Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-08

VI tho ieLuTus. lne pre-
J, cincts thrown out changed the re
suit in the whole county, and gav
7 the Republicans majority. Cox,
: and the Justice had possession of tn
3 CLERKS office all day and stayed til
DARK. We got in by Driggers hay
, Ing key. Coke wasn't there.u
! In answer to Hiscock, the wit
: ness said one J. w. Barnett, ,
Democrat. asked me to sign Coke.
canvass; l said 1 would not. H,
said that if would there was som,
money for me. 1 asked him how
much and he said Sl25, and if
would come with him he woulc
snow the man that had the money,
lie took me to the Paris store and j
saw John p. Hartridge, Demo.
crat or Jacksonville. He said if /
would sign the return that Coke
had made out he would compen.
safe me for my trouble.
told him could not. 1t looked too
much like a bribe. He said it was
not for bribe, only to pay me for
my trouble.
f"mm,ny Hall q" the Inves,tsn.
NEW YORK, June THE Tam
many Hall General COMMITTEES
met last night, with full attend
ance. l.. Clinton presided and de.
livered an address which was
adopted as an expression of The
views of the Tammany Hall Gen.
erai committee. The address,
while approving the Potter inves.
tigatlon, opposes any attack upon
the Presidential title as dangerous
10 our institutions and fruitless i'm
its results.
:" Tor the Kesumntioa Rereat
Measure
WASHINGTON, June 7.-The ad.
vocates of the repeal of the specie
resumption Act were defeated on
les. "se 'ss.e in the Senate to-day.
They antagonized the Resumption
Repeal oill against The eonsldera-H
iiaA Of theAfmY Appropriation Bill,
syowing their BELIEF that, If the for
mer were not taken UP today,
there would be 40 possihil.
ity of further financial
legislation this session. The issue
being thus distinctly Joined the
vote resulted in the anal defeat of
the repehlers by a msjority of IL,
Inv..ti@"sia. Committee 4" sccrc.
session,
WAsHfNeFoN, June 1.-The
Committee Investigating frauds id
louisiana and Florida in conpeo.
tioh with the Presidential elections,
as soon as assembling to-day went
into secret session.
Go"Gressi,saI.
WASHINGTON, June T.-SENATE
The President pro tenn. laid be-
fore the Senate communication
from the Secretary nnn,,,uncing
that he had ba.. summoned before
thS -ouse Committee to produce
the Louisiana election Teturns, and
that he had obeyed the subpoena.
Ia conclusion he.says: II respect
fully request you to lay this COM
municati0n before the Senate, that
if deemed necessary and proper, /
may have iustruatlons as TO my
duty Ia this and similar cases that
may hereafter arise.''
Edmunds submitted an aydeY
that the Secretary af the Senate at
tend before the Committee Of the
House mentioned with the pa.
pers described by the Committee
and submit tho papers to examina-
tlon from time to time, according
10 the convenience OF the Commit
tee.
| A long discussion ensued, several
Senators claiming that the propeT
way would have baen for the
HopSe to have requested the SEN
DIE to furnish the papers. Other
Senators argued that the papers
were not in the cpstody
Of the Senate hy any
in Inv psossessioS sSeS of the Secretary s az
cording to usage SINCE the organiza-
ton OF the Government, and there
fore the Committee hada right to
summon the Secretary to produce
them.
After the morning business the
Senate resumed consideration OF
the Army Appropriation bill.
Blaine said the Committee on
Appropriations this morning came
to the conclusion that 1t would not
be wise to unite the Indian ques-
tion with the reorganization of the
army under the same Commission,
He therefore submitted substi-
, tute ror the House aection to trans.
fer the Indian Aurea6 to the Wal
Depart ihent, 80 as to provide fol
the appointment of three Senators
. and four Representatives as a joint
: com mission to inquire into tue ex-
, pedieucy OF transferring the Indi-
an Bureau to the War Department
and report to Congress before the
first of January, 1879.
, A Deyriopmens ,a tue k"Yess,Sn.
/ sion.
WASHINGTON, June From
Levisse's testimony before the Pot
ter Investigation Committee to-day
: it appears that he cast his vote al
Q an Eleotor for Hayes and Wheeler
t and signed one set Of certificates to
! that effect, but that, when another
: set was made out in order to cor
3 rect some technical defect, he wai
: not present, aud his name wal
8 signed by another person.
~. lpWia Races.
!. ST. LOUIS, June Tin the frs
9 race, mile heats, Harkaway won
0 Dan X, the favorite, second; time
!. l;4S; l,42A. Official announcement
Il was made from the judges stant
Q that this was the fastest race, will
Q the weights, ever ran In America
Moro OF the FIes,da Enyess'gssion'
Q JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June T.
u Sheriff Allen, in his testimony be