The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-30
HOUSE SEATS WHALEY
WITH NO MORE INQUIRY
Grace Charges Are Thrown Out by
Heavy Vote and Ballot Sustains
Majority Report Minority, Led by
Frear and BOrchers, Merely Stirs
Up the Animals.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The
much discussed Grace-Whaley case
came to and end late this afternoon.
when the house, after an all day ses-
sion by vote of 227 to 90, decided
to uphold the report of the commit
tee on elections, which had already
decided that the charge filed by May
or John P. Grace of Charleston
against Representative Richard S.
Whaley, in which it was alleged that
the latter spent 100000, had bought
votes and had falsified his sworn
statements in regard thereto, be dis
missed. The vote came just before
the hour for adjourning for the day,
and not until after there had been
oratorical fireworks, which at times
seemed all but ready to set the big
capitol building ablaze. Sectionalism
was rampant and many times during
the whitening fire that Representa-
tive Frear of Wisconsin poured into
the voters of the First South Carroll
ma district it was with the utmost
difficulty that Southern members
were able to restrain themselves.
The days proceedings began with
speech by Representative Borchers
of Illinois, and he made a speech of
an hour, excoriating conditions in and
around Charleston and calling a
spade a spade whenever in his opin-
ion he believed the situation demand
ed it.
Not a Thorough Probe.
Mr.. Borchers spent most of the
hour allotted him in reviewing the re-
port Of the committee and declared
that there had been no thorough in
vestigation of the matter and that
before the thing was done with one
I. should he had. 80
~ REPRESENTATIVE Frear of. ,wiec6nsip
: Followed Mr.. Borchers and proved
the sensation Of the day. He devoted
most Of his time to a vigorous at
tack on Mr.. Whaley. Representative
French of Idaho made a clear and
clean cut argument : in support of
seating Mr.. Whaley and declared
that while he stood always for clean
men in the house he could see no rea-
son for molesting Mr.. Whaley on the
strength of the Grace charges.
When the Democrats took hold of
the speaking, they fairly roasted
Mayor Grace on the political griddle.
Words-if every one of them in an
up-to-date dictionary We're brought
into play--would fail properly to
record what Representative Howard
of Georgia, Elder of Louisiana and
Stephens of Mississippi and Finley
of South Carolina really did say.
''Dirty little ward heeler" and 9TH
er such terms were hurled at the
imaginary Grace by Mr.. Howard,
just as though he had been seated in
the chamber of the house, and had
the Charleston mayor heard what
was said of him, of his political ca
reer and of his manipulations of the
blind tiger situation in Charleston he
would doubtless have left in disgust.
Not Kind to Witnesses.
Those members of the house re-
viewed with tasty trimming Grace's
control of political machinery in
Charleston, the character of witness
es he brought to Washington, the
kind of affidavits he submitted, and
most especially the fact that practi-
cally every man who has had any
thing to do with this case from a
Grace standpoint has been either a
blind tiger keeper, a Grace support
er, man on the payroll o. the city
of Charleston or a general all-round
tough and bully.
The real point in today's develop
ments so far as it concerns future
political conditions in South Carolina
is laid down in some parts of the
speech of Mr.. Frear. While it has
been conceded all along that the
house would sustain the report of the
committee and not re, en- the case
p. Frear made some observations
well worth remembering and taking
to heart by those who are really ir
earnest about reforming the primary
in South Carolina.
At Grace Methodist Church.