The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-19
Last Nights Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.

4 was SATISFACTORY 10 DIN ana WOuiu 1t Ue u
his people. He answered that inasmuch
as he bad fitted up q rancho at a good
deal OF trouble and expense be would pre-
fer not to move off the reservation, but
whatever would be satisfactory 10 his peo-
pie, would be satisfactory to him.
The House Committee on Revision OF
| the Laws, at their meeting to-day, in
structed Representative Townshend of
| Illinois. to report to the House of Repre-
sentatlves, SlDgleton's bill relative to the
| telegraph.
| The Treasury has ordered all interest
on the public debt due April paid with
out rebate on and after Monday, March
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| The Treasury has purchased 100000
ounces of fine silver for San Francisco and
other mints.
Gen, HawIey leaves Washington for
| Illinois tonight.
The Irish relief supplies are likely to
require Secretary Thompson to furnish
second vessel. which no will do if neces
sary,
The Senate Exodus Committee examin-
ed IL. Is. Avery, special agent, but the
evidence was not important.
The Senate confirmed Upton as Asis-
tant Secretary OF the Treasury.
master at Centreville, Iowa.
The House Committee on Elections post
poned a formal vote in the Donnelly
Washburne Minnesota case to-day until
the minority report has been reported. A
provision was to-day made. by order of
the House, to have the report printed and
paid for out OF the contingent fund Of the
House, eThe majority report of the sub
committee has been printed and was to-
day placed In the hands OF the committee.
1t finds in favor iof unseating Wash
burne and seating Donnelly 1t cites 29I
cases on the part of Washburue where
money was paid by Washburne's clerks,
his business manager, the secretary of his
political committee, Of his political agents.
Over 100 cases are traced to Washburne's
Office. In one case Democratic village
postmaster wrote directly to Washburne
offering to sell his vote for $50. Wash
burne, through a friend, answered the
letter. thanking him for his offer and sent
a friend to him to pay the money. In
another case Democratic speaker who
had been advocating Donpeiy was an
nounced to make a Democratic speech the
night before election. He made the
speech tor " ashburne and told next dav
that he had received $3.50 from Wash.
burne tor SO doing. Great bers of
laborers employed in building a railroad
through the unsettled northwestern part
OF the district. where there were no
county organizations, DO precincts and
10 population, voted in boz cars or de-
pot buildings. with cigar boxes for bal
lot boxes. In addition to this the sub
committee find that the working men of
Minneapolis were intimidated by their
employers, and a great many of them
either forced 10 vote for Washburne or
prevented from voting at all. Although
the canvass was most exciting one and
the Republicans polled their full vote,
nearly 5000 Democrats failed to vote in
the city OF Minneapolis. The committee
find this was caused by fear of the work
ing men that they would lose their situ-
ations if they voted for DonnelIy. As
part OF this system of Intimidation ballots
! we're mum bered in one half of the precincts
| OF Minneapolis where labors largely resid"
| ed, with numbers corresponding with the
number of voters on the poll list, so that
employers might know just how their men
| men voted. This was done under Law
| which had been declared unconstitutional
by the District Court and afterwards by
the Supreme Court aud in the face of the
advice OF the City Attorney and Attorney
I General OF the state not to number them,
| and despite the advice even of attorneys
| who had defined the law IN the courts, and
also after the Judges OF Election had, in
public meeting resolved not to number
| them. The umberiBg took place in seven
precincts having twenty-ene Judges of
Election. By law fourteen of these should
have been friends of Dounelly, as he was
the candidate of both the Democrats and
Nationals, but out of twenty-one Judges
| he had but one friend. Two of these
precincts did not return the vote for
| Congressman until eight days after the
election, and in one of these Wssburne
claimed 4S3 majority, while the tally
sheets kept by one of the clerks, showed
he had but twenty six majority, Wash
| burne's attorney gave notice that he
would count the ballots in these pre-
cincts, but when the day arrived for
some unknown reasop,h refused to DO so.
| Dopnaliy carried tie district outside OF
| Minneapolis by 667 majority. counting the
hribed votes, bogus railroad votes and all.
In Minneapolis there were between 1900
and 5000 Workiugmen. They had a
society with 1900 men. and they had
placed DoBneliy in nomination as their
| candidate by a unanimous vote and sup
ported him up to the day of election. In
seven precincts where the ballots we're
numbered the Democrats had on April /,
1876. 525 majority. Wasnburne carried
them by l, ,760 majority, change of 2,285
votes in a total vote of about 5000 in two
years. The cor, mittee reject the votes of
these seven precincts, not because the
ballots were numbered but because such
nun bering was part of the general con-
spiracy of corruption ana intimidation.
aud because all the evidence shows that if
no unfair means had been used DonnelIy
would have carried that city as he carried
the rest of the district. The committee
fnd that Donnelly has a majority of 230
votes, They conclude with these words:
| We have not rejected the vote of any
county because it was uDorganized, Nei-
ther have we rejected the vote of any pre-
ciUct because OF the numbering of ballots
per Sc, but because such nun bering was
one OF the incidents of system of fraud
and intimidation. Neither have we
| rejected the votes of any counties for mere
iniornalities on the face of the returns.
but only for those gross irregularities
which were manifestly incompatible with
q legal canvass of the votes.
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