The daily gazette., 1876-12-21
WASHINGTON.
A SETTLEMENT OF THE
VEXED QUESTION.
TILDEN AND WHEELER ATTRACT
ING PUBLIC ATTENTION.


From to the N. Y. Herald to-day.
Republican beginning to Talk of Tide n
and Wheeler-Changes Of the Election
Being IhrOtcn into the House-1la-
bama and Mississippi 10 be Mropn
out il Necessary. ,-.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81, 1876.
The belief gains ground here among
republicans that Florida belongs properly
to the democrats. Private information,
some of it from responsible republican
soucres, has braced the hopes ofthe demo
Gratis. There are also fresh signs that the
republicans begin to give up the election.
Reports says that Senator, one of the
most vigorous and extreme on the repub-
lican side, said to-day that he would not
be content to accept anything less than
"Tilden and Wheeler" and politicians of
both sides who are in position to know
what is doing and what is looked for in
the highest party quarters privately pro-
phesy tonight, with apparently good
deal of confidence, that this will be the
successful ticket.
1t is reported this evening that the re-
publican programme as to counting the
vote has been modified, and that it will
be held that, while the Vice President
may rightly count and declare the votes,
if objection is made to the vote of any
State he must submit the question to the
houses and not decide it himself. If Flor
ida and Louisiana, or both, should turn
| out to be rightly democratic. an attempt
will be made by the republicans to throw
out the votes of Alabama and Mississippi
and thus throw the election into the House
which would of course leave the Senate to
elect Mr.. Wheeler Vice President. On
Mr.. Morton's theory of last March,as ex-
planned by him, where two returns appear
the State must lose its vote, unless both
houses agree upon the return.
] Speculation was rife tonight rs to what
action would be taken by the Senate
should the Louisiana Investigating Com
mittee present report signed by repub-
licans, as well as democrats showing that
the Tilden electors of that State had been
fairly elected. The rumor ran that the
republicans foresaw that the Senate
would have to confront this difficulty and
that they were preparing to accept their
reverse with as good grace as possible. Iu
their effort to save as much as they could
from the conflict they were, it was said,
| anxious to have the election thrown into
the House, whereby they would secure
the Vice Presidency.
FRIENDS OF HENDRICKS OPPOSED To
COMPROMISE.
Congressman Foster, of Ohio, saws
| that if there is any comprome movement
| on foot to secure the Inauguration OF
Tilden and Wheelerit will make as mucl
of row among the democrats in tho
| West as would the Inauguration ofHayes
because it would disappoint and anger
the numerous friends of Mr.. Hendricks
| whose success is with them as much an
object as the triumph of Mr.. Tilden.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90.
PLANS sUGGE sTED BY REPUBLICANS Tc
| MEAsURLs WHICH WE'RE ADMIRABLE
| LAST SESSION NOW QUITE THE CON
TRARY-sENAToR MoRToN's CHANGE
| OF BASE.
! The republicans begin privately to pro
pose various plans for settling the Presi
| Dental dispute, and one of these, which
is spoken about to-day, is to hold new
election in all the States. Another is to
let Chief Justice Waite decide all dis
puted. In regard to the first project -
those who suggest it even, go so far as to
point out that the Revised Statutes con-
tain clause which could be used by a
forced construction to bring on q new
| election. Section 151 declares that ths
| only evidence of refusal to accept or OF
a resignation of the Office of President OF
Vice President shall be an instrument in
| writing declaring the same eandsubscribed
| by the person refusing to accept or re-
signing, as the case may be, and delivered
| into the office of the Secretary of State.
tits suggested that both the candidates
| might be induced to "refuse to accept
| and thus bring on a new election. But
| it is objected, very reasonably, that the
law applies only to President really
| elected, and not to a case where the re-
suit is in dispute,
| What strikes observers as odd is that
the republicans who suggest these diff
| ferent methods Of settlement never men
ton the twenty second joint rule, which
was adopted by them and under which
| they very contendedly worked so long
as suited their party purposes. They do
not even mention Senator Morton's sub.
stitute for the twenty-second rule, which
he advocated SO vigorously last March
and which was adopted by the Senate or
| the oath of that month, almost every re
publican Senator voting for it, including
Messrs. Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Mitchell
Morton, Patterson, Sargent, Sherman
and Spencer. Mr.. Morton's bill was
thus adopted by the republican Senators
after q protracted session, in which all
its provisions were supported and de-
Tended by Mr.. Morton and other promi
nent .epublicans, who seem now to have
utterly forgotten both what they urged
and what they voted for less than nine
months ago. Mr.. Edmunds has reintro-
duced the NJ Tort IN bill, which had been
reconsidered after its adoption, but mono
of the Senators who were jealous for its
adoption last March now takes the least
interest in it. and some of them are re-
ported to assert that it is bad measure,
while othets are straining their powers
in inventing new and extra constitution
I al WAYS to settle questions in dispute, for
/ all of which, aS Mr.. Morton repeatedly
showed last March, his bill fully pro-
i vided.