Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1877, Page 1

The hicage Dailp Teibmne, VOLUME XXXI. - & CO, Have, USDER COVER, nli slzes of their superior LACKAWANNA COAL Which they can deliver clean and free from snow O eterate and retall, ot lowest markot ratee. Atso Briar Hill, -Main Office: 97 WASIIING_’I‘ON;%!‘: SECOND-IIAND PIANOS. A N A e AAAARAA 24 AND PIANOS. We are making & change In aur_stnek o, and are aelling off n Jarge sto pients at prices ranging from 812 e 21 Tash: rematnder €10 (0 &:x) mon(ily. Written war,aui \Wiih every Pisno, and priviiege nf Sxchange for s new e AL Any 1ime, - Pirchacrs il aexee e o hetter Spportunfcy, an thesn Pinyos most and will be sold et oy cost KEED'S TEMPLE OF MESIC, W3 Van Tured-at, renting 1'1- f the - FINAL NOTICE. T heteby notify all pereons, compantes, and cor- rationd, who are assckerd in tho TOWN OF g’ill(’l‘ll CHICAQO, far the Personal I'ro of 1876, and who have thua far neglected ta pay, that 1 will now, by authority of my wsrrant, and under Scc. 160, fevenne Law, rollect the same, '”@i{“flfé"‘f“fi'?""" ma nninnle. .bhyl DISTRE! ASD SALE of thelr property within this county, + pCIfi'(laTlAN TEMPEL, ’ Feb. 1, 877, Collectar Nogth Chicago, ico st County Treasury, corner Dearbor- and Ilinofs-st. PROPOSALS. CONVICT LABOR. ILL1X018 STATE PEXITENTIARY, CoNMIBITN ERR® OPPICK, JOLIKT, JAN. 121677, Eealed proposals wiil be recelved undenigned Cotnmissioners of (YLB Hilinols State itentiary up to 20'cloc! T ., Feb. 13, 1877, for the Labor ‘of Ono Hundred (1003 Conyicts. Th ic+bodied snd adapted to most sany ¢ rtion of them have heen working with knitting-machines, Ample shop rootn and steam- Corhracts to fon matdonger than elEht years. un not Jonger than ars. A rarorals must be sccompantta. ty & kood and suMclent bond, enrdlllon?d that contract and bond vl it nials prove v RW. MECLA thin undersigned, or GHJLY, Warden at tho Prison, WObDBURY 3. TAVLOT, Jous M souTWoITI HROBERT D, NOLEMAR, Commissioncrs J}iinols 8lais Prison. FIIM CIANGES. NEW FIRDM. orriczor l:t:.vlr: r(')'&"lylb"l Ill:'%n. Coue ; ‘00, ¥eb, 1, 1877, TO TNIE FUN LICs We have this ;-y dlacontinued the busincst of Bteam Warming and Oleneral Bteam FIGHInE, A AP Buceeeq: et by 3icasvs. iy & Lrentice, wha will Compirse alt ezlsting contracte, and continue the erection of 1m- Droved Steat WAFMIDK AbpIratue Feferred 1o have, bean Sonhected with this Company TS0y Yeura i e hecrfally reconmiend them 1o B et W p0f SIEN SRtTANARE o Eun: 4 A e PPN, rrestgent. Having ihis day succeeded the Steam Warming Do+ partments of Crane Tirothers Manti, Ca we wi contin: §s'ihe buaincds ‘or"Wariming and Veoilisiing Fublic Hoidings Privaie e i and eaurs fte FOR%, and oUhers who &1 10 WANC.OF Arxi-einss WOF AY & PHENTICE, Nu, 37 Bouth Canal-st. Chicago, Feb. 1, 1877, COPARTNERSHIP, JAMES M. LOVE. is this dsy sdmitted a¢ » partner I the irm o . P, MeL, l“’l.‘{l oo, ineter, N 1he Wistucks Will b CoRTIEUAD Uhder tis. amme.sicle & heretofare. W, Chbicago, Feb. 1, 1877, The underalgned will ¢ nes, in his own naine, merce. Cbicago, Feb. 1, 1877, on the comminsion hust- TN, i Chaniber.of t'om: GO0 We oS i LATEST LAERKRY SEARATI, TWENTY-FIFTH THOUSAND!!! The Barton Experiment. By the Author of ** Ilelen’s Bables," 16mo, Oloth extra, $1.00. Papor, 50 conta, syeulatabwica tho book that Hiclenvs Habient s, and deserves Lo bavo twice tha sale.”-N. Y. Eveniog Slall, ** & work of singular ability."—N, Y. Times, AT AR AT o i e aL wnakes Ty altsaciive, Y= Hpringdeld Union, ! **A very fascicating Mory."~Poughkeeputa Kaglo, *#'A fresh, racy and original book, *~5tar of * Irresiat{bly comical in twany of fts passages.' bany Argus. Iy written thag *llelen's o Dablen ™R o0 4 PUBLISHED BY G. P, PUTNAM'S SONS, 182 Fifth-av., New York And for sale by all Bookeellers, MEAL ESTATE. - Gity Real Hstate for Sals. DEANBORN-AV. . 'botween Huron aud Superlor- tta., cast fronts Sub Lot 4 af Latal, 2, 15, and 3, Block 31, Welcott's Addttlan, 20x70 fect. .Sealed hide will bo rocelved at this ofive untl) 3 o'clock p, m,, ¥ob, 17, 1877, and submiticd to the ity Council for aciton thereon. crma cash, J. A. PARWELL, Comptroller, itbom 3, City Hall, FOR S.ALE. Valuable ¥otel Property at Cape May, N. J. THE STOCKTON HOTEL, tho Jargest. mogt Complels, and popular KA SIDE 1OUSE in a*‘?:‘du. 18 offezed for sale. . Forintortation ad- 233 South Pourthist., Phinadelphta. OPTICAL IN MANANSE, OPTICIAN, Tribune Fine Bpectactes ited to all sfghits o (entifie prine ey, poctacies sulced to st siglite on slentias o Sk, pcra and Fleld” Glassia, ‘Telescopon Micra- RS e | ¢4 "ackage J) i seice Fethar a e wicr, 1n eavelopes, pencil, pen- DR plece of yanabie Jeweiy ieta ackage, with elekant gold-plate yeerebudunn aua [itesLubioualic fancy it aad b O iagen wlih, avort 3cente: a5 jewelry, 31, B Vatc: genty” Tlluuk.‘s;“‘m ‘atent Lever Waten free 1o all S ‘U 264 Urondiay. No Yo FINANOCIAL, 7 PER CENT ;;‘ 8 pex cent loass op approved city real eatate mado FUANCIZ . PEABODY & CO., 474 Deagbora-st, A A St THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE-INSURANCE (0., NEWARK, N. J., TANUARY 18T, 1877. LEWIS C. GROVER, Pros't. Balance, as per Statement, Jan. 1, 1874..830,100, 184,26 # (JIECEIPTS DURING 1876, or prem{um; 8 4,670,870, Yor, rnluhl‘fl.ull.fl:u-ll' * Lol Deduct pre- 262,530.00 ———— 1,843.000.3¢ 80,313,880.20 . ILES DURING 1870, 1,000,605.48 116,000.00 2,006.07 831,685.77 amcdicns, 10%,000.38 o e nl!. 20.851.28 okt Paid return s prem’s or divid's to poliey-h'as 5 e —_— amenm Dalance, Jon, 1, 1677.00is00000e 831, JATHZLAS ANNETS. HON,077.48 G BGASLIA €, £, 80, 24 ar 3,318.000.00 Btate, City,and Co, "m\':ll- H Terket . 450,64, » A61T, 108,08 Donda an, L 14,013, 049,43 Iremiom es 1n force, + SU4T,0T0.08 Due for r n % course of {ransinisslon.. 3n, Lo AR Intercst due and acerned.. BU71,326.10 Premiumadue and defers T not yet recelved, on Issuesprfucipally of Dec. 271,117.08 .27 . 03, 1R3.00 andiinpaid. 