New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-11
CONTESTED ELECTION CASES.
THE HOUSE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE IN SIGHT
c,F THE END OF ITS LABoRs-THE CASES
STILL TO BE DECIDED.


STILL TO BE DECIDED.
Washington June 10 (specisD.-The House Com
mittee on Elections has begun 10 cohsra'ui"eo
itself on the fact that al ias' a"
con On. Tho end Of its weary labors. when
the committee was appointed, a h''ic more 'ia' ga
months ago it was confronted with docket contain
inc Tho titles of no less than seventeen contested cleo.
ton cases not including the one from the lld ArRah-
sas District which friends OF the Democratic si.'hg
member had attempted summary to dispose vi DS
assassnating the Republican contestant IL was uo
longest docket with which any Elections committee
had ever been called upon to deal and yet before the
end of this week. fifteen of the seventeen cases VIII
have been tried and disposed Of far the commit
tee is concerned before the end OF TINS session
all OF the seventeen cases Will have been dsposeo OF
hr tho Uonse One of the cases will be tried and de-
c6ed by the House hex week. and another one IN the
following wcek-the cases of Langston against Ven
able of the IVth Virginia District, and Miller against
Elliott of the With South Carolina District In both
cases the cont stants are colored men, ana u IS
therefore expected that both will provoke unusually
hitter discussion and strong opposition from the Dem
ocrats Ii is rather probable, too that the House VIII
also act on the report Of the committee IN the case OF
Chalmers against Morgan, of Mississippi wlthln the
next fortnight In the first two cases the committee
repors that the contestants elected IN the thrd
case the report in favor Of The sitting member, VINO
is Democrat.
The three cases which will be voted on In COM
mittee this week are Hill against Catchnes, lid
Mississippi District Kcrnaghan against Hooker With
Mississippi District; Goodrich against Bullock, Id
Florida District. From careful study OF the testi-
mony and arguments in the first two cases. as well
as from the decision OF the Chalmers Morgan case. "
is fair to presume that the reports of the committee
i'm those cases will favor the sitting members, boih
OF whom are Democrats In both cases. however.
as well as in the Chalmers Morgan case, evidence Of
the grossest Democratic frauds and OF deliberate
purpose amounting 10 conspiracy on the part OF the
higher Democratic officials OF Mississippi including
state as well as county ohciato suppress the voice
and will of Republican maiOriiies has been produced.
IL is enough show the need of stringent election
law in those districts, If nowhere else IN the south
The record in the Of Goodrich against Bullock
elected that there be little doubt OF the com
mittees action. The only cases which will then
remain the docket, except that OF a murdered man
AGAINST Brcchinrdge, OF Arkansas, are the cases OF
Eaton against Phclan OF the \th Tennessee District
ard Mc(iinnis against Anderson OF the lid West
Virginia District. In the former cosc, although
Phelan's "oflcial majority about 5000, the
Is justify the belief that the committee will be con-
strained 10 find in his favor
There Is Democratic authority Tor the statement
that there is a strong feeling, which is the reverse OF
harmonious among The Democratic members OF the
Elections Committee, but whether II is due 20 any
stings Of conscience which certain members feel on
account Of what they have already done or are now
ordered to do in the and behalf OF the Solid
south it is impsslbe to say Probably such IS not
the