The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-06

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4 Proposes another Plan which Is
Accepted.
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:. BAITINoRE, Nov. Sin the Court
of Appeals this morning, Mr.. La
trobe, Dn behalf of the new Commits
sionerS, announced that the writ of
hubeas corpus had been served on the
warden of the Jail this morning, and
added that he had just learned that
the warden had been at the Court
House this morning without the pris~
oners that in reply to an inquiry
made by him, he had said his means
of conveyance were exhausted, and
that he had come hither get sup
ply. Mr.. Latrobe added in a sarcas-
tic strain that he thought there were
other back stands much nearer to the
jail than the Circuit Court room. He
would not say whether this was or
was moi merely continuation of the
efforts of the other side to consume
time. He did thlpk, however, that it
| looked like il.
Judge Bartol reminded The counsel
that the warden was not obliged tol
tImake 4 return instantly, as the law
gave him three days in which to make
his rethrn.
I Mr.. schley said that he considered
That the intent of the law IN this par
tichlarhase was that three days should
be the utmost limit, and Anless there
was an unavoidable impediment, he,
the walden, was bound to produce the
wvmsu =, aeo xysAhn.rk Aalau
Judge Bartol SAID the writs were is
sued by him at B ufclock on Saturday
evening, butit appeared that for some
reason they were not served. until this
morning. A
Mr.. Schley begged that the Court
would lgiye reasonable tune further
| for the warden to make his return
aud produce the prisoners,M
IL :30 A. H.-The prisoners not ap-
lpearine, Mr.. Horwitz, on behalf Of
Sheriff Thompson, said: l4
l89f We have now waited aone hour
and half after the hour named for
the return Of the writ. Itswas appa
rent that the warden was seeking
| p9etext for delay. He, therefore, on
behalfsof his client, the high Sheriff,
prepared a petition that his Hon
or would command the Deputy Sher-
if to forthwith bring the Warden be-
fore the court, together with the high
Sheriff. Mr.. Schley said he would,
on behalf of his clients, have simi-
lar petition to offer. Mr.. Alexander,
| the Counsel for the old Commission
GERS, nbw appeared and expressed a
desire TO be heard on the subject. He
understood the Warden of the Jail
was now in consultation with Counsel,
and he had no doubt some return to
the wits would be shortly made
/ Messrs Schley, Latrobe and Horwitz
| desired TO know if Mr.. Alexander
could inform them whist the return
would be. Mr.. Alexander said he
wes NOT Counsel for the Warden and
could not say. He hoped and expect
cd, however, that by one O'Clock such
return would be made asswould rem
der any further proceedings here un-
Unnecessary.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 5.--Gen. Grants
visit To this city is understood to have
been, fpr this purpose !, II. the capacity
b2t q prtvatdicitlzegi, being soilcit0tis of
pfeserving the peace, to make to the
Peace commissioners of Baltimore,
ut the instance of Governor Swami,
the fol lowing Dfopgsitiohs: .gOH
lbNFirsG that each set of Commission
ers caAse their separate polls to be
opened in the several election dis
tricts, and receive such. votes as may
be decided legal BY theif Judges Of
dIectioh, and have their votes classi6-
cd and testified to the State Legisla-
/ ture and to Congress. The Police
Commissioners respectfully declined
TO entertain this proposition. as it
would be contrary to the election laws
OF the State, and that by accepting it
they would be guilty of worse malfeas-
ance in office than anythat had been
charged against them; that it was
their purpose to conduct the election
strictly in accordance with the pro-
visions lof the law and Constitution of
the State, and that it conAicted with
The next proposition that was
made ID substantially as follows:
That the old Commissioners an
point one Conservative judge of the
three to be appointed at each of the
polls. That these judges receive the
votes of those presenting themselves,
and who are found to be upon the
= several registers; that two sets of
ballot boxes be used, in one of which
are to be deposited the votes accept
ed and in the other those rejected.