, 1874-11-13
AFrTERNOON SESSION.
11fttaf.rlN III. TIRE 1sfliflI1

1,bn panrd ro,.sam,1ef nj ,1,a ,,o,,~,,er,,onod
tlo attendance Of npcctatora boiur la1ror than
curing tao morning session, nearly all oi tho
County Commissioners remaining, and q
number Of others having come ia to hear
! tho decision, since tho result might determine.
'oi.po'"tiy ~ tsnSs "no "as en''<'ea 70 repro
sent The Third District IL Congress. Among tho
now arrivals was Aid Corcoran, Of the Twenti-
9th Ward whose scat in the next Connci} IN
proei,et ~ .a Tan.ia, ~ wasa ,no '''' ~ 'D' 'A'
floclact VI LUG 1"ehtloth Hard'
After rapping on tho table to stop the CONVEX
satlonai buzz, tho County Clerk gayo tho deois-
r1non co,sul,at;or tho no,ra ot r,,,v,saox.
spsa so1"''Nou Nv no"!u " c"i's'eSc.S
naVe oec'"eu 70 adtn't the testimony or tho atfi-
darlss upon ono poiht J'dss TrumhuIl proposes
Of Evanston. tba rhir5 ~ tia EicI,teantt,
Word ~ H. H., ~ .ta n,.....as,' u,%'.
""eu' nne 'no ftse1 o. 'no i"ehtlesh Hard
Cannot De fecol'od bocauso they are no
returns at all. Upon that point tho Board has
decided to roooiye tho aflldAyits aud copaldor
them. II any other rcmarka arc to bo mado
,ll,ou that poiEt We arc roady to hoar them,
[Faint applause.1 I should state further that
tho Board haye positively decided as to tho
other pontH tho liogality OF votes. tho removal
Of the balot-box and tho rejection Of tic cl)al-
lenger,-uot to rocelYo eyidaieo regarding thon1,
MR. TRualnuL1.
Baid ho had no doubt that tho Board Ind come
to correct conclusion in regard to its power to
determine whether tho pnpere bolore it Scre re-
turns Or not, aad, perhaps, It tho objections l,ad
boon drawn with mora care, it would hayo been
seen that it was neyor intended to ash
tho Board to oonsidor lilo rcceip
Of illegal gokos in my other connection than at
showing such gross fraud al would rendor tin
returus utterly void; not Tor tie purposo Of
showing who had tho most or tho fowest votes,
lie had had 10 opportunity ii, tho discussion in
tho morning to roply to tho longthy argument Of
Mr. Swett upon tho morits Of tho case. aud ho
was relieved Of tho necessity Of doing 10 by tic
romark TINT not one Of tho authorities referred
TO touched tho question presented. Tho objec-
ton lo made was that the judges could BY no
! possibility DO qualified; That tlay wero person-
ally iucapacitatotl from acting. and. wheie tlat
wsb eo thoy could 10. make d return, And tho
only ,iso lo ever contemplated making OF
Tho aflldavitslproylng fraud in tho election was
| for tho purpose OF showing. In connection with
tho fact that the porHons Who aus,uned to act
as t1deoa could by no possibility hold the posi-
tioii,-that there bud also boon gross fraud aud
Irregularities In their conduct. Tor the reni
ob}oct, aftor all, ,yaa to ascortain who Ind ro
coiyed tho mott votes. and who WAS tho person
ontitlel to tho oflco, whatever it might bo. uo
then proceeded to show that it ,yaY e1tirply COM
petonr for the Board to nllnl1nQu aud swear wit
uossos for how could tI4ey nuke their inquiry
without doing that? The ai!ittayitH which ho
would pleaont upon tho point to which ilo l,nd
boon limited by tic Court would show certain
facts, and hc Understood there wore no a(jla-
Judge Doohwitli--Whon you read your afIIda-
Wits wu will road ours.
Afr. Tr11u1buli did not propose to road them at
length but on|y tho Substance of than, In