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57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I REPORT
1st sswn. No. 1423.
WILLIAM M. HORTON v. JAMES J. BUTLER.
Armi 5, 1902.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mr. TAYLER, of Ohio, from the Committee on Elections No. 1,
submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. Res. 202.]
The Committee on Elections No. 1, to whom was referred the con-
tested election case of William M. Horton v. James J. Butler, from the
Twelfth Congressional district of Missouri, present the following
report:
This Congressional district lies wholly within the city of St. Louis
and comprises all of wards 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23, and 24, and parts of
wards 7, 12, 15, 20, 21, 25, and 28.
The official returns gave the contestee a plurality of 3,553, as shown
by the following vote, parallel with which, for the purpose of com-
parison, is placed the vote of the Congressional election of 1898:
1197. 1900.
Demn- Repui- Dmin- Repub-
crat. liann. (rat. lian.
W ard 4........................................................ &52 1, 10( 1, 7(12
Ward5........................................................ 1,I> 1,2% 2 9 1 '20
W ard6............. ....................................... 1,59 1,14 2. ON 1,778
PartofW ard 7................................................ 99 1111 11 126
Part of W ard 12............................................... 1,5 110 176
Wald 13 ................................................. 1,411 2.031) 1 , -v 2,16
W~ad 14... ................... ............................ 1,207 1, It;, ) F>, , .,
Partof W ard 15............................................... 7(r2 1,(17 1.391 1,317
Partof W ard 20............................................... I 12G 11 117
Part of Ward 21............................................., :o :1 47:
Ward 22........................................, 1,7 222
Ward 2B............................................. 1.27 121 2 i,:I1
Ward24 ............................................. 1.401 1, 97 221 2,s1
Part of Ward 25 ............................................... 639 l 1, 1 1
Part of Ward 28........ ...................... 39 10
Total .......................................... 12, 99 1 ,310 22. 104 1,551
The notice of contest served by the contestant on the contestee is
extremely lengthy, charging with grett particularity numerous grounds
of complaint against the validity of the returns, chief among which are
fraudulent registration, fraudulent voting on the basis of the same,
violation of the law providing for appointment of judges and clerks,
repting, ejection of challengers and watchers, substitution of ballotsi,
false counting, intimidation, and violence.
The contestee in his answer specifically denied all of the allegations
of the notice charging fraud and irregularities.
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