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mt |ttt|enrs ftamdtaler. J, VAN8LYKE, PCBUSHEB. JfoHENRY, ILLINOIS. wn HEWS CONDENSED. THJB IA8T. UNITS® STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEX Bums haa commenced suit in the District Court of Haw York for $150,000 against ex-Gev. Tilden, far alleged non-payment of inoome tax. THE WK8T. THE funeral services of the unidentified victims of the Ashtabula disaster oooamwi in But nlarte last week. Nineteen badim w«r« baried in one grave.... Hi© clergy of Ashta­ bula, assisted by two Episcopal ministers from Cleveland, held Joint services with the Ma­ sonic order at the gray®. Three bodies still remain in the vault in the hope that their friends may be able to identify them by pieces rf clinging changing to them. THE long drought in California haa beeneuv ooaiT -.T b> copious rains, there an cheerful reports of the crop prospects from all parts of the Stale Chicago papers annonnoe the fail- are of W. B, Keen, Cooke & Co., on® of the eldest book firms in the city... .Charles Collins, Chief Engineer of the Lake Shore and Michigan Boothem railroad, committed suicide at. Cleve­ land. a row days »£©. Mora or leas blame for (he Ashtabula disaster had boon placed at his hands, and it is supposed that the weight of eensuxe which he felt aura the public laid upon Mm led him to commit the tragic deed* A BEFOBT reaches Sioux City thai a train coming out of the Black Hills was reoently eaptured by Crazy Hone's band of Indians, and that twenty men who were with the train were massacred. CHICAGO elevators, as per offioial returns, contain 3,536,733 bushels of wheat; 2,051,000 bushels of oOrn ; 641,306 bushels of oats ; 234,- 946 bushels of rye, and 1,080,496 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 7,545 471 bush­ els, against 4,551,427 bushels at this period last year. DETECTIVE JAKES BBOOKS, of the Govern­ ment Secret Bervioe, who has been for some time diligently pursuing the manufacturers and shovera of the queer m the West, has Just made a rich haul in Cincinnati. Over 100 finely-executed plates were captnred. Among them were plates for the manufacture of $10 rates on the banks at Richmond, Lafayette and Mnncie, Ind. He also recovered 40.000 50 -cent pieces. These pieces so closely re­ sembled the genuine that none but experts oould distinguish the difference between them. BOB SOOTH. * HON. GEOBQE WEIXS, for the past fifty years President of the Farmers1 and Planters1 Bank of Annapolis, Md., is a defaulter in the sum of $65,000. , THE lower house of the Florida Legislature has passed an act to declare and establish the appointment by the State of Florida of elec­ tors for President and Vice President Three men were killed and several dangerous­ ly wounded, near Little Book, Ark., a few days ago, by the explosion of a boiler in a shingle factory. POUTIOAT. ALTO SANDEBS has been elected by the Ne­ braska Legislature to sucoeed Mr. Hitchoock in the United States Senate. THE Tennessee Legislature, on the 73d bal­ lot, elected James G. Bailey to the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Andrew Johnson The Legislature of Massachusetts has chosen George F. Hoar as the successor of Mr. Bout well in the Senate from that State. IT is said that the method of selecting the Supreme Court wing of the Presidential tri­ bunal appears to have been one of the most difficult problems to s»lve satisfactorily with whioh the joint committees found themselves confronted. It was known or supposed/sa.is a Washington correspondent, that Justices C.if- ford and Field had supported Tilden and Hen­ dricks at the last election. It was also known and believed that the other Justices, with the exception of Davie, had supported Hayes and Wheeler. The position of Justice Davis, so far as political bi<i% was concerned, was the subject of much discussion and doubt. The Republicans generally regarded Mm as a Demo­ crat, and the Democrats considered him an in­ dependent Repubkcan with Democratic pro­ clivities. If the five senior Justices were taken the commission would consist of Clifford, 8 wayne. Miller, Davis and Field. It was cla med thai, while this should be regarded as eminehtly fair, it did not suit the Republicans, who be­ lieve that what chances of bias there were were against them. Finally the geographical idea was suggested; and further, that it would hardly be fair to take Justices in the Statts in which the candidates resided. The Chief Jus­ tice and Justice 8 wayne reside in Ohio, and Justice Hunt in New York. It was then pro­ posed that Justices Clifford and bwayne be taken, and that these should ehocto two others, •ttd that the four thus chosen should select tie fifth. This did not Buit all around, anu the proposition ensued that Justice Clifford, -who ie the senior Justioe, and who residbg in Maine should be taken as one, Justice Strong, who resides in Philadelphia, and Justice Miller, who lives in Iowa and Justice Field, of Cali forma, as the three otherB, and these four should name the fifth member of the tribunal. Ibis proposition was at last accepted, and it is regarded probable that the fifth member to be chosen will be Justice Swayne or Davis. JOHN R. MCPHERSON, Democrat, has been sleeted to succeed Mr. Frelioghuysen in the United States Senate from New Jersey. J. W. LAZWELL, one of the Oregon Demo­ cratic candidates for Presidential Electors at the late election, testified before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections last week. He went to the meeting of the Oregon Electoral Committee, because he understood ,e Publican electors were going to take the electoral certificates from Cronin by force. Witness understood Secretary of Htate Chad- tnck to say, as he handed the envelope con­ taining the certificates of the electors to Cro- Sr v _!»t? <^ne" £ere are your certificates." kfard the Republican electors ask Cronin for their certificate, and Cronin replied "1 wUl eee hell freeze over before I will give them up." , WASHINGTON. I GEN. ANDERSON and ex-Gov. Wells, of the Louisiana Returning Board, arrived in Wash- ^her dfty< and were immediately 7 I f- ^geant-at-Arms of the House . officer