The Newtown bee., 1879-03-11
testimony MT. Tlden referred. although

goa1ed by sickness and imaginary wrongs, never for a moment admitted any improper conduct at the time. He only thinks from after-knowledge that he may have been mistaken. General Barlow, whose conduct has received the compliments of the majority, after full knowledge of the workings of Mir. Cow gill's mind, admits his honesty of pur- pose and that of all the others.
 As to the South Carolina board, the report says, the full, free and uncon- tradicted testimony of MT. Dunn satis- fled every man who heard it of the ab- sence of fraud in South Carolina.
 These charges, then, of fraud and corruption with which Mir. Tilden and his agents had filled the air, says the report, were nothing except the unsup- ported assertions of litigants against whom the courts have decided. The tribunals in the three States decided in favor of the Hayes electors. Straightway the defeated party, with his agents, set up the assertion of wrongdoing. To bolster up that assertion by proof, the report charges, was the object of the original constitution of this committee. The committee toiled until the first of
 
 Regarding the investigation of the cipher dispatches, the report scouts the idea that Colonel Pelton, living in the house of his uncle (Mr. Tilden), should have conducted negotiations involving such large sums without word or hint to the man most deeply interested. Precisely what the arrangements were by which Mir. Tilden was kept posted as to the doings of his agents, and yet left in a position to make general denial if he was so left-the report says the committee probably shall never know.
 In regard to Louisiana affairs, the re- port devotes the most attention to the Sherman letter. The majority report, it states, fails to say explicitly whether the testimony sustained the charge that such letter as Anderson and Weber had testified to had been written. The minor ity declares that 1t does not, and that the palpable perjuries of bothsthe wit nesses named justify feeling of deep disgust that they should be trusted as capable of creating a serious attack up- on the character of a man who has borne high character in the most responsi- ble service of the country for fve-and- twenty years.
 The conduct of the visiting statesmen at New Orleans is then considered by the report, and that of Messrs. Sher- man, Garfield, Hale, Kelley and others is declared consistent and frank.
 As to presidential elections, the report says the manner of choosing electors is by the constitution so exclusively com mitted to State Legislation that it sees no method of Federal interference. The proposition of the majority, that the election of electors should be passed upon by the highest court of each State, is regarded by the report as impractical b1e, because Federal legislation cannot deal with the subject.
 In conclusion, the report says the in- vestigation is incomplete, because the circular of the Democratic campaign committee of 1876, advising the parade of armed clubs on horseback for the purpose of intimidating the negroes, was ignored; that neither Mir. Sherman nor MT. Hayes is implicated in any inn proper conduct or corrupt proceedings, but that the cipher dispatches have been confessed to be systematic and deliber- ate efforts to corrupt the returning and canvassing boards of the States oi Florida, South Carolina and Oregon, by bribes offered in the shapes of great sums of money.