West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-02-28

papers have dubbed him the Lou
isina Goat, yet be has generally
managed TO Whitewash himself. Ii
Is not known whether he had any
corrupt motive N the matter now
pending, and an investigation into
thst feature Of the case is being mad e
by the Judiciary Committee. Ii any
bad motive Is found, he will GER
tslnly be expelled.
The contested election cases that
have occupied the most attention
so far are Curtin We. Yocum in
rennsylvania and Connslly VS.,
Washburn IN Minnesota. Both
are practically decided. Tho rad
zeal press 10 making terrible howl
over The finding OF the cub commit-
tee 10 the latter case, because thew
say Wsshburn's majority was 5000.
but when the report OF the full
committee is made, | think it will
convince all fair-mindsd men that il
10 not partisan aud that the sitting
member secured all his apparent
majority by means which give hin
no legal or Just claim to the seat.
LIE record contains evidence of the
groesest frauds perpetrated in Wash
ourn interest. An example of the
KIND OF testimony before the com
mttee Is this: Washburn came in
to Minneapolis from the country
with majority against him. He is
coniessedly unpopular in the city,
anu yet he overcame this adverse
MAJORITY and ran up majority ior
himself OF $500 In seven precincts
OF .he city where the regular Re
anoilcan majority never exceeds
o5O. This was done by resort to
The statute that each voters baIloy
and name on the registry should be
numbered, so that it might be
known how each man voted. This
Jaw facilitates bribery and had been
declared unconstitutional by the
Court, and Judges of Elections had
decided the evening before the
} election day that they would abide
by that decision. Governor Wash
burn, the contestants brother, and
the latters book keeper, Hall, are
SAID TO be convicted of bribery, and
IT Will be held that w D. Wash
burn must have been privy to it.
Inns Ia but one of number of
pieces OF testimony on which the
sub committee base their finding.
lie new rules of the House are
still pending. Closing the open
debate In Committee of the Whole
id not bring an early disposition
o! the subject as was supposed, and
there have been Indications that the
whole revision would finally be de-
iealeJ on account Of some of the
amendments. The greatest danger
has grown out OF the contest be
tween The Appropriations Commit
tee and some OF the other, lees i'm
Portant ones. The first named
committee desires to retain the
power 1T has always had. while four
or five others are fighting for great
er I'm Importance by securing divis-
ION and distribution of the bills an
propriating money. The older and
wiser members, like Speaker Ran-
dali and General Garfield, oppose
the change, but by combining the
strength and'ipAuence of these lit
tie, unimportant committees against
the Appropriations Committee they
nave come very near dong consid-
cradle damage. Any one expert
enced in legislation will see at q
glance that the effect Of Distributing
the control Of the appropriations
increases the danger of raids upon
The Treasury, and it will be noticed
that the lobby 10 unanimous for the
change. Another thing that threat
ened to aid in defeating the revis-
ION was the attempt of the Repub
leans to amend the rules so as to
prohibit attaching riders, contain
ing political legislation, to appro-
prlstion bills. A few Democrats
took a position in favor of these
amendments at first, and things
Hooked a little squaIly, but after
the speech of Frank Hurd who
showed these Democrats how much
they were indebted TO this priviIeo.
Tor the Legislation in favor of Con
stltutional liberty already obtained
they we:e not 50 ready to play into
the handle OF the Radicals.
AS indicated three month ACC
the courtesy Of the Senate" !.
strained TO the utmost in the report
OF the Senate committee on the In
gale case. 1t fndo that briberv
and corrupt means we're empiope1
by the friends Of Ingalls, to secur.
bis election to the Senate, but that
these friends were acting in the
most dIslnterested way, on their own
hook, 30 to speak, aud that poor
ingalls, knew nothing Of the crime,
committed IN his name and for hi.
advantage. The committee doe,
not say what it thinks OF the cor.
rupi proposition made by General
lngalls to Governor Anthonr. Bnt
perhaps, Senators generally think
that IN matters OF this kind il !,
better TO let bygones be byeones
/ Possibly macy Of them know the
obstacles sometimes to 20 encoun-
tered in obtaining a re- election
and recall the means resorted 10 IN
their own cases. The fret step 10
Wuds euch result az has beer
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