Show IH W TS TSI I V TI TIO Senators Hoar Spoon Spooner er and Pettus Appoint Appointed ed Committee to Conduct It MORGAN SEEKS INFORMATION Says Any All Effort to Obtain It front from President Is I He as Lese Washington Feb I eh the senate today loda after routine business hl nc s Mr Ir Die Dietrich of oC Nebraska rising to n 11 question que of ot personal privilege the re recent recent cent Indictment against him In III with tho po patronage In Nebraska rend a 1 statement regarding tho court proceedings and Ills hi acquittal on the ground tIt that lie he was not a n sena senator en tor at ot tho Iha Uma his alleged ell malfeasance was said sal to have occurred He lie uld filid he hI felt an un explanation was duo dUa the senate to determine whether lm hI hIIs Is tit to sit In the tho senate and an he hI a II authorizing tho president pro ton to appoint a u committee commit lee of ot live 1110 to make a n full and to the concerning tho charge chargo anti and his hili acquittal The fhe charges related to tho nt at Hustings Neb the tI appointment of ot Jacob Fisher as au n postmaster and the selection of ot a n building owned by Pie Die rich as I n II Mr Dietrich was charged with ac ne accepting u n bribe I but the charge charle was dis disposed posed of ot by the court In Nebraska with without out a L full tull Investigation lIeen had Mr of at South sug suggested UJ that the Investigation should bo conducted by the committee on egel and elections He IIo said the tho charges the Integrity honor of ot the enot r from rom Nebraska lih hl right to lO sit lilt In III the senate Mr Ir Harrows chairman of ot tho com mentioned ho hl had Investigated gated thoroughly thorough the charges charKo against l Mr Dietrich t and had looked Into prece precedents dents In cases calles such matters had nuver before h Core gone to the commit e eon on Oil privileges and Oil elections nn ho he ud tho adoption of oC till tho resolution Ie ns II submitted Tho rho resolution was and Hoar Platt Conn r Cockrell Pettus were ap appointed pointed 11 to Investigate Mr resolution Instructing the tho secretary of ot ho treasury to send lend to the senate Information In regard to the appointment of oC William I D ns collector of ut the port of o Charleston S H SC He C e was laid before tho senate Mr 1 laid ho n believed believe lie hurt all 1111 the Information needed which emild be he given by Hee haw and ho he asked aske to havo hae printed In the na a 1 document tho communication from tho secretary of ot WM In regard to recess appointments lie Ile tho Information contained d in III that communication had a n hearing on tho Irum en c The rhe order was as ail he hl requested Mr r took tho In III support of oC bin resolution calling on the tho nt to report whether he Iw has made on behalf of oC th United a II of ot the new Panama Canal company of ur nuy rights w ro granted to the republic of ot Colom bill bia by hr N II et al nl Mr Ir Morgan reviewed the lures that ero made by lJ the oM 01 1 canal tho wrecking of ot that loin COlli Une n 11 the facts havo hao been heen greatly ho he Mid thu minister from to the United d WM one CIne of ot the chief movers In wrecking that company The minister from Panama was held up by b Mr Ir lol nn In III a 0 most unenviable light Mr Morgan declared that thal hero thero Is a n of 01 political domination tho minority In the senate which rn Tn J ns loco lep to any nil to tl se secure I Icuro cure curo 11 ns I to the part In In which tho senate Is III Under the he hI could not hI to tn a Il contract COli tract to 10 be he out by tho Ih company as asunder under the of ot article 22 of thu treaty that company would have this th right to 10 do lIo Under that article Mr IIi Morgan asserted them thelo Is III no limit na 9 to the amount to bo paid the company Mr Morgan Morgon averted of that Panama could havo up choke choice but JUl to do the will of ot the This not however explain the voluntary net ol oX tho United States In tying UN Ita own hands In III tho Interest of or tho company In this connection lie ho the tho I lt It 1 v lIP of oC I In n the Panama negotiation sij HI Ing that L 11 made lu 11 22 n surrender to fraud and Iniquity It had hotl no 80 under pressure from the of ot the Irea runty b bIll Mr Ill an declared that thal In effect It had been lIoen made between bt tho thu United and the conn company mill and he ho the th company compon could afford to lu pay Pi Pito to Panama of her winnings In a l which was without equal In III depravity II Morgan traced the connection of M with the tho fO and declined according vo 0 Ills own bo he pronounced persona nou In the United t States Ho assert I ert cd ot hat If IC a II member of It Congress wiro guilty of ot such conduct as 1111 had been guilty of 0 ho he would I Imade made tho thu subject of condign n pun lUn punishment Ho assorted the now Canal company II had novel never done l lIO n hon hOIl honest est c t days 11 work worl on tho de tie dared Jare that tho Iha Intrusion of oC that com coin pany Into tho controversy was offen she Intolerable About this treaty ho hu went on In Is an ILl atmosphere of oC degradation which tho Iho people 1 reut Mr Ir Morgan cloned with n reference to his hl long lonH advocacy of ot an on Isthmian to tho of at tilt south tho project saying was still unmoved by b ury temptations At t 3 O the senate went Into executive session and nt at O adjourned |