The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-18
LOUISIANA.
All Danger of II Collision Past
Packard and General Augur
Lock Horns.
AuOurS Answer to Packard's Open Letter
Presents the Packard Government as
DissOlving Scene The lnves.
tigating Committee Com.
pleles It's Returns.
The Packard Government II DissoIvins
SCcne-AII Danger of collision past

NEW ORLEANS, January l7.-The
effect of the Instructors from the War
Department to General Augur, to pre-
serve the in statu quo of both parties
until the reports OF the congressional
committees have been received, il
plainly visible to day. All danger of
collision is regarded as past, for the
present, at least.
Drag Net of tbc senate Investigating
Committee.
The Senate Committee conclude the
examination of the Ouachita parish
witnesses to-day. john IL. Dinkgraye
testified to incendiHry articles in the
Ouachita Telegraph and Vienna
Sentinel referring to Republican lead
ers and saying, If trouble issued, halt
ers for their necks were already greas-
ed also that resolutions were adopted
unanimously ut the Democratic meet.
in Monroe endorsing the action Of
John Gorspatch in discharging negroes
for voting The Republican ticket and
advising all others to do likewise, and
that he had been threatened and
forced to leave.
Randall Driver, negro, testified to
having been severely whipped by Cap
tain Theobalds and Others, including
three negro men, on the night Henry
Pinkston was killed, because he had
refused to come over on the Lords
side AZ requested by Theobalds testi-
fed the election at poll eight was
peaceful.
Sam. Gardner, United States Super
visor of Webster parish, testified that
at poll five Thomas Creighton and
others took aud counted the ballots
against the protest of supervisor and
other officials that he had Away been
q Republican up to the 9TH.
j. G. Moore, negro, of Richland
parish, testified to bulldozIng and in
timidation there, and that he and
others were afraid to vote the Republi-
can ticket.
George Dixon testified to having in
his possession fine eight-bladed
knife worth six or seven dollars,
with one blade broken OIL
and bloody, which he found at
Pinkston's after the murder.
A United States OHIcer Testiies 10 II
Peaceful III eeiiOn.
ID, A. Webher, tax collector aud SUI
pervisor OF the parish, swore to threats
against the lives of himself and broth
or, State Senator Weber, and that
two men told him they had been offer
ed five hundred dollars to kill Senator
Webber, but declined to give their
names: gave the name Of Jack Rus
sell, Ephraim Armstrong, Gilbert Car"
ter and Ike Mitchell, blacks, who were
Republicans, aud whom he believed
had been killed for their politics, and
that many more had come to him and
complained of being whipped. For
some reason witness reflected upon
Major Bascom and other officers, whom
he thought sympathised with the bull
dozers, and had allowed them to take
a negro out of the military lines and
scourge him.
G. NJ. Bascom, u. S. A., denied EN-
nbatically the statements of Webber
so far az they referred to him and the
military and said he had investigated
the killing of Gilbert Carter and re-
ported the facts to headquarters, also
that the night after the election Web
Der told him the election was fair ana
peaceable as far as he knew.
General Augur's Reply 10 Packarh's
Open Letter.
The following is General Augurs
reply to Governor Packard's letter oil
last night:
HEADQUARTERS DFP'TMFHT OF THE GULF,
NEW ORLEANs, January IL, 1917 }
Hon. =. b. Packard, state House, New Or
leans, Louisiana
DEAR SlR-Your letter dated the l6th
instant, which you had published in
newspapers and telegraphed North be-
fore it WIS possible for me to see 1t, is
received and, though addressed to me,
I understood, very well, that 1t is not
particularly intended for me, and but
for some errors affecting me personally
| should not think it necessary to
make any reply.
You state that orders had been issu-
ed early on this day, the 9th instant,
nv the Honorable Secretary OF War
directing that all unauthorized armed
bodies should be required to be dis
uersed, and that you considered this
order of the Secretary of War as virtu'
ally commanding maintenance VI "
statue quo, consequently the State
forces in charge of the different posi-
tiops outside of the capital were direct
oil TO make such resistance as would
compel manifestation of force and /
breach of the peace on the part OF
their opponents.
II was my understanding neither
side should be permitted TO interfere
with the status of the other side, ana
in reply would state the time OF day
at which this order was issued is not
material. 1t was not received here
until some time after the surrender,