The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-03-24
rnE LOUISIANA sExAToasnIP.

The Senate Committee on Elections,
who have been investigating the cleo
ton Of William Pitt Kellogg, of Louis
lana, to the United States Senate, have
reported that Judge Spoford, who con-
tested Kellogg's right to the seat, is
entitled to the same. This report,
which is signed by majority Of the
committee, is based on the evidence,
which showed that Kellogg was guilty
of corrupt and fraudulent conduct. A
minority Of the committee report KEEL
logg entitled to the seat, upon the
ground that the evidence against him
was contradictory. Isl Il.
If it were possible for Democrat or
a Republican to divest himself Of all
partisan prejudices and look at the re-
suit of the election in Louisiana in 1875
as it is shown by the facts, he could
not feel otherwise than thoroughly dis
gusted with what is called republican
form Of government in that State. The
Returning Board threw cut from the
returns the votes of whole parishes,
aggregating several thousand votes.
The New York Tribune Almanac gives
the Returning Board count as having
been IS, for the highest Hayes
elector, and 10, sos for the highest Til
den electer, and the Democratic count
as SO, 7o3 for the highest Tilden elector,
aid TIA for the highest Hayes elec-
ter. The Returning Board also decided
that Packard, the Republican nominee
for Governor received over 1000 more
votes than the highest Hayes elector,
and that majority OF both Houses of
the Legislature were Republican. The
electoral vote OF the State was counted
for Hayes, and gave him a majority
ct one in the Electoral College. Two
Governors were inaugurated, Packard
the Republican nominee, whom the Re-
turning Board declared elected by
more votes than were received by the
electors who made Hayes President;
and Nichols, the Democratic nominee,
whom the Democrats declared elected.
When Hayes became President he failed
to recognize as Governor, Packard, whose
title to the office was 1000 votes bet
ter than his own to the electoral vote
of Louisiana. This was said at the
time to have been in accordance with
an agreement made between she friends
of Hayes and the friends of Nichols at
the Wormsley Hotel, in Washington.
The Packard Legislature, which dis
persed shortly after the Inauguration OF
Hayes, without enacting law, or, in
fact, doing anything that was ever re-
cog,lized as valid or constitutional, cleo
ted Kellogg to the United States SEN
ate; while Spofford was chosen Senator
by the Nichols, or constitutional Legis-
lature. The United States Senate,
after much debate, admitted Kellogg to
a seat in that body, by party vote.
Now committee, to whom his case was
referred for investigation, report him
guilty of corrupt and fraudulent con-
duct, and it is probable that he will be
unseated by party vote. Viewed
from any standpoint the result of the
louisiana election in 1876 has an ugly
and fraudulent look, for if Hayes was
entitled to the electoral vote of that
State Packard ought to be it's Cover
nor and kellogg, one of it's Sena-
tors; while ON the other hand, if Mich
OILS is the rightfl Governor of Louisi-
ana, Hayes must necessarily be fraud.
ulent President.