New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-21


he Halifax award are approved in the Senate
Commerce Committee.
TIE REVOLUTIONARY PLOT
,rc,vr,RY suEnMAN ASSUMES THE AGGRESSIVE
Tov,Rp TIE NEW neutrality-suspicious.
OPINION Of THE COMMITTEE.
ley TELEGRAPH THs TRIBUNE.l
vv.eu,xcroy May 2O.-The Republicans will by
MEANS .tand passively by and allow the Demo
w.. 80 Mot revolution in their investigat-
80 committee. General NOyes : appeared in
te,egram this morning Immediately after
a, pottor committee was announced, asking that
- s,,,moned as a witness in regard to the
r1rido election; and this evening Secretary Sher-
- hos scnt 70 the committee through his attorney,
Indee Shelabarger, q ringing letter, i'll which he
fakes the aggressive in the Louisiana matter.
The Secretary has been FESTIVE for n long time
,nder the Democratic libels against him and when
The Potter resolution was introduced week ago, he
MAS in favor Of allowing the Democrats to pass 1t
immediately in order that he might have an Opportu-
sy omeet Of the unjust attacks that have been
made upon him. He approved the course OF the
Republicans in securing sufficient delay to call the
attention of the country 10 the unfairness OF the
Droposed investigation, but every day he became
more and more impatient for the resolution to pass
Immediately on the announcement of the commit
Ter already referred to- with request that he should
band it to the committee tonight
The letter is of course respectful in tone, but Is
direct and unmistakable in its language. Secre-
ary Sherman says that that part of the preamble Of
the Potter resolution which refers to Louisiana con-
talns three proposition: First, that there was
aconspracy among the Republican voters OF East
and West Felciana Parishes not TO go TO the polls
secondly that the election in those parishes
was fair aud free and that the Supervisors of Regis
tration, Anderson and Weber, deliberately made
false reports i'll regard TO it thirdly, that the Re-
turning Board. accepting the false statements of
Anderson and Weber Illegally threw out the votes
Of those parishes Every one of these propositions
Secretary Sherman prOnounces false; andhe declares
his ability to prove their fasity. Indeed he goes
far as to say privately that the men who drew the
preamble 10 the resolution must have known that
they were saying what untrue when they
wrote il. The fact that there murders and out
RACES i'm both of the Felicana Parishes Mr.. Sherman
saws has never been seriously denied. The evidence
Of them and Of the fact that they were so numerous
and Of such character as TO make a free and fair
election absolutely out of the question. is over
whelming and unanswerable. This having been
established all Of the propositions In the DemocTa-
tic preamble fall to the ground.
Secretary Sherman says, in regard to the letter
the Supervisor of Registration of East Felciana
Parish that he believes il to he deliberate forgery,
and that those who have put in circulation the re-
ports about IT know it to be such.
Secretary Sherman says he has nothing to fear
from the proposed investigation, but that he does
not intend that the Democrats shall continue TO cir
ruate their belOus reports about him without their
being met and answered. He denOunces the whole
proceeding of the Democrats as a revolutionary
conspiracy TO deprive President Hayes of his
Office. The Democrats by the investigation
they have set on foot propose TO get together
q Of parte and unfair testimony,
by the publication of which they hope to
create such a public sentiment as will
enable them TO carry the next House of
Representatives, and then they intend to base upon
II revolutionary proceedings to turn ont Mr.. Hayes.
That the Secretary says, is war. The President is a
mild-mannered man, but the Democrats will find
that be is not to be deposed by any revolutionary
proceedings except by superior physical force.
Secretary Sherman. as well as other Republicans,
denounces Speaker Randall for packing the commit
tee in order TO make it unfair as possible. Mr..
Potter is believed TO be an honorable man, but it is
remembered that he wrote a letter little more than
ayear ago in which he advanced the doctrine that il
was the right of the House of Representatives
TO ascertain for itself, without the concurrence
OF the Senate. whether President had been elected
tive TO proceed at TO the choice of President.
That was doctrine that looked
upon by the Republicans as revolutionary
IN the extreme. Besides this every Democratic
member Of the committee who was a member of the
last Congress voted for Mr.. KNOTS resolution,
adopted by the House ON the Sd of March, 1870 de-
oiaring that Iilden and Hendricks had received q
majority Of the electoral votes, and had been duly
elected President and NicePresident Of the United
States.
Nor are the Republicans any better pleased with
The Republican members of the committee. Gen
eTal Butler has never had the confidence of
President Hayes friends, and they don't know
whether he will act with his own party
or with the Democrats. 1t is generally expected
that he will use his position on the committee 10
enable him 20 get material for his controversy with
WAYNE McNeagh. Mr.. HscOck was evidently Sc
lectcd because he supposed to share feelings
which Senator COnkhng Il popularity supposed TO en-
terrain toward the President, which are not cordial
or friendly. Mr.. Reed is good lawyer and an able
man, but he was evidently selected because lie is
supposed TO be disappointed about some APP
pointments recently, and General Cox because
with his other accomplishments he is not supposed
70 be an expert investigator. Ii is probable
that The Democrats will be disappointed in Their es-
Innate OF all the Republican members of the com
nhtlee; but That does not excuse Speaker Randall
1or attempting To pack the committee and make if
rs strongly partisan as possible on the Democratic
side ana as weak as possible ON the Republican
side.
The committee is expected 10 orpanize a. o,oo
and TO begin It's work immediately a snb-cc,n
mitlee viii probably be sent TO Florida within
week or two.