Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-02-17

cate on the following grounds:
That the Hayes electors had not
been duly elected.
That their election had been certi-
fed by VIM. 2. Kellogg, who claimed
to be, but was not in fact, Governor of
Louisiana.
Because the Returning Board was
without jurisdiction, for the reason
that the laws of Louisiana conferred
no power on the Returning Board to
canvass and compile votes, since they
constitute but four of the five persons
required by law, since these four were
of the same political party, and since
there was vacancy in the board which
the four members refused to fill.
Because four members of the Re
turning Board mad full knowledge that
the true compilation of votes would
have shown that the Tilden electors
had been duly elected.
Because the said board had offered
for money to sell the vote of Louisiana.
Because II. B. Levy and III. Brews-
ter had held offices of trust under the
United States at the time of their ap-
pointment as electors.
Mr.. Gibson La. Dem) sent up an
objection to the same certificate, be-
cause
First-The GovernmentofL Louisiana
was not Republican in form.
Second-No canvass was made on
which the certificates of election were
issued.
Third-An alleged canvass of votes
was an act of usurpation, fraudulent
and void.
Fourth-Some of the electors were
ineligible, by the laws of Louisiana,
and were disqualified from being cleo
tors as holding State Offices, Kellogg
being acting de factO governor, } otfrain
supervisor of registration for the par
ish of Point Coupee, Marks district
attorney, and Burch a member of the
State Senate, member of the Board
of Control of the State penitentiary,
an administrator of the Deaf and
| Dumb Asylum, and treasurer of the
School Board of East Baton Rouge,
and because Joffrain was specially dis
qualified by the thirteenth section of
the act of the Legislature of July "A,
1874, which provides that no super
visor of registration shall be eligible to
any Office at the election, and because
Joffrain was at the late election super
visor of registration for the parish of
Point Coupee.
Mr.. Wood, IN. Y. Dem.) objected
because those electors were not elected
as provided by the State Legislature.
Mr.. Howe, Wisconsin Rep object
ed to the second certificate for Tilden
and Hendricks on the ground that
there was no evidence that those cleo
tors had been appointed in such
manner as the Legislature directed,
while there was evidence conclusive
in law that neither of them had been
so appointed; and also on the ground
that there was no evidence that Nc
Emery was governor of Louisiana in
the year 1876, while there was conclu-
sive evidence that kellogg was during
the year 1876 and for several years
prior thereto governor of that State,
aud was recognized as such by the ju-
dicial and legislative departments of
Louisiana and by all the departments
of the Government Of the United
States.
When the President of the Senate
had ascertained that there were no
other objections, the Senate withdrew
to its own chamber.
The proceedings of the 18th Tues
day. we're the statement of the objec-
tons to the Louisiana vote as certified
by Kellogg, with q statement of the
positions to be occupied by the Dem
ocratic party.
This was done in two brief speeches
by Messrs. Mcdonald and jerks,
the reply being made on the part of
the Republican party by Messrs. Hurl-
but and Howe.
The Democratic managers eloquent
ly pleaded the incompetency OF Kel-
logg as a usurping Governor to certify
anything-the anti-Republioan char
acter of the Returning Board, It's lille
gality, its noncompliance with the law
of the State, oppressive as that was
its shameless perversion Of the returns
committed to it, its obliteration
of Democratic votes, its forgery of
Republican votes, its offers to sell the
vote of the State to the highest bid
der-in short the whole catalogue of
iniquitiessthat have now been before
the nation for months, and the Repub-
liean reply dealt with one question
the alleged competency of kellogg TO
certify and the impregnability of his
certificate.
Thus the lines of attack and defence
have been defined and the Republican
managers have virtually acknowledged
the force Of the case against them by
taking refuge in the same position as
that they occupied in the Florida case,
the incompetency of Congress to deal
with any fraud or illegality however
outrageous when once sanctioned by
the broad shield of a Governors GER
tifcate.
The evening of the 18th, and the
morning of the 18th, were occupied
by the speech of Mr.. Carpenter, who
made perhaps the most forcible argu-
ment which has yet been heard in the
case for receiving ample evidence as to
the lawful qualifications of the cleo
tors. He broadly based his argument
on the guarantee of Republican gov
srRment by the Federal authority to
the States, and maintained that Con-
gress was not only empowered but OBJ
liged to ascertain that anti-Republican
principles we're not introduced into !