Show NO BRIBE OFFERED story att indrei matter only in imagination of chairman dalzell of the special corn cittee of the house which the charges in connection with the pur chase of the danish west india islands submitted the report of that commit tee after detailing the charges and showing that christmas had repudiated the alleged report on which the charges were based the committee sums up the results of their investigation as follows that there is not the slightest sera blance of evidence that any member of congress e ther d erectly or indirectly was offered any bribe or was paid any valuable consideration of any kind or character to vote for the adoption or on of a treaty of sale of the danish west india islands to the united states there is not the remotest ground from which to draw an inference or on which to base a conclusion that there was any corruption or wrongdoing on the part of the public officials of the united baates in connection with the negotiations and purchase of the dan ish west indian islands it is plain beyond cerad venture that the bribery alleged in the report could have existed nowhere save in the image nation of christmas since the whole burden of 1 is story is that he had no money it is in ev dence that he had to borrow in order to pay his passage home from this country |