Year: 1878




Refore Any Further steps Are Taken.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-The Louisiana
delegation Is substantially unanimous as to
| the requirements Of the situation In view of
| the Florida confessions and other evidence nf
| fecting Hayes title, which is known to be 10
existence. They all agree that the Judiciary
Committee of the House should investigate
the matter and lay bare every fraud and
crime against the purity of tho baIlot-box
and every Justification Of election returns. not
only in Florida but in Louisiana.
| THE GENERAL SENSE OF THE DELEGATION
is sufficiently set forth in interviews which
had this evening with Eustis and Ellis. In
reply to my question whether in his iudg
ment the Florida confessions created any ne
cessity for investigation which did not exist
before Senator Eustis said it was generally
known in Louisiana, both through his action
when in the Legislature and by his attitude
since in the Senate. that he had never agreed
with the ideas which led to the formation of
| the Electoral Commission. He was. there
| fore free from cntauglement. political or per
| sonal, in any Of the complications that had
arisen out of the counting in of Hayes. lie
had always regarded


HAYES TITLE


| with contempt. and in his senatorial capacity
had kept entirely aloof from tho White
House, In tho matter Of soliciting appoint
ments and all other relations. He had al
| ways believed 1t due to the American people
that oil the facts connected with the fraudu-
lent seating of n defeated president should be
ascertained by competent authority and
officially reported as II part of the civil his
tory of the country. 1t was impossible that
50 great an outrage as the theft of the
ELECTORAL VOTES OF SEVERAL STATES
should be passed over In silence, and be
dueathed as an unsolved mystery to future
generations. That sort of thing was not In
accordance with the spirit Of our institutions,
but belonged to methods Of despotsm. He
had. therefore, neen in favor of investigation
oil the time. Tho Florida confessions simply
made imperative necessity which had ex-
listed all the time. then asked the Senator
what his views were as to the consequences
which might follow investigation, to which
he replied that my question touched upon q
topic on which he might have to sit in


JUDGMENT As A SENATOR,
and hence it would be improper for him to



would be sufficient for the present for the
House to investigate, to lay all the facts be-
fore the world and to ascertain whether
Hayes was personally cognizant of, or mpli-
Gated in the frauds; whether he was accessory
before, as well as after the fact. When that
was done 1t would be the province of the
House to determine the method of procedure,
and for the Senate to Judge according to the
law and the facts. He said he was not fright |
ened by


THE BUGREAR OF REVOLUTION.
He believed Congress was capable of set |
tling the issue that might arise without i'm
pairing the tranquility or endangering the
peace of the country. In conclusion, he said
that he did not consider it necessary at this
time to raise the question as to whether
HAYES SHOULD BE oUsTED AND TILDEN IN


STALLED.


The facts should first be found out and Off
cially recorded, and then the good sense and
judgment Of the representatives of the people
would suggest what further steps should be
taken.


Mr.. Ellis views We're substantially the
same Hespoke with less reserve than Eus-
tis, however, touching proceedings subse-
quent to the investigation On this point he
said that il the policy OF ousting Hayes were
adopted by the Democrats, the Republicans
would have an opportunity to vote with them
and thus throw off from the shoulders of
their party


THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FRAUDS AND


CRIME


of the electoral count. He, like Eustis, took
no stock In the cry Of revolution, but was
averse to the establishment of the precedent
in favor of one Congress lightly undoing
such grave work as the seating of Presi-
dent by preceding Congress. This sort of
thing he described as Mexicanzation, and
said it might tend to weaken the confidence
Of the people in the stability OF our institu-
tions. He did not regard


THE PASSAGE OF THE KIMMELL BILL
as by any means necessary sequence of an
and did not see the necessity of
vesting the Supreme Court or any other body
with power to determine questions which
properly belonged to Congress. The Judi
ciary Committee of the House should investi-
gate, at once and thoroughly and leave sub
3equent action to be determined by the result
of the investigation. If the investigation de-
veloped completely or privity to the


GREAT CONSPIRACY ON HAYES PART,
md should show that he had as defeated
through his friends or personally,
'onnived at, or abetted, the methods by which
his competitor was counted out, and the YER
iict of the ballot-box thereby fraudulently
'et aside then certainly, as particeps criminis
Hayes would be unfit for the position he oc-
,upies.
Thus, said Ellis, in my judgment the whole
question of subsequent procedure must be |
eft to be determined by the results of the in
as
HAYES PERSONAL CONNECTION


WITH !