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A Historical and Legal Digest of All the Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives of the United States, From the Fifty-Seventh to and ... Added the Laws of the United States Relating - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... DIGEST. FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGKESS, 1901-1903. Committee on Elections No. 1. Robert W. Tayler, Ohio. Joseph H. Gaines, West VirJames R. Mann, Illinois. ginia. Llewellyn Powers,1 Maine. Andrew F. Fox, Mississippi. Charles L. Knapp, New York. Sydney J. Bowie, Alabama. Walter I. Smith, Iowa. George F. Burgess, Texas. Committee on Elections No. 2. Marlin E. Olmsted, Pennsyl-Frank D. Currier, New Hamp vania. shire. James M. Miller, Kansas. Charles E. Littlefield, Maine. Samuel L. Powers, Massachu-James M. Robinson, Indiana. setts. Henry D. Green, Pennsylvania. George Sutherland, Utah. John J. Feely, Illinois. Committee on Elections No. 3. Edgar Weeks, Michigan. Charles R. Schirm, Maryland. Michael E. Driscoll, New York. Frank A. Mclain, Mississippi. Kittredge Haskins, Vermont. Choice B. Randell, Texas. Edmond S. Blackburn, North Joseph T. Johnson, South Caro Carolina. lina. Summers M. Jack, Pennsylvania. Spears V. Burnett, seventh Alabama. Elections No. 1.-Unfair treatment by election officers. Report for contestee. No action. Report by Mr. Powers. On the face of the returns the contestee, Burnett, appears to have been elected by a plurality of 747. The contestant disputed the validity of the returns, claiming that in certain precincts in the district he was denied proper representation, and that at many of the precincts fraud and bribery were resorted to to accomplish the return of the contestee. Tour committee have given full and careful attention to all of the claims made by the contestant and to the testimony in the case. The contestant appears to have been the regularly nominated Republican candidate for Congress, and in the main received the support of his party. While in some of the precincts concerning which complaint is made there is evidence of unfair tr...
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