Show regrets that grover cleveland was elected washington dec 7 in the senate mr tillman called up his resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury for information as to whether the reports of bank examiners show the payment of campaign contributions by national banks and addressed the senate outlining his reason for the inquiry he caell attention to the recommendation by the president la hla annual message of 1904 and 1903 tor the enactment of a law tor protection against bribery and corruption in connection with elections he quoted with especial emphasis the presidents remark concerning campaign contributions by corporations our chief executive has taken a very progressive stand tar secure purity in elections fae said and added every good american will say well done and look for progress aloag that line continuing mr tillman said 1 I am the holder of a small policy in the new york mutual and I 1 dont like to have my dividend cut down in order to give mr mccurdy and his sisters his cousins and his aunts ach he expressed doubt as to the right of the federal authorities to uke control of insurance companies and mr hale interrupted to aay that he agreed with mr tallman on that point ho said further that the provision providing for such a provision v as not properly considered and he did not consider it binding mr spooner asked whether the insurance company contributions to campaign fund has been returned to the donors 1 I understood replied mr tillman that the president was going 10 have mr return them but I 1 dont know whether he has done so I 1 know that I 1 have not got my share mr spooner yours is a life policy mr tillman it is mr spooner then it Is noi yet time to realize on it mr Till maii replied that it was dividends and not the policy itself he wanted paid these he said were pitifully small while mr mccurdy has been getting fat without doing anything mr bailey said he had not supposed that the president would make a second recommendation on the subject of publishing campaign contributions until the money had been returned ah mr president responded mr tillman all the Peck sniffs are not dead yet al I 1 would not for a moment think of comparing our occupant of the white house with those characters what we want la results ail hose we do not seem to have ro otfred so tar quoting the testimony of senator platt bufore th new york committee mr tillman congratulated senator platt upon his straight forwardness there was BO dodging he said and I 1 do not beleve that a dollar of the money ever stuck to his fingers he added his conviction however that the had had the effect of the new york legislature in the interest of the insurance companies mr quoted ahe charries char gies roade by audgo parker in the baat campaign connecting bo republican contributions the fact that chairman had retired horn the office of secretary of corn merce he also the s reply which he said was red hot and added that not a dollar had been used to elect the president notwithstanding this fact he said that it had been shown that had been contributed tri buted for that purpose that Is ac the newspaper men may be believed and he added they are about as reliable as any other clas they will lie sometimes as we do and occasionally they get orders that such and such n man shall be flyblown fly blown then they proceed to plant the microbes mic robes but upon the whole they may be depended upon he also made reference to th charge that urge expenditure had been made by he democrats in the cleveland campaign saying it would have been fortunate for the democratic party if air cleveland had never been elected he closed with an appeal for a thorough investigation saying such a course was necessary to restore the confidence of the public the resolution adopted without opposition the senate at 2 OS p m went into executive session and at p in adjourned until monday |