The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1877, Page 3

’ WAITING FOR ORDGON Close of the Argument Before the Electoral Commission. A SBCRET SESSION OF THE TRIBUNAL. An Adjournment Taken Until This Morning. ——_ + NO" INDICATIONS OF A BREAK Democrats in Caucus at the Speaker’s. House. THE COUNT CAN BE DELAYED. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasutnatox, Feb, 22, 1877. There is more excitemont here to-day than there has been for a week or ten days, more even than there was during the argument of the Louisiana caso, A renewed attempt was mado to gather together forco enough on the demécratic side to delay the count of the vote until alter the 4th of Murch, Those who favor this movement were busy all the afternoon, in the House, putting their plans and ideas before members, and this evening a meeting was called at Speaker Randall's house to talk the matter over, with the intention to form a definite plan, and gather enough adherents for it to carry itin @ caucus, which will be called to meet as soon as the Oregon decision becomes known in case that It is ad- verse to the democrats. Letters received here by members of Congress and others, from Now York and the West, show that a good deal of irritation and ex- citment exist in those sections, Tho 4th of March is go near at hand that it would be possible on various pretexts to delay the count, so that it would not be completed in time, Shrewd lawyers among the democratic extremists, among them Messrs, David Dudley Field and Proor Knott, have been busy for some days examining the Electoral law, with aviewto sce how its intention and spirit can be evaded, and Mr. Field declared to-day that it could undoubtedly be done, Two days ago those who favored delays of this kind did not number more than forty, and they were discouraged because their number was constantly decreasing, but to-day they seemed to receive some accessiuns of strength, and they evidently hope that the irritation which would follow an untavorable decision in the Oregon case will Sirengthen their forces, If the Speakor were Inclined to favor this, by rulings, in a prolonged attempt at Olibustering, even so small a number as forty or fifty desperate men might cause serious delay, but such a course would undoubtedly split the democratic party, and the orderly majority, consisting of sensibie democrats and republicans could, if they wished to du so, change the law which makes the 4th of March the beginning of a Presi- dential term. Section 152 of the Revised Statutes declares that the Presidential term shal, jn all cases commence on the 4th day of March next Aacceeding the day on which the votes of the electors have been given, It is perfectly competont tor Con_ Rress to amend this law go as to make the term begin on the 4th day of April, or any other day which it chooses to bame, ‘The meeting at Speaker Randall’s house consisted ot Jess than twenty gentlemen, Several matters were freely discussed, but on the subject of delaying the electoral count 40 conclusion was arrived at. It was ugreed that in the Army Appropriation Dill nothing should be consented to which could be used for the suppert of , the ments, There some ugainst the election of Mr, Packard or Chamberlain govern- talk protest Hayes in case the Oregon vote should be given him by the commission, but nothing was voted or decided on, and the gather- was ooa (ng was informal and of no particular importance, The streets are full of rumors to-night, among which one relates that two democratic members of the com. mission will vote to give Oregon’s three electors to Hayes, and another that Judge Bradley holds that only allowed in Oregon, but thes two votes can bi rumors and others lack confirmation. Whatever may be the result of the Prosidential dis putes upon the candidates and thoir parties, the law- yers, a8 usual in ali quarrels, will have had a good time of it, and the occasion wif remain notable to the Bar, because several of the counsel have greatly added to thor reputetions, Judge Matthews has long been known as one of the ablest mombers of the Western Bar, but ho has added to his fame considerably by his arguments before the com- mission, which were acknowledged by both sides to be oxtremely able, and are genorally said by tho demo- crats to bo the ablest, the most forcible and damaging to by the publican counsel, On the democratic side, Messrs, Merrick, Jenks and Hoadley have acquitted them- selves, according to the opinion ot lawyers with them, of all mado re. especial ability. Mr. Jonks, as one of the objectors in the Oregon case yesterday, was complimented by both sides for his cloar and logical representation of the Mr. Merrick, who has appeared tn all the cases, He is case. has won praise and credit on every appearance. a Washington lawyer having a large practice. Judge Hoadley’s argument yesterday was thought to bo a very poworful logical presentation of the democratic case in Oregon. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSION, Wasminotox, Feb, 22, 1877. When the Electoral Commission assembled this morring to finish the hearing in the Oregon case there was a large audience present, which, a8 usual, re- mained all day attentive observers of tho proceedings and interested listeners to the addresses o! Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evarts, on the republican side, and Mr. Merrick, who ciosed the case for the democrats. _ SPRECH OF MR. STANLEY MATTICEWS, Mr. Matthews began us follows :— MR. PRESIDENT AND G@ EMEN OF THE COMMISSION— Life isa series of surprises, and the succession of the arguments which havo taken place before this com- mission 18 NO exception, but rather an illustration of that truth, When the case of Florida was opened by the fearned counsel who 1% to concinde the argument in this be assumed and argued, as our position, that the certificate of,the Governor of the State accompany+ ing the list of the electors was conclusive, could not bo set aside, could not bo contradicted, and among the first words which [had the honor in reply to say in the presence of this honorablo commission, 1 was com- polled to remove that misapprehension on the part of the adverse counsel and to say that we held no such doctrine, and in the course of the argument I stated our proposition in this way "But, Mr. President and gentiemen, if you go behind the certificates, what are you limited to by the necessity of the thing? In my judgment you are limited §0 this;—o an inquiry 4 into what are the facts that he should have certified toand did not; not what are and maybe the final facts and right of the case. Tif*Tacts to be certitied Dy the Governor 1m this, or in any case, are the public facts, which by law remain and constitute a part of the record in the public offices and archives of the Stata, and of which, being Governor for the time being, he has official knowledge," We undertook to draw a hne of demarkation in two instancos—First, between the con- stitutional authority of the State in the making of the appointment, in the doing of all those thipgs which constitute and verily the appointment, which com- plete it, which constitute a factum, to be enrolied in the public offices of the State in perpetual memorial of the fact, And, on the other hand, the Jederal author: ity which took the matter up trom the pomt where the State lott it after 1 had Deen transferred by the State into the custody of the federal authority, We under- took, also, to draw a line of distinction in another Place, and that was between things aud prools—be- tween the thing to be certified and the certilicate which certitio# it—uad did clatm, as wo have consissently done throughout, that the <certilicate of a thing was mater of form; the thing certitied to was matter of substance; that in every case where it could be alleged that the certibcate was false in that it did not