The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-28
INVESTIGATING THE FRAUD.
syssRs. TRUMBULL. MoREr, AND DEN
MIS- BFFORE THE COMMITTEE
~.r.v F,Sips his Replies 10 salt Either Hut
Ter. Hi.cock. or Chairman Potter-Retsrn-
90. Hoard scheuinE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.-n.rapce-Noye-'s story Corrected.

ATLANTIC CITY, July 27.-Frank Morey
.,d Judge Trumbull Of Illinois. the latter tho
srst Of the Democratic visiting statesmen to ap-
.asr before the committee. were tho principal
s;,rs.ses to-day. There was also an extremely
~, cross examination Of Garfield, and
,.neer one OF Hale and Sypher. Dennis, an
,.nor,ant witness from Alachua county, Fla,
aasde A correction in Noyes's testimony. and
,rescnted letter from the absent Minister APP
.rovinc the correction. The curious and latter
dsv Action that tho Returning Board main
,sined the proprietles Of the court and received
,ha treatment OF one from the Republicans
,rsseut, chiefly occupied the two Witnessed,
Marcy and Trumbull. Morey was one OF the
Rspublican counsel. and Butler drew from him
N, fact that the great mass OF evidence submit
led before the board on Friday afternoon. on
which decision was made the next Monday
,vening. could not have been read within this
time. and contained aflidavits dated after the
lime when the board announced the evidence
closed.
Trumbul traced in detail the refusal OF the
board to fll vacancy in the board with Demo-
srat. hear argument, or admit Democrats to the
examination Of the tabulaton and preparation
the returns. The examination of the reasons
and methods under which the additional votes
needed to elect Hayes over those needed to elect
Packard were excluded stretched over Morey's
entire examination OF two hours. Buffers
searching questions OF yesterday showed that
after using all efforts to return together the
Packard and Hayes electoral ticket. after uni
formy quoting the vote for the Governor as de-
termning the result. and preparing evidence to
elect both. 1t was necessary to throw out addi-
tonal evidence and throw out additional
parishes to elect Hayes not needed for
Packard. Morey. to-day. answering Hiscocks
questions. said he did not mean to indicate
that the Returning Board intended TO elect
Hayes by excluding 6l2 votes not needed to
elect Packard. but that the Returning Board did
elect Hayes by excluding those votes. Butler
returned to the subject and showed by the dates
OF the affidavits prepared by counsel. OF whom
Morey was one. that the affidavits relating to
the parishes in which these 1912 votes were
thrown out were prepared after II was found
that Hayes needed these votes.
Garheld's short cross ss-examination related to
his knowledge or ignorance OF the conciliatory
means used by Democrats TO carry the election
He had not hoard OF them. Trumbull had and
very nearly the most important part OF the
testimony to-day was his emphatic testimony
that all he heard in New Orleans was that the
election in 1876 was as fair a one as the people
The committee adjourned to meet in New
York on Monday next at noon. when. however.
only one witness will be examined. Gov.
Palmer 'of Illinois. one OF the Democratic
The irst part OF Mcrey's testimony was occu-
Psd to-day yith a. reyew pne q the causes which s
was examined by three membcrs Of the com;
mittee. Potter. Hiscock. and Butler each Of
that a Legislature having a legal quorum re:
tussca by the Returning Board which returned
Hayes; wns subverted by fraud and bribery
~ nj Wi nf
marshaed the facts which indicate the weak
died In the course OF nature. Potter bases the
right OF Nichols on the vote OF the people made
Sy Of b and soS Msy
got the particular nformation he wanted. and
stopped. With Potter, Morey insisted that the
would follow mob control in New York, sup
posing that city were the capital OF the State.
This was the way Butler put the matter in two
questions concerning his view:
" BY force. by bribes. by fraud. by intimida-
ton. by all manner OF chicanery. were not the
Legislature induced to quit the Legislature
they had organized and go over to the Nichols
" They were" answered Morey.
Was not this the condition OF Affairs: The
President had refused 10 decide the question
which the Supreme Court in the case OF Luther
agt. Borden. had held II was his duty 10 decide.
He had sent the Macveagh commissio1, which
To sfe Teused ss 9rsss to give Packard moral sappo
refused 70 Investigate which was the legal Gov
..n%;Snt TShereggon the Nichols Government
And Morey again assented;
To support his view OF the subject Hiscock
n pss PseRard % % snd Citing the e SUCCESSIVE ~ M
stances in which the Republican Senate and the
Democratic House had thrown doubt on Pack
he should fail to support his authority. His
cock turned then TO the 1.6l2 votes which Hayes
needed SO badly, and his friends got him with
terday Morey explained that when he said it
was necessary to throw out these votes 70 elect
Hayes he only met arthmetically. Under .
somewhat protracted examination, direct and
cross. Morey told these facts about their exclu-
sion OF these votes.
When the returns first came in. said he. we
figured up the results. We knew from the
illegal action in certain parishes that the ex-
clusion OF the five bulldozed parishes was
enough to elect Packard There was an indis-
position TO go any further than was necessary
to elet the Republican candidates., T feeling
was. tnat the people Of the North who would
pass Judgment didn't understand the condi-
ton OF affairs there. and it would look better TO
not say So it was plain that he was giving the
continent OF local politicians. 1t was after tho
hepu5lican visiting statesmen came that, IA he
said. the policy was adopted 10 raise the ques-
uon OF fraud In all the parishes
Morey. however, recalled no compensation
hiscock drew out that the shortage on the
Hayes electoral ticket was known early. but
bauter showed that the larger share OF the de-
ILL.,
kNnS Morey the printed affdavits filed with
me lteturnlng Board relating 70 the parishes
oy e1eludlng whose votes this deficiency was
suppned. Morey testified that affidavits about
ninety.,nVe IN number, were prepared after the
z4th, niteen OF these alter the board stopped
taxing evidence. and one after the result mad
been ttelegraphed to sherman. telegram
from Pitkin was produced also dated Sunday.
showing that twenty four hours after the Re,
turning Board had begun to consider some
thousand pages OF testimony by when il had
promised TO decide the result Wells told pix in
the State was sure for Hayes. Morey was hst cd
II he knew. as counsel. how these alidal lis got
before the Returning Board after tho evidenee
was closed. but he denied knowledge that they
ever were before the board. Nor was there
Affirmative evidence presented to tins effect
although they have been uniformly quoted as
the evidence on which the result was obtained.
Sypher was on the stand for a short cross-ex-
animation from Hscock. which turned princi-
pay on the fact that when he saw the sherman
letter he accepted II as genuine without hesita-
uon. doubt, or examination.
Then Dennis took the stand for the correction
oil Noyes's testimony. Noyes, to illustrate the
apprehension which he said kept Dennis from
the stand. told q sensational story OF u midnight
meeting at which Dennis swore the negrOes "a
nyenge him; This. never happened. and Den
ms meyer told II 10 Noyes. as Noyes admits in a
lrller Dennis produced. The fact was that somt