Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
NuIlirylng the Election Laws.

The plausible features in the Marshals
bill which has just been vetoed by the
President are the provisions for the APP
pointment of the Election Deputies by
the Courts, and their selection equally
from the several political parties. Cam
not we trust the Courts in this matter,
it is askedP Should not the enforce
ment of the laws be impartial and nom
partisan, il is again asked? If these
plausibilities were intended to entrap
the President they have failed. He does
not answer the que eStions as the majority
of Congress would rejoice to have him
answer them-in the negative. On the
contrary he says that he would make no
objection to the appointment of elec-
tion officers by the Courts and that he
is in favor of appointing them without
regard to party" He disapproves the
bill on other grounds. stS
He says that the Deputies provided
for by the bill are substantially new oiii=
GERS; that they are not connected with
the existing laws so as to invest them
with powers, to impose upon them du-
ties. and to give them protection IN the
execution of the laws; and that the bill
therefore provides no adequate means
for the supervision OF Federal elections.
He supports his views with citations
from the Revised Statutes and from
opinions of the Supreme Court estab-
fishing the constitutionality of the cleo
ton laws.
The essence of the matter is this.
The majority in Congress promised
with loud flourish Of trumpets, to re-
peal these laws. Finding the President
in the way of their scheme the Demo-
Gratis tried to coerce him by attaching
the repeal as q rider to an appropria-
tion bill. The President refused to be
coerced. Meanwhile the people by en-
phatic majorities in almost every North
ern State condemned the scheme of re.
peal. The Democrats therefore have
changed their methods, and while pre-
tending not to interfere with the elec-
| ton laws and to leave them in fun
force, have contrived bill by which
the officers charged with their eXecu-
tion are so effectually deprived of power
that the laws themselves are practically
nullifed. Now that the bill has per-
ished under the Executive heel the laws
stand as they were, but there is no APP
preparation to pay the election deputies.
They must work for nothing or trust a
| future Congress for their wages. Tho
latest measure of the majority does not
commend it to the people tor states
manship or sincerity.-N. Y. Times. 70
| -
D0 En- Vice President Schuyler Col
fax has recently written a column letter
! to the New York Herald in relation to
the Credit Mobilier scandal an his
alleged connection threwith, which con-
oludes as follows:
"Oakes Ames is dead, and grievOusly as be
wronged me. hope il was the confusion ard
excitement OF his mind, with consequent inn
pairment OF memory at the time. and his over
! anxiety to Justify himself, that c rlsed him To
testify aS he did. lropelt Rg lin, as did seven
years ago, that as l hope for Gods favor az
the Judgment day, never received dollar
from Mr., Ames In money or checs; that
abandoned totally and ut the loss of what
had paid on IT, and four yt Rrs hltlrc thClc wni
| breath OF scandal an nchoate contract Tor
ltwenty shares Of the stock; that neVcr held
never saw the check payable To >. G. or
/ bearer till the Vc week in 1876 IN which no
sworo that he had paid iI 10 me as dividend
In 1855. Nothing could tempt mo 70 change
my present enjoyable and independent M Q
for any public service, aud | do nj say this
therefore, 20 affect public Opn D. nut hecnitso
am sune thar in tac funire--as tsai last day,
II not before the tutl htvew ten Will ot
made manifcst alt Gis follow ( tacns ana
the rest of manii "a
ReB~ At .oikport, n y when the
news of Garfield 8 u mn alton came,
the old Wide Awake iag that was used
in the eanlpal IN twenty years ago YVES
brought Ou', and was 40 eNed Win