The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-24

ONE of the arguments of the Phila-
delphia Press and other leading Repub-
lican papers against Quay's nomination
for State Treasure, was that he had de-
feated the Congressional apportionment |
bill, or in other words, that he had in
duced enough Republican members in |
the House from his section Of the State
to vote in favor Of sustaining Governor
Pattison's veto of the bill and prevent
its passage over the veto by a two-thirds
vote. It will be remembered that the
vote in the House against the veto fell
short of two-thirds of that branch by
only fee and that the bill had already
passed the Senate through Democratic
detection, by the necessary two-thirds.
Quay admitted that he had advised the
Republican members from his section,
Beaver, Lawrence and Washington
counties, to vote in favor of the veto,
/ for the reason that the bill did them in
justice. Seven Republicans, embracing
the three from Washington county, two
| from Beaver and two from Lawrence,
voted against the bill on its final passage
and also in favor of the veto. Had their
| votes been against the veto the bill would
/ now be law. By whose action in re-
| gard to the bill were these seven votes
/ lost and the bill defeated Westmore-
land county is represented in the Sen
| ate by George F. Huff, banker, who
managed to defeat ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernOr Latta, the Democratic candidate,
[ at the last November election. Mr.
Huff resided in this place in 1866, and
was cashier Of VIM. NJ. Lloyd's bank,
then recently established, is a very
clever man and popular. His political
ambition is to fill a seat in Congress.
but he knows very well that he could
never get there from a district composed
of Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene
counties. His election to the Senate
gave him chance to put Westmoreland
into a Republican district, and if he
/ succeeded in doing so he could then
make a contest for the nomination. He
managed the business so skilfully be-
fore the apportionment committee in
the Senate, as to induce it to report a
bill making a district out of Fayette,
Greene and Washington, and putting
WestmOTeland into district with Indi-
ana, Armstrong and Jefferson. This
took Washington away from Beaver and
Lawrence, strong Republican district,
and put her in as equally strong a Dem.
ocratic district, while it also promoted
Mr.. Huff's Congressional chances by
auchoring Westmoreland in a sure Re
publican distr let. There was, of course
no good or valid reason for separating
Washington from Beaver and Lawrence
or Westmoreland from Fayette and
Greene, but Mr.. Huff's Congressional
aspirations could only be gratiled by
making the changes as we have indica
ted them. The consequence was, as We
have stated, that the seven member!
from Washington, Beaver and Lawrence
opposed the bill and ultimately defeated
it, as well as played havoc with Mr.
/, Huff's nicely arranged scheme by voting
to sustain the Governor. George F
Huff, therefore, and not NJ. S. Quay
! defeated the Congressional apportiOn.
r ment bill. Other men in times pas
who we're governed by the same selfsl
motives that actuated Mr.. Huff, havt
{ defeated an appoTtlonment bill by in
, sisting upon putting a particular count,
in a district where it does not naturally
or rightfully belong. Honesty in polite
as in everything else will always win
but in these degenerate days it seems t,
be a mighty hard lesson to learn.