of the House left the same daj for New Orleans to bring £Cf88anave» the remaining members Of the board, to the bar of the House. CHARLES FISHEB, who was recently con­ victed of purloining papers from the office of the District Attorney, in the District of Colum­ bia, and subsequently pardoned and conveyed by his friends to the lunatic asylum, has made Ms escape from that institution. THE breaking up of the ice in the Potcmac, last week, did considertble damage. Several schooners and tugs were sunk and the wharves at Washington sustained serious injury. A WASHINGTON dispatch says the Pre»ident has expressed his intention of signing the bill providing for counting the electoral vote, in case it passes both houses of Congress. THE Washington Chronicle has suspended publication The State Department has re- oeived notice that the German Government has determined to abolish what are called the honorary Consulates in the United State*, and to establish and maintain no consulates henoe- forth except those to which a fited salary is attached Beverly Nash (colored) a JXayee ©lector in South Carolina at the reoent ©lection, testified before the Senate South Carolina Investigating Com­ mittee, the other day. that he was offered $40,000 by one Ohilds, a banker of Columbia, to east his vote for Tilden in the electoral col­ lage. Child* denies the story, and says Nasb manufactured it out of whole cloth. THS House Judiciary Committee have unan­ imously resolved that artiolss of impeach­ ment oqght to .be preferred against George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy--The House Sergeant-at-Arms arrived at Washing­ ton from New Orleans last week, having in charge Cassanave and Kenner, members of the Returning Board. A WASHMWTOH telegram of the24thsays: " President Grant gives neither side comfort in Louisiana. He again declares that he in­ tends to make no final decision until all the ev donee is before him, and until the reports of the Southern committees have been presented to and considered by Congress. He is weary of the eternal row."... .Gen. Belkuap, who nas been waiting in Washington ten months for trial sinoe his indictment, haa aidresaed a letter to the District Attorney, inform­ ing him that he should apply directly to the Court for an immediate trial The House has practically decided to act unfa­ vorably upon all bills which propose to repeal taxation. A bill providing for the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State banks, reported adversely from the Banking and Currency Committee, has been tabled..... Action was taken in the House the other day which will probably result in preventing the Texas Pacific Railroad bill from seeing daylight again during the present session. The bill was reterred to the committee of the whole, and a two-thirds vote will be necessary to get it before the House again. THE Secretary of the Treasiary to-day issued the thirty-eighth call for the redemption of $10,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The principal and interest will be paid on and after the 24th of April next, and interest will cease on that day. The fol­ lowing are the descriptions of the bonds: Coupon bonds, $100, Nos. 21.351 to 25,508, both inclusive; $500, Nos. 26.701 to 31,500, both inclusive ; 41,000. Nos. 62,401 to 70,550, both inclusive : total, $2,000,000. Registered, bonds, $50, Nos. 301 to 400, both inclusive; $100, Nos. 4,501 to 5,300, both inclusive ; $500, Nos. 3.251 to 3.600, both inclusive; $1,000, Nos. 12,001 to 13,350, both inclusive ; $5,000, Nos. 4,751 te 5,100, both inclusive; $10,000, Nos. 8,201 to 9,300 ; total, $3,000,000. QKMKRAIh THE President haa given his reasons for not upholding the Packard Government and dis­ persing the Nicholls Government in Louisiana. He referred to his experience in the prompt recognition of the Kellogg Government three years ago, and to the fact that he was not sus­ tained by the Republican Senate or the Repub­ lican party at large, and said that this experi­ ence had suggested to him the propriety of proceeding with greater deliberation and cau­ tion in the present instance. RECENT commercial failures: Michigan Salt and Lumber Company, Saginaw, Mich.; Key­ stone Burial Case Company, Sterling, 111., lia­ bilities, $300,000; L. J. Bigger, packer, Kansas City, Mo., $500,000 ; J. B. Caya & Co., Mont­ real, boots and shoes, $80,000 ; Warren Manu­ facturing Company, Warren, Me., woolens, $150,000....A serious war has broken out in Pennsylvania between the Atlantic and Pacific and Western Union Telegraph Companies, and the employes of the letter corporation have been amusing themselves by cutting down the poles,, and destroying fche ^Ires of the Atlantic and Pacific. FOREIGN. AT a meeting of the Grand Council of the Ottoman Empire, at Constantinople, on the 18th of January, the proposals of the confer­ ence were unanimously rejected amid shouts of " Death before dishonor!11 There is no opening for counter proposals, or for a re­ newal of the negotiations in any form; the conference has announced its ultimatum, and the Porte will have none of it. Turkey has decided to defy all Europe, and it remains to be seen what all Europe, more particularly Russia, proposes to do about it. THE feeling in London seems to be that Turkey must paddle her own canoe henceforth, without relying upon Englan .