conform to the thing to be certified, you might correct the certificate by showiny the tact to be certi- fod, Tue siatement of those propositions was made in opening of the argument in t Fiorida case on our side, It wa strated and app! 1D that and the succeeding ease of Louisiana, an undor the guidance of their skilful and experienced hands in applying the sound copstitutional principles out of woich those manifest distinctions spring, we were guided by a pilot as wire and successtul as Palluurus biuself between Scyliaand Churybdis, 1¢ was, there- jore, Mr. President, somewhat of a surprise to find that the position which. we had taken 80 Inuch pains to make clear and prove now bas vot been adopted by the gentiemen on the of! de; but shat, going beyond that, they bave adopted the dogma b pally they improperly ascribed to us; and jar for the first time in this continuous, though wterrupted debate tho cry from our adversaries of 1! sanctity and imponetrability of the certificate of tue Governor, WHAT THE LOUISIANA CABK DECIDES. It is now claimed by the leurned itleman who spoke With s0 much ability in the Senate Chamber last evening that the idea on which he founds the whole structure of bis argument has passed into adjudica- tion by the decision of this tribunal in the Louisiana oune. ‘The language of this tribunal upon that point ig this:— And the commission has by ® majority of votes deck aud does hereby decide, thut it is not competent under coustitution and tho law as it existed at the date of id uct, to xO Into evidence cliunde th Presideut of the Senate im the pi 10 prove that other persons than U larly certified to by the Governor of the State of Louis sand according to the determination and declurution of thelt uppomument by the Returning Hourd tor election in said Sthte prior to the time for the performance of their duties, had been appointed electors, or, by counterproul, to show that they had not, So that ine very ground on which they stood at the beginning is the ground which has been alleged by the stecision of this tribunal, and 18 the ground on which We stand to-day, And that is that itis the certiticate of the Governor, which 18 baseu on and accordiug to the determination and declaration of the appointment of the electors ty the returning officers for election in tbe said State prior to the tme Jor the periormance of ‘their duties, which is, under the constitution and laws ot the United States, the conciusive evidence of the pe who are entitied to cust the electoral vote of the State, Mr, President, that is not the only surprise, In the case of Florida the attempt was made by the show and offer of proof to go beuind tho official action of the State in the appoimiment of electors, showing that the processes bai been erroneous, iliegul, Without jurisdictioa, involving transgressions of luw, tainted by fraud. The same offer, though greatly ¢: apgerated and enlarged, was made in the case of Louisi- ana, and 1t seomed as il the offers proposed by the ge Uemen on the othor side of their proof grew stronger and longer just in proportion to the certainty which then bad attained that u would not be put to the test good. We were treated at the same time to exhibitions of virtuous indignation, which, for one at Jeast, 1 was not expecting or prepared to witness in that quarter, at the cnormity of saneti- tying wrong and fraud, and the tribunal, und the coun- Sel, and all who were chgage in the transaction were involved in ono universal sentence of condemnation, 45 i by established, sound legal principles in the course of the transaction, which, at least, has the form of judicial inquiry and proiesses to be governed by cou- suitutional and jegal principles, were coulessing wrongs which we alleged it was incompetent for this tribunal 10 investigate, MK, JUSTICE FIKLD QvoTED, I was reminded, Mr. Presicent, by that, of some ro- marks which bear the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States, as delivered in Bradley against Fisher, in 13 Wallace, by Mr. Justice Field, page 248, where it Was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that a civil action tor damages would not he against the jadge of asuperior court tor anysbing dove vy him jn hig official cupacity, ulthough it was alleged 1m the petition to have been’ done corrupt: Wautonly, maliciously to the injury of the plaipuit, and that learned judge who delivered the opinion of the Court mude goueral remarks which apply iu the present controversy, where, in quoung’ from an old wuthority in Coke as to the ground of that public policy, that it Would tend to Lhe subversion of public justice, aud those that were sincere would pot be deiended from calumnious Observations, he says, ‘Tbe truth of these observations 18 manilest to uli persons baving much experience in the Superior Court. Cases mvoiving not oply great pecuniary interests, but the liberty and churacter of the parties, and consequently exciting the deepest feclings, are boing constantly determined in these courts, jn which there 1s great conflict in the evi- deuce aud ae to the law which should govern their de- cision, It 1s this class Of cases which imposes upon the judge t verest labor, Y 4 is precisely in these particular cases that the losing party teels most keenly tho decision against bim and most readily ac- cepis anything but the soundness of the decision in explanation of the action of the judge. Just im pro- portion to the strength of his convictions as to the cor- Tectness of his own views of the case he is apt to Complain of the judgment against bim and to ascribe improper motives in the judge. When a controversy ipvoives.questions affecting large amounts of property or affecting mast of great blic Concern or touch- ing the interests of numerous parties the disappoin' Ment occasioned by an adverse decision olten finds Yent in imputations of character, and from the imper- fections of human vature this is hardly a subject of wonder, THAT LITTLE POCKET DICTIONARY, Mr. Matthews thou went on to say there was no offer to prove the contents of supposed hieroglyphic char. ucters that could not be read, There was no offer of proof that this was the result of a deep luid scheme to defeat the will of the people. He wondered when his fprend (Mr. Hoadley) reierred to Webster and Worcester Jast night that he did not produce that little pocket dictionary id show tho correspondence between Gramercy Park, New York, aud Saiem, Oregon. He contended that the Governor's certificute fell to the ground when it was shown that it was not the warrant to tho electors for the performance of their duties. The law of Oregon required that tne votes for electors should be given, re- ceived, roturned and canvassed the same as for members of Congress, and in the case of members of Congress it was made the duty of the Secretary of State to canvass the votes and there the statutory di. rections end, The statute in relation to electors jurther provided that the Secretary of State should certify two lists showing who bad received tue highest number of vote jd there the canvass enued, The constitutio id law stamped that record the legal aud Constitutional result of the election, They had mace a proffer of the thing 1teelf; not the proof of the thing, bat the actual and substantial result of the canvase, That was the appointment by the State, the investi- ture by the State of tne real rank and title, Al, else was mero proof, mere prima facie evidence, to be: taken as proof only till confronted by proot and shown. to be fulse, ‘The certificate of the Governor, was sought to be intruded bere as u substitute the canvass. It was signed by the Secreiary of State simply attesting witbess, and not as the can- vasser of the votes. possession was not essential to the discharge of the duties of vne office, he contended was a well settled principle of law. ‘The certificate of the Governor of Oregon did not, he as- serted, conform to the statutes of the United States or of Oregon, WHAT MADE A NON-ELECTION, Mr. Matthews combatted the proposition that the in- eligibility of Watts made a non-election or that tne votes cast for on ineligible candidate were voi. Ho so contenced that the English decisions which de- red the candidate who was eligible, bet received a a less number of votes than hie ineligible opponent, elected, have not been adopted as the American rule, which was that when sach a case vccurred neither was entitled to the office. 