The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-29
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
POTTER'S PROBE.
RECOLLECTIONS OF WIN. E. CHAN
DLER REGARDING FLORIDA.
DEPARTMENT NOTES AND EVENTS OF THE
DAY AT wAsHISGToN.
PITKIS's TESTIMONY.

PITKIN 8 TESTIMONY.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-The Potter COM
mttee questioned cy- Marshal Pitkin upon
the method Of employing deputy marshals
IN Louisiana. Pitkin said he always be-
lieyed in the legality of the Packard legis-
laturc, and was of the opinion that the
Packard government could have sustained
itself within three weeks after recognition
by the administration, without the aid of
federal troops.
Witness narrated statement made him
by George j. Sway. OF the conference of
members Of the Packard legislature and
members of the McVeagh commission i'm
! lnediatcly preceding the withdrawal of the
troops and the recognition of the Nichols
government
The examination was continued at length
upon the facts of the McVcagh commission,
and Gen. Butler requested that Packard be
subprnacd to appear before leaving the
country.
Hiscock and Cox said the minority of
committee were disposed to accept the tes-
timony of Pitkin as regards the affairs in
Louisiana and suggested the additional
witnesses would only accumulate evidence
and delay the progress OF the invostiga-
ton.
During the discussion Mr.. Butler re.
marked that he wanted the great fraud
probed to the bottom, and Mr.. Mcmahon
said the question Of going into an nvesti-
CATION Of the McNeagh commission had
been decided in secret session, and he
voted for ii upon the ground that Gen.
Butler informed the committee that an
agrc'nen had been entered into whereby
the fraudulent count Of the vote of Louis
lana Lad bc1n made cfftctual, and that he
could prove it.
Gen. Butler to the witncSs-I desire to
ask you If you had any conversation with
either Hawley or Harlan before they re-
turned 10 Washington, after the recogni-
ton OF the Nichols government! A.-Yes
sir, | had,
Q,-What was said about providing for
those who had lent the administration their
services! A.-Thcy said that when they
arrived in Washington they would see Mr..
Hayes, and arrange TO have all the leading
Republicans, who had borne the brunt Of
the work in Louisiana, taken care Of
Odd that include Anderson. A.
AndcrSon'S name was not mentioned.
q. BY Mr.. Pottcr-Could the Kellogg
government have maintained itself without
the aid Of federal troops. Ayes. sir.
There We're no federal troops in New Or
leans before 1874
After Il short executive session the com.
mittcc took recess.
TESTIMONY or ROGER c. DLAsCoCK.
The committee rcassnmhled ut 2 80 PAN,
and Roger G. Blascock was called to the
stand, who testified that during last winter
Mrs jerks boarded at his restaurant, on
Ninth street, in this city, and he had con.
vcrsa,ion with her, when she told him that
she had conversation with Mr. Sherman;
tina, dc had insultcd her, and if he did not
look out she would make it hot for him |
yet, Some days later she show d the wit !
ness u reply to an article in The New York |
Times written by her That she knew of |
the whereabouts and had control of n letter
from Mr., Sherman to Weber, which she re-.
ccived from Mrs. Weber. She then said
that she would 30 to New Orleans and get !
the document, and asked the witness 10
loan her money, as she had not enough to
get home. She did not 90, and the witness
knows nothing further about the matter.
THE FLORIDA CASE.
The committee then passed on to the
Florida case, and Hon,
wM. 4, CHANDLER
was sworn. He stated in reply to Mr..
Springer tina, when in Florida, shortly ui.
tcrthc presidential election, he me, Gov.
NoycS at Tallahassee,
THE TELE0NAMS,
AZ thspoint the examination was inter.
rupte,l, and Leonard Whitney, manager Of
the Western Union Telegraph company,
said that IN response to subpoena OF the
committee calling for kilograms from
Agnes d. jerks to James G. Anderson, and
pitkin to Anderson, during the troubles
If August and September, 1877, and Junu.
,ry, February and March, 1878, he must
tate that the files for Angus, and Scptcm.
ser, 1917, have been shipped to New York