The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Resume OF Newspaper Comaeuts in.
the Last fortnight.
WAsIIlHGroN. Dec. 29. l87e.

| seven members OF the ttOuse OF heprb-
scntatives who are to net conjointly with
G Senate committee .o report plan for
counting the Electoral yot and adjusting
the pending dispute. Mr. Ferry has
been blamed for appointing two very
ultra Republicans on the Senate commit.
tee--uamely: Meaass. Morton and Logan.
Dir. Randall is also criticised by his
party friends for several Of his appoint
n:.nts on the other committee for inquiry
and report on the powers of the House 0f
Representatives in respect to the clecto-
raj vote. The Republicans complain
NIT one of them is g lawyer. Some of
the Republicans appointed viz: VIII
lard, SeelSe anV. ManrOe--aTe among ,he
most libera! and upright OF their party,
and may act Independently.
The action Of the joint committee will
be watched with intense interest, and
there are hopes that SOME solution will
be arrived 1T by . inajnritv Of the juint
committee. The Senate wing has al.
ready organized and made provisions fur
meeting in the Senate judiciary rconis.
They wiz go o'i during the wesG.
| No meeting Of the CAUCUS committee Of
conference, has been held for several days,
and it is doubtful il there be any till after
the h0lidays. ~
| The address Of the Democratic laem.
bers of Congress Yill not he Issued until
tue committee now ia the South report.
The duties Of this advisory committee of
seventeen will necessarily be in allowance
until the committees of investigation to
report on the mode Of examining the
electoral vote shall have acted and made
their report 10 Congress. If il shall ap-
pear that there il fixed purpose on the
part OF the Senate to cheat Tilden out of
the Presidency and install Hayes by mill.
tary force, the duties OF the advisory com.
mittec will 10 such contingency assume
the highest Importance. la
There IL authority for stating that Hon.
l.. Q. 9. Lamar is not sYtisfied with the
position attributed to him in certain pub
lie journals, and that especially he is not
willing to be undernto0d as atating that
the South is indifferent to the result of
the Presidential contest, or would be
neutral if, unfortunately, the two great
parties at the North should undertake to
adjust the dispute by force The nc.
counts which have appeared in print
stating that he and others were ready TO
accept Hayes as President upon as.
surancea of u ne,s line Of policy towards
the South and the assignment of South
ern Democrats or Conservatives to prom
inent positions under the Hayes admin.
lstration ID SO far untrue that Colonel
Lamar hes not even allowed any prop.-
sition of such 2 nature to be made - MIN
by the friends ~ Governor Hayes.
The intelligence from Florida of the
order Of the Supreme Court for the can.
vass of the vote is regarded as highly ini-
portant in its bearings on she pTesiden-
t'al question. In conjunction with the
letter OF General Barlow it will lead ell
; candid men to the belief that the State
went for Iilden. The only point now
that gives the Democrats serious concern
10 South Carolina, where the carpet-bap.
gers and Preaident Grant are anxious To
prtcipitate conflict, and have the power
to do 80 by pushing the people beyond
the point OF endurance. ~,
L. @. W.
C0re.poadenes Of ne PaaadsipAta Times.
WARRINGTON, Dec. 22.
The drift Of public sentiment here is
Enthusiastically toward the pesceable in.
augnration of Governor Tiiden Us Preai.
dent. 1t nay now be regarded as certain
thas the Senate will not consent to follow
the lead of Merton aud Sherman in their
desperate policy OF forcing President
Ferry to assume the responsibility Of
counting the vote himself, and declaring
Hayes elected. The complicatiGa
thrown into the issue by she action of
Governor Grover, of Oregon, has done
muci. to unsettle the Morton. Sherman
programme. 1t had been decided that
terrf should fortify himself in arbitrari-
ly DECLARING the votes of Florida aud
Louisiana for Hayes, behind the certifi-
Gates of the Governors Of the States, on
the assumption that the appointment of
Electors was contided to the States by the
constitution, and that the certificate OF
the Governor, under the seal Of the State.
could tot be inquired into; bu. that rnIe
now would elect Filden, as under it the
I, Tiden vote in Oregon would have to be
counted. The daily protracted and bitter
debate on the Oregon question is but the
ebulition Of the thwarted revolutionary
Republican leaders in the Senate. for the
Democrats do not claim that Tilden shall
he declared elected by that vote. It ia
Morton aud Sherman petulently fighting
their own disappointments.
Ihe various expressions on the Presi.
Dental issue now are marked by degree
ot candor and freedom that was not dis
played few weeks ago. Then mono
knew where the party lines 1ouId drive
party :::es, and there -ss general tan-
dsHcy &c .e::esace kn., =;sG:n The lat
ten days. positive Republican ezp-e=.::sn.
sc 81 ne mai 1iti. an e.sT7 iiaiii t;..
nouncing any attempt 10 iJTIe HAYES
into the Pr, idency in accordance with
the Admin ,:ration plan. The most
significant declaration is that of Ch;.f
Justice Waite, whose opipio-.A are not
concealed on the issue, although. he has
expressed them With the prudence that
becomes his position. He Ia the personal
and political friend and neighhor of Gov.
Hayes, and all his sympathies are nntu-
rally with the Republican candidate !:
but he has declared that the result must
depend upon tao fsG::ss in the d;annted
States, and that the present aspect Of the
controversy points very ,strongly to, the:
election and proper insugura.ien Of Til,
den. It IL: n,.l well undentood in politi.
cal eirelea here that the Supreme Coure
cannot be trusted to declare Hayes elec.
ted, strongly Republican es it. in, and
this development has done much to de-
moralize the already weak Morton.Sher.
man leadership. Gen. Buffers visit here
has also been damper to the adminis-
trati0n. II refuses TO stand I'D to the
Louisiana aa;1 Florida returna, aud pro.
poses 10 remand the election back to the
people; but concede that in a new,
election Tilden would sweep the COUNTRY
like whirldwind because of the very
general conviction that he was hbneatls
elected in November. Indeed, in case oi.
l o.. "a.