there were no county officers, no registration, no notice of the election, and where the Republican party, therefore, did not vote.

Also the facts of the election in the third precinct of Key West giving 342 Democratic majority, where the Democratic inspector carried the ballot-box home, and pretended to count the ballots on the next day, outside of the precinct and contrary to law.

Also the facts of the election in Hamilton, where the election officers exercised no control over the ballotbox, but left it in unauthorized hands that it might be tampered with.

Also the reasons why, the Attorney General of the State, William Archer Cocke, as a member of the Canvassing Board, officially advised the Board, and himself voted, to exclude the Hamilton county and Key West precinct returns, thereby giving, in any event, over 500 majority to the Republican electoral ticket, and afterwards protested against the result which he had voted for, and whether or not said Cocke was afterward rewarded for such protest by being made a State judge.

The Oregon bribery and corruption.

And that said committee is further instructed and directed to investigate into all the facts connected with an alleged attempt to secure one electoral vote in the State of Oregon for Samuel J. Tilden for President of the United States, and Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice President, by unlawfully setting up the election of E. A. Cronin as one of such presidential electors elected from the State of Oregon on the 7th of November, the candidates for the presidential electors on the two tickets being as follows:

On the Republican ticket: W. C. Odell, J. C. Cartwright, and John W. Watts.

On the Democratic ticket: E. A. Cronin, W. A. Laswell, and Henry Klippel.

The votes received by each candidate as shown by the official vote as canvassed, declared, and certified to by the Secretary of State under the seal of the State-the Secretary being, under the laws of Oregon, sole canvassing officer, as will be shown hereafterbeing as follows:

W. K. Odell received..
John C. Cartwright received.
John W. Watts received..

E. A. Cronin received..
W. B. Laswell received..
Henry Klippel received...

15,206 votes. .15,214 .15,206

14,157 ..14,149 .14,136

And by the unlawful attempt to bribe one of said legally elected electors to recognize said Cronin as an elector for President and Vice-President, in order that one of the electoral votes of said State might be cast for said Samuel J. Tilden as President and for Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice President; and especially to examine and inquire into all the facts relating to the sending of money from New York to some place in said Oregon for the purposes of such bribery, the parties sending and receiving the same, and their reiations to and agency for said Tilden, and more particularly to investigate into all the circumstances attending the transmission of the following telegraphic dispatches:

Also the following: "Ladd & Bush, Salem: "Funds from New York will be deposited to your credit here to-morrow when bank opens. I know it. Act accordingly. Answer. "W. C. GRISWOLD." Also the following, six days before the foregoing: "New York, November 29, 1876. "To J. H. N. Patrick, Portland, Oregon :

"San Francisco, December 5.

"Moral hasty sideral vizier gabble cramp by hemistic welcome licentiate muskeete compassion neglectful recoverable hathouse live innovator brackish association dime afar idolator session hemistic mitre." [No signature.]

Of which the interpretation is as follows:

"New York, November 29, 1876. "To J. H. N. Patrick, Portland, Oregon:

"No. How soon will Governor decide certificate? If you make obligations contingent on the result in March, it can be done, and slightly if necessary."

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[No signature.]

Also the following, one day later: Portland, November, 39, 1870. "To W. T. Pelton, No. 15 Gramercy Park, New York: "Governor all right without reward. Will issue certificate Tuesday. This is a secret. Republicans threaten if certificate issued to ignore Democratic claims and fill vacancy, and thus defeat action of

Governor.

One elector must be paid to recognize Democrat to secure majority. Have employed three lawyers. Editor of only Republican paper as one lawyer, fee $3,000. Will take $5,000 for Republican elector; must raise money; can't make fee contingent. Sail Saturday. Kelly and Bellinger will act. municate with them. Must act promptly." [No signature.]

Also the following:

Com

"San Francisco, December 5, 1876. "To Kountze Bros., No. 12 Wall street, New York: "Has my account credit by any funds lately? How much?

Also the following:

"J. H. N. PATRICK." "New York, December 6. "J. H. N. Patrick, San Francisco. "Davis deposited eight thousand dollars, December "KOUNTZE BRO."

first.

