The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-16
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SHALL THE Disabled VOLUNl
TIERS BE DISFRANCHISED :
The Contest in schenck Emil
The Right Of the Ditab) & ol-
diers to VOte
The Asylum Not Under the JuriSdIc.
tiOn of the United States.
A Full History Of the Case.

DAYTON, Ono, Nov. II.
q Tn 4e 1blie q q lhe b Conc IS
RI''sass q g I IN y 4 q 9 HsG S r.:
been returned BY u majority Of So votes
over Gen. schencI. It has been well
known that Gen. SChenck reluctantly &C
cepted the nomination, having at first re-
fused It, and aflerward yielding only Ia
the general expression that he was the
only Republican who could carry the dis.
trict. II was also equally understood
that he was totally averse TO the use Of
his name Tor the purpose Of serving a
notice Of contest Of tho election. But the
Central Committees Of the several coun'
ties in tho district, and, about all the In.
mates Of the National Asylum for Dlsa-
bled Soldiers at this city, whose votes
were rejected, have sent him urgent writ
ten appeals which he could not disregard.
Gen, Schenck has therefore consented that
the contest shall be made, but only as o
means of testing the right Of these disa-
bled veterans, Wild reside ~ his district,
to vote. Except IS to hhe use a bis
name, Ii : Ia nd q Istt ito the ON.
test, leaving It to the Committees to de-
vote the necessary time, trouble, and ex-
Dense, US his constituents, feeling out.
ragged at the result OF the election. He
stipulated with them that there should be
no other ground Of contest, no traversing
the district to scru1nlze poll-lists, no
scramble.
Gen. Schenck liaving Determined to
accept the legal issue upon the question O
the right lof these soldiers to VOTE tie
appeal to Congress becomes very differ.
cnt one from any contested election case
heretofore brought before 1t, and also q
very different thing from simple appeal
to i party majority in the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
The National Asylum for Disabled
Volunteers is a corporation established
under an act Of Congress, and Is controll'
rdNK y mNT1g three d when are
70 ~ mehl6l Is d de BoArd, VIZ The
FRI dent q n Unitea Sta IA eecre-
tary Of War. and Chief Justice. The
otlier managers are elected by joint reso-
luton of both houses Of Congress. This
corporation has established Central
ASYLUM near Dayton, about three miles
from tho city, and within the limits Of
Jefferson township Of Montgomery county.
The polling place for that township Is
about four miles from the Asylum. The
soldiers have heretofore voted at our
several elections, (whvfe they hid been
within the State the REQUISITE time, with
out objection, until last Spring. At that
time, in tho case Of q contest Of an cleo
tion for County Clerk, q question was rails
cd as 10 their right to vote The case
went up to the Supreme Court OF the
state, and decision was given in favor
of the candidate who had received the
vote Of tue soldiers; but the court decided
the case upon other grounds than that Of
GisI 6uesttohI of nc SOLDIER, 4pd il iB
PlnlSn% H. 5sPs b. b, ;a t'lE g .C H.,
vote was illegal. The t6iter dietum was has
cd mainly upon the ground that BY theCon-
stitution Congress exercises exclusive iurts;;
liction over all places that may be ceded
by any Of the States to the United States
"ior tie erection Of forts, magazines, arse.
mails, dock:Yards, and other needtll build;