11, however, au ineligible officer was objected to by nobody his official acts stoud as long as he heid the oilice. In relation to the self-execution of the constitution, he argued thal, uniess thore was legisiative provisiou, i couid not be executod, The prohibition of Staice from making laws impairing contracts could net bo executed but lor legislation which ju. dicial bated to try alleged violations of the provision, Mr. Matthews closed at tweive o’ciock with udeclara- tion that he had appeai party, but in support of a great ciple, regardiess of any popular e! excited, For « Governor to take upon bimself the ox. ecutive, Judicial and legislative powers wus to bring about a complication that would make con{usion of government inextrieabie, CALLING WITNESSKS, Judge Strong said couvsel had vow consumed two hours each, still, belore the commission, He thought that shouid be ree ceived pow, subject to the judgment of the commis. sion as to its effect, The proposition was adopted, but neither of the papers called tor io the subpana duces tecum served upon the Postmaster General were at hand. Nor were the Wituesses present, and at ten minutes past twelve o’clock the commission took a recess unui a quarter to one P. My nstitutional prin- AFTER RECKSS. Al aquarier to ove v’ciock Mr. Merrick offored a certified copy of the commission of John W. Watis as posimaster, dated February 13, 1873, MK. RVARTS OU KOTA, Mr. Evarts objected to the p rs as not authenti- cated, but suid the Postinaster Geocral was in attend ance, ready to verily the papers irom hig.office. Judge Ciittord sustained the objection, But said they had a right to bave them Certitied under tne order of the commission. ORIKCTION WITHDRAWS, ris waived his objection, and Mr, Merrick uted the commission of Henry MM. itil as , dated Jani 8, 1877, in which it was re. cited that ho was appointed onthe dd day of Novem aid, « mor that might be | ‘NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1877--W ber, 1876; that on the 11th day of December he exe- cuted his bond and took tbe oath of office, THR POSTMASTER GENERAL. Mr, Postmaster General Tyner was called by Mr. A telegram was produced and admitted, trom ‘atts to Vostmaster General lynor, saying:— I hereby resign as Postmaster at Lafayette, Yamhill county, Oregon, Answer by telexraph, This was reeeived on the morning of November 14, and the saine day ap answer was seut saying:— Your resign ny Bo county, Oregon, accepted, 4 Alterwara received a letter on the 9h of December | by course of the mail through J. I. Underwood, ad- dressed to Underwood as Special Agent of the Post | Office Department, in which Watts tendered to him bis Fesignation as postmaster. To Mr. Kyarts—Underwood was S| jal Agent of the Post Office Department, with official and personal resi+ deuce iv Uregov; on the 14th of November witness telegraphed to Underwood that Watts pad resizned and directing him 10 take charge of the office tli his | Successor wus appointed; ‘ume day received a reply | en that the telegram had ved; would take chargo of the oflice that evening; ou the 24th of No- vember received a letter from Underwood stating that in accoraance with instructions of the 14th inst. ho had taken charge of the ollice on the evening of that day. Other telegrams and letters were produced to show the detatisin connection with the resignation of Watiea and the appointment and qualification of bis successor. Mr. Tburman inquired if there was any law or rule of the department that required the accounts of a itmaster to be settied before his resignation could accepted, The Postmaster General replied that he was not aware of uy. TRETIMONY OF RLECTOR WATTS. Mr. Evarts then called Joni e post. tte, Yam Hill county, Oregon, said tbat he resigned his office on the luth day of Novem- ber by telegram, and received an acceptance of it on the 1dth of November by telegram; he knew J. B. Underwood, special agent of the Post Office Depart- ment, and knew bim in November laat; on the 14th day of November Mr. Underwuod showed him a tele- hepa that be said be bad received from the Postmaster jeneral directing bim to take charge of the oflive, and he (Watts) immediately delivered 1t to him. made his settlement with him and turned everything over to him. He was asked the question, jd you sottle up the ac- counts of your office with him?’? aud replied ‘+1 did.” Continuing, be said that the business was kept in bis drug store, but that, upon bis resignation, 1 was re- moved the next morning about a block away from bis ‘store, to th roof Littl id & Hill; bo did not aot as post rat all atter the ldth of November, nor was the office kept upon his place alter that; Mr. ‘Hill, a8 he understood, was appointed by Mr. Under- wood, who remained there two or three days himself in opening up the office before Mr. Hill was ready to take entre charge. Judge Greeu, in cross-examination, asked if he was a candidate for the ofice of Presidential elector in No- vember last. Mr, Evarts satd that he did not object to that in- quiry, except for the mero purpose of identification. Judge Green said that was enough. The witness resuming said that Eugene City was at the bead of Yam Hill Valley, about seventy-five miles or alittle more from Lafayett Judge Green asked him the question, ‘‘Have you settled your accounts with the Post Ufice Department us Postmaster in Lulayetto?” The Witness after some besitation said:—It is not fully settied in this bat thero is a commission yet coming to me and a few dollurs that 1 did not pay over to Underwoog, he stating that thore was a commission due to me for @ part of that qui id the account would about bulance; all the rest I pald to bim, He asked 1f his account had been adjusted bs tween himself and the auditing oifiger of the depart- ment and replied not that he knew of; them and they said they bud sent a full him, but in point of fact he had pot received 1} when he lett, about the 15th of December. THK POST OFFICK AUDITOR, J. M. McGrow was next sworn, and examined by Mr. Evarts, saying, ip response to inquiries. that she set- Uement of postmasiers’ accounts came under his de- iment; the account of Mr. Watts had been settled, r, Eyarts asked bin what date were bis (Watts) emoluments and salary xed by that itlement, to which the witness answered, “To and inciuding tho 14th of November, 1876; that wus the jast account rendered by the postmastor.? Judge Green, in cross-examination, asked the wit- ness i, as Sixth Auditor, he had charge of the adjust- Ment of the accounts of this postmaster? The witness replied that he had, and these accounts ‘were audited some time during the Jast month, Janu. ary; lis accounts were received in the office un the 1fth day ot December last, the 14th of Novewber, 187 ing Department took place January, 1877; 1t was impossible to give th a8 there were 36,000 otber accounts to settic. the lestimony, and Mr. Svarts was in- ‘sument on the part of the repuo- < SPEKCH OF MK BVARTS. Mr. Evarte occupied the trst uve minutes of his time by restating the various propositions whieh be and bis colleagues bud taken 1 the Florida and Louis- jana case, insisting that they bad strictly adhered to them in this case as fur as they applied. He suid tnat the counsel upon the other side had themseives, 1p the projonged discussion, maintained, as