Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-03
DoDaING AND -ABsEyEEELsM.

LlDGFLMEr AND -AEAAla AllA@Ah4Ls
When parties are nearly equally bal
aneed in legislative body extra pains
are taken to insure the presence of every
member when there is a probability of an
important or test vote being taken, in
order to prevent surprises and an undue
advantage being gained BY the opposite
party from such absence; and a member
/ is regarded as exceedingly eulpable who
under such circumstances Is absent from
his place Without having made provision
/ to save his vote, the usual course being
to pair of with an opponent. In the
4 present Congress the Union majority Is
so overwhelmingly large in both branches
that there can be no danger of a surprise
resulting from the absence ofa few mem
/ bers, and hence there has not been on all
occasions as full a response when votes
were taken as under different circumstan-
ces there would have been. The absence
from Washington or from the House or
Senate Of any one or a considerable num-
Der Of members has not, with single ex-
ception, been regarded as worthy of notice
or deemed of sufficient importance to Gle
it comment The one exception Is the
Representative from this District A
correspondent of a Cincinnati paper, from
some unknown or unexplained cause. saw
ft to pay special attention to Mr.. HUB
BELL, and for a time, at an average of
once or twice a week, made him the sub
ject of a special dispatch or of a regular
letter. If Mr.. H. happened 70 be called
home, the fact was duly chronicled, with
dispaTaging insinuations--jf illness de-
tained him at his room when a vote was
taken, it was duly blazoued forth with the
charge that his sickness was feigned to
avoid meeting the responsibility of a vote,
and his afterwards recording his vote for
the measure was made the pretext for
further misrepresentation he visit
Department on business and q vote was
unexpectedly taken on agreeing to trifing
amendments to a bill while he was absent,
though he voted for the original measure
and desired to vote forit as amended, and
Jorty-OHe other Union members were also /
absent, forthwith a contemplate dispatch
insiRuating but not daring to charge de-
linqueney, goes over the wires, and is ca
gerly caught up by an enemy at home
and made the theme for a diatribe on
"dodging," unfair and slanderous as it is /
possible to make an article of the same
length-and so on throughout the whole |
chapter. These assaults have formed the
groundwork of all that have been made
upon Mr.. HUBBELL within or outside the !
distriet-indeed, the Ohio TRADES, edito-
rial or otherwise, have been butrepetitions
of the Washington ISLANDERS. But still |
1t is fact that cannot be controverted. /
that Mr.. Ii. has not been absent from his |
post more than his fellow-members gen
orally; he has not only been present and !
voted on all measures that have been re-
garded as strictly test questions, but vo- /
ted with his Union colleagues. which has |
not been the case with every member of |
the delegation and he has done or said
nothing to call for these assaults. or
to warrant their being made in his
case, while others go without censu re
But there as recent notable case in
which there 7oas lodging and shirE5ng,
aud that too on the part of Ohio members.
but as Mr.. HUBBELL was net included in
the list, of course we shall hear nothing
on the subjective viii have no thunder
from our Jupiter Tonans; and we shall
be spared the 6erce anathemas of the
correspondent who has so
closely observed the movements of our
membes, generally drawing upon his
imagination for his facts. We refer to
the vote in the House, Friday night last
on agreeing to the report of the confer
ance committee on the bills to raise the
pay Of members of Congress to s. 900.
and giving bounties to soldiers. Hero
was a case where the absence of members
directly affected the result, the vote being
exceedingly close (51 to SOY and an addi-
tional vote or two on either side was all
important, Mr. HUBBELL was present
and voted against the measure-because
he was opposed to increasing the pay of
members, but not because he was oppoBed
to doing justice to the soldiers, for the
bill he had several times voted for was
one that was far more liberal to them
than the one finally passed by being in
united to the other proposition
Of the Ohio Union members eZeUen were
absent, Where were they? Probably
1t home, asleep, or purposely Sinking.
Here is lodging and absenteejsm when it
meant something, But, as before remark
ed, the list does not include Mr. H, and
we hear nothing of it-not
4 lisp of condemnation or reproof from
or elsewhere-and had Mr..
H. been one of the number, has aanle
1lone would doubtless have figured in the
dispatch that would have announced the
iagrant delinquency. A statement of
.hese facts is alone necessary to exhibit
n their true light the ungenerous and un-
air warfare that has been waged against
he Representative of the 8th District.
TERRIBLE RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS. !
The city Of New Orleans has be en- the