Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-09
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

bic, entertaining, courteous, truthful, tvids
it's story about the Secretary of the Navy and
cOnmod re Padding and knowing nsighbor,
(vids the winnings Of lis cote.is on the Vir.
ginia election) in its usual 90 csmmendabl
modest way, yesterday undertook to "brasep
ont" its previous statement that the Circuit
Court had given no decision in the Gruen
case, insisting that Its reporters account in
the Courts action amounted to nothing what
ever in law. Now We have procured from
Mr. Fendall oopy CT the decision as taket
doWs oy him as It was delivered and az a4
proUsd by the Court, to whom it was referred
for verifeation 1t is in these words: !
PoSnts decided by tie Circuit Court of IL.
Oistrset Of Columbia, Juas 4, 1885, bn
no pefif'oa of Tho aas j. Grme1, fol- a
n,andaStas commanding tbs Regisfed of
tn Corporation to inscribe tho peftt,osIr's
name on the tar lists and returns:
81 That foreigner naturalised since the
sist December last, who possesses the other
EXAMINATIONS required BY tho charter, is on.
ntled TO vote as the present electiou.
u That an alien who was q resident of
the City Of Washington previous TO the 3lst
| on the school tax list.
% That the tax lists having passed ont of
the hands Of the Register, he has no duty in
regard to them to perform; that the tax lists
are now 10 the hands of the Commissi oneIs of
hie,non, whose right and duty it is to receive
the votes OF persons within the for going de
scription, and having the other qualifications
/ required By the charter
1.-The mandanus is refused"
| The mandamus was refused, as explained
by the Court in our report published on the
day the case was decided, beoauseoat that
stage Of the business the list had passed out
OF tho hands of the register, against whom
the mandamus was prayed
As We remarked above, the judges examined
and verified this paper, and it went immedi.
ately to the clerk, with the understanding
that copies to be sen. to the different commits
sioners Of the election were to be made out
and certified to. We hear that they were
so made out and certifisi, but that the
clerk failed to send them as the court intended
through tbs Interference of an active leader
in the Know Nothing lodges of the city, the
clerk himself being a warm sympathissr with
Know Nothing politics 1t is said that he
eventually caused them to BE- destroyed. A
copy was subsequently certified to by one of
the counsel in tho case, and was sent to one of
the boards of election commissioners.
Such, We believe to be the true history of
the affair, differing not essentially as it will be
perceived, from the statement of it in yester.
days Star.
The decision ~ quoted above covers all the
points In issue 1t afirms the rights of these
naturaliEed citizens whose ballots wero re
jscied in tho recent election. The defense
for the fraud perpstrated in tho resssal of
tneir votes, is the allegation, that the commits
stone g. not the Circuit Court for the pissric,
Of Columbia, were he tribunal to decide What
the rig ts Of the rejected persons wsre. These
Know Nothing Commissioners were mono Q;
them men learned in the law. They wore ali
memo ers of the Same oath bound, secret pro-
scriptivs, poll society, with the never to
be forgotten Lowell witnesses Some of tbem
asjudges Of the election last year h ad received
without question, such votes as these rejected
ones. On the Saturday before this election
hey net, BY arrangement, at tho City Hall,
''to Teceice or (their) distractions" Al ono
Of them expressed himself in erquiring for
the room 10 which the conclave were to have
met. These instructions doubtless came frep
the same secret, midn ght.plotting authority
that planned the rascality, frauds and forci bic
means through which the dyes obtained il
legal possession Of tho Washington Monument
which were explained in full in the Star net
long since, over the sigma ures Of the highly
respected citizens who comprise the real board
Of management Of the Monuments affairs
Now, man with half an eye in his head
who reads the above decision Of our highest
court Of law, and then reflects on the mar
subterfuges, outrages, violations of rights, dis
reputable tricks, DO by which some seven
hundred citisens Of Washington were, on Mon
day last, defrauded Of their legal privilege of
voting, will perceive that they were all the
result Of deep laid scheme to transfer the
legal government Of this city from the
courts, on whom tho constitution and laws de
volSe it, to the Know Nothing lodges
In France, in the days of her first revolu
ton, the nominal authorities of the land did
In the day only what they were bid to do in
the night by their Know Nothing lodges in
midnight conclavs. Thoss biddings, as car
risd out. drsnched the kingdom in blood, and
robbed every man with anything to lose, who
failed to be an active partisan of the Know
Nothing lodges Of that kingdom and era.
Already in this city they have, by pre.ar.
raDgsmsnt, essayed to deprive some seven
hundred citizens Of their legal r gifts, under
the prstenee that not the judges of our law
courts, but persons selected from amopgst
themselves, all Of them bitter psrti.ans, IN.
learned in the law and comparatively igno.
rant, are Of right the final arbiters Of the
rights Of the citisen here. Tbs manner q
their appointment-all On one sids-was
. gross outrage on common honesty and
common dscsncy, and. convinced those who
have in this community INV thine "a La.