The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-26
THE SUBCOMMITTEE
PEGGING AWAY ATTHE LOUISIANA
ELECTION

AND STRIVING TO GIT AT THE BOTTOM
FACTs-To-DAY rnE IAsT DAY os TIE
COMMITTEES LABoCs.
NEW ORLEANS, July 24.-To-day, the
last but one If this sit n, of the sub-com-
mittcc, was prolific = testimony of most
interesting character. Judge VIM. r.
Whitaker, Of the superior criminal cour,.
was the first w.tdess, and testified: Am an
expert OF long experience in the matter of
hand-wft lg; was shoNl the second set OF
the Louisiana electoral returns; exhibit four,
pa, ) one and two, a-e the duplicates of the
originals; am positive that the name of L.
A. Sheldon was N.itten before that of Pc
ter Joseph, in both pages IN part one, and
on the second page Of part two, but
Joseph's name was fist on page one, pare
two, MS is without doubt; have examined
the papers rnde- microscope; was showA
the letter of Thos. S. Kelly to Hon. Clarkson
Potter, also tae vouchers of the same on file
in the auditors office; said these are all
without doubt N the same handw itinp. J.
Douglas testified: Have been resident of
New Orleans nearly thir,J years, am an en-
graver and expert in handwriting, testified
the same as the preceding witness, and with
| him said the statements admitted no doubt
On motion Of Gov. Cox, it was resolved to
| take recess in time to take the tain to-
| morrow, Thursday, to meet subject to the
| call OF the chairman. Gov. Cox tken asked
to be allowed one hour to Introduce testi-
mony. Agreed to.
Norris Marks to Gov Cox-Came to New
Orleans December "a, 1875; remained till
the End or 3D. of January, 1871. Z. An
derson prepared in Washington a State
ment Of the Sherman interview in nv pres
ence; on the Sunday following the inter-
view he came to my room and wanted me
to sign; refused; the statement was read.
same as published)
ii. o. May live at Donaldsonville am
the parish Judge; Mr.. Marks and come to
New Orleans Two or three days before Ar
rieux was killed; Arrieux was murdered the
evening of December 81, 1876; went
back in the morning of the Goth of Deem
Der; think Land. J started for New Orleans
on January /, 1877 and Marks got back to
Donaldsonvile, think, the next day.
Thomas W. Noland-Camc to Louisiana
from Massachusetts IN 1861; = 1865 was
secretary of the Louisiana Levee company;
afterwards With Winfield and Steele; then
chief enrolling clerk of the state senate:
came to New Orleans from parish Iber lie
Two or three days after the election of
Senator Allan; came to New Orleans to
get tickets printed: tickets reached the par
lsh the night before election; five electors
names were left off; asked Allan about it:
sad 1t was only necessary TO have the
elector at large and one for that district on
the ticket; Republican leaders here, KEEL
logg, Packard, Campbell and Dibble, said
that Adams damned rascality in eaN rg off
the names would lose Il state to the Re
publicans and make it necessary to throw
out Democratic polls in order to offset this
error; the general expression among the
leaders was that the state went
Democratic; was asked by j. p. Harris
E. L. Weber, Mr.. Lynn and Marshal
Packard to go to the custom house and as
sist in the preparation of atfidavits; think
this was before the returning board met
kept up this work until about the time re-
turning board adjourned atfdavits were
prepared in the custom house; generally
looked up to j. p. Harris MS the man in
charge of their preparation: | prepared
large number OF original aifidavts; my in
structions were to get all could for the Re |
publican side, and make it as strong as pos.
sible; instructions were from J. p. Harris:
Hugh j. Campbell and H. G. Dibble asked
the witness if he knew about certain things;
he would say, Yes, | heard something |
about that" then they would put in an aft
davit, and instead of saying the witness
heard, would say he knew; my idea is
that it was to make it appear that the
witness was testfying from personal
knowledge; | found very few did
know from their own personal knowledge,
and the form chosen was to make
it as strong as possible for the Republican
party, and think all did the same; knew
Eugene Hale Stoughton and Garfield saw
them in the rooms where the work was be-
Ing done; they took great interest; think
they were getting copies of atiidavits; heard
them frequently ask for them; saw Garfield
nearly every morning; he would look over
the affidavits as they were being taken;
.hlnk stoughton was in the surveyor gcner-
Ms office, supervising the Red river parishes
three or four witnesses were
worn; at the time, never read overany af-
idavit which made; don't remember VOL
ley reading over any atlidavits, nor any one
Use; cant say that all witnesses were
worn; when witness stated an"thing as
learsay was not informed that it appeared
Is personal knowledge; rs far as these,
prepared, were concerned, +. L. ,
Weber read 10 one witness his affidavit
uniting parts making positive statements,
md he then signed; witnesses coming in
we're accompanied by prominent Republic. I
ms, who were posted rs to the points de-
sired All these statements as TO the man ,
ncr of preparing atli'lavits apply to all 9TH
Frs before the election. Republican lead
rrs after the election went to make u case |
before the returning board when they ,
heard the visiting statesmen we've coming,
and President Grant was going to sustain ,
hem and uphold the Packard government
was a fact known by me from intercourse. |
That the Republican leaders thought the
tate had gone Democratic was the general {
They determined to throw out
'nodgh Democratic polls to reverse the re.
ult, and give the state to the Republicans.
dr.J. p. Harris and Judge II. J. Campbell