Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-20
MAINE.
EXAMINING THE RETU RMS
Of the Late EIection-Anxiety Of the Re-
publcans as to the Resut-letter
Of Council for the RepubI-
can Candidates.

AUGUSTA, Me, November l9.-Gov-
ernor Garcelon sat with Council to-day,
both in the afternoon and forenoon ses-
sion. Hon. Andrew Laeg, of Wiscasset,
called at the Council Chamber in the
forenoon to see the returns from Lin
coin county, and stated that he had
been promised by the Governor he
might see them. The Governor stated
that the conversation related to the re-
turns of the election OF county officers
and not TO those of Senators and Repre-
sentatives. Lacy then stated that his
desire was to see the returns Of the
County Commissioner and Senator, but
Council declined to let him see the re-
turns in either case.
Hon. T.. G. Harrington, Of Friebury,
member of Governor ConnOr's
Council for two years, stated to the
advisory committee to-day that the uni
form custom for the two terms in which
he was in office was to advise parties in
the interest of defective returns in all
cases where their rejection could posi-
bly, change the resul of the election, and
that the returns were in all cases freely
exhibited, he cited the Burleigh Madi-
gan case, in which Hon. Mr.. Madigan
and Peter Charles Keegan, of Aristook,
were permitted to spend long time in
examining the returns from every town
and plantation in the county. No
received from the Council in re-
sponse to letters addressed to them by
the councillor and by the Senators-elect,
Messrs Baker 4 Baker, counsel, adj
dressed them the following letter this
afternoon:
AUGUSTA, November 10.
To the Honorable the Gorernor and Council
of The STATE of Maine:
We beg leave to call the attention of
your honorable body to the cOmmunica-
ton we laid before you yesterday. After
its receipt you continued in session for
some hours, and to-day you held an
other session, lasting the entire fore
noon, and up, indeed, TO l o'clock T. NJ.
We cannot wait over your adjournment
of this afternoon session without endeav-
oring to impress on your honorable board
the great hardships and wrongs which
our clients are suffering in consequence
of being excluded from an examination
of the election returns. You have, by
official order, duly recorded in the Office
of the Secretary of State, declared that
the twenty days allowed by statute for
applications for corrections should begin
to run from Monday, the 18th inst. We
are now at the close OF Wednesday, the
18th, and have lost three days OF that pc
riod. According to the terms of said
order excluding the three Sundays,
November % and 80 and December Z,
we should only have fourteen days ior
the actual examination of the returns if
we were permitted access to them to-
morrow. One OF our clients has re-
Ceived 4 suggestion from a member Of
your honorable board that he might get
certified copies OF the records from the
town clerks of all the towns in this
county, putting out of consideration la
Dor and expense by so doing We,
hereby submit to your honorable
board that after the certified
copies had all been procured
our client would stand precisely where
he stands to-day. What he needs to
know and what the statute gives him the
right to know, as we respectfully submit,
is whether the returns before your hon
orable body are in all respects regular, as
to whether they are defective in those
points for which the statute provides
the mode OF correction. Irregular, there
remains nothing to be done. II ir-
regular and defective on those
points which are durable by refer
ence to the town records, then the party
interested may procure the necessary
certifcatiOns from town clerks. 1t surely
cannot be necessary TO argue before yOur
Honorable Board that law-giving right
to correct errors carries with it of neces-
sity the right to ascertain what these
errors are. 1t could not possibly
have been in contemplation OF
the law-making power to confer on
the parties interested the right 10 correct
the errors in the returns and at the
same time TO give to the Governor and
council the right TO say that these par
ties shall have no opportunity to find
out the nature and extent OF those errors.
With great respect,
Your obedient servants,
BAKER d BAKER,