Show PAYNE EXONERATED I The Senate Committee Report the Charges Groundless MR HALSTEAD CLIMBS A TREE n hlit llhe JhIUlc hII 1111 ler C l ecIM SCIIIlor Ipr Millie 01 lila Ilrltim orruplloll nr liiimnrnlll t lIe pr t I v < inerullii Iaamc V AsutNOToN July 11Three retocts from thin Sonata Committee on 1rh ilexes and lections on tho 1nyno case wcro submitted ho tho Senate to dnj 1 ho report signed by enntors Pugb baulsbury Vance nnil 1 F I l cmocrntlo members of thin committee ell orth at IciiLththo public history nf thecnso recognizes 1 tho trniiRcendnnt Importance of browing around tho Senate of the United States the highest safeguards against seating embers whoso tithe Was procured by bribery fraud anti corruption nnd describes Iho process b which thin signers conch tho I conc uqlOI that there is NO onouNii ron mnriiui inocFnniNos A gainst laiic Iho report says thin rout iitteos first act was to comply fully I with the first request of Ihu Ohio House of Itcp cscutativcs to make an examination of thin cstimoii taken by the Select Committee at olumbvm Upon this testimony Honr made n report to tho committed that nftcr nrcfnl reading no evidence opinion or statement whntovor ayes found personally ncnlpnting Payno in any wny with the corrupt cor-rupt use of money in connection with hit cction Neither did such examination show Hint enough had been found to justify the chnrgo that tho election was procured xc nn coanumoN OF MOVEI About this I time a supplementary resolution of tlio two houses fly Ohio Legislature and of Iho Republican State Central Com mitttt mado their appearance and soon after af-ter Congressmen Little and Duttcrnorth were heard nt length TOte signers of the report declare thnt no now eudciico not contained in tho original mutter submitted was brought to their attention which nny court would not hold to bo merely tumnln thc and insuflleient by itself or in molten le ton with the orIginal to justify 11 report in favor of a trinl by the Senate of lAlSFS HUIIII TO 1113 BEAT They not been concluded I charRed that with Henry having 11 tmytliiuR 1nyno had to do personally or with having any personal knowledge r or connection with or participation partici-pation in any act or an tiling that mnj lave EnUolln le been before charged U hnuug been tone Hint wns wrong criminal or immoral or reprehensible in his election that no member of tho committee and no witness lUprcscntnltto or other person has expressed ex-pressed nn opinion or intimated any belief Hint Injno is or wns connected in tlio ru molest degree by act or knowledge with atiytieitig that Swus on Iota hose been wrotig uur eIfn or lrnuneru i l hIm i lit doe tion in Ibo whole cnso n presented to them they recommend that the Soothe ninku no further investigation on the chnrRts Involving the right of Payne to his seat rue report asks that the committee bo dischnrgeu from further consideration of ixiiied tho subject nnd Hint i heindel mtely post 8CNVTOKS TLLLLl lNAKTS AM LOOAV Unite in the report in which after reciting the circumstances surrounding tho Senator mi election in Ohio in 1HSI it m i saId no notion no-tion wns taken by the Stale Jiejjslnture ton dieted faenatorPaiie calling inques tion tho validity of his election hnt that the new Legislnture tonstituted III Juuuar of the present ear had 2ntlnif f i o uuer u wlncu toe nnestigntionoi tUO u Uou nlter tlo 1OIllon 0 nvutti chnrgo had been made and tho Senate oimmtleo hid found it proper to accept the > rcscntntion of tho case bet out in the maJority ma-Jority nnd miuoriU renorts of the select lomnnttee of the Ohio Houoe of Hepren ntives Iho only CONSTITUTIONAI WAK1UM men INh8noATlON 111 ease like that ities nted is in Iho clause unking each hOI of Congress tho judge oho o-ho qualifications of its own members and he clause conferring the right of expulsion l oC signers of ftr report do not find 1 that n cause has heel presented that would affect htuyhio will such turpitude nswould tolemte us expulsion from the benntc nor that the estimoii is nccessililo lhat touched the subject the personal I mculpitionof 1nyno they therefore tnin their nttention to the qucation ns to the VAIIDITV OK HIS LI LUIION TO Till BENATH The report holds thnt tho evidence in touch n cuss must nhow that the fraud which it is alleged was committed embraced eiiouehu lumber of tho oting electors to have changed tho result Iho testimou presented pre-sented to the Ohiollonsoof Itepresentntite shows tho number nf memheis of the Gen crnl ssembl that has been brought into nculpation tutu tin wutht of pudenco Ia i ngninst them |