The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11

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for ten years the Southern Claims Commits.
sion; for the free coinage Of silver dollars
and making them legal tender; to author
| ize and equip an expedition to the Arctic
Seas; to utilize The product of gold and
silver mines, and to authorize paper
circulation convertible into gold and
silver; to provide for the counting of the
Presidential Electoral vote. Resolutions were
defeated for want of a twothirds' majority
calling for Information as to the purposes
! for which troops have recently been STA
toned at Washington; requiring the Judi
| ciary Committee to report institutional
Amendment prohibiting the payment of Wal
claims except to loyal persons; declaring in
favor of the rights of States to regulate theil
own domestic affairs, end denouncing The
lawless invasion by armed force of the sol
of any State or Territory, no matter undel
what pretext, as the gravest OF crimes.
THE INvEsTIGAT
| Compiled from Associated Press Reports, unless
Otherwise Designated
LOUISIANA.
The Senate Committee resumed its
| investigation of Ouqchita Parish on the I'd.
b. +. Jonas and r. II. Marr (attorneys), OF
New Orleans, who took an active part in the
Democratic canvass, testified to the efforts
| of themselves and other Democratic leaders
| to have a peaceful and fair election, and
| that the general policy of their party was
directed to that end, in order to pr,vent the
Returning Board from seizing upon it as
pretext for throwing out votes. Rich
ard Darlington (colored) testified that he
had taken an active part in the can
vass for the Democrats, and that
Richard Dunn and others (colored lead
| ers) had done likewise, because they thought
any change would be for the better; knew
numbers of men who voted the Democratic
ticket voluntarily, and did not know of any
| intimidation to cause them t. do so. The
subcommittee heard the evidence of
Frances, wife of Paul johnson (co'ored), of
East Baton Rouge, in reference to masked
men coming to her house, breaking in, and
asking him to sign paper, and accusing him
! of organizing an armed company; that they
tied a rope around his neck, and carried
| him off; she had tracked him five miles in
| the mud, but never saw him again; heard
| the body had been found with the ey S
picked out by buzZards. George Kleinfel-
| ter, of East Baton Rouge, knew of no in
limitation, and knew that the colored DEM
| ocra ic Club in the Twelfth Ward had l02
members; had heard of two negroes being
! shot for stealing and two females whipped
| for the same ohense. Esquire Steve Tins
| (coloredl testified that party of twenty
/ men cdHle W HIS dl IlSut anu liduC
him give up his official books; also that
Republican meetings were broken up by
whites. The House Committee examined
| five witnesses, who testified to the fairness
| of the election, and absence of iutim-
idation in the election, il. Concordia Parish
| The subcommittee examined number OF
witnesses relative to Livingston Parish
| Sylvest Symm, S, Tax Coll, ct r, testified
that The election was peaceable and quiet,
and that his affidavit appe airing in the Sher-
IN IN report was prepared in the Custom
| House, and made nm say things he Knew
nothing about, and he never knew of any
| armed organization there. Samuel Barkston
| Augustus Ward and T. Splitter contradicted
the sffidavit of Supervisor Davidson, as to
| intimidation, and said they would not be-
lieye him on oath.
The Senate Committee, ON the Sd,
| examined Robert Wilson in reference to the
| characters of Capts. Theobold and Phillips
and Walter Wood, of Ouachita, charged
with murderous acts of violence; witness
SAID their characters were as gond as any in
| the parish, A. Burke, member of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee, stated
that, in the hundred interviews and
lengthy correspondence with Gov. Kel
logg, or the Chief Supervisor. no com
plants were made of intimidation
| OF NlOItHCt III oudCuilu, anu buC btIllOCI
knew the only hope of success lay in peace
able election; the committee knew the Re
publicans had been instructed to concentrate
| the votes at towns, to enable the Return
| ing Board to throw out country polls with
out affecting the Republican votes. Justice
Leonard, of the Supreme Court, said he
1 found great alarm among the colOred people
| in Ouachita during the campaign; Republi
can meetings were int rrupted; colored men
told him they had hid in the woods, like rab
bits District-Attorney Gorham testified to
| intimidating the co'ored people and inter
rupting Republican meetings. The sub
committee examined some ten witnesses,
princi ,Jally colored, who detailed numerous
cases of violence and intimidation in East
Baton Rouse, showing reign of terror
| among the blacks there. The House Com
mittee, by party vote, reported President
Orton, of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company, to the House as
| in contempt, in refusing to answer
the second subpoena. Several witnesses
were examined in relation to the election
| in st. Tammany and Concordia Parishes
who testified 10 intimidations of colored
| Democrats by those of their own color. The
sub committee examined some ten wit
nesses, mostly colored, in reference to Liv
| iugst ne Parish, all of whom testified to q
/. peaceable election, and no intimidation, and
| The bad character of Davidson, United States
| Supervisor; also, that George Whites house
was burned becaus. he was believed to be {
| COW thief.
Chief-Justice Ludeling, of the SUI
p-eme Court of Louisiana, testified before
the Senate Committee, on the 4th, as to thu
general intimidation of colored Republicans
in Ouachita, by means of armed bodies o.
Democrats, and said his nephew, DIR. Dink
| fav cplianfpr w L He'd he believed
by memb rs of the Democratic party, fol
organizing the Republican party; he be
lieved that Judge Crawford and District
Attorney Harris were assassinated OF
account of their politics. Joseph Du
yigne I'D attorney, of New Orleans
testified that he visited Ouachita g.
speaker for the Republicans during the can
vass, and such terror existed among coloret
Republicans that meeting at Grady
school-honse was abandoned; several ne
groes told him they had been warned th
/ night before not to come. The sub commit
tee heard further evidence relitive to Ess
Baton Rouge. Lieut.. Roe, Third Infantry
stationed at Ba on Rouge, knew of no in
/ timidation; heard of numerous complaints
which he found on investigation to be with
out foundation. Henry G. Young testified
that there was no intimidation. John G
Conrad stated that he visited the parisl
i during the election, and saw or heard OF NJ
intimidation Before the House Commit
tee Judge Dibble,s member of the Republi
can State Committee, denied the statement
that were made that he instructed the Re
publicans to delay the voting OF Democrats
aud said he advised colored men to vote a
the polls back II the city, where they lived
in order to avoid collision; he also denie,
that he had told them to vote double. Col
Zacharie OF the Democratic State Commit
tee, testified that in canvassirg the State h
found many coiored men dissatisfied wit
the Republican party.
The Senate Committee, on the 5th
examined three colored men in regard t
the election in Moorhouse Parish, all o
whom testified that a large number of col
orcd men voted the Democratic ticket at th
last election, and there was no intimidation
Two other witnesses also testified toa fai
and peaccable election in Morehouse Parish
and that numbers Of negroes yOluntaril
voted the Democratic ticket. The subcon
mittee heard the testimony Of Lieut.
George Arch, of the Third Infantry, in RI
gard to the election in East Baton Rouge
whose general testimony was to the effet
that 1t WAS fair and. pcaceable. Testimon
: II a similar nature was given by other wi
nesses. Before the House Committee, u. I
Harris, of Point Coupee Parish, Liberal X.
, publican, testified that he had accompanie
Packard Into East Baton Rouge, East an
West Felicisna,F ana found ffe colored RI
: publicans felt they could not vote thel
= tiGket with safety In the country, and tha
Republican speakers there were jeered 9
and insulted, but well treated in Richlan
Parish; he thought the natural Repul
, lican majority In the State is 1000