248,137.70 Commissons and Expenees ?:ltmr: red r':mlnu“ Tt reen SUE Premiuma paid In sdyaoce 13,452,048 £30,014,272.00 2,240,032.72 1,313,109.560 payavle In 1877 lndivided Surglus Sumber of Policles In 18T, AT SO T0RIFDG cvverons Si5TaiaA008 JAMES 13. PEAIRRON, Viee-I'resldent, EDWARD A. STRONU, Sec'y. BENJAMIN €, MILLER, Treas. ATEI'IEN T. KKING, Agent for Illinals, 10 Portland Bleck, 48 Washlugton: Chlengo. . To the Dircctors of The Mntual Denefit Life Insurance Company s On the 15t of January, 1677, the totaldebtsand iia- bilitles of tha Compeny were, as shown by its Thircy- Second Annual Btatement, submiited herewlth, the sum of §31,500,873.53. . Jacluded lu this prgregate smount aro the ftems of unpald death jossce, 604 endowments n _process of ad- Jusiment, O whose timie of payment had not then ma- tured; of dividends due and unpaid, belng malnly those of 1876, duc In the lattcr partof the yerjof estimated commissions andexpenses on unreported business of 1870; of premiums pald tn adyance, andof dividends to become pasable to participating policies through tho course of 1877, Though not yet due, these dividends have becn declared from surplus produced by policlesin 1870, and &4 & canscquent Mabllity must be charged as #uch against tho Company, though proporly cunsidercd surplusns 1o the policies themeelvea: thelr simount ls $1,559, 1,50, ‘The remalutng and principal portion of tha delits snd Itabllitles is the Company's reacrve or the present vafua of f1aoutstanding risks. ‘Theso risks are nineteen un- fuity Loods and forty-threa thousand three hundred and seven policles, insuring $131, 840,953.00. ‘The prescnt valus of theso pallctes and bonds come puted upon tho sasumptioos thet Intercst on {nvests menta will be 4 per cont yearly, oad death loates ac- cording Lo the Actuary'stable, 1y $20,u32, 505,00, ‘Tless assumptions are the highest standards of vale uatlon, snd though atlll required by the tusurance omeclalsof Massachtisctts, where they were orginally adopted, are In pome Htates deemed unnccessarily cautious, Dy the rule of ation In Now York, wliera fatcrest {s assumied at 43 por cent yearly, and death losses according tothe Tabls of American cx- perlence, the present valug of our polictes aud bonds would be less than that charged In our debts and labllities as abave, by the sum of 82,108,202, Dut any reduction of the Company’s reserve, below shat of the highest recognized rule, would be incompstitle with m&wl‘llrly u“l.l:l nh‘:':..n:m;n:' directed in the past as it will con'ingie to bo in tha future by - gard to stabllity snd strength, Y8 PROONE: oo Tho total atsctaof the Company on the 1stof Janus ary, 1877, wero, as shown e statement, tho sum of £33,200, 324,33, ot Inclustye of tha difference between the par and market val f the two classes of sccurls tics, to-wit: First, Natl i and second, State, co ty, aud municipal Londs. Tlicse two classes, together wich the third=thstof morigages, and the fourth~ that of premium loans on policies fn fol ara the bulk of tho Company’s ssets. Tho rela mounts af these classes should benoted, The first, of $:1,818,000; tho second, €8,817,196.03; tho third, $12,013,044.43; and the fourth, 3,617,070.04, As compared with the auine class Jast year, thero has been an fncresse n the frst, and & decreaso fu the remalning three, The smount pald durlog the year for exersa of par values or premiuns In purchiate of tho Grst class, Unlted States sccuritics, I3 shown In the statemeut aas deduction from interest recelved during the year. In vicw of the gvoeral depresalon of business and prices, sl tho tems ealifbited by tho statement have been thorouglily exe amfncd. Tho valustions of mortzaged promiscs have Leen poviscd, securities of oll classes carefully counted and valued by commitioes golng over them in detall, whuto conclusions and reports have boen sub. nlited 1o and teated, as far a8 practicable, py tha Di- rectors as a Buard, It 1 not doubted that the ftems of which the assets ar¢ composed are sl of them equal at thu least o the figures by which tyey sroexpressed, The diferenca beiween tho Mabllities and dobts on tho vnc slde and the assels oo the other, computed and valurd by the foregoing principies and teats, fa ‘of $000,049.22, and s held by the Company pristed surplus, 1t witl, together with th 16 aslse, {50t tho proliable Ligher tateof wntercst and woro favorable mortality than those on which our re- scryes are cowputed, bo distributed a3 dividends to pol- Iciea cutitied to recelve ft, It is thus that no loss or disndvantege results (o the policy-bolders from e low Tate Of Intcrest and aniple rates of premiun, by means of which the utmost guaranfocs of ssfety sre secured. ‘The surplus of Intercst and of premiums {8 returocd to tha meniber a2 soun 84 found to bo unneeded, Tha two objects most important o him are thus effeclually ase falged: First, the certaln snd prompt payment of tha pulicy when dues snd, sezand, jnsursace attho lowest practicsbla vost. y Looklug at tho Company's business forthe yesr, it willbe scen that thogeneral stagnation of fndustry sud trade has 0ot prevented au [ncreaso In the number ot pollelea and a the amount of ersets. Thie surrender of policicafor purchase hasbees ugs usually large, snd luthe great majorily of cases lo- duced by the pocunisry pressuro which Las checked the pew bsucs. ‘Tha Increasing ioembership ' (bat exiats, potwltlstanding ihess causcs, and the Increas fusiateliigens appreciation Ly the publle, giveabun- dauf sat.e’aciiIn as (0 the past, and eacouraging prus- pects for Wio future, LEWIS C. GROVER, President, MOODY'S & ONS. The Boston Daily: Advertiser WILL REPORT THB MOODY AND SANKEY MEETINGS, y sermons of Mr. Woody vi \n‘.‘::?nwr e mectuze Vo lostors SEbimy dor DA = Dally, $1 [vn wonth, 1o advance; Weekly, §2 peraunum, in advance. E. ¥, WATERS, Treasurer, 20 Cours-at., Boston. CHICAGO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1877—TWELVE PAGES, THE ARGUMENTS. Objections Urged in the Flor=- ida Case Before the Compmission. The Democrats Contend for the Right to Go Behind the Returns, While the Republicans Deny the Legality of Such Procedure. The Great Question 6f Juris- diction to Be Argued To-Day. A Declded Turn in the Tide of Evidence in the Loui- * sinna Case. Mgddox's Testimony Becoming Un- palatable Even to the De- mocracy. Littlefield Shows to Poor Advan= tage Before the Senate Committee. Witnesses Promised Who Will Upset the Btories of Both Theze Worthies, More Telegrams Bearing upon the Oregon Elcctoral Con= spiracy. The Valisnt Corse Tenders 100,000 Men from His Little Army And Looks Around for More Electors to Coniguer, THE COMMISSION. A WONDENPUL ACENE. Speciat Dispalch to The Tridune, Wasmixatox, D. C., Feb, 2.