The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-24
FROM OUR OWN CORREsPONDENE1


THE CONTESTED ELECTION FOR Commemorative
LEGATION POSTPONED TO THuRsDAY-CITY PAssEN-
GER RAILRoAD-BALTMoREA AND ONO RAILROAD
Mr.. McALLIsTER REFoRMER-THE Police BILL,
ETC.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 3d. 1860.
large number of witnesses in the case of the
tested election for Comptroller, &c, came down this
morning in the cars from Baltimore / also obser-
we'd the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
city and his counsel Mr.. Schley. This investiga-
ton may be regarded pro forma merely, as the
evidence in the contested elections for Delegates
from the city of Baltimore has settled the fact that
the whole returns are void on account of violence
and fraud, and so far as the vote of the House is
concerned that may be regarded as foregone con-
clusion. How far the decision of the House of Dele
gates will affect other elections of which it is not
constltutionay the Judge, may be a question. 1t
will certainly be an anomaly if the Senator from
Baltimore should hold his seat in a coordinate
branch of the Legislature by virtue of returns which
the other branch has declared void. The fate of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Judges of the
Orphans Court, will of course, follow the decision of
the House in reference to the Baltimore delegation
1t is believed here that the Senator will share the
fortunes of the other representatives from Balt-
more ard that the decision of the Judge of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city will correspond,
in all the matter in which he has jurisdiction with
that of the House of Delegates.
On motion of Mr.. Freaner, the Committee on
Elections obtained leave to sit during the Sessions
of the House with view of hearing the witnesses
from Baltimore, but, on assembling it was found
impossible to proceed to-day with their examiua-
ton The Committee therefore adjourned till Thurs
day next, when the witnesses from the first ten
wards are to appear before them.
| do not believe that the Philadelphia swindie
has any show here, in spite of the number of sol
distant Democratic lobbymen it has attracted to its
Northern operators is well understood, and the
utmost that they can hope, is that they will be al
lowed fair compensation for their bona tide outlay
your streets for tracks and cars. They will be
largely out of pocket in the amount which
spent in the lobbes of your City Council, and
what they will spend in Annapolis.
Your reporter here, or your compoSitor in Balti-
more, makes sad work with the names of members.
Mr.. McKaig, of the Senate, is often spelt Mckay,
and the remarks of the Chairman of the Committee
of the Judiciary, in opposition to the motion of Mr.
Kraft. last Friday, to make the Baltimore Police
and Election Bills the order of the day for Monday
should, of course, have been Mr.. Gordon.
The trouble in your Corn Exchange is attracting
attention here. Mr.. Seth. of the sitting delega-
ton, offered an order this morning requiring Mr..
j. E. Tyson to be summoned to testify to the
discrimination against the trade of the city of Bal
tmore, alleged by him to have been practised in
the last season by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. special committee was raised to make
the investigation.
Mr.. McAllister is the only reformer. He buses
himself with order after order looking to inves-
tigation into abuses in your city. A few DAYS
since he moved for an inquiry into the offices of the
States Attorney, and the Clerk of the Criminal
Court for Baltimore city; to-day he offered orders
that the Clerk of Baltimore county report how
many indictments for selling liquor without license
had been removed to Baltimore county, and how
they had been disposed of, and that the Clerk of
the Criminal Court report what number of indct
ments for the offence have been found by
your Grand Juries, and how disposed Of. If Mr.
McAllister intends to turn States evidence, and
lay bare all that he is privy to, in the matters into
which he proposes these inquiries, the case could
not be in better hands. But Mr.. McA. took
other step to-day, which, as friend of reform, |
could have wished had come from the other side He
asked leave to bring in bill to provide for Reg
istrv Law throughout the State. Inasmuch however
as he did not ask for a special committee but had
the leave referred to the Standing Committee of
the House Elections, it looks as if he wished to
claim the credit for measure which he is not
prepared to elaborate. He should be required to
embody the views of his party, Or at all events, his
own, in BILL
Some speculation was excited here by the motion
made in the City Council of Baltimore to take i'm
mediate steps to re-organise the Police, under the
powers now vested in the city. This is regarded
as, in all probability, an attempt to fix the terms
of the policemen and others affected by the Police
Bill for some years, under the idea that they can
then hold on to the Office as a vested right. We
shall look tomorrow for development of the
scheme in your report of the doings of the COun-
ell this afternoon In the meantime the worthy
clubs and their worthy congeners need not lay the
fattering JUNCTION to their souls that the Legisla-
ture of the State is at all alarmed at the tone of
their organs, their own demonstrations. 1t in
tends to put the power of the law into the hands of
the law-abidng, and the conservation of society
into the control of the conservative. do not see
a symptom of shrinking from the responsibility
devovng upon it, the least evidence of any
change of purpose. The laws which are proposed
and will be passed, contain within themselves pro-
visions for the immediate testing of their consttu-
tonality by the recognized tribunals OF the State.
If questioned they will be submitted to this test, if
afiEmed they will be enforced. If anything can
make this result certain, and add strength to the
opinion which demands stringent legislation for
Baltimore it is the threats uttered there of
sistance to the authority of the State.