Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-24
INVESTIGATION
RESUMED YESTERDAY
Senatorial Nomination Being
Further Pried Into:
Senator Blaine CaS4d Upon to Show
What He Has to Back Up His
Charges With.


In the Investigation as to the. coz
rupt use of money in the senatorial
campaign. the motion to have Senator
Blaine appear before the invest1gat-
ing committee was opposed with
great earnestness by several members
of the committee. Representative
Hambrecht spoke with considerable
feeling in favor of having Nh,
Blaine's testimony before proceeding
farther, and his efforts finally prevail
ed, with the agreement that he should
be the first witness called on Tuesday
yesterday
I'VE have reached a point in the
proceedings where the candidates have
all been examined to tell what they
knew about the primary election and
their campaigns, and with the one
exception of MIR. Reynolds, no other
witness has been called, said Mr..
Hambrecht 1.-THE. resolution auth
oriZing the committee to act in this
matter has a double aspect. No one
will dispute but what it originated
with the Blaine charges in the senate.
The Husting resolution that was in
troduced in the senate was not con-
Cured in, and in order to bring the
matter to head and to vote and in
in order to get men to vote for an in
vestigation, at all, a demand was
made for specific charges. and the
specific charges came through Mr.
Blaine. on information and belief.
Chased on these specific charges,
an amended Ie3Olution was introduc-
ed, resulting in a disagreement,
eliminating in the appointment of a
conference committee, and this con-
ference committee rendered report
resulting in the appointment of this
investigation committee, and the
resolution was read into the record
Yesterday. IN that resolution there
are two things that were 10 be con-
sidered.
'iFiIst-The method, means etc..
of conducting the recent senatorial
primary campaign. and
'Second-To investigate the charges
of corruption and unlawful use of
money in this campaign. consider
it just as Important that we take up
the last aspect of this investigation
as the first.
Il certainly made an effort to have
Mr. Blaine brought to the stand i'm
mediately after the cl Sc of the
senatorial candidates investigation,
but l was ruled out of order by the
chairman of this committee yesterday
when I made the motion, and rather
than have any trouble over it I let
the matter go for that session, but l
don't feel Ike letting it 60 any
further, as I would then be told the
next time that we had some more wit
neses here, and it would be pushed
further and further back, and I for
one want to know what Mr.. Blaine
knows about this.
HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.
There is only one way that l
know of getting at it, and that is to
get the person before the committee
who purports to have information
with reference to this matter. 1 do
not look upon it as laughable or silly,
as one of the senators views it. l
look upon it as a serious question,
and question, that we ought not
to dodge at this time. What
right has Senator Blaine, or any
other man to withhold information
from this committee at this time
when we want it2 That is the ques-
ton. [ want some information on
that question now, and 1 don't know
why ] should be barred from having
it.
Il do not believe that this COM
mittee can act intelligently on the
corrupt and unlawful use of money
something definite to work upon. We
can keep on investigating the ex-
penditures OF money as we have
started, and sit here for a year and
accomplish nothing. If you are go
ing to continue the policy of the in
vestigation as it is started and sum-
mon every person that has received
dollar in this campaign. this COM
mittee will last bsyond the session of
the legislature, and 1 doubt if there
is any member here who would
dispute that.
Now, then, we have passed one
stage of these proceedings by which
the candidates for the senate have
been heard. L think it is eminently
proper at this time that we hear what
the charges are now that are prefer