Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1876-11-17
STILL IN DOUBT
WHAT A SPECIAL TO THE NEW
YORK HERALD SAYS
Which Must be Taken with Many
Grains of Allowance.
FLORIDA.


FLORIDA.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-Tbe New
| York Herald has dispatch from j. j.
/ Daniel. Chairman of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee, of the Second
District of Florida, saying l send you
/ below the vote of the State by counties.
/ The returns are all in except from Brevard.
Here follows the details by Congressional
/ Districts In the First the Democratic
majority in Is counties is 5,l71 the Re-
publican majority in counties is 1866.
| In the Second the Democratic majority in
| IL counties is 2,791 the Republican ma
/ jority in counties is 1853. The. Total
I Democratic majority in the State is l,O38.
| The dispatch concludes; "This insures
the election of the State and National tick
/ cts with Democratic Congressman from
/ both districts, and Democratic majority
/ in both Houses of the Legislature"
/ The Herald's Tallahassee dispatch says
/ that it is impossible that Drew's majority
can Be cut down below 500, or Tilden's be-
/ low 400.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
! WASHINGTON, Nov. ia dispatch to the
! Herald from Columbia, South Caro-
| lima, says: After hearing various pros
/ tests, the board of Canvassers made no an
swer, but in reply to another protest
against their character as having judicial
functions, they adopted the following reso-
lution:
Resolved, That the board will not act
upon any proposition until the question of
its powers and duties be decided by the
Supreme Court.
The board then adjoured.
LOUISIANA.
WASHINGTON, D. C., November lG.-
The Herad's New Orleans special makes
Governor Kellogg say that he has no con-
troll over the personnel or organization of
the returning board.
General Sheridan's visit is simply in a
military capacity for the preservation of
peace Sheridan spends most of his time
with General Augur.
Z he following is the disposition of the
troops: Two companies at Mechanics In
stitute, six at the Custom House, and five I
back Of the State House, on St. Charles |
street Total number of troops, ESQ.,
In an interview with your correspondent |
tonight, Mr.. f. w. Stoughton, of New |
York, stated that his visit to this city, as .
well as that of Messrs. NCyes, Matthews |
and Sherman, was only in the interest Of a |
true and just count of the votes cast |
in the State, no matter which of the com.
peting candidates ii might elect.
It has not been finally decided by the |
Democratic visitors to entrust their case to
Messrs. Trumbull, Palmer and Potter,
who will remain here to watch and con-
duct it.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 16-The following
the anl &c fom2b 2roh RhDubb1s he t2
inviting a conference at New Orleans:
Gentlemen The majority of the under |
signed to whom your note of the l4th inst. |
was addressed only arrived in this city |
Yesterday evening. We have therefore, |
been unable to reply until this morning, |
aud can only regret that your cOmmunica- !
tion should have been given to the press
Immediately upon its delivery and without
the possibility eff an answer accompanying
it.
You remark that you are informed that
we came at the request of the President to
see that the board of canvassers make a
fair count of the votes actually cast, and
ask that we meet and confer in order that
such influence as we possess may be ex-
tended on behalf of such a canvass of the
votes actually cast, as by its fairness and
impartiality shall command the respect and
acquiescence of the American people of all
parties. We will join heartily with you in
counsels of peace, and in the expression of
an earnest desire for a perfectly honest
ard Just declaration of the re-
suits Of the recent election in
Louisians by its lawfully constituted au-
thorities, and we may add that we know
of no reason to doubt that such a declara-
ton viii be made, but we do not see the
propriety or utility of conference on the
basis and subject to the limitations you
PROPOSE for we have no such duty imposed
on US, and as suggested by your note first
quoted, we are almost requested to be wit
nesses of what shall occur in the canvass of
the votes, without power or legal influence
over the result, or over the means by
which, under the laws of Louisiana, the
result is to be determined. We can not
doubt that you, upon reflection,
viii concur with US. We are here as pri-
vate citizens, with no official power. We,
therefore, can not supercede or modify any
laws of that State, nor have we any right
TO control or influence any Of its officers as
to the manner in which they shall perform
their ministerial or judicial duties imposed
/ upon them by its laws, and should we,
/ being strangers and without official func-
/ tious, attempt this we should be condemned
/ by the people of every State in the Union
/ for an improper interference with local
| administration.
! The following extract from the laws of
/ Louisiana shows that the csnvassing board
\ is expressly required in certain cases to ex-
ercise iudicisl as well as ministerial func
I tions:
"SECTIoN 8. That in such canvass and
compilation the returning officers shall OBJ
serve the following order They shall com
| pile first the statements from all polls or
/ vOtiting places at which there shall have
/ been fair, free and peaceful registration
| aud election, and whenever from any poll
I or voting place there shall be received the
statement of any Supervisor of registration
/ or Commissioner Of,election inform, as is re-
/ quired by section twenty-six of this act, on
\ an affidavit of three or more citizens of any
riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimidation,
armed disturbances, bribery, or corrupt in
I fiuence, which prevented, or rendered To
prevent fair, free and peaceable vote of
all qualified electors entitled to vote at such
polls or voting places, such returning of
| fcer shall not canvass, count or compile the
statement from such poll or voting place
until the statements from all other polls or
voting places shall have been canvassed and
compiled. The returning officers shall then
proceed to investigate the statements Of
The riot, tumult, acts of violence,
intimidation, and armed disturbances,
bribery or corrupt influence st any such
poll or voting place, and if from the evil
| dence of such statement they shall be con-
vinced that such riot, tumult, acts of vio-