Lawrence Republican Daily Journal (Newspaper) - February 2, 1877, Lawrence, Kansas DAILY DAILY KANSAS VOL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 272 Daily and TEEMS Of Daily by per Do by ptr discount of 25 Jer will from the above IB made In Daily delivered by 25 cents per under this of foe lines or leu will be inserted fot twenty Jive each lino at five a WITH iu Jor man ana Y SITUATION AS or something else I can Ncn FOB FOR S A PARTIES WISHING A Mi AT little local il in a lood nood and to would to on me Property and will 1 UJ 3t FOR r KATE FRESH will ba sold 11 sold this laquire at thin AT THK rate day to but loo large lor the and ordered sold by FOR our own at the OR AU in uit 81MU TO T i ON FARMS AT EK imra onn to Uve in T 00 Apply toJ 9 TO SOUTH WITH good on FOU MIK olU pir i 14dtf TO FIEST FUOST Kooma iu tin 1 for the Upper Mississippi and Missouri ti Greenbacks in Now York at the at cu on the being on ilia dollar below Ingalls Is one ot tbe idlers to the Presidential The committee on ineligible elec tors liud that of was ineligible as mi and that the laws ol Missouri the oth er electors had no power to fill the Our dispatches this morning con tain a further amplification of the also Wells emphatic lie claims that though the Democrats have the best of him having an excuse for keeping him a political there will come a time when he will warm np the Democratic Judging from the chapters given to the public under the skillful man agement of the future installments of the testimony prom ises to equal Reed in his best Under the provisions of the elec toral count the two Houses of Congress met in the hall of the Home of Representatives yesterday and counted the votes of the States in alphabetical order as far as the 1 letter when Florida was reach and there being three sets of certificates from that two for Tilden and one for and ob jection being made in the manner provided in the the whole mat ter was referred to the Arbitration and the two Houses separated to await the Preu to t up oclock thil Edmunds submitted a concurrent resolution providing that the proceeding ol the Commission authorized by the electoral count as taken down under the direction of the Commis shall be printed in the Con gressional and that an extra number of copies shall be printed for the use ot the Commission and the two Houses of Agreed The Chair appointed Senators Sargent and on the part of tho to count the votes for President and dent of the United Subsequently Senator Sargent de and Senator Ingalls was ap In making he appoint ment the President pro tern stated that it was his intention to appoint one Republican and one but on noticing the appointments by the House ho had determined to ap point two The Senate then proceeded to the hall of the House of to take part in the count of the elec toral Alter pray er by the Kasson call ed or the reading ol the journal 01 yesterday in to consume the which must expire before the counting oi tho electoral aud io prevent a vote on a resolution re ported from the on the election in The Chair appointed as tellers on the part of the House in counting the electoral vote Cook ami Tho Speaker laid belore tho House a communication from Justice President of the Electoral stating that the mem bers thereof had taken the pre scribed and that the Commis sion was ready to its The Senate resolution to for tho publication of the pro of tho Payne offered resolution di recting the Clerk ofi the House to inform the Senate that it was ready to receive that body for the purpose of opening and counting the electo ral tur President and Vice The House then took a Tho House resumed legislative Hopkins moved the pre vious question on the resolution re ported last night from the Florida investigating but objec tion was tho Republican sde to any action on the matter until after Alter souio debate the Florida question was left over until and the House took a recess until ten oclock tomorrow Hampton New dispatch from Columbia says that Hampton has granted a pardon to one a colored prisoner in the Chester county jail and the sheriff refused to release the pris oner on the ground that Hampton was not tho legal governor of the Judge Mackey issued a writ of habeas on tho petition ol the and yesterday the case was argued Mackey decided that Hampton was the legal govern The sheriff promptly appealed the case to the Supreme Turkey Trying It dispatch from Constantinople says it is believed that tho Porte in its negotiations with Servia is disposed to require as a guarantee the continued occupa tion of Montenegro in reply to Pashas dispatch to treat direct for peace accepts the proposal to nego and requests the Porte to state the conditions it will accord as a basis of Ameri can medium has gone to Russia to fill an engagement Ice ice in front of the city has moved several times but no damage has been done so m 1 uo will lers that ine li j I of I IIP Everything Harmonious Down Cry Florida will mu on by llin During the recess o the Honse preliminary to the arrival of the Senate the buzz of conversation was Among the distinguished persons on the floor are nearly all the the anl connel by the national commit The galleries find more than half present arn Justices Field were Jirst of the Judges to They en tered without took chairs to the left of the main At two minutes one the Speaker announced of and tho of the House at the Speakers tap while the preceded by its Tiled down rhenium and took peats in the tour on tho Democratic of the Tho President of the Sen ate took the chair near the on his Till TO When the Senators and in were hp President of the Convention of the two Hoti lea oi Congress for count ing the votes tor President and ot tkc United States will now come to Perfect silence the President of the Senio in obedi ence to the the Senate and or Representatives have to be tit he opening of the nnd counting and declaring the ni The elcc lora vote the of Presi dent and V oi the the term of Jour commencing the Un day of March In compliance with the President of the Senate will now proceed in tbe presence of tbe two Houses to open all the cer li lie the several and