Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-19
ALBANY'S ASSES.
THE PEOPLE STILL HAkRASStD BY
THEIR ACTIONS.
A Remedy for Similar Cases in the Future
Prepared by Senator MIIls-Tuthill, ina
Long-winded Speech, tuIogizes
the Most lIlustrious Senator
Of the Century,"
ANOTHER DAY AND NOTHING DONE.
ALBAN Y.

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Anew Bill Bearing on the Senatorial
Case introduced by Senator Mills.
ALBANY, July lS-The Stalwarts this
morning III conference resolved to stand
firm for Conkling. Lapham this morn
ing said he had learned that Conkling
SAYS he (l.apham) must not be elected
| Senator.
Mr.. Mills introduced the following.
SEC. |. Whenever any vacancy exists
in the office OF the representative in
| Congress from this State, occurring on
or after the 4th OF March in
any year, and more than sixty
| davs before an election, a spec
| ial election to fill the vacancy
shall be ordered and held, provided
petition therefore in writing, signed by
| at least twenty electors OF the congres.
sional district in which the vacancy ex-
lists, and who are entitled TO vote in said
district for such representation in con-
gress, shall be presented to the governor
at least fifty days before the time for
holding the general election.
SEC. =. Upon presentation OF such pe-
tition to the governor special election
to fill the vacancy shall be ordered by
the governor, who shall within five days
after the presentation OF the petition ls-
sue petition ior such election, but no
special election shall be held under the
act within twenty days before the gene
raj election
SEC. 3. The provisions OF this act
IL, 10,
ing in the office OF any representative
in Congress. This act shall take effect
Immediately.
The bill was made the special order
for tomorrow.
Tuthil Deciaims.
The Joint convention then proceeded
to vote to till the vacancy caused by the
resignation OF Conkling. When Tut
hills name was called he proceeded to
defend the Stalwarts for demanding q
caucus, and also spoke OF the
effect Of the ties in the United States
Senate in the past. He said it was a
STUPID blunder to elect Miller and Lap
ham, and thus gave the House OF Repre-
sentativeS tO the Democrats. He Insist
ed that the time had arrived for an adj
journment.
In the course OF his speech he referred
to C0nklngs letter OF resignation, and
said ii would be read when the
Vile Traducers Of the IlluStrious Senator
were dead and forgotten, and continued
as follows:
"lf the United States Senate was
called together il would be Democratic;
so it wonld have been on the day Senator
Blaine resigned; so it would have been
when Window resigned; so 1t would
have been when kirkwood resigned; so
it would have been when Senator Gar
field declined. But no faction OF the
Republican legislatures OF Maine, Ninne-
sofa, Iowa or Ohio,
Undertook to Overthrow the Time Hon.
ored Usage
OF all parties. In the usual decent and
orderly way individual preferences were
submitted to the arbitrament of eau
Gus, and harmony OF choice promptly
ensued. So it would have been here.
One hour of common fairness III honest
methods would have saved MS these
weeks of contention and State disgrace
OF painful and damning disclosures.
When VigiIant and Unprincipled
Lobby.
by the black art OF bribery, had taken
tie field and thousands OF dollars were
traced from the banks to the pockets OF
their co.laborers with all the attend.
ant suspicious circumstances, it
was time to adjourn. When the
grand jury, on ample testimony,
hal relieved an investigating committee
OF all its painful duty by indcting half
a dozen of the ringleaders, in this un-
holy crusade for
Ofenses Punishable by Imprisonment
in the State prison, it was time to call
halt, it was time to adjourn. When a
certain candidacy, while yet holding a
majority vote oi the Republicans, was
so smirched with bribery as to render
its support impossible, and the trick of
an irregular caucus. with secret pur-
pose of its withdrawal, was played,
it was time to adjourn. When this
contest has 50 completely debauched
certain participants and they have be.
come so low and degraded rs to be will
ing TO allow themselves to be advertised
as step ladder sueaks and
Trausom Peeping Pimps,
in order to give the color OF truth and
currency to a weak invention and base
slander against an honest citizen, it was
time to adjourn. This iniamy was
never surpassed except perhaps by
those who pledged their word at Utica
and bartercd it at Chicago, only that
they might wreak their spite on the
most illustrious Senator OF the century,
whose only fault was and is that he pos
sessed that intense common sense and
intrepid valor which enabled him in the
dark days OF supreme trial to he
The Savior of His Country.
Why not adjourn1 Can you not trust
your Governor 10 call you together, ii
need be, after reason shall have resumed
its sway" lfuot, can y"r trnst the peo-
pie? W.rI dH va ."t.u thA! yUu
could not trust Roscoe Conkling to 20
to the people? Were you afraid
to trust him to 20 to the people
last autumn? Were you afraid to trust
him before the people OF Ohio and In
diana in that critical October election
when every Republican heart yearned
ior the much needed victory? When 1t
was evervwh rt confessed that the elec-
toral vote of New York WAS absolutely
essential loI tine election ot Garfield,
We're yOu
Aira d TO Give the Flag into his Keep
ing?
Did he not bear it up to victory aud re-
turn it To Won unsoiled and rcsplemdent.
insist that the responsibility OF this long !
continued farce shall be placed where 1t |
properly belongs While So insisting |
let it be confessed that some results OF
priceless value 10 the commonwealth !
have been achieved. The notorious head
quarters and den OF corruptionlsts,gam
biers and lobbyists where legislation has
50 long been bought and sold has been
invaded by the strong arm OF the law.
Several of that
Corrupt Gang have been Indicted
for their crimes by a jury of their coun,,
trymen. This alone will go far toward
securing to the peoples representatives
-, ,,,olne+atinn hV the fools |