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CONNECTICUT.
Meeting of the Legislature.
CanSaSsing the Vote for Cover
nor.
Radical Organization of the Legis

lature.
HARTFORD, CONN, May 3.-The Legis.
lature convened to day. The House
chose Hon. E. H. Bugbee, of Kilhngly,
Speaker, and B. A. Hough, of Danbury,
and G. Fl. Cowell, of Waterbury, clerks
all Republicans. A joint committee
on the canvass of the votes for State
officers was raised, TO whom was referred
the report of the Board of Canvassers,
and petitions of the presiding officers of
the town meetings in New Haven, Enfield
ard Cheshire, praying that evident errors
in return from those towns be corrected.
In the House debate arose on the reso-
luton giving this committee power to
sent for persons and papers in order to
fully investigating the facts about these
returns claimed to be erroneous. The
Democrats opposed the granting OF such
power, claiming it TO be unconstitutional.
The power will probably be granted, and
the Legislature adjourn until next week
to give the committee time for its inYes-
legations and report as to who have re-
ceived the majority of votes cast for
Governor and other officers not yet de-
clared elected.
LATER. The House was occupied
through the afternoon to-day in the dis
cussiOn of the resolution giving the Com
mittee on Canvass of the votes for Gov
ernor and State officers power to send
for persons and papers, and to open
sealed bsllot-boxes where protests and
petitions claim that there are errors in
the returns. The Democrats offered
amendments referring the subject to the
Judiciary Committee and the Supreme
Court. The amendments were voted
down and the resolution passed giving
the commit ee the above power, also
empowering them to sit during the recess
and to hold sessions at such places in the
State as they shall deem expedient. Both
houses have adjourned till Wednesday,
May 10. Meanwhile the committee will
examine into the alleged errors in New
Haven, Enfield and Cheshire, and see
who has actually received the msjority
of the votes cast for Governor. If No
one has a majority cast, the Legislature
will elect Wednesday by ballot.
If, after ascertaining the facts in the
above cases, it shall appear that either
candidate has majority, that candidate
shall be declared by resolution to be
elected. The usual Inauguration parade
will probably occur on Thursday of next
week.
More Figuring.
HARTFORD, CT, May 4.-The Legisla-
tive committee to canvass the votes met
at the StatehOuse to-day. Ingersoll, Sey-
mour and Nortbrup, the Democratic mem
bers of the committee who asked to be
excused from serving, were not present,
although the House did not vote to excuse
them. Evidence was taken in the Che
shire case, showing that 233 votes were
counted for Jewell and 216 for English,
and go declared and returned by the Re
publican moderator, while the Democratic
moderator declared the vote of Jewell 210
and English 216, and so returned it, de.
Quoting % votes from the Republican
ticket on the ground that the names were
informally registered. There was no
dispute about The count, and no evidence
to show for whom the % voted. In fact,
it appeared that only 81 of them voted st
all. All have been admitted as electors
and registered. The deduction of 90 was
made by the Democratic presiding officer,
from all the Republican candidates. The
evidence in the Enfield case shows "a
more votes declared than there are
names checked On the list. Both parties
believed it was an error in the count.
The ballot box was sealed at the close of
the count. The committee have gone to
Enfield this afternoon to count the votes
in the box. The committee will go to
New Haven tomorrow.
The Latest-2O Votes Taken from
English.
HARTFORD, Conn, May 4-The Legis-
lative Committee examined the votes in
the ballot-box at Enfield to-day and found
that the package of votes for the Demo-
Gratis. The State tickets which had been
called off to the tallyman on election day
as containing SO votes really contained
but 76. The was rounded at the top
SO that on turning the figures bottom side
up it looked like 9, and looking at it
in this way when calling it off, the coun-
ter had given it to the tallyman as SO.
This takes 90 from the total vote of Eng
lish.
The Committee will 60 to New Haven
Friday, and should they find no error in
the count there, the real vote, according
to present developments, would stand
English AZ, 476, Jewell AZ, 479, scattering
II. As neither English nor Jewell, in
such a case, has the majority of all the
votes cast, the Legislature win have to
choose Governor by ballot.