St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-12
FASTENING TO BE INFAMOUS.
Senator George Denounces Mon
tana's Rump House and Its
Spawn

WASHINGTON, April lin the SEN
ate to-day. after the transaction of rou-
tine business, consideration of the Mon
tana election case was resumed and Mr..
Evarts spoke in favor of the Republican
claimants. Discussing the powers of
the territorial canvassing board, he said
there were no limitations imposed by
the statute in words. By that he meant,
he said. that it's powers were unlimited
within the sense that it belonged to the
phrase to which it was applied, and to
the subject to which it was applied. He
criticized the governor of the state for
placing JanltOr-a cerberuS-at the
door Of the court house assembly, to adj
nit only such persons as were entitled
to go in, thus making him, for the
occasion, the judge of who were and who
were not elected as representatives.
Mr.. Gray defended the governor of
Montana for this criticism, and asserted
that the only direction given to the jan
ltOr by the governor was to admit every
one who claimed to be member of the
house of representatives. Mr.. George
criticised the action of the Silver Bow
county canvaSsers IN throwing out the
votes of Precinct No. 81; asserted that
who in the face of the American people
would say, on his responsibility, that
the board had right to do what it did.
This was the
First Step of the Iniquity,
and without it no other part of the in
iquity could have been transacted. The
board, "three beautiful specimens of
political raScality." he said. had
'hastened to be infamous," and would
go down to history as hav-
ing furnished an instance, not of
concealed fraud. but of successful vii
lainy, holding out the fruits OF it's crime
and boasting of it. He asserted that
the body calling itself the legislature of
Montana had not passed a single law,
and that if 'this honorable court"
should seat Sanders and Power it would
by that action give life and validity to
1.-THE only thing which that miserable
assembly, begotten in fraud, ever per-
formed" Mr.. Teller said: 'If there
was no legislature in Montana l should
| like to know on what theory and hy-
pothesis the minority of the committee
says that Clark and Maginnis were
elected" Il am not part Of the mi
nority," said Mr.. George, ''but | think
| that the difference between the two sets
of claimants is simply this: Neither
has legal title. Neither represents
| the legislature. But Maginnis and
Clark represent the honest vote of the
| people of Montana, and for all purposes
| of life and death it is far better to rep
resent the honest vote of the people
than to have seats in the senate as the
| bene6ciaries of this fraud. What ought
we to do in this case? / have made up
my mind what | will do. There is a
tribunal which cannot err in the de-
cision of this question. There is tri-
bunal whose voice has been once sur
pressed. To that tribunal | want to
refer the case again. That is the best
and fairest disposition that can be made
of the case" Mr. Hoar gave notice that
on Monday he should ask the senate to
remain in session until the Montana
case was disposed of. Mr.. Hawley,
from the select committee on the
quadro-centennial celebration, reported
| back. with amendments, the house bill
for the worlds fair at Chicago, and
| said that if anything was to be done in
the matter, it should be done at once.
He thought it would not lead to any
serious debate, and hoped to have it
taken up and passed on Monday. After
an executive session, the senate, at 5:55
D. m., adjourned till tomorrow.