Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-22

Congress, was not laborer. as specified in
the Act, and he was discharged, with the
understanding that he leaves the country
within thirty days. Judge Brown further
said that the Act applied to all Cinnamon
who were laborers, whether naturalized
citizens OF other countries or not.
There's Music in the Air" at Chicago.
CHICAGO, November 2lst-A few days
ago 1t was announced i'll these dispatches
that Brand (Dem. according to the returns
TO the Canvassing Board, was elected 10 the
State Senate from the Sixth District instead
of Leman (Rep.), who had majority
according TO the police returns, thus giving
the Democrats majority in the State
Legislature on joint ballot, and the power
to elect United States Senator to succeed
Logan. The difference was found to be in
the second precinct of the Eighteenth
Ward. The police returns gave Leman
420 Brand 274. The returns to the Can
yassing Board gave Leman 220, Brand 474
thus making a change of 400 in favor OF
Brand, and giving him majority of 10.
The figures on the tally sheet seemed
to be the original figures, showing
no sign of erasure; but the figures
in the poll book appeared to have
originally stood as in the return to the
police but were subsequently erased and
made to correspond with the tally sheet.
On behalf of Beard, it was stated that the
original entry was clerical error. On be-
half of Leman, who claimed that the re-
turns had been tampercd with, it was
shown that in this precinct the Republican
candidates for President and Governor re-
celved 3S9 and 40S, respectively, while the
Democratic candidates for those offices re-
aaY x-aI nd ,n1 .
impossible that such a large falling off
should have occurred in his Ueman' s. vote.
The matter of calling on the Judges to ap-
pear and testify and of the power of the
CanvaSSing Board to goi into the matter, has
been under consideration, and the
decision is set for tomorrow after
noon. This afternoon the United
States District Attorney presented the
matter to the United States Grand Jury,
and the Republican Judge in that precinct,
and the Supervisor of Election and men,
bers of the Canvassing Board summoned
10 appear forthwith. The Board was also
ordered to bring the ballot box-and returns
for that precinct. The County Clerk, in
whose charge the ballot-boX was, appeared
without it. and stated that by advise of his
counsel he declined to bring the ballot
box. That part of the order was waived for
the time being, and the Clerk was sent for
the returns. He did not come back, and
the Grand Jury finally adjourned. with an
order that all the parties be brought before
that body tomorrow morning. In the
meantime squad of police is guarding the
ballot-boX.
The Question of Closing the Postofices
on Election Day.
WASHINGTON, November 21st-Postmas-
ter-General Hatton sent the following let
ter to-day to Joseph Medill, editor of the
Chicago Tribune:
WASHINGTON, November DIST
In an article in your paper of November l7th
in which Mr.. Clarkson, member of the Repub-
lcan National Committee, gives many but in
my opinion not ALL reasons why Mr.. Blaine wes
defeated. find the following: The order of
Postmaster-General Hatton requiring the New
York Postoffice, with its thousands of clerks and
carriers to be kept open, prevented enough Re-
publicans from voting to have overcome
what is now claimed as Mr. Cleveland's
plurality. The usual order was posted in
New York Office Monday, saying that
after10 O clock on election day the clerks could
take holiday. On Monday night, by Mr.. Hat
toms order, this was overruled, and the clerks
living in distant parts of the city, who had to go
to work before the polls opened. and remain
after they were closed, were unable to vote"
No such order as that referred to by Mr.. Clark
son was issued by myself. There is no law au-
thorfzing the closing OF postoilices on election
days. Prior to the election dispatches were re-
ceived from many places, asking authority TO
close the offices. These were answered, as has
always been the custom of the Department to
the effect that there was no law authorizing the
closing of the offices on election day. Mr.
Clarkson says my order was issued Monday
committee Mr.. Elkins, did know, that | was
not in Washington at that time but in Burling-
ton, Iowa, as the following dispatch will show ::
New YORK, November 3d.