in alphabetical beginning with tho STATE OK then the strong box containing i he was carried in by Assistant DoorKeeper of the and placed on the desk before the President of the who opened and taking trom it the certificates from tbe Sute of it to tho tellers who were sitting Just be low him at tho Clerks and Senator one of the read the inscription in The result of it all being Samuel of New and of received the ten electoral votes of The President said tat received Iroin Alabama having ueen tbe duplicate certificate receiv ed by mail would be Stone was reading lae certificate When he was interrupted by who it wa hardly necessary to read but when the first corti ticate was by one teller the other tellers look over the duplicate in order that comparison bo The resident of the Senate asked whether there was any objection to the and there being he dated would be Stone hav ing resumed ami completed the reading of the the presid ing officer said there my ob jections to the State of Alabama at lev i The Chairman hears ion vote of the State of be One oi liio tel will announce tho so there will bo no result was announced by The same ceremony was observed in reference t tbe next that the read ing of the duplicate certificate was The result was and the votes were given for Til MI and The next Slaf with six for li 3 and Then with three Hayes and Wheeler im votes for Tilden and and with three votes for Til den and Then from received through a messenger on the 51at of and a corresponding one received by on the 30th of This third one is an authentication of the act of the elector who voted for Tilden and and is made by the present After haJf an hour waa pent In reading the papers accompanying the third Senator Conk ling proposed that the reading be re garded as completed and the result as under a lato act of Congress all the wiMd be referred to tbe raisin yx amine such There being 110 it wa The presiding officer asked wlit tSi er there were any objections to counting the vole of iud Representative Field sent to the Clerks desk a written objection to tbe first certificate lor Hayes and signed by Senator Jones of Cooper and McDonald of and by Jenoey and The objections were referred to tho Electoral and the Sen ate returned to its own n one A ii oi tier Baton Tei Dollar Scheme Wuo Were in of Ore was and the teller preceded to read the Tho reading of the first certificate the votes for Hayes and Then the presiding officer h tne teller certificate received from that which was read by and showed the four votes tor Tilden and The former certificate was by the late the latter by Then the presiding officer handed down to the tellers still another certificate Debt shows a decrease month of ol Com on Privileges and Duties of the House In counting the electoral today recalled Mad who had read an explanation of his refusal to reply to questions yes His refusal was because of disinclination to commit a breach of and he asked for a delay that Wells might make a full but as the Governor did not do so he was now ready to He said that before Wells wrote the letter to him he had a conversation with him in regard to the political situation and the difficulty with the Returning The Governor proposed that wit ness should go to Washington and explain the He concluded to write a general letter to wit ness as and he also wrote another letter to a friend in When witness arrived at Wells office next one letter was finished and he was In the act of writing the Wit ness brought away tho letter to him the other it was ad dressed to Senator West but was never Wells said his life was in as he had a very difficult job on and did not see how he could get through with Wells stated that he like to serve his party In making a return in fa vor of but would not take the risk unless paid for The ma was very too much lor him to and he did not know where to commence to throw He said the probability was he would have to throw out the vote of New on the tho witness thought he of Wells asked him to go to Washington and see influential men and obtain protection or and also to see whether he could not get the required money to satisfy Wells said he ought to have Witness showed to the President and Secretary Cameron two letters addressed to him by He told the Secretary that Wells wanted but the Secretary declined to nave any thing to do with the The money Wells required was fo protect The programme was that the vacancy in the Board should be and that Wells should resign in anger on that Tho witness having heon interro gated in relation to telegrams sent to Wells under the assumed name of said it was understood between him and Wells that if the Republicans at ton failed to bring then the witness to uso in negotiating to as they were mads i and that he shou a second 1 te word held in the to Wells signifies that he was to hold the re turns in such situation as to make them available at if the first negotiation Wells stated to witness that he wanted for himself and Anderson at least a and a smaller sum for dar kies or negroes of the Returning When the witness returned to New Orleans he had a conversa with Wells about the failure of the when Wells sug gested that the witness should en deavor to make some arrangement with the Democrats witness an effort in that direction tmt did not The idea of the witness was from what Wells that he would throw outvotes to the best in order to produce cer which would depend on the alleged gible elector from testified teday before the Senate Committee on Privileges and He has not been postmaster since the 14th of November when he tel graphed his resignation to the Post who corroborated tho testi mony of Me tbe Story an ana Part of a Cou ID jure New Heralds Washington correspondent following report of an interview with of the Louisiana Re turning in relation to the ev idence given yesterday before the House Committee who is confined in the was interviewed by a Herald who do you know Madd x f very well I have known him since the days of the Mexican that since A copy of the letter reading as follows You fully understand the situation cant you advise with me in relation then read to the