Show IN TEE LOWER HOUSE Springer is Twitted About a Certain Fee THOEBEtSEEAKS FOE HIMSELF Me Does Xot Propose to dlake Capital Capi-tal Out of His BEing a I i Worklnjni ii Etc HOUSE WASHINGTON J anu ry 20Springer rising to the question l of privilege sent to the clerks desk and had read an extract ex-tract from the report made yesterday fcy Kolly Of Paansylvania to the effect that the member of Congress which had made an appropriation for the Philadelphia Philadel-phia centennial and whd was a member of the present House had claimed the fee of 10000 for having astutIy inserted in-serted a clause inthe bill making a loan upon which tie couldgo into conrt and enforce its payment Springer said he had no doubt that he was the member referred ftr He 1p by the gentleman had moved an amendment in the Forty fourth Congress loathe centennial centen-nial appropriatiOn which changed the apprgpriatidn a Congressional donation do-nation to a loan at the close of the exposition ex-position The board of finance was of the opinion that the money belonged to tHe stockholders arid Hot td the government the United States The attorney at Philadelphia was instructed to bring suit against the board of finance and the suit was brought It was dcled I that the money belonged to the board He Springer asked him to appeal the case to the Supreme Qourt This was done and the attor neygeneral had desired him to appear on hJ behalf of t the United States He did Tipper the case rind the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Court belojvr apd ordered it to be paid into tli6J Treasury That ended his I connection in the case as a lawyer He neyer demanded de-manded a fee for 1 is services He did file one petitibn asking that his case should be referred to t ke court of Claims with the right of appeal of the determination as to whether hisser vicea had been of any value The committee com-mittee oa judiciary had asked him to fix the sum but he had declined to do so as hedid Hot desire anycbmpensa tion from thebody of which he was a ember He hoped the gentleman would in view of theNfacts t retractrthe stat merits he had made I S Kelly said he had not meant to do an injustice nor did he mean to do one I now when he reaffirmed in the language of he Rtcard what hs had saiti yesterday If there was wrong to that gentleman he Kelly regretted it He was no longer as young as lie had been when he entered bar but since that hf followed opinions derived from rr senior members of the bar One of those lessons was that no man was entitled toafee in a litigation which be had engendered The gentleman would not deny that he had called the attention of United States officials to the fact J that there was a clause in the bill that he had caused to be inserted and that he had gone into the court to press that clause after the district attorney had declined to pursuethe case furtherT The thing had an ugly odortheri and it was not savory now Kelly did not think the gentleman claimed a feo for inserting that clause What he meant to say was that knowing the purport of the clause the gentleman was the man among 50000000 of American i citizens who felt that the subscribers of exposition expo-sition stock ought to be made to pay and who following his own tracks hunted them until he stripped them of their investment patriotic as it was Crisp of Georgia called up the ThoebeCarliale contested election case Orisp opened the debate by reviewing the proceedings before the committee on elections with regard to reopening the case He justified the majority of the committee in deciding that the case should not be reopened I Lyman of Iowa knew of no reason why the case should not be reopened Grave charges have been made by the contestant in affidavits exparte affidavits affi-davits it was true and they had been answered by other exparte affidavits affi-davits and strong efforts had been made to prevent investigation v of those charges Were the contestee and his friends afraid of the truth The fact that there was such a constant determination deter-mination that the events of the election should not be investigated suggested to his mind that there was somethiag wrong Cooper of Oho spoke in favor of the majority report Bowell of Illinois took the same view and argued that the committee on elections followed precisely the proper couiie in refusing to open the case Dodge of Massachusetts j spoke in I support of the minority The pending case was too important to be settled by affidavit Tt was a case whicjh deserved the attention of the American Congress considering particularly the enormousdisparJty between contestant aqd contestee The House should proceed pro-ceed with great circumspection The contestee was the candidate of the labor organizations His cifea has been shocki giyVt mismanaged J Hej came now and threw hUnselfon the mercy of the House There iwas awide pread belief among the greatworkin classes that the power of the corpbration > lthe powerHif the Ting rind the power of men high in authorityand < backed by money and influenceha6j enofmoue weight in all legislative bodi s of the 0 country It waa a dangerous unwholesome un-wholesome behef V jCftoi J On motfofi ef CrispThoeBeJthe contestant con-testant waSf granted an hopr mf which to present an argtliu t in histown belle < tet half r w s 5 halfHe read from < a communication which lie bIdsent totlt jchainnan1ofl the C thwttedzi efeqttpnprotesting I against the unfavorable report upoj r his requestunWhe nadaaopportunity to examine affidavits present dby the contesteei In tffis otinidationh reieratesY InPpart tbet4tlieo N f 1 t i 1 ooiI < contained in his affidavit filed with I the committee nies the truth of some of the affidavits filed by the Speaker and declares his ability to dispute the accuracy of others off granted opportunity He was sorry he continued con-tinued that the working classes were beginning to lose confidence in he secarity of the ballot It the ballot was not scure what did they have left Applause on Republican side He was a working man He did not consider it great honor exactly to o a member of this House General laughter sand applause What he meant was that the mechanic was just as honorable and noble as any other citizen If every gentleman herb would rather be right than be President these seats would be filled by the right men Laughter He did not propose to make any capital out of the fact that he was a wOrki gman He was not here for favor b tfor simple justice The previous question was then ordered upom re outon of the majority of the committee which confirms con-firms the title ef Carlisle to his seat and upon the resolution of the substitute substi-tute offered by Lyman of Iowa declaring declar-ing that if of such importance the sitting member and to te people of the country itis entitled to a full thorough and impartial investIgatibn and providing pro-viding that the papers in tho case be printed and eferred to a select committee com-mittee or a sabcommittee on elections which shall be authorized to investigate the matter The substitute was defeated yeas 125 nav 132 The following Democrats voted in the t affirm tie Messrs Bynum Arouse Porau Hare < McKtnney hively and Weaver l The question recurred on tbe majority major-ity resolution on the adoption of which the yeas and nays war ordered Re publicaas with the exception of three or four who voted in the affirmative and Messrs Brnmm Hovey and Laid low who voted in the negative reframed re-framed from voting on the ground that they have not sufficient information informa-tion on hichto ant and thenvote was annoqncedveas t40nays31 H I No quorum being iresentthe Holso then adjouined until tomorrow |