Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-30
LETTER IN ANSWER TO SEC, SHERMAN.
ONE HUNDRED WITNESSES TO BE
SUBPGNAED.
Five Hundred other Witnesses to
Contradict them.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE g.
II. II. IL.
WASHINGTON, June 20.

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE g.
II. II. IL.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 20.
A draft Of a letter has been prepared by
Mr.. Morrison, of the Potter Committee, IN
answer to Secretary Sherman, requesting
to have subpGnaed from louisiana n
hundred witnesses, who are expected to
give material testimony touching the free
dom of the election, murders and intimi-
dation of the voters in all OF East and
parts of West Feliciana parish. Mr.. Nor
rison says, in the course of his reply, that
should these one hundred witnesses testify,
five hundred other witnesses, at least as
credible as they, will be ready again to
contradict them. The reply concludes as
follows Whatever of accusation is a
against you in the resolutions OF the House
OF Representatives, under which this com
mittee is acting, rests so far as any testi-
mony yet heard, shows upon the statement
and allegations that to influence and con-
troll D.. A. Weber and Jas. E. Anderson
in their official acts, you made
them verbal promises, and wrote a
letter to them giving them assurances and
promises of reward. If the committee cor
rectly understood your statement before
Its NOu CnAC NiAtib6 OtNh ~ SNtS AiiAi
making such promises, and, however ma
terial the evidence of the witnesses you
ask to have examined, may be to the fact
of the number of persons killed, threatened,
driven from Office, or otherwise intimi-
dated, as you assure the committee it can,
in no way effect you personally, if the
committee has correctly understood you,
to deny the allegation that you wrote this
letter and gave these promises and assur-
ances, for such allegation will be neither
established nor disproved by the evidence
of the number of men killed in the Fee
liciana parishes, whether killed because
others sought to steal their votes. The
committee is, therefore, constrained for
the present, respectfully to decline a COM
pliance with your request to have sub
penaed as witnesses the several
persons named by you, all of
whom have testified once, some of them
twice, and others three times, on the same
subject, and their testimony is preserved
and now accessible to all in the records.
The Potter Committee has received a tele-
gram from Governor Packard, claiming
that he has been cited to appear before the
subcommittee in New Orleans at l O'Clock
to-day, and it is understood that his exam
nation, on all points suggested by General
Butler, will take place there. William E..
Chandler produced the dispatches sent by
him from the Fifth Avenue Hotel early on
the morning Of November 9Th, though da-
ted November 7th, to George c.. Gorham,
California; J. W. Mitchell, Oregon; S. B.
Packard, New Orleans: Governor Cham
berlain, South Carolina, and Senator Con-
over, Florida, in each of which he stated
that Hayes and Wheeler were elected, as
they had carried these States, and in
each of which he also counseled
the Republicans to be watchful
against possible Democratic fraud.
While in Florida Mr.. Chandler re-
ceiyed a telegram from President Grant,
saying: | hope you will remain in Flor
ida until the vote of that State is decided.
Mr.. Chandler did not know Of the exist
ence of frauds in Florida, and the IS, 900
for which he telegraphed, was handed by
him to General Martin, who expended it
in procuring evidence.
Secretary Schurz, to-day, officially re-
quested Attorney General Devens to insti-
tute proceedings against the Central Pa
cific Railroad Company, to set aside the
patents issued to that company for abont
10000 acres of lands, situated within the
claimed limits of the Manuel Dias grant,
in the Marysville land district. This
grant was rejected by the Supreh.c Court
in March, 1877. The lands were patented
to the railroad company under dates Of
March, 1872, and March, 1875, and Deem
Der, 1875. Secretary Schurz holds, thai
under the principles announced by the
Supreme Court in the case Of Newhall vs.,
Sanger, these lands being within the limit
of q private grant, were excepted from the
operation of the railroad grant, and the
patents were issued for them enormously
without the authority of the law.
Long Branch Races.
LONG BRANCH. June 90.
The race for a purse Of $500, three
quarters of a mile, brought Bramble
Idala. Judith, Faithless, Dornley, Egypt
and Doctor Koeslter to the starting post
Bramble won in a gallop. Idala second.
Egypt third /; time, lit.
The second race was a mile and a quar-
ter dash, and was won by Little Reb, Gar.
rick second, Dwyer third time, 2:134
The third race was the Jersey Derby, fol
a mile and a half, and was o by Spartan
Danisheff second, a dozen lengths ahead Of
Duke of Magenta, who sold at great ad
vance upon the others in the pools time
2:414
Two Famous Law Cases.
New YORK, June 20.
A special from Washington says that two
famous law cases were called in the Courf
here to-day, but went over to the September
term by mutual consent. These are the
suits of the widow Oliver against ex-Sen
ator Cameron for alleged breach Of prom
Use of marriage, and that of higgins againsE
ex-president Grant for imprisonment. Ii
the latter case, higgins, who was sent tt
an insane asylum, charges that his incarce
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