The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-08
NuIlifying the Election Laws.

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bill which has just been vetoed by the
President are the provisions for the ap--
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 asked7 Should not the enforce
ment of the laws be impartial and nom
partisan, it is again askedP If these
plausibilities were intended to entrap
the President they have failed. He does
not answer the que stions 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 cleo
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.
He says that the Deputies provided
for by the bill are substantially new Offi-
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
thn ,.sdor fn ON, n
ton bill. The President refused to be
coerced. Meanwhile the people bv en-
phatic maiorities 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 e'ec-
ton laws and to leave them in full
force, have contrived bill by which
the officers charged with their cxecu-
ton are so effectually deprived of power
that the laws themselves are practically
nullified- Now that the bill has per-
ished under the Executive heel the laws
stand rs they were, but there is no ap-
preparation to pay the election deputies.
They must work for nothing or trust a
future Congress for their wages. The
latest measure of the majority does not
commend it to the people for states
manship or sincerity.-M Y. Times.
D@ @Ex-Vice-P e-President Schuyler Col
fax has recently written column letter
to the New York Herald in relation to
the Credit-Mobilier scandal and his
alleged connection threwith, which con-
cludes as follows:
"Oakes Ames is dead, and grievousy rs he
wronged me, hope it was the confusion and
excitement Of his mind, with consequent i'm
pairment of memory mt the time, and his over
anxiety to justify himself, that fused him to
testify rs he did. Irepeat again, as l did seven
years ago, that as | hope for Gods favor at
the judgment day, / never received dollar
from Mr.. Ames in money or check: that
abandoned totally and at the loss of what
had paid on 1t, and four years fore there was
q breath of scandal an inchoate contract for
twenty shares of the stock: that never held
nor owned, therefore, any stock In 1t, and that
l never saw the check payable to S. c. or
bearer till the vesy week in 1873 in which he
swore that he had paid II to me rs a dividend
in 1863 Nothing could tempt INC to change
my present enjoyable and independent life
for any public service, and do n Vt say this,
therefore, to affect public opinio but because
/ am sure that in the future-at that last day,
| II not before--the truth have written will be
made manifest to all my fellow-c tizens and
| the rest of mankind.'
"a At Lockport, N. Y when the