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. s r ttrf' 1 r jn-.'f rd'iOa of Houe ' ( ia tt)r riot the imrai- , c ,'( L ' 1 " ates," I hereof t, i1 II " cf presentativee, , iu, or a'r 1, n i my objections -' , it s tf A 1''e nate from " , j , r m -j'a , i , as confine 1 ia -jt 1f 1 ia Ita title, - . .t0f Ao act to restrict theimmlgra- ' r c , L rc 1 States." The . ji t ecenre the proposed ob-,jt.t-b uauiuntk number of Chi- ' 3 1' 1 r r ' I r 1 rought to Una ' ' y i. v o o ti f fteen, and, as 'rV, ritlvln ?ny proportion " ft a-1 of V o vessel, or by " ; iji.-n of the safety or acootntnoI T r ; iu, t' e j rinciplfl, purrl ( t tf tno c icuent were ta 1 ' H ,,m ia i taa extent falling f r"-'a1i'-rt r-f i' laohuo exclusion. The 'In ti o n u'tsii now prepent,ani I H ml ut and adJition- ' 'i nvih h at and in terms reII A a 4 Y , i lv tl i-(roveromunt of 5 fr.,i r. of the utaiy vith China, ;.TT,ri7 ciI!("l th Durlmgamo treaty, , ii , nof ti ( Exetu'i.eeDj'oiiied by ,w.. ,.rofi--in of the act ' , i , ct"it', of vihili the raliSca- . ,.1 l.-vd 'atlW.n Nov. 25, IN;'.), r. t!i occasum and motive of its f 1" : o two C. v. . 1 limt'Tit. that 'hc cMc'ii-n-n of the treaty between the I ( f -r j a d he Ta Tsing ,-..,ivtf .cj.ina) of the ISth June, 1S5S, circtimf,. T( srwon showing tlienociwityof adi .1 1 i-1 t1 1 r an I proceeds to an T itjt U' 1 irial a tides. These t. j. 1 ' - t a 1 tii re. eiid.ns 1 v the signature , . la 1 1 s J ' laOS, had for (.i ttt e u i u ' ) 1 of o r treaty rights 1 j ( 1 ti'. 1 I'f Government of t's ly the liiooiporatjon of these new articles, t. ' , i, f t1 e v 1 ( ipal treaty to h Vi-t-v are made supplemental. Upon the Wtu., rules of interpretation applicable to ? j 1 1 i i 1 1 1 ul in 3 10111 the text of the i- 1 ti iv aid cf tin -e "additional it -. t 1 1 3 con- ie tie treaty, from i 1- 'i cf tlie mvi ix a 'tiatious in all 1 i ' 1 , d ai 1 cm t iii ut t lorce and oblih "1 n 1 1 1' 0 to jo 1 m 'nts, aud to alt 1 1 1 1 1 r, j s is k' titraced in one uKrouwiit ft prmcmaJ treaty, cf which the ratifica1 m c 1 m nt A' c l1!, 1SM, recites -1 el1 d v is 1! rieiiea and the 1 Isitis; niipin". iloinr!; to niaintain firm, !a.-!:ntr. and tmiecre fnoiicshm, have resolved t. f nrvv in a numier ciear and positive, by r f a tu . 1 1 f. 1 1 il convention of j-1 j s a 1 t 1 iii e, the rules of i -lif el 1 1 y observed in t;:e uili-mime of their resiecnvo cosintriea," ) il ( ' 1 1 1 j t t 1 1 1 to lay out a 1a oi ' 1 1 1 -isc .sUni "for the ci inn 1 nln1 t mid t 1 o(Ie with C'liina. H n 1 1 1. 1 1 11 1 i 1 10 visions of this tw u'y 11 1 1 line ' -Hunt tlic rights of otir 1.1 i-ii ( ci f nciT.--.i to. residence and 1 i m 1 1 a 'iw, "if in. The actual pit imoiiu 111 our tavor 111 these respects " f 1 1 1 I , a 1 1 im let n found to be, al-'ji.;.: and ajipropruto to tha inter--s of oisr cuiunicrce, and !v the CiiJI' w ai irm we reeeivo the important "t'.iat 6honld at any time the 1 ttt .iiiv nation, the mor- ' "'if 1 df ,ii v n ii, anv right, r r riauicoii'minl ti lerwith navif t n t r ti rce, oiu il, or other intercourse 1 ' t t 01 . 1 1 . tl 1 t! s treaty, such r - M ' "i lfnir t .'1 at onco freely !" ' " v. U tt of 0 Ln.ted Ktates, its 1' ( J. rnuh-iiS and citizens." , t! f1 1 1 0 ft eUL nla 101 s in onr favor, 4 1 ' ' t e 1 mk nt of equality in T - 1 1 , 1 1 f 1 fiiiK.-uMto foreign na- ' 11 1- 'lr 11 -t cf lumanent peace & - ' 1 " "i 'in l nt -eenis to lie the T w ' 1 i 1 1 ie 1 1st article 1111r lie t1 ere 1 'e alwavs been. a lf llilmn, llnl'ml.'.l IJt.l,.., -f i n a 1 1 v 111 e pire, and lc- ' r 1 1 r - 1 ivtt Xbev s!i;Ul not 1 i C;U'h other for any trilling c' ' f: X5 ' ' 1 !1,bi 0 an c-trangomenc bo1 i r i iff li ited states will ei t t l ., n tt t's. Oil l:eni'T infnrmoil r.t 1 '"Ut tit, r - 1' 1. e r o ( , , Mil sm 1. ul do anatige1 t -e1 owi g their fric-ud-V"e,- r'tien. on of this treaty 1 - 1 1 1 K 1 at rante,1 a rnn.iiU r t ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 at ranted a ennsida 1 1 r ' 1 1, h id 1 he advant :s . 1 1 ..int:s fi it tt- feared therefrom r.i'l ix'oime ftini 1 . . ... . . 