The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-01-19
BURKETT ARRAIGHS
CHAUNCEY DEPEW
SPEAKS IN NEW YORK SENATE
ON RESOLUTION REQUEST.
ING HIS RESIGNATION,
SAYS THE SENATOR Is
UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE
Declares That Depew's Conception
of Public Duty Has been Confined
to Society Functions, and Has
Never Risen to the Level of Even
Ordinary Statesmnnship.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 17.-Senator Ed
gar T. Bracket, republican, of Sara
toga, who last week reiRtroduced int
the lower house Of the New York gen
eral assembly his resolution demand
ing the resignation of Chauncey M
Depew, United States senator for New
York, spoke Tuesday on the resolution
which had been made special order
for 10 a. m. He severely arraigned
Depew.
The resolution was first introduced
by Senator Bracket, January 8, soOl
after the assembly convened. Senator
Depew was Ill then, and several as.
sembfymen asked that the resolution
be not pressed at that time. Senator
Bracket withdrew it, promising to
reintroduce it later.
Attitude of the Minority.
After the resolution was read, Mr.
Grady, the minority leader, explained
the attitude of the democratic sena-
tors. He said they were in no wise re-
sponsible for sending Mr.. Depew to
the United States senate and the re-
sponsibilty of recalling Mr.. -Depew
must be on the party that sent him
there. The democrats would remain
passive, and lisaen to the debate. and
any individual member may then be in
fluenced one way or another. This
course, Senator Grady said, was pur-
sued after due deliberation and would
add to the quiet of the day.
Senator Brackets speech.
Senator Bracket declared in open
ing the debate that he had introduced
the resolution in obedience to what he
believed to be ''the solemn demand of
the right-thinking people Of the state"
He denied that he had the slightest
wish to humiliate Senator DGpew
more than was necessarily implied in
any possible resolution of the kind"
p Senator Bracket declared that al
though he had voted for Senator De-
pew, he had been opposed to his re-
election to the senate, because he had
believed him unfit for the Office and
unwholesome forces. Any
senator present, he said, ought to
blush with shame mt the representation
Of his state in the United States senate
by either of the present senators. He
llsclaimed the slightest responsibility
or Senator Platt's reelection and said
he would support any other senator's
resolution requesting him to resign.
He referred to Mr. Depew's alleged
r9lations with an insurance company,
Ind said:
IF there is here on the floor any
imid soul among the majority who
links that this recital will hurt his
party, | want to say to him and to
'veryone of my party associates, to say
t kindly but firmly that if we do not
xpose and rid ourselves and our party
Il transactions of that kind there will
PRESENTLY be no party to be injured.
"You turn in vain the pages of the
history of the body in which he has a
eat to find a single thing that he has
one worthy of the state. His concep-
ion of public duty has been confined
o society functions and never risen to
he level of even ordinary statesman
hip"
Senator Bracket bitterly, arraigned
enator Depew as having been know
Ugly prominent figure in and a toll
rator Of system of loot and public |
ebauchery, extending perhaps even to |
be courts themselves. which tended
} undermine the very life of the ma
ion.