The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-12
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Washington. Nov. H.. President
Grant returned to Washington this
afternoon. He has requested the fol-
lowing prominent gentlemen to go to
New Orleans TO inspect the counting of
votes in Louisiana: Hon. William NJ.
Evarts, Judge Z. W. Houghton, Gen.
Jno. A. Dix and Gen. James III. Van
Ayln, of New York; Senator Sherman
and Hon Stanley G. Matthews, of Ohio;
Hon. CORTLAND Parker, of New Jersey;
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont; Gen.
Ben Harrison, of Indiana; Senator
Logan, of Illinois; Hon. W. D. Kelly
and Hon. John Schoenburg, of Penn
sylvania, and Hon. Jas. A. Kasson, of
Iowa. These and few others have
been invited. Nearly all of them have
been heard from, and have accepted.
The Situation Wild Threats.
The political situation is unchanged.
The Republicans claim Florida and
Louisiana with increasing confidence.
The Democrats produce no evidence to
dispute the title to this claim. There
are not wanting those Democrats who
loudly threaten revolution in the
event that Louisiana shall cast her
ballot for Hayes. These threats are
confined to the adventurous classes of
the floating population. If gentlemen
just from New York are to be believed,
so important a parsonage as General
Mcclellan gives reasons why he should
fight to-day, though he found many
obstacles on the Potomac.
Though the best men of both parties,
who are likely to have potent voice in
the councils of the nation, are for an
honest count and peaceful submis-
sion to the results, whatever they be,
some Democratic leaders ara rash
enough to suggest that the House will
refuse to meet in joint convention if
Louisiana goes for Hayes
Interesting Speculations.
There is much speculation here upon
the query that if Congress provides no
lawful means of adjusting the presiden-
tiai difficulty before the middle of Feb
ruary, and the determination of the
count of the electoral vote should be
postponed until after March 4th, 1877,
who would be President of the United
States and what would be the condition
of the governments Would chaos have
come in the republic? Two solutions
are suggested. The first is that the
Senate is continuing body, and in the
absence Of president or vice president,
the president pro TEN. of the Senate is
the constitutional president of the
United States by virtue Of his Office.
The heads of all executive departments
and federal officers of the country are
continued by the language of their COM
mission until upon the proclamation of
the secretary of state Congress had been
convened, and the choice of president
determined by the House.
The second theory is that the presi-
dent and heads of departments and oc-
cupants of their offices would be con-
tinued in power under their commits
sion until their successors had been
qualified by taking the oath of office.
For this theory there is the distin-
guished authority of Caleb Cushing,
now present here on business relating
to the Spanish museum. He has been
unwilling to express his views upon this
grave question, and says the Constitu-
ton knows nothing of parties and con-
ventions, which are wholly outside of
it, and no act of theirs has any legal
effect. The Democratic party, as such,
can only act through an extra conven-
tion. He fluids only danger in the ac-
ton of the present House, with its
Democratic majority, and that there
may be conflict of opinion and action
between the Senate and House, which
would be serious difficulty.