1 "-3 1 u-iiest, iui tr.ev s tl 11 e subject to be 1,1 ! rl t ill I 1 1 'l-l'i-i ei-i t i,v..,...- ' 1 1 He year Ut'.S was s '01 itif 1 ppontaneeuis l i , -t, c!";ire, licadcd 1 y l4r, , 1 ' , ' , 1' u i.'olingame, who ( f 1 a ( ' ' ' H' tiuh represc!i:;itin (!.. ct '-''!'" in China to assume ; 1 v ' 1 1 'e trrpiro to tlie 1( 4 , " d t c I inwfn na'i iii A I a 1 , ' 1 . .ence, pii'ci't ei r 1 , if, , t . "! i t) a 1 . Ill .l'V t 1 1 t-r itl..rl t i f !,.- i i a f El f win. !- if r rtcfourropi- ' me tii in . nn,u a i. I I E'l. .3 l:lu-1y r,f & 1 Ci t i i.tiaeivo irsr t:.f-v a! . irtd , 1 III "l"'V , ,, .) ....... .. . wr t ' f ( r ci-- i f.-v-.It 'i;.';'r m i-. ' v. , 3i i, 1 a 1 s v'i a'd ' i. iii!-.. j', ! '. i nr.:,.. ? " '-l.'..it"l l , ) s ctr 1 v.i i- ... r I :.er- l..,d t c r ' :. .j r. " ti d. d. v i.'.i a 1 ttt 1 r 1- ' " 'in in , :- 1 oI 1! f ' " ' - t ! 1 i. ' i i m 4 5 ( If i A f x ( H'...n I I 11 C ' It " t 1 1 c r I t r " e J l r 'V tj t r i t if it ! a c: . ' c ' 1 l

' GLUME VII.

forced nl e-frvila importation, and not for a voluntary emigration of freemen seeking onr ehores upon motives and ia a manner consistent with the fytteia of our iustitQtioE"! an J upproved, by ih9 csi:eneiico of the ri.atI;.;rL Va questinab!y the adherence of the Government of China to ibs9 liberal priacfples of freedom in ensigratioa with wLica we were eo familiar, and with wliicli we were eo well satisfied, was a great advance toward openiiig that empire to oar civilizition and religion, and gave promise in the future of greater and greater practical results in the diffusion throughout that great pop-ilaticn of otir arts and industries, our manufactures, our material improvements, and the eenttmcnta of povernmout and religion, which eeem to xt so important to the wel fare of mankind. The first clause of tins article secures this acceptance by China of the American doctrines of free emigration to r.'tit from among the peoples and races of the ear tit. The second clause, however, in its reprobation of "any other than an entirely voluntary emigration" by both the high contracting parties, and in the reciprocal obligations whereby we secured the solemn and unqualified engagement on the part of the Government of China, to pass lasts making it penal cfl'enso for a citizen of the United States or Chinese subjects to take Chinese subjects either to the United States or to any other foreign eo tin try without their free and voluntary consent, constitutes the great force and value of this article. Its importance both in principle and isi its political service toward our protection against servile importation in the guisa of immigration cannot be overestimated. It commits tlie Chinese Government to active and efficient measures to Buppress this iniquitous system where those measures are most necessary and can be most cflectuaL It gives to the Government a footing of treaty right to such measures and means, and opportunity of insisting upon their adoption, and of complaint and resentment at their neglect. The fifth article, therefore, if it fall short of what the pressure of later experience of our Pacific "States may urre tipon the attention of ihis Government as essential to public welfare, ferns to be in tho right direction, aud to contain important advantages whichr once relinquished, cannot bo easily recovered. The second topic which interested the two Governments tinder the actual conditions ' of things which prompted the Burlingame treaty was the adequate protection tinder solemn and dehnite guarantees of the treaty of Chinese already in this country and those who should seek our shores. This was the object and forms the subject of the sixth article ,by whose reciprocal engagement the citizens and subjects of tho two Governments respectively visiting or residing in the country of the other are secured the same privileges, immunities, or exemptions there enjoyed by tho citizens or subjects of the most favored nations. The treaty of IS.")