The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-04
Especial telegram 10 the Dispasch.l

Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.1
WASHINGTON, D. c., January. 3.-Sitting-
Bull Morton had Cronin, the Oregon elector,
up before his Elections Committee and
wormed statement out Of him which Nor
ton will doubtless roll as a sweet morsel
under his tongue In some future debate in
the Senate. In answer to question Gro
min testified that one Patrick, OF Omaha,
came to him in Portland, Oregon, and
urged him to accept certificate from Gov
ernor Grover, cast a vote for Tilden, and
that Tilden would give him anything he
wanted therefor. ~ ....
Morton stopped his questions here, but il
he had inquired little further he might
have learned, what Cronin tonight asserts
to be the additional fact, that the man
Patrick was one of those seli-important
persons who comes into your office with
mysterious air and acts as if they had
great secret to tell and then say nothing.
He never considered that Patrick had any
authority from anybody to make any state
ment, and rs q matter OF fact told Patrick
at the start that he should accept certif-
cate if it was rendered him, and should cast
his vote. Since he has been here in Wash
ington he has been under the constant sur
veillance Of Zach. Chandeliers hirelings, and
has been beset day and night by emissaries,
who have alternately threatened everything
and promised anything to induce him to sell
out to Hayes.
The news from Florida tonight is of the
most cheering sort. The news is that
the Supreme Court has discharged the
respondents. who have simply given the
figures OF the recount for the Governor and
State officers that the Secretary OF State
has issued the needful certificates; that
Governor Drew has been enthusiastically in
augurated; that Legislature, Democratic
in both branches, has assembled, and that
all the signs indicate peace and harmony.
Two private letters received here to-day,
however, let in good deal OF new light.
One is from member Of the lower House
of Florida to u prominent member of the
House of Representatives here. The writer
is personally known, and his Judgment and
integrity personally vouched for. He re-
presents the situation in that State to be rs
follows: With the Inauguration OF the new
State Government comes also the new Re-
turning Board, consisting Of the new Secre-
tary OF State and new Attorney General,
and the new Comptroller. The writer OF
the letter declares to be true what was
stated in yesterdays dispatches, that the old
Returning Board, in throwing out on their
second count the returns from Baker and
Clay counties, perpetrated 4 greater fraud
than they did on their first count, and
evaded the spirit if they did not cvade the
letter OF the order Of the Supreme Court.
The writer further asserts most positively
that the new Returning Board will
hold that the old Board did not
obey the order Of the, Supreme Court,
and will proceed to recanvass the votes.
That recanvass, he says, will show a ma
iority in the State for the Tilden electors of
over 200, and will show it so clearly that,
although the report will come to Congress
out OF tune and irregular, no decent Repub-
lican or honest man in Congress or out
will be able to disbelieve or oppose it.
Senator Jones afirms the above facts to-
night, and there is ground fer the assertion
that Purman, the Republican congressman
from that State, will reaffirm the fact on the
floor Of the House and advocate the return
of the presidential vote Of the State as it
was cast.
NOTHING DOING IN CONGRESS-BARNES'S CASE
---4PPOINTAENT-UNITED STATES
MARsHALS P0CKETING THOUSANDS OF DOL
LARS TO WHICH THEY ARE NOT ENTITLED.
ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR OF OREGON, &c.
lFrom Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.. January 3.-There
was scarcely quorum in either house to
day, and no business Of special Importance
was transacted. The galleries Of the House
were filed in anticipation OF the arraignment
OF Barnes, the New Orleans telegraph man
ager, at the bar Of the House, for. refusal
to produce kilograms called for by the LOU
isiana Investigating Committee. @s
The prisoner, looking pale and serious,
was brought to the bar by the Sergeant-at-
Arms, but at the request OF his counsel was,
given until next Friday to prepare his an
swer to! the charge OF contempt. This or
der dissipated the only sensation of the
days proceedings, and the House soon after
adjourned.
Speaker Randall has appointed McGill, Of
Iowa, to fill the vacancy in the Committee
on Powers, Privileges, and Duties Of the
House in counting the electoral vote. This
Committee has not held any meeting yet,
but the record of proceedings in counting
the vote since the establishment OF the Gov
eminent is being printed. -<&.!
The House Committee on Expenditures
by the Department Of Justice in the course
OF their inquiries have discovered that the
existing statute in regard to the .compensa-
ton OF marshals and their deputies has in
many instances been perverted so rs to
place into the pockets Of United States
marshals thousands OF dollars to which they
are not entitled. -" ~ 7-:.st7. 4
To correct these abuses the committee
have framed and reported bill providing
that marshals' salaries shall not in any case
exceed $4,000 per annum, nor deputy mar
shals' more than S. per day OF actual ser
vice, or maximum Of s1,250 per annunn;; !:
and it imposes.a fine Of $500, and imprison-:
ment, with hard labor, from one to FIVE
years, upon any marshal who shall procure
from q deputy a receipt for more than the
amount actually paid such deputy. !.
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