The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08
TLLLGRAPHIC NEVIS.

! Morrill,, of Vermont, submitted a res
! olution authorizing the appointment o.
a committee of three Senators to max,
! the necessary arrangements for the in.
.uguration of the President elect OF
the fifth of March, which was agreed
! to.
The report of the Senate on Lnuisi.
ana Is volumiuous document If about
100 manuscript pages, although they
say it is only a report in part.
The committee, after explaining
what they were required TO do under
the resolution, say that there are ways
in which the night of suffrage
may be abridged. One is to deny the
legal voter the privilege of depositing
his ballot. Another is to refuse 10
count the ballot after it is deposited
by different parties. l: is claimed that
| both these methods have been pursued
within the State of Louisiana. The
allegation as to the last cannot be con-
troverted. The laws of Louisiana
authorize its tribunal under certain
conditions to reject from the count not
only the entire vote of a precinct, but
the entire vote of parish. In con-
clusion, the committee say that the
testimony taken Is not sufficiently COM
plete to enable them to say positively
what would have been the result of
the election in the State if intimda-
ton had not been employed st all,
but organized Intimidation is charged
against seventeen parishes of the
State against forty. No such charges
are made in those forty parishes. The
colored registration numbers -, 034,
leaving majority of cOlored votes
registered of Is, 9G5. Those forty
parishes returned G5, TAT Republican
votes and SO, 500 Democratic votes,
so that in that part of the
State where Intimidation is not
charged there was Republican
majority of $3.50 votes. 1t is not pre-
tended that the same arguments, etc,
were employed in the forty parishes
that were employed in the other seven
teen but the results are very different
in the seventeen parishes said to have
been terrorized. The colored registra-
ton was 81, 800; the white registration
was 20, $50, giving a majority of
colored voters of 6949, nearly one-half
as large as all the rest of State, but
the vote In the seventeen parishes
as returned showed but 10, $50
Republicans and 2113 Democrats, in
the seventeen parishes, where there
was a majority of 10, 1853 Democratic
votes returned. The report is signed
by all the Republican Senators on the
committee.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-After the
vote not to count Sallace's vote, Speak
er Randall announced that the Chair
had allowed every legitimate leglsla-
tive motion. The duty to notify the
Senate of the decision is mandatory.
Several propositions were overrulcd,
deavoring to prevent the Speaker from
counting in Hayes at once.
The Speaker said: "The gentleman
need not object; the Chair has no au-
thority to reserve any motion"
At II o'clock the Senate entered, and
Vermont was counted for Hayes, and
Virginia and West Virginia for TlIden,
and finally, after separation and two
hours discussion, Wisconsin was coun
ted for Hayes.
At 4; 80 President Ferry said: "ThIs
concludes the count of the thirty eight
States. The tellers will now ascertain
and deliver the result.
Senator Allison, one of the tellers,
declared the vote to be, Rutherford B.
Hayes 1856, Samuel J. Tilden 1874 votes
wherefore, l announce Hayes and
Wheeler duly elected president and
vice president for four years, commenc-
ing March 4, 1877.
There was a solitary hiss.
The Senate retired and the House
adjourned, and the flag was lowered
for the first time since February 1.
A resolution, with an extraordinary
preamble that the Louisiana returning
board be discharged, so as to assist
members of the commission, who have
completed the work of the returning
board, in the Inauguration, is pending.
1t will not receive two-thirds vote.
The chances are that the returning
board will be certified to the district
court for punishment.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The follow
ing telegram has just been sent to Gov
ernor Nichols: washington, d. c.,
March 3, 1877. To Governor T. T.
Nichols, New Orleans-The President
has sent dispatch to Packard Thurs
day, notifying him that troops could
no longer be employed to uphold eth er
claimant, and that he does not believe
that Packard would attempt any of
fensive operations. The President sent
the dispatch so that he might have time
to retire his pretensions if disposed.
The President says that instructions
have been issued which cancel all or
ders for the preservation of the stGtW
quo, and that neither you nor Pack
ard are bound to observe il; that
he means the people of Louisiana are
as free in their affairs from Federal in
reference as the people of Connect
cut, and that there will be no
disposition to interfere with them
any more than with the people of
New York. The President cOncurs
with as that you Immediately
issue Il proclamation urging protec-
ton, amnesty and peace. Being asked
if a posse executing process of Mich
olls's court would be interfered with
by military, he replied, no more than In
any other State. Being asked if Mich
olls's officers should take possession of
violence, would there be military in
reference, he replied there w~uld be
none; that the military would be
used as it had been once IN New York.
and would be in any of the States to
overcome q mob too form; dable for
the civil power or State authorities.
We have submitted the foregoing dis
patch of yesterday to the President,
who has revised it, with his own
hands, and authorizes US to state that
in its present form it is absolutely cor
rect. Signed by E. A. Burke, r. l..
Gibson, E. ]. Ellis and William NJ.
Levy"
Fell0u- citizens-We have assembled
to repeat the public ceremonial begun
by Washington, observed by all my
predecessors, and now a time-honored
custom which marks the commence
nent of a new term of the presiden-
tial Office. Called to the duty of this
great trust, l proceed, in compliance
with its usage. to announce some of the
leading principles on the subjects that
now chiefly engage the public atten-
ton, by which it is nay desire to be
guided in the discharge of these du-
ties. / shall not undertake to lay
down irrevocable principles or meas
ures of administration, but rather to
speak of the motives which should an
innate US, and to suggest certain I'M
portant ends to be attained in accord