New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-02

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A. We received portions quarterly, ant
snen have final settlements.
sIement.
A. I think $4,000.
y. Did you receive that in warrants
a. In one warrant, all that was drawn or
paid in greenbacks.
Y. Did you have that cut mp?
A. Yes; l saw that the difference was so
ereas, that called on him to have it cut up.
Was informed that q member of the DO ard
mad done so, and went to him and told
nun that would allow him compensation
Q. In what7
A. In greeIbacks.
Q. Did he decline to cut them up.
A. He told me that he was short of cleri-
cal force, and busy at the time. had NO
reason to doubt it.
@. Did he decline to do it?
A. Yes; requested it of him repeatedly,
and he said he was short of clerical force,
and would not do it.
O.. You paid him sl25; did he then cut
it up.
A. Yes.
g: Do you know whether he employed
additional help to do that!
A. can not tell.
Q: How long did you have to wait for your
small warrants?
A. Till next day.
Q. What size did you get them ins
A. In $50 and Sl0O warrants.
@. Did the Auditor demand this fee, or
was it voluntary offer on your part?
A. was voluntary on my part. I found
that the warrants were not marketable in
that shape, and thought it advisable to ge
them cut up.
@. How did you come to do this?
A. On account of one of the members of
the board having had his cut up.
T., One OF the members Of the board told
you SO?
20 nave the warrants cut up in small sums.
SRoss. Examined BY COUNSEL FOB RESPONDENT
Q. Did any suggestion come from Mr..
Wicklife, or did you suggest it to him, to
compensate him for his trouble,
A. The suggestion came from me.
The name of Paul Lassassier, a witness for
the prosecution, was called, and he was
found not present.
TESTIMONY OF. J. A. H. LAGRoUE-RRcALLED.
Cross-examination in chief by Manager
Lowell.
Question. How long have you been in the
Auditors office?
Answer. A little over four years.
q. Do you remember anything about 8
warrant presented to you issued in 1892
Q. Do you know what time that warrant
was issued? Do you remember the date of
the warrant?
A. No, sir, do not
9. For what purpose was it presented?
A. To be cut up.
@. Did you cut it up?
A. No; did not.
Q. Why not?
A. had no authority to cut it up.
Q. What reply did you make when it was
presented,
A. said that did not think that the
warrant was good.
Q. Why not!
a. 1t was issued in 1862.
@. Why should it not be good?
A. The remark was made to me because
the relief of warrants of the same
date, or not exactly the same, but
about the same date, though not of the
same kind; and thought that the Legisla-
ture would have to pursue the same course
in regard to these.
Q. What Legislature do you refer to-
A. The Legislature of 1868, think.
Q. Do you know why 1t was necessary for
3 relief bill to be passed for these warrants
A. Yes, think so.
@. State why it was.
A. do not knew. I thought relief bill
previously. think that these other warrants
were refused payment on account of being
issued in 1862. and I thought the same
course had to be pursued in regard to these.
Q. What difficulty was there in the way Of
paying warrant issued in 1862?
A. Because there was reimbursement on
it that it had been refused on account Of
want OF funds.
Q. You mean there was no appropriation
A. On the contrary there was an appro.
priation at the time it was drawn, because it
was ali Auditors warrants.
Q. Do you know the date?
A. No, DO not; it was in 1862.
@. What time in 1862?
@. Do you know what was the condition
of the State in 1862?
A. No, do not exactly, though was here
at the time.
Q. Do you know where the Au ditor's
office was in 1862?
A. No, sir, do not
Q. Can you remember at what place the
warrant was drawn? Was it dated New Or.
leans or Baton Rouge?
A. do not think it was dated New Or
leans. do not know where it was drawn.
Mr.. GRAY, of counsel for respondent:
would suggest to the honorable managers to
suspend examination on this point, as we
desire to have the warrant here tomorrow.
Examination in chief resumed:
@. have asked what condition the State
was in in 1862; do you know whether, at the
time of the issuance of this warrant, this
State was not in q state of rebellion?
A. Well-before the investigation com.
mittee think l was asked the same ques
toni can not remember; / was living in |
Jefferson; think it was, but / do not |
know. |
Question by Manager McMiIlen: You do |
not remember whether this State was in |
general rebellion in 1862?
A. No; can not tell whether it was in |
1861 or 1862.
Question by Manager McMillen: You |
mean to say that the ordinance of secession |
was passed in 1861 or 1862?
A. It was passed IN 1861, think.
@. When did the war close?
A. think in 1864.
Q. You say the war closed in 1864?
A. took SO little interest in it that l can |
not tell.
@. So you were not interested?
A. go generally by my own constitution;
that is the only constitution 60 by.
By Mr.. Lowell: Question. How many |
clerks were there in the Auditors Office in |
1869?
A. l think sixteen.
@. Did they ever receive extra compensa-
ton
A. Yes.
O. State when and what it was?
A. We received extra compensation on
NO different occasions.
@. State what occasions?
A. l think both were in 1869; the begin |
ming, and the middle or latter part of 1869;
we worked for five months till twelve
O'Clock at night, and the clerks went in
body 70 ask of the Auditor to give US an I'M
lod hafa nf on QnnrOnriQflnn |