pon her rights as an intentional assumption
of power would have had, and may have hereafter, in bad times,
wherein corrupt judges, wielding instruments of power, shield
themselves by precedents set by good judges in good times.

Therefore, because the fine has been imposed by a court of the
United States for an offense triable by jury, without the same
being submitted to the jury, and because the court assumed to
itself the right to enter a verdict without submitting the case
to the jury, and in order that the judgment of the House of
Representatives, if it concur with the judgment of the committee,
may, in the most signal and impressive form, mark its
determination to sustain in its integrity the common-law right of
trial by jury, your committee recommend that the prayer of the
petitioner be granted, and to this end report the following bill,
with the recommendation that it do pass.

The Inspectors were counseled to refuse to pay their fines, and take
the consequences.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, Feb. 22, 1874.

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY:--In regard to the Inspectors of Election, I
would not, if I were they, pay, but allow any process to be
served; and I have no doubt the President will remit the fine if
they are pressed too far.

I am yours truly, BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.

On Miss Anthony's return home, February 26, 1874, she found the three
Inspectors lodged in jail. She at once called on Judge Selden, and
after consultation with him as to what could be done for their
protection, telegrams were sent to influential friends in Washington,
to which the following reply was received:

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2, 1874--12 noon.

TO MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY:--I laid the case of the Inspectors
before the President to-day. He kindly orders their pardon.
Papers are being prepared.

A. A. SARGENT.

An Associated Press dispatch, dated Washington, March 2, 1874, said:

At the written request of Senator Sargent, the President to-day
directed the Attorney-General to prepare the necessary papers to
remit the fine and imprisonment of Hall, Marsh, and others, the
Rochester Election Inspectors, who were tried and convicted in
June, 1873, of registering Susan B. Anth