The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-30
POTTER'S PROBE.
A CHAPTER CONTRIBUTED BY MIN.
lSTER MOVES.

take testimony. MessB. Potter Morrison
and Cox will act as a relief for it and III,
subcommittee in New Orleans.
DENNIS TESTIMONY.
AT the session to-day l.. L. Dennis re.
sumed his story. He said box No. 81 OF
the Arch precinct, Atchua county, Florida
was objected to by the Democrats on ac.
count Of IN alleged fraud. The inspector
OF the polls had, in confidential converse.
ton with the witness, admitted that there
had been 2l0 fraudulent names added 10
the list OF voters and his knowledge of the
fact was partially the cause of his dcclin-
ing to testify, as requested by Gov. Moves.
The addition of these 2l9 names was a
matter of public notoriety.
The witness was appointed by the secre-
tary OF the treasury as an employc in the
secret service. His instructions were to ex-
anime the records of the United States
courts in North and South Carolina, Geor-
gia and Florida. After rcsigning this posi-
ton he was appointed agent of the internal
revenue, but his commission was cancelled
before he entered upon the duties of that
| office. The letter of recommendation written
| by Gov. Noyes was submitted. 1t is formal
letter Of Recommendation to Secretary Shcr.
man, mentioning the witness as one of the
many Republicans, ostracised in Florida.
ana commanding his application to the CON
sidcration of the secretary The witness
never knew of Gov. Nov9s having put in
evidence before the returning board any
thing excepting the facts as furnished him.
1t was the idea of the southern Republicans
to impress upon the minds of the northern
Republicans that everything was fair and
honest in Florida
To Mr.. Butler the witness said he be-
licved the returns in Archer precinct should
| have shown 2l9 votes in excess of what
they did for the Republican party. The
Republican officers made up the deficiency
from the registration book, 50 as to make
the returns show their proper number
Of votes. He believed there had been
fraud on both sides. When the votes were
turned out of the box the missing number
Of Republican votes appeared as having
been legally cast
DENNIS WANTED AGAIN.
Dennis was instructed to hold himself in
readiness to appear before the committee, it
having been decided that the matter of the
manipulation Of votes in Atchua county was
not yet closed.
EDWARD F.NOYEs,
United States minister to France, testified
that he was in attendance upon the canvas
sing board in Florida during the last presi-
dental election; did not 30 at the reaues,
or with the knowledge of Gov. Hayes, ant
while there did not receive either kilograms
letters or communications of any sort from
Gov. Hayes. He took legal part in the
proceedings of the canvass, arguing the
cases before the board Of canvassers, etc.
He undertook to find out the facts relating
to the alleged frauds in Atchua county. Ar
cher precinct No. =, and owing to parties
swearing one way and Immediately there
after directly opposite, he had lost all
confidence in them, but finally,
from dilligent inquiry and the consistent
testimony of some forty or fifty Re
pubicans that they had voted the
Republican ticket, he reached the
honest conclusion that the count was re-
turned correct. He had asked Dennis to
be witness, and he, Dennis, had proved
the correctness of the vote in question to
the satisfaction of the witness. He did not
doubt Dennis word that he intended to
impress upon his (Meyer's) mind that il
would not be safe for him to 90 on the
stand for the Republicans, owing to his
knowledge of fraud but that he the wit.
ness could now solemnly swear that no
such impression was conveyed by the re-
marks of Dennis, and Gen. Wallace who
was present ut the time, was now in the
committees room, and would CorrobOrate
his (Noyeso statement.
The witness pronounced the statement
by Gen. Cooke before the Florida sub-com-
mittee, to the effect that he Cthc Witness
Cowgirl, Gov. Stearns and McLin, We're
locked together in the room of the secrc.
tay of state before the meeting Of the
board an unqualified falschood He had
no private conference with any Of those
gentlemen that required locked doors, and
with McLin he had no private conference
at all
Gov. Moves then submitted in evidence
two letters written him by McLin, in vc'.y
friendly spirit, in which he pictured very
, deliberately the frauds practiccd by the
Democrats, and the delight he experienced
| upon learning of the success of the Rcpub.
lican party, and embracing in the last let
ter II request that the witness should aid
him in securing the position of district
Judge of Florida.
Gov, Noyes said Gov. Stcarns never told
him that arrangements had been made
throughout the state that whatever might
be the actual vote, the returns would be
made to show n majority for the Hayes
electors. No such statement was made by
him to anyone, and no such knowledge came
into his possession.
Referring to the fact that the passage Of
the Potter resolutions in the preamble to
which McLin's affidavit charging that the
action OF the canvassing board was inilu-
enced by promises made by Hon. +. W.
Noycs, affected him very painfully. Mr.
Noycs said he thought it was very unfair
ON the part of branch Of congress to
assail him upon so slim II statement as that
made by McLin, and he expressed hope
that if this investigation should prove gull
,y, rs charged, the committee would make
his cyhonoru,ion rs public MS the charge
had been made and that il would not wait
! to do 80 until the regular report was made,