Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-14
EASTERN NEWS.
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wAsHIN
CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
Is, 900 Volunteers Called For.
Investigation of the Alleged Elec.
ton Frauds.
FULL TEXT OF THE PREAMBLE
WASHINGTON
CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
IS, 900 Volunteers Called For.
TEXT OF THE PREAMBLE
AND RESOLUTION.
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report in the South Carolina contested
election case of Richardson, Democrat.
against Raney, Republican, the sitting
member, to be presented to the House
on Wednesday next. The majority re-
port favOrs a new election, while the
minority report declares the presentin-
cumbeDt entitled to his seat.
Congressman Upton introduced to-
day a Joint resolution reciting the dan
ger to which the country may be sub
jected by the threatened irruption of
Sitting Bull, by raids across the Mexi
can and Canadian borders, and by in
surrection in several States, such as oc
Cured last year, and authorizing the
President, if in his Judgment it may
seem necessary, to increase the army
during the recess of Congress by the
enlistment of volunteers, not to exceed
5000 in number.
In the House, to. day, Potter present
ed a resolution directing investigations
by a select committee into the alleged
frauds committed in Florida in the late
Presidential election. The resolution
contains the names of Edward Noyes
and John Sherman in connection with
the frauds. After considerable discus
sion, theSpeaker decided the preamble
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of the highest privilege, and must De
received. An appeal from the decision
was taken, by a vote of Us yeas to los
nays. An appeal, which was taken by
Conger, was laid on the table. The
vote was a party one, with the excep.
ton of Mitchell, Butler of Massachu-
sets, and Ford, who voted with the
Democrats, and Mills and Buckner,
who voted with the Republicans. Fol-
lowing is the ext of the preamble and
resolutions:
Whereas, the State of Maryland has,
by it's Legislature, formally declared
that due effect was not given to the
electoral vote cast by the states on the
9Th day of November, 1876, by reason
of fraudulent returns in the electoral
votes from the States of Florida and
Louisiana; and whereas, an affidavit
of Samuel B. McLin, Chairman of the
Board of State Canvassers of the State
of Florida, for an election held in that
State in November, 1876, for the cleo
ton of President and Vice President,
has been made public, alleging false
and fraudulent returns OF votes for
such election in that State, whereby
the choice of the people of that State
was annulled and reversed; and that
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vassers, making such returns, was in
fiuenced by the conduct and promise
of the Hon. Edward f. Noyes, now
Minister to the Government of France;
and whereas, it is alleged that a con
spiracy existed in the State of Louisi-
ana, whereby the Republican vote in
all the precincts of the Parish of East
Feliciana and in some of the precincts
Of West Feliciana, at the general cleo
ton in 1876, was purposely withheld
from the polls, TO afford a pretext for
the exclusion by the Board of that
State of votes cast in those precincts
for Electors of President and Vice
President, and that Joseph E. Ander-
son, Supervisor of Registration of Fast
Feiiciana, and 5. A. Weber, Supervisor
of Registration of West Feliciapa,
in that State, in furtherance of that
conspiracy, falsely protested that
the election in such precincts had not
been fair and free, and that the State
Returning Board, thereupon falsely
and fraudulently excluded the votes of
said precincts, and by means thereof,
and of other false and fraudulent &C
ton by said Returning Board, the
choice of the people of that State was
annulled and reversed, and hat such
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was induced or encouraged by assur-
ances of the Hon. John Sherman. Sec
rotary of the Treasury of the United
States; and, whereas, the gravity OF
these charges, and the nature Of the
evidence upon which they are reported
to be based, and the official dignity
and position of the persons named in
connection with said frauds, make it
proper hat the same should be in
quired into, to the end that the honor
of the nation may be vindicated, and
the truth Is to such elections made
known. Therefore,
Be ii ResoIved, That a select commit
tee, consisting of eleven members oil
this House, be appointed to inquire
into the aforesaid allegation as to the
conduct Of the persons in office as
aforesaid in respect of said election,
and into the alleged false and fraudu.
lent canvass, and the return OF the
votes by the State, county, parish and
precinct officers in said States of Lou
isIana and Florida, and into all facts,
which in their judgment the said com
mittee, are connected with, or pertinent
thereto, and that the said committee,
for the purpose of executing the reso-
luton, shall have power to send fol-
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take testimony, and in their discretion,
detail sub committees, and with like
full authority Of said committee in
every particular and power, to sit in
Florida and Louisiana, which sub
Ncomnittees shall be committees of this
House, and the Chairman thereof shall
be authorized to administer oaths, and
that the said committee and sub-cOm.
mittees may employ stenographers,
and be attended each by a Deputy
Sergeant-at-arms, and may sit during
the sessions of the House and during
vacation, and that the said committee
proceed in this inquiry, and have leave
to report at any time.
Discovery Of u Murdered Man.
DEADwooD, May -.
This evening a couple of boys play
ing on the mountain side east of town
discovered a dead body with a bullet
hole through its head. From all APP
pearances the man had evidently been
murdered In cold blood and robbed