a matter of Jaw gud upon authority, not only the position he tovk a8 to the action of a Stave bringiug un clector into the execution oi his power as au elector, but, az be understood = tl accomplished aud experienced lawyer who yesterday represenied tno argu- ment of their opponents, that woul quo warranto or until certiorart disturbed his decision, ade facto aud de juro representative of the ollice. Now, said he, uever having had a doubt that belore many Weoks liad passed tbe universal judgment of this country would sustain these positious that were espoused, and that have been adopted by this com- mussion, | cuofess that I did not expect so signal and immediate a seal upon that expectation as the present itnmediate avowal and espousal and maiutenance of those positions, and I weicome this as a great aid and necessary to the irresponsible and rash com- mentaries that bave been made in various public relations, and especially iu the public press, upon those coutroverted pointy o: law. = i understand that im securing that unanimity of a profession so desirable in a community, accus- tomed to look upon the law as the saiety and’ wollare of the State, that this maintenance and this acher- noe Will go far to unsettle any rising Wisposition tor further contest ou the subject. You have decided questions of constitutions! law; you fe decided them in the presence of great ugitations of the people, and you have decided them in way that wil’ make them Orm and sure when agitations in the future shail take other complexions aud bo forwarded in the inter. esis*ot other parties. For what you have done, for What you shall do, princip! of the constitution and the maintenance of the laws of this country in tho great transaction of @ Presidential election are made certain, intelligible, ratiouai and sound. THE ORKGON CASE. Now, in Oregon it is very plain that an olection was hela, ana through all its stages was conducted with ao co of all the requirements of the law and with an entire acceptance, ou the part of the whuie population, of the election and its result up to the jast stage, and of its having beet according to law, uuques- oned in insegrity and in justice; that that result was reached by the authentic cauvass of the votes by the proper authority and in the proper presence. All that vas disturbed this result occurs alter the completion of the election aod its certification completed by the proper authorities after the fie she cauvass under is certification by the officer of the State charged with the duty of canvassing and of vertitying. ‘That canvass remains of record now in the secretary of State’s office, undisturbed, undisputed, unques- tioned. That is the fact upon whicu the title of tho electors for President and Vice President tor the Stute of Oregon rests, thereiore there remained nothing to bo done on the part of any official of that State auder the terms of tbe constitution of the United States— nothing whatever; and under the law of Congress thero remained hut one act to be pertormea—to wit, the provision by the Executive of the State, and the delivery to tho Klectorai College that was clectou, of triple certificas io accompany, part of formal authentication, the action of the Kiectoral College, VALIDITY OF CERTIFICATE NO. 1. I shall proceed with the inquiry into the validity of the voto of the thres electors in tne first certificute, as it rests upon the vote in your possession proceoding from the State, delivered into the hands ot the Prewi- dent of the Senate, opened belore the two houses of Congress and now deposited with you as evidence for you to regard, What, theo, does certificate No. 1 con- win? And I ask your attention to paris of i¢ that I now shall designate, ‘Mr. Evarts then quoted from the language of the cortitont presented belore the commission, He then quoted the constitutional provisions on that sub- ject, and said that the certificate presented by Odell, Cariwright and Watts fully comphed with those pro: Visions. Suppose the list appended 1s not the one cer- tied by the Executive of the State, is that a failure of duty ou the part of the electors? ‘There is no imputa- ton that they have omitted to include it in their return, but it must be charged to the fact that the Executive whose duty it was to furnish them the ist omitted to do so, You have before you all the minutes of the proceedings of this Electoral College, setting forth in deta each separate act performed by thom, trom which it ap- pears that having duly assembled’ at the State capital they demanded of the Governor and Secretary of Stato the certitica list of the electors, but the Governor aud Secretary refuséd to deliver them. Being informed that sach list bad been delivered to Cronin by the Sec- rewiry of State, they demanded them ot Cronin, but ho relused to dehver or exhibit them, whereupon bey procured Irom the Secretary of State cer- tied copies of the vou cast in Oregon for olectors and have attached such certitied lists to the papers presented by them. What becomes how of the proposition of a State boing defrauded of its vote in the Electoral College when its electors, ap- pomted according to law, baving assembled to dis- Charge their constitutional duties, are deprived by the Executive of the state of the certified lists required to be appended in verification? Which 1s to stand, the electors made by the constitution of the United States, suffleicnt eertiliers of their own election, and showing that the absence of the Governor's lisis was caused roor’s default and not their own, or the who In violation of all the provisions of the constitution of the Siate and of the United States proceeded to constitute themselves electors, iraudulent power t reverse the decision of the people, as exercised by the Governor, subtract or wivhibold a Paper by whict the Klectoral College shall be destroyed and the Presidential vote lost? Was there any excuse for withholding on the part of the Governor on any pretence that it ways delivered? Not the slighiest, the act of Congress suys tuat | 1% shail bo tho daty of the Exeenive of | euch State to cause the names of the electors | elected to be made out and certitied to, and the certill- cates delivered to them. Tho duty and obligution of the Governor in this behait was complete and his with- holding the certiticates needs no description of trick, fraud or contrivance, It was an absolute desertion of | joraty exerts Whi | cannot help concluding that the majority anchor auty with an object in view as to the result, as shown, and the law wall impute 16 as such. THE GOVERNOR. ws of Uregon to show that, when two persogs are vot for, the one receiv- ing the highest number of votes shouldbe declared elected, and argued that his disqualitication to bold notelect the other who receives the it Dumber 4 votes, In that ca-e there 418 not a question for the from the must be a new election, Governor to determine. The princtplo of the | College ot ors 18 that the majority govern, and that principle cannot be apphed to a less pumber thaa three. Que man is not a college and two men cannot be, for there cannot be @ majority uuless there beat least three, Three makes a college, be- cause the Vital principle of the colleze is that the ma # the power of the college, at is Cronin’s account of this proceeding?! He akes tO say that they refused to ack But would you allow Crouin’s statement that these two men resigned aud deserted their duty to outwoigh their own certil es aud their own ballots that are here before you? 1 should think not. You are bound to deterinine whether the majurity of a college can fli a vacuney, or whether the minority shall; and college to itself, aud tat the minority 18 ny college ut all, Sutadmitting that these republican electors did bot recognize Crom or regard bim as an olector, they had the right to that judgment, and nobody else re- garded him