The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-12
AN END TO The
Big contest
Will Be Finally Disposed of
Today by the
Court.

Court will convene this morning at
Q o'clock, for the midsummer day scS-
sion, and among the several import
ant things that will come down from
the bench will be an order disposng
of the costs i'm the Langstaff- Kelly
election contest.
AS told previously in The Tribune
the attorneys for the parties to the
contest agreed that il was purposeless
10 continue the proceedings any farther
and that with the consent Of the court
they should be summarly ended by an
amicahle arrangement.
This arrangement contemplated that
IL should be admitted by the respond
cnt that the contestants had disquali-
fed large number of the voters who
east their ballots for the respondent.
and thus making ground for finding
of probable cause for the contest. the
case should be submitted tn the court
for ruling on matter of costs.
Under the law. the dsqualifying Of
one voter can be adiudged to have cs-
tablished probable cause" for the
contest. and give the court discretion
to relieve the contestant of the costs,
and place them on the county. The
l
it would do, but it was taken for
granted by those participating in the
contest that under all the circum-
stances the finding could be only that
there was probable cause" in abund-
anCe and that the costs would be dis
posed Of accordingly.
The agreement of the parties was
submitted and the order of the court
III a., ~
pestiferous thing will be a matter of
official record before today is done.
This summary disposition Of the case
will save costs amounting, so it is esti-
mated, to 10000. II will make unnec-
essary the work of wading through
10000 ballots to find the 400 bad ones,
which work would require the services
of a board of from four To six COM
missioners. at probably $40 "A day for
no telling how long. but assuredly sew
eral months. if they would work as
ergetically as does the average COM
missioner who works by the day at the
liberal rate of 81 an hour, which the
law so graCiously allows.
Another important event of the day
will. in all probability. witness is the
hearing in the case stated relative to
George w. Jenkins right to the Office
of delinquent tax collector, The at
torneys have asked to be heard today.
and if previously scheduled events do
not consume all of the limited time. the
judges will probably grant the request.
The big raft of opinions and orders
which the three judges have been
working on since adjournment will be
handed down before the recess is taken
at $50, out of respect to Senator
Vaughan.
Among the cases in which, it is eX-
pectcd decisions will he Forthcoming
are the Conrad Schroeder water rate
case: the case of the extra" common
cOunCilmen; the Ridge turnpike case;
the paving case of the city of SCran-
ton against +. B. Sturges; the case in
which the continuation of the Fac
toryville and Abingdon turnpike is
concerned, and the criminal cases in
which the court is asked to dismiss
the bribery proceedings against Cen
eral Manager Frank Silliman, jr., of
the Scranton Railway company, ANA
the Old Forge councilmen; Select Coun-
Gilman Wade NJ. Finn, and General
Manager :. r.. Wayland, of the Lacka-
wanna Telephone company