̂ The Timet t Hhlnks the peace may be maintained, notwith­ standing the failure of the conference.... Cuban advices state that two important en­ gagements have recently been fought on the island, the patriots coining off victorious in both affairs The rinderpest has again broken out in Europe. A BERLIN dispatch says Russia is beginning to represent to the powers that, the demands of the conference having been rejected, it de­ volves upon Europe to take more forcible pro­ ceedings. Should Europe, as is certain, find it impossible to agree cn joint action, Russia will be able to declare that the failure of the conference is the defeat of Europe, not of Russia AFTER the formal dissolution of the confer­ ence at Constantinople, the Russian represent­ ative, Gen. Ignatieff, publicly declared that if Turkey should disregard the armistice or take any action hostile to Montenegro ard Servia, or if the Christian inhabitants of Turkey should be subjected to anv hardships, Europe would treat such proceed­ ings as provocations, and would consider what course ought to be adopted....Travel on the railway between Shanghai and Woo«ung, China, is stopped by native mobs," the rails ob­ structed and the workmen assaulted. The Chinese dislike to all material improvements is the cause of the disturbance. RUSSIA, according to a cable dispatch, is con aidering the feasibility of an internal loan of 200,000,000 roubles ($160,000,000). Russia is but little better off, financially, than Turkey, but on account of the extent and resources of the empire, and the faith of the people in their Cz*r and their hatred of the Turk, there will probably be no difficulty in raising the amount, even without the aid of foreign capitalists.... A cable dispatch reports that the Turkish Am­ bassador has given Austria assurances that the Porte intends to make peace with Bar via and Montenegro Another colliery disaster has occurred in EugJand, causing the death of fif­ teen or twenty miners. AUSTRIA declines the Porte's request te medi­ ate between Turkey and Servia and Montene­ gro, because she is averse to taking singly such a step, but advises the Porte to treat directly with the principalities Advices from San Domingo state that President Baez has ndopted conciliatory measures, neituer executing, im­ prisoning or banishing political antagonists. ... .The Sultan of Turkey proposes to import a lot of fiuauc ers from England, and intrust to them the business of reconstructing the de­ moralized fiscal affairs of hia empire.... The policy of Servia is still undecided. ~ The ultra peace party demand an immediate settlement with Turkey. Their opponents urge delay. FORIY-FOURTH LOMxKESS. Debate in the House on the Resolution • Ordering: the rrest of the Louisiana Returning Board. Mr. Lynde,Jrom the Judidary Committee, made a report relative to the refusal of Wells, Anderson, Caasanave, and Kenner, members of the Louisiana Returning Board, to produce before the Committee on Elections in Louis­ iana certain papers demanded , by said oom- mittee. The report conc'udes with a resolution di­ recting the Sergeant-at-Arms to take into cus­ tody and bring before the bar of the House the SDove-named gentlemen. Mr. Frye, a member of the Judiciary Com­ mittee, said when that report was agreed to in the oommitteo there was no Republican mem­ ber of the committee present. For his part he regarded the doctrine enunciated in it as a monstrous one. Under it there was no sov- subject to be called before a oommittae of the HOUWR aad compelled to produco Its original records. He held, on the contrary, that Con­ gress had no more to do with the Returning Board of Louisiana than he aa an individual had. It seemed that nothing was sacred from the Democratic investigating committees. Even to>day the oommittee of the Housct was committing the indecency of demanding from the National Republican Committee its whole manner of conducting a national campaign, its whole correspondence, all its telegram*, all its money, collections, etc. He was happy to say, as a member of that committee, that h<i had advised the putting in of everything, let­ ters, telegrams, etc., for he knew perfectly well tliat there wan nothing in them thatwculci indi­ cate fraud in Louisiana, Florida, or South Caro­ lina. He knew that that oommittee believed the Republicans had carried these three States honestly and fairly, and that they would t»e counted for R. B, Ha\es unless the Democrats of viiuee Suiies and of the united states should steal by fraud the votes of those S'atec. Be hoped that the galleries would not help the Democratic side of the House in this rtebcte. Mr. Luttrel!--I do not think the gentleman has tbe right to charge the DmwwrMlfl party with stealing when his Republican^ committees robbed the poor orphans and widows in the de­ partments to carry on the campaign. Mr. Frye--I did not knew when I gave the gentleman from California liberty to ask a question that he wanted to interject a little cexagcgiofil stump speech that would meet the applause of ths galleries on that side. Mr. Luttrell- -Do you denv that it is so ? You were on the Republican N&tionel Committee and you know that the poor widows and or­ phans of the departments were made to pay for the campeign. Mr. * rye--There is a oommittee of members of the House--intelligent members of the House--which is investigating . hat very sub­ ject. The committee ml! find out and answer the gentleman shortly. Mr. Luttrel I attempted to make another re­ mark, but. was informed by the Speaker that the gentleman from Maine was entitled to the floor. " Well, sir," said Mr. Luttrel], "he bull- dosed them." Mr. Frye declared that the Republican Com­ mittee had never assessed, demanded, or ashed contributions from such people as Mr. Luttrel I had described. On the oontrary, it had sent out a very polite request to the gentlemen who were commissioned by the President and confirmed by the Senate to help to run the campaign. Mr. Luttrell--Was it not understood that every one who declined to pay an assessment should be discharged ? Mr. Frye---It w»s not so understood and there never was a man asked twice for a con­ tribution. Mr. Luttrell--Because if he refused he was discharged. Mr. Frye--And there never was a sugges­ tion that anybody should be punished for re­ fusing to make a contribution, and there never was any contribution whatever to the Repub­ lican National Committee from the department clerks. Mr. Cox, of New York, said that he would not follow the argument of the gentleman from Maine, which had been sufficiently an­ swered by the badinage of the gentleman from California and by the ironical cheers of the galleries. The point before the House was simply whether the authority of the House should be disregarded by the Returning Board of Louisiana. Mr. Kasson argued against the resolution because it wouM establish a precedent that a committee of the House could summon the -Governor of a State to bring before it the pa­ pers of