National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-16

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I spri. in tie whole procseding seems to have r
| S'2te for McEnery. In the canvass OF votes
| VIII, sh Determined the McEnsry government to b
elscteI the votes Of several Republican :Psrishe
Mr.. President, further submit that, as nigh
be expected from the circumstances referred to
we have nothing amounting to- evidence tina
| McEnery hauN any majority, and for these nv
reasons sfirst, the question has at best beer
only Incidentally examined by the committee
MIR. Carpenter. Cbs senator ovsrIooks the fac
| that We had two Impulses before the committee
one. whether there Wes 2 State government ir
louisiana II is therefosS not incidentally before
Mr. Freling6ayssn. egl come to that. MY
second reason for saying Mst re have nothing
that from six out OF hfty-eighs parishes We have
no returns; third, from several OF the parishes
the returns are forgeros: feurtAtrom one at least
we're manufactured and sworn to IN blank bsfoEe
| they were made.
Mr.. Carpenter. What case is thatz
Mr.. FrefInghuysen. / Will give iEto you pres.
emily. Flnh, the preponderance q evidence
is is. that that Kellogg and not McEnsry had 3
or TWO on each Of these points.
That the committee did not give characterization
tSe Inc question "nstasr Kellogg or MSEnsry had
Is manifest from an examination of the case. Their
attention was given to the question which was the
true canYassng board 80 as to determine which
was the true Legislature in order that they might
Determine whether Ray or McMillen was primo
JGel a, entitled to be Senator; and If you want
examined you have only to look to the report. On
the last page Of the book is this testimony. One
II desire to call the attention of the committee
10 statement. At q suggestion made by one
member Of the COMMITTEES yesterday, examined
perts they will ind, that the commissioners Of
elections In several cases In the parishes have
their names forged to the sffldavits."
Mr.. Carpenter. In the parishes named; naming
four parishes.
Mr. Frelinghuysen. do not think that is the
meaning; but will read 1t just as It is:
"If the committee will act as experts they will
find that the commissioners Of elections In several
cases in the parishes have their names forged to
tho atidavits. For instance, there is one from
Madison parish, (exhiDiting the papers, and so
in the parish Of Grant also, and in the parish Of
Point Coupee and the parish Of East Baton
Rouge. which, II the committee will act as OK
perts they will find 1t very evident In some cases
that they were forged.
dence in the Louisiana investigation closed as
am advised by both sides that they have laid all
the testimony before the committee that they de-
BIr. Carpenter. The returns being before the
committee.
Mr. Freiinghuysen. Mr. President, we are called
upon to determine that Kellogg is not Governor,
when 1t was in proof before the committee that In
several cases the returns were forged the witness
instancng four cases and not q question was asked
Why, you might as well throw up figures on
cards, to SEQ how they will land in order to solve
a mathematical demonstration, as to establish
majority by such testimony.
Mr.. Carpenter. viii my friend allow me
word2 These returns were before the committee.
to have any knowledge about 1t except what arose
from looking at the papers:
Mr.. FrelInghuysen. That is all.
Mr.. Carpenter. He and Mr.. Mcmillan, both
being Senators as they claimed, and therefore
perfectly competent to settle this question for
themselves, attached no Importance to that from
the fact that it did not change the result If it was
after that time.
MI FreIinghuysen. will pay attention to those
returns before close, and in q few minutes. 1t
is clear that the committee did not attempt to
find out what returns were forged and what were
not, for on the presentation Of this controlling
fact the whole testimony was closed and tie re-
port is based on the testimony as It then stood
have no returns-Tberia, Tberviiie, Saint James,
Saint Martin, Saint Tammany, Terrebonne-as.
appears by the certificate Of the Formsn board
three of these six parishes were rejected because
Of violence. Forman says so In his testimony on
tho seyenty-slI page. They have given no evil
is spread out from the six hundred and firth to the
six hundred and forty-irst page-thirty-ive pagss
Of evidepce relating to the alleged violence In the
parish, having strong proponderance OF colored
votes. There were from seven to eight hundred
registered. The white vote was made up, we:
know, Of the Democrats; and In that parish OF
Democratic planters, 20 their credit be 1t said,
there seems to have been no man in the parish
who suited Mr.. Warmoth as supervisor, and q
MIR. Tharp was brought from Now Orleans and
was made supervisor The commissioners took the
The colored men were orderly, but when voting
was over they armed and followed the ballot
60 in the State House The sheriff prohibited them
They had right to go in. We would have gone
in. They intent and earnest, watched the ballot
box. When one party would grow weary others
would relieve them, and they stood at the win
dows watching the boxes.
