The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-24
THE LOUISIANA INIQUlTY.
THE FRiUDS THTs ran EXPOSED BIZ
MORRfSON'S COMMITTEE
Accounting Tor Five thousand Tildcn Votes
Illegally Thrown Out And only One-Third
Of the Disfrnnchired Parishes Examined.

Accounting Tor Five thousand Ttldcn Noi"s
Illegally Thrown Out And only One-Third
Of the Disfrnncbised Parishes Examined.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 23.-Mr. Morrison's
committee finished to-day their second weeks
Investigation with splendid results To SUM
Marie, they have forced the members Of the
Returning Board. by their stubborn silence
when arraigned, TO tacitly ncknoW ledge their
odous frauds, ani compelled them to show,
after ample opportunity for lucid demonstra-
tion. their utter inability to present one single
legal or real pretcxt for their rejection OF 1850
votes for the rllden electors. They have proved
Gle rly that this board counted 3js votes for
the Hayes electors In Vernon parish that
were never cast. They have proved by the
testimony OF Anderson and Wells that the Re-
turning Board counted I,llG votes In Concordla
and Natchitoches for the Hayes electors that
were not returned az the Board holds to be the
legal mode Of return. by tho Supervisors. They
have discovered that twelve polls, containing
5000 Democratic majority on tho vote for elect
ors, were excluded by the Supervisors and by
them withheld from the Returning Board. who
on this account declined to count them though
they were properly certified and sworn to by the
Commissioners OF Election. although the Board
decided to receive all Republican returns
made In this manner. The committee have
proved that OF the ofilc,als so frauduently dis-
testimony Is an Indicted criminal, a fugitive
from Justice. and has shot four men; that an
other Is convicted periurer and not even
citizen Of the State whose people he attempts to
disfranchse and that another ia an indicted
pickp0cket. Tney have proved that the vote OF
a Democratic parish Grant was excluded with
the previous couni,auce Of kclogE-this
from the confession Of the chief plrochid
oficer Of election u. A. wnrd. Tney
have shown cOnclusiyey that Kellogg
had made arrangements weeks before the
election was held to exclude the democratic
vote Of East / licisna They have esIrolished
beyond contradiction the fact that "a vast s,s-
tom Of ntimidnt .. Evolving murder ana
every species OF violence. was generally prac-
tisod by leading itei ubicans and secret ReruO-
lican societies against would-he colored voters
during the recent camplign. al aud alter the
election. Ia all, MOrrison's committee have
accounted for over 5000 vote, cast for
the Iilden electors that were rejected Dy
kellogg's Super,lsors and Returning Board. and
found such votes to have been cast at un rIec-
ton where tho only breaches of the law have
been committed hy Republicans and by their
scuundfelly oficills who manipulated the re-
this committee 10 e. detailed IuNc. tl-aiton ore
only one-third ~ those DISTINGUISHED hy wells
GO. Those carefully sxamined ny to GATE are
Orleans l. ..t Baton Rouge. List aud Wet
Ftiican9. Grant, Lafayette, COncordia, ami De
Soto.
mittec to-oay were a. ". g. Hcarsey and \. ".
heupton tepublicln tomni ioners. 40 i'uli 3
Eleventh Nsrd of New orleans. and Louis Back
u.s. supervisor "i NesNtrdlio ion iu that waid u
was on TIE evidence If these three men fnHf
the Kctufuing Boafd threw out the vote east 90
iurty. one oi these Witnesses L. uEitiye
from Justc., beng under Indictment in G. GtNe-.
tUn tJr criminal unei'--' mot er i7 cow !
.. Jlrer ana MT q cii1rn ut the state. and
tue thlrd has been nuic.ed as rickp .ch 9.
Al three testified md 70 80 l.l %. tnr iiUusl
Committee th.ttNe election 80 l'u.i > Wt. tvlcr.
able anfq 'iet up To the closing Of men Us 4nd
that all tue votes poied wcr' legal, az thc5
rMulr tufi after TIE tliE closed tIlfs flH III