his office, and could bring that high official before the bar of the House, degrading him by asking him to stand at the bar and an­ swer for contempt- Mr. Hooker said that he would not follow - the example of the gentleman from Maine (Frye) in seeking to avoid an l evade the plain, simple proposition submitted by the report of the Judiciary Committee by stating with the emphasis which that gentleman did that he be­ hoved that for a series of years a great body of citizens of Louisiana had determined to deny the right of suffrage to a oertain class whioh was entitled to it. What was there that surrounded the Returning Boa rd of Louisiana with a sanctity which prevented it from giving to the committee of the House information as to whether there had been an hoBBst vote in that State ? Should it be sa^^MHta^etmrn- inftBoard had power t« clflHMpajK m»m this or that parish and that there wis no power which could investigate whether it had legally done so ? Mr. Garfield argued that the provisions of the constitution in regard to the Presidential election were imperative, and loft no time or authority for a contest, and he challenged the naming of any statesman who had ever claimed' that Congress had the power (within the five limitations mentioned by him) to go inside of a State to look at the vote. If the votes of one State wore examined, the votes of all States might be, and thus an election of Presi­ dent might be at any time rendered impossible. He appealed to the Demooratic side of the House to pause before it committed this act of assault and destruction on whatever there was of sovereignty in the thirty-eight States of the Union. Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, asked Mr. Garfield why it was that partisan committees had been sent to three Southern States by President Grant. Mr. Garfield--If the galleries will stop their chatter I will answer. The gentlemen who went to Louisiana at the request of the Presi­ dent went there only as invited witnesses, and on our arrival TCO •wore ssked by a Democratic committee to join them in helDing to secure a count of all the votes actually cast. We an­ swered that we were not there to secure any­ thing, but least of all were we there to direct any body in Louisiana to violate the laws of that State. That was their business, not ours. Mr. Davis--By what authority did tbe Presi­ dent invite them there ? Mr. Garfield--If the gentleman needs to know by what authority an American citizan travels anywhere in tne United States, he will learn the authority by which I for one, went to Louisiana. Mr. Davis--Why was it that four years ago your party threw out the electoral votes of sev­ eral Stateis ? Mr. Wood, of New York regretted that the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) had seen fit to close an otherwise admirable argument by a me* e partisan allusion which was entirely un­ necessary to the discussion of the present mat­ ter. Ho wanted no partisan influence or re­ flection to enter into the discussion; and wanted the question determined on principles higher than party principles. He held that the States had not the sole J power to appoint electors. They had power to appoint them under ^certain restrictions, and it necessarily followed that it devolved on Congress to ascer­ tain whether that power had been executed in accordance with law. The constitution placed certain limits on tbe States, not on Congress, as the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) main­ tained. Mr. Lawrence proceeded to argue against the resolution, and in the course of toe dis­ cussion he was met with suggestions about the interfere jce with the State authorities in the Oregon case. In response to these suggestions Mr. Garfield expressed his hope that if there was no right to inquire into that fraud without violating the constitution of Oregon, Mr. Til­ den would be counted in. The previou-i question was then seconded, and the resolution went over. Regular Proceedings. THURSDAY, Jan. 18.--Senate.--Mr. Edmunds, from the epecial committee appointed to devise meana for counting the electoral vote, submitted a report in writing, accompanied by a bill The report, he WM happy to say, was Signed by all tne members of both committee*, with one exception. The committee was of the opinion that the meas- urj they recommended was not what conld be called a compromise, but it wan a measure of jus­ tice, and in aid of constitutional Government So on" would have the righttoaay that anybody's views had been fturrend< red lu any respect. Mr Jones, of Florida, presented the petition of the four Demo­ cratic Presidential eleotorn of Florida claiming to have be. n legally elected, and asking that ths electoral vote caet by them for President and Vice President be counted instead of that cast ,b* the electors on the other oide. House.--Mi. Payne, chairman of the oommittee - -- --' on counting the electoral votes, made a concur Igniy W)ywjere in the country that waa n«t (eni report of the two coaunitteea of the House sad Senate, which report having been read it was, on motion of Mr. Payne, recommitted and ordered printed. FRIDAX, Jan. 19.--Senate,--Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, presented resolutions adopted by the Legislature of his State declaring that ths cer­ tificates of electors from the various States are constitutional evidence of votes oast for President and Vice President, and murt be counted The Consular and Diplo­ matic Appropriation bill was passed;... Louisiana was the tneme of another long and lively debate in the Senate, in which Mepsrs. Bogy, of MiRSourl,and Sherman, of Ohio, were the chief participants. The former, in the oouree of his remarks, bitterly as­ sailed the present State Government of Louisiana, and waa loudly cheered by the galleries,whereupon, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the gentlemen's gal­ lery was cleared of spectators. House.