Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-02-06

because Of personal objections grow.
ing out of the t-Mobilier attan
and the DeGolyer contract The eau
Gus declined, however, to take action
in the matter, but it was understood
that when the ballot is taken in the
House very many of those present
will vote against Garfield.
David Dudley Field would have
been selected "a one Of the commts-
sion but for suggestion which was
made that possibly the electoral tri-
bunal would decline to allow counsel
to appear before it. In this case the
House would appoint managers to
represent it, and in this capacity It
was thought that Mr. Field would he
of much more benefit than as a mem
ber Of the commission. 1t was dis
closed that Mr.. Hoar will receive the
unanimous Democratic vote.
The Democrats are much better
pleased to have Morton on the COM
mission than Conkling. Morton has
not pretended to practice law for
many years. and his attempts at the
display of legal knowledge have for
long time been the subject of much
amusement among his associates. It
as well said that among the judicial
AilLlNS w NlilNil llC LO" W III lhCtl III lut
electoral tribunal he will be no more
than cipher, for his sledge- hammer
dOgmatism cannot pass current there
as it does in the political arena.
In addition to the counsel mention
ed last night as likely to be employed
on the Democratic side before the cleo
toral tribunal Judge Trumbull should
be included. Mr.. Trumbull, whose
visit to New Orleans as a member of
the Democratic Advisory Committee
has familiariZed him entirely with the
Louisiana election, has bGeu employ
ed to prepare the papers and docu-
ments bearing on that case.
The Supreme Court Justices who
are TO sit on the electoral commission
are already beginning to cram" for
their duties. To-day they called on
the librarian Of Congress for copies of
the election laws of Oregon, Florida
and Louisiana, and judicial. decisions
bearing on the same.
Representative Henry l.. Pierce, of
Massachusetts, one Of the Republican
Representatives from that State, has
for some time been outspoken in the
opinion that Tilden was fairly elected.
Secretary Chandler called meeting
Of the national executive republican
committee to meet at his house in thia
city yesterday for the purpose of max
ing arrangements for the employment
of counsel in behalf of the Republi-
can candidates before the electoral tri-
buue. 1t was resolved that the funds
should be raised by the committee to
defray all the necessary expenses
Secretary Chandler was at the capitol
to-day and communicated the fact to
~ thA ro,NYhIf,n,, Hx,
whom it was afterwards announced in
the republican Senate caucus.
An examination of Kenner, one of
the colored members of the Louisiana
returning board, and others officially
connected with that board, by the
House committee to-day, resulted in
disclosures which were scarcely neces-
sary to convince any one of the frauds
which characterized the canvassing of
returning board from beginning to
end. The facts which are so unwil-
lingly wrung from the lips of these
witnesses or to be inferred from their
refusal to answer questions, show fully
what was charged at the time in the
New Orleans papers and by the cOun-
sci for the Democratic candidates, that
the returning board, bold as were its
members, would not dare to peTpetrate
openly the gigantic frauds which were
necessary to convert Tilden majOri-
ty into a Hayes majority. 1t was in
secret session only that they would
undertake to do the work. 1t is un-
derstOod that the developments yet to
be made of the action of the returning
board will be more startling than those
of to-day.
The matter of the altered returns
from the Vernon parish in Louisiana
is not, however, new. The House
com mittee on the Louisiana election
examined the case fully, and will pre-
sent it in their forthcomining report.
There is no doubt that the transfer of
votes was a barefaced fraud, and will
probably be so acknowledged even by
the Republicans on the committee.