Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-28
rELeeRAPnlc SUMMARY.
Cabinet Meeting.

Cabinet Meeting.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-At Cabinet meet
inc today every department Of government
xos represented. The views of the Cabinet,
acting upon the information officially given
70 the general government, were that prompt
action was necessarytor the purpose of
d;snersing the rifle clubs and other armed
bodies organized as alleged, against the
States and the rights of voters, and to this
end the Attorney General began the imme-
d;ate preparation of the following proclama.
,;on which was issued tonight by the Presi-
dent:
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, 1t has been satisfactorily shown
~ M. that instruction and domestic violence
ex;st in several counties of the State of South
Carolina. and that certain combinations of
men against the law exist in many counties
of the State, known as rifle clubs, who ride
ND and down.by day and night in arms, MUIR
dering peaceable citizens and intimidating
others: which combinations, though forbid
den by law of the State, cannot be controlled
or suppressed by ordinary course of justice,
and,
whereas, 1t is provided in the Constitu-
,;on of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State upon applicat
ton of the Legislature, or of the executive
when the Legislature cannot be convened,
AGAINST domestic violence; and,
Whereas, By the laws in pursuance of the
above, it is provided in the laws of the
United States that in all cases of insurfec-
ton in any State, or of obstruction to laws
thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of
the United States on application of the Legis-
lature of such State, or of the executive
when the Legislature cannot be convened,
to call for the militia of any State, or States,
or employ such part of the land or naval
forces as shall be judged necessary for the
purpose of suppressing such instruction or
causing the laws to be duly executed: and
Whereas, The Legislature of said State is
not now in session, and cannot be convened
in time to meet the present emergency, and
the executive of State, under section 4, ar
ticles 4 of the constitution, and of laws
passed in pursuance thereof, has therefore
made due application to Inc in the premises
for such part of the military force of the
United States as may be necessary and ade-
quate for the protection of such State and
citizens thereof against domestic violence,
and to enforce the due execution of the
law; and
Whereas, 1t is required that whenever it
may be necessary in the judgment of the
President to use military force for the pur-
pose aforesaid he shall forthwith, by procla.
nation, command such insurgents to dis
perse and return peaccably to their respect
i've homes within limited time.
Now, therefore, I, U. S. Grant. President
of the United States, do hereby make this
proclamation, and command all persons en-
gagged in said unlawful and insurrec-
tionary proceedings to dispcrse and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes within
three days from this date, and hereafter
abandon said combinations, and submit
themselves to the laws and constituted au-
thorities of said State, and invoke the aid
and cooperation of all God citizens thereof
to uphold the laws and preserve the public
peace.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seven
tenth day of October, 1876, U. s. GRANT.
By the President
JOHN L. CADwALLADER, Acting Sec'y OF
State.
Political Union.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Republican and in
dependent Democrats, the latter under Gen.
Slocum. made q successful union in the
Kings county Brooklyn nominations to-day.
This is accounted favorable to the Republi-
can ticket.
Death of Frank p. Blair.
WASHINGTON, Oct 19.-Francis P. Blair, q
venerable journalist and politician, died yes
terday at his residence, Silver Springs, Nd,
aged 81.
New York Registry.
New YORK, Oct. 18.-Total registration OF
voters to-day, 10000. The Times on the
heavy registry, says editorially, the figures of
yesterdays registration prove public interest
very powerfully excited on issues of present
campaign, but We also fear they prove the
expense of vast scheme of fraudulent vot-
ing. We should consider 1OO, 600 high esti.
mate Of the number of legal voters in this
city, or assuming every one to be registered,
We should have after making the usual de-
duction, about 100, coo as the probable num-
Der of those who would deposit their ballots,
As result of the two days of registration
there are already enrolled the names of H.
600 voters: should registration of two con-
clud ing days bear usual proportion to num-
Der enrolled during the first two days, we
shall have an amount of fraudulent votes on
rolls far in excess of anything ever seen in
the palmicst ring of Tammany Hall, or con
ceived of, outdoing election frauds OF 1868
1t would be we'll for those who are RESPONSE
Die for such scheme to consider what might
happen were the Union to turn upon the
number repeaters in New York, and it would
also be well to have means adopted promptly
for sending dcputation OF both leaders anc
accomplices to the penitentiary. The law is
effective enough if it only be enforced.
Effect Of War i'm Europe on this Coun.
trys
New YORK, Oct 1S-The Evening Post,
speaking of war prospects in its financial
column, says: Looking over the whole situa-
ton, however, it is impossible to come to
any other conclusion than that the war, even
If it is confined to Russia and Turkey, which
is hardly among the possibilities, will be all
that is needed to awaken the dormant indus.
tries of this country. and to give US degree