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CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS.
committees Recommendation ms ,o
Pennsylvania Bribers.

AchhsyANHhIa Bribers.
harrisburg, Pa, April 17-Maioritv and
minority reports were presented to the
House this evening from the committee
which has, for several weeks past been
investigating the charges of attemnted
bribery in connection with the balloting
for United States senator and the consld-
Grafton of the McCarrell jury bill in the
House
The latter bill, which was eventually de-
feaied, was said TO have been introduced
10 aid Senator Quay in his then approach
ing trial in the Philadelphia courts.
The majority report recites at consider
able 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 in
huencing their official action in reference
to the McCarrell jury bill, and in refer
ence to their official action as TO the cleo
ton of United States senator.
This corrupt solicitation, the report says,
consisted of offers of money, position. ad-
vantage and political preferments 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 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.
Names Are Called.
Those who maintained these rooms and
corruptly approached certain members, the
report continues, were John j. Coyle,
Charles d. Spatz. Thomas B. Moyles,
Michael j. Costello and Martin Lawler.
Other persons are named as having been
engaged in efforts to 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 COM
mlttee 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. ByTne, Parker Titus,
Frank B. Jones, Monroe Fl. Kulp, Thomas
B. Moyles, Robert Evans, John ]. Coyle,
and NJ. j. Costello for this House to direct
that criminal proceedings be brought
against them in the courts of Quarter Ses-
sions of Dauphin county, and il is recon-
mended that these proceedings be immedi-
ately commenced and vigorously prosecuted
by the authority of this House"
Spatz is at present a member of the
AlOu6S iAOiu DeIhs county ana is a OefnO-
crat. Kulp was a member of the Fifty
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses from the
Seventeenth Pennsylvania district and IS
a Republican. Coyle, Costello, Byrne and
Moyles were formerly in the legislature.
Some are Democrats and some are Repub-
licans.
There Were Two Reports.
The majority report is signed by five OF
the nine members of the committee
Messrs. Fow, Democrat, chairman; Dix
on, Democrat, and Koontz Randall and
Young, anti-Quay Republicans.
The minority report is signed by Tighe,
Democrat and Mccain, Kreps and Voor-
hees, Quay Republicans.
The report reaches substantially the
same conclusion as the majority report.
1t, however, relieves from censure some
of the persons who were named for re-
buke by the majority report and 1t rec
ommends that the testimony of another
against Messrs. Coyle, Costello, Spatz, Ev-
ans, Moyles, Kulp, Byrne, Titus ana
Jones be referred to the proper tribunal
for determination.