Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-07-03
MORE TESTIMONY BY THOMAS c.
ANDERSON.
EXAMIN ALTON OF SEVERAL 9TH
Err WITNESSES.
THE STATEN ENT or WEBER's
BROTHER.
lie FINDS THE SHERMAN LETTER
AND DESTROYS 1T.
MRS. JENKS IN NO WAY CONNECT.
ED wITHIr.

WASHINGTON, July >. TIE Potter committee
met this mornIng.
Thomas {. Anderson repeated his previous ties.
tlmony that he had not seen one sign the ceItih-
Gates while IN the governors office in New or
leans.
A. Murlock is not in his employ, although
MS jerks begged for his appointment on account
OF the poverty OF bls mother.
Morrison questioned witness with reference to
the action OF the returning board and intlmida.
lion, but nothing new was elected.
Witness in rep y 10 Cox said he heard Weber
wss Killed because he signed the protest. Never
heard he was killed, Judge Campbell testified,
because he was supposed TO have tue Sherman let
tel.
Thomas A. jerks was recalled, and testified
be never made an afh isvit similar to the one sub
ID tted before the Louisiana sub com 70 ittee yes-
terday He had never seen Notary Seymour, be-
made.
AT the conclusion of jerks denial, James f.
Anderson requested opportunity to exI lam how
be had come In possession Of the affidavit in ques
ton.
On the llth of May he met jerks In the street
as he, Anderson was going to leave for the North
at z L. Nj. jerks requested he would use his in
huence towsrd securing him position in Wash
ington. jerks went with witness to his office in
the custom house. and dictated the affidavit, and
he Anderson, copied it, and then they went to
Notary Seymours Office and jerks swore to the
document.
Ine purpose Of the affidavit was to aid Ander-
son IN securing jerks a position, by shown the
| sffdavit TO Matthews, aud endeavoring to secure
the appointment on the strength Of IT,
Emile l.. Weber. brother Of Daniel Weber, was
sworn, and desired to read statement setting
| forth bis connection with the republican party,
but Cox objected to witness reading q statement
as part Of the testimony, and Weber requested
leave Of the chair until the question decided
| by secret session.
The committee at 05 P. NJ, went into secret
session.
The doors were re-opened at | 25, and Weber
| was re ca led and informed that they had agreed
| to permit him to read this statement if he was
willing to swear to the facts tnei ein.
| Witness proceeded and the statement was then
read.
set forth was the fact that he had no personal
| knowledge of democratic intimidation in East and
! West Felicians. His brother Dan Weber and j
| +. Anderson had informed him they had gone
| fairly democratic. Great influence was brought
TO bear upon his brother to make his protest, and
| he had been approached very frequently to use
his influence with his brother to fleet the signing
| OF the protest.
| He said he saw Anderson sign his protest aud
| saw blanks therein. Alter Anderson left Judge
Campbell attached jurat 10 the paper. 1t not
| sworn to by Anderson.
1t was y notorious fact in the custom house that
Kellogg, Packard and Others were pressing An
derson to msks their respective protests.
John Sherman. he sand, was the spokesman for
| the visiting statesman, and he vever knew Shel-
| man had given his brother ASSURANCES which had
caused him to allow the protest to stand.
Weber had iu conversation with Sherman, ex-
planned to him that his brother thought his parish
| had gone democratic, and was disposed 10 take
| back the protest, whereupon Sherman assured
him that his brother would be cared tor, and re
quested that he send his brother to him. His
brother, on the day he received it, showed We
Der the Sherman letter of assurance, aud said he
had received 1t dnect from Sherman, with the
Handwriting OF sherman. and was satisfied that
| the letter was written by that gentleman.
ln 1877 the letter the sutj,ct of great
| modification to the Weber family, aud Mrs. Dan
| iel Weber endesvored to find 1t among the papers
| Of her husband, packed iu two trunks and u la ge
shoe box. Late III the summer OF 1871 he (wit-
ness had made search Tor the letter aud found
| IL III u shoe box, and destroyed it.
Forthwith, in this connection, the statement
adds, that Mrs. jerks had been IN no va, con-
nected " l.h the authorship Of the "SheIman let
ter."
have not, nor has any member Of my family
sought to use this letter rs the means Of OBTAIN
| ing ofhSe.
SAW the members of the McVeagh Commis-
sion in New Orleans, and WAS informed tn At mon
ey had been used to secure the Abandonment OF
the Packard legislature, by certain mbers
thereof. could tell something OF the amounts
paid 10 CERTAIN cases, but could not Say who uis-
ouised the money, or who supplied ii.
1he committee went iuto executive session, and
when the doors re-opened adjourned.