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TOO JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 30, sure ;" and that they " bought up those votes and saved the Union Government." Before this Committee he professed to have no knowledge how the money was applied. Twenty thousand dollars were appropriated by the Mayor and City Council out of the treasury of the city. Mayor Chapman testifies that it was appropriated " not to defeat the passage of the law, but to test its validity;" that he sought to employ Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Mr. William Schley, but they refused; that he employed Mr. Archibald Stirling, Jr., Mr. Milton Whitney, and Mr. Henry Stock- bridge, and paid them each $2,000; that no legal proceed- ings were instituted by them , that by their advice to put the rest of the appropriation beyond the reach of " legal process," he gave it into the hands of Mr. Alfred Mace; what Mr. Mace did with it he does not know. Mr. Mace never gave him any account of it, except of some $3,000 " paid to lobbyists," Mr. Stake, of Hagerstown, Dr. Reese, Naval Officer of the city of Baltimore, and a third party, name not remembered, but said to have received $500. The Committee have not been able to procure the testi- mony of Mr. Mace. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate served a summons upon him. He did not appear as sum- moned, and that officer has not been able, with diligent search, to find him again. Dr. Reese testified that he was paid by Mace $2,500 to defeat the bill ; Mr. Stake that he was paid $3,000. Each denied the payment of any part of his fee to any other person, or that he employed any means to defeat the bill, except argument, with any member of the General Assembly. Mr. Hines, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent county, testified that Mace paid him $500 ; he gave no part of the fee to any member of the Legislature. This is all the Committee have been able to discover re- specting the use of the funds named. Mr. Chapman and other witnesses state that $13,000 were collected by tax assessed upon the salaries of the officers of the city, and paid back to the treasury of the city. The Committee discovered no evidence of any money paid to any member of the General Assembly except the payment of $500 to Douglas Stirling, Senator in 1867 from Baltimore city. Thomas C. James, warden of the jail, and D. Pinck- ney West, detective police officer, testify that they paid him $500 for his vote in caucus. We know not what credit they are entitled to. Mr. Stirling was not before the Committee. In the Senate he voted for the bill. This investigation having been instituted on the demand of Senator Kimmel, the Committee report specifically in re- gard to him, that they have been able to discover no evi- |
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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March 30, 1868
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