The Morning herald., 1877-01-04
Interview with w, A. wheeler.

Ant0fvioW with W. A. wheeler.
New YORK, Jan. s.-The Herald. prints
sreport of an interview with Hon. VIM. A.
Wheeler, who has been stopping in Il Is city
for few days. In replyto the reporters
remark "You have probably read the state
ments that you are hostile to compromise
with Governor Tilden, by which he is to be
elected President by the House, and you
Vice-President by the Senate9" A. ....
Mr.. Wheeler responded :-"Such state
ments are necessarily absurd. How can
there be any compromised lido not believe
that the suffrage ofthe American people can
be made the subject of dIcker or barter.
What right have any men to forestall the
constitutional settlement of the question by
bargain, arrangements, or compromise, call
1t what you wilt As to my submitting to
serve under Governor Tilden's Presidency,
If he is lawfully elected what can do but
to submit cheerfully and respectfully. I
may have my individual preferences, but If
Governor Tilden is lawfully summoned by
the House to the Presidency by failure Of
q count, and If the Senate elects me Vice.
President, ] would, of course, yield to him
that ready and hearty allegiance with which
every American citizen should submit to the
lawfully chosen President, be he whom he
may"
Mr.. Wheeler, however, said-I DO not
conceal my conviction that have been
elected by the people. 1t is my firm con-
viction that Congress can never be consti-
tuted national canvassing or returning
Board. The Congress can never 90 be-
hind the returns beyond the mere question
Of the regularity of the certificates. Under
stand me clearly, for 1t is point on which
would net like to be misunderstood. The
Congress cannot investigate whether Lou
isana has gone for Tilden or Hayes. The
action of the Returning Board on this point
has been final and conclusive.
Mr.. Wheeler said in regard to the Louis
lana Returning Board-I never charged and
never said in my report that either Gov.
Wells or Anderson was dishonest or acted
from bad motives. defy any man to find
line in my report in which I impugned
their motives. All I did say and meant to
say was that they had misapplied the law ;
that is all. The law requires them, in cases
Of intimidation, to take the atndavits in
parishes 1t the several polls. and then and
there to attach them to the returns, while
| they failed to take such affidavit, and sub
sequently threw out votes on charges of in
timidation, without having eompl: d with
the letter of the law. have the highest
opinion of the personal integrity of Wells
and Anderson. Both are native Louisianians.
Wells was faithful Union man, who was
hunted with dogs through the swamps by
the Rebels, while Anderson fought bravely
on the Confederate side.
He did not anticipate any violence or trou-
BILE in the election matter.
Disbandment OF GEN. Crooks Com
mand.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a Fort Fetterman
despatch of Dec. 50, says General Crooks
command arrived here to-day, and will be
disbanded at once. Seventy Grow Indians,
under Major Randall, Joined the expedition
on Belle Faurche on Christmas eve. After
thirty one days hard marching, with scarce
ly any provisions from the Grow Agency,
they picked up on the way nineteen horses
abandoned by the lately routed Cheyennes,
then on the march to the Rosebud. Christ
mas evening Louis Richard, the scout sent
from Reno to the agencies for new recruits,
arrived in camp, having been sent back with
some other Indians whom he met, 200
Indian from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
agencies. The same day General Crook
sent the Crows home. .p
The weather during our march has been
very bad. Christmas morning the mercury
froze. The estimated temperature was from
2 to As degrees below zero. Several Of our
animals were frozen to- death, and quite
number of the troops suffered from frost
bites.
Gen, Crook goes first to Cheyenne to at
tend general court martial, thence to Red
Cloud Agency. The two spies sent to locate
Crazy Horse arrived back at Reno and
reported that the chiefs band were moving
into the bad lands towards the head Of the
Little Missouri. Gen. Crook thinks the
hostiles are broken into small bands and
can be pursued hereafter by smaller bodies
of troops. Another expedition will probably
be organized in a few weeks.
General Mckenzie, with the 4th Cavalry
goes to Camp Robinson at Red Cloud.