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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March 30, 1868
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1868.] OF THE SENATE. 779

Mr. Spates offered the following order :

Ordered by the Senate, That five dollars per day be allowed
to all employees of the Senate from the commencement of this
session, except in the cases of the Secretary, the Reading Clerk
and Journal Clerk and in the case of John Williams, in
which cases an order has heretofore been passed, and in the
case of the Sergeant-of-Arms. His allowance shall be ten
dollars per day ; this amount to be in full payment of all de-
mands for pay and services tendered to this Senate for travel-
ing expenses in summoning witness, &c. to testify before the
committee appointed by the Senate to investigate bribery, &c.
The Committee on Claims are hereby authorized and request-
ed to issue certificates to said employees, in accordance with
this order.

Which was adopted.
Mr. Lee submitted the following report :

The Committee appointed by the Senate to inquire into
corrupt practices to influence legislation at the last session of
the General Assembly, submit the following report :

They have summoned to appear as witnesses before them
all persons who were reported to have knowledge of the
matter. A full and exact report of their testimony is hereto
annexed.

The Committee being informed that a Committee of Con-
gress appointed to inquire into the affairs of the State of
Maryland had made some discoveries in this matter, applied
to the Hon. Francis Thomas, a Representative from Mary-
land, for a copy of the evidence. It was promptly furnished
and is hereto annexed.

Referring to the reports of the testimony for the full de-
tails, the Committee report the principal matters of fact.

The city government of Baltimore was in the hands of the
Radicals. A bill was brought into the General Assembly to
provide for a new charter election in the city. The office-
holders concerted means to prevent the election. One of
them testified that they " did not feel like going out of office
if they could help it." They raised $10,000 to defeat the
bill. How that money was applied the Committee have not
been able to ascertain. It was confided to Mr. William
Thompson, the Sheriff of the city. His testimony is that he
had no occasion to use it to defeat the bill, that the bill
failed " on other grounds ;" and he kept the money for him-
self. Mayor Chapman testified before the Committee of Con-
gress that the money was " raised to buy up a sufficient
number of members of the Legislature to defeat the mea-


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