- Mr. Hunter, from the Judiciary Oom­ mittee, reported a resolution discharging William Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, from the custody ot the 8ergeant-at- Araw. Adopted without division... J. Madison Wells and Thomas C. Anderson were brought be­ fore the bat of the HoubC to aaswer < or oonleiupi of the privileges of the Houae. Having answered to the question propounded by the Speaker, that they would prefer to postpone their further answer until the remaining members' of the Louisiana Returning Board shall arrive in Washington, the matter was referred 10 the Judiciary Committee.... This waa a f/ala day for tbe female BuffragistH ia the House. By a preconcerted arrangement twenty-five pe­ titions were presented by memltcrs from as many different Btrttt-s in behalf of a sixteenth amendment to the constitution guaranteeing that the franchise shall not be denied in any State on account of sex. SATURDAY, Jan. 20.--Senate.--On motion of Mr. Edmunds, the bill reported by the special com­ mittee in regard to the oonnt of the electoral vote was taken up. Mr. Edmunds proceeded to address tbe Senate at length, in advocacy of the measure. The 1 ollovriciK r.ro some of the point;- mad© by him iu favor of the bill: The purpose of the commis­ sion is to decide what is the electoral vote cf a Mtate. The election of the Congressional pert of the ommission by a viva voce vote renders intrigue Impossible. The commission is large enough to prevent the possibility of corrupt­ ing influences. The Judge? named are chosen ac­ cording to geographical locality. To guard against any caviling, the oath makes partisanship impossi­ ble. The commission is not to decide a policy or determine a future. It is to pass on the irrevoca- blo p & fit. Th0 commission Is to dincovsr what is the paper, If any, which speaks the constitutional views of a State, and how many and what persons were elected electors. The plan, he claimed, holds the scale of justice in absolute equality and gives nothing to either party. The com­ mission is to determine whether the electoral vote was cast according to law. Mr. Edmunds neither affirmed nor denied that the commission had power to go behind the returns. He only said that, if Congress had the right to do this, the commission bad, or would have, and that was one of the ques­ tions submitted to it. Mr. Edmunds affirmed (hat the constitutionality of the bill was without a doubt. He maintained the President of the Sen­ ate has not the right to count the votes. He insisted that by no legal interpretation could it be held that the opening of the vote implied the right to count. Nor was the Vice President a Judge. If that theory is admitted, the monstrous propo­ sition must be conceded that the Vice President can try and determine the case and Anally declare himself President of the United States. He argued that the constitution had been so framed that there is but one provision in it which ex­ ecutes Itself. That related to the capture of slave property. Everv other provision 1b only executed by Congressional regulations. The Presi­ dent is Commander-in-Chief, but every act is regu­ lated by law. i he function* of the judiciary are prescribed by the constitution, yet their procedure is entirely controlled by law. The constitution, which was adapted to all time, was framed so that Congressional legislation could adapt it to the varied emergencies of different generations. He denied the fact emphatically that the precedents show that the President of the Senate has counted the votes. On the contrary, Mr. Edmunds affirmed that, as an arithmetical proposition, he had never even counted one vote, 'l'he tellers were always appoint­ ed, and that from John Langdon to Schuyler Col­ fax the two houses dictated to the presiding officer of the Senate the course he should pursue. House.--The House, In committee of the whole, devoted the day to debate, the speeches taking a wide political range. MONDAY, Jan. 22.--Senate.--Mr. Morton ad­ dressed the Senate in opposition to the Compromise bill in regard to counting the electoral vote. He bitterly assailed the measure, characterizing it as "theproduct of the Mississippi plan," declaring that "the shadow of intimidation had been seen in the Senate chamber." He believed Gov. Hayes had been elected under the forms of law, and that should be be counted in there would no revolution. He ar­ gued in favor of the right of the President of the Senate to count the electoral votes. The President of the Senate did count the vote for seventy-two years ; tellers were mere facilities for making cal­ culations and keeping accounts. They counted what the President > handed them down to count, and fidnrfleg them down the certificates to count was the declaration of the vote. It con­ tinued from 1789 to 1861. Whether the electors were eligible was a matter left with the States un­ der tbe injunctions of the constitution. The hand­ ing down of the certificate by the President of the Senate was a declaration of the vote contained in it. Very few Republicans respect the bill. It will be taken by Republicans, if taken at all, as a dose of castor oil. 8enator Edmunds burned his ships behind him when he denied the power of the President of the Senate to count the voteB in the absence of legislation. He thus seemed to make it a necessity to aocept this bill. Mr. Morton's chief objection to the bill was that it gave the commission power to go behind the returns, and ascertain alone what electors were duly appointed, which he held to be unconsti­ tutional, and regarded, besides, as a change of the existing status in favor of the Democrats. Mr. Frelinghuysen followed Mr. Morton in a written speech in iavor of the bill. He argued In favor of the constitutionality of the measure, and denied that it gave the commission power to go back on the papers submitted to see how'returning boards performed their duties. After Mr. Frelinghuysen took his seat nobody rose to speak. Mr. Ed­ munds wanted to push the bill to a third read­ ing, as no amendments were offered. Mr. Sherman, pleaded for delay. Mr. Mitchell moved to adjourn, and it waa voted down. Mr. Edmunds explained the lecessity of prompt decision for or against the bill. Mr. Sherman wanted the members of the committee to give their views upon it. Mr. Thurman explained that they had done so in their report, and its opponents should now make themselves heard. Mr. Cameron made a brief speech against the bill, denouncing it aa a Democratic affair, got­ ten up by three or four Republicans to gratify their political opponents. Mr. Edmunds finally consented to let the bill go over. House.