The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23

Morton was the first and P. T. Barnum,
the Snowman, the second person to send
congratulatory dispatch to Gov. Hayes, an
nourcing the decision Of the commission.
Barnum says he wants no fayors, but the
Philadelphia Times suggests it is not improb-
able that he has his eyes on the Louisiana
Returning Board and possibly on the Flee
toTal Commission, as additions to his museum,
and desires Hayess good Offices in that be-
half.
Senator Edmunds was one of the Re
pubicans who framed the electoral bill He
distinctly and uncquivocally declared its OBJ
iect was to allow the Commission To fully
investigate all matters relating 10 the ,lcc-
ton and TO the qualifications Of electors. 30
that the truth might be reached. Afterwards,
as n member of the Commission, he repeat
eddy voted against any investigation while h
might show the fraudulent character of II e
claims of the Hayes electors from Florida
and Louisiana. Was this honest?
Justice Bradley is said to be very unhap-
Ply over the position in which his moral tur-
pitude has placed Kim before the country.
The positions lie tool in the Florida and
Louisiana cases were 0iameircally oppo-
site to each other, and can not be ex-
planned in any reasonable manner. When
he was laying down the opinion that it was
not competent to go behind the Governors
certificate, Senator Bayard put to him the
question: Suppose State should elect
double the number of electors TO which it is
entitled, or the electors Of State should vote
for an alien for President would there be no
POWER to remedy this?" Unable to reply
Justice Bradley hung down his head in his
abiect partisanship.
Senator Conkling lost on Monday an
opportunity which may never occur TO him
he declared that there was too much fraud
in Louisiana for the Republican party to
carry, and that he intended to make vigo-
rous protest against the counting of the
votes of Louisiana for Hayes. When the
debate commenced in the Senate, instead OF
coming forward and expressing his honest
convictions, he remained in committee
room and would not vote at all. 1t is also
stated that other Republican Senators were
ready to join Conklng in protesting against
the stupendous fraud Their votes, with
those Of the Democrats, would have turned
the scales. They could not rise above party,
and the decision vas sustained. Edmunds
was sick and ab=cnt, and Blaine was not
present to vote.
The New York Sun thinks Senator
Cameron should submit his dispute with the
widow to high joint commission of fifteen
men, seven 10 be chosen by the widow, seven
by the Senator and the odd man by the side
which plays the sharper game. The San
thinks if Joe Bradley had the decisive vote,
he would argue that the Senator not being
a married man is prima facie proof he never
intended to be married; that the Senator is,
on his own declaration, not a fool, and no.
his time of life-prma facie evidence again
that tho widow is fraud. The commission
by vote of eight to seven, Justice Joe Brad
ley throwing the decisive vote, would hold
that it cannot 90 back of Simon Cameron's
present status Of an unmarried man, ard on
this basis give Judgment against the widow,
without so much as having read the letters
containing definite offers of matrimony