"Let Congress request Mr. Tilden to select the chief judge in his State or in New Jersey or Virginia, and let Mr. Hayes take the chief judge of Ohio or Pennsylvania or Illinois or Massachusetts; let these two be joined by the Chief Justice of the U. S. as a third member. "The last named has never been a violent partisan, and is specially acceptable to the bar in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere in the South. Let this tribunal decide all disputed points in accordance with the Constitution and precedents, as far as applicable, by common law and common-sense. Let their judgment be final and conclusive. By such a course justice would be done and all parties satisfied. "Very truly yours, "WM. P. CRAIGHILL. "_Gen'l Geo. W. Morgan, "Mount Vernon, Ohio._" G. W. MORGAN TO TILDEN "MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, _Nov. 27, 1876_. "MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT,--Colonel Wm. P. Craighill, the writer of the inclosed, is an officer of the Engineer Corps, and is one of the finest and ablest men in our military service. He does not dream that you would see his letter, but I deem it proper to submit it for your consideration. "I remain, Mr. President, with great respect, "Your very obedient servant, "G. W. MORGAN. "_His Excellency Samuel J. Tilden._" CERTIFICATE OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN 1876 "STATE OF NEW YORK, _ss._: "We, the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, and Attorney-General of the said State having formed a Board of State Canvassers, and having canvassed and estimated the whole number of votes given for _Electors of President and Vice-President_, at the general election held in the said State, on the seventh day of November, in the year 1876, according to the certified statements received by the Secretary of State in the manner directed by law, do hereby determine, declare, and certify, that Horatio Seymour, Atherton Hall, De Witt C. West, Henry D. Graves, Parke Godwin, William J. Averell, Thomas H. Rodman, Daniel B. Judson, Edward Rowe, Edmund A. Ward, Thomas D. Jones, Ansel Foster, Oswald Ottendorfer, James McQuade, Thomas Mackellar, Bartholomew Lynch, Anthony Dugro, Calvin L. Hathaway, Augustus Schell, George W. Knowles, Frederick Smyth, William C. Dryer, Joseph J. O'Donohue, Frederick O. Cable, Samuel F. Barger, John McDougall, Jordan L. Mott, Jerome Lee, James H. Holdane, Charles B. Benedict, William Voorhis, Cyrus Clarke, Addison P. Jones, Porter Sheldon, Eli Perry, were, by the greatest number of votes given at the said election, respectively elected _Electors of President and Vice-President_ of the United States. "Given under our hands, at the office of the Secretary of State, of said State, in the city of Albany, the twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.