The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-04

.@Tte refused, on yesterday, TO an"
u the questions asked him In
aht ~ashington. naturally put the Tunes
law a Gov, palmer's track. The Governor
'iuwas struck at his Office, In the midst Of
Y Il crewd OF about forty clients, among
whom were n batch Of bank directors.
Being questioned. and having made q
clumsy and Intellectual effort to escape.
RS responded substantially as follows
ia queries skillfully applied:
& AsWhen I was in New Orleans | met
& htlefieid, one of the clerks of the Re-
Nning Board, In the consulting room
Ifthat board, He was a young man.
Il seemed bright, smart one. He
8h introduced to mo by Mr.. Spearing,
Aisiness man OF New Orleans. who,
HID Littleiield. was q Northern man,
the latter being from Boston. ] found
! that 1Iittletield had been clerk OF the
Returning Board in 1874, and that he
was well acquainted with the methods
used by that board to accomplish their
political purposes. ! told him then
that as he WAS young man, and rs the
conspiracy IN Louisiana must sooner or
later collapse, he could not afford. in
view OF hi5 prospects In life, TO be com
plioated with It. In the course Of re-
heated conversations with him he
promised that no would extend TO me
the same facilities which were allowed
TO Senator Sherman and his associates
I,ittlefield was afraid, or seemed
to be afraid, that he would be called
before Murrison's Committee, then IN
session at New Orleans, and he said
that II he told tho truth before that
committee he would be killed before he
could get out Of New Orleans. l left
New Orleans and came North, and on
December 81 got u dispatch from Spear
Ing. dated Cairo, asking me TO meet
him and Littleteld at st. Louis. | WAS
unable to meet him, on account OF
pressing professional business, and re-
piled that / wished thoy would come
here, On the next day Littleiield and
Judge Murphy, Of Iowa, came here on
the noon train, and came to my Office.
Littlefield told me then what has been
already reported In Judge Murphy'e
testimony, viz. That W ellis has made,
or caused to be made, u change in the
consolidated returns Of Vernon parish
by taking one hundred and seventy
eight votes from the Democratic side
and transferring that number to the
Republican side, and by this operation
making 1t possible to certify to the
election OF the Republican Judge and
prosecuting attorneys. After this con
yersation Littleiield left for Boston,
and the other for New Orleans, TO cen.
Ter with Col. Morrison and his commit
tee. Murphy is a good lawyer. and
gress in the Davenport district last
FALL"
Thc lawyers ou n" sides netarc thc
Eiectarat Tribunal.
tBa imore Dulletin1
The counsel employed to represent
the cases of the respective high con-
tending parties before the great court Of
arbitration are men OF distinction. and
yet the characters Of the gentlemen
selected on the different sides are in
some sort typical Of the character the
case. On the Democratic side the case
will be in the hands Of Jere s. Black,
che ablcst lawyer now ut the Supreme
Court, Democrat OF the Buchanan
school, and keen, incisive reasoner
upon facts rs well as principles. He will
be assisted by Lyman Trumbull,
who has no superior as clear
headed constitutional lawyer; Matt
Carpenter. the brilliant but cratic
lawyer OF the Northwest. who is
one OF the most oogent reasoners at the
bar, amazingly we'll read in constitu-
Ttonal law, keen in logic. and severe in
denunciation; Judge Campbell, who
has been himself an Associate Justice
OF tho Supreme Court, and Ben Butler,
whose peculiar powers and excellent
knowledge Of the ms and outs Of Lou
in some sort the founder, eminenUy lit
him to cross-examine tho Louisiana
Returning Boart, What Butler fails 70
eXtort from Wells, kenner, Anderson.
aud CasanAVe, will probably not be-
worth knowing. This line oil counsel
shows plainly that the Democrats in
tend TO present the law before the court
In the strongest shape, and silt the
facts IN the minutest manner. In u
word, they mean business, ana wish
everybody to know that they think
they have case. and Intend TO present
lie in The best possible form.
On the other baud. the Republican
case is 10 be contlded to Mr.. William NJ.
Evarts, the eminent counsel who led tho
torlorn hope 70 the defense OF tho late
Henry Ward BCechnr; to Mr.. Slough
ton, OF New York, who has taken Ed
ward Pierrepont's position as the thick
an-thin advocate or CIR .ntiSm in its last
and worst phases. and to Mr.. Bob In
gersoll. the corruScatinC sky.roCkCt Of
Hy-up-the-creek Republicanism, he
whose flowers OF oratory spring up from
seeds borne to inaccessible shores on
u the bubbles Of bosh. In other words.
the Democrats mean to present their
case in legal way and the Republicans
in q rhetorical way. One side will talk
TO the Supreme Court. The other side
will magniloQui2e 70 the select audi
ences OF Contedrit y Roads. One will
hold up the CONSTITUTIONS the other
wrap itself once more in the bloody
shirt.
LITTLE REXNEn.
a Significant gnctGenf in the TtT-Tap-
per's Testimony.
Especial to Chicago Ttmcs.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. S0.-David Dudley
Field and his fellow mittecmen |
have made brave Roadway in getting at |
the bottom facts in the Louisiana Re |
turning Board frauds to-day. They !
have added to their Volume of tcstimo- /
ny OF Southern election doings the evil !
dance OF two mon who WORE Intimately |