New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-20
WHOLE NUMBER 975.


left the room he made some remark to the
effect that the $40, 900 were to be divided
between Porter and himself, in case of it's
being done. Hughes told him he could 4,
have nothing to do with such transaction.
Mr.. Hughes subsequently met Mr.. Carpen-
ter, who said he would vote tor the amend
ment and against the bill. Mr. Hughes
then mentioned to him the matter and
suggested that perhaps it was due to himself
that he should bring it to the attention of
the Senate. He laughed, and replied that
he had done nothing in the matter, and did
not 40 purpose; that in the present state of
the public feeling he did not desire
the notoriety of having it known
so cheap as to suppose that his vote could
be bought. He afterward told Porter that
Carpenter said he would vote for the amend
ment and against the bill. This was the
end of the matter. The name is Lewis
Porter, who is the financial clerk of the city
postofice. The committee next examined
Mr.. Porter, who denied ON oath having
knowledge of an attempt on the part OF any
one to influence vote on the Georgia ques-
ton, or that he had talked with any one,
excepting Judge Hughes. 1t was not until
after a protracted examination that he
testified he had q conversation with diff.
ferent persons on the Georgia question,
and had asked Judge Hughes as to
asked to be allowed to take legal
advice. He wanted to employ Hughes as
an attorney in the matter. He told Hughes
he could have q fee, provided he could do
good. He talked about $4,000, but there
was no positive arrangement, for this
$4,000. Hughes was to look the question
over, and ascertain the situation, and rem
nected with railroad in Georgia,
was in communication with the
witness, and had $4,000 worth of bonds.
Avery was director in the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad Company. and admitted
having gone to see Porter, who was an active
politician in the Republican party. Avery
admitted that he went to New York to OBJ
had asked twenty men to write to Senators
Conkling and Fenton, and that that has cost
money. 1t appears from the testi-
mony of Henry NJ. Atkinson, son-in-law
of Senator Upton, that he was approached
by J. L. Gibbs. an old citizen of Nebraska,
and Gibbs said he would rather give thou
sand dollars, or would rather than thou
sand dollars, Upton would vote against the
Bingham amendment, which, the witness
said, he construed as an offer of one,thou-
sand dollars to induce Upton to vote
against the amendment. It also ap-
pears from Atkinson's testimony that
Gibbs manifested great anxiety as to how
Upton would vote. Isaac l.. Gibbs, in his
testimony, denied he ever said he had any
authority to offer money. It was only
figure of speech. The committee think
that it will be q matter of surprise to the
reader of the testimony that the man Gibbs,
who pretended to know 80 little about
Georgia, should have so deep an interest
in the Georgia question. W. G. Bestor,
of Riggs & Co.'s bank, testified that
the bank has cashed drafts drawn by Gov
n. ;,,aS. ofQ Qvytya dxvln
& Co., on the Georgia National Bank,
amounting to between ten and eleven thou
sand dollars.
John Kerr, cashier of the hotel kept by
Sykes, Chadwick & Co, testified that, inter
paying Bullock's hotel bill, Ss569 were placed
in the Governors hands.
W. s: Huntington, cashier of the
between March Is and April 81, 1870, they
paid $35O8 IS to D. c. Forney on a draft
drawn by Governor Bullock on the Georgia
National Bank, payable to said Forney, and
| indorsed by him.
D. C. Forney, publisher of the Daily
Morning Chronicle, testified that all the
transactions with Governor, Bullock were
purely of a business character, and
exhibited his books. showing the
transactions between them; s4i59 were
| Ing speeches, and other matters.
copies Of papers. ETC.: $422S of the above
amount was paid to the publisher during
the present session of Congress, and every
item relates to the Georgia question,
whether the charges are reasonable or
whether another consideration than the
printing done and the papers and pamphlets
| furnished may not have induced Governor
Bullock to pay such prices, it will
not be difficult for the impartial
reader of the testimony to understand:
George A. Bailey, one of the publishers of
the Confessional Globe; r. O. Polkinhorn.
q practical printer of twenty years standing,
and w. J. Murtagh, the publisher of the
National Republican, severally testified as
| to the very liberal prices paid Mr.. Forney,
| from which the committee draw the con-
clusion that one.third of the sum of S4.-
22S, paid to Forney by Bullock,
ostensioly for printing and copies of
his paper. would nave Deen a hoersi
| testimony, said he thought it important for
| the colored members of the Georgia Legis-
Iature to make come formal expression Of
their wishes with regard to the Bingham
| amendment. and came to Washington for
that purpose, and he telegraphed them &C.
cordiugly. Eleven of the thirty-three or
thirty -four members came to Washington IS
! them, aud two came who were
| not members of the Legislature.
| He lent them from twelve to fifteen hundred
dollars. to pay their expenses, and only a
small portion Of the money was refunded.
The amount of money made use of by him
from the fifteenth of March to the twenty
first of April, was slA 40, and of this
amount, S4O0S was paid IL Forney, and S505
to the Globe. 1t appears from Governor
BuIlOck's testimony, that there was nc
special agreement with the publishers OF
the Chronicle for work done. He sent the
matter to him for publication without fixing
on the price. A man named George D.
Chapman said he could influence the vote Oi
Senator Pomeroy. The committee has mo-
thought 1T advisable to delay their report
by sending for Chapman, who, from the ties
: | timony before it, assumed that he coult
= control a Senator's vote by corrupt means
Int having called the attention OF Senate
3 | POmeroy to his conversations as testified
s to by Governor Bullock, Senator Pomero.
came before the committee and showed tha
: Chapman was unknown to him save by in
8 PRODUCTION, and not exceeding ten minute
a conversation, and not in any manner con
nected with any of the matters through
K | which Chapman assumed he could COZ
e troll his bote, and that the pretext OF ChaI
= mans being able to influence him one wa
: or the other was without a shadow OF foun
4 dation The committee feel constrained
= say from the evidence before them, that sue
e meaus had been used and attempted, how
ever unwilling some of the Witnesses in
/, plicated in the transaction had shown then
g selves to disclose the whole truth. Enoug
i has come out to satisfy the committee tn;
p. J. Avery both attempted and used in
e proper means to influence Senators 10 vo
t against the Bingham amendmen
s and that Lewis Porter, an otfic
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