The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-26

lnktoh hsiue from the room and the people
pie who do belong to the committee act Just as
they did there; Potter at one end, Butler on one
taking up the rest OF tho room ut the table.
shellabargcr is here and. like Butler. spends
Shermnns testimony began with his arrival
in New Orleans-tho last. the most important.
snS tno Sss' RSy q & ysSs
Chairman, and he passed to the head Of affairs.
sherman, but his own testimony makes 1t clear
that he stood as the immediate representative
Of the .Returninr Board. il ever came in. lie
arrived on q Thursday. BY the next Sunday
h. he was c.Smf9rtabiy q. establshed IN the private
meeting. II sherman went little TO the Federal
scribed his personal habits, and there Is moth
ing In them to make Incredible or improbable
the interview with Anderson and D. A; Weber
yicw sherman has an indistinct recollection.
Anderson had named two witnnessessoi this in
Hiscock then took up Andersons testimony
iP n regard to the a. this ter
day, and the sherman letter 10 Anderson and
Weber, clause by clause. Sherman denied
them- denied them explicitly, and with an in
explanation which brought out into bold relief
his previous doubt. He testified to- day that he
would certainly have remembered the Ander-
SON Weber letter II 1t had ever been sont, ap-
pearing certain that IL would have cut deeper
groove in his memory than his own; that the
Weber Anderson letter. with its reference to
tho Sunday evening interview was actually
written. is declared. Il must be remembered. by
Mrs. jerks. whose husband Shernan's coun-
sci took such recent trouble to have appointed
to Office in Sherman's department; Sherman's
earlier testimony in regard 70 the lotter cur
the caution OF u cautious man. He had heard
the letter was In existence. He testified later
that no one had ever been to h IN about 1t or
asked Office because OF il. He did not know the
nature OF the testimony before tho committee
This would seem to show that Reed and Coun-
sci Shellabarger gossiped about immatera
matters during the twenty minutes or 50 they
were cioseted with sherman prior 70 his testi-
mOny before the committee in Washington.
At the close Of this testimony in regard to tho
letter, sherman drew a little mufled applause
by his declaration that lie would have resisted
existence. he said. there can be no contrO-
ignorant negro might deny his past statements.
1t Is this intimidation about which sherman
says there can be no controversy which Sher-
man : counsel, John Ray, declined 10 prove in
New Orleans.
Passing 10 his relations with Anderson, sher-
mans recollection was found to be confined to
the interview procured last May b. Marks now
In Office in Sherman's department. OF Markss
action IN procuring this interview sherman
ing to the Weber and Anderson protests. Sher
man testified that they were fled before the
see them until week or two after Potter at
once drow out the fact that sherman knew Of
tle contest III these bhIlSUts. sherman Shln
he did not hear nor did he believe it was cur
rently known that there was any doubt about
these protests Had there been he felt sure the
Democrats would have taken advantage of the
fact. Uncontradcted testimony taken both 10y
the Howe and tho Morrison Committee shows
that both these men. Anderson and Weber. were
held Us doubtful By the Kepublicans and Demo-
Gratis, The Two agreements which have figured
in this inquiry, the Weber Anderson and the
Anderson Nash, sherman first heard OF by
scnding his counsel to Matthews. This makes
him the last man connected with the Louisiana
MT e. han ~ fhAsa
Having substantially completed the examina-
tion relating to Anderson. Hscock asked Sher-
man II he wrote to Hayes when at New Orleans
| and received an answer. Potter interJected the
remark that this line OF examination was not
| earlier and similar questions, and sherman
| drew two folded letters from the pack before
| him; His own TO Hayes was on kellogg's ex-
| ccutiye letter paper Hayes TO him ON ordi-
| nary letter paper. One IL long and tho other
short. 1T the letter John sherman produced to-
