Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-06
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not.
| Q-Was anything said by hin, as
TO having an interview with Gov.
Nichols.
Ayes.
Q-D4d you say in the course Of
your conversation with, Barret that
you had determined to make state
ment 10 Coy. Nichols.
Alt is most Infamous lie.
Q-Do you mean to say the qucs.
tion is an infamoas~he.
A-I~sayt the substance of the
| question isSa lie.
Q-Ifyou would answer my ques-
ton in the way witness should ans
wer it, it would be better.
Al viii not ask your advice as to
how ] shall answer question.
Chairman You must answer in
|response to questions. This is not
the place for personal explanations.
Al can defend myself elsewhere.
Odd you state you had deter
mined to make statement to Coy.
Nichols?
A-No, sir.
Q-Did. you say anything about
the inter vention Of j. P. Kennedy? !?
| Al didn't, sir. Mr. Barrett had
asked whether I would have an inter
view with Gov. Nichols replied
would, as Gov. Nichols dyas a gentle
man. Barrett made An explanation
in the legislature, refuting the false
charges against me. The witness in
further response to questions, said he
/ had conversation with ]. p. Ken
nedy, who asked him whether he had
any objections TO an interview with
IGov. Nichols, and he replied in Ian
tgusge similar to that in his converse
ton with Barrett. Kennedy suggest
ed an interview with Nichols about
state matters. Both Barrcttand Ken
nedY were his political friends.
/ Q-Did you not state that you
would make clean breast of i, Ss-s'.5s.
Alt is a most infamous lie.
Q-Do you mean to say that you
never said to anybody you conversed
with, that you intended to make a
clean breast of II?
! A-Nothing of the kind.
/ Field read letter, dated New Or
leans, Jan. IA, 1876, and signed by
Coy. Wells, as folIowss II am quite
unwell; to much SO to fill our engage.
ment to day. VIII inform you to.
morrow relative to It's ful6llment.
i Witness said he wrote that note
and Kennedy was to have been pres
ent at The proposed interview with
4 Nichols.
i The witness was asked whether
he did not, an hour after he wrote
the above note send another marked
confidential, us follows:
i DEAR S1g:-After our friend Bar.
4 rett had left our room there was
placed in my hands matters requiring
nay absence from New Orleans.
/ Witness said he: expected to be
back in few days, and then related
!, that he had been summoned 10 Wash
!, ington. Field asked an explanation
OF the manner Of proceeding to can.
! fvass the vote in Louisana and wit
ness said on saturday be had sen
, a note to the committee asking to b.
: heard only with reference TO Mad
dox and the Vernon parish and h,
/, dlo not lHtehu TO throw away his
! rights as an American citizen and B,
e he forced to answer questions ol
other subjects. He desired to ans
! wer nos other questions what eve
until the house should relieve hin
/ from the charge of contempt Of it
e authority. Were he thus relieved h
would feel free to answer
It Chairman reminded the witness
If he thus persisted, he would agai
a be in contempt, and such would b
is the opinion Of the committee and {
!, the public.
III Field followed this reminder b
asking number Of questions regarc
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