The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-17
THE COUNT COMPLETE.
BUSINESS RUSHED IN THE NEW YORK
CANVASS.
Inc official Review Finished on Prasi-
Dental Electors in CleveIand's Favor
An Interview with Dorsey
Note and Comment


ling and his fellow counsel talked over Fri
1ay night the proposal made by Alderman
ARK IN the course of Fridays canvass that
The count of the electoral vote be first com
pletet AMI announced, and that the canvas
OF minor officers be concluded afterward
lhey saw no egal objection and as it was
| stated that MeSsrs, Evarts and Bliss, of the
Republican counsel, had reached u similar
conclusion
Ihe.bnard Of canvassers went along rap
IDLY, commencing at 9 a. m. and canvassing
only the electoral vote The Fifteenth, Six
teehth and Seventeenth assembly districts
showed only trifling errors In the
Eighteenth assembly district Blaine gained
q votes in the First election district In the
Third election district Cleve!ands vote, as
published, was 3l3: the correct footing
gave him 2l3. Cleveland's loss here
was 100 votes The Sixteenth cleo
ton district showed Il big mistake. The
published returns gave Cleveland ~ votes;
the county clerks and supervisors returns
gave him 272 votes; it was so canvassed.
The Eighteenth assembly district was COM
pleted by l o'clock, the canvass having
shown that Blaine up TO that hour had
gained l27 votes, and Cleveland 200 votes
over the press returns.
The 10TH Goth, 21st and 22nd assembly
districts were counted in eighty minutes, the
votes being found to agree with the press re-
turns. There was no reference to the com
mittee ON contests bin the 23rd or oath assem-
bly, districts the latter being finished at 2 D.
m, when recess was taken to await the re-
port of the committee on contests of the
r.
Bliss has conceded that Cleveland will have
a plurality in this city of 43, 100
A hasty computation Y the clerk in charge
of the city returns of which the canvass has
just been completed leads him to state that
the plurality for Cleveland in the entire state
will be ,l47. He figures that Blaine made
net gain in the city by the canvass of 100
votes
The Kings county canvassers met again
at 10 O'Clock Saturday in the supervisors
chambers. When the Board adjourned Fri
day afternoon they had completed the Four
teenth Ward. Out of l35 districts compris-
ing these wards but thirty-o returns have
been found to be in conformity with the re
quirements of the law. The other 104 are
full of clerical errors. When the board re-
sumed their duties there was
large attendance of spectators. As soon
as the chair called the board to order Super
visor Willis arose and said: 81 move that we
shall not undertake to pass upon any of the
returns so far as there are changes in the
electoral vote until Monday, when we can
pass upon them district by district Then
We can make that our special order of bust
ness"
'hn; III ooln
ont Of order
Supervisor Wills-Then, sir, l move nov
that we pass finally upon the electoral ticket
and have those which are not correct sent
back 10 the district canvassers for correc-
tion on Monday.
Supervisor Jewell-I move to amend so as
include the country towns
Supervisor Collard jumped up and said:
"This is a political move, and is done for the
purpose of holding these returns back until
the 18th, when by law they would be thrown
out. l know that some Republicans had
conversation in Gen. Tracy's office"
A vote was then taken on the motion
of Willis, and it stood, ayes, 10; nays,
10. The vote of the chair was then called
and he voted, no, and declared the motion
lost. Mr.. McKane said he was Democrat,
hut lie was there to see fair play Supervisor
Jewell said he was a Republican, but he did
not sit there as a Republican or Democrat;
he was there as a canvasser to do his duty,
and was in favor of fair play 1t was finally
decided to continue their usual custom of
adopting the returns as they came in.
The Evening Post says: 'Alth ough the
canvass of the electoral vote in this city has
cen rlntetsd the total raSult could not hr
l.r.,..hed saturday, because three Of the asa
sembly districts-tne Seventh, Ninth, and
ThrteeAth-cannot be included, owing to
the fnct that the returns from some of their
el"ctian districts have been sent to the COM
m IT, On e. Erected returns, on account If
di-Crei0ucic, or informalties