, 1877-02-03
Moro kilograms Bearing upon
the Oregon Electoral Con-
spiracy.
The Valiant 0orse Tenders 100000 Men
from His Little Army,
And Looks Around for More Electors to
Conquer.
THE COMMISSION,
4 WONDERFUL sCKxE.


Sptcfdi Dtspatch 10 I1s Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. IA fookcE-on at
tho meeting Of the Electoral Commission to-
tlay must have been struck with tho thought
that Ours Is very elastic system Of Govern
n,cnt, bending Itself with wonderful readiness
to new adaptations aul sudden c1lungcs, Here
Is Il new wheel put into an old machine, never
intended for lts reception, anil yet tho cogs anil
ptnlons seem to lit perfectly, and tho nlachtnc
r.tns smoothly on without jar or friction. Tic
Commission takes up tho norcl task Of making
President az quietly as II It were all everyday
utIair. At tho appointed hour the members OF
tho tribunal drop Into their places, Inc lawycrs
arrange their books and papers, and tho pro-
rcetllng begins. There Is nothing novel, demon
stratlye, or dramatic about 1t. Ono might sup
poao
THIS srRAN0E oUTonoTTH or POLITICAL Ex-
CETEMENT
aud threatened revolution wcrc as firmly rooted
iu thu foundations of tito Government rs tho
Supreme Court itsclf.
Tlso arrangement oE the courtroom l,as been
changed since tho tErst meeting OF Lbs
Commission. II waa founa inconycntent
for the Commissioners to sit around u
tablc md listen to tho arguments Of
counsel, for whateyer position speaker
might taku upon tho floor l,u would be talking
Ing At tho backs Of his listeners. The bench has
therefore been arranged iur the chairs Of tho
Commissioners, nnd to
MAKE NOOM ron ALL or THEA
II has been heightened by M III" at each end.
Justice Clifford as Ia the ecntrc 1ankctt by thu
other ftuF Justices, aud to fools' IS arrangcti as
described ta to-day's T9.auNE without the bar.
Tho comfortable sofas provided for Visitors to
tho Supreme Court arc assigned to tho general
public, admitted Oh cat1s procured frum tho
Marshal OF tho Commission.
There Was no crowd this morning, the session
lasting nearfy'an honr before all tho scats wcro
filled. tbs Old gallery that has been teuantless
aud dusty for thirty years, tho place where wcro
reported the spccrtcs of Webster, Clay, and
Calhoun. when tho room was the 8cnstc Cham.
.hcr, has tccn fitted up for the newspaper cor
respondents. It, too, WAS but comfortably
nlled to-day. Peoplu scctn to hayo settled down
upon the belief that the proceedings Of tho
Commission are going to ba
DIX AND TEDIOUS
like chancesy suit, With no dramatic Incidents
to relieve the monotouy, and they evidently
easo nothing about witnessing thesu,
Among tho lawyers an1 Congressman who sat
at the batke-coycrcd tablc within tho bur wcro
William II. Eyarts, Charles O'Conor, Jeremiah
8. black, Z. ". stoughton, Stanley Matthew'S,
Lyman Trumtull, Matt Carpenter, Samuel
shel'abaFgcr, David Dudley Field. William E..
Chandler, Richard II. sIcrr!ck, Senators Shcr~
man md Sargent, sud Representatives Tucker,
jerks, kasson, and McCrary. Tho Secretaries
OF the Commission, tho Official stenogrnpheEa,
and tho Associated Ptcas reporters IllleI the
angies Of tho scnfrircular area Tho Florida
case was opened to-day by four hours pf argu-
mcns from tho obicctQfs To
THE CONFLICTING BETS or RETURNS.
Tho Democrats had tho hoor first, Field sneak
Ing III hour and quarter, Tucker dlltug w tho