Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-23
" uV VI ak6k v uIHl u From All Quarters. MR. ROCKVBLLS i SEATED The Contested Election Case
 in the House. PASTOR DOWNS CASE AGAIN BEGUN. International Monetary Con-
 ference to be Held. CANADIANS MUST STAY BACK. Senator HaWley Speaks in
 Cambridge.
CANADIANS MUST STAY BACK.


The Struggle in the House Yester- day-Rockwell Declared Elected by Vote of 12S to 1O6-Brillfaut Speeches by Messrs. CockraB, Eel. lows and O'Ferrall-Thirty.Nin Democrats Vote to Sustain the Re- port of the MajOrity-No Break in the Republican Ranks.
 WASHINGTON, April 22.-The house this morning immediately proceeded to the con- sideration of the Noyes-R Rockwell contest ed election case, and Mr. Fellows of New York closed the case for the contestee.
 MT. Fellows said that the contestee certificate of the state of New York bear ing it's seal-the highest and supremest evidence of it's sovereignty and power. Whatever of dignity and power the sover- eighty of New York could, under the law, attach to her act, she had attached to MT. Rockwell as the representative from the Twenty eighth district. No frantic appeals to democrats in justification of the doctrine of state rights should divert them from the consideration of the ques- ton as to whether the ballots had been honestly cast. The constitution had invested the body which sat under this roof with the absolute power to determine the eleoeion qualification and return of it's members. It left to the states the settle ment of the question as to who were proper electors. But when it came to an exami- nation of the ballots themselves, to the de- termination of whether ballots were legal ballots, where they were cast by men en- titled to vote or by women not entitled to vote, whether they were honest ballots or purchased { ballots, the house could not surrender it's rights to any other power under the skies. Here, where the Sovereignty of all states was crystallized in the sovereignty of the nation, the question | must be settled. One of the parties to this l contest was here under the sanctity of the | zeal of his state; the other came here con testing. A contestant should come here with clean hands. He thould come before | this tribunal with perfect case. Before the house set aside certificate of election | it should require that man who assailed | the seal of the great state of New York | should himself be unstained.
 MT. Fellows went on to ergue that every | one of the sixteen Doyle ballots cast for | Moves was paster ballot and unofficial; every one of the twenty eight ma-ked bal | lots was an official ballot. The Doyle bal l lots were in violation of law, because they | were paster ballots, and instead of having I the names printed as required by law the | names were written in lead pencil. No | evidence had been adduced which threw a l suspicion upon Rockwell and his friends. 1 There was no stain upon his hands. Mr. | Fellows was listened to with marked at l tention and he was applauded. He occu- pied more than an hour, and his time was, at the suggestion of MT. Wheeler of Ala bama, extended half an hour. He occupied, l however, but fifteen minutes of the exten- l sion, and then yielded his remaining time | to MT. Cockran of New York.
 MT. Cochran submitted the proposition | that all the proof indicated that the Doyle | ballots were corrupt. He said that if MT. | Noyesysat in this seat and nobody ques- | toned his right to it and it became appar- | ent he was the beneficiary of single vote | acquired by corrupt methods it would be | the duty of this house to expel him as too | unclean to merit contact with honorable | men. Loud applause.
 II would not" continued MT. Cochran, "barter the record of the democratic party | on contested election cases for fifty such | cases as this I would not surrender the | record of fairness made in the Fiftieth con- | gress when republican was kept in his | seat by democratic votes rather than that | one imputation should be placed upon his | character. I would not surrender the ad vantage we enjoy in contrast with your | conduct of marching down to districts | where majorities of 1000 or 5000 were wiped out and the l cases were rushed through; when you scattered character to the wind, when you put the imputation of blood upon the hand of as honest, gentle and pure man as ouar thin thip ha11 TT ond ann1anaa on the democratic side.] Now, when the people have reduced you to few shatter- ed, shivering remnants outside the breast works for that record, to think that gen. tleman from the great state of Virginia should place himself at your head and feet it is captsincy of which he ought to be proud. That chair secured to MT. Rockwell by majority of the unPur- chased votes of his district should be defended by every honest impulse of our nature. Gentlemen on the republican side, have fought side by side with you when one of your own men was assailed by what considered an unjust report. l hope there will be men on your side to de- clare their belief that ->1rchased votes are not the expression or che popular will and that no title to seat can be found upon record tainted with bribery, corruption and fraud; and which seeks to establish itself only by avsiling itself of technical ity, injected into the case by the report of
 the majority" Loud applause.l
 Mir. O'Ferral hoped that calm would succeed to the hurricane which had just l passed over the house. The speech of the l gentleman from New York reminded him of little story. A belated tarveler was | journeying over @ country road in the
 midst of Q storm. His horse he guided
 by the flare of the lightning. But although the storm was a fierce one, the flashes | were infrequent, while the peals of thun- sent up the invocation, "Oh, Lord, l | would like to have little more light and
 not quite so much noise." Long con-
 tinued laughter.
 l MT. Cockran-Like all the other state
 ments of the gentleman, that statement is l incorrect as to me.
 MT. O'Ferrall-The gentleman always
 wants to be independent, and he is always
 wrong when he is independent. Laugh
 ter.
 Continuing MT. O'Ferrall declared that
 party zealots could not lead him away from
 the path of duty. Since this case had
 come up gentlemen with whom he had
 been on intimate relations had been cool
 and ofish with him. Whya Because
 he had dared to do what was right.
 What was there about this case
 to place it on a pinnacle so highs
 Why were the waters lashed, It
 would seem that some great political whale
 was exerting it's mighty influence and
 power. Laughter. He had heard all
 sorts of charges made against himself in
 connection with this report. It had been
 charged that he was warped in his judg-
 ment, because he preferred 8 certain gen.
 tleman for the next democratic nomination
 for president. He supposed that as an
 American citizen he had the right to exer.
 else the privilege of expressing his choice.
 Everybody who knew his convictions
 knew what his choice was. And yet he
 was to be assailed and criticised because | he preferred Q certain distinguished
 gentleman for the next democratic nomina
 tion. It was true. He did prefer a cer
 tain gentleman. He preferred great, big
 man. He preferred man who was a lior l and not Q fox = ICheers and sensation