The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-09
THURSDAY,APRIL 9, 1868

!. ceedlngS under the concur ent reSO-
luton of 2 Houses Of Congress sub
| mitting to the Legislation Of several
, States additional; article IA to the
Constitution of the us
!, Tee message wac referred to in the
dispatch to Gov Parsons, and intro
| duced on that account.
The examination Of the witness
was proceeded with.
He identified the original copy Of
the speech Of President johnson, on
the 18th of August 1866 and tele.
graphed from Washington to the
Associated Press.
James B. Sheridan, stenographer,
testified: He reported a speech Of
the Presidents, made in the east
roem of the White House, August
18TH 1866, which he took down to
the best of his ability in short hand,
and wrote ont signing copy to Col.
Moore, the Presidents Private Secre-
tary. He did not recognize the copy
shown him by Mr.. Butler, as his own
but swore to having written ont
from notes afterwards. Extracts
from the speech were shown him in
manuscript. Cross examined by
Evarts.
/ Clephane, deputy Clerk of the Su-
preme Court d. c., on September Is
1866 /; was employed in the depart
ment of State; had been steno-
grapher 8years; was then engaged to
report the presidents speech. He
transcribed from notes a portion of
the speech for the use of the associ-
ated press. Did not recognize the
manuscript shown him as being his
own handwriting. He might have
dictated it at his request.
Mr. Farlan wrote . literal report Of
the speech, which the Chronicle pub
lished next morning, that paper being
willing to take the copy furnished by
Col Moore. The report Of the Chron-
icle was accurate, with the exception
perhaps of q few words.
Cross examined by Evarts.
Tinker being recalled produced copy
of the presidents speech, marked as
having been sent over the wires by
the associated press.
Sheridan recognized a portion oft
as his own handwriting. There are
corrections in this copy; did not see
them made, but believe they wero
made at the White House.
Mr. F Smith, official reporter of the
House of representatives, testified,
have been stenographer for four
teen years; was one Of thoee employ.
ed by the agent of the associated
press to report the speech referred
to and produced his notes; wrote out
q portion of the speech and delivered
sheets one to one to Col Moore.
@. Who corrected them.
A. Col Moore; who had stated he
wished to revise them; not to make
any substantial changes, but to re-
wise the phraseology. Witness Sc
lected from the copy sent by tele-
graph the portions written out by
himself
/ Cross examined by Evarts.
| Col G w Moore, the presidents
private secretary testified; he was ap-
pointed paymaster with the rank of
Major in November 1866; in 1867
was appointed private secretary of
the president; beforethattime he had
been assistant adjutant general; ho
hoard the speech ofAng 18th, made
some corrections in the reports
written out by the stenographer,
doing so without the assistance of
his memoranda; did not change the
sense hut altered the language ex-
amined the manuscript; he finds no
page in which his writing
predominates; he made no change
without the direction of the Presi-
dent; the manuscript as revised was
handed to the agent of the Associated
Press. The President never said to
the witness that he had done wrong
| in making these corrections.
Butler proposed to read all tho
various reports of the speech.
Evarts objected.
At 2:25 the Court took recess of
is minutes.
Butler then read the Associated
Press report Of the Presidents speech.
Anthony made motion that the
reporter Of the Associated Press be
admitted to the floor, but the Chief
Justice decided it not in order.
w III. Hudson of the Cleveland
Leader, testified: with the
assistance of Mr.. johnson
I reported the speech made in
Cleveland, in Sept. 1866; have my
original notes, only part was report
ed verbatim, the words which he did
not use were employed in the synop-
tical portions. Cross examined. The
paper for which reported was op.
posed to the President. / wrote my
notes upon my knee; I omitted por-
tions Of the speech; have not CON-
posed q full report with my notes;
my notes were not Photographed
but written in lodghand; the synop-
tical portion 40 taken down was
again reduced for publication; in ma
king up my report I also made use
of Johnson's report which was taken
in the same way.
Butler then asked what the crowd
said, and told the witness he might
refresh his memory by the memo
randa before him.
4. Evarts objected that newspapers
, were memoranda, objection argued
by Butler and Evarts.
Il The Chief Justice ruled that the
witness might refer to the newspa-
per copy if he knew it to be correct.
Tho witness proceeded and read
the extracts, narrating the Interrupt
ton which enabled him to write out
portions of what the President said
verbatim.
: Cross examined.
: Took down what the crowd said;
and at the same time caught up with
my report of what the president said;
the accounts of the interruptions
which l have just resd were all read
byme from the puper before nae.
d C McEnen, shorthand reporter
testified; l accompanied the 2resi-
dents party as reporter for the
World. Witness produced Q steno-
graphical report Of the Cleveland
speech, and also copy ofan accur-
! ate transcript Of the report written
out and handed to tie agent Of the
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