Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-06-08
The House of Representatives
at Washington.

For several weeks the only business of
Importance transacted by tho House of Rep.
reseDtatises has been the consideration Of
tho contested election ceses. There were
quito number Of those. The fret was that
of Lynch, colored, against Chalmers, from
Mississippi. The Democrats wero content to
cast their votes for Chalmers, tho Republicans
by their minority seating Lynch. Since,
Chalmers has Joined the Independents in
Mississippi and il candidate for recollection
on that linoi or in other words, he has en-.
braced the hand that turned him out of Con-
gress
Tho second ase--thas Of Mackey against
O'Connor, in which MIR. Dibblo was the cit
ting member---was considered by the Demo-
crats Of the House as more serious matter.
With thenl, and wo hope with tho community,
Maokoy was without credit or character.
Charges were made in the House that he had
manufactured evidence and garbled and
changed favorubly to himself the evidence
on which ho claimed tho seat of Mr.. Dibble.
Tho Democrats, without expressing any
opinion rs to tho truth Of these charges,
asked that they be inquired into. This
course was not agreeable to tho Republicans,
who insisted that Mr.. Dibble should 60
Thereupon tho Democrats commenced to use
the weapons of defonsc, dilatory motions, the
only defense Of Tho minority against wrong and
outrage. With these weapons tito Repubi-
cans wero poworless, and Mr. Mackey was
kept out Of the sent he claimed. Truo to
their revolutionary instincts, the Republicans
were not without means Of relief in the
premises. The rules Of the House. adopted
long before. must bc changed to effect their
purpose. The Speaker, Koifer, willing
tool, ruled iu their favor, tho rules were
changed, MIR. Dibblc was 9usted and Mackoy
seated. This course of tho majority was
tyrannical and shows that neither tho rules of
tho House nor the usagos of tho country are
respected by the Republicans when their
wishes or interests are to be consulted.
The next case was that Of Lowe against
Whcclor, Of a labama Tho Republicans
having swept tho rules Of the House out of
the way. which permitted dilatory motions,
seated Lowo by the usual minority.
Thcre nre other cnses, too from this Stnte
--Smalls against Tillman and Loo against
Richardson some other cases from the
South arc to be considered and disposed Of
In nll probability the Democrats will be
ousted and their Radical competitors seated.
Throughout this whole struggle tho Green
hackers in tho House have voted with tho
Republicans.
The New York San. conservative, ndc-
pendent paper, in discussing this matter
Gays:
"Tho disorder in the House Of Representa-
tiyes is perhaps less shameful to the Repub.
lcans, to when it is originally DUE than
tho violent methods adopted by them to in
crease tho number of their manageable
members, yet it is shameful in Tho extreme.
"If they had been willing to Investigate all
the evidence in the case Of hIackoy and
O'Connor, there would have been no disorder
and no obstacles in the way of any normal
action of the House; bnt when hey insisted
on forcing tho matter through without allow
ing the evidence to 10 produced and
thoroughly examined. they provoked the
opposition and tho bitterness which have
resulted
"Ihc Democrats have conducted thcm-
solves throughout this momentous transac-
tion in n manner infinitely more crcditnblc
than the Republicans have dono. And when
| the case is finally brought before the public
judgment, and oil the facts arc made known,
ouch must be the conclusion Of the people,"