The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-15
VOLUME XXv--NUMBER l4S.

is recognized by the proper Constitu
tional authority, and its decision is bind
Ing on every department OF the Govern
ment, and could not be questioned in any
judicial tribunal. Shellabargor next ar,
gued that the Returning Board was
legal body, and that the electors objected
to were not ineligible. come now, said
the Counsel, TO the real question in this
case, and really the only question there
is, and that one is decided by what YOU
have just decided in the case Of Florida,
and that is whether or not il is compo-
tent for you to 60 behind the act Of the
Returning Board Of the State Of
Louisiana for the purpose OF finding
out what happened in its exercise Of the
lurisdiction bestowed by the statute on
the threshold Of this question. want
to say that any intimation that when we
deny the power Of going behind the find.
ing Of that Board, we are thereby cover.
ing frauds or seeking to escape scrutiny,
IL | submit unutterably unjust. 1t has
not even semhlance Of fairness in il,
u Ill becomes my friend TO talk to us
about this being an attempt to put man
into the Presidential Chair Of the Uuitcd
States by fraud. We hear them saying,
the enforcement OF the legislative, Exec.
utive and Judicial is incomplete, that
Congress could not exercise Judicial
powers. At the very next moment, the
Counsel says, oh, yea, you have all
iuIiNinl nnwnru NnU nu, 10 sno,,tI, ,,,.
that quo wArranto can do, and because
quo warraMto can try this thing they
can do 1t, Then in another case we lind
these gentlemen coming up and saying,
oh, Mr.. Kellogg is Governor OF Louis.
lana, and therefore he is not an elector,
and then the next moment you have
them coming forward and saying, oh, he
Is no officer at all; he is not Governor
Of Louisiana, but McEnery. ID,
now conclude this argument by an
allusiOn to what has been the weight and
burden on the other side. 1t ia in regard
TO this alleged outrage in the State of
Louisiana. Why, gentlemen, can you
shut your eyes to what is now, il not the
saddest, certainly one Of the gaddest
chapters in American history. BY actual
count, through the aid Of Gen. Sheridan,
1t is now set down rs part OF your history
that in this blighted and blasted State Of
Louisiana 4,OO0 and odd citizens have
been murdered-murdered by plan, mur.
dered by system, by organization; mur-
dered for the purpose OF putting down
the right OF the black man to vote, and
that thing has been going on through
three dark and terrible years. IL
was my misfortune to 20 on
myself, in 1860, to this State, sent by
the Congress OF the United States, and 1
took the testimony OF hundreds Of men,
and when ! was taking it literally sat
with my feet in pools OF human blood,
shed in putting out the free government
Of the State Of Louisiana, and they did
put it out Oh, right well and eilGctnally,
gentlemen Of America, Chat is a higher
designation than gentlemen of the Com
remember there il one trial
here to.night-the question whether thesc
laws made in Louisiana in pursuance Of
that l03d article OF her Constitution, en-
joining it on the Legislature to make
laws for the protection Of the rights Of
the freedmen to vote. If you fail to en-
ecute these laws you will have stabbed
your country in that place where we are
taught from childhood the life OF the
country is 10 be found and to reside, to
wit: in the freedom and purity Of the
ballot.box. ..r
Adjourned until tomorrow.
LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON, February li.-Z. Chand.
Ter, Secretary OF the Interior, was called
by the House Committee on Powers and
Privileges and produced papers relating
10 the resignation OF o. II. Brewster,
Louisiana elector. He said he supposed
Brewster's letter Of resignation, dated
November l4th, was received November
10Th or 10th. Did not know whether he
received it from the President or not.
Did not know il was antedated, and was
not aware that Brewster had testified
himself that he wrote il November 18th.
1t is the practice OF the Department to
accept designations as to time past II ten
lered in that manner.
Q. Was not the application past dated
in this instance to enable him To be eligi.
BILE as an elector? A. Not that | know
Of. did not even know that he was
candidate.
VIM. II. Green, colored Secretary of
the Louisiana Senate and former member,
clerk Of the Returning Board, was
examined, but his testimony resolved it.
sell into this: That he does not know of
any alterations Of the returns by any
clerk or member Of the Board; had no
knowledge OF any paper being burnt;
knew OF no clerk making ailidavits, and
did not hear Of anything OF the kind
while the Board was in session; the
changing Of the returns from Vernon
parish was one OF those mysteries which
witness cannot explain.
Charles H. Brush, telegraph operator
from Florida, reappeared to-day. He
had been appointed a member Of the
provisional Capitol police, and the Ser
yeant-at-Arms said he thought that
Brush had been discharged as witness at
The time the appointment was made.
ILLINOIS INVESTIGATION.
Geo. D, ChaAee, one OF the Illinois
electors testified to-day before the House
Committee: He received verbal notice Of
having been appointed Commissioner by
the Circuit Court OF the Southern dis.
.rict Of Illinois; never took the oath OF
oGice, or entered into any bond, or had
any papers from or in connection with
he government, but has signed some at.
idavits, never resigned or rendered any
resignation, because he never received
my but verbal notice Of his appoint
nent; copy Of the record OF the count
moving Chafiee's appointment, was put
N evidence.
SALARIES.
The legislative appropriation bill, as
passed by the House, provides Tor gen.
sral reduction Of salaries 10 the extent Of
LILO Of the amounts authorized by the
existing law. The committee also add
an item $S9,4l0 to pay the judgment Of
he court Of claims.
FURTHER RECESS.
Owing TO the tedious duties oi the five
Justices Of the Supreme Court on the