Evening star., 1876-12-02
THE CONTESTED STATES,
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE DUAL LEGISLATURE.
A telegram from Columbia last night says:
1.-The situation is but little changed, and q
proposition has been signed by the two
speakers to adjourn The respective houses
simultaneously, to meet to- morrow at II IN.
with the status OF each unchanged. This is
to take effect Immediately, provided General
Ruger Will agree. Gen. Ruger refuses on the
ground that he must obey orders if he re-
ceives them from Washington. The houses
VIII not, therefore, be likely to adjourn. Sew
eral republican members have signihed their
| intention TO abandon the Mackey organiza-
| ton"
FLORIDA
THE WAR OF AFFIDAvITS.
The returning board met yester,lay. Tho
republicans introduced the following wit
nesses:
| Vance coloret. clerk at Archer nre-
cinct, swore that the election was fair and
regular, and that S35 votes were polled: that
the certificates were made out to show this
number of votes, and were regularly signet
| by Moore and Dakes, inspectors.
| i. III. Black, cOlOred, testified that he was
| inspector of Archer; that 535 votes were cast.
| counted and put in certificate regularly. The
democrats then filed objections to the vote of
| Duval county on the ground that So non
| registered men voted; that S3 men voted twice:
| that 16 under penal conviction voted: that l3
inmates of the county Jail voted; that the
registration list was padded and packed, the
only democratic member of the board OF
county commissioners being removed just
before the election to make room for fraud
| there The republicans filed objections to 20
votes in Nassau and q in Duval, on the
| grouI d that two paymasters of railroads gave
democratic tickets marked with certain num-
Ders 10 negro empIoyes, and told them they
would be discharged If those numbers were
| not found in the box; that these negroes.
through fear, did vote the numbered tickets,
and on various other grounds of intimidation
and violence; the republicans objected TO
jackson county on the general charge of in
timidating, violence and fraud, the specifica-
| tiOns: think democratic inspectors drove re-
publican inspectors away from the polls and
| then refused to receive : republican votes:
| that the ballot certificate was signed by in
| spectOrs; that they did not announce the vote
TO the crowd or any one else SIG votes; that
| the ballot-bOx was taken TO Nances house.
and that a party of democrats came and en-
deavored to induce him to take il to some
other place: that he refused 10 do so; that he
| did not put illegal votes i'm boxes; that no
one else did, witness was born in Philadel-
| pha, and educated in Edinburg.
| Ex-COngressman Walls, cOlOred. testified
| that he did not offer Dukes SIS or any other
sum to sign the affidavit introduced by the
| republicans.
Major McCare, colored, swore that he was
| in Beltons office on the 18th a I'd saw Dukes
put his mark to an affidavit that was read to
him. II was something about the Archer box
being placed on a low bench where voters
could not see ii; that one inspector took
handful of tickets ont of the box ahd put
them in his vest pocket; that all republican
votes were taken from the box AT one precinct
during the dinner hour when il was left open
and unguarded.
LOUISIANA.
THE RETURNING BOARD.
In the returning board yesterday there was
| the usual attendance except of the republican
committee. who were absent. Two boxes of
East BATON Rouge parish were opened, show
ing Tilden ell ctOrs had 49, and Hayes 10 votes
But little was done, when the board adj
1ourned until to-day.
REPUBLICAN REQUEST AND DEMOCRATIC
REFUSAL.
Senator Sherman, under date Of November
5Oth, addressed a communication To John NJ.
Palmer, stating that il was the intention of
the visiting committee of republicans 10 COM
municate 10 the President copies of the testi-
mony OF witnesses taken under order of the
| board OF returning officers before the COM
missiOners, but the committee had no means
OF getting copies of dispositions taken i'm
behalf OF the democratic candidates for cleo
tors. lie requested copies Ofsuch depOsitionS
promising To transmit TO the democrats copieS
| of the republican depOsitions.
| TO this General Pelmer makes reply tha
| the gentlemen with whom he is associated
| instruct him TO answer that they are extreme
| ly anxiors that all facts relating to the elec
| tlon OF Presidential electors in louisiana
| shall be known to the people of the United
States, but that the note OF the republicans
contains no assurance that the evidence col
lec;ed viii be laid before the country. They
| further instruct him TO say that upon thai
and other grounds they decline to be the
| medium of communication between repre-
sentatives of the President and citizens who
claim TO have been chosen by the people of
Louisiana at the late election as Presidential
electors.
THE COMMITTEE OF VISITING DEMO
| Gratis
Yesterday issued an address, setting forth
| that the democrats have been furnished with
| a certified copy of the duplicate statements
OF votes made by the commissioners of elec-
ton at each place of voting in the state
| From these statements il appears that the
Iilden electors received the following votes,
| TO wit:-McEnery, S5,712; Wyckliffe, IS $50:
| st. Martin, S3,676 Poche, S3, %; Deblancs
1866; Seay, Is, ,Si2; Cobb, $3.50; Cross S3 6J2.
and the Hayes electors received the follow
| ing votes, to wit:-Kellogg, ~ ,153; Burch
Z. ,1i4; Joseph, "a, $50; Sheldon, "A 844; Marks
| L5,2'; Levisse, 1880; Brewster, 15,45I; JEFF
Dental electors, as disclosed on the face OF
| the returns opened by the returning board in
our presence:-For the Tilden electors Nc
Emery, S2,223 Wyckliffe, SO ,326; ST. Martin
| s2,12s; Poche, So O36; Deblanc, 81 O65; Seay
S2,242; Cobb, 81 ,959; Cross, ~, 100. For HAYES
seph, 1852; Sheldon, 1868; Marks, 75,Os7;
Levisse, 75,15l; Brewster, 1870; Jeffrion
1880. They say:-'1NO one would claim
that Tilden and Hendricks were not entitled
to the electoral vote of the state. but i'm Lou
lslana tribunal has been set up which on
the people as expressed at the polls and for
which the power is now claimed in its dis
cretlon TO change the result of the popular
vote at the recent election. In view how
ever, OF the returns, and the law and facts
| which should control the returning board
lar, we have no hesitation i'm saying that the
result shown by votes actually cast cannot
be changed without a palpable abuse of the
letter and spirit OF the law governing the re-
turning board, and a manifest perversion of
the facts before IL. An honest and fair can
Yass OF the returns even under the Louisiana
law cannot materially reduce Tilden's ma
jorty, as shown on the face OF the returns"
Political Facts and Fancies.