New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-17

An6 SENATE subcommittee on LOuiGiaHR
affairs had Judge A. b. Levisee, Hayes
electoi, before them last Friday. In the
| course OF his examination the witness said
that proposition was made for q consider
alton to cast his electoral vote for Samuel
j. Tilden. On the fourth of Decent Der the
witness was at the residence of Mrs. Bar
low, on Ccnstantinople street, New Orleans;
had dined out, and was returning home.
Mrs, Barlow and her daughter being pres
ent, one of them gave witness note, asking
him to meet e. w. Johnston at Cassidy's
Hotel on important business. john ton
wrote the note at Mrs. Barlow's. The ladies'
asked witness what it meant; he replied he
had no idea. The ladies thought Johnston
wanted witness TO vote for Tilden Mr..
Johnston, who is an active Democrat,
called next morning and asked the witness
to meet 5. NJ. Ashur, whom the witness had
known as banker in Shreveport, at Cas-
sidy's. The witness did so, first informing
Marshal Pitkin of his suspicious. Ashur
and the witness walked to q retired part of
the town. Ashur said he had important
business to propose, and would make fair
proposition as a broker. He then pre-
sented his offer, whether witness would be
willing to receive a certain sum of money
say $50, 900 or $IO,000-and refuse his GER
tificate as eie5tor. Witness gave no direct
answer, as he had arranged to do with Pit
kin, and asked several questions, and
finally said the price was too emall that he
might as well receive 100000 as $40, 900;
that it was q big chance to make a big thing;
shat it only happened once in a hundred
years that one man had an opportunity to
make a President and finally that Johnston
might say to his frienus that Levisee was
not unwilling to listen TO the proposition,
but that they had not got up to his price
vet, and left him, after appointing another
meeting that night. At the second inter-
view, Ashur said the witness would be re-
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replied that this was new question, and
put him of, and stuck TO his price of $780,,
| 900. Finally, after more close inquiry,
witness wanted to know who his hackers
were. Then he went off to see his friend or
prompter, and was back in half an hour.
Witness asked whom be had seen, ami he
gave the name of Walter Pugh. Ashur
said 100000 was the utmost that could be
raised by Pugh or his hackers, and asked
the witness to go with him next morning
to Common street and they would meet two
men, Pugh and the moneyed man. Wit
ness and Ashur went to the place ap-
pointed, and met the two men as described.
| The man said TO be the mOneyed man
| the witness recognized as Hernandez, a
| prominent New Orleans broker. Herman
| DEE spoke to witness, and witness intro
| duced Ashur to him. Hernandez wished to
talk, and witness declined, saying Herman
| dez could talk to Ashur, as he was the par
| W W Idlh w. NitutSb JuSn W6ub uOUlo
after making an appointment for the next
| morning at the Sc. Charles Hotel, Met
| Ashur next day at eleven o'clock, and
made an appointment for noon, when they
| again met, and Ashur said 100000 was all
that could be raised. Witness stuck to his
| 100000, and said it was not worth while
to talk about it any more. Ashur is q jew,
a fine business man, and a good neighbOr.
Witness regrets to have to expose his name.
Witness reported all these proceedings to
Marshal Pltkin as they took place, ana Pit
kin was well satisfied with what witness
had done. He had never seen Johnston
since.
During the cross-examiuation Judge Lev
isee stated that when Johnston came to
Mrs. Barlow's he remarked that he would
| like to he in the witness shoes, as he could
make 5000, 600 in two days. Witness never
| suggested that he would aecede to their
| proposition and make speech to the Re
turning Board, placing his action for not
voting for Hayes on high moral grounds.
| Such suggestion was made by Ashur, but
witness did not agree TO it. At the last in
| terviOw Ashur stated that the 500, 900 was
waiting for him. At the meeting of the
| electors the witness announced that he had
been offered 100000 to cast his vote Tor
| Tilden.
A special to the Chicago Tribune, of the
| tenth, saws:
| When Dudley Fields committee met this
morning. Field was in an extremely petu-
| liant mood. He was go testy and irascible
| that. to cOsceal his exhibition of temper
| and cloak his quarrels with his associates,
the room was cleared for half an hour that
| the differences might be adjusted. When
| open session was resumed, Charles CavRnac,
| who was privately introduced by Field as
| "the dynamite witness" of the Democrats,
| was put on the stand. His testimony proved
| to be a dynamite to the Littlefeld conspira-
oy, and to all those who have aided to en-
glneer it, including, apparently, Governor
| Palmer, of Illinois,
Littlefeld's great point has been to prove
that the Vernon parish return was changed
from two Hayes votes to 17S votes at the ex
press order of Governor Wells, and that
this change was taken advantage of by the
Returning Board. "The dynamite witness
| Cavanao proved clearly that whatever
change was made in the Vernon parish re-
turn could not have affected the votes for
the Hayes electors, Cavanac was a Demo
cratic lawyer before the Returning Board
| He testified that he saw the return from
Vernon parish opened in the presence of the
board; that it contained the return of two
| votes for Hayes when opened; that it was
| counted, tabulated, and oanvassed by the
| order of the board two votes for Hayes,
and that the proceedings were soon after
| published by order of the board in public
| newspaper two votes for Hayes. He also
swOre specifically that, if any changes had
| been made 10 the return increasing it
above two votes, they were made subse-
Quent TO the time of the canvass by the
board. By the testimony, therefore, of q
| leading Democratic witness, Littletield's
| story that the return was changed by order
of Governor Wells TO increase the vote of
| the Hayes electors was a transparent false
hood.