Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-01-09

1t sets forth that the late Elec-
toral bill provided that no decision
Of the Presidential election under
that act should preclude judicial
decision of the question. That act
contemplated decision of the case
submitted. The Electoral Com
mission by the judicial tribunal
provision held itself incom pstent
to inquire whether some of the
State returns were true or false and
that the President is seated in vir-
tue of VIGOROUSLY fraudulent re-
turns, which Justice Strong, whose
vote seated him, has admitted and
as the President himself has ad-
mitted by disregarding the returns
in the matter of the state officers
whose titles were identical with
his own. Whilst the reputation
of these returns by the incumbent,
for all purposes save his own
| election, is an admission that 1t
was fraud to use them for that
purpose, the motives which in
duced this partial reputation
greatly aggravates his offence. That
by the published statement of John
Young Brown, which has remained
uncontradicted since April, 1877,
it appears that this reputation
was the condition imposed by said
Brown and his associates, then
holding the balance of power in
the House Of Representatives, and
upon which alone the incumbent
would be allowed to be counted
into office. 1t was upon these
false returns that this condition
was accepted for the ineumb bent by
| Stanley Matthews and Charles
Foster, then and since his closest
friends aid most authoritative rep
representatives; that Brown and
his associates had been elected Ms
adversaries of the incumbent, but
had separated from the
great body of their political
associates in the House Of Repro.
sentatives to carry into effect said
arrangement; that at the time of
entering into it they were the lead
ing advocates of bill then pend
ing in the House to grant a large
subsidy to the Texas Pacific Rail-
road Company, to which the Presi-
dent elect was known to be oppos-
ed, and it is a just inference that,
whilst they were willing to defeat
his Inauguration, for this reason
they could not venture to act with
their political opponents for that
object, if such cooperation in
volved also the surrender Of the
local governments of the States in
question as well as their electoral
votes to their political opponents;
that to remove this obstacle it was
stipulated in effect that the incum-
bent should treat the returns as
fraudulent as f.. as they affected
the local governments Of said
States by Withdrawing the United
States troops, the presence of which
alone, it was known, gave them
any force; that it thus appears
that the constitutional question so
gravely and elaborately debated in
Congress, before the Electoral
Comm ssion and in the public press
as the question on which the Pres
identiai question hinged and with
which the public mind was so long
exercised, had no part whatever in
determining the contest, but that
1t was in fact. determined by par
ty of men elected by one party but
openly acting with their oppo-
nents in the interest Of certain rail-
road corporations; that ct the
moment that every interest of the
country is greatly preiudiced and
its most vital interests are put in
jeopardy by suffering the people to
be superseded a. the political
power and substituting for them
such monied organizations as will
pay for defrauding them; that, in
the opinion of your memorialists,
the continued prostration Of the
business of the country is largely
due to the fact that tho confidence
of the people in the conduct of
their public officers is shaken; that
an irresponsible executive admin
istration has been installed which
has not the support of the country
or either of its great political par
ties; that this conflicts with the
whole theory OF our institutions
and of those of the mother country
whence they were derived; that to
carry on as to get possession OF the
Government, the incumben must
seek support from those elected as
his opponents; that this relation is
in itself corrupting is shown by
reason as we'll as by experience;
that no useful public service can
be rendered by an administration
whose title to power rests on
fraudulent election returns, manu-
featured by its own partizans and
made effsctual by an agreement
with the subsidy and jobblng men
of the opposing party; that the
indispensable first steps to any re-
form in the public service is to re-
store the Government to the peo-
pie; that it is only by the men who
have been elected by the people
and who are free from all entan.
Cling alliances with the jobbing
Interests from which all the great
abuses have sprung, that ANY re-
form can be effected. Your me.
morialists, therefore, pray that
needful legislation may be adopted
to ascertain judicially who was
elected President at the recent
election, and to give effect to the
will of the people, and We will ever
pray, etc.
Blair advocated his memorial,
urging its adoption and reviewing
generally President Hayes's title
to the Office.
Leib, Republican, moved to lay
on the table and called for the ayes
and noes, which resulted-Ayes 10,
noes 81. 1t was then referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations.
special Message ON Chinese I'm
| migration.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Sth.-Presi-
dent Hayes has definitely deter
mined to make the Chinese ques-
| ton the subject of q snecial nae