The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-13
CORBIN'S LAST GRAB.
$4,000 For Not Being United statoy Son.
atOr.

In the Senate on Saturday tho COM
| mittee reported an amendment to paw ID.
I. Corhin, late contestant ior u rcaS in
the United States Senate from the State
of South Carolina, his expenses of suci,
contest, $4,000.
Mr.. Hill, (Dem.) of Georgia, opposed
the amendment, and said Il had never
been considered by tho committee on
privileges and elections. That commit
tee had adopted rule to pay the actual
expenses of O contest, but this proposed
to give Mr.. Corbin ,0OO-equal to
two years salary as Senator. He de-
MED that the expenses of MIR. Corbin
were $4,000.
Mr.. Blaine. (Rep.) of Maine, said the
matter came before the committee o., an
preparations upon memorial Of Mr..
Corbin, in which he stated his expenses
were between S11 900 and $4,000. The
Senate had kept him here dangling by
the eyelids. If his claim be not acted
upon now, Mr.. Corbin would be remittcd
to that long list of hopeless claimants.
MIR. Garland, (Dem.) of Arkansas, said
the House had Inserted in the bill appro-
priatlons to pay contestants for seats in
| that body, and in no case was moro than
G, 900 allowed to any one, while in some
cases few hundred dollars were allowed,
| and some Of the contestants came all the
way from California.
Mr. Hereford, DENY of !Ves. Yir-
ginia, said Mr.. Butler was sworn ir on
the 30th of November, 1877. What bus
iness had Mr.. Corbir about here after
that time? Mr.. Corbin claimed $4,000
! personal expenses. How could his per-
sonal expenses be so great? He paid
his board, but he would have had to paw
| it had he been in South Carolina or any-
where else. There were twenty five cen.
tested cases in the House. and tho
amount allowed to the whole of them was
but little ove6 $4,000. lie favored the
payment of the necessary and reasonable
expenses of the contest Of Mr.. Corbiu,
but did not approve of this donation.
| Mr.. Hill moved to amend so as to give
him $4,000 instead of $4,000.
| Mr.. Salisbury, (Dem.) of Delaware,
said the Senate knew nothing about the
expenses of Mr.. Corbin. His memorial
should have been referred to the COM
mittee Oil privileges and elections instead
of the committee on appropriations. It
was discourtesy to the former commit
tee To refer it tc that on appropriations.
Mr.. Wadleigh, (Rep.) of New Hamp-
shire, chairman Of the committee or
privileges and elections,) said he did not
object to the reference. For the sake of
| speedy justice to the claimant he pre-
ferre6 that it should go to the committee
on appropriations.
Mr.. Beck, (Dem.) of Kentucky,
thought he vas entitled to the $4,000.
If he was man fit to be elected to the
Senate his time was worth that much.
He had been here two years, O member
| of tha H0minoDt ~ with
to believe that he would be seated.
The amendment of Mr.. Hill to reduce
tho amount to 5000 was rejected-yeas
&c, nays 81, as follows:
Yeas-rIessrs. Bailey, Bayard, Beck,
Cock.eil. Davis Of West Va, Dennis,
Eaton, Eustis, Garland, Gordon, Grover.
Harris, Hereford, Hill, Jones of Kansas,
Herman, McCreery. Mcpherson. Bfaxev.
Merrimon, Morgan, Salisbury, Voorhees,,
Wallace, Whyte and Withers-26.
Nays--Messrs. Allison, Anthony,
Blaine, Booth, Burnside, Cameron OF
Wisconsin, Chaffee, Chandler, Conkling,
Colover, Dawes, Dorsey, Ferry, Hamlin,
Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Kellogg, Kirk
wood, Mcmillan, Mathew. Mitchell,
Morrill,, Oglesby, Paddock, Patten,or
Rollins, Sargent, Saunders, Spencer,
Teller and Windom-3l.
mr. Hill moved to lay the amendment
of the committee on the table. Rejected
yeas %, nays 81.
Mr.. Sargent, (Rep) of California, said
in his own mind he had no doubt the
Senate was wrong in seating Mr.. Butler
and keeping out Mr.. Corbin, and it came
with very bad grace from the Senators
on the Democratic side to object to Civ
ing Mr.. Corbin his money.
Mr.. Merrimon, (Dem.) of North Caro-
lima, urged that this was in direct viola
tion of the precedent set in the Segar
case.
Mr. Window, (Rep.) of MinL sofa, sp-
pealed to the Senators to vote, and said
if lengthy debate were to be INDUCED in
it would be impossible to complete tho
business of the session.
The amendment of tho committee Civ
ing Mr.. Corbin $4,000 was agreed to-.
yeas rs, nays %.
/ A Georgia darkey, when he was
told that dollar was only worth eighty
cents, remarked, "This is wusserin cot