Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-11-24
THE PRESIDENCY.
Louisiana Republican aS far
IS Heard From.
FLORIDA OFFICIAL RETURNS
Rcndcr Decided Majority for
Hayes and Wheeler.
FLORIDA OFFICIAL RETURNS
CTH CAROLINA.

tIH CAkOIINA.
Nlw York, November %. A desra'f'' 90 t'.n
Herald from Culumha ). C., seH- tl+ IL
of the cauvassug board Is based urvA ,hc .as
which requ Tres the canvass Of the vote to be per-
formed in ten days, which time expired yesterday
at u O'Clock, before the supreme court issued
their order.
A Columbia despatch to the Herald gives the
following : the vote of the board before adjourn
ing, on the question as to whether the statement
of the county canvassers Of Laurens county
should be included in the statement and deter
mination of the board
The vote was-yeas 2 nays 4. Those voting
in the negative were the adJutant and inspector
general, comptroller genera and state treasurer;
in the affirmative the secretary Of state and attor-
ney general.
On the same question rs to the county of Edge
fell, all OF the members OF the board except the
secretary of state voted for its exclusion.
4 Columbus despatch to the Times SAYS the
court yesterday ljourhed to Friday TO hear argu-
ments "A new mazda nus, asked for by demo
cratic counsel re elavc to the action OF the board
on presidential electors.
Meantime the board of canvassers who held
their SESSION at the other end of the capitol, had
taken action which will greatly simplify, if it does
not render nnnt cessaly'any further proceedings
| before the court in reference to their powers.
! A Columbia special says the law of South Caro-
lima intei pretcd by the board and always acted
upon heretofore requires the board to complete
| their work as state canvassers within ten days
from the ttic tucy tuelr sessions tSul-
day eXcepted.l Tue time expired at noon,
| W Wednesday
There is difference of opinion among lawyers
as to the true Interpretation of the statutes, but
at all events there is law and has been no order
of court requiring them to sit longer than the ten
DAYS which they have been accustomed to sit.
The board therefore completed its work and ad-
iourned sine die at the expiration of that time,
and Is 70 longer in existence. Certificates of
election were yesterday sent to those declared
elected by the board No certificates were issued
to either party in Laurens or Edgeted counties.
The board gives as reason for their adjourn
ment sine die, that IT was to prevent the possib-
ity of democrats getting advantage hereafter and
pretending that the board had not complied with
| the last. Ex-Atorney General Akerman and all
other republican lawyers in Columbia agree with
him) is of the opinion that there has been no
contempt of court
The Worlds Columbia special saws the court
has issued an order reconvening the board of can
vassers tomorrow. a member of the board as
sures me they will not obey it, and charac.crizes
the court as pack of scoundres."
FLORIDA.
New YORK, November %. A Tallahassee let
ter In the Tribune says Intellectual efforts have
been made IN two instances to btlbe republican
members of the canvassing board in the interest
of Tilden. W. 4. Chandler telegraphs as follows
relative to the pending injunction and mandamus
proceeding "lf Judge White undertakes to de-
termine a question over which he has no iursdic-
ton, bis acton will be disregarded or can be pro-
hibed by the action of the supreme court of the
state, or of the United States court"
If the canvassing board of the State when
dealing with the electoral vote, is performing fed
eIa duties, the federal courts have jurisdiction to
protect it in the discharge of duties in whichthe
| L ned States has direct interest. When the gov
eInor or board get ready TO act, they will undoubt
edly proceed untrammeled by any suggestions
orders or interference of one out of the seven in
ferior local judges who happens to have jursdic-
ton over petty cases in the county of Leon in
which the Florida state ouse is located.
Meantime the republicans are enjoning the
den ocrats TO hurry up the returns from the county
of Lafayette, usually costing about 800 democ atic
to 30 republican votes.
The llerads Tallahassee despatch says both
Cas.on and Chandler are quite sick.
The court before which the case of injunction
against the governor and .he mandamus of the
returning board was to be tried, met this morning
at ii o'clock The court was crowded to its ut
most. The governor presented through counsel
atii iavit, in which he states that he had never
made up his mind to canvass the votes and had
not stated to any one that he had done so; that
even up to the present writing he had not decided
that he was empowered TO canvass the votes. The
| democratic COUNSEL dlsregardng this affidavit
argued through George Z. Raney that the gov
ernor had no right to canvass the electoral vote
but that such right resided in the canvassing
board, and further that the court did have juris-
cictlon over the governor, not in restraining him
from doing what he was empowered by law te
he had no light to perform under the law.
Gen. Barlow replied on behalf of the Governor
and denied the jurisdiction of the court He said
that the INJUNCTION issued against the governor
by the judge the bench, would have no more
effect than if it issued by private indivdu-
al lie abjured the judge to carefully consider
the risk he run in issuing a writ of Injunction
that could not be enforced by any legitimate pro-
! te ln'e OF the government was determined to re-
sst it. Gen. Bar ow did not enter in o the N r
OF the case at all hut merely stood upon the lack
of jurisdiction on the part of the court. At the
c.ose Of the argument the court adjourned.
A dc cison will probably be reached tomorrow
There is some excitement in the city. IL Is very
generally believed that the governor will not
obey the injunction even If issued tomorrow
The republicans all deny that the court has
shadow of jurisdiction. A despatch has been tel
egraphed back to this point from Washington, in
which it is claimed that the official returns are
all in, aud that the face of the returns show
majority of 1853 for Hayes. 1t is impossible to
fad any confirmation of this report Indeed, the
secretary of state says this evening that three
couutes-Dade, BIevaId and Laiayette-hsye
no, vet been heard from.
WAsHINGToN, November %. telegram from
Ia lahassee, Fla, to the Republican National
Committee, says the official returns from all the
counties in Florida are in, and on their face show
763 mej jJn,y for Hayes
LOUISIANA.