| Show CAMPBELL CASE CASI we read the following in the omalia herald of nov 15 geo COQ Q Cannon the d distinguished shed to Congress was overland train a pass passenger eDger on the from ogden la last t evening bound to washington As is well known allan campbell the gentile candidate for delegate con contests the scat seat and the case will come up at the app approaching boac hi ing session of con congress ur r Ms A herald reporter met mr cannon and asked what can you say to the herald about the contest it can be very simply stated was mr Cann cannons oils reply these people cople eliat is the attorneys of campbell bell who arc are fighting ahting me 22 have mp befogged the whole case by falsehood and misrepresentation notwithstanding the decision of judge hunter of the U S district court of utah they preferred a complaint before him on the naturalization q question fuestion and he dismissal the cace which really beats campbell this leaves it for the house to decide the tile naked issue pursued mr cannon ix is has the government the right to decide upon the ability of a candidate for congress and has he the right to give a certificate to a minority candidate it la is a plain issue stripped of all its sophistries sophis tries the government declared that I had votes and campbell had 1357 and on eliat th at and the tile returns turns ra adams the clerk of the house put my name dame on the rolls I have no doubts about the result I believe I shall get my scat seat it would overturn every american precedent for the house to give campbell the seat the tile term to which mr cannon was elected begins on dec ath government r it literature LiTER seems se ams to be a superfluous luxury paid for out of the peoples pockets but resulting in little other good th than ap snug salaries to washington printers and bookbinders the other day a washington correspondent of the N y sun stumbled upon an interesting pile of literature the pile was wa interesting although the literature was not ten tons of expensively printed public documents and reports were on their way from the store rooms of the house of Represent representatives at ives to a junk shop two cents and a half a pound was what the choicest productions duct ions odthe of the government publishing house fetched in the open market just before going out of office commissioner le due confessed that ho alone was responsible for pages of agricultural documents and reports pages enough to reach five times around the globe if pasted together so as to make a continuous strip reading matter enough to reach ten times further than the moon if printed in a single line like a telegraph m message es on a tape MB BIB DuLF contrary to the sincere expectations of his numerous admirers does not display the same vim about the piercing of the L isthmus of panama as he hanif manifested est with the canal of suez all the activity at present witness cdon and about the chagres chagares canal the link between the atlantic and pacific oceans consist in men triangulating ting but not a dozen digging no actual excavation of the canal itself is expected until december 1882 more than a year hence benee but the comp company any has laid out in buying the best building in panama for an office so that some of the officers mil will pass the interim comfortably comfor tally meanwhile the company has already on hand a strike of its men and a suit of law with the panama authorities stockholders who have been imagining the canal well forward in view view of the early accounts published may bo be somewhat disappointed to find that one year has already gone and another is yet to go without any actual digging in the waterway |
