, 1873-02-11
CHICAGO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II,

AA$ Aosct
Executive Committee Of Louisiana, tostiflod
Flo end there waa a settled conviction among
TIC Republicans tIst tho election "a, 70 30 car.
riotl ~ iral1ti and 1t was generally admitted by
the Fusionsta thai they moant to, II necossary.
In tho majority Of parisheu tho election WAS
lair, though in aome paslshos 1t WAS not. III
St Now 4Ioann ta to count was Rroty fa
gother. In tho Sixth Ward, 120 yotoH wero rog-
istorod from ono house, It was discovered during
tho counting 9f THO yotns that r; II. Bennett &
ticket, bearing tho namos Of FupIon candidatos.
It y 1lndorhtood they Woro taken to Tho Meohhn-
ics' Inntltute. It wau his opinion they wero In
tended for stufllng baflot-bo1ea; thought thoy
The witness said ho hnl Deputy Msrshnla at va
Orleans. le th{nks tho majority Of tllom only
sorvoa ono day. though some Of them aeryod
seventy days. Thinks that two werb appointed
for each ward sixty days bofore the election
paid thom for only ton days; which was all tho
law allowed; Increased tlse number of Special
Depntios 30 ~ to Aayo ono In ehcll parish had
inBtruotfona about tho election; don't know that
they wero about tho polls during tho election
thinks lo made roqulstion upon the Attorney
| General previous to tho election for paying tho
Of having any communication with any official
| in Washington concerning tho election before 1t
occurred made reqisition upon Gonoral
| Emory for troops to be stationed In Homo out
| os, which DO apprehoitlod would bo opposed
thinks tho first roquisition was made about two
woeks before tho oleotion, and ono Immediately
Lofore tho election At tho instance of m United
| Htatoa Supervisor. The troops were furniHhcl
in ovory instance, and at dosignatod ponta dur
| Ing tho election.
| Pending tho further examination Of Packard,
| the Committee went into socret seas.on on tho
Caldwell examination, and anjournod till to-
| morrow.
Tho sonate Committee On Privileges and Eloc-
| tions reported to-dny in part on tl1e Louisiana
eano In hoh toy say IhG election OF tho
hut tho official returns Of election hayo not beon
counted by tho Returning Board created by the
laws Of Louisiana for that purpose, and tho per-
sons who, III fact, mntlo tho examination and
election Of Grant electors is cortiaol by
the Lynch Returning Board, but tho Board
did not hare the official returns before thom,
and thoir election is not certified by tho Gov
| ernor Of tho State, aa required by act OF Con-
gross. Tho Committee arc Of tho opinion that
| noithor tho Senate Of tho United States, nor
both houses Jointly, haye tho power, undor tile
Constitution, to canvass tho returnB Of an eloc-
hnvo boon elected Presidential Electors, but
| that tho mode md manner Of choosing Electors
aro loft exclusively to tho statos. As to tho
| other questions upon which the Committee wero
/
d legal State Government In Louisiana, md tho
admission Of tho Senator from that 6tate, thoy
arc not now prepared to report"
Tho report says tho claim by the Lynch Board
| OF tho right to count the attidayits OF persons
rofuHed registration, undor the law for the en-
forcoment of tho Fifteenth Amendment, ia un-
founded. In tho twonty-thrd section Of the
| act 1t ia provided that, If any pcrson has been
defeated in obtaining IN office by reason Of such
denial to any porson or porsons of tho right to
vote OIL account Of race, color, or previous con-
diton of servitudo, such person may bring suit
N tho Courtg Of the United States to recover
tho Office. But tho section expressly pro-
tend to candidates for State Logislatures,
nor for Congress-, nor Electors for rrcsi-
don't and Vico President. The report also
says that Governor Warmoth, under tie act Of
1870, had the whole machinery Of tho election in
Ills own hands. He had tho appointment Of tho
Supervisors OF Registration, and in different
parishes tho appointment Of Commissioners Of
| Election. and those oalcera with but fow excep-
who wero opposed to tho Republican party, and
VIC think from the informal evidence before the
| 1soturning Board, and from what this Commit
teo has learnoa in tho course Of this inyostiga-
tion thora is little doubt that those advantages
were usod to tito utmost, and overy means wore
rosortod to in order to socuro the triumph Of tho
party With which Governor Warmoth was aoting.
Great difficulties were thrown. In tho way Of the
regiatration. Republicans In many of the
parishes wore put to g1oat Inconvenience to find
tue, Registrar, audin many instances we're unable
to do 80. Tho places Of registering and Of vot-
ing In many parishes wore fixed At points re-
mote from tho centre Of population, ofton
without notice OF the place being given. Falso
repatriation papore, double voting, stuniug bal
lot-boxos, ard d ether frauds md M ir1eglarite5
there is not nauol room to doubt that. tho
"Lynoh Returning Board wore Of the opinion
that, upon d fair election, tho Republican party
would hayo carried the State and haa beon
ohoatod mud hindorod IN oyery way possible by
tho power that controlled the machinery Of cleo
ton but, notwithstanding all this, tho "Lynch
Board" =" with the sort Of evidence which was bo~
fore them, had no power, undor tho law Of tho
State, to investigate tllese charges Of fraud aud
injury, aud to act upon their convictions Of the
| wrongs that had been aufforod.
Mr. Trumbul1 disseuts from the portion Of tho
report in which the opinion is Expressed that tho
Lynch Board :" believed that on fair e1ec-
tion, the Republican pnrty would have carried
the State, and Ind beon cheated and hinderod in
every WY by tho party that controlled the power
and machinery OF tho election
CREDIT MOBIEtER.
| THE WILSON COMMITTEE.