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s)lamed counsel to consult With, md have
- ssa reasonable time tosnswer
snd f5PIy 81 chsSges and Specifications.
3. pr6 sgsinst being arrested and
deprived Of my liberty upon the mere
saeFds of ! member Of your Honorable
body reported upon the Journals 81 the
Hsnss, without sits authority, and incor-
really reported and journslizsd BY said
i Z. protest against being tried in Sc
crst before COMMITTEES upon which are
plseed members who have avo,sed par
sicipa,ion in . plan to entrap me, and who
ore my personal enemies.
5. claim an impartial and fall trial be.
fore the Committee Of the whole House,
upon specifications presented upon oath
and claimed to be heard by myself and
Counsel.
rSign.d1 s. T. MARSHALL.
Which protest 10 accompanied by the
following affidavit:
Personally appeared before the UNDER
signed, s. T. Marshall, and on his oath
states that William Cochran, member Of
the Committee to investigate charges
against him is, as he believes, q personal
enemy Of his, and that Stewart Goodrich,
smother member Of said Committee 10, a.
he believes, implicated AZ one Q! the par
ties concerned in tbs charges sgainst
him. and therefore are improper persons
70 oct % members Of the Committee to
insesiigate the charges against him.
fSigned] S. T. MARSHALL.
Sworn tosbefare me, this 10th day Of
December, A. d. 1876.
[Signed1 SILAS. A. HUDSON,
Chief Clerk II. R.
Which protest, based upon and connect
cd with said affidavit, the majority Of this
House refused to consider. THUS did
said majority, upon the important subject
Of the liberty Of citizen, reuse 10 listen
to reasonable and just request; denying
him any right 10 object at all to the mode
and manner Of trial, disregafding his en-
treaties to fair and impartiss trial; peril
naciously adhering to . Committee whose
Chairman was challenged as his personal
enemy; and another member OF which
Committee was shown to be conspirator
to .ntap him, and totally disqualified to
set upon the same
Impartiali.y il one of the chief attri-
butes Of Justice; and the undersigned
most conscienciously believe, that when a
branch Of the Legislative body 70 far for
get the high station which they occupy as
to disregard the petitions and requests Of
citizens, which arc based apon tue plain
est principles Of natural jasiice, that the
hour for firm and unwerering remon-
STRANGE has arrived.
8. That on the dsy Ct December,
A. D.. 1916, the said Marshall being still
in the oustody Of the Sergeant at Arms Of
this House, cid, in respectful r,
represent to this Honorable oody
was unable to defray the necessary ex-
pensss incurred for his :beards &c., du-
ring his detention, and that he had wit
nesses in attendance who:n he could not
detain without means to: Jay them, and
prayed this House 70 furnish him means
for that purpose. The i:,siority Of this
House refused to listen to said petitioner,
or to make the least enqui:y into the truth
Of his representation.
Ths undersigned protes. that If this
body bring accusations agSihst any person
whatever, that it is bound to furnish the
accused sustensnce duriag his arrest and
confinement, and also with the means to
enforce the attendance o: his witnesses;
aud when the right 10 ;mprison the ac
cused il doubtful, it is retirement in cru
city which would have pat to blush Ne
70 or Caligula, to refuse To furnish the
prisoner with food; and t would be q
mockery to demand tbs trial Of the ac.
oassd without giving hiu Che benefit Of
his witnesses.
I'm conclusion, the undersigned would
state that said Marshall should no, have
been arrested CT imprisoned by the sane
ton Of this House, untia the charges
against him had been swora to and pre-
sented before the House That he ought
10 have been heard by his Counsel.
That an impartial Can,n,ittee ought to
have been appointed 70 co:sducs the inves-
legation Of The charges against him.
! That his protest AMI position ought to
hsve been heard and treated respectfully.
That he. ought to have been supplied
with food and necessar;es during his inn
pTisonment.
That his witnesses shoald have been
paid (if il was necessary, in order to Sc
cure their testimony BY tais body.
To all Of which acts and doings Of the
majority Of this body, set forth and speci-
fed as aforesaid, the undersigned having
the Constitutional right, 40 hereby dis
claim, disayow, and against the same do
solemnly protest, and de,nnna that this, their
protest, be entered at length upon the
Journals of this House.
S. G MATSON, GEO. MONTAGUE,
DUDLEY HARDY, HBMILLOUGHBY,
W.E.LEFFINGWELLI RADC. DAY,
T.. II. BONHAM, s. B: OLMSTEAD,
ANDREW LEIGH. S REYNOLDS.
GEO. F. GREEN. ROBERT SMITH,
las. r. BAILY, S. WHITMORE,
MICHAEL O'BKIEN, W II. LYONS,
j, n KINSMAN,
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Remarks Of Mr. Lelnngwell
On tie righ Of the Minority to hare the