The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-02-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 9, 1877.
FLORIDA FOR HAYES.


crest-fallen- The weakened RepubE-
rams, who favored the compromise
measure, now have an opportunity to
reflect upon the imminent peril in which
they placed the country by voting for
this bill for had J Judge Davis not been
elected to the Senate by theillirois Leg
isature, he would, undoubtedly, have
been placed upon this commission and
had this been the case, the Republican
party would have been thrown out Of
court in the very first vote. The two
Democratic judges and the five Demo
cratic Senators and Members voted solid
to over turn the lawful decision of the /
legally constituted authority of Florida, /
and to make of the commission grand |
returning board to count in Mr.. Tilden. |
With Judge Davis the Democrats would |
have had majority on the commission.
and the case would have been hopeless. |
The Democrats are violent in their dis |
appointment, and now accuse the Re
pubIicans of having secured the election
of Judge Davis to the Senate, while the |
reverse is the case for not single Re- |
publican member CT the Illinois Legis- |
lature voted for the distinguished pollti-
cal jurist. People who are familiar with
the ways of Mr. Tilden, recognize in the
election of Senator Davis the finger of
the great sham Reformer. Let the coun-
Try thank the Lord that for once the old
railroad wrecker has overreached him.
self, and secured the defeat of his great
scheme in his effort to conSummate a
minor plan. The resolution, not to go
back of the returns, was adopted by
vote of eight to seven, Judge Bradley
voting with the Republicans, The sec
ond resolution, which provided for the
hearing of testimony in the case of the
alleged ineli9ibility of elector Humph-
reys, was also adopted by vote of eight
to seven, Judge Bradley voting IL the
affirmative.
THE STRUGGLE OF THE GIANTS.
Seldom, if ever, has so great an intel
lectual struggle been witnessed as that
which has taken place between the OPP
posing counsel in the Florida case.
Messrs Evarts, Mathews, Stoughton,
Shellabarger, Root and Chandler on the
Republican side, and Messrs. O'Connor,
Black, Merrick, Green and Hoadley on
behalf of Mr.. Tilden, have put forth
their greatest efforts, and if there is any
legal point which has escaped their vigi-
lance, it can hardly be worth consider
ing. Mr. Evarts addressed himself to
lawyers, and to the ordinary reader his |
speech seems dull and difficult to under !
stand, but to men, trained In the legal |
profession, it appears fully equal to the
greatest efforts of Webster, Choatc and
other great lawyers of the past. While
the giants have been struggling inside
the Supreme Court room, the people of
Washington have been struggling with
ont for opportunities to gain admission
to the room to witness the scene. The
ly besieged with applications for passes,
and the corridors of the Capitol are con-
tinually filed during the sessions of the
commission with men. women and chill
dren, all expecting that some lucky
chance will offer them an opportunity to
enter the sacred precincts. AS the room
will only admit about one hundred and
fifty spectators, of course multitude of
people will be compelled to drag out the
remainder of their existence without
having seen the great President making
machine in operation.
WHAT Is THOUGHT OF THE DECISION.
The Republicans believe that the de-
cision not to go back of the returns, is
sure to give the State Of Florida to
Hayes and Wheeler, and that the appli-
cation of the same rule will insure them
the State of Louisiana. The decision to
hear evidence in relation to the ineligi-
bility of Elector Humphreys Is also ex-
pected to DO away with Mr.. Cronin and
his Electoral College and therefore the
Republicans now believe that they will
STE tlitlI tlull ClStLSb vi buC
fourth of March. The Democrats are
still clutehing at straws, and the more
sanguine among them have Il glimmer
ing of hope that something may turn up
in their favor-if nothing better, that
they may be able to delay the decision
of the tribunal until after the fourth of
March, in order that new election may
take place.
THE LEGISLATION MIDDLE.
While this is Friday the ninth of Feb
ruary everywhere else, it is still Thurs
day, the first of said month, at the Capt.
tol ; for the compromise bill provided
that the House should not adjourn until
the counting of the vote was completed.
This results in endless confusion, and
stops legislation almost entirely. The
flags which float to the breeze over the
two Houses of Congress, have given the
Rebel soldier, who is now employed to
care for one of them, no trouble for the
past eight days, for during that time
they have not been hauled down, even
floating there every night and all day
Sunday. Appropos OF the flags, the ex-
rebel soldier. employed by the Confed-
crate House tc care for the one at the
south end of the Capitol, said at the
time Of his appointment. that he would
hire boy to haul it up in the morning,
ard would pull it down in the evening
himself, as he wishes h could do once