Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-13
SkILES AND FRIDY.

uilly-Dailying Of tho Committee Of Seven
The investigating committee of the Re
publican board of return judges of tn.
late primary election met in Grant hal
this morning at 10 o'clock. Present
Messrs. Frank Musselman, chairman,
St.asburg Sam'l Evans, secretary, Co
lumbia {; Jacob Halbach, Second ward
city {; w. S. Burns, Seventh ward, city
J. L. Albright, East Donegal George A.
Wallace, East Earl.
Mr.. Halbach offered the following resO.
lutiOns, which were read and adopted
seriatim::
Resolred, That the president and vice
president of the return board produce and
deliver to this committee all returns, tally
papers aud poll books in their posses
sion.
Resolced, That the Judge Of Lower. Mt.
Joy township, Breneman's school house,
he requested to produce before the com
mittec the return, tally paper, poll book
and tickets of the primary election held in
that district at the next meeting of the
committee, to he held on Wednesday,, June
-, at 10t o'clock.
As the above resolutions were adopted
before Mcssrs. Albright and Wallace ar
rived, they were again read for their i'll
formation.
MIR. Albright said that under the rules
OF the party and under all parliamentary
rule, the functions of this committee had
ceased. The committee had been created
by the hoard of return Judges and had
been discharged by the board of return
judges, and therefore had no more power
to act for the Republican party thad any
other seven members Of the party.
Mr.. Halbach held that at tho time the
committee is alleged to have been dis
charged there WAS not a quorum present !;
and even if the board had discharged the
committee, it had no right to do SO, as the
rules of the party provide that the com
mittcc shall be recOnvcned on application
of any twenty-five members of the party !;
that such application had been made to
two members of the committee that
these two members had convened the
committee, and the meeting of the CON-
mittee was entirely regular. Besides, there
had been precedent set in this matter by
the rccOnvenins Of the investigating COM
mittcc last year.
Mr.. Albright replied that last year the
hoard of return judges did not discharge
the committee this year they did by a
unanimous vote. II all the members of
the return board wcrc not present when
this action was taken it was their own
fault, rs they ought to have been present
lie denied that this committee had any
right, rs 4 committee, to prosecute tho i'll
vestigatiOn. They had been unnlade by
the authority that made them. Hc was
not present because the chairman of tho
committee had issued his calls but came
simply out Of curiosity.
Mr. Burns moved that the committee
adjourn until half-past one o'clock p. IN.
Mr.. Evans opposed tho motion, and
hoped the committee would remain in ses-
sion until the arrival of counsel, who were
attending q meeting of the Lancaster bar,
which would soon adjourn.
Tho motion to adjourn was carried.
Tho Afternoon Session.
All the members were present and on
motion of Mr.. Evans the motion passed
this morning to adjourn to next Wednes
day was rccOnsidered by the votes of all
the committee except IIalbach and Burns.
On Wallace's motion tho committee went
into secret session and. coming ont, re-
ported that they would hear counsel Mr..
North being present for Fridy and Rein
Ochl for Skies. A controversy arose
between Judge Evans and Judge Hal
bach as to whether the proposition to
order 4 production Of the returns from
Lower Mt. Joy had or had not been re-
considered.
To settle all doubt the majority rccon-
sidcrcd it aud Halbach wanted it readcpted.
J. Hay Brown. Of Fridy's counsel, Op-
posed the proposition Of making demand
from single district AMI wanted to go to
the bottom of all the alleged rascalities.
Halbacl' $ resolution was not laid on the
table, aud the Lower Mt. Joy returns were
called for by the votes of the four Skilcs
men on the committee. Vice President
Henderson produced these and other re-
turns, amid some excitement. Hay Brown
wanted to know where he got them. Hen
dersOn said that they came into his Gus
tody properly at the meeting Of the return
judges.
Brown said the Mt. Joy return had been
surrcptitiOusly taken from the meeting of
the board Of return judges, had been rc-
lcatcdIy asked fOr and could not he found,
and now it is brought here and produced
to shc very committee that asks the return
judge Of Lower Mount Joy to produce it.
1t is not i'm his possession. Of course, and
he cannot produce it. The passage OF
the resolution will amount to nothing.
He hoped some member Of the committee
would ask to have included the Seventh
ward, rs he understood it had never been
presented to the return judges. As tho
judge from that ward is a member of this
committee, perhaps he can give some in
formation on that subject.
Mr.. Burns said he had handed in the
returns from the Seventh ward, but did
not know whether or not the poll book
was with them. Mr.. Hollinger could tell
him all about it.
1t was resolved that the Seventh ward
bc included in the resolution relative to
the returns from Lower Mt. Joy.
Friday next, June 18th, was fixed as the
time for the next meeting of tho CON-
mittcc.
Concerning Stop Valves.
LANCASTER, June II, 1881.
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