?, to which these articles are made supplemental, provides for a great amount "! privilege and protection both of the persons and property of American citizens in Oiina. But it is upon the sixth article that the main body of the treaty-rights and securities of tlie Chinese aircitly'in this country depend. Its abrogation, were tlie rest of the treaty left in force, woaJd leave them to etich treatment as we should voluntarily accord them by our laws and customs. Any" treaty obligation would bo wanting to restrain our lilerty of action toward them, or measure or sustain the right of the Chineso Government to redress in their behalf. The lapse of ten 3-ears tince the negotiation of the Burlingame" treaty has exhibited to tlie notice of the Chinese Government, as well as to our own people, tho working of this experiment of immigration in great numbers of Chinese laborers to this country, and their miintenance here r.t all traits of race, religion, manners and customs, habitation, Eiodo of life, segregation here, and the keeping up of the ties of their original home, which stamp them as strangers and sojourners, and not as incorporated elements of our national life and growth. This experience may naturally suggest a reconsideration of the subject as dealt with by the Buriicgame treaty, and may properly become tho occas-ion or more direct and circumspect recognition in renewed negotm. . us of tho difficulties surrounding this political and social problem. It may well be that, to the apprehension of the Chinese Government no less than our own, tlie simple provisions of the Burlingame treaty may need to be replaced by more careful methods, securing the Chinese aod ourselves against a larger and more rapid iuf usion of this foreign race than our system of industry aud society can take up and assimilate with ease and safety. This ancient Government, ruling a polite and sensitive people, distinguished by a nigh sense of national pride, may properly desire tho adjustment of their rtdations without which would in all things confirm and in no degree endanger the permanent peace, and amity, and growing commerce, and prosperitv, w hich it has been the object- and effect of our existing treaties to cherish and perpetuate. I regard the very grave discontents of the people of the Pacific States with the present working cf the Chinese immigration, and their still graver apjrehensions therefrom in tlie future, as deserving the most serious attention of the people of tlie whole country, and a eolicitons interest on the part cf Congress and the Executive. If this were not my own judgment the passage of this bill by both houses of Congress would impress upon me the seriousness of tlie situation, when a majority o the representatives of the people of the "whole country h id thought it necessary to justify so serious a mi a jure of relief. The authority f Congress to terminate a treaty with a foreign power by expressing the will of the nation no longer to adhere to it ia aa free from controversy under our constitution n h the fur'l rr pivpo?-i iv-u f-at V. 3 yv- tr cf ir.iM- g new tr'.it.is t-r r""d.fjiV ei-fl"g t'l1..'.! s i 1 t h.j--l ty t'10 1. ,-i' 11 ;-i Cor. ;re, lut ia the PreM hr.t tyar.d r.ht:,o a Ivi, a . 1 cnii"f'iit of t'.i. vV'iiU- asphov.n by t!. e-ui ".nrenee of t."-t"- t.Uot tl. bi . A th 1ur.11 i'.oh cf a tr tv br any (..on.rni.ieut -y j 1h if t nlv T" on s, r:e rivsn. In L" jt:.--..o thft Lushest net-esMty. lha action of Gon--t'liit o 1 1 1; c I il. 1 I .-ci n t.e- hs ia IT', S if it be r as an abrt ,'atik'ii ly this until a of tho nl m-'iu" trv..ty, etior'Iy 1 ,i-t! .V s V e c' it-' ra.idd -M-f j.i .1ti n w !iK ii v a then thought su table to such a T ri-ct 1." '. 'I! a j it. -.Pi I le tf 0 e actrtc:' 3 cnlH-hlded ! ii c; t 0 1 1 11: ..- Live 1 1 1 11 r peatery w V of tu 1 reiu'li Ooveru1 tf a Ui . c 1 t z.-- -i f .r ir ;u-iei so c 'J ini 'ill 'f 1 1.. 1 .r a.; 1. 'Mbu;. ."3 Ul.lt. 1 !- V '.tti d i ,. a . th. rf I J I ''111. b:. 1 : r is yet p 1 I" t . 1 c:' V ft 1:

PAOLI, ORANGE CO., INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1879.

