Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-06
CAMPAIGN STORY
PETTIGREW'S CREATION OF I'M
AGINATIoN SAYS CARTER.
DAKOTAN THOUGH INSANE.
Senator Hanna Believes Pettigrew is
Mentally Observation-Disclosures
Words are Spoken.

Washington, June 5.-When the anti
trust bill was laid before the n Mr..
Pettigrew moved to proceed with its
consideration. Mr.. Gallinger of New
Hampshire moved to refer the matter to
the ommitte on judiciary. In the course
of IA speech on the subject, Mr.. Bacon of
Georgia, said he was profoundly surpris-
ed that the statement made a few days
ago by MIR. Pettigrew that the Cramps,
the shipbuilders of Philadelphia, had con-
tributed $400, 600 to the republican nation
al campaign und for 1892, with the prom
Use that they would be recouped by con-
tracts for the building of war ships, had
not been denied. He regarded it as a
most remarkable statement and directed
attention to the fact that Mr.. Hanna and
MI. Proctor, intimately connected with
that campaign. We're in the chamber n
heard the statement.
Instantly Mr.. Hanna was on his feet.
If he said sharply. Il should under
take to reply to all such statements made
ON this floor, l would occupy more time
in the senat than even the senator from
Georgia does. tLaughter.) l heard the
statement and considered it unworthy of
notice. and l declined to dignity it by a
denial. I had nothing to do with the
campaign of 1892. out I have heard this
story and / say most emphatically and
decidedly that | believe it not true. So
far as such illusions are made to the
campaign of 1896. l desire to say that
no promises were made. no considerations
We're offered to any person or any cor
poration for contributions made
Mr.. Carter. who was the chairman of
the republican national campaign COM
mittee in 1892. said the statement of Sen
ator Bacon lis the first intimation I have
had that such a charge was made by any
person. This is the first time l ever heard
that statement made. I say now. and
there are senator's or this floor who will
bear me out. that any such charge that
contributions We're received to be reim-
bursed through the medium of govern
ment contracts or that any promises We're
made to corporations or to individuals
is absolutely false n can be branded
properly only as a lie. Money was re-
ceived by the committee. but only
through voluntary contributions. In
hat campaign the party was defeated
and the country paid the penalty of the
d~efeat."
Mr.. Pettigrew insisted on replying.
Said he: Il made the statement that
a contribution of $500. 900 had been made
by Mr.. Cramp to the republican national
committee in 1892 and that he was to be
reimbursed for it with contracts for ad-
ditional warships. My authority for the
statement is Mr.. Cramp himself de-
clared Mr.. Pettigrew. deliberately. 1t
created a sensation in the chamber. He
told me. not in confidence. as I believe.
on an ocean liner coming across the At
lantic. He did not know where the
money had gone and had employed de-
~tectives to find out He intimated that it
had not been used for campaign pur-
poses.
Moreover" continued Mr.. Pettigrew
his words almost kissing through the
chamber, Il have said the. same things
to the senator who was chairman of the
rpn,1b1itsn national cnp,u,ittan IF tI,t
year, and he waved it off smillinglv with
the statements: Well. we did hit the old
man pretty hard"
Adver1inE to Mr.. Hanna. Mr.. Petit
grew brought III the charges of bribery
which had been made against the Ohio
senator at the time of his election to the
senate. reading VoluminCusly from the
report of the minority OF the communities
IN privileges and elections. including
newspaper stories of the accounts of al.
legged telephone conversations between
Mr.. Hanna's friends and other persons
These statements. Mr.. PettiSrew thought
could not be swept aside lightly by Mr.
Hanna.
AS Mr.. Pettigrew resumed his seat. hall
a dozen senators clamored for recogni.
ton, among them Mr.. Hanna and Mr.
Foraker. Mr.. Foraker was recognized
and said the remarkable statements mad,
by the senator from South Dakota re
CURED some reply. 1t was an Ohio mat
ter, he said. and the Ohio senator's fel
abundantly able to take care Of 1t. H.
yielded to Mr.. Hanna. who said he fel
like Offering an apology to the senate 70
pursuing the subject further. and h
would not do so if he did not desire st,
show to the senate that the whole matte
was a. conspiracy-a part OF a concerto,
plan to work up some political capital.
There was a pretty lively scrap il
Columbus" said he, good humoredly. II
was due partly to the democratic part,
n partly to the work of traitors to thei
party and country. like the senator fror
South Dakota"
Mr. Hanna then went at length into tn
charges made by Mr.. Pettigrew. sayin
they had been published first in a demo
cratic newspaper of Columbus and full
and completely denied by him at tina
time. He referred to SenatOr Burke q
Cleveland as one of the chief conspirator
in the senatorial election. and denounce
him a as "a traitor and a s]croundrel.
who had, as a republican. lent himsel
to the conspiracy against his party. an
subsequently had been disbarred n dis
graced in his native city.
He then read a clipping from a Sout
Dakota newspaper. in which Mr.. PETIT
grew was characterized as a traitor
his country and to his state, and d.