Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-06

ingson had a clear majority of ope ro,s ore,
Mr.. Bohlsyer, and was therefore entitleS 80 =
seat in this Board f T"
Mr.. J. appealed TO the members 10 have l.
| regard for the purity Of the ballot box. and 20
consider how the liberties Of other couptr;es
have been overthrown by that rank intoler.
ance which Is not willing 10 dol ustice 10 Do
iitical antagonist Look at France in her
hrst revolution look at the republics Of South
America look at Mexico at this time. IL Is
trIte, but true remark, said Mr. :, that this
would be happy world were it not for wrong.
Men are at times surrounded by circumstances
which tempt them to the commission Of wrong.
wrong provokes wrong; injury provokes in
Jurv; elimination proyokes elimination, until
the world is converted from garden of para
disc into field of implacable contention. It
Is the duty OF good men TO do all they can to
prevent this state Of things-to act in a spirit
OF fairness and justice TO each other Ii was
IN such spirit that our party acted here in
the Fourth Ward case when we awarded the
seats 10 the sitting members because the tes-
timony which might have invalidated their
title was not tangibly and properly before us.
1t Is in this spirit that / now act. I presume
there have been informalities in our proceed
ings and / am willing, in consideration there
OF, to support the resolution Of compromise
which L now offer
4" ReSOtCed, That in view Of all the circum-
stances attending the election held in the Fifth
Ward of the city of Washington on the 4th of
June, 1855, A. Baldwin is entitled TO hold his
seat in the Board Of Common Council that
the other two seats TO which that ward is en-
titled in this Board ought to be and the same
are hereby declared vacant; and that q new
election to fill said vacant seats is ordered TO
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Mr.. Walker said he could not comprehend
what was the design of the member from the
Second Ward in Offering this halfway reselu-
ton. Either the sitting members were enti-
tied TO the seats or the contestants were. As
regards these eighteen votes which it was
claimed would change the result in the Firth
Ward he knows that one Of those voters had
not been in the country more than three years,
and therefore could not have been rightfully
naturalized.
Mr. Jefferson said he had already granted
that some Of these votes might not be valid,
yet no proof of their invalidity has been Of
fered, and a sufficient number were undoubt-
edly valid to have partially changed the re-
suit, at least so far as to justify the compro-
mise resolution he had offered
The resolution was rejected by the following
vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Fisher, Ome, and Jeffer-
son-3.
Nays-Messrs. Albert, Turton, Fuller. Wal
ker, Towles McCutchen. Ball, Clements, Bald
win, Peters, Bohlayer, Ruff, Bsyne, venable,
Lloyd, AtLee, Humphrey, and Davis, (presi-
dent)-IS.
The question then recurring on the resolu-
tion offered by the majority Of the committee
on elections
Mr.. McCutchen, before the vote was taken,
wished TO make some remarks in reply to the
gentleman from the Second Ward, (Mr Jeffer-
SON. He denied that the court had made any
decision judcislly, and defended Mr.. Bradley
from the charge Of inconsistency.
Mr.. Albert asked 10 be excused from voting.
The vote was then taken, and resulted as
follows:
1eas-Messrs. Walker, Towles, McCutehen,
Ball, Clements, Ruff, Bsyne, Venable, Lloyd,
Alice, Pumphrey, and Davis, (President)-l2.
Nays-Messrs: TurtOn, Fuller, FISHER, Orme,
and Jeferson-5.