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Show TELEGRAPHIC j SIR. HAYES. What He Thinks About It. Worried a Good Deal, bat not I1h he arte iied. New York, 19. The Time' Wfivnh-ingloo Wfivnh-ingloo special says: A gentleman io the coq tide ace uf the president and bavicg a perlect knowledge ot Mr. Hayes' views respecting the recent proceedings of thedemocratio majority of the house, uaid ibis evening that the president, while maintaining his natural equanimity of temper, wasn't inclined to look lightly on the situation. situa-tion. Ue did not think it was a mat ter to treat with indinerence. Great events io history had sprung from smaller beginnings. Tracing the movement from its birth, the president presi-dent has been struck with its rapid growth. He points to the significant circumstance that Buch independent and influential men aa Alex. H. Stephens, are already powerless to stay a caucus mandate. Whatever the result of the investigation might be, whatever disclosures might result therefrom, the president entertained no fear that anything could be broughthome to him. Ifany persona made any promieea in hia behalf, or entered into any bargains, they did so without his knowledge, and he hoped their acts would be exposed. The president regard:) the actioa of southern south-ern democrats in supporting the investigation in-vestigation Bcheme as ungrateful in the higheat degree, irrespective o( othar considerations. When be assumed as-sumed the executive office he found theaoutb, or at leaat a large portion of it, distracted and torn asunder by political strife, almost bordering en revolution. He gave the Bouth peace, South Carolina and especially Louis iana were restored to the rule of native population and the carpet bagger ceased to be an element in southern politics. The president, of course, acted trom a strict aense public of duty, and claims no reward at the hands of ; the Bouth tor doing what he was bound in conscience to do, hut he cannot avoid being a witness to the ingratitude evinced by representatives of the south to the man who above all others haB had their welfare and hap piness in common with the rest of the Union, Bineerely at heart. With re-forpnno re-forpnno to hia title the president con ceded that it oould be contested, but! there was only one way to test the question that was by a writ quo war ranto, whiob was the only remedy provided by law when be became president. The act creating the electoral commission specially declared de-clared that nothing therein was to be construed aa impairing or affecting any right then existing under the constitution con-stitution and laws to question, by proceedings pro-ceedings m the judicial courts of the United States, the right or title oi himself and Mr. Wheeler, if any such right at that time existed. The president pres-ident admitted that Mr. Tilden's only remedy at present was by a writ of mm warranto, and such a writ was a prerogative writ and not obtainable as a matter of right, but only in the discretion dis-cretion of the court, and he doubted whether any court would grant it. The president bIbo concedea the power of congress to pass a retroactive law to provide other means of testing the title to the presidency, aa the office can never be said to be in the paBt, but is always in the present. As to bis impeachment beiDg ordered- by the house, the president has not the remotest idea that such an occurrence is among the possibilities. The president pres-ident is fully alive to the exigencies that may arise and will see to it that public peace is maintained and- the laws enforced, at whatever cost. He proposed to follow the policy already marked nut by bis administration, and Will take no backward step. |