New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-17

I've submitted . regular contract between
t;mss ma Morey, whereby Morey bound
hinNelf to secure employment for Seelye OF
give him money equivalent to regular
e.icrv ON condition of the surrender VI
Iocnments and memoranda. These papers
v.re placed in the handle OF third party,
10 be delivered to MOrey in year anu
three menths, provided the CONTRACT was
complied with.
Merey's letter to Seelye elbows that he
made continued efforts to secure an ONCE
tor Eeelye, but failed. During this delay
in complying with the contract Seelye with
drew the papers from the hands OF the
third party and made copies of them. He
concealed this from Morey, and when for
msney in hand and the five notes the pa
pers were fnallv surrendered the copies
we're retained. On the eighteenth OF April,
1876, Darrall, Nash and Morey went to
tor Seelye. On April &c, Colonel Casey,
Darrall and Morey went to Chandler for
the same purpose; Casey went to New York,
and Morey wrote to See!ye to see Casey
and borrow some money from him; Morey
thought if Seelye asked for 500 he might
get $50; in the meantime Morey had been
postponing the payment OF the notes, out
secured place for Seelye which he did not
accept; about this time the election com.
mittee decided adversely to Morey,
and in favor of Spencer for the
contested seat. Morey wrote to Seeyle,
stating the fact, and that by the tenth he
would be out of his seat. He wrote to Seelye
that he was writing foolish letters; that his
information was no longer Of use to Spencer
or any one else; that Seeyle should come
and take his place and pay back the money
he had received on false pretenses. Morey
invited him to 60 before the committee
18th h;a n<oru uoro tho varanna al ro1QfiOna
between Morey and Seeyle seem to have
ceased.
Eeeyle resumes his statement. He called on
Casey in New York. as suggested by MOrey,
and asked for 3lOO, and got $50. Casey
also secured him place in the New York
customhouse. Casey seemed exercised over
the committee which was then about being
organized, and said to Seelye that he had
never been very hard on witness, and wit
ness must not be hard on him before the
committee. Casey did not know what
Morey might have done with regard
to DayrOllp, but he was innocent as
the day. Subsequently Casey applied to
Sharp, of the customhouse, for leave of
absence for Seelye, and failing in that &C.
cured q promise from Sharp that Seelye
should be re-engsged when he returned.
This closes the Casey branch. General
Souer. now Q member of the Louisiana
Legislature, sought Seelye, and acting as
he said, for Morey and Kellogg, offered him
$50 cash to 20 to Canada. and $3.50 per
month az long as he remained there, and
the assurance which Souer obtained through
Casey that he should have his place back
when he returned. Morey and Kellogg
were to furnish the money, but it appears
Kellogg. would not pay any money.
ton from Kellogg to answer an in
dictment pending against him for kid
mapping in North Louisiana. Seelye de.
manded $500 cash, and the payment of the
three notes which he held from Morey.
This was refused, and the negotiations
dropped. Seelye was summoned from his
desk in the New York custOmhOuse to tes-
tify before the committee. Seelye knew
nothing irregular in the Internal Revenue
Department and nothing in the district at
torney's office except failure to prosecute
mail robbers. Seelye accuses Morey OF as.
slsting in tamperin9 with the mails during
the campaign of 1872, but refuses to give
details lest he should criminate himself.
Preliminary to making arrests at Homer,
Seelye ordered the troops ,hither by direc-
ton of General Mcrey. He had no basis
then but some blank warrants, to which
MOrey had forged the name of j. @. A.
Baker, United States commissioner. On
their way they came up with Commissioner
Jewett, who, with Morey and the Greenes,
filled up the warrants in regular shape
during the night, dating the warrants back
to cover the expenses already incurred, and
to legalize the case which had been made
to serve the writ. Seelye received no in
structions from Marshal Packard, and re-
ported no details outside Of expenses be-
You'd the matter of cutting the telegraph
lines.
In answer to a question whether he was
not reprimanded by his chief, he replied ON
the contrary he was highly commended for
all his actions in North Louisiana.
The Next Witness.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, was
summoned tonight to testify before the