Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-10

| County Returns for Senators The
| Hearing before Judge Virgin TO gin
te-day-CounciIman Parker Quoted.
| Petitions for an investigation into the
charges of Charles b. Rounds come throng.
ing in upon the Council. Several were pre-
scented yesterday. The petition from Bath is
signed by the venerable John Patten, ]. G.
Richardson, II. w. Swanton, +. c. Hyde
and many other well known and prominent
citizens. They declare that
'Public justice and personal fairness alike
demand that the Council at once investigate
the charges of Mr. Rounds.
The petition from Brunswick is headed bv
Ex-Governor Chamberlain, and signed by
many prominent citizens, and strongly urges
the propricty and necessity of proper inves-
| tigation.
| The petition from Winthrop is headed by
John NJ. benjamin, and signed by John MAY,
C. A. Wing Cakes Howard, L.. +. Carleton,
w. II. White and others who state
''Tf cir belief that the honor and dignity of
the State government as well as the ends of
common justice, demand that the charges of
Charles b. Rounds be investigated before
any certificates of election are issued to SEN
| ators and representatives..
| The petition from the cities of Lewiston
and Auburn is very numerously signed. Ex-
Governor Dingley heads the petition, and
more than hundred prominent citizens unite
with him. Their petition closes thus
eff these charges of Mr. Rounds are I'M
trua tho nponle ouUht IN know ifr stTf fhev
are true there has been such criminal conduct
as should be exposed and punished.
Herbert NJ. Heath one of the attorneys
for Washington county, has been endeavoring
to see the returns every day the council has
been in session since they formally opened
the returns, November 18th. On Thursday
last he sent formal note, asking on behalf
of himself and another legal adviser, to see
the Washington county returns. The other
legal adviser was published as Hon. +. A.
Pike of Calais. Mr.. Pike remained three
days in Augusta, waiting to see the returns,
and then went home. Yesterday morning,
Mr.. Heath repaired to the council chamber,
to urge his right to see the returns, and was
at once informed that he could see them.
He spent the day examining the returns, and
as the result Of his labors reports that the re-
publican ticket in Washington county is
elected beyond doubt.
To-day Judge Virgin will hear the applica-
ton for mandamus in this city. Messrs.
appear for the petitioners, and the Secretary
of State will be represented by Attorney
General Mcclellan and by Hon. A. p. Gould.
The report was widely spread last evening
that the Secretary of State will make answer
that the returns will be henceforth open for
the inspection of senators and Representatives
elect and their attorneys. If this answer is
made no issue is left before the court because
that is what the senators and Representatives
have demanded and sued for. The report of
this change of policy is not given as anthem
tic, only as a general rumor.
Hon. +. G. Parker, of the council, is editor
and proprietor of the North Star, published
at Presque Isle, Aroostook county. The last
number of the paper, just at hand, contains
letter from Councillor Parker, in which he
makes the following statement:
1.-The Council say they are advised byemi-
nent legal authorities that they need not pay
any attention to the law of 1877, and that the
republicans can test its constitutionaity be-
fore the courts.
Governor Garcelon says that he assumes
its unconstitutionality with the Council, and
bases his assumption on good legal advice"
Rumors were current all day yesterday
that corrections have been made in the origi-
nal record of the town of Danforth, by order
of the selcctmen, who certify that Charles A.
Rolfe, and not Charles Rolfe, was voted for
for representative. Danforth, at the Septem-
Der election, gave eighty-six fusion votes to
thirty-.ix republican, and the town officers
are all democrats. Mr.. Rolfe was the repub-
lican candidate for representative, and it is
reported that the application for correction Of
record was made by George A. Curran, Esq,
of Calais, acting as his attorney.
A hearing was given in the case of the
Cumberland county officers. Messrs. A. w.
Coombs, Seth L. Larrabee and Henry c. Pea
body appeared for the republican candidates,
and ii. j. Swazey for the opposition. The
hearing was confined to the Portland return,
where the votes were returned as 'scatter-
ing" The city clerk gave testimony on the
matter.