Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-13
DELAYED TELEcRAMs.
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.

Washington, July l2.-The Potter invest
igating committee resumed its session to-day,
and the examination Of Senator kellogg
continued by Mr.. Butler.
The senator testified that in his opinion if
Present Hayes had recognized Gov. Pack
ard by telegraph Immediately after the
formers Inauguration, and followed the same
up by official recognition as President Grant
had done in his, Kellogg's case, that the
people of Louisiana. including the Mich
oils faction, would have created no trouble.
He considered Packard elected as fairly as
the Hayes electors, so far as Louisiana was
concerned. Gen. Grant had telegraphed to
the witness day or so before he went out
of Office, stating that he had hesitated in
recognizing Packard in consequence Of there
having been commission appointed to in
vestigate the result of the election-refer-
ring to the MacVeagh commission. The
witness heard last fall that the Sherman let
ter had been found among D. A. Weber's
papers, and that Mrs. jerks had procured
possession of it, through her intimacy with
the Weber family. Mrs. Jenks had called
on him in New Orleans and spoke of the
Sherman letter. While explaining the con-
tents of the document, Mrs. jerks sat on
sofa and pretended to be reading him the
substance of the letter from paper che
held in her hand. Being very busy, and
not caring to be connected with the affair,
he advised Mrs. jerks to call upon Mr..
Packard, which he believed she did, but he
was unable to relate what occurred, further
than that Packard said he did not at
tach any importance to her conversa ton.
Never attempted to induce Anderson to
make fraudulent protest. Did not remcm-
ber having conversed with him regarding
the protest after the electoral college. Re-
marked that Anderson was not a man with
whom he would hold such conversations, as
he had testified had occurred between them.
Questioned by Mr.. Hiscock, the witness
testified that in his opinion the statement
made by James E. Anderson to the effect
that he, Anderson, had been assaulted, was
nothing more nor less than conspiracy. He
had requested Anderson to return to his
parish, and had given him money to go
back, but he renamed in New Orleans, and
spent the money. Never employed L. B.
jerks to watch him, as he has testified.
Witness pronounced it entirely imaginative
and without foundation, Anderson's testimo.
ny to the effect that if Kellogg did not return
Nash for the 9Th congressional district, that
he and Weber would burst the election, and
stated that he never used the language
which Anderson attributed to bin, namely
By God, if you want to put your neck in .
halter, you go ahead and do it. l am gov
ernor Of the state, and control the courts.
A word 10 the wise is sufficient"
Witness being questioned BY Hiscock,
stated that the testimony of E. L. Weber,
with one or two exceptions, in so far a. it
related t. him and Kellogg. was entirely
without foundation. He had never been
informed by Weber and Anderson that the
elections 10 these parishes were peaceful,
and that they could not make protests on
that account. Witness believed that vio-
lcnce and intimidation had existed In the
parishes of east and wes. Felicisna. east
Baton Rouge, and Uschi.a, and Work
house. lie thought tho result OF intimids.
tion and terrorism was 10 destroy the re-.
publicans msjoritics, especially in the par.
ishcs he mentioned, judging from tho fac,