Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-04-09
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ROCKVILLE, MD.
MISUNDERSTANDING 8, 1855

FRIDAY, ::::::::A APRIL 9, 1858
CoNGREss.-In the House of Repre-
sentatives, on the LIST instant, the Senate
bill admitting Kansas under the Lecomp-
ton constitution, was called up by Mr..
STEPHENS, of Georgia, and Mr.. GID-
DINGs, of Ohio, moved that it be rejected.
This was lost-yeas So, nays 1877. Every
member was present and voted, except
Mr.. CARoTHERs, of Missouri The af-
irmative vote represented only the Re-
publicans and two Democrats -Messrs.
Harris, of Illinois, and HICKMAN, of
Pa. There can be no mistaking the sig
niiicance of this vote, and the whole
country will hail it with satisfaction as
q substantial endorsement of the Kansas
policy of the administration.
Mr.. MONTGOMERY, of Pa. then brought
forward the CRITTENDEN measure as a
substitute for Che Senate bill, and it was
read It is the same as the Crittenden
bill Ws,th * exception that it provides
that the suffrage shall be exercised by all
who are legal voters under the territorial
law, and that the returns of the consti-
tutional election shall be made not to the
Governor alone, bat to board of COM
missioners, majority of whom can act.
Mr. QUITMAN's motion to amend by
striking out the Pugh or Green proviso
acknowledging the right of the people
to alter the constitution at at any tine)
was rejected to 160.
The direct vote upon Mr.. Montgom-
cry's substitute was then taken, and re-
sulted--yeas 100, nays 10.
The bill, as amended, was finally
passed by majority Of cight-yeas 100,
nays 112.
The bill, as amended, was, on the I'd
instant, returned to the Senate, where it
was non-concurred in, by vote of 80
to %. 1t has since been returned to the
House, and yesterday was the time fixed
upon for its consideration,
MARYLAND Contested ELECTION We
have received (says the Baltimore Sun
public document containing the papers
in the contested election case Of the third
congressional district, VIM. Pinkney
Whyte contestant against j. Morrison
Harris, contestee. The matter is pre-
scented at length, occupying volume o
three hundred aud twenty large octav,
pages u contains the letters of Mr.
Whyte announcing his intention to con
test the election the reply Of Mr.. Har
MS. AM other preliminary napcEs. The
follows the testimony. which includes the
statements and particular examination of
one hundred and forty four witnesses,
conducted before justices Hugh j. Nor
rison. Daniel E Myers, and John Nc
Alister. The examination seems to
have been conducted invariably by Mr.
Whyte in person, and on the part of Mr.
Harris, by Mr. r. J. Cuttings, his coun-
sci.
We have looked through considera-
bic portion of this testimony, with view
of making some selections for publica-
ton, but we might take page at ran
dom, anywhere, and it would afford a
revolving exhibition Of the nature of the
whole. The volume is, in fact, record
Of the most shameless and audacious vi
olations Of law, public order, and the
rights Of suffrage and the decencies of
society, that any official document pre-
seats in the United States. 1t betrays
u systematic and persistent fraud at the
several polls thus laid bare to public in
spection, and if we are to infer from the
manner in which the system was carried
out in practice in the lower wards, the
same sort Of thing in the upper, we must
confess that the aggregate majority of
the sitting members for Baltimore is re-
ally the best evidence extant of the ex-
IRENE moderation of the American party
at the congressional election. For in
stead of 1000 for Mr.. Davis, and 8 900
for Mr.. Harris, it would only have been at
the cost of little more effort to have
doubled the majority in each case.
The evidence establishes beyond con-
troversy the exclusion at will of natural
lied citizens from the polls; the deter
mination to do this the atrocious man
ner in which it was done; the deliberate
eonnivance of the regular police; the
outrage and violence committed against
individuals the daring frauds by which
the ballot boxes were crowded with ille-
gal votes the perversion of the ballot
by striped tickets, and, in short, histo-
~ Of wrongs so great as to justify the
..-a.,.l.EoI aerorl,on ti,oE tbo n,u,l oaJ