The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-21
Springer is Twitted About a
Certain Fee.
THoEBE SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
he Does Not Propose to SIake Capt.
tai Out of His Being
workinRman-Etc.
HOUSE.


BY Kelly, Of Pennsylvania. to the effect
that the member of Congress which had
made al appropriation for the Phila1el-
phia centennial, and who was member
of the present House, had claimed the
fee of $4,000. for having astutely IN
serted clause in. the bill making loan
upon which he could go into court and
enforce its payment.
Springer said he had no doubt
that he. was the member referred
% by the gentleman. y q He
had moved an amendment in the
Forty fourth Congress to the centen-
NAL appropriation, which Changed the
appropriation from Congressional do
nation to loan at the close of the ex-
position. The board of finance was Of
the opinion that the money belonged
to the stockholders, and not to the
government of the United States. The
attorney at Philadelphia was instructed
to bring suit against the board of
finance, and the suit was brought. It
was deeaded that the money belonged
to the board. He (Springer) asked
him to appeal the case to the Supreme
@ourt. This was done and the attor-
ney-general had desired him to appear
on behalf of the United States. He
dic appear in the case and the Supreme
Court reversed the decision of the Court
below, and ordered it to be paid into the
Treasury. That ended his connection
in the case as lawyer He never de
manded fee for lis services. He did
file one petition, asking thatshis case
should be. referred to the court OF
Claims, with the right of appeal Of the
4 49,, n N Of Nna hi
vices had been of any value. The COM
aittee GA judiciary had asked him to
fix the sum, but he had declined to do
so, as he did not desire any compensa-
ton from the body Of which he was
nember. He hoped the gentleman
would, in view of the facts, retract the
stat ments he had made - =
Kelly said he had not meant to do an
injustice, nor did he mean to do one
now, when he re-affirmed in the
language of the Record what he had
said yesterday. If there was wrong TO
that gentleman, he kelly regretted it.
He was no longer as young as ne had
been when he entered the bar, but since
that he followed opinions derived from
senior members of the bar. One of those
lessons was that no man was entitled
to a fee in litigation which he had
engenlered. The gentleman would not
deny that he had called the attention of
United States officials to the fact
that there was a clause in the
bill that he had caused to be
inserted, and that he had gone into
after the district attorney had declined
to pursue the case, further The thiag
had an ugly odor then, and it was not
saVory now. Kelly did not think the
gentleman claimed a fee for inserting
that clause. What he meant to say
was that, knowing the purport of the
clause, the gentleman was the man
among 10000, 600 of American citizens,
who felt that the Subscribers OF expo
sition stock ought to be made to pay,
and who, following his own tracks,
hunted them until he stripped them of
their investment. patriotic as it was.
Crisp, OF Georgia, called up the
Thoebe-C Carlisle contested election case.
Crisp opened the debate by reVie wing the
proceedings bsfore the committee on
elections, with regard to respecting the
case. He justified the majority of the
committee in deciding that the case
should not oe reopened.
Lyman, of Iowa, knew of no reason
why the case should not be reopened.
contestant in aEidavlts, e1-parte aft
davits, it was true, and they had
been answered by other er-parte Aft
davits, and strong efforts mad been made
to prevent Investigation 4 Of those
charges. Were the contestee and his
friends afraid OF the truth? The fact.
that there was such a constant deter
mination that the .events of the election
should not be Investigated, su ,gested to
his mind that there was something
wrong.
Cooper, of Ohio, spoke in favor of the
majority report.
RoweiI, Of Illinois, took the same
view, and argued that the committee on
elections followed precisely the proper
course in refusing to open the case.
Dodge, Of Massachusetts,, spoke in
support of the minority. The pending
case was too important to be settled
by affidavit. It was case which
deserved the attention of the American
Congress, considering particularly the
enormous disparity between contestant
and contestee. The House should pro-
ceed with great circumspection. The
contestee was the candidate OF the
labor organizations. His case has been
shockii civ mismanaged. He came
nun anu hAACW l4AioCAA OAA sAAO AAACANJ va
the House. There was wide spread
belief, among the great working classes,
that the power OF The corporation, the
power of the ring and the power of
men high in authority and backed by
money and influence, had enormous
weight in sll legislative bodies of the
country. 1t was dangerous, I'M
wholesomeb belief.
On motion of Crisp, Thoebe, the con
testant. Wss granted 50 hour in which
to present an argument in his own be-
half.
He read from communication
which he had sent. to d be chairman of
the committee on cleo lion y protesting
against the Unfavcrable report upo =
his request, until he madam opportunity
to examine afhdsvits presented by the
contestee. In tkis' communication ne
reiserates, npart, thsttheo statement