The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-07
U. S. GRAND JURY SECRETS.
WHAT EFFORTS WE'RE MADE TO IN.
DICT A FEW PARTIES.
And How they Failed-An0ther Tack
The Acklen-DarraH Contested
Election Case

And How they Failed-Au0ther Tack
The Ackien-DarraH Contested
Election Case.
The contested election case Of Messrs. Acklen
and Darrall in the Third Congressional District,
is exciting some discussion now in both Demo-
cratic and Republican circles here, and the report
Of the House Committee on
PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS,
which will be forthcoming next week, is locke
forward to with some interest MIR. Acklen has
his testimony in print and before the committee,
and is now in Washington, with every prospect
of securing his seat, he having made very thor
ough canvass during the fall of the district, Sc
curing all the testimony needed.
With Darrall the case seems different, and
from the move now being made here, it would
seem that he is alarmed at Acklen's prospects for
occupying the seat. When he came here Just
prior to the end of the extra session, Darrall ap.
piled for and received at the Office of the Secre-
tary OF State certified copy of the returns of the
Third District as compiled by the
KELLOGG RETURNING BOARD,
which it seems he had not made part OF his
case before. He then set himself to work. it
seems, to secure more testimony the principal
object of which was to impeach the testimony of
the witnesses who had testified as to election re-
turns, etc., and to go little further, either he or
his friends have for several days been endeavor-
ing to secure indictments by the United States
Grand Jury against these witnesses for perjury
in the hope that il such indictment was Sc
cured it would If the fact reached Washington in
time,
INFLUENCE THE COMMITTEE
in his favor. but in this Mr.. Darrall got badly
left. as the United States Grand Jury failed to
see just grounds for an Indictment.
Darrall, it seems, got somewhat worried over
the delay yesterday, and telegraphed from WASH
ington to his agent here to "hurry up" meaning,
Of COURSE to hurry up the indictment, and he
was notified that it had fallen through.
1t is understood that ex-Congressmen Frank
Morey and Morris Marks are managing his case
here, and it Ia rumored that the programme now
is to secure testimony from the witnesses who
went before the United States Grand Jury, as we'll
as others, the testimony to be taken before Uni
ted States Commissioner Lane, in the third story
of the Custom-H House; and further, that
SUBPOENA OF SOME DESCRIPTION
has been issued to ten or twelve persons to ap-
pear this morning, but who they were could not
be ascertained last night.
1t could not be ascertained either what the
title of the case was before United states Com
missioner Lane, nor was 1t ascertained although
Mr.. Lane was questioned, that an affidavit even
had been made against Mr.. Ackien, or any Of
his friends, from which facts it would seem that
the latest phase Of the programme has some
thing Of
A CROOKED APPEARANCE.
One gentleman, business man of the city,
was called upon yesterday to give his testimony
evidence, and upon his asking if IL was COM
pulsory upon him to give bis testimony, he was
told that it was not. He said then that he would
not give any testimony and withdrew from the
Office.