COUNTING THE VOTE. At the same time Senator Morton's com- | before even on a larger scale, and nobody mittee have been following up a money ever questioned their right or their duty to transaction of some $8,000 between certain do so. parties in New York city, and the famous Mr. Cronin, the Tilden elector of Oregon, and others complicated with him in the infamous trick perpetrated in that State by Grover, the Democratic Governor, and the rest of them. THE INVESTIGATIONS. As from the beginning of the present session, the all-absorbing topic in Congress as well as out of it now is the electoral count and the final declaration of the result. This has in one form or other absorbed the attention and engaged the time The eight or nine committees sent out in and labor of both houses. Various propoDecember last, to take testimony of elec-sitions have been submitted both in the tion frauds in the several "bull-dozed " Senate and in the House of Representatives States have all finished their work and have by individuals and from standing commitreturned to Congress with a mass of testi- tees. Memorials on the subject from vamony which it will take weeks if not rious parts of the country and from varimonths to bring to the full knowledge of ous classes of citizens have been presented, Congress and the country. That a state all urging a peaceful adjustment of the of violence and terrorism has existed all present difficulties. Protracted discussions through the South, as well as fraudulent upon the whole subject have followed. In voting in some parts of the Northern the meantime the joint committees of the States, there can be no manner of doubt. two houses, appointed to report a mode of But that the majority of the people in the counting the votes, have devised a plan Eastern and Western States can have any which was signed by all the members of conception of the Southern condition as it the two committees with the exception of really is, would seem almost beyond the Senator Morton. The report of the combounds of possibility. The story now to mittees with the bill agreed upon by them be told officially will disclose the matter was then presented. This report and bill more fully than ever before. will be found on pages 124-134. ARMY VULTURES.-There are bad men who live upon the misfortunes of others. tion into civil war so as to better enable There are men who would plunge the nathem to plunder their neighbors.. A yoke of oxen could not drag them into the service. They are not fighters; they are bummers and thieves who hang on the outskirts of an army ready to descend upon it like so many hungry vultures at the proper time, to feed and fatten upon the carcasses of the slain. This is the class that is shout THE PRESIDENT'S USE OF THE TROOPS. Attempts have been made by the democratic House to bring out the action of the President of the United States in his use of the army, as it would seem with the design if possible to bring such action into disrepute, or make it the foundation of accusation and complaint against the Administration. Calls have been made upon the President for information, and he has just answered by a special message in such a manner as to set the matter forever at resting for Tilden or war! If they should get with every fair-minded man. He states the different sources of information which had come to him showing beyond any reasonable question the disturbed condition of affairs in several of the Southern States. Upon this information he could not fail to act. He gave orders for the disposition of the troops at points where the public peace was threatened, but in no case did they interfere with the lawful and free exercise of the rights of the people. He shows how his predecessors had done the same thing Tilden they would be as valiant as Falstaff astride the dead body of the gallant Percy: If they should bring about war, they would sneak to the rear, and while honest people cut each others' throats, they would rob their homes and steal away the substance of the soldiers' widows and orphans. Out upon this class of public enemies! They should be scourged with the lash, and if this fails to impart wisdom, they should be sent to stand guard over the Black Hills this experience, they still clamor for war, during a few months of winter. If, after they should be sent to capture Sitting Buli or transferred to the Mexican army. 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