Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-15

case were 1eW anu tnAt IL would pc cOmparB-
lively easy for him to get his seat in congress
and that the facts developed were sufficient
to Gust Carlisle. On the contrary he had re-
peatedly advised Thcebe that ii would be nee
essary TO make diligent exertion in getting
evidence and procuring friends, whereas
Thocbe furnished but s43, which the labor
unions had supplied. 1t was for this reason
that Wood had refused to continue in the
case. Affiant pushed the case as rapidly as
was possible, taking testimony by day and
night: by night to save the time Of laboring
men. Thoebc himself was not around in the
daytime because, as he stated, he was com
PEELED to lose time from his work The testi-
mony taken by affiant appears in the record
and he took no more because he was not
furnished means to do so. never said any
thing against the employment of Sypher as
assistant counsel but refused to sanction his
assumption OF the direction of the case, and
had finally dropped it after Thoebe had
executed a power of attorney giving absolute
control of the case to Sypher. Af1iant never
heard of any county where the signatures to
the returns were all in the same handwriting
until long after the taking of the testimony
had ceased: never told Thoebe that he could
make money by selling to the defendant. He
told him that street conversation between
two or three democrats had been overheard
wherein they had remarked that the easiest
way out of the matter was TO buy out the
Thocbe faction 1t was utterly false that he
had ever said anything on the subject beyond
the repetition of gossip, or that he had been
approached IN that behalf. There had been
nothing to hamper Thoebe in sending his
papers to Washington at any time upon the
payment of the notary.
MIR. Halam next produced and read letters
sent by Sypher to Lee Crandall, who, he
said, acted as go-betwecn in the corrcspon-
dence between Wood, Thoebe and Syphers. In
one of the letters Sypher says that he will
remain in the case by Woods consent, but
expects to control it when it comes to Wash
ington. In another letter Sypher calls atten-
ton to the necessity for providing ways and
means for such an expensive contest as this
against the speaker and says that If retained
he might enlist some sympathy from his re-
publican friends in the house, but also aid
from some of his protestionist friends. Mr..
Hallam then closed his case in brief address.
Mr.. Sypher reiterated the statements made
by him that the returns Of outlying districts
had been withheld, and commented on the
fact that Carlislcs counsel had not brought
forward telegrams scnt to those districts
| Mr.. Heard suggested that 1t was the duty of
the contestant to bring in kilograms, contest
| ant having the affirmative of the proposal.
| Sypher replied that if the case were reopened
| he would do so. The committee then went
into secret session The first mo
| ton put was to postpone further
| consideration of the case, which was
| rejected by IA strict party vote of 0 to g..
| Then motion was made to reopen the case
| Howell (republican) asked to be excused
| from voting, and Cooper (rcpubican) voted
Another motion was to declare Thoebe en-
| titled to his seat, and on this vote four re-
| publican members were excused from voting,
the remainder voting with the democrats
| against the motion. Then came the final
vote affirming Carlisles right to his scat. All
| of the democrats voted in favor of this prop
| osition, and with them stood Messrs. Cooper,
| Rowell and Johnson, of Indiana, making the
atli rmative vote II. Mcssrs. Lyman, Houck
| and Lodge, republicans, were excused, so
| there was no negative vote. Tho position
| taken by the republicans. who abstained
from voting, is that while they are not con-
| vnced that Carlisle is not entitled to his
| seat, it is proper for the committee to reopen
| the case and afford opportunity for the pro-
| duction of any new evidence that might
| throw light upon the contest. Under instruc-
| tionS from the committee Committeeman
| Crisp will report to the house resolution
| making Carlisle entitled to his seat.
Wants Of the w OOl Industry.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE wool confer
ence has reached an agreement, which will
| be formulated at once. 1t will advocate a
return to the tariff of 1867, and correspond
ing readjustment of wool and worsted rates.
| A committee is at work embodying the de-
cision of the conference in the report and the
| text of a bill to the effect stated, both of
| which will be submitted to congress AT the
| first opportunity by the committee.
| In the resolutions adopted by the confer
| ence it is proclaimed that the protection by
| tariff on the production of wool is demanded
by the best interests of all the American
| people. The great increase in the clip of
| American wool, and the slight increase of
expectations from 1879 to 1885 is held out as
demonstrating the effect of protective indus
tries and in promoting sheep husbandry in
in this country. The resolutions declare that
| reduction in tariff ON wool in 1888 wars imme-
| diately followed by "a great decrease in
| sheep, and this fact gives warning that the
| abolition OF duties would seriously cripple
| the raising of sheep in this country, when is
the third producer in quality among the ma
| tions. and would thus increase the price of
| wool all over the world while the consequent
| decination of sheep would materially affect
the supply and price of meat, and to "a consid-
able degree, of all provisions. Congress is
| requested to Immediately pass u joint rcsolu-
ton carrecting the present erroneous classi-
tication of worsteds by directing that they be
classified as wool cloths. The passage of the
| Aldrich bill to suppress undervaluatons of
| imports, is favored.
After the adoption of the resolutions a
committee, consisting of Columbus Delano
of Ohio, president of the National Woo
Growers association, William Whitman, OF
Boston, president of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manu- facturers, and Edward A.
Greene, of Philadelphia, president of tts
Philadelphia Wool Merchants association
was appointed to present congress with a
schedule 81 customs duties adopted by the
conference and the convention adjourned
sine die. The schedule adopted by the con
ference is similar, in many respects, to the
tariff of 1867 AL! of the classes remain
identical with the existing wool tariff bu
the rates of duty are increased in many in
stances.
Given a Hearing.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 1.-THE committee ap
pointed by the Memphis waterway conven
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