The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mems fro,, the capttal.

Rumors Of extensive swindles upon thu
United States Treasury have been rife il
Washington, but Treasurer Wyman say
there is nothing in them, and explains tina
S2,O00,OO0 or 100000 of unclaimed inter
est on bonds resting in the Treasury sug
gests extraordinary Inducements to CLAIM
agents constantly on the lookout for owner
of the bonds. A claim agent sometimes get
hold OF the wrong party, of the same name
from whom the agent procures a power o
attorney to collect the interest. In thi
way moneys have been enormously pait
out, but such sums have invariably beer
refunded after the detection of the mistake
and the Treasurer has not lost a dollar.
Caucuses of the two Houses selected tn,
following as members of the Electoral Com
mission: Senators Edmunds, Morton anG
F~relinghuysen, Republicans, and Thurman
and Bayard, Demoerats-Representative
Payne, Hunton andAbbott, Democrats; ant
Garfield and Hoar, Republicans-Supreme
Court Associate Justices Clifford, Strong
Miller and Field; the fifth member to be
selected from among the Associate Justices
Swayne, Davis, Bradley and Hunt, the
choice fell on Justice Bradley.
The Supreme Court of Justices, to sit on
the Electoral Commission, obtained from the
Librarian of Congress copies of the Election
Laws of Oregon, Florida, and Louisiana, and
the Judicial decisions thereon.
The Senate Committee appointed to inves.
tigate election matters in Florida has sub.
mitted its report. 1t finds that on the
preliminary canvass, the Hayes Electors
the returns. The Board then heard protests
and proceeded to a second canvass, going
behind the returns, in accordance with
the statute and the practice of the Board
in 1874, IN the written advice of
the Democratic Attorney General and Dem.
ocratic lawyers, and the result that time was
a majority of 103 for Hays. The report
continues at length to arguet that the count
was legal and constitutional. 8 q .stia
The Democrats selected Hon. Jere s.
Black, Matt. a. Carpenter, and Richard T.
Merrick as counsel to present Mr.. Tilden's
case before the electoral commission. The
Republicans selected Hon. W. NJ. Eyarts
anu 11Ous OIdulOJ dldbLucHb.
E. W. Stoughton, of New York, and s.
s. ~Shellabarger, of Ohio, were engaged as
leading counsel, by the Republicans, before
the Electoral Commission, in addition to
those heretofore mentioned; and the Demo-
Gratis engaged Ashbel Green of New York,
and Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois.
The House Committee on the Florida
election, on January 81, made a report.
They are of the opinion that the facts have
been iudicially determined that the Hayes
Electors did not receive a majority of
the votes cast at the election, and in this
is involved a denial of their right to
cast their votes as Presidential Electors,
and no determination other than that which
has been made by the Supreme Court of
Florida is required to show that these Elect
ors, in casting their votes for President and
Vice-President, is illegal and void, All pa
pers before the Canvassing Board, applying
to them, and all statutes of Florida, will
give ninety majority for Tilden and Hen
bricks beyond dispute.
Before the Select Committee on Privileges,
January 81, were two witnesses who gave
testimony of a highly important character
affecting the integrity OF the Louisiana Re-
turning Board. John L. Prickett testified
that he undertook "to negotiate, if posi-
BILE" in New York, "money enough to pay
Governor Wells and his fellow members of
the Returning Board to do what he con-
sidered righta and proper; that is to say, to
determine the State for Tilden." And on
the list Of February, before the Committee
on the Powers and Privileges of the House,
J.. b. Maddox testified that Ex-Governor
Wells offered to sell out the Louisiana Re-
turning Board for one million dollars. The
said he showed to the President and
Secretary Cameron the two letters addressed
to him by Governor Wells. He told the
Secretary that Governor Wells wanted
money, but the Secretary declined
to have anything to do with the matter.
What Governor Wells required was to pro-
tect him. The programme was that the
vacancy on the Returning Board should be
hlled, and Governor Wells should
resign in anger on some account.
Witness did not know there was
any special arrangement !. :" between
him and Gov. Wells about the details, but
was required to submit a plan which
acceptable.
The New York Herald's Washington cor.
respondent had an interview with Wells,
who said he did not know Pickett and had
never heard of his name before, and pro-
bounced Maddox's story false.
Ga.a-a1 An1 IL ~ |
,ers of the Louisiana Returning Board, and
! man of character, was under examination
before the Congressional Committee, on the
I'd ofs February. he ~contradicted the
Pickett-Maddox story. He knew nothing of
IN arrangement for the sale of the Electoral
7ote of the State, but he acknowledged
having been approached by DIR. W. A..
Robson, a Democratic State Senator, on the
'4th or 18th of November, with the sugges-
that it would be about 5000, 900 in his
pocket if he would make the State sure for
The south.
Circuit Judge Carpenter, of South Caro-
ina, rendered the following decision, on his
eturn from Washington:
rAot-1 HHu, dS coucluslOnS OF law, that ID. ii.
was not, on the It'll Of December last.
egally installed as Governor Of South Carolina
Second-Wade Hampton was not, on the 18th day
I December, 1876, legally installed into the office of
Governor of said State.
Th1rd-Ihe attempted installation of d. II.
chamberlain being illegal and void, it did not oper-
te, In law, as q resignation of the office as Gov
rnor which he held that time. as, by the Constitu-
ion, the Governor holds his office for two years, and
!ntil his successor is chosen and qualified, and as
here has been no legal qualification of his suc-
essor, D. NJ. Chamberlain is lawfully in possession
I the executive office and entitled to discharge the
qnct1ons OF the same until such qualification takes
lace,
A case similar to one that induced the
bove is nowpendingin the Supreme Court.
The State house authorities in New
orleans claim that Littlefeld's statement
efore the Congressional Committee, on
anuary 80, that he was requested by Wells
D transpose one hundred and seventy.eight
in Vernon Parish, in order to elect
and Judge Andrews District At.
'rney, and Kelso State Auditor, is false on
ne face of it Hunter and Andrews were
lected without ~transposition by the
election OF three polls ordered re.
'cted. Kelso was not returned elected,
exado, Democrat being returned elected
, lS5 votes over Kelso. The transportation
hected no result in the State, Parish or
Iittleield held Office under
-ellogg as Hay Inspector; was removed BY
~ntoine, Acting Governor, to make way for