as such, except as an experiment to see whether be could be manufactured and stand until after the counting of this vote, No ono would claim that amything happened when a corpora- tion did not recognize tue title of a man claimug to belong to It, except that he was extruded, and if be Was wrovgtully extruded he must right bimsell by law, Parties might question whether the action of the Board dm that extrusion was or not Jawiul; but did you ever hear of the extrusion bf & member of a board, lawiully of uulawfully, authorizing him to go abead and fll the Hoard and proceed toact? I think this is as strange a novelty in the law of the creation of colleges or other bodies us was over Suggested, Whatever may have happened to Crouin by his extrusion that did not make him the colle; Otherwise you would have the strange state of that under tho laws of Oregon she could have three electoral colleges composed of one man each, who could cast his vo.o in bis own way and by lis own authority; but if you adopt the rule that the majority constitutes ihe college, you put yoursell uu: der the protection of the principle which governs all corporative action, that there can be but one collego, and that a majority anchors to itself all the powers of such college. ‘The law of Uregon itself says they shail Ol @ vacancy in the Electoral College by a plurality of votes, Can you have a plurality of votes when oniy One vote 1s oust? THK KEYKOT OF DkaTH. Commissioner Abbott inquired what would be the effect if two electors bud died since the election and but one was leit? Would the State jose 11s own two votes! Mr, Evarts replied that in that case the Sta to exercise a power reserved to tt an election as having failed. It might be ql that the votes would be lost. There is no existing law of Orogon or any other State that in its terms covers such acase, There can ve no college Woon you ure reduced te one, You haye an elector, Lugrec, and tt is undesirable that the State should lose its vote. * Judge Hoadley asked counsel if he considered tho word ‘plurality’ as rolerring to the original number elected or to those rematniug after the vacancy ¢ Mr. Evarts replied that there was nothing that con- fined it to the whole number; but there was a clear authortty to them to choose by tho plurality of a quo. Tum, according to the ordinary rule ot corporations ani colleges, that a majority of a quorum ts equiva. Jont Lo a majority of the whole, Thus this College of Electors was constituted of two men, legally chosen, has not been blotted cut by any evidence Dejore the commission except the certilicate of Cronin, But where is Cronim’s evidence to sustain his assertion that thoy refused to act as clectors? le produced tue minutes of the transaction, He then proceeded to fill their places by bis siugle vote, Now, whether or not that Jaculty could reat in a single elector in some States, it is a fact that te does pot rest in a wingle lector under law of Oregon, Oregon had by the oi the Electural law of the Union power to pi the futiure of an clectivn, What was that? Why, it was when the clection Jailed to produce the number of electors required the majority proceeded to remedy that defect, wud 1 18 only in that case that they are allowed to substitute their action in the place of the Ordivary mode of election. But it does not require them to make a diflerent mode of tiling a vacancy arising from a failure to elect than that caused by @ Vacaucy urising im any other mapner. Groxon has” gottied that question for itse. ‘The statutey determine that by uo chance should the vote of the State be Just, aud they provide im that way for the tilting of the vacancy in the Electoral Coliego, Now, Upon an examination of ail these certiticates I bave been grativied to fad that, although these opera- tore up dn Uregon were as harmless as serpents, they were hot any Wiser than doves, Nothing bas been doue there that deieats the constitution of tho United States OF that deirauds the Stute of Oregon, or that defeats the election of a Presideut, All that has resuited from the attempt to perperrate a consummate fraud ts to exhibit the fruud to public condemnation, but the walety of tho Stato reais upbarmed. THE DEMOCKATIC ARGUMENT, Mr. Merrick then addressed the commission on be- id bali of the democratic sige. Hi the dame principies in the cous: that be did im the Fiorida case but; nevertheless, be Must accept the judgment of this inal on those principles whether he agreea with them or not, He addressed himsell to tho tribunal believing thoy would adhere to their previous decisions, andapply the same principle to the decision of the Oregon case tbat they did to the Louisiana and Florida cases, If the commission followed the rulings already made by it public opinion would acquiesce in the result, but if it should reverse those rulings it would create intense dissatisfaction, In tue Flor- ida case he had argued that i wi competent for them to go behind the Gevernor’s cer- tificate upon charges of inistake or fraud, but the com- mission had determined they had no power to do so, und he must consider that the real meaning of their judgment was that the certificate uf the Governor waa the conclusive and ultimate uct periurmod by the State, beyond which they had no power to go. le bad observed at the time of the argument oa the Florida case that the opposing counsel, while ther bark was being cast against’. the Scylia of Florida were even then looking ahead Jhary bdis that threatened peril in Oreg It was then appurent from the discussions, and itis pow t from the ad jon, for if Your Honors iol- low the track pursued in Florida the bark must be wrecked tn Oregon, Mr. Merrick quoiod the decision of the commission as made ia the Fiorida and Louimana cases, and argaed tueréirom that properly authenti- cated returns [rom @ State under the laws of that Staie could not be inquired inio, When in Louisimne ant Florida you ‘passed by the certiticate of the Governor you found yourselves confronted by the results of the Returning Board, and you said here we must stop, tor Sta challenge fod- eral power. To mark ing lime between the ‘State and federal authority was the most difficult office shat the fathers of the Republic bad to perform, but they performed their duty so well that bereto- fore peace and harmony had reigned tn this land. Mr. Justice Miller interrupted at this’ juncwure to ask: —Does that paper contain all the abstracts of evi- dence sent up by the Clerk of each county? Is it not all that the Secretary had beiore bim, and all that he could compare? Mr. Merrick—He could make his abstract of evi- dence. Inmy experience of those cases I have found that officers jarging the duties corresponding to that imposed by the statutes of Oregon upon the Secre- tary of State could make otuer and very remarkablo papers ‘Tne RESULT.” By Commissioner Hour—W nen thoy opened and can- vassel the vote what olse could their conctusion be but a result of what would be worked out by the canvass—that is, is not the word “result? the correct word by which to express the legal conclusion or termination of what- ever the canvass brings them’ Do they not certify that this Js the conclusion to which this canvassing brought them? ick—I dO not so understand it. There is in your suggestion; but | do not understand iWuLe io such papers as this, ono word id putin some expression which may enable us to give It an easy and satisiactory constraction. 