Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — DECISION IS AGAINST CLARK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DECISION IS AGAINST CLARK.

Senate Committee Favors Unseating of the Montana Member, i Senator Clark of Montana was declared illegally seated in a unanimous report agreed upon by the Senate committee on privileges and elections Tuesday. The report is understood to recommend that the seat of the Montana millionaire bo declared vacant, owing to the testimony submitted before the committee, showing that corruption money was employed in securing his election. The unanimous report adverse to Senator Clark, a Washington correspondent says, was a surprise, inasmuch as it was generally believed that a minority report would be delivered by Chairman Chandler and Mr. McComas of the committee, which has devoted several months to an Investiga-

tion of the charges of bribery and corruption preferred against the Montana Senator by his enemy; Marcus Daly. The committee report embraces the salient charges of corruption brought out during the investigation. It declares that Senator Clark himself admitted spending a lump sum of moucy to obtain his election. justifying himself on the ground that this money was employed to defeat the schemes of the “political tyrant” of Montana. Marcus Daly. The report .goes into the incident relatiqg to the attempt to bribe the Montana Legislature and State Supreme Court.

sknator w. a. clabk.