The New York herald., 1878-08-16

from the committee into narrative about petty
pollciaus in New Orleans and his own personal i'm
poriance among Them, all o VIII ch had tho slightest
possible bearing the INQUIRY and Was oi no
earthly interest TO the public. il Nas.A.
~ regard 70 Tue ouI.eozed parishes Is Il not a
where the republicans failed 10 have msjortyf A.
hardly thin. So for = .ss arranged beforehand that
throw out according to She size OF the democratic
majority
WHAT AspERsos WANTED
BY Mr. Butier-Did Anderson over show you copy
OF tho protest IN icference to East FsciauaS
Wtness-No. ar; had rsqnens conversations with
Q What did no want to gsl back the protest forf
op Ss S M
General Butler repeated a number OF weary. unim-
portant questions, aud the witness suddenly OK,
claimed, 81 wish you would chunge tho witness; /
am getting tired lie consented, however, TO GO on
little further and stated that he thought Keloags
motive wishing him 30 soc tho visiting statesmen
Was tina, tnsy might capture him BY their seductive
and winning ways. and thus make him easy tool
for Kellogg to use In Influencing Anderson, with
whom he (Ihe witness) intimate terms, and OF
whose private Affairs hc haa considerable knowl-
d Anderson gave you little information about the
Sherman lotterf A. No definite Information : he
talked vaguely about lis contents and tried i'm
press with the importance Of the promises made
In 1t; my for not allowing Anderson INTRO
duce mo TO the republican vlstors because Idid
not want myself 70 DO committed 70 their pro-
grammc.
Here q number oil tresomey pointlcss questions
were put the witness, With the object OF rsconciing
some slight disorepanc between And.rson's testi.
mony ana the witness' as to whether u was IN .ne
Sherman letter. General Butler continued 10 push
his line OF Interrogation, and the witness, with an
evident feeng OF annoy ancc, exclaimed, "You want
me to square my testimony with Audorson's and l
don't want to. ior boevs i am rigns and be was
O But don't You believe as he is friend OF yours,
be Will be mad with you for saying tha,3 A don't
care SIR, how mad he may GET am only toiling The
NO HONEST POLITICIANS
TO Mr. Hiscock-I was well Informed about the pol
O. Did you think there were any honest mon among
,hems "A. never believed could stay with them as
O Answer tie qaes,ion. Did you not believe they
we're oil rascaBf A. Yes: bus their rascuiiiy was
wero ,he worst, aud ,hoy were all bad enough.
Y Was there u single honest among th~m A.
was sheie no Sh. NY vs. stra sn o noo noS
iir H,scocs-l don't want your standard Of hon.
W,tness-Thsn you won't get any answer from me.
(Rencwed lxugnter.)
Seven ycars-unt went on the New Orleans Tines
Mr.. Hiscock-Don't you think association like
se%orSsins ecc.s IausnserI A. Well 'y i, au must
have mad more or'Icss demoraIzing effect, but hot
on me, though my morality NIGH. have been mado
sick.
g. Well now, since you went on tho New Orleans
Times have you entirely recovered your morality
ldont cons'dsr the question 1t ono 70 ask or to ON.
sIr Hiscock trod again, but his effort was failure.
amid much mcrriinent Here the witness submitted
several copies OF newspaper he published In q
country part Of Louisiana, and sne cIerk tho
mteo read several editorials written by the witness
affairs In Louisiana ut tho time OF the c0mmotou
there Two years ago, giving hts Vows tor the pur-
pose OF preventing bad nominations beng mado
by the republican party After that he made q
speech to Tho committee and the audience on his
career In Louisiana, and then the chairman made
anothof little spscch the duties of Witnesses giv1g
the ono had just left the stand a rap over the
knuckios Tor MS discursive and incessnns autobo-
graphical narrations He told the witness that II no
had any explanations to make oil his evidcLc the
committee would hear him again, provided ho
fined himself TO the questions. The committee then
adjourned to ncet In the place to-day eleven
o'clock. VI ... f..