In all the testimony Of thirty-hve pages there
Is no evidence OF one act OF violence, and that is
one OF the three parishes the returns of which
were rejected because Of violence. What the
violence was in the other two parishes they have
to inform US. There was no violence. There was
no reason that the ballots should not have been
counted and the returns made up, excepting that
1t was q strong Republican parish. i will show
presently the effect Of the exclusion.
The returns from several OF the parishes are.
forged, but they all go in to make up McEnery's
majority, as nc shall see presently. Tho Senator
from Wisconsin very fairly, in. calculation with
which nayng gene CtST the 9,
From one Of the parishes the returns were manu-
featured; and then my friend asks me for the
evidence, and I will trouble the Clerk to read
from pages 9O9 and go of the testimony that
which have marked.
The Chief Clerk read as follows:
Personally came and appeared before me, Rob
and for the district Of Louisiana, John p. Monta-
mat, of the city and State Aforesaid, who, being
duly sworn, doth depose and say that during the
month of November, 1872 and Cor four years be-
fore, he justice Of the peace for this parish
of Orleans; that in the month aforesaid, after the
election held in this parish for Governor and other
State and parochial officers, what date cannot
recollect but 1t was while they were counting the
votes at the Ststehouse, at the Mechanics, Insti-
oalaaS To hor
ton also Of this city and parish aforesaid, came to
my office, situated 80 Exchange alley near Gus
tom-hOuse street. in the city and parish aforesaid,
and requested that should go with him in GER
tain place in this city Of New Orleans, In order to
administer the oath to one of the supervisors OF
request went with Jack Wharton, who took me
in house situated on Gravier street, somewhere
near Barronne streets the entry doors we're closed,
consecutive and hard raps) the doors were
opened. In tho said room i saw one Cahoon,
whose first name do not know, but whom had
seen before in this city; he, the said Cshoon, then
and there informed me that he was the supervisor
of election for tho parish of Madison, appointed
by Henry G. warmoth, then Governor OF Louisi-
retnrns of the late election. / saw there several
persons whom did not know; they were making
up tallysts OF the returns Of the election for the
parish of Madison. The. lists were signed IN
blank by the commissioners of election. In
quired from Cahoon, the supervisor, how 1t was
that he had not prepared the lists and returns in
the parish where he came from. He told me that
he could not count the votes there; IL was Re-
publican parish, and that he had to run away be-
cause he wanted to count the votes and admit no
one except few, and he would have It his own
way and would here In New Orleans return such
per:ons as he thought proper. swore him to
Several tally Hiss and returns. believe to the
best Of my knowledge, that the greater part of
the tally lists were yet in blank when sWore him.
/ JOHN P. MoSTAMAr.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sd day
Of February, 1873
u s. Commissioner, District OF Louisiana.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen. There was secret place
entered by arranged signals where otheers were
engaged in making up returns, number OF which
were sworn to in blank anil filled up afterward.
Now read, II you please, the rest Of that marked.
The Chief CLERK read as follows:
"Question. Taking your estimate OF the votes
in these parishes where the frauds are charged, II
the vote had been fairly counted, what would have
been the result as compared with the vote In the
parishes where no frauds are chargedf
ANSWER. do not understand your question
"By Mr.. Hill: Q. What would have been the
effect on the general electionf
by Mr.. Logan: Q. What would have been the
result OF the electfonf
"a. Oh, If there had been no frauds in these
parishes, and they had returned the vote as they
did In some of the parishes, fairly, they would
have given the Republican ticket very large
majority, according TO their own returns.
20. In the Slater
IA. Yes, sir; In the State.
30. Do you speak Of the votes actually cast, or
the voters in the DISTRICT A. refer to the voters
but the votes actually cast, in my Judgment, II