The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-06-09


Mr. Butler made very sironl
speech, alleging that for thirty year,
no such dlscourtesy had been put upon
committee OF the house, instAncinp
the conduct OF Colonel Fox, Sumner
and others who had held invitations
TO appear.
Finally, without n dissenting voice,
subpoena was ordered. should
Matthews disregard the matter he
viii be brought before tho house.
General Sherman, In another letter
to the Potter committee, furnishes the
names OF about one hundred witnesses
by whom no proposes TO prove that
there was fraud, intimidation and
violence In East aud West Fellclana.
Thia no demands IN rentatlon Of the
charges made by the resolution, that
he consplred 10 make false returns OF
on election that was free aud fair
JAoKsoNvlLLE, Fla, June S.--McLin
has arrived and will so on the stand
to-day. Developments 30 far have
been made by local politicians, show
nm inhnIte amount Of lrlllng rascallty,
the aggregation OF which seems TO
have thrown the state for Hayes.
Later-S. b. McLln WAS sworn, aud
was shown the paper known m his
confession, which was frat published
Ia tho New York Times, he thought
II 10 be the genuine paper. The CONS
mitteo lot II go down as part OF his EVIL.
denoe. Was n member OF the state
canvassing board In 1879, and was
shown, after the election, numbe OF
kilograms to General Stearns, and the
most OF them were from w. Il. Chand.
Ter, and one or more were from Zach
Chandler. The kilograms set forth Ia
a general way that the presidential
election and the salvation Of the coun,
try depended upon the vote OF Florida,
and that an effort must be made TO
give the vote for Hayes, and IL neces>
ssry, means and troops would DO iur-
nished In the furtherance Of that obs
ject. The amount OF means was stated
but no mode was pointed out how to
secure the state for Hayes, except the
suggestion that an effort must be made
to get the returns from different coun,
ties. The kilograms were received two
or three days after the election. Tn o
only thing to DO done was canvassiDg
the returns. Some northern republi~
cans came to Florida to represent
Hayes. Among them were w. Il.
Chandler, General Wallace, Attorney
General Little, Of Ohio, Governor
Noyes and General Barlow. Those
were the most active. Don't know as
Noyes was considered the leader any
more than the others. don't know
as Wallace or Noyes told me directly
that they had authority to repre>
sent Hayes, but / was told so
through others--it was represented
to me that Noyes was a particular
friend of Hayes, and that no represent
ed him; that anything he said the pre-
sident would be responsible for. Wal
lace told me on several occasions that
II Hayes election was secured, the
members OF the returning board would
be taken care Of On one occasion
Chandler said he didn't like to say II
to me, but he would, and spoke for
Wallace, that II the state should 20 for
Hayes, Cowgirl and myself would be
well taken care OF. He would say 30
by authority of General Hayes and
for himself. Hayes never said to wit
ness that he would be rewarded, but
he felt assured that Hayes had said so.
He never meant to ask for anything
and he didn't come to me to make
promises. Directly after the canvass
and on the eve of returning
north Noys came to my house In
carriage with number OF other visit
ing statesmen and thanked me for the
action had taken, and congratulated
me on the result and went Off happy.
He said had acted nobly. never
saw him after he left Tallahassee, but
addressed letter to him, / have no
copy OF 1t. What purposed to be a
copy Of the letter was produced by MIR.
Hiscock. 1t was dated January 9th,
1878, and commences; "Lamentable
changes have taken place since we part
ed on the sixth of December last.
We were hopeful aud happy in the
pleasant assurance that Governor
Hayes would be inaugurated as our
next president. Now we are humilIas
ted with the near approach Of defeat
not an honest defeat, but defeat that
will be brought about by the craven
submission and sheer cowardice."
McLin's evidence gives tedious de-
tails. mostly indefinitely, as to the ir-
regularities In the returns. The evil
dence 30 far has not developed any
thing startling.
Speaking Of duplicate returns, McLin
said he presented the return that ap.
peared TO be the most formal and the
most favorable to Hayes.
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gram, dated June 7th, reporting the