The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-10
CONTESTS IN NEXT CONGRESS-.
a List of the Contestants and
Contestees.
All Have Been Slow In Completing the
Worh-In nIost of Them the Evidence
In Behalf of Contestant and Contestee
Has Been Filed. But Contestants Have
Filed Nothing In Rebuttal.


WASHINGTON, Oct, 9.-Not one of the
contests filed against the members of
the new House of Representatives is
complete. In most Of them the testi :
mony furnished on behalf of both the
contestant AMI contestee has been de-
posted with the clerk, but in none
have the contestants filed their testi-
mony in rebuttal.
All the contestants in the thirty
cases are Republicans save Goodrich,
who Is contrasting Miners seat. Mr..
Goodrich is Populist, who had the Re-
publican endorsement, and Campbell
ran as On independent Democratic can.
didate.
The general opinion is that the cases
OF these CON estants who are seated by
the next House will have to be very
meritorious, as the Republican 10 ajority
Is overwhelming and there is no polit-
ical emergency which would tend to
make the members look on contests
with anything but an impartial eye.
Where the majority of party in the
House is small, there always is ten
dency In the bitterness of political feel
Ing to increase the majority by the ad-
mission Of all contestants whose cases
have any merit at all. In the Fifth.
first Congress, for instance, when the
Republicans had but six majority,
eleven OF the seventeen Democrats
whose seats wsre contested, were ousted,
while in the last Congress the Demo-
ocrats had about 100 majority the Re-
publicsns had nine whose titles to their
seats were questioned. Four were I'M
seated and TWO of the cases were never
even acted upon.ss
The following is list of the contests
in the Fifty fourth Congress:
w. G. Robinson Va. George p. Har-
rison, Third Alabama.
w. E. Aldrich We. CASTOR A. Robbins,
Fourth Alabama.
A. Il. Goorich VS.. James e. Cobb, Fifth
Alabama.
L. Ii. Aldrich vs.. Oscar w. Under
wood, Ninth Alabama.
John L. Rinaker vs. FINS E. Downing,
Sixteenth Illinois.
w. A. FELTON, VS.. John w. Maddox,
Seventh Georgia.
George Denny, Jr., vs.. VIM. G. Owens,
Seventh Kentucky.
N. T. Hopkins vs.. Joseph M. Kendall.
Tenth Kentucky.
ID. Dudley Coleman vs.. Charles T. Buck,
Second Louisiana.
Taylor Beattie vs.. Andrew Price,
Third Louisiana.
Alexis Benoit vs. Charles ]. Boatner.
Fifth Louisiana.
Wm. A. Booze va. Harry M. Rusk.
Third Nevada.
Robert T. Horn vs.. John G. Tarsney,
Fifth Missouri.
j. Murray Mitchell VS.. James j.
Walsh, Eighth New York
Timothy j. Campbell vs. Harry O.
Miner, Ninth New York.
K. A. Cheseborough vs. George B.
Mcclellan. Twelfth New York.
Henry p. Cheatham VS.. Fred K. Wood
ard, Second North Carolina.
Cyrus W. Thompson va. j ohm G. Shaw,
Third North Carolina.
Charles 81 Harten vs. James A. Lock-
hart, Sixth North Carolina.
George w. Murray vs.. VIM. Elliott,
First South Carolina.
Robert Norman vs. Asbury Q. Lati.
mer, Third South Carolina.
Joshua e. Wilson VS.. John L. Mo-
Laurin, Sixth South Carolina
Thomas B. Johnston VS.. j. William
Stokes, Seventh South Carolina.
Jerome @. kearby vs.. Joseph Abbott,
Sixth Texas.
a. j. Rosenrhal Vs. Miles Crowley,
Tenth Texas.
r. T. Thorpe vs.. William R. Nc.
Kenny, Fourth Virginia.
j. Hampton Hoge vs. Peter j. Otey,
Sixth Virginia.
Jacob Yost rs. Henry ST. G. Tucker,
Tenth, Virginia.
Hugh Belknap VS. Lawrence E. Nc
Gam, Third Illinois.