The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

THE ORIGINAL. RETURNS CALLED FOR
--ALLEGED ALTERATEONS-THE
SHERMAN LETTERS.
Anderson BIRCkguardcd by Reed, which
EsrOvOkes a sharp Spat Between
Reed and MCwa hon SUP
pressed Testimony.
ANDERsoN's TESTIMONY.

pressed Testimony.
ANDERsoN's TESTIMONY.
WASHINGTON June 4.--The Potter committee
did not come to order until 11:25 o'clock this
morning when the chairman ated that IN
obedience to the wish OF the COmmI ttee he had
written to the Hecretary Of State TO furnish the
committee with the original records. OF the
electoral colleges of Louisiana Rnd FlnrldH,sup-
,posed to be on Gla In the Sta'e Department.
In reply he had received letter from tho
Secretary stating that the papets are not on flle
Gen. Butler suggested that these returns are
NO doubt in the office Of the District Court in
Spd NeT s1B@ited Bgd"d " to %90S the committees % going
10 Louisiana. He said that he had heard
baen enil altered which could be tested by compar-
ing them with those in New Orleans. It was
decided to submit the matter to the sub-cOm-
James Z. Anderson was then Rgain called to
the stand and requested to be allowed to make
in no wise change its sense, but inaccuracies Of
the stenOgrGpher and the printer. This he
was permitted to do.
Mahon that he found the copies Of the Sherman
letter in the envelope which he found IN katz
that the Mrs. Jenks referred to by him was the
wife of Thomas Fl. Jonks, and that her full
name Is Agnes ID. Jenks.
GROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr. Reed then began Anderson's cross exam
nation He asked him with refarenoe to the
agreement with eX-COugressman Nash IN re-
gard to which Anderson sta'ed that he made It
Not 50 W4 M 70 ysW TO Na Ps29
him overheard and TO hold the document rs a
threat over Nash's head.
Have you entered into many of these little
transactions before ths2"
MOI l never found i neHtg9ssary until had
And you practiced this little trick first on a
co!lo1red mani
Yes, sir
Don't you think little backing up would
improve your
We'll; It might o., It might not"
Mr.. Reed-Wel, / think It would
Mr.. Mcmahon at this point said that he must
protest that the witness ought to have fair
treatment 1t ought to be remembered that this
was an Investigating committee and not
Mr., Reed retorted that thoro had been tactics
employed here, which led him to think that this
was police court trial.
A sharp coloquy enaued, AMI Mr. Mcmahon
Mr.. Potter said that he thought Mr. Reed
would hardly claim that this was fair treat-
ment Of the witness, and asked him not to re-
Mr.. Reed-I think that last remark of the
chairman entirely uncalled for.
Mr.. Potter-Well, If you want you can have
Mr. Roed-What want is to go on with the
Mr.. Potter-Well, then. go on.
Considerable time was conanmed by Mr., Reed
in reading extracts from AndersOn'H testimony
'pefore the House committee, for the purpose of
showing that ut that time tho purpOrt0f Ander-
sons testimony WAS entirely different from that
given by MIN now. EAItrf tthJ MFs hheu nhDUHu
the witness the printed copy Of his alleged al
tered protest, contained In tho Sherman report
and asked him to poi, t out the alterations.
and then to read the protest. as originally writ,
ten by him.
Anderson was further examined at some
length in regard to the agreement signed by
him and Weber. and said that they drew 1t up
to protect themselves He admitted to suppress.
ing testimony before the NJ rrisOn comm ittee
which he gave before the House committee;
saying that he suppressed the truth without
swearing TO q lte-
The committee at :4op. m. took a recess for
half an hour.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The committee reassemhl"d Mt 2:3O o. m. and
the cross examination OF MIR. Anderson was re-
sumed by Mr.. Reed.
Tho chairman (Mr. Potter) stated that he had
subpRnaed the Secretary Of the Senate. to ap-
pear before the committee with the original
papers brought from Louisiana in connectionn
with the House investigation, but that the Off
Ger had responded that he did not feel like
doing this until after consultation.
Mr. Reed ito witness You havo employed
Anderson-Yes, STR: the gentleman with
whom have Just been In bafor G0nyfsatkon
mittee of the disturbance Of the fourteenth of
September. did you % mean by what you then hen
eonstruction they should put upon your evil
T told the truth as far as 1t won't but in such
way as to convey another impression"
Did you swear to tell the whole truth?'
Yes. sir"
"There is a vast difference"
viii you state the diffrrenCe?"
Il told the truth, but did not tell all the
truth. aRd ! retained evidence to deceive the
committee"
erately did SO to deceive the committee as to
facts about which you testifed?"
Packard SifH meeting was truthful one" H"'0 "' 'A
did you not carefully conceal the truth so rs
to deceive the Louisiana cOmmtter?"
stated II IN that ihnV RhOulI pOnGtrup II DIFF
was the statement false In the sense that you
meant the committee 10 understand it,"
THE statement was a portion OF the truth"
You stated that the colored people were in
timidated; was that tru6Y
THAT was what thought to ba the fact had
only been In the parish then about six weeks
The statement made, by me, that II the Demo;
be In way that would not stand IN any court
of Justice in the land, l believed to
be true dacanon in certain IN be way nen9
that Judge Dutng's life would not be safe If he
came into the parish. The statement by me
tended 20 deceive them but 1t was true as far as
it went, In my statement OF the conversation
election, believed it. but did mean to imply
that the Unfai rness would be on the side of the
Democrats. gave my staten, nj to the Senate
committee under cath with intent to deceive
them. | supposed they expected me under
that oath to tell the whole truth, but l deceived
Them in SO faT as as led ed them to infer what my
You wouldn't deceive this committee, would
you 2" [Laughter,I
No. sir"
Tht3 witness was here questioned at length
upor the point whether at the time he and
Weber made the statement that ths eec ion in
East and West Feliciana parishes was the most
peaceful they had ever known he knew that
Weber knew and would swear to the alleged DO
litical murders and dis orders In these parishes.
The witness replied that he supposed
Weber knew of those murt4rs and disorders.
but had no idea whether Weber knew they