The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-10
ALTERED RETURNS.
WHERE SOME OF THEM ARE NOW LO-
GATED.
The United states Senatorial Question and
MellOgE's Compromised Few Notes
Relative to the ohio Election.

The United states Senatorial Question and
HeIlogg's Compromises-A Few Note,
Relative to the Ohio Election.
Il having been stated in some Of the dispatches
sent from this city that there was, 60 TO speak,
scat in the meal tub" In the returns canvassed
by Wells Il Co., and that some of them had beer
tempered with after the Wells crowd had pro.
mulgated the result Of their labors, . DEMOCRAT
reporter on Monday
SOUNDED A FEW REPUBLICANS,
one OF whom stated that he had heard it said
| that before leaving here Packard had loaded him
self with all the evidence he desired to show that
the Returning Board had not only altered and
forged the Vernon parish returns, but had ''ig-
| ured" on many others.
| visit was then made to the office OF secretsry
OF State Strong, who, In answer to inquiries pro.
pounded, stated that when he took posse ssion of
the Office there were not in the Office complete re-
| turns from any parish In the State. In the case
OF Vernon scarcely anything had been left in the
package, and Notwithstanding this the DEMOCRAT
reporter
saw DEsLoNDE's RECEIPT
for complete returns from every parish in the
State, he, as Kelloggs Secretary Of State, having
gwen that receipt to the Returning Board.
Once In Deslonde'B charge it would have been
an easy matter for Kellogg 10 secure the returns
or such portions as he desired, and Packard, by
lhUS Opbu letb6T, lHQl0hbe0 phlDly tIaG ne was
In possession Of information which could only be
derived from the original returns.
The abseUce OF portions OF these returns when
Packard abdicated seems to corrOborate this vew
and when Pitkin stated, as he did to DEMOCRAT
reporter, that he chad papers that would raise
the wind with Hayes" it is safe to presume that
the snubbed Republicans, like himself and Pack
ard, with Kellogg's intriguing aid, have material
to make things lively when Congress meets.
Il seems, too, from the statement OF Surveyor
Wp1fa made m Monday npynjup Tn n nEasnrpA
reporter, that portion OF the Vernon parish re-
turns
WERE CARRIED TO WASHINGTON
by Packard's Secretary of State, Honore for the
Howe committee, and that all. Or portion there
Of are still in Washington subject to the order of
the State officials.
In connection with this subject the rumor has
been current for weeks. in fact since Ke ogg left
here. that he was endeavoring to secure his adj |
mission to the Senate by urging the Morton fso-
ton Of that body into the belief that compro-
mise Of
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION
would be acceptable to the Conservatives of this
State, and that were they to admit Senator |
Eustis and himself there would be no great OBJ |
lection offered.
Another Republican, and one who has ira
versed the West and North pretty thoroughly |
during the past two months, stated Yesterday to |
q DEMocRAT reporter that he did not think that |
Louisiana would be represented at all in the |
United States Senate at the
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
That the feeling among the Republicans was so
strong against Kellogg that he did not belle We
that the committees report would be called up at
all, and that Judge Spotford's credentials (which
have already been .prepared) would go to the
and would there remain, with those
Of Messrs Eustis and Kellogg.
The same gentleman states that in Ohio the
feeling among Republicans is
VERY BITTER AGAINST HAYES
as well as Sherman and Stanley Matthe we, and
ne doubted very much whether the Republicans
will carry the State at the coming October cleo
ion. The Republican majority at the last cleo
ion, he says, was but little over 5000, and he
ears that at the coming election the disaffeoted
part OF his party will not come out to vote.
The Ohio election, he says. taking place as it
loes prior to the assembling Of Congress will
,ave great weight in the matter OF the fight
lpon Hayes and the proceedings of the Republi-
IAN Nominating, Convention of Ohio will indi.
ste to certain extent the probable result of the
Election,