Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-23

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Letters to n supreme Judges
sitting Oh the Electoral Com.
mission What Some Say about
Tildem.
NEW YORK, Feb. %.
The Times Washington special says:
Kelly made an incoherent laundering
argument against the counting of the
votes cast by the Hayes Electors, and,
c%uriously enough. in view of his tele-
grams from Oregon to Tilden and Pei
ton, he talked a great deal about hon-
est truth, Justice. etc. The principal,
indeed the only point, made by hun
was, that each 5 ate in the Union had
a right to APPOINT Presidential Elec-
tors in its own way and according to
its own laws. When IL is rem INBRED
that this very fact was fully proved by
the Republican counsel in the Lou
iSiana case, it will lie seen that Keliy's
point was lot a very original nor i'm
pOrtant one.
Mitchell was the first spe lker on the
part of the Republicans. He made a
very clear argument a. to the facts of
the case in question and advanced sew
eral new and important points. The
Democratic counsel, as we'll as their
legal positions change with every new
Case. Merrick is the only n of them
who has appeared IN all their cases.
Black. O'Conor, Trumbull and Car.
penter all disappeared. Carpenter en-
gagged for a single argument in the
Louisiana case, aud for that WORK he
received. according to report, 81 500.
The Republicans held the same legal
positions from the beginning, and Ev
arts and Matthews remain a. counsel.
The legal path marked out by Kassvn,
who was the first Republican speaker
before the Commission. has been fol-
lowed in every particular. There will
I've no departure in the case of Oregon.
1t is not probable that the Commits
sioners will contend for counting
Cronin's vote. Thurman, particularly,
is on record against the legality OF
such a vote. They are likely to vote
together that there was no election and
there was no legal filing of the va
cancy.
NEW YORK, Feb. %.
A Herald Washington special says:
Some of the Judges OF the Supreme
Court on the Commission are receiving
abusive anonymous letters, 10 the in.
hIGttdAtpli WI NTtUiit illth vi oOAh pal
ties. An attempt will be made to trace
some of these letters and punish the
scoundrrls who sent them.
An absurd rumor has been put afl )at
here that Conkling was inclined to OPP
pose The Louisiana decision OF the
Electoral Crmmission, and that Mat
thews and Evaris had a long interview
with him, in which they pur~uaded
l,t,,, not - 10 - mi hn ota I'd noe
irivelv that Conkling was absent from
the city on the day the vote was taken.
on a business engagement made some
days previously, and he was not inter
viewed on the Louisiana question by
the gentlemen named or any one else.
The whole story is a fiction from be-
ginning to end.
Now that the presidential struggle
is substantially decided, men begin { %
review the past, and in Democratic
circles the bearings of Tilden's own
character and conduct upon his defeat
and that of his party are topics of fire.
quent discu >siou. II is easy to see
here that Tilden was never the choice
for the presidential office of "A majority
of the Democratic party. lie WAS not
a favorite among Southerners, aud was
NV ~ uidU VI blSu Ci'dth'tSis \ ht
terfered too much in petty details of
party management.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Sub.
sidy.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 81.
The Pacific Mail Steamship subsidy
job WAS slid through the Senate to-
day ~ 18th such ease that it showed that
all danger of opposition had been
e carefully guarded against. In the Pa
cltic Mail case, il Is believed here to be
on the verge of bankruptcy. and il i
understood that on the continuance
of this subsidy depends the %solvency
of the so thai the effort to get
it through Congress il really a fight
against death itself, the rival company,
the Oriental and Occidental, offering TO
carry the mails for sea postage only,
which will amount to only a few thou
sand dollars a year. The bill which
provides this magnificent gift to the
sinking fund company, under plea of
sustaining the American commerce,
appropriales only $3.50, 900 for carri-r
OF all mails between this country and
Europe. Thus it appears That a
monthly service tn China and Japan
costs more than double as much as al
most a daily service TO Europe.
Among the lines crossing the Atlantic
is a line of American ships that might
be supposed TO have rs good a claim
upon the Government bounty for sup
port of as the Pacific line.
Its service is performed in American
built ships, over 1000 tons burden,
but it receives for its weekly trips
merely An insignificant sum in ocean
hostages, amounting only To a few
thousand dollars a year. The amend
ment will probably be rejected by the
House when the bill gets to the Con-
ference Committee in the last hours of
the session. The agents OF the com
pany will undoubtedly know enough
to have their job taken care Of. Ran
dali said, in relation TO this subsidy
to day, that he was strongly opposed
to it.
Tilden's Chances Given Up.
W~AsHINGTON, Feb. %.
The Onion gives up The contest in a