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Show TELEGRAPHIC Iliiyos Attvmpiiiig fo Iiitcrlcre Willi Hie t'oiir.sc ol Justice? The Jury Hint lu dieted tbe ICvliirulnte Itoard, Now York, 11. A Sun Washington Washing-ton special eaye: Notwithstanding all ibo deuiald which the president hs autliorized I know that ex-Ciov. Brown came her from Philadelphia xprestly to aee the president about the Lou i i mi a matter. He ci.mc here at the request of a friend of the president's who went to PUiladelphia to ace MacVeagh and Browa. There were aoine long interviews between Brown and the president and Brown and the postoiester general to day. Brown said on his arrival here that MacVeagli was to meet him here on Htiturday night. Tbo publication ol Brown's arrival and the rumor that MacVeagh was to follow doubtless nrevented the latter from coming. U ia unquestionably true that Unycs lias appealed to Senators (ierdon and Lamar to use their influence with Nioholls to Btop the prosecutions o( Wells and Anderson. A Herald New Orleans special says: The excitemtnt relative to the indicted in-dicted members of the returning board still coutiuues. Pitkin having Hinted that the grand jury which found the bills was entirely demo crutic, the foreman, O'Brien, bin tee that there were only four democratic members out of the sixteen. Ol tbe other twelve our were negroes and the others conservatives and liberals. He also states that the action was taken entirely on their own volition und no prominent politicians appeared ap-peared before the jury until summoned sum-moned as witnesses. Governor Nichols states that he id very Borry that any action haa been taken but still adheres to the determination deter-mination el pardoning the members of the returning buard, if convicted. Foreman O'Brien says that the in dictments were not found upon political politi-cal grounds, but upon evident violations viola-tions of Uw, which they were bound to notice and though the matter may be laughed at by northern politicians full proof will be had to sustain not only these indictments, but others in high quarters. |