Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-01-26

House must Judge who shall primd
fdcic be sworn in as mombors,"
He goes on to argue that those, bav-
ing the highest number Of votes, were
entitled to be sworn, and tho amend
mont Of Mr. Pcrshing, which was in
favor Of the certificate, signed by q
majority Of the return judges, was
voted down by the House, and | find
that four members of tho Senate
voted with the majority. They were
in the House at that timo. They are
here to vote upon this question TO-
day. The doctrines advanced then on
one side are advanced now upon the
other. This question conironts them
now Just as It did in 1865. They
were Messrs. Billingfelt, Olmsted,
Watt and Ostarhont. These four
Senatorsv voted to give TO the gentlemen
who had the highest number of votes
on the face Of the returns the righ. to
u seat.
What was there in those returns
compared with theseY There a ma
jority of the return judges gave the
seats to the smaller number Of voters,
against return by the minority in
favor of a larger number Of voters.
There the majority of the House had
the substance only hero we have
both the form and the substance, be
cause here u majority Of the return
judges haze certified to the highest num-
Der Of uoteS,so that there is no room to
err. Here is a majority Of the board
and the majority Of the whole vote,
and gentlemen cannot itseems to me,
90 back upon the record that was
made in 1865. The men who had the
majority ofthe board and the minority
of the whole vote were turned away,
and the men who had the majority Of
the whole vote and the minority Of
the board Of return judges, were ad'
mitted. The seat was given TO the
men who had the highest number OF
votes upon the returns, treating both
papers as one return 1t is for this
we now contend. This, we claim, j:
the law of the land. No man who
reads the decision in the case Of
Thompson and Ewing can doubt it,
No technical argument can gainsay it
1t seems 10 mo the right of Hiram
Findlay 10 a seat upon this floor is a'
plain as the sun at MONDAY, if Tho
right Of representation given TO every
citizen Of the Commonwealth is TO b'
respected in this the highest forum
known u her constitution. Nobody
disputes that the return from ALE
gheny township has been omitted il
one of these returns. That is par
Of this case. The vote Of Allegheny
township, in which two hundred mel
voted, has been omitted, by that re
turn under which Mr.. Scull asks th,
scat. Senators cannot deny th
charge that make upon them nov
that they are about TO disfranchiso b,
their act the voters OF Anegncn,
township, and that they cannot AM
dare not throw upon them the charg
of fraud. There was not a singl
fraudulent vote cast in that district
nobody disputes that That Who'll
! district is disfranohised By the resolu
ton reported by the majority Of th
committee.
The strength OF the position upo
which ! rest my hope that this rcso
lution may not pass, but that Hirar
Fiudlay shall have his clear right
given him, consists in the indisputabl
right Of the people of Alleghen
township 10 be represented ia th
fact that those papers are to be take
as one return and upon the grea
truth in tie case that Mr.. Findla
has received the highest number
votes as shown by that return, an
, that this is certified to us by majot
ity Of a regularly organized board
District Judges and duly attcsted b
, its clerks.
, Here Mr.. Wallace was interruptC
q BY the adjournment OF the Senate. ]