The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-05
RKANSAS ELECTION
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Doubtful Methods.
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$50 Coleman Of Louisiana. offered .
3 luton requesting the prssidsns TO ssnd
- - House copies Of Ill corroepoudence
{ Sneuoeu the United States and Aexico ~
;s1lur % the seizure 1t the port Of Tsmpico
~ ~ schooner Rebeccs in February. 1854.
& f,rnsderstion OF the Arkansas contested
56ae1ion ease Of Featherstone ". Cats vas
- rssumed.
Dolesll Of Pennsyivania, took tie door
= support Of the claims of the contsstant.
r. "a in the election In the Efsst dissYiet
= Arkansas, Winchester ri1es. rsvoivsrs
] a bowie knives played IN important part
~ district he said was adjoining that in
r1keh Clayton, man Of national Yeputar
3n. IA the exercise Of right which b.
lun6nd 10 the humblest American citizen,
~ hoen murdered in cold blood II the
~ altar Of liberty. Dalzeil confined his
r1narks principally 70 theeiection methods
~ Democrats in Crittenden county. charg-
- iutimidstion and fraud. and controvert-
~ he statement by Cultivate Of Ohio, that
- Vas no evidence that the double action
fnIIof-box bad been used To that county.
- contestee in his brief himself admitted
~ Tie chivalry Of Crittenden county.
rrned With Winchester rifles, found il
rceussary 70 drive out twenty or thirty un-
.wmed black men.
cfisp Of Georgia submitted IN argument
- favor of the claims Of Contestee Cate
u ease, he said, was peculiar, inasmuch
= he counsel for the contestant Was
~. W. Dudley. better known, perhaps. -
el1ocks Of Five Dudley. II vas "a In
1netiug thing to hear that notorious gen.
{enan discussing before the committee on
ACTIONS the importance Of preserving the
purity Of the ballot and the necessity Of
siving the voter untrammeled permission
, voss - he pleased.
CheadIe Of Indiana entered = protest
nesinst the attack on the character Of one
Who In the field Of battle spent his blood In
telense Of bis country and whose life he
(Cheadls) challenged any human being 10
stack. Applause on Republican side. ]
fnAmies on both sides had been unable 70
peovs . single charge against the RepubIi-
Ems d Indiana. Renewed applsuss.l
Crisp WAS unaware be had said any thing
- provoke the outburst on the part Of his
friend from Indiana.
Breckenridge (Ark.) referred 70 the
psaceful condition OF affairs in Arkansas.
Kelly (Kans.) asked what had become Of
- colorsd detective who had gone 70 the
euatlemsn's district to find out who had
murdered the man whose bloody shoes the
esntleman stood in today.
Breckenridge replied that . negro had
been engaged in trying 10 look up the muir
dusn Of CLAYTON. He had got into din
Guilty sith boy, Republican boy, whose
hth6s vas also . Republican. Tho negro
ussdrunk, and after applying opprobious
sr((kess to the boy. struck MIN with .
aone. The boy shot him.
Springer thought the case had not been
thoroughly investigated and favored =
EVOLUTION which he said he wonld offer at
~ proper time. appropriating $ioo. 900 to
enable subcommittee Of the committee
o. elections TO proceed to the First district
4 Arkansas and investigate the election.
Grosvenor said he would move 70 amend
mis- resolution by doubling the appropria-
|ion 30 ~ to make the investigation ex-
lend 10 other Arkansas districts.
springer--I accept that
Pending further debate House adjourned.