Show by telegraph J pa congressional S SENATE TX A T 13 washington 29 the chair presented da a telegram from logn logan nogan in 5 chicago asking on account of the limited time he had to be excused from the special committee on the electo electoral ml count the request was granted and conkling appointed in his hia place gordon presented the petition of wade hampton and members of the general assembly of south carolina reciting the events which have recently transpired in that state and asking congress to provide for a cessation of military interference ter and enable the legislature to exercise their official duties gordon moved the memorial be referred to the judiciary commit tee moved its reference enee ence to the elections committee 1 pending lending discussion gordon by unanimous consent introduced a resolution recognizing the hampton government as the legal government glov of south carolina bul but ob je jestion was made by morton morion and others to its present consideration c r the vote on ns motion showed no quorum HOUSE washington 27 the rho rhe speaker laid before the house a message from the president in regard to obtaining certain concessions from the sioux indians referred also aiso a messa message e from the president in reg regi 1 to tao the extradition treaty with wilh great britain and antoune ln ingi abc alc since great britain has handed overl orr brent the forger to tuis this government he lie would regard the tre treaty ity as still in operation but hopeau new tresty treaty would be entered into Ref ber ReFer err erx iiiI leli to the committee on foreign biffl ahalia drs ars the committee appointed on the subject reported resolution declaring that the president of the enat senate has haa not th power alone to count and declaim declaw the electoral vote f WS washington ir Z 31 r the house met at noon and imme immo to next owing to tbt the want ora ofa quorum AME AMERICAN RICAN do COLUMBIA 26 the petition to the supreme court to removal remove yuo w eler the proceedings edinga by the tilden again st the hayes electors in south carolina was decided today to day justice willard delivered the opinion of the court courty refusing the motion to remove th the case to the united states circuit court under the act of congress ol 01 1875 CLEVELAND 09 09 0 26 the united stales stiles marshal marshals today to day seized worth of tobacco belonging four different firms in new york scoville co of that city being beins drie one of the parties most interested the goods have been shipped 0 0 D I 1 to aco co of detroit but were re billed at buffalo to toe E dall dail cleveland CHEYENNE 28 26 joseph josoph dayis davis da vis started out hunting from terris mine near rawlins a week ago age his partner became anxious on account of his prolonged absence and started to hunt for him and found his body his hla his hia thigh joint being dis des located and the leg broken in two places near him he found a vial which had contained strychnine it is thought he had fallen and broken his hia lec leer and after several lays days suffering sufferings in despair ho he bad had taken the poison to end his misery NF lew w ORLEANs OBliE ANS 25 the tho republicans are already taking steps to prevent the democrats from getting ps possession session of the state house they have barricaded barricades barrica ded all the windows and doors except the two principal entrances entrance sl and placed a guard of metropolitan police there the republicans bay eay athe the democratic gramme pro is for wiltz the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor to take possession of the senate chamber and that failing falling in this the next stop step will bo be to organize the democratic senate in another building but this will fail fall as there are six democratic senators w ho will not consent to the result nich Xich will be simply inaugurated and then go home before the house and senate investigation committees a number of bitnes witnesses es were examined in io relation to the charges of fraud intimidation timi dation and violence at the late presidential election whose testimony was condemnatory of both eides side one ono witness testified that the campaign was act actively conducted by the negroes assisting the one siddal side as much m u ch as the other hebald he baid said the republicans first began organizing in clubs and the democrats demo orata crata foil toll followed ewed through fear and for protection tec tion against the incursions by the united states troops it was also shown by the evidence that too much whiskey had been imbibed by the officers conducting the election 26 GOV stearns steams says the decision of the supreme court settles the election question in n this state and he has advised the canvassing board to obey the orders of the court secretary of state lilien lillen notifies the other members of the board to meet in his office at 11 tomorrow tomorrows to morrow morrows to canvass according to tho the courts mandate mandat NW YORK 27 the worlds washington special says bays ben hill has written a letter for pub publication li in which ho he explains at some length his political position he ho recapitulates recapitulates the charges made against ga ast him I 1 m and which he says are ire simply manufactured by senatorial hirelings for republican