New Ulm weekly review., 1878-06-19


Eand passed, IS toaA ~
\ HousE. JhnesI IhsHouss spent the
most of the day ii committee ofsthe whole
having under @ sGnsdeaoh the Rndry civil
THEzPRESIDENftAL-ELECTlON
j investigating tho lla4s<t1lesf Of 1870
Under tho Potter ResoIution-James z.
st->Anaersons and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ON
| the stand.
seTuEs1AY; June 4 IYhes second dsession
Of tie investiga g oDmnmittee vas held to-
1 day, and Anderson was again ON the. stand for
4 cross examination. An effort was made to
i show discrepancies between his testimony on
the LIST, and his evidence before the Senate in
tsst sesg st xas Hs sde saia ID
the question before the Senate committee and
suppressed the other on the gronnd that he
was carrying out his contract with Sherman.
He admitted that shes purposely misled the
committee white testffying under oath claim
mind from that which lie gave The conimit-
tee. .azss Il &as4 ssaA s4e esawAm
Es WEDNESDAY, une 5,z And derson's cross
examination was still continued and wa
principally devoted to q copy of the Weber
Anderson agreement. This agreement. was
Isent to Stanley Matthews and the document
Iproduced by the, committee Anderson sclaimed
was not his handwriting but "a counterfeit
thereof, He claimed that the original had
two red ink spots which the paper produced
did not have. He sWore that tPitikin promised
1him that he would rbe 3takenaicarea of if he
stood by the Republicans. StahleY Matthews
rose to give ,a.personaI a. explanatiOnilin the
! Senate denying that he had AcOnniYed att any
/ fraud sin the PRESIDENTIAL count aof 1876 and
/ itrofi .,Iof
to examincand report'npon the matter.
THURSDAY, June it6js Is, slJudg dge ALB
! |visse Of Louisiana was the oily. witness ea-
amlned to-day. Hewas one of the Republi-
can ELECTORS and he testified that, pending the
election 9 man named Asher came to him
with g corrupt proposition saying he (Le-
visse) could make from thirty to forty thous-
and dollars by resigning. his position Wit
ness entertained the proposition. not with a
view, as he said of selling out, but for the pur
4 pose of ascertaining who Asher representedi
Witness talked about wanting one, ors two
hundred thousand 70 Isl thinking iI # would 50
not pay it and in that way he. hoped to find
who the offer really came from. a resolution
was passed asking Stanley Matthews, to ap-
pear and testify, asis,sattss stsss j ri as
FRIDAY, June THE ub-committee.sc scom
rlealt, nenced d work in Floridy to-day. The Baker
county returns were the subiecteofa inyestiga- .
ton, but nothing not previously published
was elected. The Washington branch of the
committee took no testimony to-day but spent
most Of the time in secretsession in making
comparison Of the genuine and forged election
returns 'front.' Louisiana I'm tesponseto a pre-
yious request Of the committee the Presiden
submitted letters which hadHbeen received
from Stanley Matthew'S James E.. Anderson
and others asking that Anderson be given
consulship. zfsssN''sNsN "a
SATURDAY., June s: Senator Ferry ap-
peared fiefore tho main committee and itesti-
ned as to the receipt Of the returns from Lou
isiana. He knew ofsno informalities of those
returns except through others.s A,lettera was
received from Stanley Matthews refusing to
appear before the committee, on the ground
OF jurisdiction. The& Florida sub -committee
held a session at Jacksonville, and exauained
several witnesses. McLiH was examined as
to the conduct OF the visiting statesmen While
the canvas was being made gxrs
MONDAY, June 1O.-The Potter COM
mittee did not get to work till 4sIpo D. m .aB. L.
Bugbee, telegraph operator, rwassexamned at
length, touching the loss sof certain old tele-
tae rats had naI Gan Thought
amined the witness Whit great spifit and
earnestness Tie witness. identified certain
kilograms, and long confidential communi-
%n cation Of ;Bo1lds 11l Baker, Secretary toa
Young ana Alfred y; Lee Of Columbus, O.,
regard to conference Of Southern Republi-
cans, Southern .Democ rSfsg2 aIalssB Southern
Wings, describing the posi- itE6Hf 81 Several of
them in making suggestions iii reference4o
harmonlzlng the South, IN the new era to lie
Other witnesses were called from the post
office department. but nothing of Importance
was elected. The subcommittee at Jackson
vile, Fla, continued the examinations ofSMc-
Lin at great length, eliciting but little not
already given to the public.
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