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Show SCENES DURING THE INVESTIGA-TION INVESTIGA-TION OF CLARK'S ELECTION. One of the most Interesting tribunals tribun-als ever held in Washington was tho political inquisition which investigated investigat-ed Clark's election to tho senate, 'fany distinguished lawyers, among 'hem Senators Hoar and Chandler, sat on tho Investigating committee, and their cross examination of witnesses vas often extremely dramatic. C. P. "onnolly, in tho Christmas McClure's ;Ives a etrlklng account of tho scenes at this investigation. Commenting upon them, ho says: '"lhe committee room in which this 'estlmony was heard was dally throng-3d throng-3d with auditors. Even cynical and Indifferent spectators were startled to dear men Ho so brazenly and sullenly when there was nothing either to bo gained or lost by it. Many of theso witnesses had already lost their 'rlends and their good name, and even 'ho wages of their shameful sorvitudo lad melted away. Some of them vero now just as poor in. money as on he day they sold thomselves. "However much long continued po litical corruption had blunted tho pub- H He conscience, tho verdict of Wash HJ Ington meant something, even in Mon HJ tana, liiese men canio homo under a HJ peculiar ignominy; they had been (lis- HI graced and exposed hnd perjured HJ themselves in tho capital of tho nn- HJ tion. It was a singular fato by which HJ so many poor fellows from ranches HJ and frontier towns sonic of them who HJ had never expected to get as far cast HJ as Washington, porhnps wcro caught HJ up and held for a moment to writhe HJ in the glare of merciless publicity, HJ most shamed in the spot they most HJ venerated, and then dropped to crawl HJ back into the obscurity which had HJ failed to hide them." HJ |
