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AN INTERESTING ELECTION CONTEST
FROM THIS CITY.

FROM THIS CITY.
GROSS TAMMANY FRAUDS SHOWN IN THE I'D
ASSEMBLY DISTRICT - CONCLUSIONS OF
HOUSE ELEcTIC Ms COMMITTEE NO. 2.
GBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRrBUNE]
Washington. May 19-One Of the most interesting
contested election cases with which either OF the
elections committees of the House of Representa-
tives has had to deal at this session. is that OF
John Murray Mitchell, Republican, against James
j. Walsh Democrat. of the With New-York Dis
tr!ct The report Of Elections Committee No. In
this case has been submitted by Mr.. Long. OF Kan
sas and IL reveals interesting state Of affairs IN
the lid Assembly District portion of which Is
included In the With Congress District. Ever
since the contest begun by Mitchell. Walsh
has steadily and stubbornly fought for delay and
has been successful In a large degree. lie now
appears however. to have exhausted every diiatory
expedent. and the will soon be brought to trial
and disposed Of on its merits.
The decision of the case by the Elections Commit
tee turned on five election districts although nearly
all of the thirty-four districts were attacked by
Mitchell, who obtained great mass of testimony
showing glazing Irregularities and frauds through
out the Id Assembly District The five districts re-
ferred to are thickly sprnkled with cheap lodging
houses. which suddenly become exceedingly popu-
lous and lively a few weeks before Election Day
and so remain until 1t Is passed In four Of tho
five precincts no fewer than s7 persons were reg
istered as voters from twenty lodging -houses-an
average OF more than forty-one TO each mousse. In
these four districts Walsh received 52 votes. ana
55S of the voters their places OF resiuehco
these lodgng-houses The committee found that
1.-THE clerks and proprietors OF the Iodglng-hou'es
were members of the Tammany organization
and that they took an interest In the Registration
and gave material assistance in the corruption Oh
the voters" Some of the other conclusions OF inc
committee after a thorough searching and Sitting
of the testimony were as follows:
1t appears from the evidence that wel-organized
system Of bribery was carried on IN thesg ,
houses by organization known as Iammdiiy
charitable institution. but 1t has for some years
neglected its original purpose ana oessn ana ma
control of politics in New-York City and has inter
es;ed Itself in the success Of the Democratic party party
dent of this organization is plan or opera az hs
was peculiar. and while it existed in all parts OF me
possible means to secure the election Of contestee
Congress. yet the evidence OF lis operauGhs III
these five election districts Is exceedingly pam ana
qeSera, ofcers Included leader for each
Assembly AS district and captain for each election
district The Tammany eader'' OF the IId Assem- n
6 Ds s aS Tns f bvve The ammany Captains
in these five election districts were as foHo"S:
DIVER: Thirty-dfth. Dan" O'Rourke; Thirty sixth,
Mike" Callahan; Forty fourth Ih3ilSs h"oe a
intrusted to a Tammany captain who carried on MS
operations near the voting booth. His headquarters
was bow 70 prepare their ballots He had in his
possession "Tammany pastors. when contained the
names in prin, of the Democratic candidates ron
Governor down. and which the voters could paste
over the official ballots which were gwen mem an
under the law The Tammany captain in each eieG-
ton district had number OF atsis'an,s ed the
voter how TO prepare his ballot he had OUTSIDE
workers who brought the voier 10 10 Ios Informed
that the man was "all right and he was theh pau
the money The amount or pface a ,d ,horouehy
instance was previously arrange am Tb rommany
understood. 1t varied from 81 10 " ! ne aiilaiIs
Hall organ zatlon beng secfer arv elections
by bribery. as its meetings were neli III ""N
its captains secretly Instructed
The committee cites the testimony OF several VIII
nesses who received brides from the Tammany cap
oins OF their respective districts for registering OF
voting or both. and who voted Tor WASH i"o
most amazing fact in relation to this Is mat "ds"
did not offer any testimony whatever to dlspro'e 'o
charges Of bribery Not Tamnahy CAPTAIN va
whom the charge fastened by the testimony
orYered nv Mitchell was put the stand to disTroVo
or even to contradict the statements made by Wit
nesses or to assert his innocence. "alsh ihs's,'
that he should lose only those votes where 'nu-
vlual instances Of bribery were proven despite inc
fact that the evidence conclusively SHOWS 'he eNH
ence of conspiracy TO corrupt voters oy "ho'S"'o
bribery On this point the committee says
Under the evidence In this case. and the iluIe %
the contestee to explain or oe that an or
eanized conspiracy existed in these iive election
districts for the purpose of corruptlng voters y!
general and wholesale bribery II is 90
determine number Of bribed votes or me we're
of the voters These five election distress w w
thoroughly saturated with fraud ana
The case of Noyes against Rockwell Cong
Election cases LIIfd Congress page ~ cree, eieai ~
establishes the doctrine that where consp'ary :,
corrupt voters by bribery Is shown 10 ends' r,h.
IL established that voter OF class was prdneu,
that the votes OF all persons belonging 10 'hf c nj
Who "a 81 similar ballots should be rejected IN ts
case the existence OF the conspiracy - ciea'H y
ehown in these five election districts, anu as IL ~
imnossible 10 determine the number or votes az
fected and also impossible to eliminate the ori1 ,
votes from the legal, have reached inc cTno, Id
ston that the vote from these fve dstricts shouio
he eliminated from the count
The report closes with two resolutions ohe VI
which declares that Walsh was not elected ana Is
-. nr,,,Ied IN the seat. and that Mitchell was
elected and Is entitled to the seat