1 understand thut we must take tas we tind it and as the statutes of Oregon used the word ‘canvass’ when speaking of the Secretary of State, and used the word “abstract” when speaking of the clerks, that the oun+ vave is something different irom abstract, and that he ought to certify if he hus made a canvass want to use that word in evidence—that vass I made, and hot say, this 16 some result I may have reached. Mr. Justi Mr. Merri Mr. Justice Bradley—(hen you cannot have that Mr. Merrick—You cannot bave the exact act, but you may have the record of it. Mr, Justice Miller -What record on earth even would be mudo of it but putting in the votes that were can- vassed and showing the result? Mr. Merrick—I will expiain if I can. I am re- quired to cunvass certain abstract votes that you gavo me. Wuen I have settled those votes that you gave me 1 make a record of what I have done with the: Here are the votes you gave to canvass, and here is a record of my uct. Mr. Commissioner Edmunds—You recognize that it says here that “the foregoing statement 1s a result of the votes cust as canvassed,’ The inquiry I wish to put ts, Do you consider that statement as a paper that he made or that came from the county clerks ’ Mr. Merrick—It is a result of the vote. Mr, Commissioner Edmuads—Who do you under- staud mady that thing, the Secretary of the St the County Clerk? Mr. Merrick—I presume the Secretary of tbo State, sir, reached the result Commidsionor Thurman suggested here that the real question was what was made by the laws of Oregon the conclusive vote of the canvass, At the conclusion of Mr. Merrick’s argument, the ot motion of Mr, Garfield, went’ into Bradley—Is not a canvass an act? THE snQeer SEANION, It is understood that imine sion Went into secret Bes: ental remarks, clearly indicated iat he would vote in the same direction, Justice Miller then made an ciavorate argument to show that there was nothing in the Flerida aud Lou Siana decisions of the commission inconsistent with giving the entire yote of Oregon to tne repuolicaun candidates, Messrs, Thurinan, trong and Bradley Wore not weil, nt Was taken at their suggestion, 1 nanimeus Vote, wu has vo political sigaidcauce whatever, it may bo added that there were no indications this evening of a break among either the democratic or re puvlican members of the commission, and that there ‘was DO Vote, nor aby approach to a& vote, on. the main question at issue, ITH SUPPLEMENT. | GROVER AND THE TILDEN ELECTORS. [From the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb, 15.) We shall not omit to mention some of Cronin’s ac- cessories who deserve moro than special attention. AB for Grover, Chadwick, Bellinger et al., being Northern democrats who have turned renegades to Northern | Public sentiment and traditions and wallow tu the | slime of the “Lost Cause,"’ nothing better could be expected of them than that they should take Tilaet ‘pieces of silver” deposited for them here by tele- graphic transier; but that the edior of the Oregonian | newspaper, claimed to be the leuding Hayes republi- can organ of the Northwest, and bis partuor, the | chairman of the Republican County Committee in thie ciyy, as a law firm, should so shamelessiy ‘eat dirt’’ as to take a $4,000 fee to stultily their record and soil their honor and dogers from **Tilden’s bar’l"” is without @ precedent among honorabie men since Benediot Arnold, who tooka feo for the same pur- pose that Tilden’s money was taken by Cron and the republican law firm of Hill, Durham «& ‘Thompson, THR JOB WAS PUT UP IN NEW YORK to commit the crime of robbing the republican majority of Oregon of w votein the Electoral College; and the moncy travsforred here to consummate the villany so far as a conscienceless Governor could disburse it for the purpose, The turce of « legal argument 10 prove that Cronin ana not Watts was tho rightful elector served u double purpose before our webloot Executive when enacted betore him by this republican frm; us an uncie \o Thompson he added to that branch of the family exchequer out of ‘Tiiden’s bar’l,” besides de- moralizing the republican organ, whose editor had worse than blood money in his pocket, Your readers will remember what Beilinger’s testimony was on the subject—ali but the ‘uncle’ motive, which we supple- meut according to the fact, and suppose that Goveruor | Grover at least follows the Scriptural injunction to keop a ‘weather-eye” open for bis household, Per- haps belore this epistie reaches your sancium the Presidential die will bo cast ut Washington and logi- cally much of the foregoing may be obsvlete; Lut as we hope that future elections may be held in Oregon it Would be well to ‘dama to tame” those republicans who have proved recreausin this crisis, und tuere 18 no givbet nfore metapnorically bigh than 4 condomnatory Fecord in the tiles of the Chronicle, As addendum to GOVERNOR GROVER'S FAMILY CONNKCTION with the foregoing ‘Tiideo bar’l,” he bas a brother- im-law baw@ed Carter in Portland, a Notary Puplic, wno Was engaged in handling some of tho “bar’l” in the Watts-Crouin case by paying such & class us come be- fore bim aud were willing to swear thal they voted ior Watis and knew atihe sume time that be was Post inaster, &c. To assist in Wis work on the vutwide Cur. ter employed one Daniels, a republican, who a couple of yeurs since held the post of Kevenue luspector as | Sitku, Alaska; bus Collector Berry ior yood and sulli- | cient reasons kicked him out of his billet, since which time he hus been w sorehead ubout bere, culling tor party purity, &e Daniels earned hix dolv of Tideo money by going about in tue style of the “bunko suarps,” aud inveiguing before the avtarial Carter any- body who wus ready to swear tuat be voted tue repub- lioun Wicket and knew that Watts was a Vostmaster, tor Which the swearer received pay for is oath and Dauwis for vringiwg him there. In tuo sume employ wus a ci-devant repaolican oilice-boldur kauwn avout town as “id Billy Adwins,”” who vuce beld the post ut Collector at the port of Astoria, and “yot away’’ with $25,000 velonging to Uncie Sum, which tue government has.been trying Ww recover trom Adams’ bondsinan tor some tims pas Alter bving “neck-wnd-lieeled”’ ous of the Vollectorship *‘Vid Billy’? medo the tour of Kurope, and on his way home stopped a: Puiiadeiphia wou obtained one of ose Loted medical diplomas to | be had there, wheuco be came here aud opened a sort of spiritual bachnouse, udvertising as “A. M.. M.D," in the meauwhile growling because of the corruption of the republican purty, aud joined Carter and Danieis to purity the ‘ty with Cronin, Wo are vot advised | whetner Daniels and Adams were paid per capita ior simulated republican affidavits, or in a “iumping” job for the campaiga. From the way that CARTER DISHKD OUT THK COIN Grover must Lave Veen quite as liveral to his brother- iu-law us to his ropublican nepbew—most hkely more 80, in accordance with afliniy, Iu due order the politics of the etate may cume in review hore, which | is NOL AsMuoth-salling sea for either party. U1 the | shirty odu thousand votes polled bere lust Novemuer there is 4 tuir and square repabliean majority of wbout 500 oF 600 Votes, though at tbat time the republican majority was above 1,200. The Peter Couper vote wis over 500, which was aimost exclusively deawa {rom She democratic ranks by the influeace of Brick Pome- Toy, WHO publisbed w greenback paper ut Cuicago dur- ing sho campaign, which be circulated here umoug “the taibbiul,” woo cuptinue to swear by him ever since he published the La Crosse Democrat during the war, Whea Leo was bis and their uemnigod, Of the re- oantrey. Vote wt jeast 2,000 are of the siuy-wt-bome aud olting sort, Who follow sometimes alter a temperance or other “cantankerous” ticket im number just sullciont to throw the Stato iato the hauds of the “Lost Cause,” as we are dubious will be tue caso at the next state election from rivairy waiter the Sena- torial feshpow. =H, W. Corbett, a hardware merchant of Fortiand, and Jobu H. Mitcuell, the present sena- Jor, are DOLD aspirants to succeed Michell’s place, which expires in 1879, and t to be filled next year. ‘Vhe republicavs of Oregon ure ut present in tho dilom- ma of the wooer in Moore’s song, who ‘could be bappy with either were Uother dear churmer away.” Corbett