principldthatad-iminciiilonof a part of a treaty not made by the terms of the treaty itself separate from the refit is a denunciation of the whole treaty. As the other high cnitractinjj party has entered into no treaty obhat.oiiS except such as include the part denounced, the denunciation by-one party of the part necessarily liberates the other party from the whole treaty. I am convinced that whatever urgency might in any quarter or by any interest he supposed to require tlie iuat.u.t suppression of further immigration from Ciena, no reason can require the immediate withdrawal of our treaty protection of the Chinese already in this country, and no circumstances can tolerate an exposure of onr citizens in China, merchants or missionaries, to the consequences of so sudden an abrogation of their treaty protection. Fortunately, however, the actual recession in the flow of "immigration - from China to tho Pacific coast, shown by trustworthy statistics, relieves us from any apprehension that the treatment of the subject in the proper course of dtplouiatic negotiations will introduce any features of discomfort or disturbance among "the communities directly affected. Were such delays fraught with more inconveniences than have ever been suggested by the interests most earnest in promoting this lejtisLarion, I cannot but regard the summary disturbance of our existing treaties with China as vastly more inconveniout to much wider aud more permanent interests of the country. I have no occasion to insist upon more general considerations of the interest and duty which sacredly guard the faith of the nation in whatever form of obligation it may have been given. These sentiments animate the deliberations of Congress and pervade the minds of our whole people. Our history gives little occasion for any reproach in this regard, and in asking the renewed attention of Congress to this bill I am persuaded their action will maintain publio duty aud public honor. It B. Hayes. Executive Mansio.v. March 1, JS79. CUE A P MA. TRIM OX I". Yesterday afternoon, says the Free Pi'ess, while a Detroit Justice of the Peace sat warming his feet by the stove, and his nose by a cigar, a stranger entered and presently inquired : "Judge, how much will you charge me to read about fifteen lines of printed matter from a book I have ?" "Why, can't you read them?' replied his Honor. "I can, but I want to hear how the lines sound when read aloud. I'll give you a quarter to read them to me." "All right," replied the Justice; "I can't earn two shillings any quicker." A woman opened the door at that moment, and the stranger put down the book on the desk, clasped her hand, and said : "Begin at- the pencil-mark there, and read slowly." His Honor's chin dropped exactly eighteen inches by dry measure as he saw that the reading matter was the usual form of marriage, but he didn't back down from his word. It was the cheapest marriage he ever attended, and he didn't half enjoy the chuckles of the bride and groom as they went out. ' FE3IA.Z,E society. What makes those men who associate habitually with women superior to others? What makes that woman who is accustomed and at ease in the society of men superior to her sex in general? Solely because they are in the habit of free, graceful conversations with the other sex. Women in this way lose their frivolity; their faculties awaken; their delicacies and peculiarities unfold all their beauty and captivation in tlie spirit of intellectual rivalry. And the men lose their pedantic, rude, declamatory or sullen manner. The coin of the understanding and the heart is changed continually. The asperities are rubbed off, their better materials polished and brightened, and their richness, like gold, is wrought into finer workmanship by the fingers of women than it ever could be by those of men. The iron and. steel of their characters I are hidden, like the harness and armor j of a giant, in studs and knots of gold j and precious stones, when they are not I vented in act;:;.! w -rf--jiad oxi: good roixr. At tlr:.ri. ii J v :, : :-?y : A country .lupr en tors, greatly incensed. " Holy r.Io:-cs, 1 ut thr.t wy.b a fine tom-t-.-'t of a t:ncr you ?;t J.ie! " "How?" " Oh, a velvtt-v.-.k-.d dow:y lie is, I tre f, zu t u J. IL 1.1 4 i 'ut. iSczl that lie in 1 -- :Tt lv. you tell mo, Y, Vl .e able to 1... j.JL l A ..X t

THE STOLEN rHHSIDEXCY. He-port of tin Potter 1ve Exhibit of tli Abandoned and Isfestalleia Politic The Florida and Louisiana Conf?piracie Traced from Their reception to Their Triumph. Washington, D. C, March 4. Son. Clark son N. Totter, Chairman of the committee appointed by the House of representatives to investigate the frauds in connection with the late Presidential election, on Saturday l.3t eubmiited a report which he had prepared to the committee, and it -was adopted by a vote of six Democrats to three Republicans, Gen. Butler being absent The three republicans Hiscock, Cox and Heed will prepare a minority report. Mr. Potter's report is necessarily lonir, aa it deals with all the points that have been before the committeo except tho cipher dispatches, which will be made the subject of a separate report, and will be presented to the committee to-morrow. IJj. Totter's report ia regarded by those who have perused it as singularly hnparfal They say it is entirely devoid both of rhetorical ornamentation and vituperative denunciation and derives its force solely from a close lofrieal deduction of facta presented to the committee. Some of the Democrats regard it as wanting in color, or not as strongly expressed aa the facts warrant, and it is not unlikely some member of the committee belonging to the