The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-09-07


citizens. I proceed to try and con-
denim him. He contested my seat.
He acted as his own attorney in
that case in taking testimony and
Prosecuting the case before the
committee. By the rules he was
entitled to his actual necessary
expenses in prosec uting that con-
test, and he was required to make
out an itemized account Of such
actual necessary expenses, and
swear to it:
He made ont his account and
swore to it, and here it is
The 5th item is as follows:
Expenses and council fees in the
preparation of the notices Of
contest and the notices of tax
ing deposltions ......... 5000
want you to particularly OBJ
serve that this is for the prepara-
ton Of the notices of contest and
notices of taking depositions.
Here are tue papers, about
fifteen or sixteen pages, all in his
own handwriting; prepared by
himself; the council fees were his
! own fees, for he was his own coun-
Gil. The committee did not and
could not know that this was for
his own services. You see he puts
it in the form of expenses and
council fees.' If he had said in
the item that it was for his own
services, the committee would not
have allowed, as You will see be-
fore ! am done, but he frames the
item so as to indicate that some
body had been employed by him
to do this work. He made oath to
it, and thus misled the com mittee.
If he had here in the State of Indi-
ana procured money from one of
you Democrats by such means, l
could convict him and send hi In
to the penitentiary for obtaining
money by false pretenses. This
$500 was not expenses, but a
charge for his own services. By
this meacs lie succeeded in get>
ting out of the treasury 5000 to
which he had no more right than
any one of you gentlemen or ladies
who sit before me to-day.
He has tried to squirm out of
this by saying that this item was
not for service alone, but for ex-
penses i'll hunting up testimony,
DC. But that will not avail. If
there is any sum in there for his
own services. the principle is just
the same. Don'ti you remember
how your mothers used to say to
you
''He who steals pin
Would steal greater thing.
But his pretense that there are
expenses embraced in this item is
as base as the claim. In the very
next item he makes q charge CT
SbO0 to pay expenses for hunting
up testimony, &c. Now let US look
at the 7th item, l will read it;
| Attorneys fees, (including my
services as Attorney in connection
with and in attendance on the
taking of the testimony for the
contestant and contestee (S4OO ol
this is for my own services Iss0O
And also in the prosecution of the
contest before the committee
| S4O0.
You will see that here he charges
$4,000 for attorneys ices, on,
item of $500 subdivided into /.
charge of s400 for himself ant
800 for somebody else, for taking
testimony, and another item o
S400 for attending the case befor,
the committee.
The S40O for somebody else va:
allowed. The charge for himsel
was not allowed, but stricken out
Bear in mind he claimed in thi
account 1885. The committe,
allowed him S3,0SO; refused t,
allow him Tor his own servicel
wherever it could be seen that th
charge was for his own services
lie has tried to shield himself be
hind the committee, by saying tha
a Republican committee allowe,
this to him. But as l have show
you, he misled the committee a.
to tue fees for himself that he iit
get, and as to all charges wher
the committee knew it was fo
himself they were strickea ou,
Why didn't he get the balance
was it any conscientious scruple o
his part that saved this money t
the treasury, and kept him frol
getting it. No; 'Barkis was wilin'.
He did all he could to get it. H
swore hari enough but there We
an honest committee standin
there guarding the public treasur
against plunderers. This is th