bas had a taste of tuo billet aud tuacies a taru to bis Old seat, iu which ho is suid to have real- ized a million Jor bis firm ima ‘corner’ on irou vy botag posted inwsenate Committee asto wh: how much tariff was to be piaced on the article time, 10 advance of all ouwiders who were not tors’ Corbett is owner uf the Oregonian newspuper (less @ minority of shares), aud rugs what is known us | TUE “CORBETT WING’ OF THK KBPUBLICAN PARTY, but is not particularly s0 uch wedded to party as ‘he is to place, When he was 4 caudidate ior ro-viection and Mr. Mitcholl “got away” with bin he trieu in ail manner of ways to woo u suilicient number of demo- orals to Join bis republican minority, but “failed Lo counect,”? when bis paper broke off from republican party allegiance und founded an ‘independent’? party, which Bas given the State over to the democrats ur fur the last three years, till Corbett ana his paper wheeled into the republican line lust fali, That he has @ design of again forming a combination with some ring ©. the democracy is apparent trom the course of his paper and editor, who would not have ‘cut up such tantrums’’ in the Cronin affair without his as- seat. When Governur Grover was obosen last fall to succeed Semator Koily from the 4th of March next he bad a burd scratch to squecze through notes at the time, and if tuere is anything in the | charges When Grover appears to be sworn in on the | 4th of woxt month he will bear of it, If the charge sticks upon Senatorial investigation Grover will ve ousted, of course, and there will Lhen be two Senatorial Vacancies from this State, and matters will be ur- ranged amicably between the two republican aspirants, But, it there is only w single Senatorial vacancy belore tho next Legisiatuie, und there should, peradventure, Qo a republican majority (which we fear will not be Lue regult), then the ‘Corbett wing” an THE “qusTOM MOUSE KING’? will beapatter euch otber vigorousiy, Corbett and that Custom House job of his, together with his “corner’’ on iron, will be well ventilated. Ju order to have the Post Othice adjorning suburbs of ihe city, with some real estate specelators, he got an appropriation of more than $500,000 for a Custom House at Portland, and had it erectou ou a terraced knoil nearly 4 mile trom the business part of the city, somothing like a Custom House in San Franeisco would be on some hill out west of Hayes Park, What ever excuse be may oiler for his doubtful fealty to the republican party, that he is @ traitor to thé mercantile interests of Portland, by prostituuing his senatorial position for private advantage in location of the Cus: tom House, is sbametully certain. As Roland for | an Oliver,’ the Mitchell side of the contest, ied on by | the republicans per se. dubbed the ‘Custom House will cateh it from the confederates and Corbett Wing, rebashing the antecedents of the Senator, tho unsatisfactory character of his appointments to fed- eral offices on this coast (in which he is open to severe criticism), his presout championsnip in Congress of tue ortcomings of the Union and - | tral Pacitic railroads, Ac. It there be @ vemocratic majority in the next Legisia- | ture Mitchell will be out of tho contest and Corbett | will try and congloi © enough republicans, inde- pendenis and democrats who muy be influenced vy the effect of bis iron million bo get Senatorial honors.” But the outluok 14 not favorable for hin to hold the bod- rock republicans, a8 bis former tergiversations and tho ated to overcome the idea that he seeks the placo more for its counting house advantages than aught be- side, QUAKER INDIAN TEACHERS, BENEFICENT EFFECTS OF THE SUPERVISION OF INDIAN AGENCIES BY THE ORTHODOX FRIENDS—WHAT MAY BH DONE FOR oun RED BROTHERS THROUGH CAREFUL cHKIS- TIAN INFLUENCES. uNGToN, Feb, 22, 1877. 8 A. Galpin, chief clerk of the Indian Office, has made an elaborate report upon tho condition and man- agement of certain Indian agencies in the Indian Ter- ritory wow under the supervision of the Orthodox Friends, Particular stress is given in the report to the advancement o! education among these tribes. The author of the report feels that the very satisfac. tory exemplification of the indian poliwy which an in- spection of the work in the central superintenaency shows, and the bigh standard which the servi bas atlainod, i due, iu & great measure, to (be went totorest shown by tue Orvhodox Friends in the work, and the direct persooal inilucnce which they have brought to bear upon their represeutatives in tho held. Tho privilege of nominating Indian agents bas bot been considered by them asa great perquisito, but @ great trust CARK IN AELECTING AGENTS, Their nominee tor an ag: random frotw large nu whose pycessi fe teir main recommendation. Nor when once tustailed in office bas such nominee been left to himaseit and permitted to fecl that he is no Fesidence in the southwestern | Phe course of bis paper and editor are not caicu- | tion, with a scant measure of recognition or encoute ment ti the public. On the other 4, the it of the agents and the interest of the Friends mmselves bave been kept up by the services of @ ied Supervising agent of their own appointmeus by the reguiar visits of standing coi mitiecs of their organization. The qualification of | the more respoasibie employés are also examined bv this committee before their appointwent, and the whole conduct of the agent is closely watched. Tuo peculiar character of the service requires just such supervision. Nor is this all. It is an open secret that atiourot the more important agencies the meagra salaries of the agents have been supplomented by pay. ments from the Friends, while liberal donations hava been aud are being constantly made for the eiviliaing and Christianizing part of the work, ONKKOUS DUTIES OF THR AGENTS. Even with the addition of $500 per anoom thug made 10 bis salary, | have yet to neo the agent who 4 overpaid, or even sufficiently paid to make tull com pliance with all the technicalities aud rex Os pres serived for government accownts; 10 be responsible tor the proper care and issue of government properiy, amounting ta some cases to Landreds of thousands of dollars annually; 10 maiutain before Indians, resi« less und suspicious, the authority of the governs lo protect them, without adequate law or without any law whatever, trom the inroads of the miners, timber thieves, horse thieves and other outlaws Who infest the country; to meet their daily wants and complaints out of appropriations always limited and often insuflicient, and, furthermore, to crowd sueb Indians forward in'a mode of lite contrary to all their old traditions and babits, Surely a year of such service as this and more is worth something more than the sum received by an assistant dor. keeper for a few months’ service in the national Capitol. 