party will present an addi ional expression of their views. The report of Mr. Potter, in opening, seta for tii what it was proper for Congress to investigate, and what not, and the difficulty of conducting an investigation into conspiracies which have been successfully carried out while the successful party remains in power. It admits that the confessions of the conspirators who have becoma diesatisfied is worth little, hut point to the fact, not generally understood, that about tne essential features of the election and canvass in Florida and Louisiana there is no substantial dispute before the committee th republicans having called no witnesses in liorida and few in Louisiana, except as to tho conduct of the visiting statesmen, and incidentally about intimidation. It dismisses entirely the testimony of Anderson, Jenks, Mrs. Jenks, Weber, and that class of witaeswea, and deals with the ease upon general and controlling facts alona The report is dividod into three parts, the first of which refers to Florida, the second to Louisiana, and the third to the

iuioa electoral certmcate. Beginning with Florida, it cites the law directing the Presidential electors to be appointed by the votes cast, and the Canvassing Board to canvass the votes cast, and claims that the Tiiden electors, having received a majority of the rotes cast ia this State, were thereby necessarily entitled to be declared elected, and that the Canvassing Board, by rejecting without warrant of law a portion of the votes, so as to show a majority for Hayes, unlawfully counted Tilden out. It states that the canvassers delayed their announcement until the morning of the ' day the e'.ectors were to meet and vote, bo, although action was instantly taken to oust the Hayes electors, no decision could be had until the Hayes electors had met that same day at noon and voted. The report then recites the judgment of the Supreme Court, which subsequently decided the Hayes electors were not elected, nor entitled to cast the vote of the State, and that the Tilden electors were; and also the i'udgment of the court on the action brought by )rew, the Democratic candidate for Governor, to obtain a recanvass where the courts directed a recanvass, and decided that the canvassers, in refusing to count the votes cast, had defrauded Dre , and unlawfully seated Stearns. The L3gislature of the State thereupon directed a recanvass of the electoral vote in accordance with this decision of the Supreme Court, the Judges of which were Republicans, and the recanvass showed the Tilden electors chosen. The Governor then issued hit certificate to the Tilden electors as the true electors, but the Electoral CommiEsion refused to consider the judgment of the court, the action of the Legislature, and the certificate given by the Governor in favor of the Tilden electors, and held that it could not take notice of any action by a State after the tith of December. The report draws attention to the fact that such a wrong might be repeated in any State at any Presidential election by the canvassers withholding the announcement, of the result of the election until the day fixed for the meeting of the Electoral College, and then declaring persons who had never been voted for at all to be electors, when, according to this decision, such electors would be entitled irrevocably to cast the vote of a State. It, therefore, recommends a law providing that, where there is a dispute as to who were the real electors of any State, judgment of its court of last resort certified to Congress before the meeting of the two houses of Congress to receive and count the electoral vote shall be conclusive a-s to the right of disputing electors, and of wnich vote from the State shall be count ad, unless the two houses of Congress shall otherwise agree. The report then argues that the action of the Canvs?sing Board was not only illegal but fraudulent, and citee an instance in which they rejected Democratic votes on unwarranted grounds, and refused to reject fraudulent republican votes. Is deals at length with tlio claim of the republicans that they were entitled to the vote of the State on the face of the returns by reason of the Drigger fraud, by which a bogus return from Baker county was furnished the Canvassing Board, which they at first rejected, but which, after they were ordered to count the vote as cast, they f raudulently took in place of the true return. It tiaen deals with the conduct of the visiting statesmen, and particularly that of Gen. Noyes. aa contrasted with that of Gen. Francis C. Barlow, whose fidelity to all his obligations and iategiity, and independence, fairness and truth the report especially coniiaends. In ietrl to Ijori-.ani, the report lerh-.s with aiit re Tii t'." a.-r -i fovrr pi ly tL j Ih t :r..r g"! - ia: i, w ' h, it, ns, never l--' "3 cxi-. d ti-1? !.--i Ut riicl ,- tors and iv rci.'g c rs 1 tld tie pit-' -t powfr over the rtctiviri'r and co"nt. 1 ; of to j i-v- . UnJ r th rifttxt tl t h.e cout Lre .hv;.". 1 t' r political ptrii-'s V. -y V -v Ind r ril V ii t -i.ver 1 -,.1 ?-i -5-.. '' .-!" ' v.-.v. r t f fin f I' 3 i " ns, ml I c. 1 I 'i ( 1 p " 1 Ira Ihp. I, i 1 C'Ji'ii:'. e of tie i'orty-t..:rd Congrt v h.c'i I a 1 tepoi ted that the ; . ,,. j.; I i f ',.3 J' .'-! I" : ( ".-d, a: d "' .e cf tl 1 1.. aa w . cs . iv t v .h-.i i r 1- tri.iti i..i lv74, t'.o l..-.d rent the s it i .3 i 1 whi t f . r1I' 1 rsi'r I tor ta T' 1 0 ICS t a ti jt ' 1 1 -tC I ' . - - t Ti ' 1 1 ' t. n '. !?. lit. a jC ut a -r t "t n i if j ! " 1 , f 1 1 1 -a ; 3 0 t tirl I 1 3 f . '1 x t" ort r i ' "I i 5 - ' i IT f f : . to i s : r 1 r--1 111 v t " f it 1 1, I , V (C1 Tj 1 T t " 1 1 .

