The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-06

whom he refers as having made a state
ment for which the Senator from Georgia
does net vouch.
Mr.. Bacon-Before | take my seat, Mr.
President. l desire those two Senators to
say at the proper time. at such time as
they shall choose. whether or not it is true
that in the campaign of 1892 the Cramps
paid 100000 TO the campaign fund of the
Republican party. and whether, IL 1t is
true, they propose to make the American
people believe that any man or any asso-
citation or any corporation gave $500 900. or
any approximate sum. to a political party
without the expectation that they would
be reimbursed through the agency of that
party in the control of the Government.
Mr.. President, while l should like TO say
more. l will yield to the Senator from
South Dakota-I yield simply to him, but
do net yield the floor.
The Charge Reiterated.
Mr.. Pettigrew-Mr. President I stated
few days ago upon this floor that in 1892
the Cramps contributed 100000 to the
Republican campaign fund and expected to
be recouped out of contracts for building
ships for the Government. My authority
for that statement is Mr.. Cramp himself.
who told me on a return trip from Europe
these facts. He did not make it privately.
He said he believed the money was not
expended for the purpose for which it was
collected; that he was assured that with
that sum the Republican party could GER
tainly win the election: that he was told
where it would be expended. and that he
had put detectives out and found the
money had not. been expended where IL
was promised it would be, and the result
was disastrous: they had been BEATEN and
he consulted with NE as to whether there
was any possibility Of his getting any
portion of the money back from the COM
mittee. He intimated that it had been
used for some other purpose than for cam
paign purposes.
Further than that. Mr.. President,
stated these facts to the gentleman. who
was that year Chairman of the Republic
can Committee. and he smiled and said:
I'VE did hit the old man pretty hard"
You can draw your own conclusions.
The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Hanna) says
that II he spent his time in answering such
charges as that. he would take up more
of the time of the Senate than the Senator
from Georgia tMr. Bacon) consumes, as
though that we're an answer. No won,ler
that the Senator from Ohio makes that
reply; no wonder that he gives that as
" tue IOT IL Ne
spend his time in answering similar
charges to those contained in the document
which l hold in my hand, and if he spent
time enough to convince the American
people that the facts herein stated are un-
true. he would spend a great deal more
time in this body than is consumed by
the Senator from Georgia.
l hold in my hand the report of The
Committee on Privileges and Elections OF
the Senate on the election of NJ. A. Hanna
TO this body. The minority report of this
committee is signed by Senators Turley,
Pettus. and Caffery. | will first read from
the report of the majority:
The Hanna Election Contest.
Mr.. Pettigrew then read from the report,
saying in part:
That Mr.. Boyce. operating in Cincinnati where
MIR. Otis lives. had relations with Mr.. Hanna's
feprt sentatiyos at Columbus. the State capital,
the State Senate committee undertook to prove
by the evidence Of various detectives professional
and amateur, who listened at the telephone wires
and shadoyed Mr. Boyce, Mr. IIollenbeck, and
Others. The effort of the committee was care
fully and skilltuly made. Ii was not wholly de-
void OF results; il rai-s pregnant suspicious that
Ar. Eannas representatives at Columbus knew
what Mr.. Boyce was doing But this whole lire
OF enquiry would require verifcation by testimony
to be taken by the Committee on Privileges ard
Elections before that committee would DC Will
ing 10 found conclusions thereon.
The quotation which l have Just read
is from the report OF the majority of the
committee. Now, We will see what the MI
nority further says:
The attempt on the part of Boyce to buy otis'
vote for Mr.. Hanna is clearly proven by Camp.
bell who, from his testimony. seems TO nave
been lawyCr OF large mactce One tho-sand
seven hundred and fifty dollars was paid in cash
by Boyce 10 Campbell Is attorney for Otis Boyce
sl4ertt slgftf
luinbrs and balance OF $500 if Mr. Hanna was
elected.
We will now refer to portions OF the evidence
before the committee OF the State Senate Of Ohio
bearing upon the relations existing between Mr..
Boyce while al Cincinnati and Mr.. Ianna's repre-
sentativss at Columbus
1t is shown that SIR. Hanna and Majors Dick
and Rathbone dick and Rathbone being managers
for Mr.. Hanns) were AZ the Neil House in Column
bus Ohio, where Nr. Hanna had his headquarters
for part OF three weeks preceding January l.,
ls's The private telephone used in Mr.. Hanna's
headquarters was No. lgt2.
Otis testifies that on Friday. January :. 1898,
about II O'Clock, he was called up over the tclc-
phone from the Great Southern Hotel at Column
bus by General Boyce. He had heard OF
Boyce before. Boyce stated that he had come
on from New York TO see Otis on important buzz
ness and had reached Columbus on Wednesday
about two hours after Otis had left
The result OF the conversation was that Boyce
and Otis agreed to meet at the Gibson House
that evening. Later in the day Boyce telegraph
ed Otis thr he would reach Cincinnati at $3.50
O'Clock. Otis says he met Boyce at the Gibson
House between $50 and G o'clock that evening
and had a conversation with him in which the
Senatorial question was discussed, and they
agreed to meet again the next evening. Myers,
u clerk at the Gibson House. testified that about
0:io p. m on the 9TH of January call came
over the telephone from Columbus for General
Borce, but he could not he found at the time.
1t was repeated little later on, at which time
General Boyee was standing in the lobby. lie was
at once called to the telephone in the hotel
Office Myers said he heard Boyce say: Hello,
Major Dick and speak OF Hanna being sore.
The Telephone Conversation.
This conversation, as far as he heard it. Ny
cTs says he repeated to the manager of the
telephone again to arrange for him TO use the
numbered SIS. 1t seems the two telephones were
so connected that person listening at the tcle-
phone in the hotel Office could hear everything
which passed through the telephone in the mana
gers private office. Now, the books OF the tele.
phone company in Columbus show that on January
Z there but one call from telephone 1922
at the Hanna headquarters to telephone 5is
Gibson House. and that about p. m My
ers testified that Boyce went to the theatre after
supper on the night OF the 7th. returning to the
hotel somewhere at about l0:15 p. m. In the
mean time another call had come to hi, from
Columbus He was notified and went to the
telephone in the managers private c!ice and
called up telephone 1902 at Columbus.
Myers said he listened at the telephone in the
hotel office and heard all that said, taking
notes OF same at the time. He says Boyce adj
dressed the person at Columbus as ''major" told
him he had seen 90" had arranged matters
and it would take $4,000 down; that the major
replied: "They did not know about that; they |
would see H." and that then there was an
of out--fve minutes, when the |
persen at Columbus said they would give $4,000 |
down and $1,000 when it over; and that |
The conversation continued concerning Mr.. o." |
and what they would pay him for his vote.
The books OF The telephone company in Cncin. |