The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-03

Senator Camden, in a published Inter
view at that time. stated openly thas
the Republicans had carried the state
and they should be allowed to elect
thplr'senator, as they had a right to do.
Mr.. President, all this talk about
fraud, conspiracy, and wrongdolng
finds Its place in the senate Of the
United States, and not in the state of
West Virginia. There no Democrat in
the state of West Virginia who says
there was any fraud or any conspiracy
or any wrongdoing. There never was 4
breath Of scandal about the election of
my colleague until the debate began
here in the senate Of the United States.
No Foundation for Minority Report.
The minority report in this case, sign
ed by the single name of the junior
senator from Alabama, is founded upon
certain alleged dispositions, which were
excluded by the committee, and proper
iy excluded. because those dispositions
were not taken by the authority of thu
senate or by any committee of the sem
ate or by the authority Of any court.
They were ex parte afFidavlts, taken
haphazard here and there, before a JUS
tlce Of the peace or 4 notary public or
some Judge selected by the remonstrant,
Mr.. McGraw, and brought here, but
properly excluded by the committee on
privileges and elections.
The junior senator from Alabama
makes these dispositions the ground OF
his report, and then he makes the re-
port the ground OF an unwarranted and
unjust attack in his speech against
West Virginia and West Virginia Re
publlcans. These dispositions are refer
red to and cited all through the minor
ity report of the Junior senator from
Alabama. These dispositions are made
use of to prove conspiracy although
they are not before the senate and could
not get before the senate. because they
were part and taken without any au'
thority whatever.
The senator from Alabama said in his
speech that Morris had been seated ani
Kidd unseated during n contest, and
that Morris was restored to his seat
without ever any testimony having been
taken or anything having been done.
! will quote the senator's words;
They had not taken one particle Of testi-
mony from the time this agreement was
hot ho1 ~
some votes that the COMMITTEES had IN
their possession, and the senate OF the
state OF West Virginia unanimously re-
solved that Kidd was entitled 70 his seat:
They did not even go through the form of
swearing him over again; he was merely
suspended anyway.
The journal Of the senate, on page
800 shows that committee Of the sem
ate, after Morris was seated, went to
Parkersburg. in Wood county. theirs
held session, summoned the officer
having charge Of the election returns
and the ballots. counted thu ballots. and
found seventy-one that were Illegal,
thus reducing the majority to seventy
Here The Journal of the senate contra
diets the minority report as well as the
statement made by the junior senator
from Alabama. I submit to thu senate
that this sort Of argument is unfair and
unjust although perhaps not intended
by the senator.
Agreement Proposed by Democrats.
There has been a great deal sald
about certain agreement entered into
by the Republicans and Democrats of
the legislature. which / think was en-
tIrely in the interest OF preventing trou-
BILE and in promoting harmony and a
legal and peaceabc election of n United
States senator by the joint assembly.
This agreement was proposed by Lend