sary nutr.her of Democratic votes. As a pretext for this usurpation tbey obtained protests from certain parishes wldct tliey picked "but aa the parishes in wh;cli to pietend intimklation had taken place. These pirihea were all largely of negro population, which the Lremocrats had fairly carried. The report then deals with the question of intimidation, and argues tb&t it was impossible for Democrats to gain anything by it, because the Returning ikiard tad been created en purpose to neutralize any such action by throwing out votes in localities where it should prevail. It recites outrageous conduct of the same Retaraisg Board in that respect in 1ST4, and how its action had been condemned by the Forty-third Congress, giving instances where the board had counted in officials without color of right men whom the Congressional committea had caused to be turned out and their places given to Democrats. The Democrat knew that they not only could gain nothing by intimidation, but that they could only hope for some show of justice bv avoiding anvthins

which might be made a pretense fcr alleging it The report then recites the efforts that were made throughout tlie State by the Democrats to conciliate the black vote, showing by the evidence of Republican witnesses, as well as the testimony of gentlemen of character, as well as Gov. Whitfield, Low planters combined with negroes to get tip clubs of both colors, and referred to promises and assurances made to negroes even to equality in cars, theaters, etc, far outrunning the Republicans. The leaders having joined the Democrats, the whole mass of negroes camo in and became quite enthusiastic supporters, and thus the vote in some of the so-called bulldozed parishes was the Tery largest ever cast As to the conspiracy in East Feliciana parish, the report states that, after the Democrats had conciliated the negroes there, Eellegg wanted Anderson, who was a Supervisor, to have no election, and Anderson fraudulently ran away with that view, to furnish an excuse for throwing the parish out. The parish was thrown because the Supervisor of Registration absented himself on election day, notwithstanding the other officer held the election and made one return of the vote. The Democrats in East Feliciana, knowing that they had captured the negro vote, hire 1 Anderson to go back and hold an election. Ihe Republicans then hit upon a new plan, aud directed their friends in the parish not to vote, so as to pretend intimidation and exclude the parish. They sent out word to their followers not to come" to the polls, refused to permit any tickets to be printed or circulated, and. exercised their influence to withhold their own vote entirely. Eighteen hundred registered votes were cast, and 451 more, which Andeison had prevented from teing registered, made about 2,oQ0 votes cast, all Democratic, but not one Republican would vote, though urged to do so. The whole vote of the pariah at tue previous elections on both sides had not exceeded 2,500. The Republicans purposely withheld from casting any vote at all, and tubsaquently made the claim that they had been intimidated and could not vote, and the Eetnrntog Board, on this protest purposely prearranged, excluded the vote of the parish. The report then refers to the supplementary papers obtained from Anderson and Dan Weber, both of whom were known by the Republicans to be for sale; that, after these Supervisors had made return that there was no violence in their parishes, they were induced to make supplementary protests, and that they both confessed they did this because of reward. In other parishes, where officers had seen and certified to a perfectly fair election, Kellogg, by pressure, exacted like false protests. The report then goes on to state how the Rturning Board, having got possession of such unlawful protests, proceeded to take the evidence of United States officers, money being used to bring ignorant negroes from interior fields into a great city where they were herded together, taken before officials, "and had affidavits written down for them, to whicb, upon making their marks, they received their fees and were sent home. The process of manufacturing these affidavits ia set forth to show how the negroes were impos d upon, and how worthless tne affidavits were. As an illustration of how utterly reckless the Returning Board was in considering evidence, it points out that, in East Feliciana, only twentyfctx witnesses to any kind of disturbance could be collected. The disturbances to which they testified had arisen from cotton-seed and other thefts by negroes, and their suppression, which had been conducted by leading Republicans, Lad nothing to do with politics, and although this, and tlie act that the election was entirely peaceable and the Republicans purposely refused to vote, was shown by 1,200 witnesses, and although four-fifths of the negroes in the parish actually did vote with the Democrats, the Returning Board threw out th whele vote. The report points out a great many ether instances of what it styles the fraudulent, outrageous and desperate character of the Returning Board, and shows the impossibili y of their considering the testimony before them, a3 they had more than cpuld be read by a man reading ten hours a day for two weeks. Tlie report states that the Returning Board would never have so outraged the people but for their encouragement from the visiting statesmen, and the support which they and the troops gave them. Ihen follow details how some of the visitors were deceived by the local managers, and innocently co-operated in the frauds of the Returning "Board, while others did not It refers very briefly to the alleged bargain by which Hayes, who had 3,C00 votes less than Packard, got counted in, while Packard went out, and mentioned Sherman's offei-s to prove intimidation, but points out that whenever the committee offered to receive it the evidence was not produced, and they were met by some sham excuse for not producing it; how they had examined many of the witnesses that were before the Returning Board, who, ia almost every instance, recanted and explained how they came to make their false aGdavits in the first" place, and how such statements as they Eilab'f 'sife Rctcmrg B -ir i were tohihy uufjimded. It thfn retcrs to tle fcberran letter, in rc'ii'l to whiih it s ly er s tl e fae's as they :.