The daily gazette., 1878-06-05
SECOND EDITION
FROM WASHINGTON.
House judiciary Committee
on the Presidents Title.
No Power Can Disturb It.
Efforts Of the Republicans to Break
Anderson Down.
WHAT HIS TESTIMONY HAS
SHOWN.
The Provision made for the
Florida Election officials.

ElOrIOa EIccthOn OnclaISs
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1873.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TITLE-CoMING RE-
PORT OF THE JUDICIARY COMMIT
TEE.
The House judiciary Committee will
report unanimously tomorrow, or as
soon as it can get the floor, against the
Blair resolutions and the bill for testing
the Presidential title. 1t is understood
that the report will take the ground that
Congress ought not and cannot invest
the Supreme Court with such additional
powers or duties as the Kimmell bill pro-
poses, and that there is no power any
where to reopen the question of the
Presidential title when once it is legally
and constituionally settled, as was done
by the action of the Forty-fifth Congress.
This has always been the opinion of all
influential democrats and of probably all
but half a dozen of the party. 1t was so
stated by your correspondent shortly af
ter the Kimmel bill and the Blair resolu-
tions were introduced, and the series of
Herald interviews on the subject proved
it in detail.
ANDERsoN's CROSS EXAMINATIoN-FU-
TILE ATTEMPTS TO BREAK HIM DOWN
WHERE THE STRENGTH OF HIS TEs-
TIMONY LAYS-THE RASCALITIES OF
CARPET-BAG RULE EXPOSED.
The cross-examination of Anderson
to-day by the republicans was for the
most part lame and tedious affair. Mr..
Reeds object seemed to be TO bring home
to Anderson the turpitude of his con
duct in testfying one way before the
Senate committee in 1876 and the oppo-
site now. Bat as everybody knew that
he had done this it seemed hardly worth
while. 1t was thought that General But
la air,hf hax rnaHa mn 1t of fha
witness, out he sat by silent. 1t is diff
cult to see how Anderson can be effect
lively broke down until his documents
are shown to be forged or fraudulent.
His testimony, without these documents,
would have been of no consequence, ,and,
as the case now stands, Mr. Sherman's
unexpected uncertainty about the letter
he Is alleged to have written gives An.
derson more weight than any other one
thing.
The democrats handled this alleged
letter very cautiously until after Mr.
Sherman had refused to positively dis
own it. Mr.. Morrison said of it 81
think we will all admit that this paper
standing alone, will not amount to much
as evidence, and that unless it is support
ed by other facts and circumstances and
comes to be completed as evidence it
will amount to substantially nothing
even though 1t may have influenced the
action of fhe witness. If Mr.. Sherman
had denied writing the letter or any let
ter of the kind, it would, at that time,
have fallen dead, and with it much OF
Anderson's Importance as witness
would have fallen. As matters have
gone, however, the immediate interest
now centres on what Senator Matthe ws
and Judge Harlan will testify. Ander.
son asserts that he explained to Mat
thews the facts and circumstances of the
East Feliclana frauds; also that he did
the same to Judge Harlan, telling him
also all about Louisiana, and that both
Matthews and Harlan, ,afterhavlng heard
hs tale offered 10 help him to an office
and did try to aid him. These are serious
charges, which again would be entitled
to no weight W hatever if it were not for
Anderson's document, which give his as
sertions painful degree of weight"
What is of more general Importance,
however, is the showing of how, under
such men as Packard, Kellogg, Pitkin
and their pals, the State OF Louisiana
was politically manipulated. The purish
of East Feliciana is nearly as big as the
State of Rhode Island, but under the
rule of these carpet-baggers an obscure
Custom House clerk, who had never be-
fore even been in the parish, was sent
up from New Orleans to take untire
char of the election, to register the
voters I'd conduct all the long prelim-
inaries and the actual voting among a
population about whom he could know
nothing and with whom he had no in
terest in common. He appears to have
consorted mainly with persons of bad
character, and took for his assistant in
his political duties republican ruffian
whom several witnesses declare to have
killed at least twenty men. When, even
under these circumstances, which would
create ill feeling and resentment among
any people and, it is safe to say, would
not be endured by the people In any
Northern State, he made his returns and
it was discovered by Kellogg and
Packard that he had filed no protest
against the election, he was at once asked
why he had not done so, and followed
about until he did make protest. This
paper was not in lawful form ; it was not
verified by the signatures of citizens
known to him, as the law required; 1T
was not made at the time of the election,
but later in New Orleans, after he had
been under the influence of the republi-
can chiefs it was done at their request
and was certified by that convenient tool
of Kellogg and Packard, Mr.. Hugh j.
Campbtll whose certihcation Is found
appended to almost all the protests and
who has been rewarded by Mr.. Hayes
with an office in Western Territory.
These facts, which do net rest on Ander-
sons testimony, but are undisputeu,
show how Louisiana was treated by the
republican carpet-baggers and such facts
rs these are more important to be remem-
..ered by Northern people than anything
Anderson can bring cut