The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-17
1HE.REPlORI'|''iS:',. RI: !: ( {
On tho Gllbcrnatorial Contest
Presented to tho Joint syiS
Assembly. Al s.
The MAI RlTY$R REPOR
Sadly Disilsured Since tho Pub.
llcation Of tlie Synopsis in
the Iutelligencer. n
1t Takes Untenable Ground and
Throws Out Votes Without h!
ArrtllC VI Law. }siII
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AVERY STRO.NGfPAPER
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Presented by Senators Morris
and Maxwell, the Minority
Of the Committee. " I; 4;
STRONGjPO.lNT.S&M MADE
I4tt siEG!3 2 ~ 39sftgJ fil,3! A. q Z
In tho Brooke 3 county Cases.
Z Also in the Matter Of Illegal
Votes in Mcdowell. |.
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NOE EEICIA1%R ETIIR NC
STRONG; 70. NC. POINTS :.l!N' MADE
Ia tho Brooke 81 ZOO county 9 Cases
Also in the Matter Of Illegal \.
Votes in Mcdowell. .
OFFlClAL$R ETURNS
Chairman Kee Refuses to Let the
Minority Of tho Committee
Get Il Peep at Them. 4.

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Special Dispatch 10 ihe Inttl,igepccr,

e ShAhbEoA V..t5Na Jun. lo.---he"
publican Senators were not eager TO 60
into Joint Assembly to-day, because
three Of their number were absent and
they feared tho Democrats might take
advantage OF them and rush through a
vote seating Fleming. Nothing in this
line was attempted, and the Democrats
had no such thought. They all declare
themselves in favor, Of allowing a reas.
enable time for discussion. This fact is
that the managers are not quite sure
they can manage their. forces, and they
hope to get them ( in better shape as
! party feeling is raised by the discussion.
When thstwo houses got together in
I Joint Assembly, the majority report was
submitted in print and not read. The
minority OF the committee had not seen
this identical document in the shape in
which it now appeared. Copies were
passed around buttit is safe to say that
not ten men here have yet read it.
NORRIS HOLDS TIE FLOOR. ..3 r:
Senator Morris presented the report
signed by himself and Senator, Maxwell.
This had not been printed and Mr.. Nor
ris was determined that the Joint AS.
sembly should know something about it.
lie read portions Of it, holding the floor
about two hours and declining to be
shut off, He commanded close; atten-
ton ior the clear logical and conserva-
tive document. vi When Brooke county
was reached and Mr.. Morris was reading
the argument against t disfranchising
seventy honest and lawful voters, SEN
ator Price (Democrat) remarked .tosa
gentleman beside him: sac lis right
about that" The majority report says
he is wrong, and that those seventy votes
ought to be taken. .s Il AZ
% OFFICIAL RETURNS WITHHELD.
When Morris reached a point in the
minority report where he had marked to
insert the official returns for Governor,
he turned to Chairman Kee, OF the Con-
test Committee, and said he had been
unable to obtain those returns from the
committee, but supposed there would
be no trouble to get them for insertion
in the present report, Chairman kee
said OF course the minority could use
them for that purpose. Tonight when
Senator Morris went 4 to s get them
Chairman Zee amazed # him by
declining to allow The official returns to
he published, explaining that they gave
Coll plurality on which he could be
seated. This nearly knocked the breath
out OF the Richie Senator who said be
had never thought Of such q thing, and
only desired the returns &to make the
minority report complete. But the
managers had 80. ordered, and the re.
turns remain in tho stenographer's trunk
along with his socks and bis "biled''
shirts. He may have the Greturns,i but
Republican member ofsthe committee
cannot have them long enough /. to
embody them in a report. Ri,
WILL STIR UP TIE ANNALS -,
This episode is not known to hall d
dozen persons tonight, but will be in:
serted in the printed report ia the place
where The returns ought to be, and twill
Stir up the animals. N 4! I:
There was Ssome discussion in the
Joint Assembly over tho motion not te
require the Clerk to copy! both, reports in
the written Journal. The idea lof Sena
Tor Price, the mover, was to save time
and expense. Delegate Moore tRepub'
2ican) ,of Harrison, opposed the motion
strongly, but 1t was carried by so large
majority that the nays were not heard
Up 10 this point the Joint Assembly
had been going ahead without rules iol
the trial Of the contest On motion O
Delegate Chew, Democrat) Moore ane
eydenstricker were appointed q commit
,ee to report rules. The Joint Assembly
adjourned Mt $50 TO- Il o'clock Monday
morning. q HI Nv si.5 }I5l
In the Senate 5and House member
then began, to, fro Ia bills and the bonn
bardment will be- resumed tomorrow
The House, by!a vote OF ,thirty:three te
thirty, voted down Atoore's Joint Reso
!ution to get through with the contas
before taking %up i legislation. !Man}}
members who voted no, explained pr
vately that they favor the spirit o. m z
resolution but did not want TO tic stn
democrats up. Z q. D: H. II
MAJ0RlFY.AND MINORITY REPORTS, n
The First Disappointing md tho Latte
Shows tho Election OF Gotf.