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Show SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S BALLOT. Washington, ;il. 1'iie House Judi-. Judi-. i i! v Committee report upon a petl-tii-u" of Su.-aii I!. Anthony for a re-mi.-jiou of Ihc line impose.! hy .lodge Hunt, ol the Northern District of New Y.-rk, lor alleged illegal voting, .-i:i 'uii; thai upon the uueslion of withdrawing with-drawing a case, from tiie jury it would ncem thai the bulge hiiusell 'vacillated in the trial, hecaudo he porniilted cvitleiicC to he t:nno into on both uid.si.s qtiesiiou of fact, loading lo -.how whether the petitioner did or did not vote, knowing that she had no right lo do so; but afterwards withdrew with-drew the comidemliun of that evidence evi-dence upon the fad uf Die intention oi guilty kuo'-vl'.dge, wholly from the liny, and oalerctl'a verdict to be entered en-tered upon his own decision without allowing the question to bo argued or submitted to the joty or tho jury to iwus upon il, Alter rue i ling an array of precedents to show tlie .lodge was iu error, and arguing the ettect of the same upon constitutional grounds, the report concludes: "Therefore because be-cause a line has been imposed by a court of the Gnitcd Mtates for an ol- leiioe and trial bv a jury, without the same being subunied to the jury, and because tho court assumed to itsoll the riejil to enter a verdict without submitting the caso lo the jury, and in older that the judgment ol the ! Homo of UcprcacnUtivcs, if it concur . with the judgment of lhc Committee, i may in a signal and most impressive i form mark its determination to sustain sus-tain in its integrity the common law ) right of trial bv fury, your Committee Commit-tee recommend that the prayer ol the petitioner be granted, and to this end report a bill with a recommendation - that it pass. |