Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-09
CONTESTED HOUSE CASES
There is Not One in Which the Testimony
is Complete.
All the Contestants In the Thirty
Cases Are RepubIicans-TheyM Must
Give Good Reasons.

Not one. of the contests filed against the
nemters of the new House Of Representa-
tives is complete. In most Of them the
testimony furnished on behalf of both the
contestant and contestee has been deposited
with the clerk, but in none have the con-
testants filed their testimony in rebuttal.
In the Belknap-McGann case from the
third Illinois district Mr.. McGann has not
yet furnished his testimony. which, accord
ing to law, he should have done within
forty days after that of the contestant
Although this Is the law, the House is not
always guided by the statute If satisfactory
explanations for the delay are furnished.
In the Eeattie-Price case from the third
Louisiana. for instance. Mr.. Prices testi-
mony was delayed by smallpox, which was
epidemic in certain parts Of his district
Although no official information has been
received to that effect, it Is understood at
the clerks Office here that r. A. Cheese
borough. who filed notice of contest against
George B. Mcclellan of the twelfth New
York, has abandoned his contest. In the
other two New York cases (Mitchell against
WALSH in the eighth and Campbell against
Miner in the NINTH the contestees have not
fled their testimony, owing to some local
hitch. and Mitchell, it is understood
charges Walsh with attempting to delay
the case.
All Republicans but One.
All the contestants in the thirty cases
are republicans save Goodrich, who Is con-
testing Cobb's seat in the fifth Alabama,
and Campbell, who is contesting Miners
seat. Goodrich is a populist who had the
republican Endorsement, and Campbell ran
as an Independent demo cratic candidate.
The general opinion Is that the cases of
these contestants who are seated by the
next House will have to be very meritori-
Gus, as the republican majority is over
whelming, and there is TO political emer-
gency which would tend to make the men,
bers look on contests with anything but an
eye impartial to their justice.
When the majority of a party in the
House is sn all there is always tendency,
in the bitterness of political feeling, to in
crease the majority by the admission of all
contestants whose cases have any merit at
all. In the Fifty-irst Congress, for in
stance, when the republicans had but six
majority, eleven of the seventeen demo-
Gratis whose seats were contested were
ousted, while in the last Congress, where
the democrats had about 100 majority, but
to their seats were questioned were un-
seated, and two of the cases We're never
even acted upon.
List of Contests.
The following is list of the contests in
the Fifty fourth Congress-:
w. C. Robinson agt. George P. Harrison,
third Alabama; w. F. Aldrch agt. CASTOR
A. Robbins, fourth Alabama; A. T. Good
wyn agt. James E. Cobb, fifth Alabama; T.
II. Aldrich agt. Oscar w. Underwood, ninth
Alabama; John l. Rinaker agt. Finis E.
Downing, sixteenth Illinois; Hugh Belknap
agt. Lawrence e. McGann, third Illinois;
W. H. FELTON, agt. John w. Maddox, sew
enth Georgia; George Deny, jr., agt. Will
lam c. Owens, seventh Kentucky; N. T.
Hopkins agt Joseph NJ Kendall, tenth Ken
lucky; H. Dudley Coleman agt. Charles F.
Buck, second Louisiana; Taylor Beattie
agt. Andrew Price. third Louisiana; Alexis
Benoit agt. Charles J. Boatner, fifth Lou
isiana; William A. Booze agt. Harry NJ
Rusk, third Nevada: Robert T. Horn agt.
John c. Tarsney, fifth Missouri; ]. Murray
York; Timothy J. Campbell agt. Harry C.
Miner, ninth New York; r. A. Chesebor-
ough agt. George B. Mcclellan, twelfth
New York; Henry P. Cheatham agt. Fred.
A. Woodard second North Carolina; Cyrus
w. Thompson agt. John G. Shaw, third
North Carolina; Charles H. Marten agt.
James A. Lockhart, sixth North Caro-
lima; George w. Murray agt. William Ell
lott, first South Carolina; Robert Moorman
agt. Asbury c. Latmer, third South Caro-
lima; Joshua E. Wilson agt John L. Nc
Laurin, sixth South Carolina; Thomas P.
Johnston agt. J. William Stokes, seventh
South Carolina; Jerome c. Kearby agt. Jo-
seph Abbott, sixth Texas; A. J. Rosenthal
agt. Miles Crowley. tenth Texas; R. T.
Thorpe agt. William r. Mckenny. fourth
Virginia; George w. CorEett agt Claude A.
Swanson. fifth Virginia; J. Hampton Hoge
Yost agt. Henry st. G. Tucker. tenth Vir-