Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-17

Packard?
A.-These tables show majority
for Governor of 40l. while two rc-
publican electors, Levisse and Joseph,
were in a minority.
Recess.
WAsHINGToN, July IL.
After recess the witness continued /:
The Tilden electors and Nichols had
q majority on the face of tie returns !;
his dispatches to Florida that the cleo
ton had gone favorably were based
on his knowledge of the terrorism
which had existed, su Efficient to Justify
the returning board in throwing out
votes. Witness produced one of these
dispatches to Chandler, dated Novem-
ber 6, stating that terrorism had pre-
vented the colored people from voting
in certain parishes, and that some Of
the parishes which before were dem
ocratic had gone republican. The re-
turning board laid aside for future
action eighteen parishes where the
returns were irregular or disputed.
He believed the undisputed parishes
would give majority to the repub-
lican ticket throughout. In seventeen
parishes there were intimidation, and
in five there was absolute terrorism
among the blacks. The white regis
tration in seventeen parishes was 20,-
300 and the colored registration 81
269. These parishes, on the face Of
the returns, gave 2l,232 democratic
votes and 1890 republican votes !;
hence these seventeen parishes, with q
colored majority of nearly 1000, gave
a democratic majority of 10, ,l53. The
colored majority in the undisputed
parishes was 1886 votes, according
to the registration, and over 5000 ac-
cording to the face Of the returns.
These figures are official. The regis
tration officers kept q tally of the
white and colored registration, and it
was calculated, and the facts bore out
the calculation, that about the same
number of votes would be republican
as there we're on the list OF colored
voters, and that about the same num-
Der would be democratic as on the
white lists few whites would vote
the republican ticket and few color
ed men the democratic ticket. Several
elections had verified this view of the
case. Anderson's absence from East
Feliciana parish did not prevent or
impede the registration there; bull
doing did not effect gistration very
much.
Question, by Butler-Do you know
of any ground or legal right or form
of law or constitutional provision by
which Nicnofs and his people were
anything except an organized mob !?
A.-Iknow of no reason why Packard
and his government were not the
legal state government of Louisiana,
and the Packard legislature the legal
legislature, and the supreme court the
legal and undoubted supreme court of
the state of Louisiana.
Q.-Do you know that after the
McVeagh commission had disposed
of the Packard legislature, Governor
Packard threatened to appeal to the
Supreme Court? A.-Yes, sir; he
would have submitted his claims if
he could, but Nichols had thrust it
out.
Q.-After Packard had threatened
to appeal to the Supreme Court to de-
termine the legality of his election,
did not President Hayes destroy
quorum of that court by appointing
King collector? A.-The fact of his
appointing him collector, and his ta-
king the oath Of Office, did destroy
the court, on the ground that the ta-
king of one Office is virtual and le-
gal surrender of others.
Q.-Then, what Nichols did by
force, President Hayes confirmed by
appointing him collector? Was this
the same King, who, after he had
been in Office little while and the
court was destroyed, had his name
withdrawn and his nomination not
acted upon by the Senate? Ale
is.
Q.-After the object of his appoint
ment had been accomplished, then,
the appointment was withdrawn.
Where is he now? Ale is in st.
Landry parish. He has retired from
public life. do not think the re-
publicans wanted him as collector.
Q.-Then, against the wish of the
republicans of Louisiana, this man
being one of the legal Supreme
Judges required to make legal quo
rum, was appointed to this office !?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-And Mr.. p. ii. Morgan, who
was one of the judges who held over,
was appointed by the President to be
Judge of an International Court in
Africa; was he not translated into
that position Al believe he was.
Q.-Then, when Morgan and King
had been appointed, Packard had
not much chance with the Nichols
judges, had he? Al think not.
Q.--l want to ask you, in all so
lemnity, this: Do you believe, from
your knowledge Of what took place,
that there was any other reason for
appointing King collector than to get
him out Of that court, so that Pack
ard would not have his rights tried
by legal court?
HiscOck objected, and witness an
swered that he could not answer as to
the matter referred to.
Butler--I will now ask you, If you
do not believe this to be the fact?
Hiscock-I object to that question.
| think it hardly competent for any
one to swear as to what influenced
the president in making such an ap-
pointment, or what operated ON the
mind of Governor Nichols in his &C.
tion in the matter.
BY Butler-I will ask you, then, il
you know on whose recommends
ton King was appointed? Al
think he was appointed on the re-
cOmmendatiOn of Thomas G. Ander
son. / recommended him, also. Tha
the president did or did not appoin
King with reference to his connec
tion with this court, cannet o.
course, say, but l know Mr.. Kine
was an old resident; and, above al
an old line whig. Laughter
| Odd Boulds Baker recommend
him? Laughter. Al should