The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-21
WHAT THE CoUSs;ELL ons OF KELLOGG AND

WHAT THE COUNsELLoRs OF KELLOGG AND
| COMPANY ARE DoING-C Ross-MARK AFFIDA-
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ATE-GUNBoATs TURNING ,TKEIR MUzzLEs
| ON New ORLEANS, &c:-Ne,o Orleans, H.,
November 19.-The evidence tfickens that
the sole purpose of the presence OF Senator
Sherman and Of his associate Republicans
here is to furnish. whatever Of counsel may
be necessary to sustain the Returning Board
! in counting the vote of this State for Hayes.
They have been in constant secret consulta-
ton with Kellogg, Packard, and the Re-
turning Board, and it was at their sug-
gestion that the invitation was extended to
the members Of the two advisory COM
mittees here to appoint five OF their
! own number to witness the canvass OF the
vote. This action seems fair on its face, and
was done for the express purpose OF pro-
ducing an impression on the country at
large, but it must not be forgotten that the
real work OF the Returning Board is to be
done in secret. Little Eugene Hale, lack
Chander's son-in-law, said last night in the
rotunda of the St. Charles that the Republic
cans had the electoral votes OF Louisiana,
South Carolina, and Florida, and that they
meant to keep them. Yesterday three OF the
most adroit tricksters from the Republican
out the Returning Board OF that State. .tsfi
Senator Sherman and his committee en-
deavor to reconcile their consciences with
the dishonest part that they are playing here
by proclaiming that when Hayes is Presi-
dent they intend to disown the carpet-bag-
gers and re0rganize the Republican party
| in the South on such basis as will bring
into its fold considerable proportion OF the
respectable white element. tH
The Republican advisory committee have
made arrangements to have a.Uer6Gti'n re-
port Of the proceedings OF the Returning
Board, as Senator Sherman says it will be
necessary to have it when the matter comes
before Congress. The Democratic commit
tee will no doubt have their own report
made also, but there will be no record Of
the secret session.
The intimidation affidavits have already
accumulated in large masses among the pa
pers OF the Board. As already stated, they
bear the Y mark OF the plantation negroes.
A responsible lawyer here makes the formal
proposition that if he be given the oppor-
tunity he can gather twenty thousand affi-
davits from the same class OF negroes that
they voted or intended to vote for George
Washington, or, he says, Julius Cesar will
do Just as well.
eNAN>~
il the present Returning Board is recog-
nized rs legal body by the Senate OF the
United States he will Immediately again
present his application for admission to tnat
body, not, as before, as prirnG fdcse case,
but as a case resting on its merits. Senators
Edmunds, Christiancy, and other kepuDll-
can senator's voted against Pincn backs ad-
mission because they held that the Legisla-
ture which elected him was net a legal body,
but the Returning Board was chosen by the
Senate of the same Legislature which elected
him; and il it was competent TO, elect, the
other 1t was competent to elect him. Thus
another grave difficulty will confront the
Republican senators when the issue OF the
electoral vote OF the State comes before
them. 49, - ,s... t3cst,..,tt
ammunition have been put On board the
gun boats, whose guns are now turned on
the city. (.
Further instances Of the omission oil. the
names Of one or more electors from the Re
publican ticket in various Of the parishes
are constantly coming to light, but accord
ing to the view taken by Senator Sherman's
committee 1t will be perfectly competent for
the Returning Board to ignore all such
omissions.
The five Hayes electors are said now to
be nearly three thousand behind the rest OF
the ticket. There is awell-defined rumor
tonight that the Republican Advisory
Committee had suggested to the Returning
Board that perhaps it would be well not to
undertake to cheat Nichols Of his election,
but to be satisfied with declaring the cleo
ton OF the Hayes electors. To this they re-
ceived the reply that it would appear rather
strange to count Packard out and countin
five electors who were several thousand
votes behind. So the party. are in some
what OF q quandary. ..sg &.
Senator. Sherman, Mr.. Stoughton, and
Judge Kelley did not return from their COM
ference with Kellogg, Packard, and the Re
turning Board till midnight. They have
hit upon the idea of giving it out that the
names OF some of the Tiiden electors were
omitted from the Democratic ticket in one
or, two parishes. This is believed to be a
mere dodge a. RS special dispatch to
the Baltimore Sun. 81
WHAT GENERAL BUTLER THlNKs.--The
New York Herald prints an interview with;
General Butler on the present political diff
o,,lfxy In. ruhicl,E 9o r,rotty freely