Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-02-01

President, the machinery of the bill has ere
this time been put into motion, and We may
expect solution Of the Presidential question
as early as the nature Of the case and the
complications involved will admit.
According to the provisions of the bill, each
house, appointed on Tuesday last, BY viva
voce vote, five of its members, who With the
four Associate Judges of the Supreme Court,
viz: Field, Miller, Strong and Clifford, met,
when these Judges selected fifth Associate
Justice to form the high commission to de-
eide the contested points, which, we infer, will
come up only from the States of Oregon,
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. A
majority will then decide whether any and
what are the votes provided for by the Con.
stitution of the United States, and what per.
sons were duly appointed Electors from the
contested States The count will then be
made in conformity with the decision of the
commission, unless both houses should unite
to reject it.
The Judges to Count the Vote.
-George Alfred Townsend, in recent
letter to the New York Graphic, thus briefly
sketches four of the members of the Supreme
Court who are to assist in counting the Elect
oral vote, should the bill just passed by both
houses Of Congress meet the approval of the
President, and the plan provided by the bill
be adopted: -
"Cliford is a man stepped in reverence for
the tribunal where he has passed so many
years. This old man, colossal in size, weigh.
ing about or above, 300 pounds, made the
treaty with Mexico in 1S47. He was sp-
pointed by Democratic administration, and
is hardly ever heard to refer to political ques.
tions. .'.. .. ''.. '.' ~
Judge Miller speaks pleasantly about the
new duty devolving upon him. He is univer.
sally regarded in Missouri by the ex.rebels,
as we'll as by the Republicans Of Iowa, as the
ablest jurist west of the Mississippi river. By
birth he is Kentuckian, and was once doc.
tor. ...
"Judge Field is man of stupendous read
ing and information, the ablest lawyer on the
Pacific side, and the peer of anybody in the
court. He is a man of ready opinions, but as
Judge hisimpartiality is unquestioned.
Judge Strong is the most judicial.looking
man on the bench-of noble head, with gray
locks from bis crown. His position in Penn.
sylvania was of the highest; be is seldom
heard of here except in the legal social cir
Gle. .... f.. ...
"While many look upon Davis as the fifth
Judge, some say that Conkling's appointse-
Ward Hunt-would be apt to initiate Conk.
ling's ennobled motives and forget the parti'
san in the public officer, and that be may be
the choice. Others think that the judges will
select the easy and agreeable Bradley, who
was appointed Republican, but whose State
went for Tilden by so great majority that be
will be evenly balanced in the influences
which environ him."
Connecticut's Voice for Peace. 80
--In the House of Representatives of Cont
necticut, on the 25th ultimo. resolutions we're
passed, by vote of 119 to 70, which express
confidence in the wisdom of Congress and
the Executive in the settlement of the Presi.
Dental question. The resolutions claim that
defects in the Constitution should be remedied
by amendment and not by legislative interfer-
euce. They denounce intimidation, violence
and frauds at elections, demand constitution
al amendments securing honest suffrage, and
correcting antiquities concerning the Presi-
Dental election, and say that whether the re.
suit of the last election be settled by the plan
followed in past elections, or by the eoncur'
rent vote of both houses rejecting the Elect
oral vote of any State, or on account Of in
timidation, violence or fraud, or by operation
of the proposed law to submit all to COM
mission of fifteen persons, I'VE, the General
Assembly of Connecticut, hereby heartily
pledge the support of the State government
and of all our loyal citizens to that person
who shall thereby be declared elected Presi'
dent of the United States" lis also rssolv'
ed that any armed opposition to the insugu-
ration or administration of the person who
may be declared elected President BY either
of aforesaid methods which may be adopted
by Congress will be treason, and all persons
who threaten civil war unless some one spe-
ci6c plan of settling dificulties is followed,
deserve the execration of all good citizens"
The resolutions were strongly opposed by
the Democratic side of the House. During
the debate dispatch was read announcing
that the United States Senate had endorsed
the Congressional plan. The announcement
that Senator Eaton was the only Democrat
voting against it, was received with Kisses on
the Democratic side. which were promptly
checked by the Speaker.
Judge Carpenters Decision.
Judge Carpenter has returned to Co.
lumbia from his visit to Washington and
filed his decision in the habsas corpus case Of
the pardoued convict, Peter Smith, which de-
cioion involves the question of who is the le'
gal Governor of South Carolina. Judge Car
peuter says that he consulted all the suthori'
ties in the Washington libraries, but could
find no precedent to aid him ia making bis
decision, which may be briefly stated as fol-
lows:
First. That the House of Representatives
before which the vote was opened and pub.
lished, and before which, in conf junction with
the Senate, Chamberlain was inaugurated,
was not only illegal in wanting quorum to do