6 GENERAL KERSHAW EXPLAINS. WHAT THE DISTINGUISHED SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRAT THINKS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL, QUESTION, To Tus Epiror or tue Heraty:— Ip a reported interview with Judge Mackey held by one of your correspondents [ ain represented as ine dorsing Hayes in this language :— “Even though the dearest wish of our bearts be de. featod by the iailure of Mr. ‘Tilden to be declared Press fuent I still have, full faith that with Hayes as the President of the United States justice will be dove throughout the whole land, and giory and honor aud peace will crown our country through bis wise and benign administration of its goverumens, and as (a the question of his title to the Presidency 1 shall bold the Judgment of the high Electoral Commission now sitting at Washington as tinal and authoritative upon all the issues involved in the great and perplexing problem which it has been assembled to solve.’” As the purport of my remarks 1s not correctly stated in thia extract please publish what I know § did say and did mean, I said:—**Atter hearing the rol. emn and carpest assurances of Judge Mackey as to tha declarations made to him by Governor Hayes, of kindly purposes toward the South, our hearts migh® well be cheered with the bopethateven thorgbh our dearest wishes were defeated by the failure of Mr, Tile den to be declared President, with Hayes as President justice would be done,’’ &c., but | added my convice ton that Mr, Tilden would be declared President, and begged to assure the republicans present that in that event every honest citizen of either party, raco or condition would be secured in the {uli enjoyment of every right and privilege, und that ‘throughout the whole land justice would bo done to all, aud the glory, honor and peace of the country be maintained through his wiso and benignant administration of the govern« ment” I said as an American citizen I felt deeply humbled and abasod that the bighest legislative council—the Congress of the United States—had found it nocessary to declare itself so-partisan and corrupt that it was unable fairly and justly to determine, as the constitu. tion required, who had been elected President. But confessing that the fact was so they had dono the next best thing when they constituted the high commission, ‘That I had every coufidence that that body would hoa. estly and impartially decide the question and declaro Mr. Tilden elected, That if, aftor a fair houring, they should decide otherwise, I for one would accept the result, That in my judgment war, whick was the only alternative, was of all things most to be deprecated by our suffering people, and I believed the administration of Mr. Hayes would be powerless for evil to us, That he would not interfere with the military power to rog- ulate the administration of ourown affairs, and ifhe did that he would exeite sueh a storm of pupaiar indigna- tion In the country as would sweep y irom’ power forever him and bis party and repder such maladmine istration impossible for all time. Theso are the sentiments I hold and expressed, and very nearly the words I empidyed last week at Lan- caster, | am nowasadder and in some respects @ wiser man. Very respecttully, yours, J. B. KERSHAW, LON. TIC EXPLORA’ AR FAVORABLE REPORT OF THK COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS ON JHE BILL TO EQUIP AN EXPEDITION FOR POLAR RESEARCH, Wasnincros, D. C., Feb. 22, 1877, Mr. Willis, of New York, from the House Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted a report to-day on the House bill to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic seas, The commitice say the object of the bill is 6o interesting and important in its character that they have, while not neglecting to gravely consider it with reference to its results to sclence and commerce, availed themselves of ail tuformation accessible, and called into requisition the testimony of experience and learning. They discuss tho inquiry whether, uader the constitution or otherwise, to fitout an expedition such as coytemplated would be-an appropriate and legitimate function of the goverumeut for the exerciso of which taxes could be properly levied upoa the people, and, if 60, whothor the uation would get Valug received for tho expenditure incurred and the Nera e inoue ‘proclaiaed wey ihe mtth, and | Seriis to which ite oltizens would be exposed. They Grover bougur voles, and bis vicury “was was | FeViOw the Tosults nttained from the various explore preg Nn epubiicans took carciul | 2B expeditions which, from timo to tine, Have been organized and despatched to tho Arctic regions, and ‘Oxpress grave douvis as to the chances of future suce cess in the enterprise if continued upon the plau heretofore followed, AN ARCTIC COLONY NEEDED. They think that to render success assured the men and the vessels must be near the chanpel by which the vorthwest passage is to be reached at the fortunate, hour aud prepared to take prompt advantage thereo!, Volar colonization is represented Lo be the plau suited to the exigency. This plan requires a colonization party of at least forty hardy, revolute men, enlisted 1 the United States for such service, provided with sappiies Jor at least three years; a strong, substantial butidinis, | transported on sbipvoard, aud the principal depot to be in Lady Frankie Bay, or it possibie as high as Cape Union, between Intivude 82 und S$ deg. ; the United | States'vesseis to bo only used lor transporting mon | and supplies to the location of the colony and to make | annual visits tuereto with fresh supplies and keep tha jouy 1b communication with the outside world; mile itary discipling to be enforced by officers selected tor their fitness for the duty, &c. An astronomer and two. Or more naturalists to be selected by the National | Academy of Sciences, and one of tore members com. | petent to make meteorological observations, The ro+ | gion proposed for the colony abounds im coal and im fish and gamo, and never dolore, the committee say, has an opportunity offered so promising in its resulta | as now presents itsell, ADVANTAGRHS TO BK GAINED. The committee review what uas Leon and ta being done by various foreign nations to attain tue desirabie euds sought by the exploration in question, with a View to progress in sciontitic discoveries, The com. mittee kay that there is scarcely a natural science but would be enlarged and utilized by proper observations in the Polar seas. Natoral jurces there are subject to extreme conditions and cousequen.ly prodace pheno- jueue HOt seen elsewhere, and Which serve to reveal the character of the forces themselves. Wondertal already are the discoveries made in each fleld of quiry voted, but we are yet in the yestivul region of the unknowable ts just beyond, We are in- Vited thither. We know enough to roalize the wealtly which awaits us. Wisk METHODS TO BE ADOPTED But the commitice are of the opinion that to reach the ends desired a complete change of operations must be had, and this change 18 effected in the bill betuco the House and meets the exact need. If we make a y pretence as Irtends of scionve we must pursue Lhe only can be achieved, methods whereby development Bourds of trade and chambers of co! through memorials, invoking the uy to renew the howorable work, ‘The cost is light; the ends arrived at will provoke fo intelligent opposition, The methods proposed are not experimental, but tho Product of experience. They lave the sanction and even the warmest commendation of all scirentitic | men of all natious, The supervision of tha Navional Academy of Seience will insure wike pro- visions and safeguards against accident, dis or failure, Dr. Hayes, the eminent and successful Arotia explorer, coincides tuily with the views expressed by the committe, us also do others familar by wctuat experience, Their lowe 80 Couciusive thas tho | committee make them a part of their report. 1 | committee conclade by saying:—“The boner of the | American pame is involved, Will Congress suppres this jealous spirit of inquiry and adventure or give ib scope by the passage of this bili and & moagre appro- priation of $60,000' ‘To as tt appears ture should be | but one answer, and therefore we report back the bill With (ho recommendation that {t do pass”? THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, Warutvatox, Fob, 22, 1871, To the House of Representatives, in the Commitee of the Whole, Mr, Hewitt, of New York, from the Commitice on Foreign Allwrs, reported a jot resola tion aathorizing the President to accept the statue @ iberty Enughtening the World’ when presented jonger their chosen representa ive and responsibie wo them, but boast ie government official required to wirugglo agaings Bumerous difllcuitios of Lis posi. the French Republic, and to designate a suitaiie sive for said statue on either Governor's or Bedive’s Inland, in the harbor of New Yors, Passed