uge use and benefit in conclusion ho he says 4 1 I am therefore in favor of a fair and honest constitutional count of lle ile lie votes of the people I 1 am laboring to secure that count counts and when ee ie cuned cured J shall abide by its result and so will wll levery every other man maill north and south chols who is not willingto willing to destroy this country I 1 am brave enough to want peace pence but not cowardly enough to accept it dishonestly sy the tribunes washington special says the commission commissions appointed by president grant consisting of gen A A A humphreys 0 B patterson of the coast survey and daniel janiel ammens amman of the navy department part ment have made a report in favor avor of a canal across the isthmus by y the nicaragua route estimating the he cost at which is less than by any ay other route time required for construction would only le be ten years the president believes that the prospect of an early beginning of the work on this canal is very favorable under his its direction communications have been een sent to the principal powers of europe in regard to the subject when their replies have haye been received the president intends to submit all aji the papers and co correspondence to Coq congress gress with a special message in which he will urge that the united states take steps necessary nece to the beginning of the great enterprise the tribune assuming that there truth in the stories tempting a compromise of the presidential question by a division of the honors between tile the different contestants rebukes the tendency in the public mind to accept some such solution saying that when a knot of politicians can get together and dispose of the presidency by dickering we are only one step from anarchy let this scheme succeed once and it is morally certain that every subsequent elec tion defeated party will create complications in order that it may be in a io make terms with wah the victors then balloting will be a mere forms form the presidency will really be bought and sold bold neither the democrats nor republicans can honorably agree to ally any such compromise the votes of the states have been cast itoney it only remains to count them in strict accordance cor dance with the law and whatever the result the people will cheerfully theer rully fully accept it it would be a great outrage and disgrace if the frauds of or three returning boards should impose on the nation a chief executive who was not pot elected it would be a greater outrage greater disgrace and find greater danger if congress should put up the presidency for sale as the praetorian guards used to put up the roman rohan people washington 27 the following ia Is a copy of a letter from randall to orton written yesterday trouse house of Re representatives presen es I 1 ci washington D 0 dec 1876 win WM orton esq president sir referring to the copy of the tho subpoena accompanying your communication muni rAuni cation catlon of the instant I 1 find there is a clerical error in the writ which esca esea escaped d my attention at the time it t wanig was wag signed ned of which you might perhaps have availed yourself as an excel to t the tho committee M ateo for not havil in ought with yon you the papers they manifestly desired to have produced had you appeared before them in obedience to the roan raan mandate date abolt which you do not seem to entertain any nii gir doubt hiu hiL namely mely that you should be and before the select committee in new orleans on the dayot day of december 1876 what the committee mim mig might have asked you or desired to ask you had you appeared either with or without the papers I 1 of coursey courses course do not know apers if I 1 did I 1 have no authority to excuse you for disobeying the plain and peremptory mandate that lyou should appear before the committee the house alone can do that and I 1 suppose would only take cognizance of the matter when regularly brought lo 10 its notice by the committee As you have possibly not observed the resolutions adopted on december expressing the sense of the house in respect to its ita powers and privileges when acting through the instrumentality of a committee authorized to send for persons and papers I 1 have the honor to send bend you the following copy to which I 1 would respectfully call your attention chere follow the resolutions of the house before publia published hed very respectfully r SAMUEL amuel J speaker 22 the speaker 0 of f the house has caused a subpoena to issue against orton to appear forthwith before the morrison investigating committee at new orleans with the required telegrams NEW york 27 the tho committee appointed at the meeting of merchants and bankers which grew out of the recent meeting at the house bouse of wm E dodge have adopted a memorial to congress expressing great satisfaction at the appointment of the joint committee to consider the proper mods of counting the electoral vote and pray for a prompt determination of the mode the tribunes Tal tai Talla talia hasse hasso special says the tho returns required of the board of canvassers by the supreme court were due this afternoon at 4 the hotel was well filled with politicians mostly republicans who had come to see the conclusion of what has been to them a long incessant and bitter personal fight the secretary