Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-01
The New Conspiracy.

There are indications that the |
crisis of the Presidential controversy
is not over. Upprineiplod conspira-
tors who have, since the decision OF
the Electoral commission IN the
Florida case, twice been defeated 10
their party caucus by so large ma
iorities that il was supposed they
would give up their revolutionary
schemes, have hatched new plots,
aud as they claim, obtained new &C.
cessions to their number. The vote
in the caucus Friday night showed
sixty-six conspirators pledged to use
every method to delay and obstruct
the conclusion of the CONT. A pa
per pledging the signers thereto to
concert of action TO this end, was
circulated by David Dudley Field.
Mr.. Field is nominaIly member OF
Congress really he is the paid at
torney of Samuel j. Tilden. Mr
Fields last resort is to 8 flibuster,'
obstructing and Delaying the count
till the arrival of the h OF Nj rch.
There is an old law, passed in 1872,
which provIdes that, Sin case OF tbe
removal, death or inability of both
President and Vice President of the
United States, the President of the
Senate, or if there be none, the
Speaker Of the House shall act as
President until the disability De re-
moved or a President elected" Mr..
Field contends that if no election be
held before the 4th of March, the
term of the President of the United
States and President of the Senate
having expired, the contingency con-
templated by the law will arise, and
the president of the Senate will be-
come acting President. The next
@ep will be the passage of a brace of
bills looking to quo a0drrdnto pro-
ceeding and a new election between
Tilden and Hsyes-which bill the
Democratic caucus last night adopt
ed. The question naturally arises,is
it possible for these Instructions to
delay the conclusion of the count for
another week. Our dispatches will
show their attempts yesterday, and
what measure of success resulted.
They attempted to "stave off" the
vote on Oregon until Monday, but
were defeated in that. Then, on
proceeding to count the vote of
Pennsylvania, they objected to the
vote of Mr.. Morrel, because of his
having been one of the Centennial
Commissioners. When bis case is
settled they will object to another
Pennsylvania Elector. This will give
them an opportunity to adjourn over
until Tuesday. Then passing on to
Rhode Island, they will object to the
vote of Corliss, the "engine man, "be-
cause he was Centennial commits
sioner - though he resigned bis
dictatorship and then his Commits
sionship, and re-apointment by the
State Legislature. But bis case will
serve as a pretext for adjournment.
Then will come South Carolina.
Fields plan is, to accompany the OBJ
iections to the Republican Electors
by copy of the testimony taken by
the House Investigating Committee,
the reading of which will be demand
ed and as it contains some six bun.
dred pages of fine print, if the de-
mand be allowed, the 18th Of March
will have come and gone be fore the
reading is completed. But Speaker
Ferry will doubtless rule this out of
order. But the discussion over the
subject will occupy some time
and occupy the attention of the
Commission on Friday. If the
Commission returned their decision
on the same day, the House will
agree as customary during the
count, to meet the Senate Saturday
March 1.-The last day of this Con-
gress. Then there are objections TO
Electors from Vermont and Wrscon
sin. 1t viii be seen that if the House
desires, it can postpone the conolus'
ion of the count so that it Can not be
completed this session. Even if the
majority of the House prefer to yielo
gracefully, by the rules of that body,
one-ffth OF the members actually
present can demand and compel the
calling of the roll, which is the fav-
orite and effoctual method of forcing
postponement of action 10 the
House. This is, somewhat in detail,
the plan of Pelton and Field, Tilden's
nephew and his attorney, TO stave
off the conclusion of the counting Of
votes beyond the present session
and pass law calling for a new cleo