Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-25
Questions of Privilege Debated Between
Springer and Kelley.
Open Discussion on ThOebe. Carlisle
Election Reports.
Telegraph Arguments Heard by
the Senate Committee.
Green Opposes the Idea and
Mr.. Hubbard Upholds 1t.

President Green Opposes the Idea an,
Mr.. Hubbard Upholds It.
WASHINGTON, January 2O.-Mr. Springer
the clerks desk and had read an extrac
from a speech made yesterday by Mr.. Kel
ley, OF Pennsylvania, to the effect that E
member OF the Congress which had madt
an appropriation for the Philadelphia Cen
tennial land who was a member OF the
present Congress) had claimed a fee Of $40,
900 for having a~stutely inserted a clause
in the bill making the loan, upon which he
could go into court and enforce it's pay
ment. Mr.. Springer said he had no doubt
he was the member referred to by the gen.
tleman. He had moved an amendment in
the Forty-fourth Congress to the
Centennial appropriation bill which
changed that appropriation from
a Congressional donation to a loan. At
the close OF the exposition the Board OF
Finance was of opinion that the money
I cSloDNNN ~ ShS dlO uoU W VIC
Government. The United States attorney
at Philadelphia was instructed to bring
suit against the Board OF finance and sui,
was brought. 1t was decided that the
money belonged to the board. He
(>pringer) went to Atuorney-General Taft
and asked hlm to appeal the case to the
Supreme Court. This was done and the
Attorney-General had desired him to APP
pear on behalf OF the United States. He
did appear in the case and the Su.
prene Court reversed the decision Of
the court below and ordered the money
to be paid into the Treasury. That ended
his connection in the case as a lawyer. He
never demanded a fee for his services. He
did file one petition asking that his case
should be referred to the Court OF Claims
with the right OF appeal Of the determina-
ton as to whether his services had been OF
shy value. The Committee on Judiciary
had asked him to fix a sum, but he had de-
clined to do SO, as he did not desire any
compensation IRON the body OF which he
was a member. He hoped the gentleman
would in view of these facts retract the
statement he hal made.
Mr.. Kelley said he had not meant to do an
injustice, nor did he mean to do now when
he reattirmed in the language OF the Record
what he SAID yesterday. If there was a
"loiS ~ IL SCAClClAhA Ii CuaU 5ldCtILcut
he (Kelley) regretted it. He was no longer
as young as he had been when he entered
the bar, but since that he had followed the
lessons derived from the senior members of
the bar. One OF those lessons was that no
man was entitled to a fee in litigation
which he had e~ngendered. The gentleman
would not deny that he bad called the at
tention OF the 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
court to press that clause, after
the District Attorney had declined to pur-
sue the case further. The thing had an
ugly odor then; it was not tavory now.
Mr.. Kelley did not think the gentleman
claimed the fee for inserting that clause.
What he meant to say was that, knowing
the purport OF his own clause, the gentle
man was the man among fifty million OF
American citizens who felt that the sub
to the exposition stock ought to
be made to pay and who, following bis
own tracks, hunted them until he stripped
them OF their investment, patriotic as it
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia. called up the |
Ihoebe-Carlisle contested election case. |
Mr.. Crisp opened the debate by reviewing |
proceedings before the Committee on
VfLo- ASsoIu W 1COpCIluS lut l
in deciding hat the case should
not be reopened.
Mr.. Lyman, OF Iowa. knew OF no reason |
why the House should not reopen the
case. Grave charges have been made by |
The contestant in affidavits. ex-parte al |
hdavits, it was true, and they had been an |
'wered by other ex-parte atfidavits. Strong
had been made to prevent ~investi-
Of those charges. Were the con-
.estee and his friends afraid OF the truth?
fact that there was such a constant
determination that the events of the cleo
5lon should not be investigated suggested
o his mind there was something wrong.
Mr.. Cooper, OF Ohio, spoke in support of
he majority report.
Mr.. Rowell, of Illinois, took the same
Jew, and argued that the Committee on
followed precisely the proper
curse in refusing to reopen the case.
Mr.. Dodge, OF Massachusetts, spoke in
Import OF the minority. The pending
ase was too important to be settled by
tfldavlt. 1t was a case which deserved the
OF the American Congress. Con-
particularly the enormous dis
'arity between the contestant and contes-
ee the House should proceed with great
lr umspection. The contestee was a cai-
idate OF labor organizations. His case
been shOckingly mismanaged. He came
ow and threw himself on the mercy of the
louise. There was a widespread belit
mong the great working classes that the ,
over OF corporations, the power OF rings. ,
nd the power of men high in authority :
nd backed by moDey and influence, had :
enormous weight in all the legislative =
udles OF the country. 1t was q DANGEROUS .
I'd unwholesome belief. =
On motion OF Mr.. Crisp, Thoebe, the con- y
'stant, was granted an hour in which to y
resent the argument III his own behalf. !
lie read from Il communication which he :,
I'd sent to the chairman OF the Committee q
: Elections. protesting against an unfav- :;
BILE report upon his request until he had -
l opportunity To examine the atiidavits =
.esented by the contestee. In this COM :
unication he 1eiterates in part the state
eut contained in his statement filed with
e committee, denies the truth of some
filed by the Speaker and declares .
) ability to disprove the accuracy OF T.
hers, If granted opportunity. He was re
try, he confined, that the working classes CT
re beginning to lose confidence in the h,
,urity Of the ballot. If the ballot was :,
t secure what did they have left? Zap. -
iuse on the Republican side.] He was a /;
'rklnS man, he did not consider it a great "
nor exactly to be a member of this li
lNcieId laughter ana applause. ,1
hat he meant was that Il mechanic was VI
It as honorable and noble as any other W
IL every gentleman here d.
uld rather be right than be President, Ia
ese seats would be filled by the right al
n. [~Laughter.] He did not propose to DC
Ike any capital out of the fact he was a VI
rkingman. He was not here for favor W.
t for simple justice. OF
The previous question was then ordered Oh
on the resolution of the majority of the
which confirms the title of the
aaker's right to his seat, and upon a res
ton IN the nature of a substitute offered ~
Mr.. Lyman, OF Ohio, declaring that the ~
ltest is OF such Importance to the sitting XII
mber and to the people of the country Til
It it is entitled to thorough and Impair tn,
investigation, and providing hat the tic
oers in the case be printed and referred
select committee or subcommitt e on
Election Committee which shall be au-
to investigate the matter. The \
stitute was defeated, yeas, 1925; nays, ,;o
;. The following Democrats voted in nv
affirmative: Messrs. Bynum, Grouse. us
an, Hare, Mckinney. Shively and shs
aver. otf
he question recErred on the majority cot
on the adoption OF which the
$ and nays were ordered. The Repub-
MS, With e exception of three or four G
voted in the affirmative. and Messrs