Show TW EN I ThlX UOIL4TS A Great Deal of Vork cforo the House Committee on Elections Washington June 17lerk Kerr of the House of Representatives today to-day opened the papers in the contested con-tested election cases of Kearby vs i I Abbott from the Sixth Texas district Rosenthal vs Crowley from the Tenth Texas district Thorpe vs McKenny from the Fourth Virginia district and Booze vs Rusk from the Third Maryland district The papers in each instance were opened in the presence of either of the parties to the contest or their representatives and the ceremony consisted merely in I a hurried inspection of the documents which had been previously received sealed by the clerk and had remained in that condition in his office up toI I this time After being opened the cases were sent to the public printer and they nTl be put in shape for the convenience of the committee on elections elec-tions As there are26 contests to be settled by the next House it is evident evi-dent that the elections committee will find all the work it will care to undertake under-take I |