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Show ; TELEGRAPHIC THE HllE REIIRSS. ' Blaine and Others Talk Aboat fr'alr ioDDt. Aagu-ta, 18 Toe situation here is virtually uocbanged. The ex-araiDation ex-araiDation of returns by tbe republi-, republi-, can committee aad local advisers of parties, claiming to be senators and , representativea elect, is not yet ai-J ai-J lowed. Some correspondence has taken place and councillors bate . heen waned upon, but no permUaiou to eiaruine the returns is yet granted , Republicans to-night aver that tney will not be permitted to see tbe re-r re-r turns.and counsel for parties claiming to have been elected iu disputed dia tricts protest earnestly agiinsl not being allowed an immediate eiamin ation. Members of tiie council, on ; the other band, declare tbat no one ' excepting members of the council shall inspect them. Republicans claim tbat democrats having an opportunity op-portunity to examine the returoe, have also had a chance to correct all errors on their side iu advance of tne returns being officially opened. It is generally understood to-niht that resort to judicial process will be had to test at the outset tbe preliminary pre-liminary question ' whether thoee claiming to be elected as senators and representativea have net the right to an examination of tbe returna as an essential step preparatory lor correc lions. New York, 19 Tte Berald's correspondent cor-respondent at Augusta interviewed Blaine oo the Maine situation, who and a (air count, and they mean to use all reasonable means to secure it. Tbe present governor and council have secreted tbe returns, which have always heretofore been open to the gaze of any respectable oilizen. I have lived in sight of tbe State Mouse for twenty-five years; aoy intelligent gentleman could, during that time, bave had nccess to tbe election re-: re-: turoi sent in by various town and city authorities to tbe secretary of state. It ia, to say the least, suspicious that an innovation ahould be made new. Blaine farther declared tbat be thought tbe conspirators did not (eel as brave as they did yesterday; that the presence o( prominent republicans republi-cans had frightened tbein ofl. Hamliu aUo told tbe reporter tbat republicans would not submit to be couutid out. Garcelon Bdid no fraud would be attempt! d, but the volts ivould be counted according to law. |