The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21
REEDS GRIP ON POWER.
ruH BoLp PLOT TO PERPETUATE
RADICAL RULE.

Tho Federal Election Bills returning
Ioards In tended to Discount the
STEALING of the Presidency Tor
Eavas-One OF the Threats Of the
Reapportionment Bill.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-"How many OF
the 65. .OOO, 900 of Americans are aware OF
the fact that the electoral commission
counted Rutherford B. Hayes in by virtue
of two forged signatures OF preldential
electors?n said representative fromLoulsl-
ana to the Sunday Gazette. And yet
such is the undisputed fact, known
at the time to one member OF
that commission and now estaolsheo
bv indisputable proof. One of the electors,
Mr.. Ievisee, testified that he was not IN
New Orleans when his signature was forged
and the other, Mr.. Joffrain, was also far
SWAY when his much needed signature was
counterfeited. Now is it any wonder that
wa question the political motives of men
Gao do such things as that? 1t was not
sufficient to procure the corrupt action Oh
the Louisiana returning board, backed up
bv promises from John Sherman and other
friends of hayes.
THE CRIME OF FORGERY.
ssThey did their business in such bung-
ling way that it was necessary to add the
crime of forgery before their action could
avail If such things could be done and de-
ceive an electoral commission what may be
not expected of the 325 returning boards pro-
yided for in the federal election bill? These
boards will not be composed of judges of
the supreme court of the United States, as
was partly the case with the
electoral commission, but of ex-
ecutive officers appointed for their
ability to do dirty work, and deeply inter
ested in counting out their opponents. This
is the feature of the worst bill ever intro
duced in congress, and yet am informed
that Mr.. Reed told United States senator
who demonstrated against this section of the
bill that it was the very one of all Others
that the House would never yield"
THE REAPPORTIONMENT SCHEME.
Reed is contemplating reapportionment
at this session, provided Supt. Porter gets
the figures out in time. He is also contem-
plating applying to the southern states in
the reapportionment whenever it is made
the provision in section of the fourteenth
amendmen to the constitution, that ~ hen
the right to vote at any election for the
choice of electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, representa-
tives in congress, the executive and judicial
officers of a state or the members
of the legislature thereof, is
denied to any of the male inhabitants of
such state, being 21 years of age, citizens of
the United States, or in any way abridged,
except for participation in rebellion or any
other crime, the basis Of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citizens
shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens, 2l years of age, in such state" His
idea is that the Southern representatives
in congress and in the electoral college must
be cut down somehow"
THE WEST DEMOCRATIC.
Representative Mills OF Texas has written
to friend in this city that while the federal
election bill was the issue uppermost in the
minds of the people of the south, who un-
derstood it fully, yet in the west the tariff
issue was, of all the others, the one most
talked of and considered. In his judgment
the west would ultimately go democratic on
the tariff issue, and many democratic
congressional gains would be made in the
northwest this fall.