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Show CONGRESSIONAL. IlOI'hK. Washington, Mav 1 Representative Ewart, of North Carolina, yesterday iutroduccd in the house "by request," a congressional election bill. It provides congressional elections shall Im held iu the manner prescribed in tho hotly of tho bill and under direction of the state legislature. Presidential electors elec-tors may bo chosen at the same election. elec-tion. The district courts are required to appoint registrars of election in each district. Eacli ballot to bo enclosed ill an envelope mraked with a number to correspond with a number on the poll llstnnu bo delivered to one of the board of poll holders who shall deiioslt it in the box. At tho conclusion of the election, elec-tion, the poll list shall bo delivered to the clerk of tho district court and tho ballot counted preserved Iu the original envelopes by a board of poll holders during registration. The registrar regis-trar and poll holders aro given police power to arrest without warrants offenders or disorderly pers'ms. Tho boundaries of congressional districts remain as they were on the first Tuesday Tues-day of November, IBM, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing any subsequent aet of state legislature. |