The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-30
FROM WAsHnNaTON.
THE couYsEL-THE JUDGES.

| counsel, and thefserYicee OF Lyman Tfum.
bull and Matt. Carpenter have been secured.
It is reported that Ben. Butler has also been
offered retainer, but 1t Is not probable that
he will appear for the Democrats In the case.
-TrumbuII arrived here to-day, and, lin
conjunction with Black and Carpenter, has
already begun work upon the case.
Nothing further Is known in regard to
the fifth Justice. A mistaken statement has
| been published that Swayne and Hunt are
excluded by the terms Of the bill. Either
one Of them can be selected, and the Demo-
Gratis say that they have no preference, but
that they will be satisfied to leave their case
in the hands OF either one Of them.-Ne0
York Herald Special.
FLORIDA.
The first case to be presented to the COM
mission will be that Of Florida, and it is
probable that members OF the House and
Senate investigating committees Will ap-
pear before the committee to present the
case, Chairman Thompson, OF the House
committee, says be IS perfectly satisfied to
leave the Florida case to my OF the Justices.
The fraud, in his opinion, is so patent, and
the legal points in the case so clear, that it
will be impossible for the case to be decided
by the Justices on partisan considerations
ID. r.
SUPREME COURl.
WASHINGTON, January 2S.-Tbe justices
OF the Supreme Court held very lengthy
conference yesterday, lasting five or six
hours, on the subject Of the business now
before that tribunal, and the allotment OF
the different Justices to prepare the opinion
of the court upon cases upon which they
have arrived at decision. The conference
was more protracted than would otherwise
al "a NJ hn
sitv OF making such disposition OF the bust
ness of the court as will enable it to meet
without great inconvenience the require
ments imposed upon certain Of its MEN,
bers by the new electoral bill.
| Az five Of the justices are to be taken to
make up the membership Of the electoral
tribunal, the court will, while they are en-
gagged in the duties OF the tribunal, be kept
without quorum. 1t is, therefore, under
stood that the Chief Justice will be empow-
cred to adjourn the Supreme Court during
the period OF the sessions OF the electoral
tribunal Special to baltimore Sun.
THE OTHER JUsTICE-THE LAWYERS.
Opinion is settling down very steadily to
the conviction that Justice Bradley will be
the fifth justice selected by his four asso-
ciatcs to complete the membership OF the
electoral tribunal, and not by lot, but by
unanimous choice. 1t is understood that
William NJ. Erarts, and perhaps Stanley
Matthews, will be the counsel to present
the Republican side Of the case, with eX-
Representative Shellabarger, OF Ohio, as as
sistant, and that Judge Black and ex-Sena-
tor Carpenter will be retained to present
the Democratic case.-I6. ..s. .....
49,. MIR. C0NKLING.. -
IL 1u rof1 no
tanned from Senator Conkling, but it is
stated positively among Republicans that
he holds the action OF Governor Grover, in
issuing a certificate to Cronin, legal and
valid. This would be in accordance with
the position OF Mr.. Conkling in the Abbott
Vance case, where he held that votes cast
for an ineligible candidate were invalid and
not to be counted. For fear that Mr.. Conk-
/ ling may assume this position, much oblec-
ton will be made to placing him on the
commissioned. ,.
ralr. Conkling said in his speech that he
firmly believed Hayes was elccted.]
| IT'S BUTLER UNHAPPY.
General Benjamin Butler, who has been
here for several days, is very unhappy. He
was sent back to Congress expressly to
quarrel with Ben. Hill, and now, as Butler
4
for the Senate. But Butler will not be very
long in finding some one else to quarrel
with.-Ib.
LOUISIANA.
Louisiana Radicals here profess to have
hope that the President will make some de-
cision favorable to their cause in at least so
far as the Supreme Court Of that State Is
concerned. There is no good reason just
now to apprehend that the President will
violate the pledge he has given not to de-
eide who is the Governor Of the State in adj
vance Of the reports OF the congressional
committees. There seems no reason to
doubt the statements which have heretofore
been made that Collector Casey is using all
his influence with the President against
Packard and in favor OF Nicholls.-lb.
THE OREGON CASE.
WASHINGTON, January 2s.-The Oregon
kilograms, over which so much ado has
been made by the Radical politicians, have
now been made public, and prove nothing
whatever Of an improper character against
the Democratic National Committee. 1t is
shown that Dir. Hewitt and the committee
had reason at first to suspect that the Re-
publicans would resort to fraud to obtain
the vote Of Oregon, just as they were doing
in the case Of Florida and Louisiana. The
New York Democrats therefore very natu-
rally sent kilograms to their friends in Ore.
gon warning them to be on the alert. After
wards, when the ineligibility Of Watts was
discovered, the committee employed coun-
sell to argue the case before Governor Grover,
and it appears as il the money was sent
from New York to pay the counsel fees. This
is all there is Of it. and discloses moth
ing that was Legitimate. Lawyers are, Of
course, all patriots, but they are not often
known to prefer their services without
pay, and il money had not been raised for
them it is not to be expected that they
would have come forward. The fact also
that money was given to Cronin to help pay
bis expenses to Washington Is entirely i'm.
material, as Cronin, under the circunl-
stances, could not, in fairness, have been
asked to pay his own expenses. II AIr.
Zachariah Chandler and his committee come
out of the Florida, Louisiana, and South
Carolina business with rs clean hands as
Mr.. Hewitt and his friends come out Of the
Oregon business they will do much better,
considering their antecedents, than any one
has right to antlcipate.-Id.
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