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TIME FOR CONTESTS.
DEFEATED CANDIDATES FOR CON
GRESS MUST FILE NOTICE SOON.
They Have Thirty Days/Froin the Time
the Votes Are Canvassed—Few Contests
Likely This Time—The Dead Letter Of
fice Sale—Carious Things.
[Special Correspondence.]
Washington, Dec. 15.—Notices of
contests for seats in the next congress
must be given within 30 days of the
completion cf the work of canvassing
the returns. Within the next month,
therefor?, the number of contests to
come before the election committees cf
thg next house will be known. From
present indications there will be com
paratively few contests, tut the election
committees are likely to be burdened
with A special investigation in the Ten
nessee cases which will keep at least
one of them busier than 20 ordinary
contests. Jf the Republicans carry out
the plan with which they are credited,
they will make a thorough inquiry into
the charges of fraud in the recent elec
tion in the state of Tennessee.
Beginning of a Contest.
A defeated candidate for congress who
intends to make a coniest must serve
notice on the succcst ti.l candidate in
writing within 80 days after the can
vassers make official announcement cf
the result. In his notice he names the
ground on which be claims an election.
The contestce must answer within 30
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days, admitting or denying the claims
of the contestant and naming the
grounds on which he claims to have
been elected. The testimony in the case
must be taken then within 90 days, the
contestant having the first 40 days, the
contestee the next 40 days and the con
testant the 10 days following. The tes
timony is taken by deposition. The par
ty.about to take the testimony must no
tify the other party to the case in wri
ting of the time and place, giving also
the names and residences of the witness
es summoned. This notice must be
served personally or by attorney in time
to allow the other party to be present
when the testimony is to be taken, but
testimony may be taken in two or moro
places at once, both parties being rep
resented by attorneys.
Subpoenas for witnesses may be is
sued by federal judges, state judges,
mayors, recorders or notaries, or, in an
emergency, by two justices cf the peace
acting jointly. A witness cannot be
compelled to go out of the county in
which he lives, but no other reason will
exempt him from attendirg the hearing
under penalty of S2O fine for contempt.
When the testimony has been taken,
it is reduced to writing in the presence
of the contestants or their representa
tives by the officer in charge, who must
seal it and forward it immediately to
the clerk of the house cf representatives,
indorsing the envelope so as to show
what it contains.
The clerk of the house sends register
ed letters to both parties, notifying
them to appear before him at a time
named, which must not be more than
20 days after the mailing cf the letter.
At that time the clerk, in the presence
of the two parties or their attorneys,
opens the packages and takes out the
testimony, and ho tends to the public
printer such peris of the testimony as
they agree shall be printed. In case the
parjies disagree the clerk selects the
part to be pt nted. Tito clerk must pre-
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pare a suitable index to the part print
ed. The remainder of the testimony be
puti in his ct’l. o r..'3 to be kept for ti.e
use cf the elections committees when
they shall meet.
Cost of a Contest.
Copies of the printed testimony are
sent to the parties, and the contestant
must file n brief of facts and authorities
within SO days. This is forwarded to
the contestee, who must file a brief
within 30 days after he receives it.
These briefs are printed at the expense
of the two parties, but the testimony is
printed at government expense. The
government also pays most of the cost
of the contest. The contestant and con
testee file with the clerk of the commit
tee on elections sworn statements of ex
penses, and these expenses are paid by
the house to a limit of $2,000 on each
side. The expenses allowed are seldom
below $4,000 in any contest. To these
are added cost of printing, the expenses
of the committee, etc., which make a
contest cost the government $6,000 or
$7,000. As for the contestant, he sel
dom gets off for less than $2,000 or
$3,000 on his own account, and if he is
unsuccessful he finds the contest expen
sive. If he wins, his salary as a con
gressman makes good his outlay.
Unfortunately election contests are
often delayed for months, and of recent
years some have been postponed so long
that congress has come to an end leav
ing them unsettled. A contest seldom
brings much satisfaction to the contest
ant.
