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Show THE PEE3IDESTIAL SITUATION. othirig can be definitely settled regarding the disputed election re suit until the investigating committees commit-tees of both bou?Ci now engaged in the disputed southern states shall have completed their labors and reported re-ported their conclusions. It is evident evi-dent that the houa. of repienentativcs and the democratic party will rest their ciee is regard to thoe states on the findings of the house committers. If they should report aa the result of their inveatigitiona that the republican repub-lican candidates had fairly received a majority of the votta ca.it in those states, there is littlo room for doubt that no objections would bo interposed inter-posed to their electoral voten being counted for Hayes and Wheeler. In that case th decision of the presidential presiden-tial issue would hang upon the Oregon technicality, Should Cronin, the democrAtic elector, bo counted in, and according to the republican theory he must bo, as holding tin- governor's certificate, behind which I congress cannot go, TiMen will 1 be elected by a majority of one voto. Should Cronin bo ruled out, however, as there ar some indications that ho might be, there would ha a tie between the two presi-j presi-j dential candidates, and it would do- j volve upon the houso of represeuta i lives to ciiooso a president. The latter I course would be preferable to th- i former. It might bo an unfortunate precedent to declare a president by the vote of a singlo elector who wwi n minority cmidid.ite; but (or the republican parly to inako ft preiident by tho vote of this ineligible Oregon elector would bo a still yrr-iter mis- j fortune, epeci;illy as Mr. Tilden ro tjiverl a Urgo majority of the popiil.tr voto of tho country, which fuet rnu'l be luken into neco'int in deciding thn case ( .-fjuiUbly, nt it mint bo decided if a fair and peaceable solution in reached. Hull, if the democratic committer's should feel obliged a ennede the electoral vote of Imii-jaf Imii-jaf , Florida and South Carolina bh really given to Hayes, the case would Ihmi prtRCnt ft now phase, and the issue might be regarded as relieved from its most embarrassing features. A great , many democrats who will stand by Tildeuto the last in defense of his rights against any republican conspiracy to count him out in Louisiana Lou-isiana might not strenuously defeud the use of the Oregon technicality, or insist that that alone should give liiiu his scat. On tho other hand, should the ofheial investigation in one or more of the disputed southern states confirm con-firm the reports that n majority of the peoplo of those- Btates, or either of them, had voted for Mr. Tilden, it would be the plain duty of the house of representatives to staud by this verdict and insist that it should he carried out by congress, and that the i htul president should be declarod. Further than this the house could not go, for its official life terminates on llin JlU fl.io- r.f AlarMi iitvf Tt. a uiu iui utiy ui luurcu ueii, ii. is none of its business to inaugurate the now president; it has only to fulfil its constitutional functions, of which it is the solo judge. The senate will probably he called together in special sission on the 4th of March, but it has no legislative functions. If Sen. Grant were au independent and impartial chief magistrate, instead of a tool of the republican party, he would call an extra Bession ot the forty-fifth congress for the same time; but as the house has a democratic majority its presence will probably not be required in Washington before the opening of iLj regular session m December next. In the meantime Grant openly expresses ex-presses his belief that Hayes has been elected president, and will be so declared de-clared by the presiding officer of the senate, and that he (Grant) will see ihat he is inaugurated. Troops havo been stationed at the capital to carry out this programme, and the repub-lican repub-lican leaders insist that no obstacles will b permitted to interfere with the inauguration of their candidate. Sboukl the joint congressional convention con-vention on the 14th of February uie agree in counting the votes and declaring the president, and should the president of the senate pro- i - t-.: f ir. t.t claim the election of Mr. Hayes, j while the house should choose Mr. ; Tilden, according to present appearances appear-ances the spectacle would berxhibittd of the outgoing president of the United States deciding between the two candidates for the presidency and seating Mr. Hayes in opposition to the will of the peopla and to the popular branch of congress. It U needless to say that such an act would constitute ft revolutionary usurpation that nothing short of a great exhibition of popular indignation indigna-tion couli prevent being consummated. consum-mated. Vi'o have yet some faith in the people and believe they would rally to save their government from such a fate; but if tho great conspiracy conspi-racy of tho republican leaders to hold the government is not now crushed tho democrats will htr9after have to trust to tho grace rather than tho justice of the usurpers fur the enjoy I mcnt of any pjluic! rights whatever. The only alternative to this Btale of I flairs U for the p?opl9 to see that : Mr. Tilden is inaugurated president ot the United SuttM, if ho shall tc declared fairly elected. |