Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-04
And Additional Testimony given before
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egraphic Reports OF that
Day-DiscussiOns at
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sale of correspondence submitted, related In
| terviews which he had with the President
| and Stanley Mathews. He had been offered
the consulate to Funcbal, and declined to
accept. He then went to the President, and
/ the following is his account of the interview
| The President said he had received a letter
| from Mr.. Mathews requesting him to give
ME place, and he said, at the same time, he
| did not see exactly what he could do. said
"Mr. President, | appreciate the difficulties
! under which you are laboring. | know thai
| If you give me place-that is, any prom-
ncnt place-it will excite the attention of the
country, and will cause unfavorable COM
/ ment. | will make a suggestion which, il
! you will adopt, will relieve YOU and every
| body else of all trouble In the matter. If you
| will appoint such man as / shall designate
to one of the New Orleans appraiserships,
now held by RinRgold, who has no political
backing except Senator West, | will with.
| draw all my claims on your administration.
The President pondered on the matter five
minutes, and asked me when | was going to
return to New Orleans. l told him | did not
intend to return to New Orleans unless had
| some definite promise made that | should be
provided for. Then he said: ''You go back
home and write me this proposition which you
| have made, and send it to me under cover OF
Mr.. Gustin, one OF my private secretaries, Sc
| shall be sure to receive it, and | will attend
to it." Next day l wrote to Mr.. Mathews;
| | thought the matter over, and wrote to him,
and told him that IN my telegram | did not
| mean to threaten him, because | thought he
was doing what he could do for me- but they
had worried me so in Washington, and
| thought it was about time something should
be done one way or the other; went to Gin
| cinnati, on my road to New Orleans, and
| stopped over there and saw Mr.. Mathews;
| he told me to go back to Washington, and he
would follow me that night; | came back,
and we arrived here on the same evening
| Sunday EVENING", the tenth of June. | saw
him three days after my arrival, and asked
him what had been done; he told me he had
not seen the President, but he would see him
that night; on Wednesday 1 called at his
| room, at the Ebbit house, and he told me to
| call on Mccormick, the assistant secretary of
the treasury; | went to the treasury depart
ment and found that Mccormick was out of
town, and would not return for ten days; l
| returned to Mathewss room, and he wrote
| me a note addressed to General Smith, the
appointment clerk; Smith said he would take
me over to the White House and see the
President; we called at the White House,
and Smith had an interview with Hayes, at
which | was not present; he came out and
said the President had instructed him to give
me some satisfactory position on political con-
siderations he took me to the treasury de-
partment, gave me blue book, and told me
to pick out such position as | wanted; he
then said l should have something which
would be satisfactory to me; | rode that
day to Baltimore with Senator Mathews;
he asked me If | was satisfied, and told him
l was, and referred to General Smith state
ment that it was all right: couple of days
after that Smith informed nae that the best
position he could give me was an Inspector
ship in some customhouse, either Philadel-
phia, Baltimore or Boston, which was worth
from three and a half to four dollars day;
nj int hot fhat Nyha ho6 hna
promised and not what | had right to ex-
pect, and that if | could not get better po
sition than that would go back to my old
duties as journalist, and that preferred GO
ing back to them anyhow; l said | did not
care personally, that the only feeling had IN
the matter was that certain promises had
been made which had not been fulfilled, and
proposed that they should be; Smith then
wrote to Mathews to the effect that he had
made no definite promise. except that should
be provided for in a satisfactory manner;
after my interview with the President about
the apprenticeship, stopped III Cincinnati,
and in the first paper that picked up found
report of the interview of the coiored dep
utation from louisiana with the President, in
which the President promised to retain Ring
gold.
Ques.-Dld you say anything to Mathews
about it? Ans.-I dld some of tine taliest
swearing Mathews ever heard in his office.
Ques.-What took place in reference to
that letter from Mathews? Aus came
on to Washington and told Senator Math-
ews | thought an effort was being made On
the part of the Democrats to get up an in
vestigation, and that information was being
furnished them by some OF the boys in Louis
lana, and that thought that the best man
ner to stop the arrangement was by DR.. Oar
rails appointment as collector of customs in
New Orleans; | told him Darrall und erstood
pretty thoroughly the men who ought to be
provided for, and he should do it; he request
ed me 70 have Darrall call upon him, which
/ did; Darrall wrote to me, and afterward
told me personally, and SO did Mathews,
that they should work up sentiment in
Darrall's favor, get all the recommendations
they could from New Orleans aud Louisiana,
and get all the recommendations they could
from Darrall's colleagues in the house, and
they wonld give Mathews pretext for ask
ing for Darrall's appointment as collector of
customs at New Orleans.
Ques.-What part were you to play in that :?
Ans.-Mathews asked me whether, in case
DIR. Darrall was appointed, | would be salts
fed, and whether / would be willing to de-
liver all papers in my possession and give
up all my claims on the administration,
which l agreed to do.
Ques.-What papers were referred to in
any of your conversations with Mathews?
Ans.-He referred to all the papers in my
letter.
Ques.-To whom? Ans.-To Mathews
Ques.-Who mentioned the Sherman letter
first, you or he? Ans.-I have no distinct
recollection about the matter; it was after
Mrs. jerks had called on Senator Mathews in
connection with it.
Ques.-Did she profess to hold the letter /?
Ans.@She professed to hold the original
letter.
Ques.-How do you know she professed to
hold the original letter? Ans.-She told me
herself, in the presence of other parties, that
she had the original.
Ques.-Did she exhibit it to you? Ans
No; she claimed that she had it at New Or
leans, and she offered to sell it for certain
consideration.
The following letters are among the cor.
respondence submitted:
CINCINNATI, May Z, 1877.
My DEAR SIR inclose letter to Gen.
eral Thomas G. Anderson, asking his influ-
ence In favor Of your appointment as deputy
| collector, in answer to yours Of the fifth in
slant Just received. Let me hear from YOU
as to the result. Yours truly.
STANLEY MATHEWS.
James E. Anderson, ESQ.,. New Orleans.
CINCINNATI, May Z, 1877.
MY DEAR SIR-The appointment of Mr.
James +. Anderson as one of the three depu-
ty-collectors, or any other place satisfactory
to him, In the customhouse at New Orleans,
l would regard as in the interest of the public
service, deserved recognition of his services,
and personal favor to myself May l VEN
ture to ask your personal influence In his
favor? Yours truly,
STANLEY MATHEWS.
General Thomas C. Anderson
Stanley Mathews to Secretary Evarts, rec.
ommendlng Anderson:
CINCINNATI. May IA, 1877.
DEAR SIR-The bearer, Mr.. James E.
Anderson, of New Orleans, Is the gentleman
| In reference to whom, when last in Wash
| ington, / had a private conversation with
| you, urging his appointment to a consulship.
| Mr. Anderson has had, until now, subordi-
| nate clerkship In the customhouse at New
Orleans. which has always been unsatisfactory