Mr. DAWES. The committee state the conclusion to which they come in 2 ways. 1st, throwing out the vote of Hamilton township, and also the vote of Riley township, where votes were found under the carpet, and taking all the votes proved by either party, and adding them to their respective votes, the contestant is elected by some 220 majority. In the 2nd place, by rejecting only the vote of Hamilton township, because it is a confessed fraud, and correcting the returns of the other 3 townships by adding the votes proved, the contestant is elected. There is still another method by which the contestant is shown to have been elected by a majority of more than 50 votes, and that is in conformity with the rule suggested by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Tunas? on Wednesday last, although I do not think. the rule is a sound and a safe one to follow. I do not think it right to disfranchise a single voter in one of these precincts, because the election Officers have been guilty of fraud. I believe it to be the duty of the committee to find by evidence every honest vote and count it. Yet the Gentfrom Pennsylvania held that there is a rule oflaw, so fortified by practice and the decisions of the courts as to be binding upon us, that if you find the return of any precinct so tainted with fraud that it must be thrown aside, you are not at liberty to ascertain by evidence the number of votes cast. Accepting that rule, and rejecting the returns from Hamil ton, Riley, and Cloverdale townships, on the round that those returns are so vitiated by rand as to be worthless, and not counting a single vote from those townships provedalimulc, but correcting the vote in the other township, the result stands as follows: for Mr. Voorhees 11,883 votes; for Mr. Washburn, 11,999; making a majority for the contestant of 116. So that, taking either of the 2 methods suggested by the committee, or adopting the rule proposed by the Gentfrom I Pennsylvania, the same result is attained. The sitting member can be kc t in only by sanctioning a fraud ii on the harlot box which, by the confession of his own political friends, the judges of the election, was fraudulently opened and tam cred with.