—A looker-on at the meeting of the Electoral Commission to- day must have been struck with tho thought that ours is a very clastic system of Govern- ment, bending {tself with wonderful readiness to new adaptations and sudden chunges, Ilere 1s a now wheel put fnto an old machine, never intended for Its reception, and yet the cogs and pinlons scem to fit perfectly, and the machine runs smoothly on without jar or frictfon. The Commission takes up the novel task of making a President as quletly ss {¢ it were an overy-day affafr. At the appoiuted hour the members of the tribunal drop into thelr places, the lawyers arrange thelr books and papers, and the pro- ceeding beglnes, There {snothing novel, demon- atratlve, or dramalic about §t. One might sup- pose TIIS STRANGE OUTGROWTI OF POLITICAL XEX- CITEMENT and threatened revolution wero as firmly rooted {u the foundations of the Government as the Bupreme Court ftself. The arrangement of the court-room has been changed since the first meeting of the Commisslon. It was found Inconvenfent for the Commissloners to sit around a table and listen to the arguments of counsel, for whatever position' a speaker might take upon the floor he would be talking ing at tho backs of his Msteners. Thae bench has therefore been arranged for tho chalrs of tho Commisaloners, and to i MAKE 1003 FOR ALL OF TIES it has been lengthened by an ** L' at each end, Justico Clifford sits fn the centre, flanked Ly the other fuur Justices, aud the roow fs arranged as described tu to-day’s Titnune without the bar, The comfortable sofas provided for visitors to the Supremo Court arc assigned to the general public, admitted ou cards procured frum tho Marshal of tho Cominission. . Thero was no crowd this morning, the sesslon lasting nearly.an honr before all tho scats were filled, The okl gallery that has been tenantless and Qusty for thirty years, the place where wero reported the speeches of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, when the room was the Benato Cham- .ber, has Leen fitted up for the newapaper cor~ sespondents, It, too, was but comfortably Qlled to-day. Peoplu scein to have scttled down upon the belier that the proceodings of the Commlssion are golng to b X DILY AND TEDIOUS like a chancery sult, with no dramatic Incidents torelleve the monotony, aud they evidently care nothing about witnessing these. Amoung the lawyers and Cougressmen who sat at the balze-covered tablo within the bar wero Willlam M. Evarts, Charlcs O'Conor, Jeremiah B, Black, E. \V, 8toughton, Btanley Mutthows, Lyman Trumbull, Matt Curpenter, Samuel Bhellabarger, David Dudley Vield, William E. Chandler, Richard IL Merrick, Benators 8her- man and Sargent, aud Ropresentatives Tucker, Jenke, Kasson, and McCrary, ‘Tho Secretaries of the Commission, tho ofllelu) stenographers, and the Assoclated Press reporters fllled. the sngles of tho scmi-circular area. Tho Florida cas0 was opened to-day by four hours ©f argue ment from the abjcctors to TOR CONFLICTING BETS OF RETURNS, The Democrats had tho floor first, Fleld speaks {ng au bourand a quarter, Tucker Alling up tho rest of tho two hours allowed, Ficld #poks in rather & quict, argumentative manuer untll the close, when he worked up a fine shaw of indig- nation over the frauds fn Florida, and wanted the bronze Goddess of Liberty to spring off tho domy of the Capltol with horror at thu specta- cle, Holding up tho Hayes returus by thecor- nerof one of the sheots, us though they wero some polluted thing that Le dreaded to touck, ho cast them down on the table with A LOOK OF LOATIING, soying that they wers black with fraud. In his argument he rested the wholo case upon Baker County, and proposed that the Commission should exsmins igto. the fact coucerning the throwlog out of two preclucts there, Tucker interlardcd his speech liberally with strong wetaphors, and with denuticiations of fraud and corruption. 1le made one forclble polnt, Low- cver, when he argucd that the judiclary of Florida aud its Legislaturs wers a part of the leul machlioery for determiniug the result of elections, sod that thelr action must therefore be taken uto account. KAS50N'S SPEECH. The two speeches for the Republicans wers wado by Kasson and McCrary, of Iows, {thus bearing the whole brunt of the first assault on tho Hayca column. Kasson said that tho argu- menta of the Demoasnts ralscd three questions: First—Is the Commusion a General Canvassing Board to recanvass thovoteof Floridal Becond —Is It n Natlonal Courtof Appeal from the Board of Btato Canvassers? Third—Is it & Ju- dicial Court of Appeal from the Btate courta of Fhrida in quo warranto procecdingsl The Temourats had assumed an affirmative an- swer fo all these questlons. Mr. Kssson malitaincd that the Cummissfon - had power to Inguire how the people had voted In any State. It was not popalar votes but Elect~ oral votes that Congress had the power to count. 1If it should be held, however, that the Connnission could Investigate the county ean- vasses anil the voting in the precincts, ho would be prepared to prove frauds in the interest of the Tilden Electors of the grossest description. He hastily ran over a number of counties which could be brought up to offset the eingle one selected by Mr. Fleld, : MR, H'CRARY followed up the argument agalnst the power of Congzress to go behind the returns, and paid a foud deal of attention to the law ol quo war- ranto, citing authorities to show that the pro- ceedings on a writ of that description do not in- valldate the acts of public oflicers done hefors the case is determined. Both he and Kasson attended to the ex-parte facto performances of the present Governor and Leglslature In scek- ing to inake retroacting vertificates that would vaulidate the votes of the Tilden Electors. At the close of the arguments, the Commis- slon put its foot.in deep waler on the vital question of evidence, to décide what competent evidenco is, practically to deelde TiE MOST ERSENTIAL POINT in the whole dispute, whether the Commission can go back of the returns to look into the ac- tion of Btate suthorities and clection officers, Justice Clifford asked the Democratle counsel when they wanted to offer evidenco adding that he did not mean to declde by this question whether tlie Commission would receive ovl® dence, Mr. Merrick repliod that his side would 1lke to offer such as they (had ready beforc the arguments ot counscl, Evarts, for the Repub- MNeans, sald they had none to offer unless it should be deefded