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 188 PEDEBAIi BEPOBTBB. �have paid anything, I take it that the main object which the city of Logansport had in making this contract, and in causing this subscription under the law of this state by a proper application of the voters to the city council, was to get the railroad finished to the city of Logansport, and probably to have the machine shops constructed there. That it bas failed in that object is its misfortune, and I do not think the court, can give relief by appropriating any portion of the money now in the hands of the court to the payment of this olaim, and it will, therefore, be dismissed. ���. Ex parte Geisslbb. (Circuit Court, N. B. llUnm». October 30, 1880.) �1. SuFBRTisoK OF ELECTIONS— PowEB TO Akhest. — Under the authority �of the acts of congress a duly qualifled superviser of elections has the right, in the absence of the United States marshal and his deputies, to preserve order, and to arrest, without warrant or process, any per- son who interferes with him in the discharge of his duty as such su- pervisor. �2. Same — Rbqistbation. — It is the duty of such superviser, among other �things, to see that no person is improperly registered, and he can therefore object, if the circumstances warrant it, to the registration of a person oflering himself for such purpose. �a. Same — Iktekpbeencb— Oppeobeiods Language. — The use of offen- sive and opprobrious language may, without any overt act, constitute an interference with such superviser in the discharge of his duty. �4. Ukitbd States — Registeation dp Votehb — Election op Membeus OF CoNGRESB. — The United States has the right to interfere in ail cases where there is a registration of voters for an election of members of congress, and, when that interference occurs under the authority of a statute 6f the United Btates, there can be no law which is paramount to it, nor is such law in derogation of the rights of the states. �Exporte SiOold, 100 U. B. 371. �Facts in thiscase considered, and Md to constitute an arrest and not an assault by a duly-qualifled superviser of elections. �Habeas Corpus. �Mr. Leake, Dist. Att'y, for the United States. �Mr. Cameron, for the City. ����