The New York herald., 1868-04-04

you report was it of the politics of the President or
Of opposite opinion In politicsr A. 1t was republican
q opposite to the views Of the President, as you
understand tnemf A: Yes.
third Of September, about O'Clock In the evening.
Q; When did It concludes A. think about quar-
Q. was there a large crowd theres A. There was.
Q: Consisting OF the people Of Clevelandi A. OF
O. The balcony from which the President spoke
was also crowded. A. 1t was.
Were in sSh Of n the presdent sas
u AND what conyeniences or arrangements had
you i9r % taxing notesf A. took them on my knee:
" % Mmere did you get light froms A. From the
At dus what Hasr time ala you begin that sysnnsso to
Y when oiu you nnlshY A. Between twelve and
@. When did the paper go to presss A. Between
three and four O'Clock in the morning.
9: Did you write the synoptical report from your
e. From my Of the drift the
Q: You added nothing, you think, to the notes A.
9. But you did not produce all that was in the
hottest a. did not; endeavored to copy the sub
Q. You meant the meaning, do you not; that n
Q. what you mean exactly is that you meant to
give the drfft OF the whole when you didn't report
verbatim? A. Yes.
q. Did you not leave out any of the drifts A. Not
Q. Have you ever looked to seer A. have not
compared the speech with my full report Of II.
Y. VI VIII your OWN uOtcSl N. QlQ 6uDSor
quentIy compare the speech with my notes.
9: THIS driit" parti A. | mean to say that
Ts nar sae ps wn my nSe
that with your notess 4. Yes. ~" ''N'"''
g When Whenf "A, 4. The next day,
course OF two weeks they were not preserved at ALL
vo. Are You sure that you composed the report Of
your notes the following dayS A. 1 am.
IA Dia Dn you destroy Your notes intentionally A.
9. Then where are theys A. cannot tell.
" NOW, IN reference to the mart of the sDeech
which you say you reported reoatin, did you at any
transcript with the notesY A. did.
@ For the purpose Of seeing that it was accuraeq
Q. When was thatY A. Next day.
g WIN what assistances A. Without lay assist
ance, to the best of my memory.
z. Did you find any changer A. There \,re some
There were no material errors.
your n0tesP A. did not compare the II \mript
with my my notes; ] compared it as printed.
q With whatY A. With my notes.
Mr., EvARrs-That was not my question Bui Eon
| did compare the speech as printed with your Y,
and not with the transcript A. Yes, with my no. \
| not with the transcript
| O. Did you find that there were any errors in the
printed report as compared with your original nOesr
| @ And no others K. Not that remember.
z. Are you prepared to say that yon compared the
printed paper next morning with your photographic
notes and that your report IN the printed paper was
absolutely correct2 a. They were not Photographic
notes.
| q. What were they? A. Common writing,
Q. Written out In long handY A. Yes air.
Y. Now, do You mean 50 say that you can write
| out In long hand word for word speech as IL
comes from the mouth of speaker? A. In this in
stance did write OUT portions OF the speech.
u Then you did not even have notes that were
worth making except OF part OF the speechS A.
o. And you made the synopsis OF the drift as it
went along? A. Yes.
O. How did you select the parts where you should
give the drt 4. whenever i was possible to report
correctly and fully did So, and when was
unable to Keep up gave the substance tc Tnee we ,
which the speaker spoke, when reporter writing IN
long hand was able to keep w with the remarks Of
Q. Then this report was not made by the aid Of
stenography or shorthand A. No, SIR
z. Did you abbreviate or write out the words IN
full when you did writer A. abbreviated In many
instances
Q. Did you recolect them3 A. I did.
q. Can you give instance OF one OF your abbre-
viationsY A. cannot.
much Of the Presidents speech, az made Iu at Ceve
| land on the sd OF September, can you repeat9 A.
| None OF it-none whatever; Ue,odtin,, none.
Q. Do you think you could give the drift Of some
Of fita A. think might.
| Q. As you understand and recolect its A. Yes.
q. DO you mean TO be understood that you wrote
down one single sentence OF the Presidents speech,
| word for word as it came from his MOUTH A. Yea
z. Point out anywhere any such sentchceY A. The
sentence that was read by the Manager was written
Do % sna ten soaseeu;ss ,S
how Sh Woe down at tSs n distance ssoc se, OF
time have the impression however, that there
was as much OF 1t as that.
tended to report as nearly as You could and Ss we
under the circumstances, without the aid Of Short
hand faculty, what the the President % ssids A. can can
speech which are reported a. he said 1t. -
O. Do you say 80 from your present memory A.
From my memory Of the method with which the
Q: What parts can you so state to be veroattmp
A. cannot swear that they are his absolute words
in all cases; will swear that 1t Is an accurate re-
| Q. What do you mean by accurate but not abso-
| luteY A. ] mean to say that IL Is report which
| gives the general form OF each sentence IL was
You mean to say you nsended to report as wel
you could without the aid Of shorthand faciltlesY
A. say in addition that there are portions which
o. Now want you to tell me whether that which
purports to be verbatim is to your memory and
knowledge accurately repOrtedf A. II ~ accurately
reS0FTisSs TSs whole Sso4Hs 0f, Yes A'''' .''0As'
you did not profess TO report ueroatna, what
| ance have you that You did not omit part OF the
and meaning Of the speech; cannot say that did
spescs wsre not "esa omitted S 'S entirely
syn0ptical viewf A. was able to report nearly
every sentence and am confident that did not fsl
which would have been paragraph after It was
printed was left out by youS A. He did not speak
q. You Say you are sure you did not leave out
what would be a paragraph Did you leave ont
what would be half O paragraph A. endeavored
to give the substance OF the Presidents remarks
every subject that the President took up.
O. This synOptica report which You made out, was
ieanythng but your original notes. A. 1t was CON
densed from them.
q. That Ia TO say that your original synoptcai
views, as written down, were again reduced In =
shorter compend that nghtf A: Partly 80:
q Still you think that In that last analysis you had
| the whole Of the Presidents speechy A. endcav-
ored TO give the meaning Of 1t.
O. Can you pretend to say that In reference TO any
Of that portion Of your report II IL presented In
shape In which any man should be Judged as coming
from his own MOUTH
Mr.. BUTLER--I object to the question.
MI. EvARTs-I asked the wtress II he processes 10
state that in this synoptical portion OF the printed