that evidence. will be admit- ted. After a short colloquy among the Cém- missioners an adjourmnent waa ordered until to-morrow morning. - Itls plain that the Commission cannot goa step further until it marks out the boundarics of Its power, Counsel are groplog in the dark as long as these boundarics are wholly & matter of speculation. If the Commission cannot o back of the returns, then the fssue is reduced to avery narrow compass, and all the allegations of fraudulent voting, vivlence, Intimidation, allerations of returns,and Improper rejection of precinets or counties are wholly irrelovant, FIELD'S IMPUDENCE After Mr. McCrary had councluded, Judeo Clifford asked a question of the counacl about the onder of speaking to-morrow. Mr. Fleld, who had all day made himself the central fig- uro of the group of Democrats within the bar, {mmediately rose and presumed to answer. Judge Clifford politely snubbed bim by remark- Ing that the Commission would be better satis- fled if the counscl should auswer. There was a whispered consultation, aud again Ficld rore, when Senator Edmunds fnquired whether the uentleman spoke as oa objector or as ono of the counsel. Fleld, evilently abashed, replied that he was speaking as an obfectur. Benator Edmunds remsrked that the time allotted to objectors had expired, and that the Commissioners were now desirious to hear from counscl, Ficld sank fnto Iis seat LIKE A BMALL 8CHOOLNOY who hias been sct down hard by lils schoolmis- tress fur disbehavior. Mr. Evarts toock coplous notes all day, accea- stonally whispering a commentto or askinga question of Mr. Tloughton, who sat near himn. Laterin the.day Btanley Matthews also took notes, and consulted legnl authioritfes. Charles O'Conor appeared very, feeble, but eonsulted frequently with his sieoclatcs,-Jndge Jero DBlack and ex-Scnator Mitt Carpenter. TIE QUESTION OF JUNISDICTION. The Commission hield no privato scssion this afternoon after the rogular adfournment, and provided for none In the morning. Tho-manner in which the Commissfon will deal with tho in- terleeutory question reachied by the offering of testimony by R. T. Merrick, ono of the counsel for the Democrats, hias not, therefore, been de- cided upon. One member of the Commission thinks to-night that the question of jurisdiction will be taken up the first thing In the morning, and after the fifteen minutes speech, under the rule, will bo decided. Another thinks that the Commission will avold, as far os possible, deciding any vital or cssential matters in ad- vatice of thelr final judmment, and that they will therofore Bbear the regular argunents of counsel to-morrow, which will undoubtedly be on the question of Jurlsdictfon and the power of the tribunal to go behind the certificate, and then, It it shoul? alterward bo deterinined to tako testlmony, ellow counsel a brlef time for argument after the evidence is i, s Western Assoctated Press, ‘Wasnsatox, 1. C., Feb, %.—Tho Electoral Conumniesfon met at 10:80 this moruing. Tho Freaiding Justive sald the question lad been asked yesterday, ¢ What 18 tho vased Towhich ho hnd replied that it consists of threo cortil- cutes, with the xuwmpnnvlnfipupeu and objee- tions to the same. e would now statothat two of the objectors on each side would bu allowed tospeak on the opening of the case. Thoso represeuting objectivn number one, which was presented by Mr, Ficld, would lnu‘( first, and, under the fourtl rule, would bo allowed two liours to atate the casc and argue in support of the objection, Mr, Ficld asked whether, after tho objectors had spoken avd the opening argu- ment was made, any repl'!' would be allowed, Justice Clifford” atated “that the rules made no provislon for a reply. Mr, Ficld then opened hls argument as an objector fn the case of Florida, and argued in favor uf golng hehinds the faco of the returns, ou the ground that ¢ this could nat be done, tha American peoplo would be io the position u’xl lu:pdln;: powerless jn the faco of a glgantic raud Mr, Ficld rovicwed tho actlon of the Florida Returitng Board and of Goy. Btearns, and read from the evldence taken befors the House Com- mittee ta show that the votes of preciucts had, been thrown ont without a particle of evidence, snd u&mn the wncru supposition or_teliot that futimidation had been pructiced. The votes of Juhnsvillo nd Darbyvilie were clted as instances of this sctlon. e ed that the paramount question before the Uoinmiasion was, whether, in the fucy of such testimony as this, it can be clalmed that the face of the returns fs 1o be considered as conclusive aud bindivg. The usu- al form of stating the questlon, * Can you go bebind the certificate ! s AN ERRONEOUS YORN. The question sliould bo reversed, s0as to read, #Can the certificate zo behind the truth and conceal {t1" There I8 no pretenss that the yoto of the Btate was not given for Tikden and Hendricks, the sole pretext fur denying tho fact belug the certideate of liov, Btearus. They say that the truth cunnot bo proved ns nst the certiticato, This fncludes tho l:ropm tiou that tho two Jlousca of Congress lave no right, cither separately or together, to conslder or fn- afluln into auy uct which Uov, Stearns may cor- tity to Congress, Bul:,pow a (iuvernor should become so debased ns corruptly and falsely certlly to Congress that one sot of Electors had recelved a mafority of tho votes of tho Btato! s " thero no rewedyl The Constitution nowhcre doclares that the certiticato of the Uovernor shall be conclu- sive flf"‘”“ all proof in regurd to the election of President, The Constitution distiuctly declares that it Is the person baving the highest num- ber of votes who sliall be dectared elect and it cannot be rkhflull{ sald that the certl «ato of the Governor of the State can override ml:dprovh(nn of the Constitution. Mr, Fleld cltod the cascs of Barstow of Wisconsin [4th Wisconsin leports] to show the propriety of proceeding by quo warranto, Tu that cass tho uswrplug Uovernor was ousted by the courts and tho Fightful Governor tnatalled fun bis stead —A 280 le] hut of the Goveruor of orida. Mr. Field regretted that there was no slmilar provision of law on the quustion of the Frealdeucy, und paid h tribute to the foresight snd statesmanship of one member of he Commission (Senstor Mortou) for haviug discovered the latens ditficulty in the queation of the disputed Prestdency, and labored early for its setulement. , Fraud vitiates all transactions, Iwiil not agree that the judgment of a courtof competent. ‘uflullctlon tan_be mpeached collaterally for raud. If It could be, it would be AGAINAT PUDLIC POLICY. 