, 1890-04-17
Discussion Of the Mon
ta1,a Contest.
AN INTERESTING TALK
The Debate Continued From
Day to Day.
A CONTESTED ELECTION CASE
In Which the Republican Contes-
sant From Virginia Ia Awarded
O Scat.

wAsuircroS, April 10. LIN the senate
to-day tho Montana election case was
rnusned, and Mr.. Call spoke In favor Of
the minority report.
A tho conclusion Of his spccch Mr..
Hoar spoke in support Of the majority
report
Nj. Gray replied 10 Mr.. Hoar.
Then Mr.. Teller addressed the senate.
1la regarded the question not from
partisan point of view, but as question
on proper du.crf.z-....... : which de.
psndsd tho orderly behavior OF the SEN
ats In the future. The question was
whether Montana should be- allowed 10
sslect her own Representatives. Tho
plain logic Of the arguments on the dem.
ecrntic side OF the chamber was that the
right TO make tho selection was reserved
60 tbs senate. From thot he dissented.
Uuch = doctrino would lead TO chaos and
confusion. What, he asked, would have
bscn the condition Of she senate II II had
sttss%yssd tsy TO TO say sIyss TOR many years past
IN electing its sonstors did OF did
not express the Will Of the people?
a good many senator's on his side OF the
cham Der, inducing himself thought
shat certain states bad not been repre-
sented in the senate according to tho
w n q The people: ne q ssd css no, ms
Of those states, but he bad not been able
70 find anywhere under the constitution
authority for the senate to determine
question that state had determined for
1tseik He did not know what the theory
Of the minority 10 the Montana case was.
II their report was TO be taken, II was
that Clark and AagInnis were the legal
representatives from that state, but, II
their Arguments were tor any good at
al, 1t was that nobody had been kent 10
The senate from chat state. He (Teller)
held that tho only thing to be deter
had epoken through its legislature, and
irit had, then thurs -as no authority In
tho senate 10 reverse that finding or TO
oot II aAide. What, he asked, was tho
: controversy in the case2 1t was whethcr
Or not the live men who had ssats In the
Iron ball Legislature were entitled TO
seats in that body. II IL was not that,
4 1fthey Were therc rightfuliy, II was the
/ nshtliil house and joint assembly of the
state Of Montana that had electcd the
republican claimants. The senate had
sald in tho Turpie case that the legisla-
ttiro Of Indiana had to decide for itself
who were entitled to aeats In that body.
Although there might have been the
grossest outrages committed IN admit.
ting rhen TO seats, the senate held In that
cave that Ii had 40 right 10 interfere In
righting wrongs that were not entrusted
10 iIe senate of the United States,
Sat TO ans p pson;ie, ;.,,n,ioo q Indiana, Indiana
the cslsea. III the senate should ever
proceed 20 make itself an investigator
of elections all over tho country, thcr
wouii be m end of its tiseiuluess, anu
hc submitted To the senators on the
-. 4
them were. they could not ailord TO if,-
sist fint knch powers should DO exer
c.sed by tho senate. Whether the re-
turning board of Montana exercised It's
+ uuthoHiy properly or not was not the
qusstion for the senate. IL was the qucs-
Con for the Legislature Of Montana.
Mr. Turpie held that in the Indiana
carc the legislature itself passed judi
ciaily upon the contested seat, whereas
the iegisature Of Montana had not
passed judicisily on the contested seats
from Silver Bow county. If II had done
90 there would have been no dispute in
the case.
air. sherman said that he
found facts sufficient in the minority re-
4 port To control Lis Judgment. He read
thrce paragraphs from the minority re-
port. and said that IL Was apparent
therefrom that as to the represo natives
from Silver A,w county. neither set had
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twcnty,nve repuphcan memoers oi tue
house did not constitute majority o.
mat pooy-
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