- 1, showing that a 1- iter was art ai hj written, and hirJy iu I i ccvl poh' .-il ac on Lt Ijou -..i-:-5, v-..M-er .",' 'I i , e id 'r s' .-..l'h.n to ll o t lti i if:t f terr1: "i I y Mr. . J--.L-i, v s"-- 1 1:- i- ', 11 ::t ':- er are euii i 'yes of t e Trt ry Dtprt - rr.t, to i ilti. e the cemmutc-e t pi - u'-a , f-.c'J letter. The Fl.ir;i7i v-ri'. "i cf t e repcit is I !- lowed by a h-at of all p.r coi.nc d w. a V e elvnn tl Pre wi o Lave beta KT-;'i,.trd to e "ce. aad Celsr' .riK.i;i.:ilTac .1 -tr 1 tcf k--, itiii'''.: I'ir.-," iti-i iic - l.-i t -d p:ti cf t. e r .1 a v. . 3 f. ' Z .1 LtUuTJ ' t'OTT.lV : -.'ti lti .3 hi r. t - 1? IY J'-1 La-.: : n..'" 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connected with the forg' ry have l n 7 p- vl toof:i:e, and the snspicu" orrumi. a connected with the appoint.ner-t c t.,e e-j 1 E articular! y ciiargss that Kcf and C'irk, is private eecret&ry, cre privy to t..e l:grie. The report calls attei fun iy the t'ar -rr cf Ketarcing Board, and t .e preattr t: c controiiiug elections and j it;i ''tirg Cariii'- g Boards by Federal troc- , and, ab.'re fed, to t .e crowning danger with hitl the country i threatened, by reason of the enormous patronagecentered ia the Preaiiacy, v. .(.ii'makii the Presidential office si great t. at, 11 o'cr ti control it, the grossest frauds at I vi V..ons cf law may be expected oa the r&ri t f tlcc9 tr dedire to prcit by that patronagta. cosra ions. It concludes with f.nd.r? that fr"l erect was not given to the electoral vc.s cf Iloiida, and Louisiana; that Noyes, Sherman and others eueouraged this result; that the second certilc&te front Louisiana was forged as to two cf its names, Keuogg ana Ciarfc being pnvy to it; and that Tilden and Hendricks receved a true majority of electoral votes, and were tlie real choice of the people at the last Presidential election. Btenger, in all probability, will not r.:.i'ne a separate report, but will add "an expression of Lis views upon certain paints in the tostimony t Mr. Potter's report The Republican members of the committee have declined to make any part of their report public until after the meeting of the committee to-morrow morning. U50RITY EEPOIIT. tJeru Butler's Conclusions. Tsns Cotmrrxo In of Hates Obtained bt a Szeies of Gitoss Frauds. Wabhingtok, Jtarch 5. ,Gen. Butler says, in his report upon the Totter investigation : " I have chosen to examine only the polit;cal and party action of both parties, their leaders and their manipulation of the election in the State of Louisiana, where it would seem every form of wrong, misconduct, and outrage possible to be done ia an election ia alleged to have been committed on one side or the other." The General concludes that in 1ST6 there was no full and free election by the whole body of electors of the Stato of Louisiana, and that the electoral vote of that Stato ought not therefore to have been counted ia favor of either candidate for the Presidency; that, if any legal election was held in Louisiana, then the majority of the votes actually cast in the State were for the Tilden electors and for Gov. Nicholls; that in case the vote of the State is counted at all the votes of the " bulldozed parishes," as they were called, were within the fair and just exercise of the jurisdiction of the Returning Board, to be rejected in the proper exercise of their judgment, with the exception of some few polling precincts not material to the result; that in parte of the State other than said bulldozed parishes, where full campaign was made by both political parties, the majority of votes were cast for Packard for Governor, and a portion of the Tilden electors, leaving two or more Hayes electors elected; that such a count and return would have given full expression to the will of the people in such parts of the State as were not affected by coercion and violence in favor of Packard, and against two or more of the Hayes electors, which would have given the Presidency to Tilden, as would have been the case if the whole vote of the State had been rejected by both houses. The declaration by loth houses of Congress that under the circumstances theS'ateof Louisima should not be counted for cither candidate would have been the best possible result to the country, because it would have taught a lesson to over-zealous partisans that elections cannot be carried either by force or intimidation at the pills or bv frauds m returns, so as to avail the successful cmdidate; and if so carried by either the vote would be rejected by the final counting tribunal. On the contrary, under the rulings of the Electoral Commission, if they are accepted as the governing law, every encouragement is given to reckless, strenuous partisans to carry their States either by force or by fraud; that the Electoral Commission, as constituted, has afforded no practical solution of the constitutional difficulties attending the count of the electoral votes in disputed States, and that an exigency again arisii g like that of IS"! will surely lead to revolution; that tho appointment of the Electoral Commission was wholly beyond and outside of the constitution, and its determination oufrht to have no legal force or effect; that the appointing of Judges of the Supreme Court upon such political formation had clone great harm to the cause of jutic3 by impairing the reverence that the people have always ju.