New-York daily tribune., 1866-04-07
PROM WARRINGTON.
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10 TNO WIDOW
teers provided that in case Of the death or ~
lhe widow the pension should revert to the minor cnhu
Of Col Pickel. This beng new pIineipe IN pension
bills gave rise 20 some debate. ~
Air WAsUBURNR Qu) moved 20 amend by str1k n9
>st that provision The House, however, rejected the
smendrnent aud the bill passed
Other bills, reported and passed, contained siihiiaf
BROOKS VS.. DODGE
At the Termination OF the morning hour. the House
resumed the consideration of the contested eectOu
case Of Dodge against BROOKS. from the Eighth Con-
gressiOna District. ,,...,
Mr. BROOKS resumed MS argument an u"u''ioN'''
hour being granted hln. -,
lie appealed to The Il publican side OF the House lot
iustice and felt confident that If members could under
Stand and comprehend the case they would 90 nun
Justice He addressed himself to their justice aone
and that he demanded. The contestant should nave
come here with clean hands and clean heart but yet
he came with his hands SOicd with corruption p'nue9
nv neriries and yaincs The contestant had expended
$500 for corrupt purposes, while there was 10 a'e
cation that he (BrOOks) had spent cent on ms eecon
He was no professor Of religion, but be (Nr. DODGE
was and yet Mr.. Dodge made corrupt bargain
on the Sabbath day with the Tammany Han
candidate. If he did not do so bimsen, ne
did il through his friends COwdin and Cannon asso
professors of religions and he paid the money S|W oi
which Barr had received for running against Inn
(Brooks He appealed to the honorable gentlemen Of
al parties TO do him justice. II be was TO be thrown
out he would say his Democratic associates: he
content, the blood of tho martyrs rs me seru o ,s
church He appealed to his Republican associates
with whom he had been connected here some years IN
service from his native state o. Maine ron Nus
flcman rom PENNSYLVANIA Mr Stevens were within
the sound of his voice and really the GOYerHmenl
of this country be shOad not appeal to his mercy e
should hardly dare to appeal TO his justice but he should
his party in the exchange of one species
OF 0opperhead for another. Noting wonidi be
gained by such an exchange Inc keph0ncah
party should establish such precedent 1t Should not
let it be said that majority of the House oy mere
power without regard TO justice coni clear ont the
minority and make the majority supreme and absolute
1t had nothing to gain by such course If they sent
him hack 10 New York they would only increase his
bV . voto
wOnd unite in sending him back.
Mr.. GRISSELL spoke for five minutes adverse to the
right of the sitting member and denying that the CON
testant had been guilty Of any corruption lie asserted
that not a dollar had been paid for the contestant ior
bribery. or to be spent in liquor shops.
Mr. DAWES closed the debate by an argument sus-
fainng the report of the Committee Of Elections. He
commenced by saying that some OF the remarks OF the
sitting member unusual and OF such peculiar
character that he might be expected TO say something
in reply A politician Of 80 years standing who had
,iasd with every political party which had lived aud
died in that time who had repudiated in succession all
the principles he had avowed, who had declared from
his own experience that he could buy Domnatlon to
Congress e.. tie hands of Mozart TammanY Hal and
the Republican party each and all of them at the same
time and could then go into the canvass and buy up
votes at FIVE dollars head, must fail when he attempts
30 transfer the character thus earned in generation
of such dongs TO who had had the fortune TO
mngle in politics at ALL hut who had earned reputa'
fiOn in the mercantile community as spotiess as
the sun. The instincts Of some pOltlclans
however, were and unerrDg as the
instincts OF some animals and sometimes they
made the cleasest water foul and muddy
The sitting Member had swollen the records of the case
with the most notorious misstatements making out
fable-which had been printed in the public journals
and incorporated uuvittngy in the views Of the MI
nority-that the contestant had expended Sl550s
in his election That false on its face, as 1t was in
fact. That sum had been made up by Duplicating sew
era items in it, There not particle Of evidence
10 show that dollar had been expended improperly.
Mr.. MARSHALL denied that, saying il was in evidence
that immense sums had oeen expended by the contest
ant-much of them wrongful!y frauduient!y and dis
gracefully.
Mr. DAWES Oiass.) stated that the evidence showed
nothing of the kind and he denied that the contestant
had hired Barr to run against Brooks
Mr.. MARSHALL tried to be heard but Mr.. Dawes de-
,alned 10 yield TO him. Mr. Marshall thereup0n sad
shat of course. If the gentleman from Massachusetts
would make incorrect statements and would not submit
90 be corrected he could understand that, and hoped
.fhe House would understand IT.
i Mr. DAWES. resuming his remarks, wanted to know
for what purpose the sitting member had paraded be-
tore the House continually the wealth Of the contestant
YVES it for the purpose OF ios,naatng hat 'Re house S
y ras to be Influenced by such means as 1t had been
enlarged by Tie ~ T. Express that the Committee was
fp auencedi
Mr.. BROOKS asked whether the gentleman had ever
sec q such a thing in The Erpressi
Ir. DAWES replied that he made the statement
his ,wn responsibility.
NJ = BRooKs repeated the question and adding that
he hG never read anything ike il in The Ezpress. and
shoul deeply regret any such thing had appeared IN
that n aper. he did not believe that all Mr.. Dodges
wealth could influence the poorest member Of the Com
mitee
Der himself had not authorized such charge to be
made He regretted the necessity of saying anything
this he would alluded TO II had he
not felt If il necessary for TO reply TO
the foul charges with which the sitting members argu
Inent had reeked the undefeDdcl contestant. Mr..
Dawes prt ceeded discuss the different questions
vOyed in le case, defending the course of the Commit
tee Of Election
TO one statement which be made. Mr.. BROOKS rose
90 reply.
Mr. DAVE declined TO yield
Mr. Brooks Qn an excited manner) declared il is not
true. "Sir, IA is not true"
The SPRAKR declared Mr. Brooks out OF order, aud
directed him a. resume his seat.
Mr. DAWES lated that whe he said stated 10 the
presence of even y yseilSer OF the committee
Mr.. MARSHALL remarked that thu Chairman OF the
Committee had ct stated all the facts regard the
manner in which tAe matter had come before the Com
mittee and been conducted. lie gave his version Of
tie matter.
Mr.. DAWES ylel,led for a few minutes to Mr.. RAY.
MOND who desired to refer 10 aspt of the argu
made by the s. ting member, and whoh might be
called the aygumsnt I'D inS!d-u. IL was that pOr
tion Of il relating 10 he wealth Of the contestant He
had listened with III surprise 10 his remarks that
subect 10 bis rehear a Of the amount OF the contest
ants incomes What was the object Of that unless 1t
was to prejudice the House against the contestant
1t unfair appel y. There not who
knew the contestant who would pretend suspect that
his possession Of largti wealth was TO be weighed
against him this or an other scale His wealth had
been all acquired hont raby, justly. fairly without
wroDging any One Thu acquired, il 10 mis- honor
against him. he had exp ended 1t as hberaly as hon
orably. and as nObly as be had acquired it, |
The sitting member had tted with great force that
terrible ofCicero invective speaking Of the
character Of Catalin pcates and had said that
the murder0us heYe ndTels and rascals connect
ed with this case wete all to be found in the paror Of
tbe contestant. He d not see how TO avoid the
cluson that the sitting memb intended to convey the
idea that the men who had len in the parlor of the
contestant there the same purpose and for the
motive that took Il cOmtaniOns of Caaline