Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-01
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7. WASHINGTON, June 2J.-The Potter commit
tee has received telegram from Gov. Packard
stating that he has been cited to appear before
= the subcommittee in New Orleans to-day, and
1t is understood that his examination on all the
points suggested by Gen. Butler will take
place there.
MRS. AGNES jerks
appeared and produced her correspondence
with James E. Anderson, but Gen. Butler be-
ing absent the letters were not read. Mrs.
jerks, under examination, still refused to dis
close the name of the person to whom she die
tatel the so-clllel Sherman letter.
The party was sitting against
the wall in parlor p when she
entered, and when she left her amanuensis was
sitting at the table.
Mrs. jerks said ut the time her letters were
written to Anderson she made copies of them
before delivery. and added they are verbatim
copies in my own handwriting also wish to
put in evidence letter l wrote MIR. Sypher,
and one received from him, and as he repre-
sents Mr.. Tll!en, think it is right they should
60 into the case.
Mr.. springcr--I object to remark of that
kind going record.
Witnoss-Well, from the conversation held
with MIR. Sypher himself 1 drew the Inference.
@. Are you acquainted with Mr.. Reynolds,
publ her of the paper at Bayou Sara? A. Yes
Sir. When made my first visit to Donaldson
vile, Reynolds escorted me from K. L. Webers
house to the hotel, Weber being afraid of being
assassinated if he went outside his door after
dark.
@. Did you converse with him during that
visit? A. No sir. l am not accustomed to
converse with common people.
Q. Did not you call h. L.. Weber off into the
room and have some conversation with him
about the Sherman letter ut that time? a. On
= tho contrary, if l had, ali the dagos in town
would have painted it as breach of etiquette.
@. Did you make Weber any proposition if
he would find and deliver up any letter to you.
A. No, sir. Weber was always open to propo-
sitions, and know could approach him in any
way whenever l wanted to- because had done
it before. When we; wanted to make quorum
in our Senate ho always knew what the Demo
Gratis were Offering, and he wanted to know
sometimes what we would do, and som etines l
used to inform him. I met ex-Congressman
Needstlm in New Orleans, and he said ought
to come to divide. You understand what that
is. 1t is slang l don't.
Q. Did you tell Reynolds if you got the let
ter you would pay we'll for it? A. Certainly
not. am not a millionaire. l might search
the world over, from zone to zone and not find
one spot of the earth my own Laughter.
Q. The reason you did not speak to Rey-
nolds was you do not speak with common
people. A. Well did not suppose you wanted
oil the tramps i'll the country to know about it.
.. He was q newspaper editor. l believe?
A. He might have belonged to the press, and
that would MT h.ve made him any better.
Laughter Newspaper men are we'll enough
IN their way. all due respect to them, but they
take too much liberty with PEG lie. You Ameri-
cans have too much license anyhow. Laugh
ter.
G.. I will ask you what is your occupation.
A. am general genius.
9. Is that the means by which You make
your living? A. Othello's ocuupa,i IN y gone
Rep blicans are dead. Laughter.l
Mrs jerks. as to her husband's occupation,
said; He has had several occupations, hut
unfortunately, whenever they discovered he
was identified with the Republican party,
Othsllo's occupation was gone.
@. You regarded him as thu Othsllo? A. No.
bit of it. l the Othello myself.
Laughter.
@. Did you have any conversation with
Gen. Sheldon as to your coming here? A.
may have conversed with him after was sum
moned.
@. Did he tell you to report to any particu-
lar person here. A. He did not. Gen. Shell
don had duel on hand at the time, ana he
could not attend to small mat .ers-Jhe code
was in question
Q. Has that duel been fought yet? A. 1t
was bloodless one. as all Yankee duels are;
they do not understand the code.
SAMUEL P. BUTLER,
Washington correspondent, testified that
Mrs. jerks stated to him that she came to
Washington in behalf of Gov. Packard for
collector; that she called on Secretary Sher-
man in relation thereto, but had not met with
u very warm reception; that the secretary had
given her assurances in New Orleans that her
influence would go quite far in appointments;
that she had heard it said that Judge Campbell
had forged iurat to the Anderson protest,
and that the so-called Sherman document was
safe in New Orleans.
1uA
produced dispatch sent by him from the Fifth
Avenue hotel early on the morning of November
9th, though dated November 7th, to John G.
Gorham, California; ]. II. Mitchell, Oregon; s.
3. Packard, New Orleans; Gov. Chamberlin,
South Carolina; and Senator Conover, Florida,
in each of which he stated that Hayes and
Wheeler were elected if they had carried these
States. and in each of which he counscled the
Republicans to be watchful against possible
Democrats frauds. Wilhelm Florida Chandler
Grant. saying. Il hope you will
renain in Florida until the vote of the
State is. decided Mr.. Chandler did not
know Of the existence of fraud in Florida
and the $4,000 for which he telegraphed was
handed by him to Gen. Martin, who expended
it in procuring evidence.
Dir. Chandler maintained in his opinion
there never was fairer results obtained by
election
BY Buter-Have you u list of the Presiden-
t!al appointments made subsequent to the
Florida question upon your recommendation
A. Yes air, those that remember are as fol-
lows: Major J. G. Humparies, collector at
Pensacola; Gov. s. S1earns, member Of the Hot
Springs com mission; Judge McLin, associate
Justice, Territory of New Mexico; George 81.
DeLeon, former secretary to Gov. Stearns, clerk
in the treasury department.; young man named
al pav,, Xii
pointed to the treasury department. has gone
to Paris with Gov. Mccormick: Joseph Bowles,
who was inspector of elections ut a poll
near Tallahassee, where there was an alleged
fraud of "a votes, clerk in the treasury depart
mcnt; James Bell, county Judge in Florida, was
appointed clerk in the land Office; Capt. Dem
mis-, recommended for auditor of treasury, was
not appointed. E. w. Maxwell, in the detective
service for the attorney general, who visited
Florida in that capacity during the count, was
appointed lieutenant in the regular army.
Black and Vance, colored men, election officers
of the Archer precinct, of box No. 2, were APP
pointed, the former in the custom house ut
Philadelphia. and the latter messenger in the
sixth auditors Office, ]. W. Howell, deputy
clerk of Baker county, was appointed collector
OF customs at Fei II .ndina.
by Butler-From whom did you get the first
information that the Packard government was
t" be broken up or overthrown? A. The first
information which considered reliable I re-
celved from Stanley Matthews, some time be-
tween the 18th and 25th of February, 1877. l
called upon him in his room at Wormley's and
had conversation with him. told him had
called to see him because had heard that Gov.
Hayes, when he should come to Washington,
intended to stop at some private house, and |
wanted to express the hope that he
would not do SO, but would go to
some hotel, so as to avoid jealousies
that arise in such cases. He said he thought
Coy. Hayes would stop either at Judge Swain
or Senator Sherman's. l then said as an ex-