Show the utah contest the so called argument made by Mess rss hawley and riddle in the contested election case of maxwell axwell Ar against cannon the utah delegate has been published it is a sweet thing and choice reading we enjoyed a smile over argals that beat the grave biggar digger in 1111 hamlet amlet the intense gravity of diess Bress rs hawley and riddle gives a flavor to the performance no words can describe the funniest thing upon the stage staga in the low comedian is when that funny man utters an atrocious absurdity in a solemn and innocent manner we hav hanono olno elno wish to stigmatize the learned counsel as low comedians or intimate even such vile slander but blit in their so called reasoning they have produced the same effect they llave have not given us much of an argument but they have afforded us a hearty laugh the first proposition maae maue by these learned pundits read as follows the constitution of the united states provides that the houe house of berresen Be presen serif dives shall be the judge of the elt elvet eit ions lons returns and qualifications ficat fleat ions lons of f its own members member under this provision the house is the judge the supreme judge of f the election returns and qualifications 1 this is clear no man can dispute such proposition As the comedian burton was wont to say bay of the name of smith it has a familiar sound must have sen zen len and heard that name before becore saw it on oil a doorplate once but the argal is new the venerable lawmakers law makers make rs who got up the constitution not being blessed with a hawley and a niddie biddie first denned dennec the qualifications of a member or of congress and then empowered congress itself to sit upon and decide as to whether its members possessed these constitutional qualifications they are few and simple and weare we are pained to write it but the simpleminded simple minded old constitution ution makers failed to include either religious belief or moral character There the result is that very bad men get into congress and there is no rio c constitutional provision through which they can call be kept out or put out we know one of on our r own personal knowledg knowledge e who is a very bad man this bonola honorable bie ble solon is not chaste lie consorts with strange women they were called that in scriptural 1 times they have ceased to be strange since then indeed they are confound ly common and familiar he is not truthful he complained to us the other day that wo we had nad asi seated that we did not believe half lie he said we responded that some one had been complimenting him as we did not believe anything lie he said he drinks to excess and generally at some seome other mans ex pene pence he is not honest he borrowed our beautiful silk umbrella presented us as a token of esteem by our friend may in london and left it in a sample room we went to st matthews and returned thanks that it was not left with our name on it in a worse place this man Is so disreputable that we would not associate with him were he not a member of congress and am I 1 yet what sort of a figure would we cut were we to appear at the bar and ask his expulsion A minority would laugh baugh at us s and a m majority a bilty would rise up in wrath an and eppell us for if such precedent prevailed the honorable house and eke ye senate would be wit without houta a quorum the argal of the learned hawley and riddle is that brother cannon pon is disqualified because of liis ills immorality he lives in in one house with four wives the 11 and it go to go a dozen as your average eon eod gressman congressman generally does we know lotof obrown knowledge for being chaste we virtuously keep clear of such knowledge but taking the ordinary sources of information we know leaders in the house and senate who live in houses of twenty yea verily and the constitution to our hame be it spoken does not exclude such wrong doers but cries our H and B R this is in violation of the law 11 very likely so is the tile act of the ther promiscuous member but until conviction by a court the house cannot take cognizance the said house being zt a we beg pardon but we came near putting in a naughty C word thele we mean the house not being a court of criminal jurisdiction cannot put a member on trial and as in the case of connor ot or texas the honorable body decided that if a constituency saw raw fit to return a moral monster there is no help for it the said constituency havin having a right to representation and bg being eing the best judges of what constitutes such representation this will be corr corrected eted when the women aro are permitted to vote the constitution will be amended and the members charged cli ell arged with a lack of chastity will be hung the ladies gud god bless em hold morality in this direction as the loftiest loft iest qualification and so do we wb we do 0 not know about the learned hawley but the learned riddle riddie favors feminine voting let us then adjourn this case until a moral feature is put in the constitution and then the lord alone knows knowls where wo we will find members of congress brilliant men we ve mean men possessed of good parts washington capital april 12 11 |