The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
Senator Clark Resigns, but Is Said
to Have Been Reappointed.
in AN ADDRESS TO THE SEDATE BODY
HE CONDEMNS THE POLICY PURSUED.
All Kinds OF Hearsay and Perured Testimony He
Says, Was Admitted in His Trial-Arragnment
of Congressman Campbell and Marcus Daily.

that might arise for consideration duriuy
the present session, but the question calet
up today for discussion so vitality con-
Germs my own interests and the interests
OF the great State which have the honor
In part TO represent that | shall ask the
T indulgence of the senate while l. as brief
ly as possible. submit gone remarks re-
ferring arst 10 the character ef The IN
Vestgation' second, TO the majority report
OF the committee on elections, which has
submitted findings adverse TO the reten-
ton Of my seat IN the senate; third, 90
the conditions existing IN the State OF
Montana for number OF years prior 10
my election, which justified my political
action and, lastly statement Gs 70 the
course ! deem best TO pursue IN the prem
lses.
1 1T Is not my desire to east any asper-
sions on the motives which antuated tbs
/ distinguished senators composing the COM
( mittee. and yet, with tAa most respeatful
consideration fpr the learning legal nbH-
/ ny aud eminent standing Of these gentle-
men, am forced to tho conclusion. which
1 believe meets with the concorrence OF
T not only large number OF senator's on
poth sides of this chamber but also 10 81
/ por cent Of my constituents in the State
OF Montana, regardless OF political AZ
hliations, that the methods Of procedure In
the investigations OF this matter wore
uahiesuy unfalr non judicial and that
they resulted in a verdict OF The committee
ont'fey opposite to that which would have
occurred should the evidence have boen
confined 10 thar which was admissible and
pertinent TO the issue
! contend that an invtetieation involy-
I NE a seat In the highest legislative jay
/ OF TINS Nation. az wen as the honor OF an
individual chosen for thai position hy the
people OF one Of the sovereign states
thoreiore should be conducted In a strict
lu1leiai manner, and that in The p,a-
| ctedings the established rules OF evidence
should be applied II Is Well known 10
| everybody that this was not the case. II
I lB true mat there was a strong effort un1e
| hf the honorable senator's from Washing
ton, Maryland Kansas aud North Carolina
: at the beginning OF the investigation 20
4 exclude all the Irrelevant testimony. but
! HER efforts were uuayallng
The senators who filed a minority re-
i port expressed In emphatic terms their
condemnation OF the proceedings in THIS
respect, as well as denunclation OF tho
| character and practices Of tho principal
| attorney, and or some OF the witnesses
who testified for the prosecution The re-
suit of the admission of all kinds Of hear
say. irrelevant. mischievous and perlured
testimony was damaging in the extreme
TO the respondent, as. through the medium
OF both The respectable and the venaI
press, the most widespread publicity was
given throughout the land to some OF the
p6rnIcious falsehnods touching the re-
spondent, and likewise Il large number az
most eminent and upright Legislators who
supported him, and who are the peers OF
the bnasted men OF any State in this
Union
! Tho prevailing theory Of presumptive
innocence was largely ignored and the
entire proceedings were closely analogous
TO the Drcyfus case, whore the prosecution
was based upon presumption OF guilt
II has heretofore been held that there
must be proved actual completely of fraud
on the part OF the principal, or actual,
not presumptiye, knowledge Of corruption
on the part OF his agents, or that It must
/ he proved. not inferred, that a sufficient
number OF Legislators have been corruptly
Influenced to change the result OF the
election
IN order TO change the result OF the
election it would be necessary to establish
that eight members of the legislature were
corruptly influenced
Much stress has been laid upon the
comparative financial condition OF two or
three legislators before the senatorial
contest.
These men gave full explanation OF
the conditions relating 10 such matters.
From their well known character l do
not believe them dishonest and even II
they were It muet be remembered that
there was much legislation before thar
assembly involving millions OF dollars in
/ which some OF the memoralists were
deeply interested aud although they APP
peared here as apostles Of purity. 1t Is
we'll known in Montana they would not
fall to test the probity Of every man In the
most interruptions manner to promote
their own interests"
Here MI Clark took up In detail tho
findings of the committee on privileges
and elections. critielsing many OF them
sharply. ans at length Speaking OF his
campaign for congress in 1883 he attributes
his defeat to Mr.. Daily, saying; ''Treach-
erous work was done everywhere In the
several counties where Daily had men EN-
pioyed and the result was my defeat by
several thousand majority and from this
staggering blow Of treachery the party did
not recover for many years There was
no proyocation for this. II was simply an
envious and diabolical desire on his part
TO destroy my political influence In the
Territory"
/ He then reiterated that he went into the
contest OF 1898 merely for the purpose Of
breaking down DAILY rule in Montana and