Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — PROBE FOR A BRIBER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROBE FOR A BRIBER

SENATE HEARS A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR INVESTIGATION. Senator Lodffe A»ks the Appointment oi • Committee to Look Into the Tariff Scandal—Sensational Stories of Rottenness Are Afloat in Washington. ' Inquiry I« Demanded. The alleged attempt to bribe Senator Hunton, of Virginia, and Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, to vote against the tariff bill has aroused great excitement in Washington. The matter was taken up in the Senate Wednesday morning when Senator Lodge introduced a resolution authorizing the appointment of five Senators to investigate charges of attempted bribery of Senators in connection with the pending tariff bill, and also the

charges in a long article published in the Philadelphia Press Monday morning containing allegations J relating to the inL fluence of the g sugar trust upon 3 tariff legislation. He asked for the immediate consideration of the res-

olution. but Senator Cockrell of Missouri asked that it lie upon the table until the following day. ♦ Rumors of the use of money to influence action one way or the other on the tariff bill have been in circulation in Washington at various times during the last few months, but heretofore have received little attention. It is learned definitely, however, that certain Senatorshave received in-

timations that a money consideration could be secured for their votes against the tariff, though whether the alleged briber had any authority for the promise is a matter of some doubt. The negotiations apparently have gone no further than intimations to the clerks of Senators Kyle, of

South Dakota, and Hunton, of Vir ginia. These intimations came from a North Dakota man who is known as a lobbyist on several schemes. He was formerly a member of Congress from the Southern States and was identified with the so-called carpet-bag government.

The amount Which it was intimated Senator Kyle could receive was $14,000, and SI,OOO was to be retained by the man making the negotiation as a Commission. Mr. McFarlane, clerk to Senator Kyle, says the matter never went any further than an intimation. He promptly informed Senator Kyle. The character of the man who is said to have made the intimations stamps the whole affair with the seal of condemnation. It is scarcely possible that any ryndicate of persons who could control the amount of money necessary in ot der to make an attempt to purchase votes would intrust it to the man who made the intimation to the clerks of senators Kyle and Hunton.

SENATOR LODGE.

SENATOR KYLE.