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Show Hard on tiik Contestants. It has been stated that at least fifteen persons per-sons would contest for seats in congress, con-gress, and that the number might, perhaps, bo larger. There is now a prospect that it will by much smaller. Already two or three persons have signified their withdrawal. The reason of this change of intention is doubtless found in the amended law, which requires each contestant to pay his own expenses. Formerly it was otherwise, and therefore a good thing if the deleatt-d candidate had the ghost of a show for taking his case before congrcw. Wis mileage, per diem, and other expenses were paid, anyhow. This reft rm of an abuse was made in 1S73, and will have the effect unless there i. reason amounting amount-ing almost to a certainty that the CuiileslBnt will succeed to rule out a class of impecunious oHicc-secker who would be only too glad to spend a season in Washington city at the government's expense, whether they were defeated in the end or not. Call. |
