Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

TO Cne constitution and laws. i was
not willing sir, to be an accessory be-
fore the fact to the disqualification
of the gentleman from Ohio ON the
one hand or to the disregard of his
sworn obligations on the other.
Mr.. Speaker, We have been de-
ceived and betrayed by this high
commission. We submitted certain
disputed questions of law and fact
to it as judges, and, instead of deci-
ding these questions as judges, a
majority has adjudicated them as de-
graded partisans and as a packed
jury. Instead of performing the
high and noble functions of just, up
right, and intelligent j~urists, the ma
jority has perverted Judgment
played the lole of party tricksters
rnd political jugglers, and have won
for themselves an immortality of in
fanny. No impartial man, whether
lawyer OF layman, can read their sew
eral judgments in the three disputed
States but is forced to the con-
clusion that the objective point to
which all the efforts of the immortal
eight were directed was to count
Hayes in and to count Tilden out.
This was the foregone conclusion to
which the constitution and the law as
well as the facts were made to yield.
There was no obstacle hat they did
not surmount, no provision of the
constitution or principle OF law, no
adjudication of the courts which stood
in the way Of their pre-ordained pur-
pose that they have not overturned
and trampled under their feet. The
brief space of ten minutes gives me
no time to demonstrate the 1aithless-
ness, the trickery, and the dishonesty
of the constituencies judges whom
We honored by making them a part
of this commission.
| call special attention to the ques-
ton of the ineligibility OF the electors
in Florida, Louisiana, and Oregon.
In Florida where the evidence showed
that Humphreys had resigned before
the day OF election, they let in evil
dence as to the facts; aud say that it
does mot show that he held the Of
nee of shipping commissioner on the
day when the electors were appoint
ed" That day is fixed by express
law, (Revised Statutes, page n, sec
ZION 1917 which declare, that the
electors OF President and Nicc-Presi-
dent shalt be appointed il estra STATE
Oil the Tuesday next Al;cr ,Ae lrst
Monday in November, sc.
WheIfthe same question ome UP
in Louisiana, and the proof is clear,
positive, and uncontralicted that
Brewster and Levissee held Offices q.
trust and profit under the Uni,ed
States on the day Of their appoint
ment, aod are therefore Ineligible,
! then it was that this diShonored trio
discovered that they had made n mis-
take in admitting evidence as to Hum
phreys in the Florida case, and write
themselves down as perverters OF
Judgment in this wise
1.-The commission, by q majority o
votes, is also of opinion that it is no
competent to prove that any of 81.
| persons, so appointed as electors q
, aforesaid, held an office of trust c
! profit under the United States at til
time when they were appointed, {
that they were ineligible under tn
laws of the State, or any other matte
5 aliunde the said certificates and pa
= pers,'
Thus we find these disgraced jude
, es, in the interest OF the most stupels
: dous yillainy of every form and grad.
1 in modern times, going back upos
; themselves and repudiating their Owl
Judgment in the case of Florida, anC
| absolutely excluding evidence, whel
it was conclusive, after similar evi.
dence was admitted when it was in.
conclusive. When they came to Ore.
; gon, that a knew was then the pivo.
tai State of the controversy, they ad.
nit evidence that Watts was ineligi
BILE at the time of his appointment
: but for the first time the world, anC