1t would be a scandal to Inquire into the bribery or corruption of a Judge while the Judge is sitting upon the beneh, and therefore from mo- tives of public policy It may be true that unti) the Judize be tmpeaihed or removed you eannot inquire into the corruption of his acts. I ven- ture to say, however, that there is no document anywhere that you cannot Impeach for fraud, Tput it to the Court that, fndependent of the question whether If o Judye were mistaken, and it be ahown that acting in the exercise of hia Judgment and from a desire to do justice be had crroneously certified a thing to be true f‘flllth 1 have no doubt you could {nynire {nto), I submit that 1f you sliow that le corruptly acted, and thiat he wwas bribed or led astruy by his hun, for office or thirst for power (not “less than hy thirat for gold), you can fmpeach higacts. Who 18 he whose acts we are asking toimpeach? Itis TNE TIEN GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, M. 1L, Stcarns. Stearns fs the inan who sent a telegram asking “On what grounds can we throw out votesi™ and who recelved foranswer “Fraud and intimidation,” or something else. Stearns {s the man who controlfed those puppets of the Canvassing Board who were to declde whether or ot he was to cxerclac * the oflice of Governor for the next term. Isit acorrect proposition of law that you caunnot inquire whether tint man has acted fraudulently? If it be truc that certlficates cannot be gone be- hind, then it {s cqually true whether there wos an electlon or not. _ 8uppose I prove, or offer to prove, that on the 7th of November last there was uo election whateser In theState of Florlda, and that no man voted or cast a ballot, and yet thecertificatecamelicresigned * W, 11, Bteantis,”” vould you say that that shows that thosc four men were elocted ot that election] To that complexion nuet 1t come avlast. ‘There is no middle ground. If you ecan inquire into the truth of that certifieate you can inquire into . EVERY PACT HELATIVE TO IT. ‘The greatness of the questions In respect to the dignity of the Presidential office and the cnormuus Interests depending upon b are as notling compared with the moral clemcuts in- volved. The greater question is whethier or not the American people stand powerless before a izantic fraud. Here Is the certificate {holdint t alofiyn his band). One feels almost reluctant to touch it. Hold'it up tothe light, It §s black with crime. P’ass jt around. t every man ece ft, and then tell mo whether or not that certificate gives n title to an officer contrary o truth, as we can prove it 1t fraud = succceds now, let us = cover our faces with shame. Let us take down the statue on the dome of our Capitol, which, every morning faces the coming light. Let us'clothe oursclves fu sackcloth and sft in ashes forever. TUCKER. Tucker followed Mr, Fleld. He summarized tho objectiuns presented by Mr. Fleld yesterday, and sald: The whole queation presented to thi tribunal Isn question presented to the two Houses of Congress, and which they have sub- stituted this tribunal in their steail to decide. It s stinply this: ls there any power In the Con- stitutlon under which we live by which a fraud can bu prevented ou the Presfdency. IHe alluded tothe T‘m-wurnmo of the State'of Florida, ex rel Wilklnson, , and others, and to the decision of the Supremo Court In that State. The decision of the Court ho ed to be sustalned by the authoritfes, citing, among other authoritles, “High on Extraordinary Remedies,” Bee. 7W0. The Returning Board ho regarded a8 merely one step fn the authority by which promulgations of clections were made, The flual determivant nulhur‘llf (I he were ul- lowed to make a word for the oocaslon) pro. ylded by the State of Florida was THE SUPREME COURT. Thercfore, uuleas the primary determinant authority—viz., the Board-is conclusive, not only i {ts action but also as to the extent of its Euwcr. then we must regand the proccedings fn Florida upon the action of these Electorsas o part of that determinant power, which the ftate has provided agatnst fraud and {llegality in the exerelse of clective functions. KABSON'S ARGUMENT. After the receas, Mr. Kasson addressed the Commisston. He said: What fs the case before us! First, acertifieate comes to. Congress as required by the Constitution .aud laws of the Unitod States, in conformity to the statutes of the Htate of Florida, certifyjug the Electoral .yota of.one of thosa States’ wihlch my honora- ble friend who last_spoke '[Tnukvr] wiis pleased to call ¥ sovercign States ' of this.Unfon, That certificate is first opened and read, There {8 a second certhieate opened in joint meoting -of the two Ifouses of Congress, in which persons aigning the same precede. thelr. certification by a certiticato signed by un offlcer not recogulzed by tho laws of the United Btates nor by the statutes of Florids as certifying ollicar, being the Attorney-General of the Stato of Florida,” Becond, ho certifles that there fs no provision of the law of Flurida whereby the result of safd returns can be certi- fied to the Exccutive of safd 8tate, adinitting by that certificate, {f 1t has any forve at all, that hls nction is WITHOUT LAW and without sanction by ths statutes of tho State. Third, the Electors certify to their own actlon, to thele own nualifications. and they themaclves notifled the Governor of thelr clec- tlon, That is certiticate No, 2,~a certiticate of mmrtl(\'h\;‘ rsons {n view of the law, State and natjonal, 'That certlficate was presented and opened, ‘There is tho third certificato still mors extraordinary, stitl more wauting n the clements of verification, also demanding con- sfderution. It {s entirely ex post facto. It s certitied by an oflleer not fn cxistence until tho functions of the oflice been exhausted; a certifieate which recites procecdings in tribunals subordinate and superlor to the judiclary of the Btale; a certiticato which 3 canvasshig board might, under somo circumstances, report. to tho State officcre, but which hus never been sent to the Congress of the United States or President of the Benate during the hundred years fn which we have been u Re- public. The proccedings