"San Francisco, December 6.

Also the following: "To James K. Kelly: "The eight deposited as directed this morning. Let not technicality prevent winning. Use your discretion." [No signature.]

"

[No signature.]

"December 6, 1876.

"To Col. W. T. Pelton, 15 Gramercy Park, N. Y: Glory to God! Hold on to the one vote in Oregon! I have one hundred thousand men to back it up! "CORSE."

And said committee is further directed to inquire into and bring to light, so far as it may be possible, the entire correspondence and conspiracy referred to in the above telegraphic dispatches, and to ascertain what were the relations existing between any of the parties sending or receiving said dispatches and W. T. Pelton, of New York, and also what relations existed between said W. T. Pelton and Samuel J. Tilden, of New York.

The Louisiana bulldozing and frauds.

And said committee is further instructed and directed to make inquiry into all the circumstances and facts attending and connected with the alleged attempts to violently and fraudulently secure the electoral vote of the State of Louisiana for Samuel J. Tilden as President and Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice President of the United States, by organizing armed bands of men, who overran certain parishes in said State, particularly the parishes of Morehouse, Ouachita, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, and West Feliciana, burning the houses of colored Republicans, murdering the inmates or driving them from their homes, and by these and other methods of intimidation establishing a reign of terror such as prevented any approach to a fair expression of the legal votes of such parishes, and to make a full report upon the same; and also upon any attempt made to corrupt or bribe any presidential elector of said State, or any of the officials of the State, whose legal duty it was, by the laws of said State, to count or declare the vote of said State, to wrongfully and unlaw. fully count and declare said vote for the electors representing said Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks.

The South Carolina bribery and corrup

tion.

And said committee is further instructed and directed to investigate all the facts and circumstances connected with an alleged attempt to bribe and corrupt any Presidential elector of the State of South Carolina.

so that a part or all of the electoral vote of said State should be wrongfully cast for Samuel J. Tilden as Pre

sident and Thomas A. Hendricks as Vice President.

The Mississippi shot-gun frauds. And said committee is further instructed and directed to make full inquiry and investigation into all the methods of violence, intimidation, and fraud by which the voters of the State of Mississippi are alleged to have been prevented from casting their votes freely and peacably for the candidates of their choice in the Presidential election of November, 1876, and the causes which led to the transformation in said State of a Re

publican majority of 40,000 to a Democratic majority nearly as large, and to extend such inquiries into all other States where such intimidation, violence, and fraud are alleged to have influenced the result in said Presidential election; and, in investigating into such alleged violence, intimidation, and fraud in the State of Mississippi, said committee is directed to examine especially into the facts of the population, colored and white, in the Sixth Congressional district in said State of Mississippi, and the registration for the year 1876, when it is alleged that more than five thousand colored men were improperly refused registration, and also to inquire into the facts which led to the radical change in the colored vote in said district, after such alleged intimidation and fraud were resorted to to prevent colored voters from casting their ballots freely and according to their wishes, some of which facts are set forth in the following statement:

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Tunica County. Coahoma County. Bolivar County. Washington County. Issaquena County. Sharkey County Warren County. Claiborne County. Jefferson County. Adams County Wilkinson County.

The Page Resolution condemning Tilden's attempt to steal the Oregon Vote and denouncing the infamy of Cronin is defeated by the Democrats-Only two decent men in all Israel.

March 3, 1877, Horace F. Page, of California, Republican, moved to suspend the rules and pass the following:

"Resolved, That this House condemns the recent attempt to defeat the will of the people of Oregon by the refusal of the Governor of that State to certify the election of an elector having a majority of the legal votes fairly cast and issuing a commission to a defeated candidate. And the House also condemns and denounces the corrupt use of money to aid in this outrage, and especially the payment of $3,000 to one Cronin, the defeated elector, for his part in the infamous transaction."

The vote by which Cronin was endorsed.

