The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-04
THE RETURNING BOARD.

nesaay evening tuntil 10 o'clock Thursday,
but it was five minutes after II before Wells
called it to order.
Anderson could find nobody to insult him
during the hours intervening between the time
Of adjournment the night previous and the
time Of assembling in the morning and seemed,
in consequence, very happy when he put in
his appearance.
He, however, kept up his little play, per-
forming it in a selio-comic manner OF looking
for somebody to knock the chip off his Shout
der
He moved that the board establish an order
that no one be admitted to the clerks room
but the clerks, Secretary of the board and the
me bers Of the board, and that no one be
allowed to examine any papers in the possess
sion of the clerks without consent of the
board. He said that it any clerk gave any
information without the consent Of the board,
he would move for the dismissal of that clerk.
He held in his hand paper the BULLET1N),
in which the following paragraph appeared:
An investigation after the papers had been
turned over to the Secretary, disclosed the fact
that there was among the documents COM
bined statement OF votes with the seal OF the
parish court attached, which did not contain
the two contested polls. The statement was
not produced before the board
He had made inquiries of the Secretary as
to who had made the investigation, and -
Mr.. Cavanac Gnterrupting) Gen. I.
Anderson, Smiling in conciliatng man.
ner) allow me, if you please, MIR. Cavanac,
am satisfied with the explanation Of the clerk;
I cid not see the statement spoken of.
4 Secretary Abel, [insinra,ingly]-l have
shown no papers without the permission OF
the b card; Think you ito Anderson will bear
me out in this.
Anderson, [patrorizinglyl-We understand
that. sir The clerk informed me that the
papers had been examined on the application
} of Mr.. Cayarac or Zacharie, and was salts
fed.
Mr. Cavanac stated that he had made the
: examination of the papers and had found a
combined statement of votes, which had not
been produced before the board. This state
ment omitted two polls, as was stated in the
: BULLETIN, and bore evidences Of legality,
having, as stated in the BULLETIN, the seal Of
court attached.
Kenner (who was the mildest man magma
: ble) said that he had seen the statement in
question, and had it in his hands while the
returns were before the board 1t was
among the other papers, and there was moth
ing wrong about it.
The board seemed to consider this satisfac-
tory. If Kenner had seen the paper, it was
all right, and the motion Of Anderson was put
and carried.
The parish Of Lafourche was taken up and
!. was under consideration when this report
!. closed. Poll 5 is contested.
) The question is, what are Lowell AMI Morey
:, going to do about it:
The order does not apply to counsel repre-
sertinG the two parties. Lowell is one OF the
counsel for the Republican party, but he is e
: candidate. Does he come under the stipula-
: tons in the order?
TIE parish of Lafourche was taken up, and
was under consideration when this report
closed.
In making his returns, William Murrell,
: "the wild man Of Latourche, in his capacity
. of State Supervisor, protested against returns
from Poll 3, which gave Conservative ma
. iority Of 80, on the ground that che was
: sorry he had compiled the returns from that
poll on Tuesday night, because lie was intim-
dated by Mr.. @. A. Moore and others OF.
Wednesday night
. The intimidation referred to was the excite
~,
:. poll 5 with So fraudulent ballots, stuffed by
: Fred Colin, Republican candidate for Parish
. Judge. was handed to him (MurrelD. The in
timidation was great enough to make him
: regret that he had, on the previous evening,
compiled returns from poll 3, conservative
polly, but it was not strong enough to prevent
him from compiling publicly, as he did, and
in presence of the excited crowd the fraudu.
lent returns from poll s. The protest Of the
wild man was drawn up in the hand writing
Of Fl. F. Springer, Assistant Supervisor for the
parish
Mr.. Clay kroblack, representing the Con-
y sentative Democratic candidates of the parish,
entered protest agains. the count of poll 5,
= on the grounds that the box had been stuffed.
1t will be remem oered that Commissioners
COIN and Mccoy are under indictment to ap-
= pear before the United States Circuit Court.
. The facts in the case have already been pub.
: lished.
> After the completion of the canvass of this
parish the board adjourned until 6 ?. IL.
The following Sir Knights attended the ses-
D sion
e Col. j. P S. Goblin, G. J. W., Lebanon Pa.
L john D. Krause, Lyman Nutting. Hy. Shaet-
: fer Hermit Commandery No. "a. Lebanon,
: Pa; P B. Wilson, Constans Commandery No.
80, Bellefonte, Pa; H. z. Kellogg, Apollo
a Commandery No. l, Chicago, Ill.
EVENING SESSION.
q At very near the appointed hour, strange to
a say, the members of the board assembled and