The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-09
THE PRESIDENCY.

THE PRESIDENCY.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR's MEMORIAL IN THE MARY
LAND LEGIsLATURE-HE DEMANDS INvEsTI-
THE ELECTORAL QUESTION: REMARKABLE
DOCUMENT.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, jan 8. 1873
Hon. Montgomery Blair, in tho House Of Delegates.
to-day, submitted the following:-
Resolved by the House OF Delegates, tho Senate
c0ncurring, That copies OF the following memorial,
Speaker Of the House be Transmitted TO the
OF the Senate Of the United States the
OF the House OF Representatives.
Resolved, That our Senators In Congress be and are
hereby instructed, and our Representatives are
hereby requested to favor the object OF the above
memorial, and that copies OF the same be forwarded
TO them
The following Is the memorial
TO THE SENATE AND House or REPRESENTATIVES, IN
CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.
Your memorialists, the General Assembly OF the
State OF Maryland represent that by terms OF
&c. o. .ne Congress establishing the Elec-
the Presidential election under that act should pre-
cude judicial decision OF the question: that tho OBJ
vious intent OF this provision to the people
that II should be determined its merits by The
proper judicial tribunal IN the event that The
sion should hold itself incompetent to render such
decision; that by Its proceedings FULLY appears that
saic comm ssion held that ii was Incompetent TO
several states which were submitted submit to 'us
were true or false; that in consequence of
sn,s decision the present Incumbent Of the
which were notoriously false and fraudulent and so
in eGect admitted by Mr. Justice Strong, whose vote
seated him, and also by the incumbent himself IN
disregardng those returns respects state officers
whose titles to Office also based upon lhcm nd
were in every respect identical with his own that
while the repudiat ON of these returns by the ncu M
bent or all purposes save his own election Is
mission that II was fraud TO them for that pur.
pose, the motives which induced this partial repuua
ton greatly aggravate hts offence
That By the published statement OF Mr. John
Young Brown, which has renamed uncontradcled
Since April, 1877, 1t appears shat this population
was the condition imposed by said Brown and
his associates, then holding the balance OF power
In the House Of Representatives, upon which alone
the incumbent would DO allowed TO be counted into
was accepted for the incumbent by Messrs stanley
Matthews aud Charles Fostcr, then and since his
closest friends and most authoritative
that said Brown and his associates had been
adversarcs OF the ncumbsnt but separated from tho
great body Of their political associates in tho House
oi Representatives TO carry into effect said &C.
ment; that AZ the limo Of entering II thoy were
the leading advocates of bill then pending in said
Railroad Company, which the President-elect was
known TO DO opposed, aad II Is just inference from
al The circumstances that while they wero willing TO
venture TO act with their political opponents tor that
object !: such cooperation involved also the
der OF tho local governments OF the States In question
we'll as OF their electoral votes their poii op
ponents that to remove the obstacle stipulated
IN enect that the incumbent should treat the returns
as fraudulent SO lar they affected the local govern
mons OF said States by Withdrawing the United States
troops, the presence OF which alone, It was known
gave them any forco; that II thus appears that
the constitutional question so gravely and deliberately
debated In Congress before the Electoral Commission
and in the public press as the question which the
Presidential contest hinged, and with which the public
mind was SO long exercised, had part whatever in
tcrmined by body OF men elected by party, but
openly acting with their opponents In tho interest Of
that cvcry interest OF the country greatly prcjudced
and It's most vital interests put jeopardy by sui
ferIng tho people to be- superseded as The political
power ana substituting for them such moneyed organ
izat!ons az Will pay for deirauding them.
That, In the opinion VI your memorialists, the
tnued prostraton OF the business OF tho country
largely due to the TACT that tho confidence the
pie In tho conduct OF public affairs shakon that an
irresponsible executive adm inisration has been In
stalled which has not tho support Of tho country or
either OF It's great political parties; that this conflicts
with oe whole theory Of our institutions aud OF nqsr
OF the mother country, whence they werc derived.
That 10 carry So as to get OF the gov
ernment the incumbent must sock support from those
elected as his opp0nents that this relation Is self
corruptng Is shown by reason we'll all expert
ence; that no useful public service DO rendered
uppn fraudulent election returns manufactured
by its own partsans and made elcctual
by an agreement with the subsidy and jobbing mon Of
the opposing party; that the indispensable first step
to any reform OF the public service to the
government 10 the peoples that It Is only by men who
have been elected by tho people and who free from
all eniangLng alliances with tue jobbing interests
when all the great abuses have spru1g that any
reform be effected.
Your memorialists therefore pray that the needed
legislation may DO adopted 10 ascertain judcialiy who
was elected President at the recent election and to
give effect to the Will Of the people, and will ever
pray, nc.
BLAIR ADVOCATES MEMORIAL
Mr. Blair advocated his memorial, urging its adop-
ton and reviewing generally President Hayes title to
Office. Mr.. Bair's speech created CONSERVATION
the republican side OF the House. The Hobbies
wore packed Mossra Hincks and Merrck both mado
speeches on the Same SUBJECT Nr. Leb, q republi-
can, moved TO lay tho memorial the table. and
called the yeas and nays, which resutcd--yeas In
nays 81. 1t was then referred to the Committee ON
Federal Relations.