-t!y had for th integrity of the decision of that court of causes between party and party, and iu undermining the popular estimate of the stern impartiality of the court, that in all questions it will do equal and exact justice under the law to evtry citizen, and in view of its ilhsuccesa the eiperiment ought never to be tried aain. The result has shown thai it is against public policy, and tends to bring the elements of corruption into pch.i Oil method; of action, to send semi-official partisans of large political influence on one side or the other, or both, into States for tlie purpose of controlling or advising either in regard to how its electors shall vote, or -to advise as to the manner in . which the votes of States shall bo returned and counted; that the counting-La of Haves was obtained by a series of gref and unjustifiable irregularities and frauds, which cannot be too" emogfy condemned and reprobated; that, if any titleto the Governorship of Louisiana resulted froai the late election is that Slate to r.-v one, i a t G jv. Packard, -who was 1 - -1 v t. 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The Apprtiocmer.t lili ws brought up directly afttr tl e tssetnbling of the Senate i.d h-- d, K ' i Davis votinjr-witli the Denic era.-. Ill e i ... reorganizing the benevolent ii.H'ttutiortt mi a!t . taken up and passd with the aid of s. 1 auir Pavis. . . .Two legalizing bills were taken up and passed, and then the L.it to rcft;.l t: .t portion of tlie law on the j-..:j,--t cf insurance which requires the jut ligation of the semi-anuual f-ta-t r-i; i,;- (t foreign insurance coiEpai.:fS ! 11 1 L-.-.-ness in tliis State in the two Ifvhr-g u f Indianapolis, was taken np&rditc ii . -:. ti occDpied most of the remainder of the session. The bill was so amended as to rcq-'.t-e thn p.i--lication of the statements in a kly pa r r-f Indianapolis to be chosen by the compfeny, mui pnxf of puch publication is to be ..' I i 1 X.office of the Auditor of the r.to. After !.' so amended the bill was ord- red 'i: r d Senators Burrell and Davis were appointed a conference committee on the pait cf tuC i1- ii'" on the Apportionment biiL House. A number of committee reports were received and acted upon. . .'.Bills passed: Regulating the practice of medicine; eeeuiiug priority to claims of laborers against corporations in certain cases: in relation to the Lpoition to be made of township funds; pivirg colored children the same school prtvileg u as white children; compelling compani'8 which have received grants" of portions cf tho old national road to complete their roads: rep elating the transaction of butdoebs ia thi State by express companies; anthorizir;g Jnstires to appoint some persons to bold court for them when unable to do so themselves.... Tlie Senate amerdmen's to the House bill reorganized the lienevolent institutions were concurred in.... The House Apportionment bill, as amended by the Senate, was taken up aii-i the Senate amendments thereto were read, wdien the House refused to concur in the-earno and asked for a committee of conference. The Speaker appointed Messrs. English and Onlton as such committee on the part of the House. .. . The military bill failed to pass. Wednesday, March 5. Sekatk. A conference report upon the Interest bill was discrsased and not agr fid to, a new conference com mi tee being called for. . . .Several Honso bills were passed, mostly legalizing ones. .The bill appropriating SiOO.UX) for tlie new State Mouse was considered, and, without reaching a vote, made the ppeciai order for to-morrow morning. House. Bills passed: Tho Specific Approfiriation bill, which appropriates $ U.7..V ') ; inuring fines in contempt cases to and permitting appeals when the tine is over I; ; establishing a Bureau of Statistics, and appropriating ;j,000 for ita enpiort; permuting counties to vote aid o railroads; providing for the government of State's prison, and establishing an Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. The bill ia relation to publishing insurance statements was indefinitely postponed .. . .Tho Congressional Apportionment bill failed to pass, the vote thereon being a tie ... .1 ho request of the Senate for a conference committeo on the Interest bill was agreed to. Tttubsdat, ilarch fi. Senate. The Stnte took up the repoit of the cont renco cor. iiVl o on tl a Lcgi-hihve Ayr rf v 1 t ! J, t 1, after son. e hhhr-ttr'ivr, T a--" ! it Ti f c 1ferei rc r'port non tl 'tvi1 ut h ln(i"-i-curred in. Ihe rate was fixed at u per c nt, vih ccdrri t rne of fr t 1 he b 1' ia a'so p.is 1 to su! n, t o . 1 . ''A lru 'it.t'.tK 1 1 t i 7 'i f t t t A K 1 'i of lw Ihe Sijf il u-e I i'l Minfi'i. I ti a rpetial cott 'I'i-o. . . .' ho ( -!-!: 1 p1 ortnnmciit Lid oc ltd th" r i. d- :if I j M-t-in H-h 1. Tl c r-por' i of tho c )rf ir'ii r. cr ' -rri'tt-cs on tho Ijc y daieajp rt 0 '.trt ,"1 Interest bills were takea up and rout-urn d i.i. ....The bill fixir- the tir,r rf hold.r : t' tiiu to rat ty wi',-: t '11 tl an.i n ! 'H r tse 1. .. .J. it i' -'j'a i'ii'i an1 ' Governor to return trie Morgan raid fiainiff t--their on uers, and anihorizn g 1! o t ' . r t of a comp' f t t pet -. to irv v t' o i "' , Calumet and Beaver rivers panned I us Coa-frresi-ional Ar por'.nr rs :.t lid w .s tl i I a'tcran nc g d ' t,'r, n .t I 1 h i - .' iere indiVi-1 ia I v s-f 1 1 ru r j1. n... 1 . 1 srrea!-o i ' s 1- Ai . -l ,,Tt " f '1 ti A-,s'-ror;tonsv.: 1 a 1-i.ii i ofo'i : t -- a'e; k ',"ii- -, j sxemptnjr l,Mt) w e e et.on ul ! 1 iirv i. . 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