Nevada County picayune., 1890-07-31
,rson already on the register.

registry list, and if a persons name is stricken off he is thereby disqual- flied from voting for State officers. The bill, therefore, permits these l Federal officers to forbid citizens oi a State to vote for their own local officers. A supervisor can thus af- feet even a town election.
 ,. The supervisors are to have ac- cess to all books of registration, etc. for the purpose of making evidence for contest.
 ;, They are to make house-to- house canvass of persons registered in all cities having 20, ,O00 inhabi- tants or upward. They may be ac- compancd by deputy marshaIs. In cites of 10000 inhabitants or up- wards they are to make a thorough 1 Ihouse-to-house canvass five weeks before the election. In other words, i the local registers are to be given to | Republican campaign workers to en- able them to spy upon people, to in- timidatc them as Davenport has done in New York, and to bring their own voters to the polls. The Republi- can campaign, State and National, is to be conducted at the expense of the General Government.
 1. The supervisors are authorized to administer the State statutory oath if the local officers decline. and to examine persons offering to vote, as to their qualifications under the State law,
 If the State officers, obeying their own law, refuse to receive proffered ballot. the Federal officers may first direct them to do so, and then, on refusal, may themselves receive and deposit the ballot.
 D. They are to have access to the court records of naturalization, and to make lists of papers and to in- qure into the right of citizenship of the persons named. Special super visors, called "discroet" in the bill. are to be detailed to prevent fraudu- lent naturalization. What can be accomplished under this power was shown in this city by Davenport in 1878, when he arrested many persons who were not tried, while 3,iO0 were kept away from the polls by intimi- | ,l l,t nt supervisors may use the deputy mar shals and the army in this nefarious work.
 The bill appeals or annuls all State laws that are opposed to it. It directs the manner ln which all ballots shall be counted. The super yisors are to take part in the count.
 The Board of Canvasscrs of the Congressional vote is q body which makes the canvass for the United States, tis appointed by the Cir cut Judge, who IS dragged into par ty politics by ncarl y every section of this extraordinary bill. The board consists of three only two of whom are of the same political party. If their certificate differs from that of the State officers, their candidate is to be unscated. If the opposing candi- date appeals it must be to the Cir cult Judge, who is consequently q returning officer, The arrangements for counting in Republicans are al- ways perfect.
 The appropriations for the pay ment of all expenses of this Federal interference in State affairs, includ- ing the payment of chief supervisor, supervisors and deputy marshals, are made permanent. This is antcipa- tory of the refusal of Democratic House to appropriate money for the execution of the law.
 The Circuit Court is empowered to compel State boards to rectify al- legged errors m thIer count.
 The reform law of this State is in- fringed by tue requirements that d notice shall be pasted on it's single ballot-boX reciting that ballots for Representatives in Congress are to be deposited there. As the single ballot contains the names of all can didates to be placed in thls box, the effect on the illiteratc voters mind will be very confusing.
 The supervisor may go into the voting booth with q voter, to assist him Tn the preparation of his ballot, if State election officer may go for the purpose of giving needed in- structlOns,
 Under the present law juries are drawn by the clerk of the court and commissioner of another political party. The bill repeals that law, which was intended to secure non- partisan iuries for the trial of politi- cal offenses, and provides that juries shall be drawn by commissioners ap- pointed by the Circuit Judge, who may all belong to the same fparty. Agaln the judiciary is dragged into politics and made subseryient to campaign managers.
 The bill provides for the punish ment of State officers for the viola tion of State laws and provides that the army and deputy marshals shall keep theI peace, This is in direct contrayention of the instructions given to a United States marshal by Mir Eyarts in 1868, when he was Attorney-General of the United States. A supervisor may also con