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1294 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 28,
mittee call attention to certain notable facts, peculiar to the
Second District. In spite of the charge of general disorder
and intimidation, preferred in the memorial, the vote in this
district, cast by the Reform Party at the two elections, is al-
most identical, being about 7,750 at the Municipal, and
7,500 at the State election. But a small number of wit-
nesses was examined, a large proportion of them being in the
employment of the United States; and not one negro was
examined to prove the alleged dislranchisement of his race.
We have referred in our report on the First District, to the
occurrences in the 1st Precinct of the 1 ith Ward, as showing
how utterly the testimony of witnesses as to the alleged in-
timidation of voters fails to be susta;ned by the record of
votes; only two negro voters who voted at the Municipal
election, being absent from the State election.
The proof shows only some five or six cases of assault in
the whole district. When the location of this district, and
the character of the population of such wards as the 8th and
the 9th, is considered, in connection with.the full Reform
vote polled; we have, in the opinion of your Committee, a
complete and full answer to the charge of a general condition
of disorder and violence attending the election throughout
the city, and connived at by the police. There is testimony
also adduced to show deposit of pudden tickets, without proof
of fraud in their reception into the ballot-box, as in the other
districts. The total number claimed to have been found both
of pudden and unfolded tickets, is less than 1,000, while the
Democratic majority in the district is about 3,500.
Tour Committee recommend the adoption of the following
resolution :
Resolved, That Thomas Coburn, William E. Stewart,
Charles J. McAleese, John Gill, Jr., Henry B. Hart and
Henry E. Loane be, and they are hereby, declared to have
been duly elected delegates from the Second Legislative Dis-
trict of Baltimore city to the House of Delegates at the elec-
tion held in this Stste on November 2d, 1875.
And your Committee ask to be discharged from the further
consideration of this subject.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W H. NEAL, Chairman,
MURRAY VAN DIVER,
IGN. E. MATTINGLY,
LEVIN USILTON,
D. W. SNOWDEN,
FRANK BROWN,
WM. G. GORDY.
Which was read.
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