--Mr. Frye introduced a bill for the trial of contested elections for the offices of President and Vice President. It provides that an election may be contested by any eligible person who bas received the vote for President, and that the court for the trial of such contested election shall consist of the Chief Justice of the 8upreme Court and six Judges of the Circuit or District Courts, to be selected by the Chief Justice. Bills were also introduced by Mr. Caulfield to regulate the disposition of troops in the District of Colum­ bia, and by Mr. 8ay er to reform the civil service. TUESDAY, Jan. 23.--Senate.--The Senate re­ sumed consideration of the bill in regard to count­ ing the electoral vote, and Mr. Sherman spoke in opposition to it. He said it was painful foi him to dissent from the views of men whom he esteemed so highly, but after the brief examination he had given the measure he thought it waa his duty to op­ pose it. The bill was to make a court to decide a case already made up, and there were provisions in It incompatible with tbe constitution. Such a law as this was an evil example, and it could not be sustained under the constitution. Mr. Sherman argued that the bill was unconstitutional, and he particularly op­ posed the clause providing for the selection of five Judges of the Supreme Court as members of the commission. He also opposed tbe measure because it undertook to delegate powers conferred upon Congreas to a commission. tie argued that the bill was intended to apply to a case past, ended and conclud. d, which was therefore uncon­ stitutional. Another feaiure of the bill which violated the spirit of the constitution was that authorizing the appointment of a committee of five members of each house as members of a commis­ sion, not to take depositions aijd report as other committees, but to be be> ond the control of the two houses after being organized. He approved of only one feature of the bill, and that was that neither hous* had the right to reject tne electoral vote of a 8tate. Mr Sherman was followed by Mr. Conkling in a two hours' speech in favor of the bill. Mr. Conkling contended that it was the right and duty of Congress to ascertain and verify the electoral votes, and declare the true result of Presidential elections, or else, by an assertion of the law-making power, to declare how those acts should be done. He denied that the power to count tbe votes was vested in the President of the 8er ate, and said if the constitution gave all the power to one man, it was not easy to a»e now Con­ gress could witness or verify the act. fo o;,en certificates was purely a ministerial act. but to count the votes was something mere. The good certificates mnst be assorted from the bad ones. Mr. Cockling spoke at some length as to the constitu­ tionality of the bill, and asked, did not reason and fitness of things inform the Senate that our fathers intepded ttiut the powpr to vitiate, on the allegation of fraud or irregularity, the electoral vote of a State, and thus turn an election, should not be reposed in one man 7 I'hey knew it would be safer reposed in the American Congress. It was not designed to commit this vast power to one man, especially as that man might be the sole judge in his own case. Mr. Conkling was unable, on ac­ count of illness, to conclude his remarks, and fur­ ther consideration of the bill was postponed one day. er Bourn.--'Ths President sent to the House a mes­ sage explaining his reasons for sending troops to the South just before the recent Presidential elec­ tion. It waa done In response to a resolution adopted in December last The resolutions re­ ported by the Sflect Committee on Privileges, de­ claring that the President of the Senate has not, and that Congress has, the right to count and declare the electoral votes, were taken up. Prof. Seelye secured the floor and delivered a strong speech in support of the Compromise bill. He denounced the report of the Oommittee on Privileges, and warned the House not to indorse a doctrine wbich, he claimed, would result in mak­ ing the Presiaent the creature and the tool of the Honse. As to the methods of the last election and the te»timony taken by both parties iu the South­ ern oommittees, Prof, Seelye said that the only thing that.is established bsyond dispute is, that yboth parties acted as wrongfully as they could, re­ strained by no conscience, by no sense of honor or rectitude. Mr Williams, of Wisconsin, argued in favor ot the eounUnjr of (ho vnt» hr the President of the Senate. He was followed by Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, in a three hours' speech in fa­ vor of the Compromise bill....Mr. Buttz was admit­ ted as a member from South Carolina, and took the iron-clad oath. WEDNESDAY, Jan. Senate.-^Considera­ tion of the bill In regard to the electoral count was resumed. Mr. Conkling, who was entitled to the floor, not being present, Mr. Sargent took the floor and spoke in opposition to the bill. He said he did not believe the measure would accomplish the re­ sult aimed at. There were suspicions of unfair­ ness about it; it gave improper powers to the tri­ bunal which it created. He argued that the fram- ers of the constitution never intended to delegate to Congress the power to count the electoral vote or discriminate between the returns; that function, he claimed, was lodged In the President of the Sen- ale. Mr. Sargent further opposed the tali because, as he claimed, Is depraved the Snprome Court by bringing the j udges down into the muddy pool of poll I.e.