The ground on which the Tennessee
contests may be brought—fraud at the
polls—is the usual baiisof election con
tests. Some of the testimony which is
taken to support these charges seems
very trivial and unconvincing, but it
has a new meaning in the light of tb
fact, not generally known, that contests
are quite as likely to be determined ac
cording to party necessity as in equity.
No matter how strong a caso a sitting
member may have, if he belongs to the
minority in the house he is quite likely
to be ousted from his seat.
“Politics is a mean business,” said a
new member to me at the beginning of
this congress, and I quite agreed with
him.
The poor outlook for contests in the
next congress is a source of sorrow to
the ex-members of congress who are liv
ing in Washington. They got iho cream
of the business as attorneys in coniest
cases. In fact, they live on business be
fore congress and the departments.
Once a year the postoffice department
has an auction sale. It occurs at the
rooms of a local auction house. It is
called the “dead letter office sale,” and
the articles sold are the contents of let
ters and packages which have gone
astray in the mails. Some of them have
been misdirected. Some have been held
because the postage was not fully paid.
Some have slipped from defective wrap
pings and so lost their identity. When
ever an article of value goes to the dead
letter office, all reasonable effort is
made to find its owner. If that is not
successful, the article is held for two
years awaiting a claimant. No one ap
pearing to claim it, it is advertised to
be sold at auction. The postofflee de
partment made last year out of the sale
of these articles and from money found
I in “dead” letters nearly $12,000. The
I dead letter fund is large, and it in
’ cregses every year,
The list of articles being offered at
this year’s sale, which began yesterday,
is a surprising index of the service to
which the postoffice is put. Here are
some of the articles which have been
lost in the mails and never claimed:
Razors, razor strops, collars, collar
buttons, cuffs, spectacles, men’s and
I women’s shoes, men’s and women’s
stockings, handkerchiefs of all kinds,
rings, Watches, fountain pens, hoods,
I mitts, gloves, ice wool fascinators, neck
' ties, spoons, canceled stamps, slippers,
' embroidered slipper uppers,pocketbooks,
• infants’ jackets, men’s and boys’ shirts,
shirt waists, dolls, veils, towels, hand
kerchief cases, shoestrings, hats, aprons,
feather boas, shopping bags, scissors,
| pens, table’ covers, toilet cases, maps,
1 men’s and women’s underwear, cards,
I tea, scarfpins, tobacco, ribbons, gloves,
I bridle bits, hunting knives, doilies, pin-
I cushions, hairpin cushions, hairpins,
( crochet needles, typewriter ribbons. bi
-1 cycle handle bars, rosaries, scapulars,
• prayerbooks, suspenders, Bibles, raisin
I seeders, irk bottles, peuh ?lders, gt.ntes,
, dress goods, music, pictures, opera glass-
I es ( patchwork, cushion covers, books,
, salt cellars, stationery, fans, pillow
covers, powder bags, garters, bonnets,
matchhc Iders, penwipers, toilet soap,
music boxes, pipes, salt water bags,
cardcases, cuff buttons, medals, truss
es, hypodermic syringes, pocket lamps,
folding lunchboxes, fur collars, head
rests, picture frames, nutmeg graters,
paper cutters, buttonhole workers, hair
nets, curling irons, dress stays, spats,
violin strings, bookmarks, beaded moc
casins, toothbrushes, harmonicas, rub
bers, medical appliances, hatbrushes,
postal card cases, spools of thread, bags,
toys, lorgnettes, wrappers, wire puzzles,
stove blacking sets, hose supporters,
chains, cups and saucers, jewelry cases,
castings, fluting irons, doll patterns,
whisk brooms, oilcloth table covers,
cigars, shawls, electrotypes, fountain
syringes, napkins, basques, breastpins,
blankets, printing outfits, cigarette
cases, cigarettes, infants’ underwear,
braid, jackets, bath brushes, watches,
bib pins, lamp shade covers, reticules,
! bracelets, rings, screwdrivers, toy tele
j scopes, policeman’s clubs, tinsel wire,
i horse brushes, trousers, skirts, calen-
• dars, diaries, feather bone, silkworm
gut ligatures, button hooks, barber’s
clippers, Confederate bills, banners,
Epworth league and Odd Fellows’
badges, atomizers, metronomes, picco
los, revolvers, football linings, skates,
bicycle cranks, ballet slippers, pitch
pipes, Trilby hearts, charts, thimbles,
sprocket chains and yarn.
