Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-22

attempted to deceive his
by asserting in private
letters and in private conversation
what he dare not state publicly-that
he has not been guilty of drunken
ness in Washington or on the floor
of the House, when he knows the
is true, and if he wants the
proof it will be made.
5. He has been guilty of further
deception by assuming to himself the
credit for the payment of claims,
where he is entitled to no credit
whatever, as he well knows. Let him
refute this charge by giving the num-
Der of private bills he has had passed
for the payment of private claims,
with the date of their passage and
for whose benefit.
6. He was guilty of still further
deception in April last, when, ter
announcing that he would be in
Knoxville to address the people, he
sent a telegram to Messrs. Gibson
and Temple saying that he was de-
tanned by important business, among
other things the army appropriation
bill, when in fact that bill had passed
in the House of Representatives two
days before the date of his dispatch,
and when he was not present to vote
on it. The truth is, he was too drunk
to come, and when he sent that tele-
gram, he added the crime of willful
falsehood to the sin of intoxication
and neglect of official duty.
7. A correspondent of the CBaoN1-
Gle at Washington has charged Houk
with being in his committee room on
Sunday, June 10, 1882, in state of in
toxication, so much so that he ''deco
rated" the elegant carpet of the room
in way offensive to the senses of
smelling and sight, full description
of which is not fit to appear in public
print The charge has not been de-
MED.
s. It has been charged that Houk
left Washington on the morning of
June Goth, last, in q state of intoxi-
cation; that he was two days on the
way when he could have reached
home in one; that he came home
drunk and remained drunk at home
for week after he reached here;
| that his friends tried to deceive the
people about his condition by telling
that he had gone to the country
| This has not been denied. He
caused it to be announced
through one of his organs that he
was detained at home on account OF
the illness of a member of his
family. He knew, and others know,
this 70 be untrue.
8. He has secured for himself a
pension of more than three thousand
dollars, which we and thousands OF
others believe to be fraudulent. Ii
this is not so, let him set himself
right by furnishing the testimony
upon which his pension was OBJ
tanned, together with the certificate
of the board of examining surgeons
who examined and reported in refer
ence to his disability. The pension
office requires, among other things
that an applicant for pension shall
have the certificate of his famil,
physician to the effect that "the al
legged disease or disability has no
been, nor is it now, aggravated O
prolonged by Incorporate or othel
bad habits. We charge that h
never had any such affidavit.
10. Houk came to Nashville abou
the first of January, 1880, on hi
bridal tour, aud reached there in
state of intoxication, and RENAME
there about two weeks in that cond
ton, during which time he wa
guilty of acts disgraceful to himse
aud reproach to every intelliger
citizen of the Second COMPRESSION
District. After he got sober, he WI
guilty of deception and hypocricy
t he matter of the Senatorial electio
and by his chicanery and doubl
de aling, aided in the defeat of Ho
Horace Maynard for the Unite
States Senate, whose election was )
lieved to be possible.
These are some of the most SCI
n Gus charges that have been ma
S against him, none of which ha
; been denied, nor can they be trut
s fully. Is he a fit man to re
: resent the honest people of the 81
g ond Congressional District in t
: halls of Congress And be it I
: membered that every charge here
e made, relates to offenses committ
y since bis last election, or which ha
come to light since November, 1Se
e In melange of drivel, falseho'
# and puerile rage, filling more than
!. column of Houk's Knoxville orga