The daily gazette., 1878-06-03
FIFTH EDITION.
From Washington,
Effects of the Developments I'm
the Potter Committee.
SECRETARY SHERMAN'S GUAR
DED DENIAL.
THE ORIGINAL OF THE FoMoUs LETTER
TO BE PRODUCED.
WASHINGTON, June 9.

ic NSfNicPhhtiiio III iit OtttT tOui-
mittee on Saturday have been the subject
Of eager discussion here to-day in all cir
cles, but as the local newspapers pub
lished only very meagre reports of Ander-
sons testimony, and the New York Sun
day papers do not get here until to-mor-
row, comparatively few persons were
possessed of a complete knowledge of |
what Anderson brought out. The i'm
preston among those who have become
thoroughly informed is that an important |
advance was made by Andersons docu- |
ments toward establishing the existence |
of conspiracy among leading republican |
politicians in Louisiana to so manipulate |
the election there as to fraudulently give |
its electoral vote to the republican candi- |
dates. Prominent republicans here do
not conceal in private conversation, their
feeling that if this can be conclusively es-
tablished it will be serious matter, and
this whether any of their visiting states
men are involved or not.
Further evidence on this head is, there
fore, waited with general anxiety. 1t is a
fact also, that Secretary Sherman's un-
certain reply as to whether or not he
wrote the letter attributed 10 him has
left an unpleasant impression. People
friendly to him, as well as those opposed,
ask why he did not answer at once, and
IdtNldtiiy tibHtl yes VI NO. pOI1lt OF MS
| friends suggest that he wishes to commit
all theiwitnesses the committee may have
| to the assertion that he did write it and
then prosecute them criminally for per-
ljury. But in that event. others object,
he has weakened his own case by testify
ling he is himself uncertain whether he
wrote it or not, and at the same time
lseems to have committed himself to
doubts as to the propriety of the let
| ter.
| "If he had said, 4 did write it, and,
under the circumstances, / maintain that
it was perfectly proper letter to write
| that would have been firm and tenable
ground" said a Representative not un-
friendly to the Secretary. "But it is alb
surd to say that he was uncertain wheth-
er he wrote it or not"
AS to the documents traced to Senator
| Matthews they make an extremely uh-
pleasant impression, for people so call
the notorious facts that the administra-
ton has been prodigal of office and IA
vorable to every man conspicuously con-
nected with the Returning Boards and
prominent in office in Louisiana and
Florida, and that Secretary Sherman,
General Garfield, Senator Matthews and
others of the visiting statesmen fell into
an agony of fury about tho trial of An
lderson and made haste to write him fool
ish assurances of protection. Ithas been
a stain on the administration that it IA
| NOIttl LIt dhilHISSloH Vi htllOpR 10
Senate, kept Madison Wells in office,
gave Anderson comfortable place, sent
Stearns, of Florida, to the Hot Springs
sad Packard to Liverpool, and took care
in other places of multitude of men
who Were engaged in the election in
ways which made them suspected and
dlsreputable. 1t was said that, though
this was not civil service reform, it was
yet but the usual rewarding of partisan
lservices but in the light of Anderson's
document regarding the agreement be-
tween him and Nash, to which other evil
dence seems to show that Kellogg, at
least, was privy, and of the correspond
ence between Mr.. Matthew and Ander-
son, this whole business assumes a sinis-
ter look.
1t is but just to the President to saw
that, in reply to the questions how he
: could excuse or explain such appoint
ments, he has said TO your correspondent
that most of these men were ruined in
the community in which they lived by
doing what he believed their honest
duty; that their business perished, no.
= body would deal with them, and that un
der these circumstances he thought il
only right that they should be provided
for according to their abilities. Hence
to the two colored men on the Louisiana
Returning Board he gave ST 800 place,
= in the Custom House-paces they wer,
able to hll to McLln he gave a ajudgeshiI
confirmation for that place and asked fo
better one and one for which the Pres
idenJ thought hlm uufit he refused him
and when MoLin wrote him threaten
ing letter he forbade him the Whit
- House and ordered that he should hay
q nothing.
y ono one" said the President, "has re
ceived any office which lie has not tn
az capacity to fir." But in spite of his r,
tention of Wells and Anderson in thei
places and their appointments of til
same kind, though perhaps less offensiy
to the public decency, have always bee
a reproach to him with the best of me
III of his own party, and he and his Cabin,
II will have themselves to thank if sue
documents as Anderson has produce
shall place them in an embarrassing D
sition. The Investigation has only no
begun, and there other matters to cor
which may be worse for all concerned.
Ihe democrats are naturally elated
n q the developments of Saturday and Il
tie promise OF even more important tes
as mony to come. They say that now it
at shown that the Investigation was prom
ay, and necessary and they very general
1et add that now, in the face of Anderso,
is testimony they are ready to repeat th
ned they have no intention to disturb I
is, | Presidential title. They are satisfied
on, show to Tia ecountry the electoral fran
ia IA and their results, and intend no proce.
,.l .ne lHgs beyond this.
)me
/ is GRANT REMINIsCENCE.
A very remarkable statement was ma
III in the Senate on Saturday as to the m;
vi ner in which Gen. Grant once perform
the his constitutional duty ofapproving b
Mr.. Window said: 81 know of one
two occasions in which the sundry ci
bill has been carried by the armfuf to
President without any reading, with
ever his reading its without all the ite
even being included in the bill, it
been signed and fixed up by the conn
tees afterward, after Congress had
Ijourned."
3, Mr.. Edmunds said to Mr.. Window [
k. he ought not to tell of such thing,
. asked him "how did the President ia
7 fully support the constitution and S
bill in that way ?" and Mr.. Wisdom
piled that he only knew the thing
,done, and he had nothing to say in
gard to the Presidents duty on the
1S. ject.
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