Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-25
MEN PHIS, TEN N.

( the part of the Senate 10 pass a law this SEES
zion to regulate and control the counting OF
| the electoral votes and il is believed the
| House will readily take up the zubject. Sen
! stors of both parties agree that bill oil this
| character ought to be passed at the present
session. They say that now, with the next
| presidential election nearly three years off,
! political considerations and party expedieuts
will not influence the action, as they naturally
I do when the election is near at hand. Some
| Democratic senators are now strongly in
| favor Of Senator EdmUnds's bill, which
passed the Senate Of the Forty-ffth Congress
| Senator Pugh, for one says that no better
| bill could be framed. 1t provides that each
State may regulate its own manner OF decid-
ing controversies over electoral returns, by
laws passed prior to the origin Of such con-
troyersies and that the States decision shall
be final and conclusive. In the st Congress
this bill did not meet with Democratic favor,
because the Democrats were then in the ma
jority in both houses of Congress, and natu-
rally they wanted to keep the control of the
count and the decision Of the contest in Con-
gress, because the election OF 1880 was Just
ahead. The indications are that Edmundss
bill viii have considerable Democratic sup
port, sufficient, at all events, to pass through
the Senate. In connection with this subject
an event of interest in relation to the count
of 1876 has been recalled by a number of
Democratic congressman who were confer
ring with regard TO the importance of legis-
Iatfon this session TO regulate the counting of
the electoral vote. A Democratic senator who
was then in the Senate, stated that in 1875
Senator Mortor's bill, prescribing the method
for the count, passed the Senate, receiving
several Democratic votes. With the view of
getting all the Democratic senators to vote
for it, and thus commend it to the Demo-
cratic House, Senator Thurman moved re-
consideration of the bill. The motion slum-
bered, the bill was never called up again,
and thus it died, and the senator added:
clad that bill passed Tilden would have
been President. That motion of Humans
was fatal mistake, and Thurman has real
lied il since. Senator Pugh's bill is not in
the nature Of substitute for Senator Ed
munds's bill. 1t is intended as an addition to
and relates simply to the matter OF fraudu-
lent or simulated returns"
Capital Briefs.
Nothing of interest occurred in the Star
route trials to-day.
Two weeks time has been granted for filing
arguments in the Campbell Cannon election
case of Utah Territory.
1t is understood that no public receptions
will be held by the President until after the
lenten season series Of state dinners in con-
temptation.
Delegations OF citizens from Dakota will
appear before the Senate Committee on Terri
tories next Friday, and submit arguments in
favor of the proposed division Of that Terri
tory.
The House Committee on Commerce have
favorably the bill appropristing
100000 for the purpose of obtaining iron
and other material Immediately needed in
the construction of the dam at Davis Island,
Ohio river.