Frank Hatton, Postmaster General, Burlington,
Iowd 1t is said at the Postofice i'll this city that
the lettercarriers are not to have the usual hol-
day during the election, and that an order has
been issued to that effect. This will lose US
many hundred votes. Can you telegraph some
remedy? Answer. S. b. ELKINs.
To this replied that there was no law max
ing election day Il holiday, but that the Post
master at New York, ii he desired, could GER
tainly arrange to allow the employees in his
Office to vote without seriously interfering with
the delivery of the mail. 1t seems that the
above dispatch from Mr. Elkins, or one similar,
was also sent to Mr. HaZcn, who was then Act
ing Postmaster-Gene and who then all
sw'ered il as follows the dispatch being sent the
night before the election:
II. G. Pearson. Postmaster, NetD York Please
give the employees full opportunity to exercise
tho right of suffrage. A. ID. HAZEN,
Acting Postmaster-General.
Had Mr.. Clarkson or Mr.. Elkins been Post
masterGeneTal at that time they might have
issued an order closing all the PostOihces in the
United States during the election but | hardly
think they would have done so after reading
the law. Very respectfully, FRANK HArToN.
sCATHING REPLY OF MR.. CLARKsoN.
DEs MONIES Ia), November 21st-Mr.
Clarkson editor OF the State Register, and
the Iowa member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, has sent to the editor of
the Chicago Tribune the following letter, in
reply to the letter of Postmaster-G General
Hatton. sent out to the Associated Press
to-day:
DEs MONIES Qa.) November 21st.
have read the letter, or a telegraphic copy
of it, this day addressed to you by Mr.. Hatton,
as President Arthurs Postmastcr-General. In it
he juggles with the facts, and by saying he did
not himself issue the order which kept the New
York Postoflice open on election day, and pre-
vented several hundred of the clerks from a
chance to vote for President, tries to
escape the responsibility before the country of
having used fpart of the Administrations
power in helping to defeat Mr.. Blaine The
truth is, .he order was issued by Mr.. Mari, the
First Assistant Postmaster-General, or Mr..
Hazen, the Second but that it was done by Mr..
Hatton's order. He very shrewdly says in his
quibbling letter to you that no such order was
issued by myself That may be. The sigma
ture was the signature of Mr. Hazen, the subOr-
dinate but the order to do it was the order of
Hatton the principal. That Mr.. Hatton knew
of the order and that he was responsible for il,
there is not tie least doubt. His friends at New
in his desire to defeat Mr. Blaine-did not deny
this, but gave as the explanation of it that
rider put on the last postal appropriation
bill provided that election day should not
be Holiday, compelled him to have the order
issued and that his attention had been called
to the provision by the Democratic Chairman
of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Hatton does not pretend to say that he tele
glaphed the Postmaster of New York from Bur
lington, suggesting that the PoStotfice employees
be allowed chance to vote, but that he only
teegraphed that valuable suggestion TO Mr.. FL
kins, while the acting PoStmaster-General at
Washington was left to send, as best he could,
under the orders of his chief, given by the
later before he left the Capitol dispatch to the
- MugWump" Postmaster at New York, which
that worthy could call second order, not to
let the postotfice be closed which Hatton could
afterwaTd claim was permission for the EN-
ployes to vote The facts, rs well known at
New York, are that the employees did not get
in which TO vote. 1t was also reliably
stated to be true that enough of them
were thus deprived of the time 10 vote
to have given Blaine plurality in the state of
New York aud elected him President Mr.. Hat
tons letter of evasion has the one merit of not
denying in fact the essential truth of my state
ment that he quotes. This shows shrewdness
worthy OF Postmaster-Geueral, for when he
was in Iowa the last days before election, he
told several persons among them q leading
intended to keep the New York postotfice open
on election day. In talking to this Democratic
gentleman, he said, with his thumbs
twirling very gaily in the arm-holes of
his waistcoat, am civil service
reformer this year, and do not intend to
let the public business be interfered with by
politics., and the accent on the words this
year are as reported by the Democrat to have
been beautiful III their melody and significance.
Mr.. Hatton is noted most and most loved by his
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