The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-04

North. Let mt, my esteemed sir, warn
you of the danger, Millions have been
sent here and will be used in the in
terest of Tilden, and unless a counter
movement is made, it will be impossible
for me or any other individual to arrest
its productive results. -
The gentleman producing this letter
is fully aware of the W and, if you
allow, will communicate freely to our
friends and act promptly, or the results
will be disastrous. A lift to the wise.
Strictly private and confidential.
Yours, very truly,
Iui ilr j. MADISON WELLS.
To Hon. r. j. West, Washington,
Senator West permitted the commit
tee to take a copy of the letter.
Lawrence asked Maddox whether
anybody offered him $780, 600 to report
in favor of t lie cotton claim which he
went to Louisiana to investigate. Wit
ness answered that after the urffavor-
able report had been made by him, a
person said if he had made a different
report he might have realized money by
it; declining to give the name of the
person, it was insisted upon, and wit
ness said it was McGrue.
Sparks asked if it was Con MaGrue,
connected with the st. Louis whisky
frauds, and witness answered that he
thought so. Yir1s- 6,+s
The committee then went into pri-
vate consultation.
Washington, Feb. 3.-Littlefeld,
clerk of the Louisiana returning board,
testified that he held a sinecure in the
New Orleans custom house, working
for the party-doing nothing, like the
rest of them, until the election of 1872
after which was appointed clerk of the
returning board last November; made
a suggestion to Wells of altering the
returns, on Sunday evening, Dec. Sd;
dined with the returning board that
same evening; had at that time no
special charge Of the Vernon returns;
three clerks were in the o when
GOV. Wells made the suggestion, but
10 not think that they heard the con-
versation; Wells called witness to him
and, putting his finger on polls 2 and
. of the electoral vote of Vernon parish
said: 'Littletield, 1 want you to trans
pose these returns for the purpose of
electing Republican candidates." wit
ness made NJ answer, and the returns
were left with him; sat at that same
desk and transposed the votes; did
not complete the work that night, but
got through with the electoral, state
and part of the parochial returns; left
the returns under some paper and found
them there next morning; told Eaton
and Davis of his work; Eaton was
drunk Sunday evening-as they all
were-and promised to assist him, but
being sober next morning he refused;
witness then told Woodward of his
work; finished the work on Monday;
put the returns with the other returns;
it was brought back on Tuesday marked
sscompiled;" four or five days after
wards Wells told witness to destroy it;
made no reply; had conyersed with Gov.
Wells between the suggestion to alter
and the order to destroy; Wells was go
ing to take the true returns away with
him, but did not at witness suggestion;
did not know whether he or Wells
destroyed the returns.
Littleield said after Wells had been
before the Congressional committee he
got scared and wanted witness to make
assimilated returns, and Wells said he
would furnish evidence on which it
should be rejected; witness took the
Vernon returns home, but forgot all
about it till he started from New Or
leans. He was urged by n Clifford to
come to Washington with the informa-
ton. Clifford said he could get one
hundred Thousand dollars for his story,
and that gentleman sent a dispatch to
Washington concerning the matter to
Senator Allison, who telegraphed,
'.Consult Howe; he only is safe"
Witness knew if Clifford said anything
about it in New Orleans he, witness,
would never get out of the city safe il
the Republicans knew it. Spearing
told witness it would be for his interest
to allow him, Spearing, the use of this
information.
Senator Mcdonald showed witness a
paper, which he identified as the re.
turns of Vernon parish polls two and
nine, of 81 and 81 votes for Democrats;
he had changed to Republicans where
there were no votes. In making q
fabricated return after the original had
been destroyed, witness and Davis had
used a regular consolidated blank form;
the object was to make it appear the
return had been rejected, rather than
votes had been transferred. The three
polls fabricated aggregate 179 Demo-
cratic votes: there was one more vote