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was gene over, and the future work for the
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was gene over, and the future work for the
committee laid out.
The mention of subcommittee to Louis
lana awakened the unanimous response tha
nobody wanted to GO there if it were posi-
BILE to avoid 1t, as the weather is holland the
climate unhealthy. Ben Butler has not ye
volunteered to go. As to who should go
and when, no conclusion was reached.
Late in the afternoon Elector Brewster
was examined, but nothing startling de
veloped. The proceedings in the House
took all interest away from the Committee
and Mrs. jerks, who was present to testify
was dismissed for the day.
The Potter Committee resumed its session
on the 18th. III. Conquest Clarke, formerly
private secretary to Governor Kellogg, and
now in the Internal Revenue Department
was examined regarding Louisiana certif
Gates. He recognized the first and second
set of certificates in possession of the COM
mittee as the ones prepared by him. Ander-
SON having stated that there was an error in
the certificates, Governor Kellogg requested
witness to examine them. Witness was
present when Cove nor Kellogg signed the
sec nd set of certificates. and had himself
sealed them up and fo warded them to
Washington. He also sealed the first set
and handed hem to the District Judge. All
signatures of the first set were signed in the
presence of witness. Witness did not pre-
pare the messengers authority charged
with the delivery of the second set of GER
tificates. He was of the opinion that the
authority which the bearer of the second
set of certificates presented was the
authority prep red for the messengers of
the first SCI, General Anderson. Recess
When the committee reassembled Mr..
Clarke testified that he saw also Brewster
sign the second set of certificates, and that
gentleman signed in the committee room,
and not in the Governors Office, as Brewster
testified yesterday. He had read the state
ment in a Cincinnati paper, to the effect
that some of the signatures of the Louis
lana Electoral returns had been forged, and
thought he clipped the paragraph from the
paper and subsequently inclOsed it in let
ter to Gov. Kellogg, inquiring what it meant
but he had never received a reply to the let
ter. Never heard anything while in New
Orleans of the SO called sherman letter
In consequence of the objections made by
Governor Kellogg to the handwriting in the
first set of certificates, witness lad caused
a number of extra copies to be made by the
clerk in the Office writing p Amer hand.
He (witnessl therefore, had a number of
certificates IN excess of these requ. red for
the use of the Electoral College.
After further unilnportant testimony, the
witness was excused, and ex-Representative
Darrall was recalled, remaining on the stand
but about five minutes, when Chairman Pot
ter announced that he had requested Sc ator
Kellogg to appear before the committee
but had received verbal message from him
saying that he could not comply with the
request at present. The committee ad
journed until Monday.
The documents sent to the House OF
Representatives by the President, at the in.
stance of the Potter committee, embrace all
the communications to and from the
Louisiana Commissioners in charge of the
Department of State. All have been hereto
fore published.