Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-21

WIS bloilDSitiou ~ Nldiul tulH iiDouhS ~
the property of the stockholders OF The
exposition. Mr.. Springer had called the
attention OF the Attoney-General to Tho
provision OF the bill. and at the Attor
ney-Gcnerars solicitation he (Nir
Springer had argued the case before the
Supreme Court, and the result was de
cision that the million and half was 9
loan, and it was repaid to the United
States. Mr.. Springer bad filed petition
asking that his case be referred to the
Court Of Claims for determination
as to whether bis services had been OF
value, but his claim had never been
acted upon.
Mr.. Kelley declined to retract his
statement of yesterday, reafiirming his
| opinion that no man was entitled to a
fee in litigation which he had engen-
dered.
/ Mr.. Springer inquired categoricnlly
/ whether the gentleman insisted that he
/ had claimed fee for the insertion OF the
amendment.
Mr. Kelley replied that he did not
think the gentleman claimed the fee for
the insertion of that clause. What he
meant 20 say was that, knowing the pur-
port of his own clause. the gentleman
was one man among fifty million Amen-
can citizens who felt that subscribers to
the exposition stock Ought to be made to
pay, and who following his own tracks,
hunted them until he stripped taem Of
their investment, patriotic as it was.
Mr. Springer replied if the gentle
man stated that be demanded fee for
inserting the clause he stated what was
not true If the gentleman meant TO
say be pursued the case with all the skill
and ability Of which he was possessed,
lie admitted it 1t was the prOudest
record he had since he had been mem
Der of Congress, and that was the opin-
ion OF his constituents, who had returned
him SIX times since he made that record.
Mr.. O'Nelll, of Pennsylvania, presented
the resolution of the Board of Trade of
Philadelphia insisting upon the necessity
Of tariff for protection of American
Industry. Referred.
The consideration Of private business
was deferred until tomorrow, and Mr.
Crisp. Of Georgia, called up the ThHbe-
Carlisle contested-electiOn case. Mr..
Crisp opened the debate by reviewing
the proceedings before the Committee on
Elections with regard to reopening the
case lie justified the majority of the
committee in deciding that the case
should not bereopened. The contestant
had submitted allidavits charging fraud,
and the cOntestee submitted ailidavlts
and records IN reply which, in the minds
of the majority, Overwhelmingly esIab-
Iished the fact that if the case was re-
opened the contestant could not prove
single charge he had made.
Mr. Lyman, of Iowa, knew of no rea-
son why the House should not reopen
the case. Grave charges had been made
by the contestant in the aflidavlts-Cr-
p0rtC afldavits, 1t was true aud they
had been answered by other cr-p0rfc
ailidavits. Strong efforts had been made
TO prevent the investigation of those
charges. Were the contested and his
friends afraid of the truth ? Did his
friends doubt their ability to go into the
Sixth district of Kentucky and establish
beyond controversy that the charges of
the contestant were not true? The fact
that there was such constant dctermi-
nation that the events of the election
should not be investigated suggested to
his mind that there was something
wrong.
Mr.. Cooper, of Ohio, spoke in support
Of the majority report. There should be
some time during members term when
he shohld be free from the dread of
having his seat contested, and the law
had wisely fixed the time within which
notice of contest must be filed and test.
mony taken, but if the contestant had
produced testimony from which it could
have possibly been inferred that he could
at the present time prove that he bad re-
ceived majority of the legal votes of the
Sixth district he Mr.. Cooper would have
voted to give him an opportunity ; but
no such testimony had been produced.
1t had been charged that there was
Immediately after the cleo
tion between Carlisle and his friends for
the purpose of fixing up the matter for
Carlisle. The charge was proved to be
wholly unfOuuded and based only on idle
chat, which was frequently found float
ing around in the atmosphere after all
He took up IN detail the va
rious charges made in the affidavits pre-
scented by the contestant, and argued
that each and every one Of them had
failed of substantiatlon and had been
absolutely disproved by the aflidavits
and records presented by the contestee.
The witnesses who were relied upon TO
prove the contestants charges had filed
affidavits disproving them and in view
of this fact no good result would follow
a reopening of the case. TO reopen the /
case would be an injustice to the contes-
tee, an injustice to the contestant, and a
wrong to the House.
Mr.. Rowell, Of Illinois, took the same
view, and argued that the Committee on 1
Elections had followed precisely the pro-
per course in refusing to reopen the case .
upon the evidence presented to it.
Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts,, spoke in
of the minority. The pending
case, he said, was too importanta one to
be settled by affidavit 1t was case
which deserved the attention of the
American Congress. Considering par
ticularly the enormous disparity between
the contestant and the contestee, the
House should proceed with great circum-
,pecliOn. The contestant was the candi-
late of labor organizations. His case
lad been shockingly mismanaged.
Hecame now and threw himself on the
mercy of the House. There was d vide
spread belief among the great working
,lasses that the power of corporations.
power OF the ring. and the power of men
nigh in authority and backed 10y money
md influence, had an enormous weight
n all the legislative bodies OF the coun-
~. 1t was dangerous, unwholesome
Iehef, he thought, that when man be-
ODging to the working classc came before
he House asking for a rehearing, it
would do no harm to any man or TO Con-
Tess or to the interests of the people to
AVE that mans case heard with justice
nd very large measure of generosity.
On motion of Mr.. Crisp, ThGbe. the
Ontestant, was granted an hour in which
o present an argument in his own
'ebalf. He read from the communica-