The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-07

was found inside the consolidated statement
OF the votes, the Commissioners statements
and tally sheets. Attached to the returns
were q large number OF protests and aft.
davits.
The Secretary of the Board said that the
package had been received on the 18th inst,
and such was the entry in his receipt book.
The returns, he said, had come by mail. In
the course of inspection II was discovered
that one of the protests OF the Supervisor,
charging general intimidation, was dated
November 20, and sworn to in this city be.
fore Commissioner OF the Circuit Court.
When called upon to explain how a protest,
sated1 on the 25th inst. to-day could get
into sealed and registered package
received by mail on the 18th inst, the Score.
tary said he had received two packages. He
was detected by one of the Democratic
counsel present in the act of making another
entry in his book Of the two packages re.
ceived.
After some delay another package was
produced, and found to contain a censoli.
dated statement Of the votes and the Com.
missioners' returns, but no protests or affida-
Wits. The members of the Board were una.
BILE to explain the matter, and Senator
Sherman, of the Republican Visiting Com
mittee, remarked that there was no use To
disguise the fact that the returns had been
ropened and the protests inserted after the
package of returns had been received.
The affair created quite sensation among
the members of the committee present.
The members of the Democratic Commit
tee were very outspOken in the opinion that
a fraud had been perpetrated, and the Re-
publicans did not deny that the affair had a
very peculiar aspect.
The Democratic counsel say that similar
thing had occurred in the case of other par
ishes, but that as they were not admitted
until to-day there was no opportunity to dis.
cover the frauds.
New Orleans, November 27.-The Return.
ing Board met at II a. M, all the members
being present. and large crowd in the
lobby. The visiting Republicans were
Messrs. Stoughton Van Allen, Kelly, Park,
and Hale; Democrats, Messrs. Palmer,
Smith, Trumbull, and Julian. Democratic
counsel were present during the proceedings.
After calling the Board to order, President
Wells stated that the Board would decline
to hear read any motions or protests what.
ever.
The Board thereafter went into executive
session, and the room was cleared of all
persons, except the members of the
Board examined returns from the
following parishes and wards viz:
Bienville, West Baton Rouge, Bossier; Cald-
well, Carroll, Claiborne, Jefferson, More
house, Rapides, Red River, st. Landry,
Webster, VIM, and the First, Second,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fiji.
teenth, and Seventeenth Wards of the
Parish of Orleans. These returns were ex-
amined and laid over for future
action, there being protests and contests in
each case. In the Seventh Ward of Orleans
Parish the Supervisors threw out the vote
OF one of the polls, where there was ma
jority of 173 Tor 1ilden Electors, on the
ground that the vote had not been counted
aud returned within twenty.four hours after
the close of the election. The Board adj.
journed until ten o'clock, a. H., tomorrow.
NEW ORLEANS. November 3O.-The East
Baton Rouge case was called up. The
boxes from the seven polls in which the
Commissioners returns and tally-sheets had
been locked up, either by error or design,
were brought before the Board, that they
might be opened to obtain the result of the
election at those polls, the Parish Supervisor
having omitted any mention of them in his
consolidated statement. After long dis.
cussion the Board decided not to open the
boxes or to consider any statement as to
the vote other than that received by the
Supervisor. Similar action was taken in the
case of Tongipahoa, where the vote of one
poll was not returned by the Supervisor.
By this action the Democrats lose !, i36 votes
in East Baton Rouge.