The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-08-14
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Rule aud MortouS Dill had publicly com
mitted themselves over and over again K
the right OF tie two Houses (and not o
the Vice Presidency to control the
count Morton himself was ommitted.
!, All of them knew, and many of them
had Joined in making the uniform pre-
House had repeatedly sutficed to exclude
from the true electoral votes counted any
certificate deemed by either House to be not
such true and lawful vote. But were any
one OF all the nineteen contrived and false
votes to be challenged by the House of Rep
| resentativeS; were not each anu every
! fraudulent and every disqualified vote TO
be passed as true electoral vote by the
separate act aud approval OF the House and
Senate too, the result must have been the
election of Mr.. Tiiden by majority of all,
or else his choosing, according to the express
| mandate OF the Constitution, by the House
| of Representatives, since therein the Dem
ocrats prevailed, whether voting by num-
| bers or voting by States
For the House of Representatives, by the
! Constitution, and ace )rding to the uniform
! practice and procedure hereunder. being
| concurrently with the Senate a witness In
| the opening, and an actor in the counting
| of the votes, was made, by necessary i'm
| plicatiOn in the language OF the Constitution
| itself, the ole exclusive judge whether or
| not the contingency had happened which
| called upon il TO make choosing OF Presi-
| dent in default of an election by majority
| of the whole number of electors appoint
| ed. No certitication to it or the happening
| of that contingency was required or con
| templated. No mode was prescribed in
which it should find odt the existence of
| that default except its own knowledge as a
witness in the opening, and an actor in the
counting, OF the votes. No review of its
decision, no appeal from its decision was
provided The Constitution had left il, like
every Supreme judicature, to judge for itself
exclusively aud conclusiveIy OF the facts
aad the law calling into action its express
powers. So that the Democratic House of
Representatives in the then existing state
OF facts and law. was rightly perceived by
Mr.. Tilden to be an impregnabie fortress
tor the rights of the people.
A CHANGE OF BASE.
There Were ineXplicable delays at Wash
ington. The rules of the House make de-
lays easy, perhaps unavoidable. The cited
resolutions of the House Privileges Com
mittee, which were 10 raise the Democratic |
standard there, were not reported until the !
18th of January. Nor until the 18th could |
the debate be opened, as then, at last it was |
opened, by the powerful speech of Proctor |
Knott. its Chairman.
No sooner was that speech uttered aud |
issue joined; barely, indeed was time con
ceded for its utterance, when Mr.. Knott |
was displaced the debate and its victories
forestalled, Mr.. Tildens plan supplanted.
the responsibility elsewhere assum ~ ed of
otherwise encountering the Republican con
taken irrevocabiy, by the entry of another
Committee of the House, and the announce
ment OF Democratic compromise. Sur
renders are, alas irrevOcable Or if not a
surrender, at least! the Electoral Commits
sion Dill prOffered the cOnSpiratOrS too easy
release from every hard impoSsibility in
their plot, and proposed to exact of them |
nothing more difficult than that eight of the |
highest Republicans should put on blind |
ness and grant impunity to the frauds which | !
nY1is inn IN 7 =.
md Index" NOyes in lorida had abetted Z
II defended the committing of by Republic !
ans, the stand Viest. Whereby those c
rauds afterward got an effectual validity t
than by force and arms.
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION sCHEME. $
That bill, privately prepared by the Sem
tie Conference Com mittee had four days
efore first been divulged to the House Con-
1rence committee and for three DAYS only
7 the secrecy OF committee rooms ( L
lone, debated. Commended by so high h
and with such complete z
as that of the ablest aud G
lost trusted Democrats in the lead ership of A
oth Houses of Congress, no wonder that its
aSsage into law, seen to be Inevitable |
as over in nine days, nor numerously on tr
osed from that hour. Boards of trade. W.
VIC councils, self-constituted committees
ON all sorts of fOur-cOrners. all at once til
ade haste, as was natural for them to 90 f1
9hung the adoption of any plan, to petit
On Tor its immediate enactment. More oh
er' the cool, firm temper which the dis %
rded pollcy had inspired andsexacted was W
eryWhere, IN trice, melted into senti-
ent under the high temperature of pa
VliD rtuulioH which began to prevail m.
Is indeed, some members OF Congress =
detained themselves statesmen becansa ST
ey had meant to be patriots, and patriots
cause, unlike the cSnspirators, they had III
lsed to be partiZans. Others pronounced de
.rament. and nraiSed thair as d religious alb
is propitiating the arch-primates of trea ask
levitt IN CONFERENCE WITH TILDEN.
IN the evening of Saturday, Jan. IL. the ha,
calling upon Mr. Tilden found
. in receipt of the McCrarv House Hill SUI
N proposed amendments, and a letter she
m Mr. Hewitt advertising the Goyernor
his counsel thereon would be ssEed i t6a lial
= gay =. mr.. 1liden invited the under or
led 20 call on the morrow, when Mr.
Witt should be there, to consider this u
the supposed axis on which the DELHI
ions of the House Conference Commit aut
were revolving.
lie undersigned thus came to ha nrason. =
q. IA. tho day and date when Mr.. TiIden " Of
1Ved from Mr.. Hewitt's lips his first in
nation that other measures had been ike
ldoned; that the Senate Conference not,
lmlttee mad just disclosed to the House
terence Committee an Electoral Com r,
ion bill it had been privately nrenar- u
Chat the House Committee were pressed Care
,cept and adopt the same and that the
ect he wished to confer upon was that AeSt
r. levitt explained as the Senate clan
Ialttee S reason for secrecy, that with -
IL, they could not carry the bill. II apr
been adopted by arrangement he use
cen the three Democratic and the
hepaDllcan members, and was TO be m
lily observed that when Senator Ker IL
mace inquiry ofone of the former, he vent
IoId that nothing could be disclosed to -
Wlthont violating an honorable UNDER nan
+ tn Do 90 wen was the secret kept, that rend
committee, passing pressed his con- 0'0'
IN that majority of the Senate as Mr.
n plan anticipated. would conguer in | The
hg the right of Ferry to make the
EMS COUNSEL NOT AsKED-BUr HIS
ADHESION.
oro bo oa EDS
old by Mr.. Hewitt that i tbs M n dIlden the p
mbers of the Senate Committee S1ero will
" ab solutely committed to it, ana remer
renortincr - ". puolcan associ- of tn,
Committee should coneur ornot and fair I
er Mr.. Tilden approved it or NOT. An at
~ ~ noI rather iate, then" said Mr.. Til the su
lev do NOT cnnsnlt Won ,,o, to arr;
T. Ihey are pub Bile men. and have hoh-lS
'Wn duties and responsibilities. We an
MARION MARBLE. calism
, d | learn
II. WHARTON, Esq, in card in were t
aymond Gazette, replying to a m IN. "a
lent of Mr.. ]. j. Halbert in refer With n
o the recent ARRAY at Terry saws: use the