day Is a iar sample. he must be really as inter-
| csting ami vigorous a letter writer as his
brother, Gen. sherman The public now
has before it letters from each Of
| the letter 20 Weber and Anderson. Mrs. Jenks
says she forged i to deceive Weber. Weber
derson may have manufactured tho copy ho
| has. II these suppOsltions are reJoctod. then
to-day. in It's felicity of expression and compact
tcrsencss. certainly sounded more like the letter
| TO Weber and Anderson than any of the eighty
| letters before the committee, ana was the FIRST
| that did sound like IT, This letter 10 Hayes is
| remarkable III illHt IL mentions BenNllc BOS
| sicr. Caldwell, Franklin. Grant. Iberia, ami Sa-
| bine as parishes whose votes would bn thrown
| out. He wrote on Wednesday. The Returning
| Bonrd had been 1t work but two days None "
| these parishes WAS Included in what are known
| rs the five bulldOzcd parisAes-Easi and West
| Rouge Some of the parishes sherman gives
| are the parishes finally thrown out to save
| Hayes. on protests dated after the date OF his
| letter. 1t Is certainly singular that sherman
| knew before the protest was mHdc that II would
| he made. admitted 10y the board. and the vote
turned on no protest. 1t could not. The SUI
| perV!sor stayed away iI9m the Parish. rs his
| wife testified before tho Morrison Committee, Mt
| the request of the l,rpuhlicans. TO prevent an
| election. The election WAS held pearcahly. and
the exclusion, Of thc, parish turned upon legal
| qulhbo which the Returning Board members
| lave ca IN sworn they did 10, pass upon til two
weeks and more later. 1t is certainly singular
that CONSCIENTIOUS counsel writing To his client
in COLUMBUS could SO anticipate the decision Of
the court before which no was practising,
| Hiscock rccurred to the famous letter again
and asked as he had asked before. and rs he
| asked later, whether sherman had ever sup
pressed. or sought 20 suppress searched or
ash sd others t. search for. the alleged sherman
letter. To all this sherman had direct. en-
Ihatic. and uncduiNocal denial, As TO the cam
| first knowledge OF the result came to him On
| Tuesday morning, Dec. g. IN "A telegram from
| Kellogg. This is unfortunate testimony 10th
| for Kellogg and tho members OF the ltturniug
| Board. Inc latter have sworn that the result
was not reached Till ocloek on Tues iny oven
| ing and Knllugg contradictod the testimony bo.
| foro the Morrison Committee that the cert IL
| Gates of the Republican Electors were made OuI
in the Executive Office on Tuesday afternoon
with the assertion that no did not know tho re-
suit till Tuesday evening, This early intrlli
gonce on Tuesday morning To- Shcrmnn. whom
in fact, tho tahu!utlOn Was completed, sheds tn.
Same lignt on his actual relations Wlth tht
progress OF affairs in New Orleans that his let
ter 10 Hayes does.
| Hisco,k then took up Weber's statement and
reading It 10y snatches drow out in nearly every
instance n fiat contrndlctiun,the most imporan
| being to Mchcr's assertion that lac saw Shcr
man writing in the Custom House on Nov |,
and 10. 1876. On the first OF those dates Shrr
man was not in New Orleans. aud ON the secun,
was not NJ tho Custom House. Tho other con
tradictions related to Weber's accounts of con
ferencas between the visiting stHtcsmon. lO'a
politicians, and memhcrs OF tho returning
| lOnrd. All these Sherman denied. no sucl
| conferences ware held. no such consullat loni
were hold, the visiting stat smen confined them
solves to colorcss legal discussions OF IA,
abstract powers of the Returning Board II
dealing with tho consolidated statements; Hnt
in these transactions. said sherman. wA'
no more prominent than any OF the rtri Andor
son and Wells were never in anything tina
could be called u conference
Referring again to what no called the regr
| OF terror in Louisiana, sherman road VII .
Is known In outrage literature ns Pattons
rlfie club circular. Patton was Chairman OF TN,
Democratic Conservative Camp pagn Committee
Then Sherman proceeded TO describe ut length
thr Intimidation ia Now Orleans and the state