Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1858-09-29

n Inc question next fttuflcu OF Tue o'S'"@'
resolution as amended. namely. that Z. l..
Taliandirghsn l. entitled 10 a seat as mem.
Der Of the ash Congress. from the sd Con
! srsssional DistFist Of the Stste Of Ohio.
The yeas and hays were ordered. aud re
: salled. yeas lVI; nays 100. Ny name viii
se foaal recorded in the negst.ve. with those
of the Democrats above mentioned.
The usual oath was Thea administered 10
Nr. = aliAudiBgha aad he took bis seat
/ Lad this lat resolution failed. the vote
would then have been taken on the orieyaal
resolution - reported by Mr. Harris, Of Ills /.
a. chairman Of the commis &c en elections =
The whole question hai been before this com
m,ltee. Ii had examined, with the greatest
care, all the circumstances Connected with this
case. The Committee had spent days and
weeks over this contested seat. and after their
careful investigation of The whole matter. could
no. come 10 united conclusion which was ea
titled 10 the seat. Campbell or Vallandingh ham
Hence. 1 am found. with many other lrue
Democrats. voting against retaining Campbell
az well as giving the seat TO FAiiand.nghaa
In accordance with Nr. Harris sesolution. /
was Ia favor of referring the whole matte
back 10 lhe people of Of the 81 Congressional
Dis.ric, Of Ohio, aud letting ,heu determine.
who should be their Representative ia the
35lh Congress. Is il to bs expe. ted, should
vote To determine question. that from the ev,
depce before me. it was Impossible TO tell
whether was voting right or srongs Or wac
At not more in accordance with the doctrines
of Popular Sovereignty. tol lei the people. who
7. were directly interested determine this matter
for themselves. Thus | thought, aud thus J
acted. And now this very vote, which l. a
part of the Congressional records Of the coun.
TRY. is to be misinterpreted, n.isconstrGed and
] misrepresen,ed. l thought then, aud sill
think. that from the complicated testimon,
that was introduced in this case. it im
possible to tell whether the contestant, OF lbs
coptestee was entitled to the seat.
There are numerous pFecedenis for TIN
cause Mr. Harris. in his speech ia this case
which will be found in the CongTessiona
Globe. page 233S. says:
ut is not unusual to refer cases Of contest
ed elections back to the people. Such was th
action of the House in 1872. in case OF Jack
son rs Wayne; in l-06. Mcfarland Us. Cul
pepper; in 1877, Easion Us Scclt. In lS2a
Adams ss. Wilson, the commit &c on election
reported resalution declaring the seat vacant
! it Jeing doubtful, from the evidence, VIII
ought to have beea returned. dc. This rcpoT
: was not concurred in by the House Ia is3s
Letcher ss Moore, in the debate upon thi
ease. Mr. Vie ssid. the uncertainty in thi
case did not lie in the Constitution or law,
but in the facts OF lhe case. Upwards OF s.
= hundred had beea polleJ, aud yet the que
ton was reduced. according te some genu'
2 men. to difference OF twelve disputed rote
d There was a mass OF conflicting testimon
which rested in comparative eredibi!ii
4 Of which the House could not Judge. III
NEST certain, the most proper. the most repu'
,. lican mode to settle the qoestion was 70 sen
h It back to TIE people. nis3e in Ncwland V
"a lGrahani, 1887 81 in Prentice and Wood Y
Gholson and Claiborne. In 1919 50 in Mil
VS.. Thomp.on, aud in 1855 SO in Archer '
IS Allen. These cases arc sufficient preceden
a. and as authority aud in the case now und
consideration. shere there is 50 much dou
as and uncertainty, it seems 10 me the only iu
decision that can be made win be by the pc
r. pie themselves from whom these contestii
parties come. The Journsls Of this Hou
ne show too many decisions Of contests like III
where they have been made by sirIe, par
u votes, such records go far to weaken the COZ
dence OF the people, il not Our own eonHden
o in The impartialiiy and integrity Of his bod
IN II j. far better in cases where there is reasc
able doubt Of the result to refer Il ba \ 10 /
"a people. Nei,her The couiestapt nor the 5
lr ting member should fear TO 90 TO tha, bar
l." There le, "a, send Il.
Il have no feeling in The world % far a
p can Judge. between the parties. which inf
Of ences my judgment. Politically they hA
he been with lheeontestani bu, eanno, esca
Ct the consciousness that il I am forced to v
re in favor OF either to the excld>iof ofthc 9th
shall do violence TO my sense Of ril
ug ard ,asiice. | have in reviewing hi. %
he ton discarded all teehniealiiies. ani al e,
'a, sideralicns except such as reach directly
(" the merits Of ths eentrrsets,. t. tLeso
on the iuqairy b. confined, aud hy lhem lstli
settled. either here % hs lhs people =
'ne Third Congressional ii>;rei ef cois'
The second charge Il iiat II .ieA 70 ,,
ponc lhe isvestisaliop II lfs s'las Ugly r.
fn, in Baltlmofc. Maf,land''
pp Tbis charge his reference. pr.same.
ON vote vhieh gave 70 PossPoss up'il,hosee'
week II the next Seessoa the hnai deei.lo,
the contested e,ccsion netwcen Mr.. liar
'oe Ansr,can. and Brooks, D,moefsi, from
cen cay 4 baltimore
'"' II i only necessary h state the facts
they arresr In The Congressional Globe. pa
we 2962 50 CO
! % 0eo. Qanpan of Miss 4 e.sh 70 pres
o,s 20 she llense tangible moilon upon wh
they can act. a.d s,spiiy wrhe,st debate Il
on. -hcs upon he sobj,et | know .soihin
.h. shls ease. an one Il ..aose 40 have not
} al sinc 10 leok.st ae ,spefs Looking n
ous great bas.aoss u lhs county. move that
Nriher consideration e lhe matssJ be y
lhei ..ned until nc sc md soaday m Decsa
{ be next"
A sbsfs debate epsusd. in which ssv
mssnbers participated. I cannot give ths
va, .oas fof the vote gave - falis Va any n
l0a sav. a. by giving the fv~ r~mnks | I
vs. iraae ~ the uiotion % Mr. Qallman. Ct
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