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

In the Senate on Saturday the COM
nittee reported an amendment to pay D.
7. Corbin, late contestant for q seat in
the United States Senate from the State
of South Carolina, his expenses of such
contest, $4,000.
Mr. Hill, (Dem.) of Georgia, opposed
the amendment, and said it had never
been considered by the committee on
privileges and elections. That commit
tee had adopted rule to pay the actual
expenses of q contest, but this proposed
to give Mr.. Corbin ,00O-equal to
two years salary as a Senator. He de-
MED that the expenses of Mr.. Corbin
were $4,000.
Mr.. Blaine, (Rep.) of Maine, said the
matter came before the committee on ap-
preparations upon q 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.
Mr.. Garland, (Dem. of Arkansas, said
the House had inserted in the bill appro-
priations to pay contestants for seats in
that body, and in no case was more than
81, 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, (Dem.) of West Vir5
ginia, said Mr.. Butler was sworn in OF:
the 3Oth of November, 1877. What bus,
mess had Mr.. Corbin about here after
that time? Mr.. Corbin claimed S4,0Q
personal expenses. How could his pe
sonal expenses be so great? He pS
his board, but he would have had to p
it had he been in South Carolina or any.
where else. There were twenty-five con-
tested cases in the House, and the
amount allowed to the whole Of them was
but little oves $4,000. He favored the
payment of the necessary and reasonable
expenses of the contest of Mr.. Corbin,
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 on privileges and elections instead
of the committee on appropriations. 1t
was discourtesy to the former commit
tee to refer it to that on appropriations.
Mr.. Wadleigh, (Rep.) of New Hamp-
shire, chairman of the committee on
privileges and elections, said he did not
object to the reference. For the sake of
speedy justice to the claimant he pre-
ferred that it should 60 to the committee
on appropriations.
Mr.. Beck, (Dem.) of Kentucky,
thought he was 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, q member
of the dominant party, with every reason
to believe that he would be seated.
The amendment of Mr.. Hill to reduce
the amount to $4,000 was rejected--yeas
&c, nays 81, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bailey, Bayard, Beck,
Cockrell, Davis Of West Va, Dennis,
Eaton, Eustis, Garland, Gordon, Grover,
Harris, Hereford, Hill, Jones of Kansas,
Herman, McCreery, Mcpherson, Maxey.
Merrimon, Morgan, Salisbury, Voorhees,,
Wallace, Whyte and Withers-
Nays--Messrs. Allison, Anthony,
Blaine, Booth, Burnside, Cameron Of
Wisconsin, Chaifee, Chandler, Conkling,
Conover, Dawes, Dorsey, Ferry, Hamlin,
Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Kellogg, Kirk
wood, Mcmillan, Mathews, Mitchell,
Morrill,, Oglesby, Paddock, Patterson,
Rollins, Sargent, Saunders, Spencer,
Teller and Windom-31.
Mr.. Hill moved to lay the amendment
Of the committee on the table. Rejected
yeas 2S, 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, (Dcm.) of North Caro-
lima, urged that this was in direct viola
ton of the precedent set in the Segar
casc.
Mr.. Window, iRep.) of Minnesota, ap-
pealed to the Senators to vote, and said
if lengthy debate were to be INDUCED in
it would be impossible to complete the
business of the session.
The amendment of the committee Civ
ing Mr.. Corbin $4,000 was agreed to-
yeas %, nays IS.
"A Georgia darkey, when he was
told that dollar was only worth eighty
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