Litchfield enquirer., 1871-05-18
Legislative.


 l lature re assembled, and the Committee on Canvass of Votes reported tue facts con- cerniEg the Enfield mistake, the Cheshire outrage, and the New Haven fraud. The evidence in these cases was reported in l our last. except that the committee had not then finished taking the testimony of thnsA who voted for Jewell in the New Ha- ven Fourth Ward. They report that 544 electors of that ward, whose names were l checked on the voting list in April, ap- l peared before them in person aad testified l that they voted the entire Republican State l ticket, with the exception of one who voted for Hotchkiss, for Lieut.. Gov, and one | who voted for Kendrick for Congress. It l was proved by other competent testimony ! that six other electors voted the straight Republican ticket in that ward, that four teen other known republicans also voted there; and ten Republicans testified that they voted there for MT. English, for gov ernor. In view of this evidence, of the unaccountable difference between the State and Representative votes found in the re. spective boxes of this ward. and of the other proof that 579 votes were cast for Mir. Jewell on that day, the committee found the following facts: F. .a.-ss 3I A
 That one hundred < clean'' Democratic votes 
 didates for State Officers, Judge of Probate, Sen ator and Member of Congress from the Sec ond Congressional District, were, during the sorting and counting of the votes, fraudulenty placed among and with the votes honestly cast that said one hundred fraudulent votes were counted, and after the count were placed in the box, with the residue of the votes, the moderator having no knowledge of the fraud. u ss .,.-,
 the town clerks office, one hundred 'sclean" Re- publican State tickets, containing the names of all the Republican candidates for State Officers, Judge ot Probate, Senator and Member of Con- gress rom the Second Congressional Dfstr ict, were fraudulently abstracted from said box,- by some person or persons to the committee un- known. By this theft the number of votes left in the box was made to correspond with the number actually given, and thus double fraud was com- mitted upon the electors of this State. - .ls.s |
 Tbey therefore reported the true vote in that ward as follows: sa %4a a1it3 5Eat
 FOR GOVERNOR. '+hst's 7- Marshal Jewell I57s Jane; P tEs E English sls
 EngHSh. .!. ...... .. l
 FOR LIEUTENANT-GovERNoR. T4} .. Morris Tyler. .5s6 Julius ,Hotchkiss: coz
 -.,.....ff FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. "a Hiram Appelman. .591 Thomas M Waller .6s7 -.rts-s as s4sIl FOB TREASURER. ..o Es.,sh..,ts r.. David F. Nichols. :. .592 Charles M. Pond .. GOA ID FOR COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 5t James w Manning. .593 Seth s. Logan . E. .6O4 The whole vote in the State they ,re-y ported as follows: Jewell. AT, ,473; English, 47,373; Scattering IA ia The rest of the Re publican State ticket was also declared. elected.A s.53"t3d sAi4ItA s53Asf ID Lia
 A resolution declaring declaring Mr. Jewell elected Governor was then offered, and MT. Treat, Chairman of the Commit I tee, supported, his report in an. able ad- dress, Mr. Ingersoll, of New Haven. re- piled. Mir. Wait, of Norwich, followed, and the House, adjourned till evening. Mir. Eaton then addressed the House and was replied to by by MT. Hall, of Winc- ham The debate was closed on motion of MT. Bishop, of Bridgeport, and the res olution passed by strict party vote: yeas, 123; nays, 100. Resolutions were then passed declaring the rest of the Republican State officers elected. .,z,, '.'' v
 It was a noticeable feature of the debate that none of the Democratic speakers dared deny the obvious fraud in New Ha- | ven, although. they raised all the doubts | regarding it of which their limited material | would admit. They relied, principally on | their constitutional objection to going be- hind the returns. On the proof of fraud, the Republican arguments were overwhelm ing and unanswerable. and they indignant ly repudiated construction of our Consti- tuition which would close the door to any redress of so obvious an .iniquity. af1Ia',
 The Senate received these resolutions on Thursday, and passed them, by a Oiva 'Yocs vote, the Democratic Senators not voting. An attempt to put an insulting protest on record was promptly voted down. Il to g, Among other business before the legisla- ture we notice the petition of John 8. Bur. ritt, for. release from State, Prison (he was sent from this county about years since). of the Shepaug Valley Railroad for exten- sions, north and south, and resolution