Show IIB GETS Hid PAY As expected Mr CLAGETT is to be well paid for putting in a claim to the Idaho Senatorship Ho had just as good a right to ask for Senator STEWARTS seat or Senator Sen-ator STASPORDS or Senator HOAPS that is to say he had no right at all and it is doubted that he ever expected to win the place It was notoriety that he was after I and dollars He got a certain amount of the former and now he will get some of the latter a Senate committee having recommended that he be paid 1000 for presenting and prosecuting his ridiculous claim A few years ago somebody made au effort to have Ccngress discontinue the practice of paying contestants for seats leaving the loser to bear the cost of his contest The effort failed but another one should be made and success ought to attend it Then the CLAGETTS would not be so eager to lay claim to congressional honors The Idaho I gentleman is understood to possess a goodly share of this worlds wealth but it is not believed that if ho had known that failure to obtain the seat would have boon attended by the loss of all the money the contest cost he would have urged his flimsy case He knew that while ho could not got the place occupied by Mr DUBOIS his time 3 would not be wasted hence he went ahead I |