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3844 1 (1899)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset31220 and id is 1 raw text is: 56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 1st Session. No. 2. MEMORIAL OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF MONTANA LEGIS- LATURE. DiCEMBER 4, 1899.-Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and ordered to be printed. Mr. CARTER presented the following MEMORIAL OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA ALLEGING CORRUPTION IN THE ELECTION OF WILLIAM A. CLARK AS SENATOR FROM THAT STATE AND REMONSTRATING AGAINST HIS BEING SEATED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE AS SUCH SENATOR. To the Senate of the United States: The undersigned, duly elected and qualified members of the sixth legislative assembly of the State of Montana, hereby present this their memorial to your honorable body, and protest against the validity of the pretended election of William A. Clark, of Silverbow County, on the 28th day of January, 1899, as a Senator of the State of Montana in the Congress of the United States for the six years from the 4th day of March, 1899, for the following reasons, to wit: That in and about the pretended election by this legislative assembly of him, the said William A. Clark, of Silverbow County, to the Senate of the United States, for the term aforesaid, he, the said William A. Clark, did corruptly secure and procure votes in this legislative assem- bly of members thereof, by the payment therefor, and by the promise of payment therefor, of large sums of money, by means whereof he did secure and did agree to secure therefor, divers and sundry votes of said members of said legislative assembly for him, the said William A. Clark, as Senator aforesaid. And your memorialists and protestants do aver that the said William A. Clark, by himself and his agents, corruptly and frauduently did bribe, and did endeavor to bribe divers and sun- dry members of said legislative assembly to vote for him for said office in consequence whereof the free and untrammeled choice of the legisla- tive assembly of said State, and of the citizens thereof was not per- mitted to be expressed in said election. And your memorialists further aver that said William A. Clark, by himself and through his agents, did secure and obtain through and by reason of said acts of bribery and promises of the payment of money, sufficient votes in said legislative assembly to compass his, the said Wil- liam A. Clark's, election as Senator in the Congress of the United States, and without which said acts of bribery and promises of the payment of money the said William A. Clark could not have received sufficient votes in said legislative assembly to have secured his, the said William S. Doc. 2-1

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