New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

lantic City, examined Mr.. FRANK morey, GA
Senator Trumbull, Mr.. Sypher and Mr.. Den
mis-. Mr.. Morey was pressed by General
Butler to answer questions IN regard 10
President Hayes's course toward the Pack
ard Government which we're regarded as fore
shadowing General Buffers course next WIN
ter. The testimony of the other W.T.
nesses contained nothing important. The
committee broke up on Saturday, to meet in
New-York City to-day. General Garfield has
recovered from his sudden illness.
BUTLER FORGING A THUNDERBOLT.
AN ATTACK UPON THE PRESIDENT EVIDENTLY IN
yIEw-THE MOST RECENT EVIDENCE OF II
TESTIMONY AT ATLANTIC CITY.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., July 2S.-Mr. Potter closed
up the work of his Atlantic City subcommittee
Yesterday afternoon. It's next meeting will be held
in New York on Monday next, for the purpose OF eA
aiming Governor Palmer, of Illinois. The meeting
at this place has not been a very important one !;
the testimony of Secretary Sherman, given on
Thursday, being the most interesting obtained dur
ing the entire week.
The committee came here last Tuesday, expect
ing to remain two or three weeks. After the test-
mony of the visiting statesmen had been obtained
it was expected that the members of the MacNeagh
Commission would be summoned, and that the
whole history of the Louisiana settlement would be
gone over Although it is difficult 10 discover how
the committee gets jurisdiction Of this question: us
vote to take il up is probably final These were the
plans week ago. but several members OF the COM
Inittee have not found Atlantic City n pleasant
place to stay in, and 1t has, therefore, been deter
mined not TO call Mr.. MacVeagh and his associates
until the next session of the committee.
Il NaNVN NIa a
few unimportant questions.
BUFFERS PREGNANT QUESTIONS
The cross-examinatiOn of Mr.. Frank MOrey was
then continued General Butler asked the most I'M
pertinent questions and if he has any other than
personal motive in pursuing the line OF inquiry upon
which he has entered in the present investigation, it
is plainly to make a savage attack upon the Presi-
dent and the Administration for the methods
# adopted TO bring about settlement of the politi
cal troubles in Louisiana Some of his questions to
Mr. Morey on Saturday proved this, perhaps, more
conclusively than any previous action the General
has taken, although he has not ut any time been at
much pains to conceal his opinion on this subject
Among those questions were the following
Was il not true that the President bad refused to de-
eide the Louisiana question: as 9ccoIcg 70 .r ecslon
Court Of the United States, he was bound to do Had
lac not commission there who advised tue breah
10 give any moral support 10 either oil the rival state
Governments and to investigate which was the legal
state Government Was not the fact that before tbere
was any establishment OF te Nichols Government u was
mernbers should be In the Nichols legislature and tho
further fact that the troops were not wthdaWh Drore
All parties the President and Nichols, that the Packard
Legislature was a legal one
This long and involved question having been an
swered in the affirmative. it was followed by
another:
DO you not believe that the majority OF the people Of
LOUISIANA were always favor OF the Packard Govern
mcni aud the will OF that majority overthrow
By Illegal lOrceI
In connection with n question by Mr.. HIscock,
whether the determination Of the Democrats OF
Louisiana 10 overthrow the legal Government, even
II bloodshed was necessary TO accomplish 1t, was not
an evidence that they were ready to resort to any
means to carry the election, General Butler inter-
jected the following remark " And in that deter
mnaion they were assisted by the President and tho
MacVeaeh Commission" The only motive for such
questions and remarks as these can be TO lay a
foundation for proceedings against the President
himself If General Butler can prove that the Pres
ident neglected to perform his constitutional duty.
as he alleges, and in fact performed acts that were
Illegal and wrong. who can tell what he will do
with such evidence and who can tell how far he may
be sustained by the Democrats. with whom he is now
actingf An attempt Oh the part of General Butler
TO make up an impeachment case would not be
among the strangest things IN tho world.
General Butler also made an attack upon the
Louisiana Republicans and the Returning Board in
his eross-examinatiOn Of Mr.. MoTey. He has a the
ory las was explained yesterday that the original
purpose of the New-Orleans Republicans and the
Returning Board was to throw out only the votes
Of the five bulldozed parishes. but that when the
mistake Of OmItting the Of some Of the Hayes
electoral candidates from the tickets in three Of the
parishes was discovered il was determined TO at
tack other returns in order to the Presidency
which would otherwise have been lost, although
Packard would have been elected. To prove this no
undertook to show that nearly all the affdavIts IN
regard to parishes other than the FIVE known as
buldozed were sworn TO after the returns from
tho parishes in which the mistake in question took
place were opened and fifteen of them even
after evidence before the board had been formally
closed, and some Of them even after the board had
privately announced what the result OF tho election
would be. General Butler went on swimmmingly
on Saturday until no asked MT Mercy how these
last aidayits got before the Returning Board, and
the latter replied that he did not know that they
were ever before the Returning Board vt ell.
THREE OTHER WITNESSES
After the discharge of Mr. MOrey, j. Halo Sypher.
Of Louisiana, and l.. G. Dennis Of Florida, were on
the stand for brief time the former being recalled
by Mr.. Hscock for the purpose of harinonizng what
appeared to DO a conflict in the testimony which ho
had previously given. but the existence of which he
denied with some warmth. The questions put 10
him by SIR. Hiscock the former occasion were re-
peated to him, and he repeated the answers then
given. This leaves hls evidence az it stood origi-
nally. He declines to swear that the letter he saw
was in the handwriting of Secretary Sherman. The
genuineness of the letter question that was
not raised in his mind at the time. His testimony
IN regard 10 this letter. in the absence of the original
or of such familiarity on the part of the witness
with the handwriting OF Mr. Sherman that would
have enabled him to identify the letter as having
been written by the Secretary at the time he had 1t
in his hand, would not be received in any court Of
Justice in the land or il received would not be given