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Show TELEGRAPHI . IIIK MAINE IXFA MY. Vain Attempts to Excuse Hir Crime, Augusta, Me., 17. Full detail? of he . count made by the governor ar d council show the following re-ults: In the sena o, the fusioEiBts are jiivca 20 members, re publicans, 11. In the house fueionUt?, 78, republican!-, 61. Five cLit-s with 12 republican representatives Portland, Bath, Lewiston, Koekland and Saco are without representation. The house will thus be 12 members short at its organization. organi-zation. The actual result of the election, according to official returns before changed by the council, was as follows: Senate - republicans, li, fueioniets, 12. House republicans, 90; fu-iODisle, 61 . Nett change in the senate, 1G, in the house, 46. By the electi n re'.urns republicans had a majority of S6 on joint ballot, he counted by the governor and council, fusioniits have a majority of 26 on joint ballot. Republicans c'aim that the re jections and cbangrg were wholly on technical grounds. The certificates to senators and representatives were sent out by mail to-day. The canvass of county officers is about completed. A committee of the council is engaged in preparing a statement tojuslify the count. Chicago, 18, 'Ihe Tribune1 s Augusta special says the governor1 and council issued, to-day, tno certificates to the bogus senate and house. In every case of substitution sub-stitution a democrat is substituted for a republican, and in no cue is a democrat counted out, although there are glaring errors in the returns of democratic towns, which the conspirators did not have time to correct. There are almost as many cases assigned for disfranchising towns of rightfully elected representatives as there are towns in th list, In Nobleboro district, Hall, who received 300 majority, is thrown out because two men give atti-davitB atti-davitB that fraud wim practised in the election; Stewart, of .Skonbegnn, who received re-ceived 320 majority, goes to the wall be-chuse be-chuse the paper on which his votes were printed was a little longer one way than the other. Dr. Brooks, of Belfast, was saved because it was found that a democrat demo-crat in .Norway would have to be counted out, too, both beiDg examining BUrgeona. The citiea deprived of suffrage have tbo misfortuno that their returns are signed by two or threaof their selectmen. Ihere was as good a cause for rej ecting Augusta, as Portland, but it was altogether al-together too near the seat of war. The oflbrt seemed lo be to count out the remote re-mote towns. The prominent democrats are. beginniDg to condemn the wh Je affair as they see it will be the ruination of the party. Hon. E. A. Pillsbury, answering a telegram tele-gram from the editor of the ohicago Daily JVcws, telegraphs from Augusta, to-day, a long defense of the action of the Maine . returning board. An apparent republican majority for members of the legislature was obtained by wholesale systematic bribery, bnlldozingand fraud. There was popular majority lor governor in opposition to republicans, in many districts, dis-tricts, giving a fusion majority for governor. Republicans succeeded in getting a majority for members of the . legislature by trickery and other frauds. The governor and oouncil have not based their action on the3e frauds, in any j instance, not having jurisdiction, but I iney nave strictly followed tbo constitution constitu-tion and thrown out such returns as were fatally defective, whether republican or democrat. In some counties more democrat demo-crat than republican returns have been thus rejected. Republicans have been in the habit for years of secretly returning return-ing defective republican returns to town officers for correction, but took advantage advan-tage of defects in democrat returns. During twenty-throe years of republican republi-can rulo they have never lent an officer by reason of such defects, while the democrats have lost 1'moro or less nearly every year. This has served to make democratic town officers more carefn! and republicans more careless. The present governor and council have held 'republicans to the strict letter of the constitution con-stitution and laws, and tbo result is an anti-republican majority in both branches. They have in no case traveled outside of precedents established by republicans themselves', and in most cbbos their ac'ion was based upon opinions given by judges of the supreme court For instance, judges gavo an opinion in 1875 that the governor 1 and council could not count the votes returned re-turned for Wm. H. Smith and W. H. Smith, for the same office, as having been given for one and the same person. . ADnlviner this rule this vear. chantrps rn- sultin a large number of districts. The return from the City of Portland was fatally defective in nst complying with the constitution in giving the names of tho persons voted for, with the number of votes against oach name. Some 140 votes were returned as "scattering" thus changing, tho result on throo senators, sena-tors, and leaving five vacancies in the house. In Lewiston, Saco, Bath and Kock Island, re'.urns were signed by the minority only of the aldermen. The law requires the whole number of ballots to be given in tho returns, and there are abundant republican precedents for rejecting re-jecting them, where they fail in that respect. re-spect. So too, where there is a m teria! difference between tho whole number of ballotB &nd votes stated. Several charges havo resulted from - these defect?. In all doubtful cases tho govern ar and council havo consulted eminent counsel before coining to a conclusion, and in every instance the action of the board has bean unanimous, with onj exception only. In that instance tho question at iasue did not affect tho character of tbo rOSUlt, E. PlLLSBUKY. |