Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-03
EilC Electoral ErauG.

more Sua says:
TIE understanding is that Mr.. BARS re.
solutions will be presented in both the Senate
ADD the House of Representatives by the
Maryland delegation. go that Congress may
have formal notice Of the action of the State
Of Maryland. Before the attorney general of
Maryland can fIc any bill 10 the Supreme
Court 0! the Uoited States it will be necessary
that Congress pass bill regulating the method
CT procedure.
A bill has already been drawu for this puT-
pose, the authorship of which is ascribed to
David Dudley Field. 1t provides the ma
| chicery by which the Supreme Court is to hear
| the cause aod expedite decision. A board of
jurors is to be appointed to decide the facts:
ibis board to consist ct, perhaps, as many as
| Twenty four members, who ere to be selected
from the highest members of the judiciary ct
the different States 1t is possible that there
| may be some notifications of the features ct
the bill before i. is introduced in the House,
which it is the Intention shall be done st the
earliest practical moment
| 10 a conversation to night Judge Blair
stated that it was bis desire the people of
the country, 10 whose behalf he Was acliag,
should have the fullest comprehension of bis
plans and purposes. He said the idea enter
tanned 10 some quarters that bis object was to
keep liiden before the people 10 order 10 oh.
Tain for him the nomination in 1880 was not
only unfyuoded, but was absurd and ridiculous.
| His ooIy purpose was to ru! Mr.. Tilden into
| the Office to which the people had elected him;
and, said the Judge, pointing across the
way at the White House, "he is bound to
have possession of that building, as sure as
you and live"
Ia answer to az Inquiry as to what period it
would require before Mr. Tldeo was put 10 pos
session, Judge Blair replied that as DOW ad
vlsed be did not think it would take more than
sixty days. He said the common idea that it
would be revolution to put Hayes cut was the
greatest mistake that bad ever been made. 1t
would create 10 more connection than change
10 any petty Office. When MIR. Tiden Was de-
cared tue rigbtiul President and SWORD 10 By
the Chief Justice of The Uoited States be would
walk up 10 the White House, and all Mr..
Hayes could do vas to take bis hat and walk
our. The Southern question was now dead and
buried out Of sight. and it was nonsense to
talk any longer of Mr.. Hayes's Southern poll
cy lie had no policy. He had 90 following.
lie had done nothing aud could do nothing to
Iit the 6oauclal distress which sits upon the
country, aud 20 matter what the politicians
may say. the people do not want him 10 the
White House, but want the fraud by which be
was put there redressed. AS soon as MIR. Til.
den goes 10 the White House he will announce
his policy, AID his financial policy will be Wig
orous, and ooc that will in very short time
bring relief to the country.
Judge Blair read several letters which ho
had received from representative men 10 differ
eut parts Of the c5untry, warmly approving Of
his action, and urging him to perseVere to the
end. He said that be had received hundreds
Of such letters He dissentcd strongly from
the view that the dspossession Of Hayes and
the seating of Tildcu would ibjure the demo-
cratic party; Oh the contrary, lie believes the
i democratic party had bacu much Injured by the
apalhelc course Of so many of its leaders 10
this matter. He felt confident that the bill to
be introduced 10 the House would pass that
body and the Senate By Two thirds vote. To-
deed, he could not conceive how any democrat
or any republican could record his vote against
the bill when it had been expressly provided in
the act creating the electoral commission that
recourse might be had to the courts by either
party dissatisfied with it's decision. When the
baked case was presented for action 10 the two
houses the opposition, which to some might
cow seem formidable, would melt away as sooW
before 40 August SUP. la regard to the action
of the Supreme Court there could be 90 ques-
tlou. The electoral commission refused to con-
slider tho facts. The facts would new form
part of the case There could be DO dispute
about them, aud tue facts showed that Tildeo
Vas elected.
The Chesapeake aud Chic Railroad.
Pursuant to decree of the Circuit Court Of
!he city Of Richmond, Williams G. Wiekham,
as special commissioner appointed by the court,
offered for sale to-day, by public auction, the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. together with
all its franchises, rights and privileges.
A. S. Hatch, of New York, representing
the first a0d second mortgage boudholders of
the road, bid 81, $50, 900. The crying continued
for fifteen or twenty minutes, aud there belog
30 other bid, the property was declared sold to
A. S. Hatch, Q. 2. Huntington, A. a. Low,
Isaac Davenport, j., and John Carter, com
mittec TO purchase and reorgaoze for themselves
and others, as the highest bidders.
This committee represent the first and second
mortgage bondhoIders There are SIS 900, 900
10 the first mortgage or per Ct bonds. and OF
this amount sl4 900 are already represent
ed by the committee Of purchasers. There arc
SIP ZOO in the second mortgage or 7 per
ct. bonds, and Of this amount $ll ,000,797 are
represented by the committee. The privilege
is extended to the holders Of the remaining
first and second mortgage bonds to join, which
it is said they will do, SO that the action will be
practically unanimous. The amount paid for
the roads,. $50 000-does not, of course
represent its prospective value, but is Domi
nal figure, covering the amounts due for inter
est and certain liens of the Virginia Central
Railroad Company, &c., as provided 10 the
terms of SALE
Ninety days was given, by the terms of sale,
for the purchasers to settle. Within that
time the committee above mentioned will eff.
feet an organization by eecting a board Of
directors, &c. 1t is thought that there will
be little or DO change 10 the present manage.
nent. The name of the road will be techni-
cally changed, but we are assured by MIR. Hatch
that nothing will be done ini1i,al to the TO-
teress Of Virg iuia-on the contrary the great
aim Of the reorganiz stion will be to secure
through Western connections
| MIR. Hatch says be cannot tell what the
Western connection will be, but he is certain