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1316 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
person whom they could ascertain to have any material
Knowledge of the facts of the case, and after having taken
said testimony at great length,, and fully considered the
same, and which is herewith filed.
Tour Committee find that said charsge has arisen from a
misapprehension on the part of Col. Earle, Chairman of the
Committee on Finance of the Senate at the Session of 1872, in
regard to the character of a bill which was before said Com-
mittee at that Session, and that it is entirely unfounded in
fact.
Your Committee found from the testimony of Hon. George
R. Dennis, Senator, and Hons. William H. Roach, Robert J.
Waller and James W. Dougherty, delegates from Somerset
county, at the Session of 1872; that only one private
bill was introduced at that session for the relief or benefit of
any person from Somerset county, and that was a bill to au-
thorize the payment of a claim of No.ah Webster against the
State, for damages sustained by said Noah Webster, by being
illegally drafted at the State draft, by the order and under
the direction of Governor Bradford, and his being thereby
compelled to furnish a substitute to be mustered into the
Army of the United States. That Col. Woolford appeared
before the Committee on Finance of the Senate at that ses-
sion, and advocated a favorable report on said bill.
Your Committee had before them the original bill intro-
duced at the Session of 1872, by Mr. Waller, in the House of
Delegates, and which was passed by that Body, sent to the
Senate, and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Your Committee examined all the members of the Com-
mittee on Finance, at the Session of 1872, who were present
when Col. Woolford was before the Committee, and all of
said members, including Col. Earle, testified that Col. Wool-
ford was never before the Committee but on one occasion, at
that session, in regard to any private matter, though fre-
quently there in his official capacity, on matters connected
with the public service. Governor Carroll testified that he
remembered the occasion alluded to by Col. Earle, and upon
hearing the name of Noah,,Webster mentioned last fall, when
the press were making the charges under consideration, he
at once recollected that the name of the man in regard to
whom Col. Woolford appeared before the Committee on that
occasion was Noah Webster. He said he was struck with
the name, and remembered it clearly.
Mr. Williams also felt quite certain that the Webster bill
was the only matter advocated by Col. Woolford.
If your Committee could have doubted that Col. Earle was
mistaken, Governor Carroll's testimony being directly to the
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