New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-10
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican.
AFFAIRS AT TEE CAPITAL.
Counting Ihe Electoral Vote-The Gall
Ierteg Momop0llzed by Favorites-Gov.
ernOF Wells and His AccuseFs.

IerfeH M@m0p0ltZed by Eav0rIteB-Govs
ernor Wells and His AccuseFs.
WASHINGTON, February 2, 1877.
The proceedings in the hall of Represen-
tatives yesterday afternoon viii be written
in history 90 OF exceptional interest, both
because of it's rarity and because of the
great interests involved. As early as ten
o'clock the House galleries began to fill.
At one O'Clock the Senate in q body, led by
the President pro tenn. and Ssrgeant-at-
Arms French, with it's rear guard of Senate
attaches, entered the chamber of Represen-
tatives. They were received by the mem
bers of the lower House standing until their
visitors were seated. Directly in front of
the Speakers chair were seated Justices
Miller and Field, Secretary Chandler, Hon.
William M. Evarts and Judge Black, while
scattered around the chamber we're, among
others, Secretary Robson, General Slough
ton, Charles O'ConOr, General Sherman,
Postmaster General Tyner, Hon. George
Bancroft, and some prominent naval Off
GERS. The tellers were seated at the Chief
| Clerks table, and when comparative quiet
had been restored, Mr.. Ferry, standing
at the right of Speaker Randall, opened
the Alabama certificates and continued
alphabetically with the States until
Florida was reached, when the re-
turn of the Republican electors were first
opened, then the Democratic, and lastly a
Democratic document. recapitulating the
vote of the State. WAen asked If objec-
tiODs were made to the count, Mr.. Field
submitted series of written objections on
the part of the House against accepting the
certificates of the Hayes electors. Written
objections were also submitted against re-
ceiVing the certificates Of the Tilden cleo
tors and the last paper read. Mr.. Ferry
thereupon announced that all the papers
| would be submitted to the arbitration COM
! mission, and the two houses separated to
resume the count after the settlement of
the Florida case. There was an immense
! crowd about the Capitol, and If any portion
| of it was part of Mr.. Watterson's grand
army with which he proposed to enliven
| the somewhat monOton0us course of every
day life here the present season, it should
be said, in justice to them, that they lacked
the maraudIng propensities and sanguinary
spirit which ordinarily animAtes an invad-
ing army to deeds Of plumber, violence and
blOodshed.
A great deal Of grumbling and dissatis-
| faction has been heard and felt in times
past at the arbitrary and the wholly indie
iensible cause of members of the House
and Senate in shutting out the general pub
lie from the galleries upon extraordinary
occasions, and apportioniDg the seats 70
members of their own families or to favor.
ties. By what right they presumed to
divide up the accommodations of the House
| galleries yesterday, giving to each Repre-
sentative and Senator three tlckets each, To
distribute to his particular friends, none Of
them have voluteered to state. Perhaps
l nd tho VrahlSe aa TIM inainnifaaR1
to waste their invaluable time in hunting
mp q warrant that doesn't anywhere exist
The pretext was that the capacity of the
galleries was limited, and the line must bt
drawn somewhere; and they drew it 80 a.
to exclude all but members of their OWL
|, family, or personal friends. The galleries
should have remained open to every person
whether plebeian or belonging TO the linz
| of nobility; and when every seat was hlled
, | the doors should have been promptly anC
inexOrably closed to all Corners. 1t is no
torious that these tickets of admission il
} some cases were hawked about the Capito
! and streets. and sold to the highest bidder
, as high as $50 being demanded in the early
j part of the day, and going on at ~ OF y
, later.
! There is an evident determination on tn,
part Of those who do not jump at conclu
siOns to suspend Judgment upon the cas-
/ of Madison Wells until all the back coun
ties are heard from. Mr.. Littlefeld come
forward with = confession, . which, If true
ought to bar hum from the confidence o
honorable men hereafter. If untrue, tn
other horn of the dilemma appears quite q
!. formidable Such tools cut in both direC
! / tons.
Messrs. Pickett and Maddox, accordin
/, to their own statement, had . nice httl
! scheme, which was devised for buying n
! the Returning Board Of Louisiana, thei
!. consciousness of having done patrioti
service thereby and their percentage bein
all the remuneration they asked for thei
share in the bargain. KNOX.