas b.
Movies. Michael J. Costello and Martin LAWYER
Other persons are named as having been en-
gagged in efforts corruptly to solicit members.
Some Of these passed over as merely deserv-
ine 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 respectfully re-
mort that there is. in their opinion, suilclent
evidence against Charles b. Spatz. John H.
Ryrne Parker Titus. Frank b. Jones. Monroe
III Kup. Thomas NJ. Moyles. Robert Evans,
John ]. Coyle and NJ. j. Costello for this House
10 direct that criminal proceedings be brought
against them in the courts of Quarter Sessions
of Dauphin County, and ii is recommended that
these proceedings be Immediately commenced
and vigorously prosecuted by the authority OF
this House
Sratz is at present member OF the House
from Berks County. and Is a Democrat Kulp
was a member Of the LIVth and LVth Con-
crosses from the XVIIth Penns3 lvania District.
and is a Republican. Coyle. Costello. Byrne and
Moyles were formerly in the Legislature. Some
are Democrats and some are Republicans.
The majority report is signed by five OF the
nine members Of the committee-Messrs. Fow
Dem). chairman; Dixon (Dem), and Koontz
Randall and Young (anti-Quay Reps).
The minority report is signed by Tighe Dem).
and McClain, Kreps and voorhees, CQuay Reps).
The report reaches substantially the same con-
Illusions as the majority report. It, however,
relieves from censure some OF the persons VINO
were named for rebuke by the majority report.
and II recommends that the testimony of and
against Messrs. COyle Costello. Spatz, Evans.
Movies Kulp, Byrne, Titus and Jones be re-
ferred to the proper tribunal for determination.