Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Proposes to Teach Them Not to Do So Any More. [ARTICLE]

Proposes to Teach Them Not to Do So Any More.

Jasper Packard, at present a Congressman from the Laporte district, evidentls’ won’t stand any foolishness. On the 7th day of January, this year, the Rensselaer Union charged that Packard with others sold his vote to the Pacific Mail Steamship company at the time the celebrated subsidy bill was before the House, in 1872, and that he received SSOO or SI,OOO for his vote. Packard thinks the article was a little personal, and, being himself a great stickler for editorial courtesy, proposes to teach the proprietors of the Union, James & Healey, not to do so any more, and to that end has sued them for libel, placing his damages at SIO,OOO. As Packard retires from Congress on the 4th of March he will have plenty of time to conduct the case himself.— Logansport Star.