New-York tribune., 1871-11-22
POLITICAL.
TIE VOTE FOR ALDERMEN

IiIE FOlE FOh ALDERMEN
ALLEGED FRAUD BY TIE BOARD or COUNTY
CANvAsSERa-THE COEOvER MANDAhUa
The mandanus which was obtained ON 90
turday from Judge Barnard, by Ianie d. Conoyer can
didate for Alderman. to compel count m the h,c,
manic ticket by the Board Of Csnvsssers came Nm v.
Frday In tho Supreme Court
Mr. OIOrman said that he counsel for the po.,d ~,
Canvsers. had been called upon to make return IN ~,
fnandamus but the order had not put m h,, .,a
until late last evening It an important rn.i,.,
SEVERAL questions arising in 1t. II seemed to him q,
cursory examination that the law Of 1871 abolished an
trey the election tor the Board OF Alcr,nrn FOR An,
year and as the mnndamus required tho Board o, Gar,
TO count and certify he thought tiny ou.b, D,
have their day in Court to be he ri IN rccrcnce N th
question and therefore he asked that the Court nd
alter the pcrempfOry mandarin, 10 an srrnaiiy. u.,
damus returnabe at s0no future day On any .nerpr.
aon Of the law the County Canvassrrs had unii rr.v
to perform the work. 10 that there would bo 10 ham IN
the result.
hr Lawrence sald no did not any possible re.so,
why tho form Of the order should be- altered Il va.
drcson Of the Court. perap, Lite unrslal hn r,da
because there real danger. They Lad been ,,u
again and again that the Board peint 10 rount tbc.
tickets. Subsequent events had shown. however that
the Board simply trying W put the matter oR unt
they could get through with the Inspector. Of Eeeou
and thcn make their final announcement aud adjourn.
They would already have adjourned but for this inIn.
daDns.
Mr. O'Gorman replied that 1t a very UNUSUAL pro
cesding 70 issue peIeinptory ,nand'ma: H pc,t
judge Brady admitted that II wa, and sad lie To-
c,ined tn give th' III hearing.
Mr.. OGormau asked that the hearing be SC; down Toe
Thursday.
Mr. Cut0n said tho action OF the Borri was ,r,ndu
lent trick. and that there hardly time enough
lett for tho count II tn, hear RS sent over ua Inf
day. only two days would be Irf and he mater Ss
drag along slowly and there would be count On Pm
day they would have night to close Bc.r ,5cT, and
"A
Sir, tiorlnan read an affidavit by Alderman Coman
fn which 1t wiS stated that the Continuance u ths
nar.uus would he likely 70 create litigation and cod
the city millions VI dollars.
Mr. Beach. no appeared for the Board said that hey
were willing go with the count, and wond 20 on
with honestly. but meantimc they wanted Heard
IN Court. They desired that the argument be pu. ID
MI. Clinton still insisted that the argument should IN
Judge Brady finally determined that they should COON
with the count, but be heard this morning. sni Il Il
should appear that they had gone on with the count
without any delay. 1t might then In ADJOURNED uut
thursday. w suit MIR. BcacLs engagements.
ANOTHER MANDAMUS.
Otis r. Hall, candidate in the XXist As-
semby District for Assistant Alderman. also obtained
alternative mandamus, returnable Thursday 10
pei the Board OF Canvassers to show why the
the eistant Alder manic ticket should nOs be made
PROCEEDINGS OF TIE BOARD or CANvAssgRs-
CONTEMPT OF COURT AND OF COUNSEL.
When the Board of Canvassers reassembled
at u yesterday, Supervisor Plunktt took the char.
and announced that the canvass of the Adermanc
Assist mt Adernanic ticket would proceed forthwith
resolution was carried resembling former rssoutono
the Board which provided that during the Official can
vuss uOno but Supervisors and reporters he allowed
side the railing. This DONE the chairman stated
TO give the privilege Of being present Some
the returns being brought up from the County Ce
office, it was nearly o'clock before the
opoued. In the interim a mandamus served
on tho President Of the Board. ordering
the Supervisors to go once with tho
Assistant Aldermanc ticket This manasmus seened 70
he regarded q good joke and wss not even resd At
r4O the canvass began, but the Board Of Aldermen
met at O. taken. when the First and Second
Wards had been canvassed. When the votes for Alder
from the With District OF the First Ward wrr:
read Henry L. Clinton, on tho part OF Mr. COnove ini
others, demanded the Bureau Of Election returns fTom
that district The Chairman informed Mr Clinton th':
he had right whatever TO make any such demand ond
that tho Board would not listen to 1t. .
MI CunOn-But object to the count In that District
and demand 10 the Bureau OF Election returns
Superyisur Plunkitt-Tle Sergeant-at-Arms viii con-
pei the gentlemen who are nterruptins the BosrdA
Mr. Clinton consequently obliged to sit down. aod
the csnvass proceeded.
continued session until the canvass Of the Ihrf.
Fourth, Firth and Sixth Wards had boen completed Z
XIth District of the Fourth Ward the County CFrt
returns The supervisors returns read and
admitted as official !p the Sixth Ward The inspec2rsS
Districts motion OF Supervisor Cuddy sent form
order that the returns "ay be canvassed according TO
law" LII the XIth District Of the sixth Ward the Tam
many men assert that most garing and 6ungans N =.
tempt has been made 10 count them out In h insy a
trct Emanuel b. Hart TAM, and Edward schnceIhs
Cram receive ouly Is votes while the remainder o. oS
Tanmany ticket receives 326 votes The Tanlnany GAN
ddates clain that Schchting and HartS vote has been
taken bodily away and distributed among the hs9aoa
candidates The canvass OF tho Seventh Ward sp
pehfed cNate much merrme Mt among the supervisor
The Inspectors uf Election in eight Of the districts o hI
Ward sent for to correct the returns IN the A,
District tho votes were distributed among all the canL
dates literally tnat nearly 1000 more votes taaa s
district contains voters were on the returns
THE ALDERMANIC VOTE BY WARDS.
rAMNANr.