The Portland daily press., 1876-12-06
No Report from
Florida.
LOUISIANA.

Whole Republican State Ticket Elected.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 5-The declaration of
the Returning Board gives the lowest Hayes
elector 3437 majority and the highest 1857. 1t
is understood that the entire Republican state
ticket is elected by $500 and that they have a
good working majority in the legislature
At $50 this afternoon the Secretary of State
personally served the following notification:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Office of the Secretary of State,
New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1876.
Up. G. Deslonde, Secretary of State for the
State OF Louisiana, do hereby certify that the
returning officers of the election held in said
state on the 18th of November have returned to
me as Secretary of State, according to law, the
following persons as duly elected electors of
President and Vice President Of the United
States for the State of Louisiana at such cleo
ton, to wit:
For the State at Large-Wm. p Kellogg
and j. Henri Bursh.
For Distrcts-First, Peter Joseph; second,
Invel A Sheldon; third, Morris Marks; fourth,
Aaron b. Levissee; fifth, Orlando III. Brew
ster; sixth, Oscar JotfrisoD.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto signed
my name and caused the seal of the State OF
Louisiana to be attached this 9th day OF De-
cember, A. d 1876 and of the independence
of the United States in the one hundred an
first
(Signed,) P. G. DEsLoNDE,
Secretary of State.
Accompanying this certificate was a state
ment of the aggregate vote for Presidential
electors as certified to by the Secretary of State.
The Vote of stall Omcers,
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 5.-The vote for gov
enor and Lit. Governor was returned to the Sec
rotary of State, the total being as follows:
For Governors. b. Packard "a 624; Fran
els T. Nichols, II 1888.
The clerks of the returning officers bad moi
up to midnight completed their duplicate cop.
les of the returns for PRONUNCIATION in the off.
cial journal.
F0ur Repubffrun- GOnsTvssmesz.zz-
1t is understood, however, that four Republic
can congressman, viz: Darrall in the Sd district
Smith in the 4th, Leonard in the 9TH, Nash il
the 9th, have been returned elected, and Glib
son, Dem, of the LIST, aud Ellis, Dem, of the
I'd. The returns for all these officers, state and
congressional, will be promulgated tomorrow
The Reasons of the Boards Decision.
The subjoined statements of the grounds
acted upon have been obtained from the coun.
sci of the returning board
The returning board of the State Of Louisiana
claims that first of all under the provisions Of
the law, they are returning officers of all the
elections held in the State; that there are in
law, and in fact no returns of any elections held
in said State until first examined, canvassed
and completed by them; that the statements
simply statements of votes parported to have
been cast, and that until the fairness and legal.
ity OF the voting at that poll or precinct have
been passed upon by the returning officers, no
validity attaches to any such statements.
In strict compliance with the laws Of the
United States and OF the State, the returning
officers of the State of Louisiana have proceed.
ed to examine the canvass and compile the
statements OF votes purported to have been cast
IN this State at the general election for Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States
held on the 9TH day of November last, The
votes purported to be cast in the parishes OF
Grant and East Feliciana, have been ignored
entirely in the official canvass. In Grant
parish no one form of law was observed; there
was no legal supervisors or commissioners OF
electors and the vote taken was as informal as
the votes taken on railroad train.
In East FelciaDa the returning officers were
unable to find one poll at which from evidence
before them they could certify that a full, free
and fair election was held
In the parish of East Baton Rouge the re-
turhlug officers canvaSSed and complied the
votes of three polls situated in the city of Baton
Rouge, where there was military protection af-
forded, and also three other polls situated i'm
medlately on the river, where there was com
parative immunity from intimidation. The
evidence as to intimidation by murder. hang
ing, whipping and other outrages, as affecting
the vote at other polls, was so conclusive that
votes stated to have been cast at those polls
In the adjoining parish of West Feliciana
the votes OF SIX polls were rejected, whilst in
the city of Monroe, the parish seat of that par
lsh, the statements OF votes cast were accepted
because the voters there were measurabIy pro-
tected from violence by the presence of United
States troops.
The U. S. Deputy Marshal in charge of the
ballot box at one of the re ected polls was shot,
and throughout the whole parish there prevail
ed system of Intimidation, murder and vio-
lence towards one class of voters, white as well
as black, of such character as to have scarce
ly parallel, even in the history of this state
In the adjoining parish, Morehousp, the state
ments OF votes reported to be cast 10 six polls
were rejected on similar evidence. Polls were
also rejected in the parishes of De Soto, Bos-
sier, Franklin, Claiborne and Caloocien upon
clear evidence of ftaud not rebutted by evidence
offered before the returning board.
The Republican electoral college meets to.
morrow. The Democratic electors will also
meet and cast their votes. They will, it Is stat
ed, obtain certificates from McEuery, the de
jure Governor.
Senator Sherman Aflrms his full Relic
ia the Pinbs1On story.
NEW YORK, Dec. "a Columbus O.. des-
patch to the Herald saws that Senator Sherman
and Gen Garfield, E. w. Stoughtop, Eugene
Hale and Harry White spent the day and held
a loug private consultation with Gov. Hayes
to-day. Sherman is particularly explicit in his
statement concerning the outrsges in the bull
dozed parishes, and showed several afidavits
confirming Eliza Pinkston's story. He says he
is satisfied the committee can make out a very
strong case. He denies that he at any time
made any remark intimating that the return
ing board was practicng fraud or seeking to
illegally count the state for Hayes. The visi-
tors left at midnight for Washington, where
they will make up their report, embodying ia
it 1000 pages Of sworn testimony.
SOUTH CAyAyENA