The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-01
Contends That the Evidence Taken
Demands Further Investigation
ATTEMPT TO BUY OTIS VOTE,
The Terms for It's Purchase Agreed ON
AT Hanua's Headquarters And
This State of Affairs Existed
when Tic Was Prcscnt-Oth-
crEvidcncc TOO Lengthy
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WASHINGTON. Fob. @-scaator
Chandler from the Committee on friFi-
leecs and Elections. to-day presented 600
the Senate the report OF that committee
on The charges OF bribery in the election
TO the Senate of Hon. 81 A. Hanna, a5
made by the Ohio state Senate.
The report sets ont Chat no direct re-
moustrauoe setting out tnal AIT. Iial''''
WAS not elected or ought 20 Dee eHpeIea
frou tb. Senate nau been received oy
tina Senate. lie also shows tlat no oh.
has appeared before the committee aa4
that no papers have been received Dee
,ord the formal report of tine action oi
The State Senate
Notwithstanding these failures tne
committee has invested the charges.
so PROOF.
10 finds that "thcre is 40 proof 7"'-
mittod either that u Mr Hanna was
elected Senator through bribery of 'l
that hc had any agents engased DID 'al-
fviue ON his canvass for the senate WHO
were directly or implicitly authoriled us
bi1, to resort 10 corrupt methods 0r fo
any form of wrong doing. or CD llaI h"
had any personal knowledge OK tne lit.a
of The Otis case
on. may Dee sald that there SIS no er'-
douce which fairly tends io prove 'il".i
of the foregoing three propositions
.Iu view of these facts. the 9mm Pc
too ou Privilege and Elections have
reached tho conclusion that the l1'i oil
States Senate is not called upon to iaNe
any action in The premises.
a minority report signed ny S'i''''5
Tfrlcv. Pettus and Cahery, was ii'
.orf.d bv Senator Turiey. The report
ugatsn should DE made, anl enters i''''
fully into the statement of the case pre-
sentcd by the Ohio Senate.
The minority contend that me H'-
TEMPT ON the part of Boise to buy Olf
vote for Alr. Hanna is clearly proven ns
campbell They claim That 10 is shown
that Hannas ma-agers Dick and haih-
homo were at the Nel House in C1-
mmbus. where Hanna had his nfid-
quarters. and they repeat inc oe,tI.a "'
Bolse's conversation with them over 'he
telephone from tho Gibson House, ln
Cincinnati. as overheard Dy clerks OBJ iAe
Gibson House.
"If was iu their interviews the mI-
roritv saws. "that the terms for the
purchase OF the Otis vote was asi,.I
rnon between Boise and Campbell.
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The minority report deals at length with
tho conversation over the telephone, give
inc fun extracts from the testimony bee
fore the Committee of the Ohio Senate as
fo what was said in these conversation.
Tbcv also say that there was other cFl-
dence to show the intimate relations No-
tween Boyce ANA Hanna g manteef-. 'ul
tha,. conclude that 20 quote So would eIf-
rv The report to unnecessary length. The
minority then sly;
Ne think tie evidence TO which we
have already referred, standing as DC does
- ortra1Ictcd and unexplained .n9"s
that certain of AIR. Hanna managers al
columbus. not only knew tha purpose
which Boyce had in view in Cincinnati,
but also that they aided. ahetted. in care
rying out this purpose. and that lHis
state of affairs existed while Mr Hanna
was present at dis headquarters.