Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-03-01
General News Summary
FhNm WASHINGTON.

:, A CAUCUS of Democratic Senator's and
Representatives was held in Washington on
the evening of the nth, at which Mr.. ely
mer presided. After an animated discus
Il sion a resolution was adopted, by vote OF
sixty-nine to forty, declaring that " the
count of the Electoral vote shall proceed
without dilatory opposition, to the or,
derly execution of the act of Congress
creating the Electoral Commission, whose
decisions shall be received and acted
upon in accordance with the provisions oi
saiG law'' Incorporated with this resolu
tion was "the solemn and earnest protest Of
the Democratic party against the gross and
shameless violations Of law, justice ant
truth contained in the decisions of the ma
jority who sigEed the same in the cases o
Florida and Louisiana" III H
FERD. S. WINsLow, who was recently in
dicted for the larceny of the $4,000 pack
age from the United States Treasury De.
partment in Washington, has been sen.
fenced to eighteen months Imprisonment in
the Albany Penitentiary.
REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES H. DAVIS, Super.
intendent of the Naval Observatory in Wash
ington, died on the morning of the 18th, OF
disease Of the heart.
Ara caucus of Democratic Senators and
Congressman in Washington, on the evening
of the 10Th, resolutions were offered, but not
voted on, denouncing the action of the
Electoral, Commission in the Louisiana case
A motion was finally adopted that the eau
Gus should take recess until the count o.
the Oregon vote in the Joint meeting of the
two houses. Those of the caucus who
favored extreme measures did not, owing
to the preponderance of the conservative
element, ask for discussion of the ques
tions presented. The caucus stood by theil
action of the night of the 18th.
ADMIRAL LOUIS NJ. GoLDsBoRoUGH
died in Washington on the morning of the
20th of typhoid pneumonia. This is the
sixth death among Rear-Admirals within
four or five weeks.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dispatch
of the Goth states that on that day, Con.
gressman Ellis, Col. Burke and Counselor
Cavannac, of Louisiana, called on President
Grant and explained to him the con.
dition of affairs in that State. The
President replied that he was satisfied
Gov. Nichols was acting in good faith in
preserving the Stdtu quo, and he therefore
had no intention of changing his instruc
tions to Gen. Augur. In the course of The
conversation the President said Gov
Nichols should not be held responsible
for the freak of the crazy man who sho
Packard.
THE Grand Jury of the District of Colum
bia, on the Dist, found aa indictment
against Dom Piatt, editor of the Washing
ton Capital, for having, in his paper, on the
18th, uttered seditious language, which was
interpreted to suggest the assassination OF
Gov. Hayes, and of which the following is
an ex ract: eff a man THayesl thus returned
to power can ride in safety from the Execu-
tive Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugu.
rated, we are fitted for the slavery that will
follow the Inauguration. We do not believe
the people of the United States are of this
servile sort. We do not believe that they are
prepared, without a blow, to part with theil
hard-earned, blood stained possessions y
II there is law for fraud, there is reason
for violence, and to that we make our lasl
appeal" Dom Piatt published card on
the Goth, in which he stated that nothing
was further from my thought in penning the
+ editorial of last Sunday than the horrible
crime oI dSSdSSlDdGiOn. open res lSJancc JC
revolutionary wrong, for which their seems
no other resistance, is one thing, assassina
tion is another" Piatt was arrested on the
afternoon of the 21st by the United States
Marshal, aud gave bail in the sum of $4,000
On the 21st, United States Senator Kernal
received II communication from Gov. Tilden
IN which the latter repudiates the agreemen
entered into between the Senate and Hous,
Election Investigating Committees not t.
go into an examination of his (Tilden's
bank accounts on the one hand, or the ac
counts of the Chairman of the Republica1
National Committee on the other. He say
he utterly rejects the false imputation tha
his private bank accounts contain anything
whatever that needs to be concealed H,
says, further, that he never made, author
lied, or knew of any expenditure in rela
tion to the election in Oregon, or the re
sulting controversies, or any promise o
obligation, or negotiation on the subject.