The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-01
Tho E6Aaasaaaa InvestsgAilon.
1pRocyssblaas saRoREs TIE CONGRESSIONAL

49, COAHIITEksj
Nrv ORLEANS, December 8O.-The con. 7
eressional sub committee, eonslsupE ~ /
Messrs. Foster, Phelps, and fotter, W ~.
yestigate Louisiana sfairsy met IN pstio. .,
the ST. Charles hotel to-day. Thief neclaeo
TO confne their investigations TO the heturn'
ing Board and White League. Messrs. An-
derson and Arroyo, members OF the Return,
log Board. and John Ray (Repuoiscanl. ana
Frank G. Zacharie Conservative, counsei io'
the respective committees before the hepsfn.
ing Board, were examined as to the Jaw and
mode of proceeding under 1t. Nothing new
was developed.
AT the night session Messrs.; Pack.
ard, White, and Burke, of Orleans pa
rish, and knoblack, Of LafourcheS were
examined. Mr.. Packard ststed thar be
knew of the Organization OF the White
League before September l4th; believed It
extended throughout. the States believed
there were from 39ee TO 5,00S white Re-
pubicans in New rfeans less Ia proportion
I to the number Of votes than 10 other por.
tons OF the States believed the cotored
voters were iutARidated -sosse by threats OF
violence and others by threats OF discharge,
refusal to lease lands to blacks, etc.
! Mr. Packard stated that be did not believe
the Republican State government could
| maintain itself in this eF any other southern
state without aid or protection of United
States troops; that en- election day troops
were stationed as follows: One company at
each pckce station, one in Gretua, and one at
the Marine Hospital. He consulted with
: General Emory about the disposition Of
trooss, and the reason they were so disposed
was because there was Geographic connec-
tious between eolice-statiens, and the troops
coltd have been concentrated at any point.
MIR. White testified IS to the registration
and election ia his district. He stated that
1870 white Conservatives we've stricken from
the registranon-rolis who were entitled 10
vote. and that the authorities refused to strike
off the nez1e of several hundred frauGutently
registered negroes, although they promised
to do'sc-
Mr. Kuoblack testified regarding the re-
cent registration and election in Laourcbe
parish, o nd stated that there was no intimi'
dating of any kind, and that 12O negroes
voted the Conservative ticket.
He stated that the Returning Board re-
fused to throw out forty fraudulent votes
that were stuffed in the balIot-box, and the
Conservatives carried the parish nothWlth:
standing by small majority; but the
fraudulent votes were also counted for the
IreaSufef
Major Edward Burke gave an account OF
the organization of the Conservative party
for canyassing the city to verify the regis
tration; that they detected 5000 fraudu-
lently-registered names. One of the parties
had registered 10 fourteen wards, and seye-
raj others were discovered to have registered
tiYe or six times. They succeeded in getting
but few of the radulently-registered strick'
en- from the polls.
The object of the committee evidently is
to investigate thoroughly the recent election,
beginning with the registration and ending
4 with the Returning Board. One of the
committee stated in conversation to-day
that the President bad recognized the Legis-
ture of 1872, but not so with that elected in
November. They would, therefore, conflne
their investigations to the late election,
which was an open question. e..