The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-06
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fOrce of HOerS Cap ure a Bat
talon of Imperial
1eOmanry.

w WAShlNGION, June "a tornado
of partisan debate swept over the sem
ate today, with Senators Hanna Of
Ohio, Pettigrew and Garter the chief
figures. For senatorial recriminations
for bitter personalities and for poig-
nant invective, the debate exceeded any
thing heard on the floor for many years
The lie was not passed directly but the
truthfulness of statements was chal-
lenged very sharpely
Mr.. Bacon Of Georgia precipitated the
scene by repeating a charge made sew
eral days ago by Mr.. Pettigrew that
Mr. Cramp, the ship builder, had con>
ulbuted 100000 to the republican cam
palgn fund in 1892, with the under
standing that he would be reimbursed
by contracts for the construction of
Warships. This charge Mr. Bacon said.
mad been denied neither by Mr.. Hanna
nor Mr.. Carter, who was chairman of
the committee in 1892. Then the storm
broke out.
Mr. Carter, who was the chairman of
the national republican campaign con-
Vention in 1892, said that The statement
of Senator Bacon, lis the first intma-
ton l have had that sucn charge was
made by any person. This is the first
time l ever heard the statement made"
Mr. Pettigrew insisted on replying.
Said he:
Il made a statement that acontri-
button Of 100000 had ben made by Mr..
Cramp to the national republican com
mittee in 1892 and that he was to be
reimbursed for it by contracts for ad-
ditonal warships My authority is Mr..
Cramp himself" declared Mr.. Petit
1n1fh tn1,,
sensation in the chamber "He told me.
not in confidence l believe, on an
ocean liner coming across the Attain
tic. He did not know where the money
had gone to, he said and he
had employed detectives to find out.
He intimated taht it had not been usec
for campaign purposes. Moreover
have said the same things to the chair
man of the republican national COM
mittee Of that year and he waived it
off, smilingly, with the statement.
We'll we did hit the old man pretty
hard"
Averting to Mr. Hanna. Mr.. Petit
grew brought up the charges of bribery
which had been made against the Ohio
senator at the time of his election to
the senate, reading from the report OF
lllt llllIlOlllS VI lIt committee on DHlN
ieges and elections, including newspa-
per stories of the accounts of alleged
telephone conversations between Mer.
Hanna's frinds and other persons.
These statements Mr.. Pettigrew
thought could not be swept aside
lightly by Mr.. Hanna.
As Mr.. Pettigrew resumed his seat
half a dozen senators clamored for
I Ton,
and Mr.. Foraker Mr.. Foraker was rec
ognized and said that the remarkable
statements made by the senator from
South Dakota requiring some reply 1t
was an Ohio matter he said and the
Ohio senators felt abundentIy able to
take care of it.
He yielded to Mr.. Hanna who said he
felt like offering an apology to the SEN
ate for pursuing the subject further,
and he would not do so If he did not
desire to show to the senate that the
whole matter was a conspiracy-a part
Of a concerted plan to work up some
political capital
There was a pretty lively scrap in
Columbus" said he, good humoredly.
'It was due partly to he democratic
party and partly to traitors to their
aor from South Dakota"
Mr. Hanna then went at length into
the charges made by Mr.. Pettigrew,
saying that they had been published
first in democratic newspaper of Col
umbus and fully and completely de-
MED by him at that time. He referred
TO Senator Burke, as one of the chief
conspirators in the senatorial election
and denouncing him as a traitor ana
an scoundrel who had as a republican
lent himself to the conspiracy against
his party, and subsequently had been
dsbarred and disgraced in his native
city.
Then he read clipping from a South
Dakota newspaper in which Mr. Petit
grew was characterized as a traitor TO
his country and to his state and de-
clared that he did not represent South
Dakota.
That" declared Mr.. Hanna, vehe.
mently, lis my accuser IN the senate of
the United States and that is the es-
timation in which he held by the peo-
pie of his own state. I have often sat
on my seat listening to him and
thought him insane. Much of the stun
that he has uttered on this floor is the
verest rot. When ii comes to personal
tiles will stand up with him and COM
pare my character with his. He may
tell what he knows about me, and
them" with emphasis on ever word
II will tell what know of him."
Mr. Carter, obtaining the floor as a
matter OF personal privilege. said:
First, 1t is said that Mr.. Cramp
made the statement that the contra.