The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-28
dupont, KENNEY ia
AND ADDlCKS.
Lively Fight to Take Place in the
United States Senate.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. Ex-senator
Chandler reintroduced In the Sen ate to-
day tho petition Of Mr.. DUPONT, of Della
ware, urging the Committee on Prlyi.
leges and Elections to reopen and recon-
slider his claim 10 seal in the Senate.
Thirty -four other citizens Of Delaware
tjoin Mr., DUPONT in this petition, among
them being ex-senator Higgins, Washing
ton Hastings Alfred ID. Warner, 4 G.
Shors lidgc, Samuel NJ Knox, J. f Smith
and II. H. Morgan, a member Of the Leg.
islature who voted for DUPONT.
In this new petition Mr.. DUPONT claims
that tho refusal to seat him was due to
the wrongful pairing Of Senator Jones of
Nevada, against Mr.. DUPONT. with Sena.
tor Wolcott on q statement m ade by Sem
ator Brice that Mr.. Jones had given au-
thority to pair him against Dupont,
Mr. DUPONT intimates that, If the prlyi-
ege Is accorded him he expects to be able
to show that there was no authority for
pairing Senator Jones in opposition to his
being seated and II this announcement
OF this pair had not been made the vote
would have resulted in u tic, Which would
have caused tho failure of the resolutions
declaring him not entitled to seat and
would have left the question pending In
the Serate.
As necessary consequence he claims
that "the affirmative resolution reported
from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections is still before the Senate as Il
question of high constitutional and per-
s0nal privilege"
In tho petition appear quotations from
the Record which show that while the an
nouncement Of the pair was made on the
authority of Senator Brice, he himself
was not present.
Senator burrows Of Michigan put in
four more petitions from citizens of Della.
ware urging the appointment of II Joint
Congressional Commission to inquire Into
the political conditions existing in Della
ware, and ayerring that tho State does not
enjoy "A Republican form of government
as contemplated by the constitution.
p The paper also states that the Wolcott-
Jones pair was not announced from the
clerks desk, and he claims tho privilege
OF ra-opening the case on well.establlshed
parliamentary practice, that whenever an
erroneous announcement of the record Of
n vote is made, the vote becomes nul aud
void on discovery of the error.
These petitions were signed respect i've
ly by !5t citizens of Little Greek district
OF Laurel, Sussex County; rs citizens of
Laurel, A citizens of Smyrna, Kent
County, and Al citizens of Bridgcvllle,
Sussex County.
There is no certainty as to what the
committee on Privileges anu Elections
will do ut its meeting tomorrow regard.
ing the DUPONT petition, although ma
jority are against granting it.,
As many Republican Senators make
no concealmont of their contempt for Ad-
dicks control, 1t is evident, II the Republic
can leaders design to keep the Delaware
seat vacant they must do 1t by prolonging
consideration Of the DUPONT case with
view to procuring an Investigation of po-
litical conditions in Delaware such as is
asked for by the petitions put in to-day
by Senator Burrows.
POSITION OF THE DEMOCRATS.
But the Democrats are hopeful that the
Republicans will realize the usccssneSs
Of trying to gain any advantage for them.
selves by prolonging the uncertainty and
will formally declare at to-morrowss
meeting of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections that the Dupont case is res.
adjudicatu and cannot be reopened.
If they do this Mr.. Kcnney will present
his credentials without delay and demand
bis seat. The Democrats will oppose re.
ferrlng Mr.. Kcnneys credentials to tho
Elections Committee and claim that on
this question they will have a majority of
- to 10 votes. Once the kenncy case comes
up in this way the Democrats say they
will allow no other business to be done in
the Senate until it settled and Mr., Ken
ney given his seat.