The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-23
THE RETURNING BOARD
Mr.. ArrOyo's Protests.

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Chas. ". Lowell afirms positively that he
was not present during the caucus held at
RAYS house. on Rampant street, Thursday
evening. but admits that he visited said domi-
Gle Wednesday and Friday evenings.
The Young man, Charles Dayton, was only
mistaken in the evening, not in Lowell.
The board was called to order at half-past
| II o'clock, whereupon Mr.. Zacharie filed on
behalf Of Mr.. NJ. J. Cunningham, District
Attorney elect of Natchitoches an affidavit
setting forth that the testimony Of George
Boydon. NJ. F. Green, Robert Clark, Allen
Hall and Eli Williams (all cross-marked aff-
davits), upon which the board threw ont polls
S and of the said parish, is unreliable, in
that none of the parties named reside in the
wards whereof they profess to know SO much,
and are not known, even in the parish.
The affidavits were made before one D. J.
Al. A. Jewett, who claims to be United
States Commissioner for the District of Louis
. lana.
The affidavits were received.
Mr.. Arroyo then made motion to recon-
slider the case Of st. Tamlnany parish, stating
that he had met Tervallon, the Supervisor
Of that parish, who explained, concerning the
Pearl River poll, and the alleged informality
upon which the vote Of that parish was
thrown out.
Mr.. Terrallon, who is a co'ored man re-
siding at the corner OF Esplanade and Royal
<1,okl o mt tho
from the Pearl River poll as alleged, but had
the tally-lists made out properly and sent
them to COL Wright. His report, however,
relative to the election in St. Tammany parish
was not made ont when the returns were given
in, and Col. Wright referred him to Judge
Meyers of Natchitoches parish, who he
(Wright) said would instruct Terrallon to-
make it out in proper form.
Tervallon signed the report without read
ing it, and it now transpires that Meyers in
terpolated damaging remarks concerning the
election at the Pearl River poll, of which
Tervallon knew nothing. The latter will make
affidavit to that effect to-day, which will be
flied with the board, and it is possible that
the case may be reconsidered.
The board then went into secret session.
The following protests were entered this
morning by Mr.. Arroyo:
EVERGREEN POLL.
/ hereby protest against the counting of
the Evergreen box with the parish of Avoy-
elles for the following reasons, to wit:
At the Evergreen poll 397 qualified electors
voted, as appears from the poll list At 5
o'clock p. NJ. the election was closed and the
commissioners proceeded to open the
ballot-box and to count therefrom the ballots
by them received.
AT 10 o'clock, for the night being very cold
and the room not being provided with fire,
the Commissioners Of Election suspended the
count of the votes, and the result thus ascer-
tanned was as follows:
For State Treasurer Dubuclet, - votes: }.
c. Moncure, II votes.
For Congress-Nash, 80: Moore, &c votes,
ETC., as appeared from the tally lists Of said
poll on file.
The commissioners agreed to adjourn the
eosnt Of the votes to the next ado ming plan
4ton.
! Two of the Commissioners of Election left
the box in charge of W. A. Moore, the other
Republican commissioner, and together with
the other officers of election and other per-
sons present, went into the yard to saddle the
horses and be ready to leave all together. In
the meantime the lights in the election-room
were extinguished, and the hallot-box was
surreptitiously stolen by come parties.
offered to the board to canvas and COM
pile the result of the said election, as shown
by the tally-sheets ut said poll. but the pro-
pOsition was rejected. The board determined
to adopt rs the vote of the Evergreen poll .
round majority of $50 votes in favor of each
and every Republican candidate for Safe and
Dorish officers This result is predicated solely
upon the evidence that there is predominence
ofcolored over white votes in thatprecinct, by
which the inference is drawn that theRepubG-
can majority ranges from 1875 to $50 votes.
The board took the higher estimate of the
guess work, and allowed it all around to every
Republican candidate. protest against this
entirely, because
LIST. There was no returns from the Super
bisor Of Election at the Evergreen poll nor
any duplicate to that effect proffered from the
archives of the District Court of the said
parish.
That there was no actual count of said ma.
jority Mt the polls, aud that from the nature OF
things it was aud is impossible to make the
count in question, as not even the election
tickets were or can be produced; and
Because said ruling not only overrules
the decision Of the DeSotO parish case, but
goes much further in the opposite direction
in allowing an election to be counted outside
Of any official documents and by means Of
er-oa,fe affidsyits, many Of which are cross
marked. OSCAR ARROYO,
Member of the Returning Board.
NArcHIToCHEs PARISH.
The undersigned member Of the Return
ing Board, protest against the rejection by
, the board Of polls ) and OF the parish OF
Natchitoches, which gave the following result
&O-wit For State Treasurer j. G. Moncure.
295 votes: Antoine Dubuclet, votes. And
other State and parish officers the same vote
in proportion, for the following reasons
l. Because the charge made by severa!
cross-marked aftidavits and certain defeated
candidates Of the Republican party a!lege
that the colored voters, and the Republican
party in general. were intimidated BY an Or.
ganization which they style the White League,
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