of state gave notice yesterday that the board as directed by the mandate of the court would convene reconvene re at his office this morning at tit about 9 he recalled that notice in order to allow the attorneys of the respondents in the action to file a motion to vacate uno ino writ of mandamus because it had been imprudently issued and required the illegal act of the board board upon the tho constitution however the notice was withdrawn and another one substituted calling the board to meet at 4 this afternoon to make a re canvass under the order of the court the board assembled at that time lime all the members being present attorney general gocke cocke led fed off with the following motion in writing 1 I move in obedience to the order of the supreme court that the board of state canvassers proceed to canvass the returns from each county according to the face of said returns t urns and that the same bame principle b be e applied to the returns for members b ers of congress and the legislature legislatures as is adopted in lation relation ro to the returns for governor and lieutenant governor 21 dr adding at the end of the first clause the words unless said return shows falsity on its face cocke cooke accepted the amendment after which the resolution passed unanimously the board then proceeded to make a re canvass for governor taking the face of the returns as per resolution the result was aa as follows the whole vote for drew was whole vote for stearns steams the vote of the uther other candidates di including members of congress wies was then determined bisbee republican is saved by a handsome majority purman the other republican republicans is defeated the canvass ended the majority of the board then adopted it the re can vass according to the decision of the court would show that hayes had received majority the result was obtained by counting the baker county returns and rejecting those of clay county washington 27 cronin delivered the oregon electoral vote to vice president fery ferry today to day the latter declined to give him a receipt on account of two returns being received from oregon pnina delphia 27 gen john secretary and treasurer of the Hannes ville distillery company committed suicide in his nils oils afternoon the cause is attributed to a slight personal financial embarrassment tallahasse 27 notice from the secretary of slate state to the members of the canvassing board to meet this morning to re canvass the returns was withdrawn today to day mclin and cowgill refuse to obey the order of the courty courts court and will file a motion to vacate the rule and set aside the mandamus attorney general cocke cooke will obey the mandate of the court by making the canvass himself attorney general coeke cooke made a canvass of the vote this thia morning after the members of tho the board refused to canvass this gives drew and tilden 94 majority this canvass he filed in the clerks office in obedience to the order of the court subsequently other mem bers of the board met at four this afternoon they have just concluded their canvass and given drew a majority of and the hayes electors cocke files a protest NEW ORLE oble ORLEANS Aws 27 before the senate committee mcenery occupied led the entire time of the session he we believed the rifle clubs were essentially for the preservation of f cheo peace and gave instances where re they had done it A rigid cross examination developed nothing contradictory george jackson and S jones colored and thomas brown a negro preachers preacher testified before the morrison Morri sn committee to being abused since the election for voting the democratic ticket the latter was not allowed to preach hel hei he lost osti sl in the freed Fre edmans mans maus bank and his watch and by the united states soldiers he considered governor wells a thief other evidence was produced showing that the police had bad threatened and beaten the colored democrats and the courts refused to remedy it and a general abuse after the election bobert robert car of desoto testified that he was the republican nominee for shermy sheriff but declined the returning board declared him elected though his bis opponent oppe nent got the most votes shermans Sher mans report about intimidation was incorrect there was none before the blackburn committee several witnesses testified to the republican frauds in lafourche parish and to the inefficiency ignorance fg norance and dishonesty of the republican canvassers wm win dupless testified to a reign of terror among the republicans in jn east baton rouge mcenery was examined closely but his testimony was not shaken by the republicans the arms for the rifle clubs were procured from remington works through new orleans gun stores each man purchasing his bis own arms he did not think the rifle clubs had anything to do with the unusual number of homicides that occurred in the parish this campaign E W barnes wast wa today to day arrested and left for washington to appear before the bar of of the house for contempt eon con CHICAGO 27 the inter inte oceans washington special says ex atter ney general williams has gone to florida to attend the suit of W V E chandler against the tho editor of the live oak expositor who publish ed a indecent li article against 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