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Show A MM) NHINDLKR jortfn B. In his 4'LriHtiua Aluiiie. nml lie i uue ot Kel- New Orleans 12. Reports whioh have bea current of crookedness in the Dorrail-AckJen contest io the 3d congressional district have at last developed into something more definite than rumors. The .United States district attorney has filed a criminal information in the United States oircuit court against George B. Land, charging him . with causing an officer by illegal means to violate bis duty in regard to a certificate as to the true result of the election in the parish of lbeiville, for representative in cougretffl iu the 3J congressional district. It seems according to evidence evi-dence on which the information is based, that George B. Laud was instrumental in-strumental is 1 aving about 1,000 ballots on which was the name of Darral, abstracted from the ballot boxes of the parish of Iberville, and about that number with the name ol Acklin upon them placed in the boxes, thus changing the result of the election. It is claimed that this change was discovered when the bal lots were recountwl under order of the congressional committee to take Leali mouy. Two or three of the parties who it is said assisted in this transaction transac-tion have made a statement of the part which they took in it. Land was, under the Kellogg administration, administra-tion, district superintendent of educa tion. |