in the Court recited 1t aro all subsequent to that time which, by the Conatitution and laws of the United States, a tho time fixed for tho performauce of judiclal functions. These two certificaten ars wanting fn all tho clements of constitutional and legml yalldity which should glve themn place before this Cummlssion fu the condition In” which thu Jaws of the country now are, in which tlie lawa of tho State were on the Uth day of De- cember, when these functions were exerclsed. Furthermore, If certiticate No. 1 s the cunsti- tutional snd legal exrwulon of the voto of thy State of Florids, of course, that question be- ing scttled In favor of certificate No, 1, obviates all neces for considering certificates Nus. 3 aml §, ought perhaps to say to the honar- ublo Commisslon that f11s fortunate they did not grunt the request of objectors to adjourn till to-morrow, ‘Tho next mall might have brought to yout CERTIFICATE No, 4, reciting new proceedings und new action before tho courts,and no cnd would be found to papers that imight be prescuted In party or personat Intercst as uublhhlms Toiroactive right to ex- ercising a function {n the State of Flonds. The objections to the first certiticato wre substan- tially one, nai: There was a fraudulent re- turn; that It was fraudulent) ucd, not by reuson of anythinzwhich appears In thoaction of certifieation or presenting of the certiicate, but becauss of the actlon of other people. Mr, Kasson Lere referned to the frauds in Jackson, where, lie sald, the Jiepublicau yote was rejected, und spoke of the cass whero rail train pussengers .j“ off and voted the Democratie ticket, and said: 1 do not belleve that -this Commission, by tho Constitution or law, was ever lutended, or has power to coto the extent that would be required to probe theeo wmutunl allegations on both siles to the bottom, Mr. Kasson urgued at great length syzalust the power of the Commlssion to g - hind the returus, and sald: ** Are you to re- viso the proceedings of ull State clections and State tribuuals appointed by Stato laws, or ars you to couut what {s properly certified and pre- sented to youd 11 it bo otherwise, LXT THE CONSTITUTION BE AMENDED, and et it bo declared by this tribunal to be so amended,so that it wiltread: * Each Stato shall appoint, o such manner as_the Legialature If:cmul may dircct, a number ‘of Elcetors sub- Exn to revisfon by the Congress of the United tatcs, which shall deternine whether such Electors have rerlunned their funuctions to the satisfaction of tha sald Congreas.” Wo arc brought (ncvitably to an amcndmcnt to the Constitution which sought to prescryu sbsolute- Iy tho rights of the Btates, which required cver tallot iu’ the DPresidential election to be cas! on the same day, that thoy might bo {freod from _centralized influenve. * Every mem- ber of the Commisstou kaows the Listory of tho adoption of this clause, and yet we are brought, 1 say, perpetually to the qucstion, Shall we now go un aud complite TUS AUSOMITION OF THE ADSOLUTELY INDE- VENDENT RIGUT of the Btate tq sppolnt (he Electors In thele own way, and say that it is subject fo the two Houses of Congress whether they have done or shall do what s necossary? The gentleman aske, Are we, then, to take the certifiente of the Governor agatnst the truth? Ia thicre resson, on the other hand, why ft shiould not be asked, Arc we to take the cerfifleate of FIPTEEN GESTLEMEN AGAINAT THE TRUTH! Kasson continued: Mr. Field proposed in his srgument to show the jugglery hy which the Hayes Elertors got thelr certificates. May I asK this tribunal If there Is o prima facic pre- sumptifon for or axainst . fraud, whether it exiets against those officers clected before frand “could lave been contemplated against a Board that ncted at the time required by the Btate law; against n Boand that acted at the time rc’?ulml by & Conzressional law; against & Board that acted In ignorance of the result of other Btates! Or dnes that pre- sumgtion of fraud cxist azainst men who knew the fnportance of a chionge of the result In Florida; against the men who acted with s knowledee'of the necessity of the action they took to accomplish thelr” results against the men who were organized as a new tribunal and enacted a new law to accomplish that result? 1t tkere be fraud, if therete conspiracy, as alicged, where docs the presumption of law under those clreumstances place ftf Incy- ftabl ft places it whera the motlve of the nct, the knwiedge requisite to give that motive eltect, and the purpoze to be accomplished, were all before the,cye of the persons participant In ft. Fraud connot be so resumed agn{net the parties that act ncon ormity with the law and in_the discharpeof a duty at the time requiredhy law, and in the manncr required by faw, as ft ‘can e rmmmfll agajust those who “do it outstide of the provis- fons of the law, and witha full knowledge of the cffect which would be produced by it, If you have a right to say that another “set of votes must be counted in Florida, you have a right to eny that anothier sct of votes must he counted In New York, If {ou take jurisdiction to determing the mere 9 votes which conatl- tute une o! the alleged mnjorties in Fiorlda, and to upsct the Ele-toral College that might exiat there, you mizht zotomy State and assert that the fld,uoo majority there should be upset SUCRARY followed, reviewing the quo warranto casc already referred to, and reeiting many autbori- ties tn'connection therewith. The ?m((llnz.’umrc {nquired whether the counsel propoted to offer evidence hefurs pro- ceeding to argument. 1t waa replied In_boualf of Mr. 0'Conor, that he expected to offer evle lenee. Justice Miller suggested that counsel might make o briel svnopsis or statement of what they rro posedd to offer, (nstead of offering it In detatl. The presiding Justice asked Mr. Evarts If he intended, on his slde, to offer any evi- leuce, Mr. Evarts pald that he had no cvidence to offcr, unleas there shiould be a determination to admit evidence azalnst his side which lie should then need to meet, @ The Presiding Justice—I{ the Qommisafon de- c!de tu receive evidenct you would reguire to meet that evlidence! Evarts—Ycs, sir; cspecially relating to this articular matter of Humphreys, and whenever t Is intended to show that Humplireys el an oftlce, we shall perhaps desire to give evidence that he did not hold that office at the time re- ferred o, and wo suppose, il there Is to e an Inqulry which adduees evidence, that evideuce Is o be proved according 16 the rules which make }u production evidence,—~the system of vonundn aw. A _SUGGESTION. Commlesloner Thurman suggested that there mnst be o great many facts as to which counsel upon both sides couldl ngree, not as to whether Kmol‘ of them I8 admirsable In this procecding, ut as to the oxistence of the facts. It counsc! would agree, as far as they could, in respect to facts of which there could be no possible doubt, leaving the question of thelr sdmlssability as a matter of law to the declsion of the tribunal, it would very much tend to save time. Adjounicd. THE TELLERS. RANDALL'S EXTHAORDINARY COUNSE, Spectal Dispateh to Tue Tridune, Wasnisoroy, . C., Feb, 2.