The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-31

BALTIMORE, October 3O.-The investigation of
charges against the Police Commissioners be-
fore Governor Swami, High Executive Court of
irresponsible powers and unlimited jurisdiction,
was resumed to-day, when the hearing of testi'
m0ny for the defense was commenced.
The Governor looked somewhat uneasy as he
surveyed the large number Of highly respectable
witnesses present. prepared to invalidate and
fatty contradict the mass OF slanderous charges
and irrelevant allegations produced by wit
nesses for the prosecution. AS the examination
of these witnesses proceeded the effect was
quite noticeable. The Governor fairly quailed
before 1t, and really looked, at times, as though
he were on trial by the Police Board instead OF
sitting in Judgment on its acts.
su The counsel Tor the Commissioners had wisely
summoned several parties who, in times past,
had been familiar as participants in managing
ward politics, under the reign OF Mayor swami,
now Governor. One of these parties who acted
as Judge at q recent election, and whose charac-
ter had been assalled, was brought on the stand.
He admitted he had been little rough In his
time; he had served in the srmy under Burn
side and Sheridan, but was honorably dis
charged. He had never been in the Peniten-
tiary. He claimed that he had always had
good reputation till he Joined the Know
as Mayor OF Baltimore, when he became a
rowdy.
AS he said this, the witness glanced at his
Excellency mischievously, remarking that he
guessed his Excellency knew him. Here was
scene. Think of our digni6ed Governor being
confronted with one OF his old ward-workers
his bands of roughs and plugs controlled the
elections, and gave their opponents notice to
leave the polls by piercing them with avis.
Evidently the Governor was disconnected, and
the counsel for the prosecution we're glad to let
him go with a very brief cross-examinaton.
George W. Taylor, Secretary to the Police
Board since 1864, testified to the close attention
of the Commissioners to their duties of office,
and swore that tie balot-boxes used at the re-
cent election, about which so much clamor has
been raised we're the same as used at every
election since 1864; also, that boxes for rejected
votes were sent TO every precinct. (Specimen
of boxes returned by judges with rejected votes
was produced); ~ of such boxes we're returned
with rejected votes.
This testimony was fully corroborated by
others, among them that of the janitor of the
Board who has been connected with the force
since its organization.
Msrshal Carmichael testified tc the same facts,
control and direction of the police, which were
read, showing in most emphatic manner the
solicitude of the Board for the preservation of
peace and good order o. the city.
Many of the judges of election were present,
and testified 10 the use of rejected boxes, and
that the only paroles whose votes were rejected
were those whose namas Wera mt ON tho 'ns;~-
tration of 1866.
The appearance OF these men, may add, was
also about the best refutation- that could pc
given of the slandcrous statements as to their
had character With very few exceptions,
they were the same men who had served on
every election for several years past, and are
men of undoubted responsibility. Another OF
the Judges, whose character has been assailed,
was proved to have been a JUDGE of Elections
when Swami was elected, and while in the army
had been promoted from the ranks to Captain,
for good conduct At 8 O'Clock a recess was
taken till O'Clock. 1t is thought the case Will
he concluded tomorrow night