The above resolution was disagreed to; yeas 87 (all Republicans, save two Democrats), nays 90 (all Democrats): not voting 113 (22 Republicans and 91 Democrats), as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Adams, G. A. Bagley, Ballou, Banks, Belford, Blair, Bradley, W. R. Brown, H. C. Burchard, Burleigh, Buttz, Cannon, Cason, Caswell, Chittenden, Conger, Crapo, Crounse, Danford, Davy, Denison, Dunnell, Eames, J. L. Evans, Flye, Fort, Foster, Freeman, Frye, Haralson, Hathorn, Henderson, Hubbell, Hunter, Hurlbut, Hyman, Joyce, Kasson, Kelley, Kimball, Lapham, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Le Moyne, Lynch, Lynde, Magoon, MacDougall, McCrary, Mc Dill, Miller, Monroe, Norton, Oliver, O'Neill, Packer, Page, W. A. Phillips, Pierce, Plaisted, Platt, Pratt, Rainey, M. S.

Robinson, S. Ross, Rusk, Sampson, Seelye, Sinnickson, Smalls, A. H. Smith, Stowell, Strait, Thornburgh, M. I. Townsend, W. Townsend, Tufts, A. S. Wallace, J. W.

Wallace, G. W. Wells, J. D. White, Willard, A. Williams, W. B. Williams, J. Wilson, A. Wood, Jr., WoodNAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Ainsworth, Ashe, Atkins, J. H.

worth-87.

Bagley, Jr., Beebe, Blackburn, Boone, Bradford, Bright, Buckner, W. P. Caldwell, Candler, Caulfield, J. B. Clarke, J. B. Clark, Jr., Clymer, Collins, Culberson, J. J. Davis, Durham, Felton, Finley, Forney, Franklin, Goode, Gunter, Hardenbergh, J. T. Harris, Hartzell, Hatcher, A. S. Hewitt, Holman, House, A. Humphreys, Hunton, Hurd, T. L. Jones, Knott, Lamar, F. Landers, G. M. Landers, McMahon, Meade, Mills, Money, Morrison, Mutchler, New, O'Brien, Payne, Phelps, J. F. Philips, Poppleton, Reagan, J. B. Reilly, A. V. Rice, Riddle, W. M. Robbins, Sayler, Scales, Schleicher, Sheakley, Slemons, W. E. Smith, Southard, Sparks, Springer, Stenger, W. H. Stone, J. K. Tarbox, Terry, Thomas, C. P. Thompson, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turney, J. L. Vance, R. B. Vance, Waddell, Walling, Warner, E. Wells, Whitehouse, Wigginton, Wike, A. S. Williams, J. N. Williams, B. Wilson, Yeates, Young-90.

NOT VOTING-Messrs. Anderson, Bagby, J. H. Baker, W. H. Baker, Banning, Bass, S. N. Bell, Bland, Bliss, Blount, J. Y. Brown, S. D. Burchard, Cabell, J. H. Caldwell, A. Campbell, Carr, Cate, Chapin, Cochrane, Cook, Cowan, S. S. Cox, Cutler, Darrall, De Bolt, Dibrell, Dobbins, Douglas, Durand, Eden, Egbert, Ellis, Faulkner, D. D. Field, Fuller, Garfield, Gause, Gibson, Glover, Goodin, Hale, A. H. Hamilton, R. Hamilton, Hancock, B. W. Harris, H. R. Harris, Harrison, Hartridge, Haymond, C. Hays, Hendee, Henkle, G. W. Hewitt, Hill, Hoar, Hoge, Hooker, Hopkins, Hoskins, Jenks, F. Jones, Kehr, King, Lane, Levy, Lewis, Lord, Luttrell, Mackey, Maish, McFarland, H. B. Metcalf, Milliken, Morgan, Nash, L. T. Neal, Odell, Piper, Potter, Powell, Purman, Rea, J. Reilly, J. Robbins, Roberts, M. Ross, Savage, Schumaker, Singleton, Stanton, Stephens, Stevenson, Swann, Teese, Van Vorhes, Wait, Waldron, C. C. B. Walker, G. C. Walker, Walsh, E. Ward, Warren, Watterson, Wheeler, Whiting, Whitthorne, C. G. Williams, J. Williams, B. A. Willis, Wilshire, F. Wood, Woodburn-113.

