New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
rse Iswm Eiecsisn Case.
oo'''''r W.sm,eroN, Tuesday afternoon, June II.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday afternoon, June ~
..l..rspb will have informed you that the
-;,,s. an Elections have at length reported
a.. rows case. The Committee have decided
,hs one,,ion ofrght 20 the seat in dispute a.
a. senara.e votes in Committee pointed
tDoeso % The triumph Of DANIEL F. MILLER, the
y,snt Hence two reports were hahocu IN
wbiob claim 10 be majority reports thge-
eo .u By the kindness OF MI VAN DYKE rs
:r,bor have been Pofmlleu 70 UP INTO oHS VI
tbe,s reports and proPosI ~ deo
a. the questioh u"
Of attention. in Tho ..stenoant that the entire
a,hs lat District was 9, 500, OF which number
.,o.o,,e,tsnt bad g. 9l, and the sitting member
w , THoMPsos) 6,f77, giving MILLER ma
10 n se6. Blu. the votes OF number OF the pre-
Pny ~eye not counted, but they did not alter the
e..,ic.l result Throwing out all the doso.tli
Ps 20 are s,ill left as the clear majority oil Ill
vo'e'' f,sr referring to conflicting allegations by
.-.;ss AZ TO bad votes, and votes not counted
~ rs,ort eoes on to consider what votes were 10
vi md What not. In this connection we nave TINS
s.m.rt.ble statement as matter OF iact tnas al
~. Oh the Committee have not been unanimous on
~ the points, that u.s. the validity Of this or
.b.,nsr,icular precincts vote,) yet on each OF the
sa;r,s Tins presented "there has been such a de-
r;,op A. would give to the contestant the seat
which be claims 49,. 81 ,tua,
One of the grounds OF clalfn, on the part OF nlef'
!. thai because the middle letter OF his name was
emitted from the tickets in Pleasant Grove Town
hin Marion County, the votes were not counted.
II Y argued that II these votes were really cast for
he contestant, and the omission of the middle let
o. srose from wafSfuf knowledge OF the use OF
nh letter ON the part OF the voters, it would be
extremely technical and harsh to disallow them;
but il il admitted by the sitting member through
bis counsel, that the only candidates nominated
4 II m.
uller.D or Daniel Miller and William Thomp-
son and n Mr. House. The Committee, there
Ere Ioontioues the report were satisfied that these
votes were intended for Daniel f Miller. ltseems,
further that these votes were allowed oy the judges
Of the precinct, though thrown out by the canvas
sers aterward. go ~
On the question Of the famous Kanesvile Dis
tyict. il ia stated that the Board of Commissioners
If Monroe County attached it 10 that county for cleo
tiop purposes and yet the votes there taken were
ILLEGALLY suppressed, and never allowed 70 reach
the Commissioners OF the Congressional District
the report claiming that these should be allowed.
The whole number Of votes cast at kanesVlne
were 500 of which only 30 were thrown for the
sittipg member. This is insisted on as point OF
vat inheritance as it undoubtedly is, especially as
no fraud nor illegality is charged Various Legs
ls,ive acts Of Iowa, as well as the Territorial Gov
srpn ent are cited to prove that all the country ~
ipg west of certain organized counties, was at
t,ebed 70 such counties for election, revenue and
;pdioisl purposes In this way, by an act, passed
he llih day OF June, ls45 the County Of Klshkee-
kook lcbang ed in 1916 to Monroe County, was or.
eanired and all the territory west was attached
Tor purposes aforesaid. In this territory, so at
tscbed the Comm ssioners Of the County OF Mon
roe created Kanesvie an election district. 1t IS
disputed that Kanesyille belong ed to Monroe Coun
ty but it 10 not disputed that it was in the Con-
gressional District. But 1t is given In proof
that Marion County never resisted the CLAIM
of Monroe to Kanesyile, although it is now claim
ed for Marion County. Various facts from the tax
boois DC are then cited in proof OF the position as
sumed by the Report. But it is proved that the
v1s SkerD of Monroe county voted at haResraLe,
and he was also friend and supporter of the sat
6sg skm6er it il alleged. No question was raised
about the ballots till after the result was known
The poll book, it is on proof, was made up at
Kanesvile in due form and delivered to the proper
officer but that officer, 1.-THE Clerk of the Commits.
soners) instead Of calling to his aid two Justices
4 of the Peace, as required by law refused under
the advice Of J. G. HALL Esq. one OF the now At.
torneys Of the sitting member who travelled one
hundred miles to give such advice" 10 take charge
Of the Kanesville poll book. 1t was carried away
by some one, nobody knows by whom, or how, ex
cept that, through some unknown agency, it was
ba nd in the carpet bag OF J. G. HAL, Esq. betore
IL rot home as he now admits Ia his evidence
HALL gave the poll book TO the sitting member in
the Spring lsi9, who, In the Winter OF that year,
0nVtftd nc cLtsttNCt W ShtN % pVh OOOA OcJOFt Gtt
Csnmitee; but, on the 10th day of February last,
Judge Mason, another Attorney for Thompson, in
attempting to serve, at his own Office, notice on
,be contestant, to take testimony in the case, acct
dtntally as it ia supposed, served on him the Origi
nal poH book Of the KaneSrtle District This pol
book was never before the Commissioners, of
course, but the Committee think that the votes
should have been counted-the effect of which
would be 70 make the aggregate vote Of the con
testant foot up 10 6,S9l, while the sitting members
vote would stand at 501.
After long detail OF facts to the Districts TOR
the Report 10 very long, the Report concludes with
seven resolutions as the results 10 which the argu
psnt has led, and recommendatory to the House in
the premises. BY the first Of these it is resolved
that the seven votes cast at Pleasant Grove, with
the middle letter Of contestant omitted, be allowed
and counted for him. The other resolutions resolve
that the votes OF anesville, White Oak, Chonton,
and Wells Election Districts be allowed; that
these cast in Dallas County "by persons proved TO
have resided, at the time, south Of the Southery
sse Of Dallas, be rejected aud disallcwed, as also
,hose Of Boone District in Polk County.
have no time for comment on this carioas piece
,f politica history, as the cars are about leaving
sepd YOU this abstract in advance Of the printed,
and leave the comments 10 you. SIGMA