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n read, the pre-
] sid.'s SI.cer asked. ''are there
~ary objections to the certiti-
Gates of the State of Alabamaa"
Atr pause-"The chair
hears none and the vote of the
State of Alabama will be count
ed. The teIlers will announce
the vote"
Mr.. Cook. one of the tellers,
announced ten votes for Samuel
6Tilden for President and ten
votes tor Thos. A. Hendricks
Tor Vice President.
The certificate of Arkansas
WIS then read, and the result
was announced as six votes for
Tilden and Hendricks, after the
presiding officer had asked the
same questions as in the
Alabama case.
The California certificate was
read by Mr.. Stone, and six
votes were announced for Hayes
and Wheeler.
Connecticut came next. The
certificate was read by Mr..
Allison. and six more votes
were announced for Tilden and
Hendricks.
The Delaware certificates was
read by Mr.. ingalls,, and three
more votes were scored tor Til
den and Hendricks.
Florida was then reached, and
the presiding officer first handed
the certificate signed by Gov.
Stealns, and which recognized
the Hayes electors; and after it
had been read, the certificate of
the electors for Tilden and Hen
bricks was also handed out, and
both were read by Mr.. Stone,
while Mr.. Allison looked over
the duplicate.
The chair then said that he
had still another certificate, re-
ceived the 31st of January, yes
terday.) He then handed the
paper to the tellers, and it prov
ed to be the certified proceed
ings of the board of canvassers
authorized and appointed by
act of the Legislature of Flori,
Ga, who declare the Tilden and
Hendricks electors elected.
David Dudley Field objected
TO the vote Of Florida being
counted, submitting his obiec-
tions in writing, and after va
rious preliminary motions, all
the papers we're submitted to
Fhe Electoral Commission, before
whom it is now pending.
4 carefully prepared nara
tive of the Maddox Wells af-
fair, as gathered from the ev-
idence. is as follows:
Maddox is an old friend of
" ellis, of twenty five years
standing. lie was special
revenue agent sent to New
Orleans regarding cotton claims.
He met Welts at New Orleans
about the time Wells first came
TO New Orleans.
After the election Maddox.
acting as a confidential agent,
was to come North and first to
arrange for the Republican
purity to put up a large amount
OF money for Wells and the
board, and, with this view, a
letter was written on Novem-
Der 20, 1876, by Wells, which
Maddox wa; to exhibit to the
Republicans at Washington, to
show that Maddox was anthor-
lied to represent Wells, or had
his confidence.
Il second letter was written
by Wells to West on Novem-
Der both, 1876, informing West
of the situation in Louisiana,
that the Democrats had a mil
lion of money there, and that
. it wonld be necessary for the
Republicans to send as. much
in order TO hold the board;
that things looked very bad,
and requested West to cooper
ate with Maddox.
Upon reflection, witness de-
eided that it would be impru-
dent to deliver the letter to
West, and has not done SO, but
will deliver it to the committee.
A third letter was written by
Wells TO Maddox, which was TO
be use ] TO exhibit to the Dem
/. ocrats when negotiations failed
with the Republicans. The
purpurt of the letter was that
Wells relied upon Maddox's ad-
vice, etc, TO settle troubles in
4. Louisiana, and of a nature to
! iaply that Maddox had Wells
.s1ifiideuce.
Maddox came Ia Washington,