The New York herald., 1876-12-21
IyPAyoRADLR NEWS FROM The DOUBTFUL STATES.
Feeling of Cautious and I'm
partial Senators.
NO PRESIDENT ELECTED THROUGH FRAUD
Everything t. Hinge on the
Report or the Committees.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 90 1874
REPUBLICANS BEGINNING TO TALK OF TILDEN
AND WHEELER CHANCES OF THE ELECTION
BEING THROWN INTO THE HoUsE-ALABAMA
AND MISSISSIPPI TO DE THROWN OUT IF
NECEssARY-A BREAK FROM THE LINE OF Ex-
TREME PARTIsASsHIP ANTIcIPATED-AwAlT-
ING THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES.
The belief gains ground here among republicans
that Florida belongs properly to the democrats.
Private Information, some Of it from responsible
republican sources, has braced tho hopes Of the
democrats. Thero also fresh signs that
the republicans begin to give up the election.
Report says that Senator, one or the most vigorous
and extreme the republican sidc SAID today that
no would not no content anything less than
"Tildcn and Wheeler and politicians OF both sides
who in post On to know what is dong and what
looked for in the highest party quarters privately
prophesy tonight with apparently good deal Of
ndcncc, that this will he the successful ticket.
It's not now expected that any decisive movement
will be made either side till alter tho holidays The
Speaker and the Vice President still conference
about the appointment OF the joint COMMITTEES 10 report
a method Of examining the electoral vote, and tho
members OF this important committee may not bc
namod for somc days s reported this evening that
the republican programme 10 counting tho
votc has been modified, and that II will DO held
that, whilo tho Vice President may rightly
declare the votes, II objection Is made to the
any State he must submit tho question to the houses
and not dccido himself II Florida and Louisiana or
both should turn to bo rightly democratic an at
tempt Will bc made by tho republicans throw out
the votes of Alabama and Mississippi and
thus throw tho election into tho House,
which would OF course leave the senate to cleo. Mr.
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last MSfch, a. explained by him. where two returns
appear the State must loso its vote, unless both houses
ngree upon ono return. Under tho twenty second
joint rule State lost its vote ON objection being
It's reception unless both houses agreed rs-
ceivc It. II 10 not impossible at this that re-
pubcans may agrec 10 rc-enact this rule. Everything
waits however, for tho reports Of tho committees in
tho disputed Statse, snd. meantime, more and moro
republicans undoubtedly waver, and tho question
which begins to be privately discussed
is, who will lead In . break from tho
straight limo OF extreme partsanshin There
arc pcopIc who imagine there may be a
foot racc whom tho break does come. On the whole,
the election Of Mr.. Tildcn may bc said 10 bo very
probable event at this moment Shrowd observers in
tho Senate remark that aside from Senators Morton
and Sherman there is not Senator the republican
side who nowadays assert, that Mr.. Hayes
was elected Some of the mon who signed
senator Shcrmans Louisiana report with him
are getting ashamed OF IT, The report fallen doad
and Mr. Shcrmans speech tho other day In defence
1t was regarded by several republican Senators as
proving too much and showing really that there was
election at all in Louisiana, and that the OF tho
State ought not to bc received.
1t turns out here. on republican authority, that
tho reason why the Louisiana Returning Board
SO obst inatcly refused TO elect q democratic
member to MI the vacancy, as tho law
directs, was that they feared that the two
coorcd members would 60 to tho democratic
side Yet Mr.. sherman cuogizcd thcso two members
as emincntly respectable and Trustworthy citizens
1t docs appear that he knew the for the ex-
clusion Of a democrat from tho Returning Board Peo-
plc here, who werc In New Orleans wbic the Grant
committee there sny that these gentlemen werc
taken possession OF BY kellogg and the other repub-
can leaders; that they looked into tho demo
cratic evidence, aud those familiar with Governor
Keoggs peculiar way Of putting things sny tha, they
recognize his hand in tho Sherman report; not that
Kellogg wrote IT, but that he inspired II and supplied
tho tonc and the arguments