The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-03
Potter Investigation.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-Witness, Emile
Weber continued. About the 9th OF Nov
ember it was discovered that only six of
the Hayes Electors could be saved, and
Kellogg on that day remarked to me;
We are, after all, beaten" In regard to
the agreement between j. E. Anderson
and ID. A. Weber l here state that [ per
sonally know s9ch agreement was entered
into and was substantially the same as has
teen presented: my brother was muI-
dered March I; ia the issue OF the paper
of which he was editor previous to his
death he threatened to publish certain
letters and statement emanating from the
State Audit or's office. and that is supposed
to have been the immediate cause OF his
death, aud TO that extent might suggest
its authors; while | consider this threat
the immediate cause of his assassination, [
do not believe it would have occurred had
he not made protest which deprived the
peoule of their votes and thus placed him
self in such a position that his personal
enemies were encouraged to make this
murderous assault; in the Sherman report
appears purported affidavit from me as
United States supervisor containing 8
somewhat sweeping allegation of intimida-
ton in the parish of West Feliciana; de-
clined when requested to make affidavit on
this subject to do SO; this paper was subse
quently prepared by l.. b. jerks, and with
out reading or examining it | signed it; |
performed no duties as United States super
visor, and should not have signed the paper
if had not previously read it; l did not
swear to it, but the jurat was attached by
the commissioner as a matter ct form; L
have 10 defense to make for my action
except to say it was done without de-
| liberation; Mrs jerks visited my sister
in-law in the summer of 1877, aud urged
her TO hunt for the Sherman letter; Mrs
Weber declined; about the 9th of May
she brought letter from Gen. Sheldon
Offering to pay Mrs. Weber's expenses to
! New Orleans ard Washington in conBec-
ton with the Sherman letter, and threat
ening, iu case she did not come, to have
her arrested and forced to go: Mrs. jerks
and her husband have always called the
paper The Sherman letter." Tom jerks,
in fact, has claimed that his association
and cooperation with Anderson was such
az to give hini an equitable right to some
Of the benefits that were supposed to be
embraced in II; have never heard it it
timatcd un,il she gave her testimony that
Mrs. jerks was IN aDy way connected with
| the aut hnrship ot the letter; | have not,
nor has any nemb of my family. sought
to use this letter a means of obtaining
office; | saw the G.embeIs of the McNeagh
commission in \ W Orleaus and was iu-
formed that money had been used to Sc
cure the aban ionment Of the Packard
legislature by {. rtain members thereof: |
could tell something of the amounts paid
in certain eases, but could not say who
diSburSed money or who supplied it;
had two COW rsations with Gen. Hawley
relative to the Packard government and
he said the president could not aud would
recognize il; he conveyed the impression
TO my mind distinctly that the recognition
of Nichols and the abandonment of Pack
ard was foreeope conclusion and ;ha
: ;hls question had been determined by the
; administration before the commission lef
Washington.
t The committee will to-norrow aGjourr
to the lIth Of July, and then after shor
! session they will, it is reported. adjourn
until September