The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-20
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WHAT WAS BROUGHT OUT ABOUT TEsE
sRERMAN-ANDERsON INTERVIEW,

WHAT WAS BROUGHT OUT ABOUT THE
sRERMAN-ANDERsON INTERVIEW.
The sub-COmnlsttee stIn Cleaning Furtaa-
err FaCts-MeFFis Marks Gets hoEpe-
what Puzzled over Bates.
The subcommittee got to work at about
10 80 o'clock.
WIZ. N. AIcBMAE
was the first witness called:
To MI SteDger-I reside In New Orleans, I
have lived here for eleven years. have been
In the employment of the government. was
in the Revenue Department from May, 1863
to june, 1880. / was afterwards In the Gus
toms Department.. The last place heldwas
auditor. went out in August, 1877. I was
called on to give up my place by Mr. B.
Bloomfield. l never received any official mo-
tiee OF my dismissal. was out OF employ
ment in the Custom House until the fifth day
of July this year, when / got into the COM
struction department. 10 is NOT under the
control OF the United States Custom House
officials. am paid by the Collector. Mr..
Bloomfield is the disbuFsing agent of the Col
leetor. do not think the Collector would
know of my appointment. know VIM. Sifnp
son. I have had very little conversation with
him about the
PAYMENT OF MONEY TO THE RETURNING
BOARD.
After he had sent his letter to the President
he showed me copy of it, / think this is
all the conversation had with him. am
not the man who gave Simpson the informa-
ton on which his letter was based. pre-
sumo that all the clerks in the various de-
partments are paid by Collector Smiths dis
bursting agent.
| To Mr.. Cox-L am not in the employ Of CoI-
| lector Smith. am subordinate In tho eon-
struction department, under the superintend-
emit of construction.
| MR.. ISAAC E. HILL,
seTgeant-at-arms, was next placed on the
stand.
| Mr.. Stenger-State what efforts you have
made to secure the attendance OF Mr.. Jos. w
Tomlinson2
| A.-Wen, went over to his house last
night and met his wife, and she told me that
her husband had gone over to Biloxi In q
revenue cutter two nights before; went to
the Custom-House this morning, and they
told me he was sick, but / knew better than
that.
| MORRIS MARKS
was next placed ON the stand.
! To Mr.. StanRer-I live In the town Of Dom
aldsonville Since my appointment to tho
Office OF Internal Revenue Collector for Louis
lana have brought my family here. have
lived in the State since was boy. have
lived in Donaldsonville since 1866.
KNOW JAMES e. ANDERSON.
The first time saw him to know him was
during the last campaign, when he was point
ed out to me as the man who was run out OF
East Feliciana. About two hours afterwards
I was introduced to him. I had very little
talk with him, and I never saw him after
wards until / met him in Washington during
the time of the Morrison committee. This
was in February, 1877. | have seen him in
Washington during the past spring. saw
him Of-and-on during March, April and May.
He did not come on through any instrumen-
tality ofmine particularly. He said he wanted
to see me and would come If would send him
the passage. got a friend to furnish the
passage. | wrote letter giving him the
passes. had no special object In procuring
the passes. l did not consider him friend of
mine looked upon him as an acquaintance.
had no particular trouble in getting the
passes. / would take the same trouble for any
acquaintance.
JUDGE A. B. sIoAYAKER
was the man VINO procured me the passes.
! I do not know how he procured them, whether
he paid for them or not. [ think he was in
the room when Anderson's letter came, and
he said ne had passes and he would give them
to me. Mr.. Sloanaker was not railroad
mae, but there is no trouble for lobbyist to
get passes. know Judge Sloanaker has been
in Washington for over a year doing nothing,
and | always regarded him as lobbyist.
Anderson came oyer on the passes. / met
him on the street the mG42inR he got there,
as / was going to breakfast. he :neonpa-
MED me to the restaurant and remained Nth
, me until got through breakfast. We sepa-
rated at the postoffice, and called on Cow
I Wells. l met Anderson again at Wizards
} Hotel by appointment. / was talking with 8
party of gentlemen when Judge Sioanaker
, came in and told me Anderson wanted to see
me on the outside. went out. He asked me
If / did not think he should
J CALL ON JOHN SHERMAN.
! He said he was all at sea like a ship with
out rudder; that he did not understand this
; committee business; that he had no eonnec-
tiOn with the Democrats and the Republicans
did not seem to care. He spoke very feeling
> ly. He asked me il / would not take him up
and introduce him to Sherman. / declined.
! y telling him that the newspapers would take
l 4 it up and misinterpret or misrepFeSent the
visit / then sat down by Gen. Bussey, and
= he again urged me to go with him. I again
I declined. Anderson saw Gov. Hahn and went
4 over to him. [ asked Gen. BusSey IL I had
y not done right In declining, and he said he
did not think there could be any harm in it
IL Anderson asked me in the presence Of Wft~
}, nesses. Anderson and Gov Hahn came up
Z while we were talking. Coy. Hahn said /
. had better go with him and / again declined.
4 | said "G0yernor, I will go with you, but
. cannot go with Jas. E. Anderson under the
9 circumstances, as he is regarded as the main
J, reliance of the Potter committee" Gov.
a Hahn then said: ''WiH you go If 1 do4g' aTd
!, / told him / would. We went up. Aftei
2 waiting for some time for admission I went
y | in and naJV 2pnrnforU Sherman and fold tSrn
u that Gov. Hahn and Anderson were In SaGre-
/ tary HawIey's room and wanted TO see him
u Mr. Sherman declined positively to sefs An
derson; said something about not wanting X
have anything to do with
% THAT DAMNED sCOUNDRHL
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