Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-27
FLORIDA.

The House Committee closed the in
vestigaton Of Leon County, on the 10Th No Off
cial report would be made on any county until all
had been Investigated The Senate Committee
had arrived at Tallahassee.
The Senatorial Committee was called
to order on the 18th by Senator Sargent Reporters
and the public were denied admission, the
Sergean alarms saving he had orders to admit no
one. Cards to the e Chairman were returned with
the statement that the session would be secret
The day was consumed IN examining the Repub-
lican members of the Canvassng Board Judge
Cooke was summoned to appear before the com
mittee.
The House Committee was at work on
the 18th. Eighteen negroes whose names were
on the poll-list in Leon County as having voted
there, swore thut they did not vote there and were
not at the precinct during the day
Both committees were in session at Tai
lahassee on the 10Th, the Senate Committee sitting
with closed doors. The House Committee had
fourteen coored witnesses before It, Their
names appeared the pol-list OF Precinct l3
in Leon County, and there re woes in the
box to balance the names on he list. Each
of them stated that he did not vote at
Precinct -. The case of Manatee Coun-
ty, thrown ont because there was no
Clerk in the county during the election, was called
mp. one witness appeared-Judge Graham. He
testified that the Clerk resigned just before the
election, and that the Governor did not fill his
place in time for the Democrats to register that
the Republican County Commissioners called an
election, which regularly held by in
spectors appointed by them, that no man was
allowed to vote at said election without first
subscrb bling to an oath which recited that he was
regularly qualified voter and was on the registry
list of the year before. The inspectors made no
returns carefully, and sent them to he County
Board which canvassed them. signed the canvass
an1 forwarded II to the State Board Judge Ora
ham had The orig nal papers contain ing the sigma
tn es of the voters In the evening tue Commit
tee left for Live Oak to investigate the Hamilton
County matter.
The Senate Committee had before them.
in secret session, on the 20th witnesses from
Monroe, Manatee and jackson Counties The
Secretary OF State furnished the committee a
mbuIated statement of the vote for Presidential
Electors on the lace of the returns figuring
up: Hayes, 4310, and TiGen, 24.311 This
Guiding retprn No. from Baker unity
which was, by the unanimous action of the
Board rejected, and other returns substitu ed
gives llden ll9 majority. III, investigation of
the jackson County returns produced evidence
that at Friendship Church precinct the voters
were compelled To pass their tickets through
window a foot above their heads and lost sight of
them before they were deposited in the box;
that the Republican Supervisor was driven
from the room, and that votes were csnvassed
two miles from polling places. The committee
also took the testimony of the Judge of Manatee
County, whose evidence was about the same as
before the House Committee, snd showed that the
County Commissioners total neglected to re-
wise the registration list to appoint precincts or
precinct officers, or give any notice of the cleo
ton. A small vote was cast, mostly Democratic
There were many who refused to vote