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follows: "Have any of them not been appoint
ed to federal offices so far az Won know 2,I

follows: "Have any of them not been appoint
ed to federal Offices, SO far as you know7'
Mr.. Hlscock objected to the question on the
ground that fact must be proved by affirma-
tive, not by negative testimony.
Gen. Butler modified his question and Sena-
tor Kellogg answered by showing that accord
ing to his knowledge some had been appointed
to federal Offices and also that some of the SUI
pervisors whom he named had also been ap-
pointed to places.
Butler then asked: Doyou know any reason
or of any special qualification of any one of
these persons why they, more than any Others
should be appointed to office unless in connec-
ton with service in Louisiana politics.
Mr.. Hiscock objected to the question, saying
it was intended to make the administration ap-
pear ridiculous
Gen. Butler said he could not render the adj
ministration more ridiculous than it had made
ITSELF
Hscock--I thank the gentleman for that re-
mark; it characterizes the whole purpose of
this inquiry.
After further discussion between Butler and
Hiscock, the chairman stated that as there had
been charge of corrupt election and return
in Louisiana, it was pertinent to show that
men connected with that matter had been APP
pointed to office, and that that was their only
qualification for such Office. He thought that
question a proper one.
The witness-With the exception of James +:
| Anderson, all parties named believe to have
been appointed because they were competent
TO discharge the duties of their respective Off
ces. and they were men of sufficient character
to justify their appointment and also had been
| true, consistent and working Republicans In
the last campaign and I think there are more
Republicans of good character whe were eff
| Gent and active in the campaign, who ought to
be appointed to office for that very reason if
| they are otherwise competent and upright.
@. These other honest and noble men Of
whom you speak, did not happen to be super
| visors who made protests at the time of the
election, did they? A. They may not have
done that, but they were more less promi-
nent in the last election.
| @. BY Hiscock-E. l.. Weber has sworn be-
fore the subcommittee that you instigated
| him to 60 to Mississippi and testify there be-
| fore the Congressional committee. Please state
all you know about that. A. Mr.. Weber was
a member of the committee appointed by the
State Senate to investigate regarding alleged
violence in the parishes of East and West Fell
cinia and that committee had made report in
writing which had not been printed. When the
| Boutwell, committee went down to Louisiana,
| Weber anxious to appear before
| it with this famous manuscript He was in
the city about that time, and expressed de-
sire to go before them, and l may have sug-
gested to him that he had better go if he
wanted to, but at the time he testified l was
not aware of his doing 80, because / was in
attendance at the Cincinnati convention.
Witness was then questioned by Hiscock in
regard to violence and intimidation in East
and West Feliciana parishes, and stated his
information was based on kilograms received,
the substance of which he had embodied in q
| telegram sent by him to Zach Chandler.
! Q. At the time you forwarded that dispatch
| to Chandler there had been communicated to
| you the facts upon which you predicated it,
and which induced yeu to believe the contents
of that telegram to be true, and you believe
them yet? A. | had large number of dis
| patches before me from supervisors of those
parishes, and believed them at the time, and
| have never had any occasion to change my
| opinion, except that had doubts as to whether
| considerable number of armed men came over
from Mississippi or Arkansas at the time of the
| election.
O. From facts which came to your knowl-
edge, is it your opinion that intimidation arose
by reason of the carrying out of any settled or
defined plan on the part of bulldozers, was
it national exhibition of feeling and conduct
on the part of the whites ON account of their
antagonism to the government by the negroes?
A. think there was determination to carry
those five parishes specially because they were
known to be Republican. That the action of
local politicians may not have furnished u fur
Their argument to intensity the feeling against
Republicans on the part of whites, l do not
pretend to deny, as to one or two parishes.
@. By Chairman-Referring to E. L. Weber s
letter to you concerning outrages in East Felic-
lana, will ask you if there was not good
deal of that kind Of letter writing in Louisiana
at that time? A. Weber of those men
who used to write such letters as that in which
he mixed up great deal Of truth and great
| deal of romance. He n very sanguine,
Jealous man.
The chairman then questioned witness in re-
gard to signing the second set of the electoral
returns and the action Of the electoral commits
sioners thereon, but no facts were elected
The committee then went into executive ses
sion and adjourned till the 23d of July, to meet
at Atlantic, N. J.