—8perulation is ifo as to the motives which led Speaker Randall yesterday to vivlate the unbroken precedents of nearly n century, und appoint tellers from the majority sido of the House to count the Elect-: oral votes. Presfdent Ferry, in the consultation. between the two presidipg oflicers, protested rgainet this course, but Randall was fnflexible. Thus Ferry wad obliged, that the Republicans might not be deprived'of an equal representa- tion, to appolnt two Repubiiean Senatorial telle ersi The performance of an extraordinazy ofl- clal act argucs an extraordingry motive. Itfs evidently consicered fmportsut, o the opinfon of the leaders of thes Domotratic party, that whatever power tho Houee can yet exercise through its tellers over the Court shall be un undivided power.. The two members choweu by Randall ARE BOTH BOUTHERN MRN, one belug from Georgla and the other from Missourl. If they have any speclal qualliica- tions for the place beyond o certaln physival forco and energy, such quulities are not consple- uous. It s reported that these gentlunen wero selected threo weeka sgo, when It was supposed that po' compromlse could be agreed upow. Why o progrsmime that contemplated the porsibility of violence should now - bo carried vut, when it appears to bo o useless and gratuitions uct of partisanship, fs a mystery. Randail's sction rulses o susplelon- that the Democruts DD XOT MEAN TO ACCEPT TUE DECISION of the Comm n ns a flnality §f It should <o agulinat them, MHowever this oy be, it is evi- dent that they have thought ltlm[mnnnt. to pro- wide for any contingencies on which it may bo destrable for them to wicld the full power of tho House, real and pretended, over the ofd ma- ‘chinery of tho count. — THE ELECTORAL BILL, TROPOSITION TO AMEND IT. Special Dlspatch 1o The Tridune, Wasnisaton, D. C., Feb, 2—The section of the Electoral bill whicl provides that tho two Hou hall not adjourn, but shall take u recess untll 10 o'clock cach doy, pendlug-the Presi- dential count, cxcites anxlcty among the members, The Jegislative duy of Thursduy continues s n legislative fiction, The difficulties arlsing from the continuance of & legldativo day s0 for an Indefnito periud are scrious. It tho Joint Con- vention shall not he dissolved for four wecks, all legistative provecdings for that period will be journalized as of Thursiday, Feb. 1. Great confuston would cnsue.. There could be no Monduy sesslon, conscquently no call of States for Lilla, There could Lo no suspension of rules, which would not be a great calamity. There could bo no Fridays for privato bills. Morcover, tho vonstitutional provision as to bills becoming a Jaw ten days after thelr pase saga with tho Presideut's signature, might be overridden, - LOUISIANA, TR LAST SEX3ATION, Bpecial Dispalch t0 Tha Tribuse. ‘Wasuinaton, 1. L.y Feb. 2—Dudley Ficld is not giving his Loulsiata wituesses a good char- acter, Maddox ain upon tho stand to- day. Tho Democrats would have dons wel] to bave Kept bimi off 1t, Mo will uced somcbody to testify to his own character before he gets through the wordeal to which Lis Muuchuusen storles will subject him, He, with Cal. Pickett and Lintleticld, have succecded s yeu in proving but the one fact, that some promincut Democrats were fn- the market to buy the Electoral vote of a Stato fora lurge sum of money; that this triplet of go-betweens wero cager to act ns the gentlemen who wauted 10 per cont on $1,000,000, and that the Louistaua Returulng Board was not for sale. Maddox has bas had (o say In & card over his own siguature that he did not venture to neution the bribery subject to the Presldent, nor dld ne get soy comfort from Secretary Cameron. WELLY' OFFEET. It fs Jearned that o his defense betore tho Committeo Gov. Wells wlll swear that two promincut aud wealthy Democratic citizens of New-Orleans offeral him 8 heavy bribe to count in the Tiiden Electors. He promiscd them, after refecting thiclr corrupt proposition, that he would keep the fnterview a geret, but siuce the 1 Democrata on it by false testimo offictal reputatl reapect his pror two New Orlen’ exnpect soon to have a witness who will throw Littlefleld's testimony. When fn New Orlcans Bcenator Howe, Chatrman of the Cum- 'n;lttce, was approached hy a person who gaves him “Therefsa man fn New Orlenns who, unleds something is done for him, wlil Llow the He- turning Board out of water. the country and destroy the whole Republican casa." was just what the gentletuen from the Notth were there to see. That was bxactly what they wanted to find been anything of that sort going on in the lte- turning Board they wanted to know it. This individual attemuted no further negotiations with Senator Howe to suppress any slieged evi- dence of corruption in the Returning Boanl. The House Committee, however, it Is under- stood, have vote. in the telegram signed Joscph Hancock, dated New Orjeaus, Dew. 1, and addressed to Col. friends conld not' be mets PRICE ¥ g3 = 1 CENTS. & mlittee have endeavored & lestroy his persoual and & holonger feels bound to o hd has telegraphed to the " hocrats to that eflect. It s underst),, S 4t his counsel wiit demand the production®S 7 telegrains that passed be- tween New Yo 5 during the se® & )t the Returning Board, Ra- publicans bef tempt to blacken the Board will react uposn the Democrats when all the facts come out. ¥ and these two fndivlduals feel confident that theat- THE SERATE LOCISIARA COMMITTER Information substantially as follows: fio will startls Ilowe replicd to thle Intruder that that out, and {f there bLad GOT POSSESSION OF THIS MAN, who, they