Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28


There is row deadlock between the Su-
preme Court and the board of state canvas
sers. The court has ordered the canyassers
20 eeIIiy 10 me eIectlon OF members of the
ties. The board answers that all their powers
and functions ceased on the I'D inst, by
statutory limitation and by final adjourn
ment. Failing to get the certificates called
for, the court adjudges the canvassers in con-
tempt, and imposes fire OF $500 on each
and commits them to the common Jail until
they comply with the order of the court
Last evening the canvassers took up thei
quarters in the Jail, where they propose evil
IDENTIFY to still hold the fort for Hayes and
Wheeler, for il must not be forgotten That the
ultimate end of all this Judicial as well as
political assumption is to invalidate the ere
dentials now held from the canVassers by the
Hayes and Wheeler electors.
The democratic lawyers are now actually
demanding from the Supreme Court that the
court itself shall assume the functions of the
board and issue certificates and correct re-
turns, so as TO give an apparent majority for
the Tilden electors.
Judging by their previous conduct. the
court seems likely TO do this. The partisan
conduct of the court eXciteS general abhor-
renee, particularly the conduct of Judge
Willard in delivering political harangue
from the bench on Friday.
1t is reported that Judge Bond, United
States Circuit Judge, who is here, will release
the canyaSsers on a hdbeoS corpus on the
grounds that they are diScharging federal
functions, and can not be punished or CO.
creed by the state courts.
The legislature meets on Tuesday next. a
struggle over the organization of the House
OF Representatives is sure to take place, and
it may be violent. BY the action of the can
yassers in refusing certificates to the MEM
berS from Laurens and Edgefield. the house
stands sixty republicans and fifty-six demo-
Gratis. III is stated that the rejected members
from these two counties will claim their seats
and forcibly occupy them, and take part in
the organization, In that case the federal
soldiers will probably intervene to protect
the lawful members from intrusion and viO-
lence. Upon the organization of the house
depends the governorship. With a republi-
can house, the senate being clearly republic
can, the frauds in many counties will be in
quired into, end Hampton'S vote will be re-
duced several thousand below Chamberlain'S
and the latter will be declared governor. If
the democrats gain control of the house. the
opposite result will follow, and Hampton
viii be seated Columbia IS. c. Dispatch to
CH Commercial, Nor. &c.
The Situation i'm Louisiana.
The republican programme has undoubt-
edly been arranged in the past twenty-four
hours. The returning board is expected to
throw out certain polls in various parishes
and the vote in nine democratic parishes will
be SO neutralized that the Hayes electors can
be counted in.
The threatening letters which the members
of the returning board have been receiving
have evidently made them apprehensiye of
danger. The evidence of this is found i'm the
fact that they have ordered the ladder lead
to be removed. From the top of this dome
one can look down upon the members of the
board as they sit in session. Some one of the
members of the board conceived the idea that
an assassin might easily from this dome.
with rifle or pistol, end the earthly career of
any one OF the members engaged in making
PRESIDENT IN the senate chamber below. SO
the ladder was ordered away, and all access
to the dome is now barred.-Ne,o Orleans de
pan to Cm. Commercial, Not 10th.
Gen. Grant i'm the Late Campaign.
Gen. BoyntOn writes 10 the Cincinnati
Gazette from Washington:
No one can write truthfully of the late
campaign without giving Gen. Grant credit
for constant, earnest and effective efforts 10
secure the election of Gov. Hayes. When the
campaign began there We're many repub
licans who feared that the President Nigh
assume lukewarm attitude. But the truth
l., that from the moment the campaign
opened. in fact before ID could DE said to be
under Roadway, Gen. Grant interested him
self deeply in plans for insuring republican
success. The Attorney Generals orders to
United States mafshals showed the direction
in which his thoughts turned, and where he
believed both the chances Of success and the
real danger lay. The national committee
were disposed to abandon the SOUTH did
IN fact, virtually abandon it, but Gen. Grant
ard his Attorney General, with the active
eo1,o cope az OF the Secretary of War, re
curing, so far as possible, q fair vote in the
south. The national committee turned away
lIoii IOulslaHt; III attempted nothing for
South Carolina, and nothing for Florida.
The assistance which the republicans of these
states received came from the President The
presence of troops in two OF them compelled
quiet that enabled republicans TO vote in
most of the districts. And as a result in
spite of the countless Outrages in regions be-
You'd the reach of troops, il now appears Ger
tain that the honest vote of both states has
been cast for the Hayes electors. In Florida
The influence exerted to secure quiet through
the maTshals office has proved "A potent ele-
ment in the result And so, while the ma
uonal committee virtually abandoned tie
south, Gen. Grant has made ii possible for the
republicans TO carry three of the states,
and so elect Hayes. And to him far more
than the national committee the honor of
the victor belongs. The committee failed
signally in its plan of campaign. 1t concen-
trated It's main energies on New York and
Indiana, and reasoned that with these fifty
electoral votes the solid south might be
abandoned TO Tilden, with Connecticut, and
even Ohio thrown in. 81 will elect Hayes
without Ohio" said Mr.. Chandler to Lieu
tenant Governor Young, when the latter
came TO consult over the means of defeating
certain discovered plans of the Tilden men
for overcoming the October majority ave
will elect Hayes without Connecticut was
the reply TO an appeal for moderate help from
men high in position, who knew that state
and had good grounds for confidence that the
little they asked, outside of what they had
been able to do, would turn the scale.