-?, and compelled them to wade through it. At the conclusion of Mr. Sargent's speech. Mr. Conk­ ling took the floor and resumed his remarks. He argued that in no instance had the President of the Senate attempted to do anything in presiding over the joint convention to count the electoral vote except by command of the two houses, and cited numerous precedents and authorities to sustain his position. Referring to Mr. Morton's assertion that the bill was a political contrivance, he said if there ever was a "contrivance5 it was the bill whioh passed at the last session ; it was "a political Uell-^aie, paved and honeycombed with dynamite." Mr. Conkling said he believed Gov. liayes had been elected, but be asked him to take a title to the great office which no one conld question. If thiB bill wai a compromise of truth, of law, or of right, he was against it; but he denied that It was any compromise, and, above all, it did not compromise right, principle or constitution. To contest a claim was not to compromise it. To insist upon an honest, fair counting of the electoral vete was not a compromise. A Presi­ dential election had occurred, aod unless there was a tie somebody had been chosen. To establish that fact was no compromise. Mr. Conkling was followed by Mr. Morton lu a vigorous speech In opposition to the bill. Messrs. Bayard, Chris- tiancy, Thurman, Stevenson and Morrill all spoke in favor of the measure, and Mr, Morton again secured the floor, and, at X o'clock a. in., began his third speech against the bill. At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Blaine secured lhe recog­ nition of the presiding officer, and spoke in opposition to the bill. He did not believe Con­ gress possessed the powers which it was proposed to transfer to the commission, and therefore op- Eosed it on constitutional grounds. In conclusion e urged upon Congress to prepare at the present session and submit to an expectant people a consti­ tutional amendment which would relieve the coun­ try in future from similar difficulties. Mr. Howe succeeded Mr. Blaine at 1:05 o'clock in the morn­ ing (the Senate, by a large majority, having repeat­ edly voted down mottons to adjourn), aud began by denouncing Mr. Morton's intemperate asper­ sions. He expressed the nope that the measure would receive a unanimous vote from the Republi­ can party in the two houses. Hotute.--Consideration was resumed of the reso­ lutions reported by the Oommittee on Privileges, and Mr. McDill, of Iowa, took the floor, and spoke In favor of the resolutions suomitted by the minority of the committee. He said if the propo­ sition of the majority was true, that no vote could be counted without the consent of the House. It would give the House a practical veto power over every election by the people. He was followed by Mr. Bright, who took the opposite ground. He maintained that the constitution gave congress con­ trol of the whole subject, and that no Returning Board could oust Congress of its jurisdiction.... Mr. Payne, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported a bill to amend existing laws in regard to National gold banks Mr. Lamar, from the Pacific railroad committee, reported back favor­ ably the Senate bill extending for eight years,the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific railroad .. Mr. Lamar also, from the same committee, reported supplemenlary to and amendatory of the Texas Pacific Railroad bill of March 3,1871. Mr. Kasson made a minority report and Mr. Landers offered a substitute. All were ordered printed and referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union....The message of the President in regard to the use of troops in the South at the late election, was, after a spirited partisan debate, referred to a select committee of eleven to inquire whether there had been an exercise of authority not warranted by the constitution aud laws in the use of troops for which the President is justly responsible, with power to send for persons aud parties. GOVERNORS' MESSAGES. Finances ot the States--Executive Recom­ mendations, Etc. • The aspect of State Government, judging from the,ten or of Governors' messages--some two dozen of whioh are before us--is exceed­ ingly bright. The Western States have al­ most universally paid up their State debt*, or made them permanent and called them school funds. Indiana--Indiana has no debt worth speak­ ing of, and gets along with a revenue for State purposes of about $1,250,000. The common­ wealth needs a new State House. Michigan.--The State Government of Michi­ gan'is run for about $2,000,000 a year. The taxable property is returned at $630,000,000. Gov. Bagley is anxious that the $5,000,000 ex­ pended for schools shall be made more practical­ ly effective in behalf of productive industry. The State has a new and beautiful oapitol building in course of erection. Minnesota.--Gov. Pillsbory, of Minnesota, reports that 1,350,000 forest trees were plant­ ed in that State on the last " arbor day," and from seven to ten million tr cs during the year, and expresses regret that a change of management in the St. Paul and Pacific rail­ road has suspended the tree-planting on that road. He warns the agricultural interest of the State to diversify their industry, and not place so much dependence on wheat He also appeals to the Legislature to pay the dishonored railroad bonds of the State. Arkansas.--Gov. Garland reports the debt of Arkansas at $17,620,362. He recommends the inauguration of an immigration bureau, the aiding of the public schools and the adop­ tion of a system of railroad taxation. West Virginia,--Gov. Jaoobs makaa some excellent suggestions for further eoonomy in conducting the affairs of the State. The re­ ceipts from all sources, including balances on hand, for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1876. were $890,454.13, against $829,791.58 for the year ending Sept. 30, 1875, an increase of £<60, 682.55. Disbursements for the former period were $682,891.48, against $576,151.97 for the latter, an increase of $106,719 51. Balance on baud Oct. 1, 1874, $282,365.12; same date 1876, $207,562.65. Rhode Island.