How the Good* Ara Arranged.
That’s a pretty long list, but it could
be. longer. It jjlpstrates the variety obi
THE ROME TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1896.
fin'll 3ut a dead letter auction sale. The
sale is always full of entertainment be
r ose the person who has not studied
the catalogue is surprised continually
by the things which the auctioneer puts
up and knocks down.
The articles are not put up individ
ually. They could not be sold that way,
because the auctioneer could not get
even 1 cent for some of the things in
the list. Besides, it would take too
much time to sell them that way.
Though dozens of articles are grouped
together under one number, there are
3,852 miscellaneous lots, 951 book lots
and 110 jewelry lots in the catalogue.
In arranging them the auctioneer has
grouped articles that are worthless with
articles which have a value. Thus a
pair of small damaged corsets is placed
with a towel, some remnants of cloth,
etc. ; 20 damaged cigars go with a cheap
handkerchief; some damaged hose are
thrown in with medical appliances, mu
sic, views, etc., in one lot; a pair of
man’s shoe uppers will be taken at
some price because a cigar holder goes
with them; a damaged pair of trousers
will bring to its purchaser some cheap
collar buttons, a ring and some hand
snap buttons; a pair of damaged opera
glasses will be thrown in with a neck
tie and four handkerchiefs.
Most of the articles are “damaged”
or “cheap” except the books, and these
are of every style and character and in
almost every modern language.
Tbe jewelry consists chiefly of nickel
and brass watches, cheap pins, gold
pens, silver pencils, souvenir spoons and
chains. George Grantham Bain.
WM, Gammon & Son shew some
beautiful goods for Christmas.
F. J. STILSON,
55 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
Watche:, tail, Jewelry, k
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kidneys, eye and ear; also nervous dis
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Cancers, tumors and ulcers treated and
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Whatever your disease mey be, Dr. Salter
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Dr. Salter prepares medicines himself for
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it probably noods renewing, for It is rough, red
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Christmas Will Soan Be Here,
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happy for that occasion by giving you better goods at
lower prices than ever before.
By Buying your Furniture, Carpets, Mattings, Rugs,
Etc., from us it will astonish you to see how cheap you
can make home more comfortable, inviting and beautiful.
A large shipment of Mattings and Rugs just received
to be sold at the following LOW PRICES:
25c China, matting at ]Bc
28c China matting at 20c
30c China matting at... 25c
35c China matting at 30c
40c China matting at 35c
45c Japenese matting at 37|
SMYRNA RUGS.
26x54 inches $ 2 00
24x5 feet 2 50
3x6 fret 3 50
4x7 feet '............... 550
SUPERIOR GRADE OF JAPANESE RUGS.
6x9 feet $ 6 50
9x12 feet 10 00
10x13 feet 12 00
A large line of Skin and Maquette Rugs also on hand
at proportionate prices. All our Rugs are of the best
quality and guaranteed equal iu finish and durability to
any ever offered the Rome public.
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Furniture, Carpet, Mattings, Rugs, Stoves, Undertak
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J. K. Williamson, Jeweler
227 Broad Street.;
DiLVT. Mclnnis,
DENTIST
36 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
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8i W. ALABAMA ST.,
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Election Notice ‘‘For Fence’’ or
“Steck Law.”
Georgia—Floyd County.
Notion is brrebv that an election will be
hold at Pinson’s Store, tbe< rlw ■ «' •■»nrt iironnd.
leersl ano usual nlaue for ho'dlng el> crlons in the
859th (Watters’). i«tr>ut M., of said county.
on tlie mth <l»v of !><■• mb« ins'a t (is9B) In
which the question wi I lie submitted to the
qualified voters of said district, ‘For Finos" or
.‘Stock Law." Given suder any hand and offlclal
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