The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-02-17

the Union than the people ofthis State.
Stated the compensations of State tax
collectors. In tho First and other pop
ulous districts of the city it is five per
cent. Inquiry was made if the COM
pcnsation of General Sheridan, Tax Col
i, !, lector for the First District, who, dur
! ing the day, was seated beside tho wit
| ness, was not as much as 800, 900 Il
year. Witness replied that it was not
as large as that, but it was y great deal
| too much.
Mr.. Spccr-You have said that you
made over 100000 the first year YOU
| were Governor. Did you not swear to
| the Assessor of Internal Revenue that
year that you were not worth over $i0,-
600:
Witness did not rccollcct how mucl,
he swore to.
Concerning his difficulty and his deal
ings with Mr.. John a. Walsh ho was
interrogatcd. MIR. Walsh had offered
witness n bribc of $4,000 to sign the
Nicholson Pavement bill. Afterwards
witness rendered to Walsh the office of
State Supervisor of Registration, which
he declined. They did not quarrel
| about the offer of bribe. The offer
was not made in such n way as to be
offensive to witness. 1t was not offer
Ell directly, but somewhat in this form:
''The parties interested in that bill
would give $4,000 to have it fixed"
Witness approved him, and he apollo
gized, adding that he was pleased from
personal knowledge to be able to assert
witness purity.
Was at II dinner at DIR. Mercer's on
Canal street, in October last. General
Dick Taylor, Mr.. Duncan T.. Kenner,
Mr.. $. II. Kennedy and others We're ut
the dinner. No arrangement was
made there by witness with the DEM
ocrats. a variety of topics were dis
cusscd, among them reform measures.
Don't know that tho persons there arc
all Democrats. Know of no circular
issued as II result of political under
standing at the dinner. Don't know of
any circular resulting from tho dinner
having been issued to tho Democratic
newspapers requesting them to abatc
their attacks upon witness. Then, rs
| upon some other occasions, witness had
spoken in general terms, deprccatinE
| the attacks in the press.
Witness observed that he now would
show what his enemies were. lie and
his friends had doubtless committed
faults and done some wrongs, but tho
country should see the sort of people
his assailnnts wcrc--thc kind of rciorm-
crs they were:
John Ray received bonds to the
amount of $54G, 900 for his Nicksburg
and Monroe Railroad, with II pledge
that the interest would be paid by the
owners. They have failed to do it,and
the State is now paying $4,000 II year
interest. lie has also received $1,000
from the State for revising the statutes
of the State, authorized by an act
which, MIR. Ray was instrumental in
having passed, :lS well as the act Civ
ing the subsidy to his railroad. He il
also interested in the Louisiana Lcvr"
Company, and j." wns the champion
that procured the passage OF tho act.
Immediately after tho adjournment OF
the Legislature he was elected PrcSi-
dent OF the company ut Il salary of SO
600 II year. He is also one of the COM
missioncrs, by law, for the building OF
Il State House.
llcrwig and Casey were concerned in
the Lcvrc Shed Company, which wit
moss vetoed and killed. \ fund of $50
600 was contributed to carry the scheme
through the Legislature. Witness,
knows that to be the fact, and that
Casey was the Treasurer of the fund.
Mr.. John G. Sinnou, one of the PERSONS
who contributed to the fund, was re-
turned his contribution by Casey when
the project failed. Casey was also II
cOrpOrator of the Warehouse bill, (which
witness vetoed, and which appropriated
IL 100, 900 Of state bonds to the corpo-
ration.
Packard was in The contract for
Nicholson pavement on st. Charles
Avenue, in New Orleans, for which the
State WAS to be taxed over $3.50, 900,
and the whole job was to cost over II
million. Mr.. Carr informs witness that
it was Packard who offered him (Carr)
II bribc of $500 to vote for this bill.
Lowell was one of the principal men
in the Ship Island Canal bill, which
was passed over the veto of witness but
he died Of ''popuIar strangulation."
Carter was in the Louisiana Lcvcc
Company. He is the attorney of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Rail
road Company, at Il salary of $4,000
per :,nnum, for which he docs nothing
whatever. lie is also the Attorney of
the Jackson Railroad Company. He
received both appointments for corrupt
services in the Legislature. lie was i'm
the Lcvcc Shed bill, and in the Steam