--The finanoes of "Little Rhody," according to the message of Gov. Lippett, are in a healthy condition. The esti­ mated reoeipts during the fiscal year are $555 000; pavment«. $350 000; estimated bal­ ance on April 1. $801 877; amount actually in the treasury Jan. 7, 1877, $296,442 83. The bonded d -bt of the State amounts to $2,- 182 754 10 Wisconsin. -- Gov. Ludington's message shows the entire treasury receipts for the fisoal year ending September, 1876, $1,976,074; dis­ bursements during the same period, $1,660,- 207; balance, $315,866 against last year's bal­ ance of $278,000. Of the trust funds there is in the school fund, $2 620,798; university fund, $222 735; normal school, $963,917; agri­ cultural, $238,479; total State debt, $2,252,057. Mississippi --Gov. Powers, in his message, congratulates the Legislature and people upon the flattering financial oondition of the State. The t< til indebtedness of the State, proper, is $1 100,605 22. Kansas.--Gov. Anthony refers to the rapid rapid growth and development of the 8tate. N early 16,000,000 bushels of wheat and over 20,000,000 bushels of oora were produced last year. There are 9,900 school-houses iu the State, built at a cost of $2,500,000, and a per* manent school fund of $230,000. - Tennessee.--Gov. Porter reoommends a ootB- promise of the State debt, and the appoint­ ment of a oommittee to meet the creditors of the State in New York city, with a view to ar- arranging a basis of compromise. The way ia- 1 thus clearly open to an honorable adjustment* when overtures of this kind come from the creditors themselves, without, the State being subjected to the imputation of looking to a final repudiation of her obligations. Massachusetts.--Gov. Rice Bays the net re­ duction of the State debt dmingj&p year i-w been $336,000, and that unless the debt is in- creased by special legislative grants, a State tax of $1,400,000 will be sufficient to meet all expenses. He advises teat extraordinary ex­ penses be delayed on account of the largo falling off in real and personal property. Maine.--Gov. Connor, of Maine, eays in hie message that the Ktate debt amounts to $5,- 129,107, after deducting the sinking fund of $791,293.81; the substitution of imprisonment lif® for t,ie death penalty has not baen fallowed by any increase of crime; the deposits in the sixty savings banks of the State amounted on the 6th of November last to $27,818,764.70 - four savings banks have become insolvent in the last year and three have suspended. Pennsylvania.--Gov. Hartranft recommenda a law for regulating savings tanks, and prevent­ ing them from becoming banks of discount. The public debt of the St&te is now $18,924,039.77. The Governor epeaks approvingly of the schools and of industrial «rf H* adyioa: the better organization of a State system for the suppression of lawlessness, and an examina- tion of the laws relating to the safety of thea­ ters and public buildings. Ohio.-- From Gov. Hayes' nummary of the financial condition cf Ohio it appears that while the indebtedness of the State has been reduoed by nearly $1,500,000 during the pa*t year, the indebtedness of J the cities and incorporated TIllAtfM l i f t * h«Mm innraBU«/l V- . c -- -- m a w i . v o u t A A u f a u x j i o t nun $10,000,000. Gov. Hayea thinks that the adop­ tion of what may be called the oaeh system in local affairs will be followed by reduced debte and wholesome reforms. The two most im­ portant recommendations contained in the message relate to the elective franchise. It is suggested that amendments to the eleotion laws of the State be adopted providii% for the registration of all voters, and that the consti­ tution be so amended that in Presidential years the State and national elections will be it old upon the same day. ^ Illinois.--From Gov. Beveridge's message we gather the following details of the con­ dition of the State debt of IllinoisBonded debt, Dec. 1, 1874. $1,730,972 ; paid up to De­ cember, 1876, $250,371 ; unpaid, $1,480,601. Of this debt, $35,000 is payable after 1876, $1,163,164 after 1877, and the remainder after 1879 ; $22,000 are due on bonds due but not .presented. There has been no tax levied for several years to pay either interest or princi­ pal, the money for that purpose being ob­ tained from the Illinois Central railroad fund. The State is thus practically free of debt, as it has been for some years. The Governor es­ timates that the revenue for State purposes for 1877 and 1878 will be $1,500,ft00 each year. This does not include the $1,000,000 annuallv levied for school purposes. New York.--In his farewell message, Gov. Tilden, referring to the aims of his administra­ tion, said: "Tbe standard of official conduct has been elevated, aud with it the ideas, mo­ tives, and influences whioh surround official lifo as with an atmosphere. The public sus­ picion of Legislative voijality is disappearing, and the lobbies are disbanded. The ohief ex­ ecutive and administrative trusts of the State have been committed to gentlemen who are eminent not only for personal probity, but for capacity and Iiigh ideals of ofiicituduty. A genuine reform in oivil service has thus been realized." Connecticut.--From Gov. Ingersoll's message we learn that the funded debt of Connecticut amounts to $5,014,500. He reoommends that measures be set on foot looking to economic reforms in all the departments of the State Government, and enjoins upon the Legislature the duty of keeping a vigilant watch over savings banks, insuranoe oompanies and rail­ roads. . • North Carolina.--Gov. Vance, ef North Car­ olina, in his inaugural message, makes this ref­ erence to national affairs: "As the month piece of more than a million people, I be'ieve I can with propriety say for them that North Caro­ lina may confidently be relied upon to sustain that portion of the people of the United St ates which Khali convince them that it is struggling for the constitution, the laws, and public jus­ tice, which are the life and the soul of the American Union." Louisiana.--Gov. Kellogg says the total consolidated interest-bearing debt of the State, when funding is completed, exclusive of inter­ est coupons due prior to January, 1874, and interest warrants issued therefor, will amount in all to $11,855,922. The crops made in the State during the present year are computed at 450,000 bales of cotton, 186,000 hogsheads of sugar, 364,000 barrels of molasses, and 270,000 barrels of rye, with more than sufficient corn to supply all home demands. 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