The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-01-18


of the Insurance Investigation and that
lie Had No Concept OF Public Duty.
Albany, n. Y, Jan. l6.-The reso-
luton requesting the resignation OF
Senator Depew was the special order
/ OF business in the senate Tuesday
morning.
Senator Bracket declared In opening
the debate that he had introduced the
| resolution in obedience to what he
believed to be the solemn demand of
the right-thinling people of the state. q"
He denied that he had the slightest
wish to humiliate Senator Depew
more than was necessarily implied in
any possible resolution OF the kind"
lie asserted that there was lack
Of confidence in the senator named
which had been caused by recent dis
closures. He denied the assertion that
1t was not within the province of the
senate to pass a resolution on subject
In reference to which It had no au-
thority to enforce action and cited res
olutions adopted on the Venezuelan
situation and the coal strike several
years ago.
81 want to say to you and TO the peo-
| pie of the state" continued Senator
Bracket, that until more righteous
conception of public duty shall pre-
vail, we are without hope for the fu-
ture; that until the great virile man
| hood of the state shall stand to the
proposition that he who offends in the
performance of his public duty must
suffer the punishment for his offense
We can expect little of respect for law
little of regard for public honor and
virtue, and have taken the first long
steps toward condoning crimes OF
whatever kind"
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
represented unwholesome forces. Any
senator present, he said, ought to blush
for SHINE at the representation of his
state in the United States senate b!
either of the present senator's. He
djsclaimed the slightest responsibility
for Senator Platt's reelection and
said he would support any other sen.
ator's resolution requesting him to re.
sign.
Senator Bracket insisted that nc
service performed by Senator Depew
for the Equitable Life Assurance 50.
ciety during the 90 years of his $4,000
retainer" had been other than what
he owed as a director of the society
The claim that this enormous sum was
paid for legal services excited only
laughter and contempt.
'If there is here on the floor any
timid soul among the majority who
thinks that this recital will hurt his
party, want to say to him and 10
every one of my party associates, 70
state it kindly, but firmly, that if we
do not expose, and rid ourselves of and
our party, of transactions of that kind
there will presently be no party to be
| injured
"You turn back in the pages of the
history of the body in which he mas
a seat to find single thing that he has
done worthy of the state. His concep-
ton of public duty has been confined
to society functions and never risen
to the level of even ordinary states
manship."
Senator Bracket bitterly arraigned
Senator Depew as having been know
ingly prominent figure in and toler-
ator of system Of loot and public de-
bauchery, perhaps even to the courts
themselves; which tended to under
mine the very life of the nation"
The resolution was defeated by a
vote of "a to l.. The democrats did
not vote.