Ho Bald 1 wrote such a letter to bat not in connection with the subject yon have The story as it has beon reported to me is an Infamous baseless as it is I am anxious to be heard in my or at least to tell my and when the time perhaps I may be able to tell more than be agreeable to my You say I was to sell out for What one not for forty would I betray my party This is a matter of princi ple and I can only explain this series of damnable lies as a part of a con to injure Witnesses were brought 400 miles to malign my Wells explained that if he had been in the business his friend Maddox was not the man to whom he should have confided the Do you know what Littlefield has testified J have heard an of his It is a part of the job to bring the Returning Board into It is a trick to injure our reputation before Congress and the people of the but it will There is to be an exposure on the other aide of the in a few that will set many matters are not now in their right The Democrats forget that there are two sides to the and it will be made to appear that Hayes can be quite as warmly defended by his friends as Tildens friends have been zealous in their to the Republican vote in Wells said he had not made nor did he intend to any application for a writ of habeas corpus such step could not be taken without his It was his purpose to re main quietly in the bastile until the 4th ot he he would be certified to the Court and released on lie would not now say what would be the tenor of his statement before the His contempt was thus far confined to his refusal to deliver up papers before the Returning perhaps this would exclude him from the of making any statement before the House there another committee in tbo Senate aud it might be that he would be summoned to appear as a witness before tho Senate Com at all events he could afford to patiently wait until the time came to refute part of the infamous lies which had been told about Senator from the Com on Privileges and made a report to tho Senate today under the last clause of munds instructing that committee to inquire into the under the constitution of any person alleged to Have been in eligible as a Presidential elector on tbe 7th of November to whom certificates of election have been is sued by the executive authority of any The report covers three cases of alleged ineligible The first is that of of New Jersey that of of Missouri and that of of Jn the case of the New Jersey elec the committee find that Wil was about twenty five years ago appointed by the Circuit Court of the United States a Com and he never resign ed the The committee that the taid Williamson M ineligible M an elector on the 7tb of Ho Williamson and did not attend tho meeting of the electoral and tho vacancy was filled by the elec tors The committee find that under the statutes of New Jer the electors could legally fill such In the case of Daniel of committee find that prior to the rebellion he was an of ficer in the United States army had taken tho oath required also that he had been a member of the Missouri and prior to that time had taken the oath to support tho constitution of the United States also that he was an in the Confederate Tho commission further find that these facts rendered him ineligible to bo an under the third section of the Fourteenth amendment and tho Commit tee also find that Frost received a pardon from the President of the United on tne 28th of Octo ber and they also lino as a con of that this pardon did not effect a removal of his disabili ties as imposed by the 14th Amend the report holding that this could only be done by a twothirds vote of They also find as a conclusion of theat the elec college of Missouri had no authority under tho laws of that state to fill the vacancy caused by the nonattendance of and their acton in so doing was In the case of of Virgi the Committee find he was a Centennial Commissioner at the time of the that such office is ono of trust under tho constitu aud that ho was therefore ineligible to bo an Holliday did not attend tho meeting of tbe electoral and those present filled the vacancy which the Committee find they could legally do the statutes of The Committee further find in tho Oregon case that the certificate given to Crouin is indefensible in either law or and that Cro nln was not entitled to act as a Presidential THE LAST rue Florida Case Sent to tbe lion Ar Verbatim ol February The tripartite committee met at three oclock today In tho room of tho Supreme Court at the Tho journal of the pre ceding session was corrected and A communication from the two houses of Congress in joint session was presented by Secretary of the which read as follows Hall of the House of Representa To the President of the Commis sion Moro than one return or purporting to be tho or certifi cate of the State of having been received and this day opened in tho presence of the two honaes of and objections thereto having beon tho said with all the accompanying and also objections thereto are here with submitted to the judgment and decision of the Commission as pro vided by Signed President Senate After some consultation and sug gestion as to having the certificates and accompanying papers read Rep Payne moved that the with the bo printed at as early an hour as possi Agreed Presiding am requested to call for tho names of tho counsel who appear in tbo case on each Representative have several on our We have of New Judge of Pennsylvania Judge of Illinois of and of New Justice Counsel not exceeding two in number on each side are al lowed to participate in the argu Representative have not selected 1 only mentioned names to you in the ques tion how many there are who are counsel in the We shall ar range that matter in tbe course of the Presiding will an Who are the counsel on the other side representing ob jection to certificates other than those that have been in the enumeration by I will state Stanley Math and myself are expected to represent objections in some of the which will ap Senator Sargent in reply to question of the Commission as to which of tbe objectors would pre sent the case aside from gaid on it is Continued on