PART VII.

"The resolution of Samuel J. Tilden, not again to be a candidate for the exalted place to which he was elected by a majority of his countrymen, and from which he was excluded by the leaders of the Republican party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with sensibility, and they declare their confidence in his wisdom, patriotism, and integrity, unshaken by the assaults of a common enemy, and they further assure him that he is followed into the retirement he has chosen for himself by the sympathy and respect of his fellow-citizens, who regarded him as one who, by elevating the standards of public morality, merits the lasting gratitude of his country and his party."-Declaration 9, National Dem. Platform, 1880.

accuracy amounting to mathematical demonstration. The original cipher dispatches with the translations were published side by side, and cannot be disputed. In the language of the Tribune, they comprised:

"1. Telegrams between the Democratic managers in New York and their agents in California and Oregon, relative to the granting of a certificate to one of the Democratic electors who was not elected, and the purchase of a Republican elector to recognize and act with him.'

"2. Telegrams between the Democratic managers in New York and their friends and secret agents in Florida. during the progress of the count.

"3. Telegrams between these New York managers and their friends and secret agents in Louisiana during the same critical period.

"4. Telegrams between these New York managers and their friends and secret agents in South Carolina during the operations of the Canvassing Board at Columbia, and the argument before the State Supreme Court, by whose interference Mr. Tilden's representatives hoped to control the action of the Board.

5. Various dispatches between local Democratic politicians in Florida and South Carolina, including the series of telegrams on the subject of an armed opposition to Chamberlain's inauguration.

The

Florida cipher dispatches Gramercy Park and Tallahassee in communication-A $200,000 bribe proposed— A $50,000 offer for one electoral vote accepted-A mistake occurs and the thing falls through.

The story of the contest for the electoral votes of Florida in 1876, as told for the first time by the Tribune, in its translations of the cipher dispatches between the Democratic agents in that State and Gramercy Park, New York, is this:

"The translations of these dispatches show that the confidential agents of Mr. Tilden in that State were Manton Marble, C. W. Woolley and John F. Coyle; that these agents went to Tallahassee with prearranged ciphers for communication with the residence of Mr. Tilden; that they first labored by lawful means to secure for him the votes of that State, and failed therein because the official returns gave a majority for Mr. Hayes. Cipher dispatches regarding the bribery of a member of the Canvassing Board then passed between Mr. Tilden's residence and his confidential agents in Tallahassee. One proposition to pay $200,000 for a member was held too high, because another dispatch from a different agent promised a cheaper bargain. Then by both agents separate propositions were sent in separate ciphers, to buy a member for $50,000. The reply from Gramercy Park was, 'Proposition accepted if done only once,' and the two agents were separately

not clearly appear that the goods would have been de

The story of the captured cipher dispatches and the secret efforts made by Tilden through his Democratic emissaries, to defraud Florida, South Carolina and Oregon of an Electoral vote, is one of the most damnable in the whole history of Democratic Election Frauds, and the exposure by the N. Y. Tribune of the entire nefarious business, was perhaps one of the most startling disclosures ever made to a disgusted Nation. Nearly 200 of the captured telegraphic dispatches were in cipher, and, although several perplexing systems had been adopted, all were at last deciphered with an

words were dropped from the dispatch authorizing the some delay repeated from Gramercy Park in full and intelligible form, but arrived too late, and the visiting statesman so reported to Gramercy Park."

purchase, thus making it unintelligible. It was after

The South Carolina cipher dispatchesProposed bribery of the Returning Board– $80,000 the price-The proposition accepted-Delay upsets the plan-Subsequent propositions of violence and corruption.

The story of the attempt to steal or vitiate the electoral vote of South Carolina-extending over the entire period, from election day to the assembling of the Electoral Colleges, Dec 6, 1876, is similarly told as follows:

"In South Carolina the purchasing agent was Smith M. Weed. He telegraphed to Colonel Pelton, on the