expect, will be an hnportant witneas fn connection with Littletield's Lribery story. The Republican members of the House Commit- tee hope to prove, with this witness a8 a starting polut, that Littletleld and Spearing forincd a couspiracy to obtain money from the Repubife- aus by altering the Vernon scturn, and agreeing to suppress §t. The Republican members uf this Corhmittee tnsfst that Littlefield was eu- tirely broken down by Howe's five hours! cruss- examinntion, and that - before the Committes has done with him the full extent of his cone spiracy will be mude manifest. THOSE LETTEZRY, There isevery reason tobelleve that if Maddoe ever produces the letters from Wells they will prove to be something different from swhat ha pretends. Maddox weat to New Orleans pre- tending bie had been sent by the President, and, producing a letter from Secretary Chamdler, he talked with Wells about the danger of personal violenee from the White Lengue. Wells: gave him aletter to the President and to Senator West, setting forth these dangers. Itis under- stood melther of theso letters were cver pre- scnted, and that these ore all the letters Maa- dox has, and he docs not intemd producing them, MADDOX. Tv the Wettern Ausoclated Prest. Wasminoron, D, C,y Jan. 2,=Mr. Maidox continued hia testimony to-day under the ex- amination of Representative Burchard, Whilo in New Orleans he spoke to several Demo- crats In a general way. He bad an inteniew with Judge Walker, who proposed introducirg im to Baldwin & Co., about the Loulsiana Cul. Zacharle was the person alhded to Plckett, as follows: % Telegraph party to trust person you wrote about: May be to your fu- terest.” letters from Quv. Wells to Sevator Weat, and Witness was desirous of producing from Gov. Wells to Maddox, but wanted time. They were Inthe hands of prominent Republi. cans. Recelved no mouey for. protection, und would take none. Question—Did you not agree to take a share of the $1,000,000 proposed to o rafsed by suu and Col, Plekett to affect the Loulslana returns, and now you say you would not take sny money for producing the letters) Answer~I thought it not Immoral to huya right. fi\'uneum allowed tlil to-morrow to pro- duce the letters, Question by seelye—DId you not enter {ntoa double geme . TO TUKN OVAR TIE STATE OF LOVISIANA to citlier the Democratle or ](clnuhncuu party,— whicliever should furnish a mjliton dollurs¢ Answer—\When 1 went to New Orleans it was with a view of examiuing the canvass formy- self. After my fnterview with Gov. Welle'I was eatistled Lits proposition to his Northern Tacted on broad moral grounds—~it was better for the peoplu 10 buy thefr rights thaw loso them, It was part, of my gune to appear to encourage Gov, Wells, Witneas delive letter to President Grant from Gov. Wells ded fur subtlssion to tho Cubluet, Gov, Wella wanted protection fu the discharge of his dutics, and the Prestdent sald ho should recelve ity remarking that he wantel a fufr count aml ut honest declaration of the vote. Witness sald hie had not beon convicted of an Infumous crime fn Baltimore. Ho was urrested 1or negottuting stock supposed to b forged, but it was ascertained to be genulne. UEN, ANDELSON TESTIFIRS, Gen. Anderson, of the Retorning Board, tes- {iiled to the sesstous of the Board veing publly, and attended by visiting members of ‘the lte- publlcan und Pemocratie parties. Each side had stenographers to report the proceedings. When tho Board went into exccutive session it was to consider tho statements of Bupervisors aud atii- davits bearing upon tho returns. Only ofticlals of ‘Illc Bourd were prescut at the compllation of votes, Mr, Burchard Interrogated witness with re- gard to certaln ded to the for- mer speciul 1 dent on Loulsi- ana aifaire, charging inttmidation, cte. Witness waa satfsfled, from bis recollection, that thoss aftidavits were beforo the Board, Ho remnes bered the . tames of two of the alllants.—Mr, Lanc and Mr, Clover, the latter u Supervisor of ‘I witness' kuowledge there was no changa of Vernon [Parlh to re-vlect Senator Kelso, o Republican. o was not present on the Boand when the official returns trom that parish werg opened, Tho result was, however, in favor of lfimznr a8 District Judige. Withess ulways looked upon flunter as a Democrat, He wis forinerly Treasurer of the State, and wus de elared Dlstrict Attorncy. Belloved Andrews to Lo u Democrat, us he DELONGED 7O A DEMOCHATIC PAMILY, Witness dfd not know of thy destruction of the ofticial returua of Vernon or any other pariah; was nut awaro of auy alteratious of returns, und uever hach any communieation with suy member of tho Board yesmraing the alterations or de- struction of returns. Witness has known Mud- dux twenty-five years, bt not Intimately, Question b{x Luwrence—DId you have sny con- versation with him during the'thine the Returne i3z Bourd was enguged ju their labors 1ast fallf ~None whatever, The ouly conversation I ever had with dm was ta say *UGood moralng,” and shake hands with him. NEVER HAL TWO MINUTES' TALK WITI RIN, 1 did not hiear in New Orleans of any propeaition from Gov, Wellstosetl out thu Blate oraby- thing connveted with such o thing, % W il—.um )"uu meet with Muaddox in Gov. Vells! raou ~1 did not mect bin in Gov. Wells' rooin or any othicr roomut. 4 ( Maddox say suything about theuso of money to ulleet the reault of the clectiont lA.—Nutluug about maney or the result of the election. Q.—DId Giov. Wells give you any lnthmations of uny conversation bio bud with Muddoxt A'_EJ‘WB“I’(M“;H.I ilatlon, arsnge: .—Do you know of avy negol on, ge- mfint, or ’rmposmun with 5-hlch Maddox wes couneeted G Dl yer uver hear of any proposition ot yuu uver hear ol y ] from tioy. \z'v\h ihero were 1o Lo rilsod S0, 000 for hiny and §200,000 for L{uul luA'-] never eard of it tUl it was mentigned e Q.—ls It truo thay ho also wanted smaller suns for tho negrocst A.~} nover beard, 5 Q.—Is It & fact that megrocs aro on the Board! A.—There aro two, sald to bo colored persons ~—Kouncr aud Casanave, Q.—Was there any proposition mukfl{ any ong lu relatlon to the use of moncy to atlect » declaration of the result! A.—Yes. Dr. W. A. Robeson, Democratic Btate Benator, camo to iny room at 11 at uight, on tho 2th or 25th of November, sud sald tome there wus su opportunity to make A GOUD TILXG, aud that Twould got S0 i 1 would insure the State for thy Demgeruts gepliod that wad