New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-03

; SoTuefi1 Yenueu 90c s4UoV per year now
!; reGt sov $1,000. Witness gave hi. views On
she financial conditions generaily.l With 4
good government think thas property and
. I stocks vi all kinds would Improve. in value
3 | and our people would then have confidence
: ! nntn shefe DO ehan"ss in the government
2 things viii nos improve; Kellogg 10 Oajee-
gionabls because he is nos man of his ~s,rd6
I ne telegraphed to bis secretary to conSgSbuts,
! SicOg to che ShreSepOat euiferersp Yor him
. ( PERSONALLY, and DE took the money one os che
. ! State treasury: ] only know it bs s.ein .
such statements az were published IN tllt.
1e'sspapes.s he would ncs be believed; e,,
"aeh by nlne-sesstAs Of the people Of :hi. .;ty:
cSnt mention any particular i:eins wh.r.
( he has done wrong: ( ain not ac..,ain te q
, with him: b. ias never told me- fa!.-hooi,
and have never done any business :orliN:
Seises. saas cur people would ie glad 10
ges .id Os Auditos Ciintons fss has played
saHGitos sn1 ySsasagerS Hessiy the entire
stare authorities arss Sado Lowell. the s!,sO
9au.sSns. postmaster and Slaakee oS she
\ House, is an Gbeceiona bio person and one
| WHO would be sent 20 the Penitentiary by a
Northern jurs; we have an Objectionable
sehoo! board; these statements l have just
made are strong, and l give them as mat
ters OF general notcriety: these things are
not OF my own knowledge the administra-
tion proceeding kellogS's vas quits SIS bad
8s his,
| Bishop Syilmef~.H 10 nos know 7nacn
aoous poltip:; che business condition hero
rs greatly depressed: our people are dis
coursged: the caHse Oi this IS the loss of
confidence by the people in the pnblie oto
ficialss there has bees 3 taifure to punish
criminals wh" have dspreda:e2 on the ia
saiss goo2 crops hecsuse si.es wouid
be- s:clea fcons fLens shase il N:tts
or No staTn an she name oS o man
who is cuiIty ot larceny even a murderer
does 40: suties great punishment thieves
! can nos be punished because juries are lax:
am opposed sG uni9essal suffrage some of
] my parlshlOners ag9 very poor and aost
their property bs petty depredationsS
! have D great elistruss sof our iud6ciarsS
parish $udges and police ;uries are almost
universally antisted aoS eheie POSITIONS !
believe there was some intimidation 10 pre-
vent persons aOting as they pleased colored
mep informed me they did not vote Che
| DensocratEe Sieket because they we!e afraid
! OF sheis companions they said they did not
|. so:e tsom patriotic mOtives~aonly to please
! thej. employees there IL . feeling of Snses
eurity Throughout: Che State for ii!s aad
| property on the par: %: white people
J Mrs AbeS here appeared with documents
| from the Returning Board, and the papers
| from Iberia and Rapides parish were exams
ineds An affidavit In the Rapides bundle, it
| is asserted by the Democratic side, has
| been put in since the Returning Board
| adjourned and it has no date on ita 1t is
siened by Ex-Governor Wells, who charges
! that the elections in parts OF his parish were
not all fair.
A. IL. Leonard Il sometimes write for tie
Shreveport Times am publisher of that
| journal.
| One OF the papers was produced in which
appeared an article recommending that
certain persons should be killed If they are
counted in by the Returning Board. Wit
ness testified that be believed Just what the
paper had recommended; he would resist
any kind of tyranny: and the general policy
of the Times was to make radical change
in our State government, even if it does |
cost human life.
Mr.. Dumestre-Reside in Iberia parish; |
one poll was thrown out by thas supervifor |
because the box was not handed in to the |
supervisor within twenty-four hours after |
the polls werc closed; the election was fair |
and peaoeabie; attempted to learn where I,
the supervisor was inside of the twenty
four hours, and the box was in his office. |
but the supervisor could not be found until |
several hours after; the supervisor then |
refused to accept the box because the |
tender was made too late.
Mr. Demourelle-Reside in Iberia parish; |
| was a slave before the war; l voted the |
Democratic ticket since the war; twenty-six |
other colOred men voted the Democratic |
ticket; most of them usually vote that |
ticket; about l03 voted the Republican /
ticket.
Henry Wagner-Resde in iberia parish; !
last election l voted the Democratic ticket; |
there were twenty-five of us; | voted that |
ticket once before; am never disturbed |
because l vote as l do; we are not disturbed |
because of politics; l voted the Democratic |
ticket because | thought it was best for me |
and my people
AT the evening session in parlor of the |
st. Charles Hotel, the committee found as |
large an audience as was desirable, and at |
eight o'clock began to take testimony The |
first witness was
L. j. Higby-I reside in New Orleans,
and have for several years; the business
condition of New Orleans is not favorable; |
there is want of confidence in the stabl- !
itv of our laws and the law makers; the |
mouth of the river is in better condition
now than formerly; other cities have bet
ter facilities tor transportation than we
have; railways take freight to the Atlantic
coast easier than can be done by way of the |
Mississppi; our Texas trade has diminished
lately; the stories of outrages in Louisiana
have had a depressing influence; business
has decreased annually with us; the intlu-
ence of climate is not adverse to the export
of grain from this point; the deepening of
the mouth of our river would decrease the
rates of freight from this port the cost of
exporting grain from this port is about the
same as it was six years ago, or perhaps
less; the effect of the White League was
that if they were banded against Northern
men, Northern men would not come here; |
the events of the fourteenth of September /
had depressing influence; friends wrote to
me to sell out and leave; a sense of security
has been growing worse here from year to
year; | am the author of several letters to
the New Orleans Times previous to the
last election; took the ground that there
was lack of railroads in this section;
if the river bar was deepene& there
would be ten times the amount Of Wsiness
for us; the distance from Chicago to New
I Ork is about the same as from Chicago to
this city; State taxes are less now than for. |
merly; the city is about the same as in the |
past; am personally acquainted with Gov
ernOr Kellogg; his standing is about as
good as that of anv other man | know of:
think that if Kellogg had proper support
he would make our financial condition
much better than it Is; the expense of
maintaining the levees at present is not
greater than formerly, but the contractors
do not do the work
General Cyrus Bussey-Reside in New
Orleans and have been commission mer-
chant since 1866; the financial condition Of
our city is greatly depressed; several
things nave contributed to this state Of
affairs; overiiows, high taxes and failure of
crops, and bad government are some of
the causes; we have many enterprising men
here; do not agree with Mr.. Highly in all
his statements; think we have not lost the
cotton trade; it costs much more to send
bale from Little Rock TO New York than it
does to send it here: We have lost the sup
ply trade, which has gone to St Louis,
Chicago and New York; the loss to vessels
at the bar IN one year is sufficient to build
the Fort St. Philip canal five times
over; 1t costs more now than formerly
to keep the levees in repair; in