Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-06-25
Siouf City 8rgistrr
WEDNESDAY. JUNE %, 1864.
DAKOTA Contested ELLcTIoN.
Startling DevelOpm ent Of Fraud I'm
Elections ANON & he Nom II stdent
Officials ef DakOla Territory.


Officials ef Dakola Territory.
We publish below, for the benefit Of orr
friends in Dakota and elsewhere, tho re-
port of the Congressional committee on
elections in the case of Todd vs.. Jayne !;
emitting only such parts Of it as regards
the taking Of evidence and other prelimi.
nary proceedings, as would be uninterest.
ing to the public. Such startling array
of frauds and perjurics it has seldom been
our lot to record; and one that should
cause the officers of that Territory, at the
| time of the election, to hide their heads
with shame, and consign them to everlast.
ing disgrace and infamy
yANKToN PREClSCT.
1.-THE contestant claims that ten hOh.
residents voted Cor sitting delegate in
Yankton county. Their names are, D..
T. Fessenden, c. Fessenden, A. B. Wood,
J. Mellen, Albert Mellen, N Edmonds, G..
W. Lamson, G. N. Proper, Josiah c..
Trask, and Sergeant Patrick Conway, Of
company A, Dakota cavalry. The testi.
mony as to the first five named is, hat
they we're surveyors, having contracts to
survey land under the surveyor general
of the Territory, occupying tents when SO
employed, and leaving the Territory as
soon as their work was completed, to their
homes in Michigan and Illinois, where
their families resided; that they left tho
Territory day or two after the election,
and whether ever they returned or not de-
pending upon new contracts, not homes,
in tho Territory. And although it is tes.
tilted that they were residents Of tho Ter
ritory, yet the character of that residence
clearly appears to be as above stated, and
the committee did not deem them
residents within the meaning Of the law,
and rejected their votes. 1t was testified
Of Proper, by person who accompanied
him, that he was resident Of Freeborn
county, Minnesota, and left there June l6,
1862, for Dakota. He could not, there
fore, be n voter. 1t was testified Of Trask
tha, he resided in Kansas, was editor of
the Kansas State Journal said he came
to the Territory to bring the printed laws
Of the Territory, and to settle with the
Secretary for the printing of the same, aud
returned short time after the election,
and was killed in the raid upon Lawrence.
His vote is rejected. OF Lamson it was
testified that he was clerk in the survey
or generals office; his family never lived
there, bu. in Michigan; he left the Terri
tory few days after election for his home
in Detroit. and declared hs would never
bring his family there, His vote was re-
jected by the committee. There was also
testimony Of similar character in respect
to Newton Edmonds, but he himself
swears he has resided in the Territory,
since July, 1861, and be is now there, gov.
ernor of the Territory, and his vote was
not rejected Ly the committee. Patrick
Conway resided, at the time OF his enlist.
ment, at St. Johns Nebraska, and enlist
ed there. The committee, therefore, re.
jec,ed his vote.
1t was not disputed that these nine per.
sons cast their votes for the sitting dele.
gate, and they must therefore be deducted
from his count"
It is hardly possible that these men,
whose votes are rejected by the commit
tse, could have perjured themselves as
they did without being bought up by the
friends Of Jayne. Men are not likely to
commit so grave an offence without being
paid well for it. The rebuke to the present
nonresident Governor is just and mer
tied one Read carefully.
Dos HOMIE COUNTY.
" The vote Of this county was rejected by
the canvassers, and it is claimed by the
contestant that there should be counted
from this county twenty.sx votes for him,
and thirteen for the sitting delegate
The evidence shows tha. the polls we're
opened At Q o clock in the morning, at
the house Of g. NJ Pinnev, United States
marshal; Moses Herrick, D. C. Gross,
and Jacob kieI acted As judges. Silas G..
Irish was originally appointed by the
county commissioners Of tho county, as
the law requires, TO actas one Of the judg-
e.. He was notified Of his appointment
BY Harvey Hartsough, ono Of the commis
sioners, and accepted The appointment
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