Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-04
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NIGHT DISPATCHES.
SPECIAL TO n EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
WARRINGTON.
THE POTTER COMMITTEE BUSINESS,
MR.. ANDERsoy's EVIDENCE.
Isis Interviews with the President
and Others.
THE ALL-ABsoRBING THEME IN
WASHINGTON.
~srEcrAI TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL
The POTTER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
His Interviews with the President
and Others.
wAsHrscToS, juno 3.

submitted, related interviews which nc
had had with the President and with STAN
ley Mathews. He had been offered a Con-
sulatc to Einchal, and declined to accept.
He then went to the President, and the
following is his account Of the interview:
The President said he had received a letter
from Matthews requesting him to give me
a place, and said at the same time that he
did not exactly know what he could do. |
said, MIR. Pre- sident, I appreciate the diff
culties under which you are laborinS,. l
know that If you give me a place, that is
any prominent place, it will excite the at
tention of the country and cause unfavor-
able comment. / will make some suyges-
tons, which. II you accept them. will re-
licve Won and everybody else Of all trouble
in the matter. II you appoint such a man
AZ / designate, to one Of the New Orleans
appraiserships, now held by Ringgold, who
has no political backing except ex-senator
West, 1 will withdraw all my claims on
your administration. The President
pondered on the matter a few minutes,
and then asked when ] was going to se-
turn to New Orleans. / told him | did
not return to New Orleans unless l had
some definite promise made that | should
be provided for then ne said, you go back
home and write me this proposition which
You have made, and send it to me under
cover Of Mr.. Justin, II of my private
secretaries, SO that | shall be sure to re-
ceive it, and / will attend to it tie next
day. wrote to Mr.. Matthews. / thought
the matter over and wrote him, and told
him that in my telegram | did not mean
l. 4l..-.4o.. I..x lau,xpa I thnnnbf In uas
doing what he could for me but that they
had worried me so III Washington that
thought it was about time that something
should be done one way or the other.
next went to Cincinnati. on my road to
New Orleans, and stopped over there and
saw Mr.. Matthews, and he told me to go
back to Washington and he would follow
me that night. / came back, and we both
arrived here on the same evening-Sunday
evening, the 10th Of June. / saw him
three days after my arrival, and asked him
what had been done, and he told me he
had not seen the President, but would see
him that night. On Wedn asday / called
at his room at the Ebbitt House /: he told
me to call on Mr.. Mccormick, assistant
secretary Of the treasury. / won't to the
Treasury Department and found that Mr..
Mccormick was out Of town, and would
not return for ten days. l returned to
Matthew'S room, and lie wrote for me a
note to Gen. Smith, Appointment Clerk.
| Gen. Smith said he would take NE over to
the White House and see the President,
We called at the White House, and Gen,
Smith had an interview with Mr.. Hayes, al
which | was not present, and he cume ont
| and said that the President had instructed
| him to give me ONE satisfactory position
on political considerations, and he tool
me to the Treasury Department
and gave me the Blue Book and told
me to pick ont such a position
as ! wanted. He then said l should hav,
something which would be satisfactory t,
me. | rode that day to baltimore will
Senator Matthews he asked me if ! was
satisfied, and I told him that l was. ant
referred to General Smiths statement thai
it was all right. A couple of days aftel
that General Smith informed me that the
best position he could give mi was an In
spectorship in some Custom-house in Phil
adelphia, Baltimore or Boston, which wa
worth from So so to 81 a day. l told hin
that was not what had been promised me
and not what ! had u right to expect, ant
If I could not get a better position THAI
that / would 60 back to my old duties al
journalist, and that l preferred going bacl
to them anyhow. l said l did not car
personally, that the only feeling / had il
the matter was, that certain promises hat
been made to me which had not been full
filed, and l proposed to see that the,
should be. General Smith then wrot
Matthews to the effect that he had made n,
definite promise, except that | should b
provided for in a satisfactory manner
After my interview with the presiden
about the appraisership, | stepped in Gin
cinnati, and in the first paper that / picket
up l found q report Of the interview Of tn
colored deputation from Louisiana will
the President, in which the presiden
promised to retain Ringgold.
The testimony given before the Potte
Investigating Committee on Saturday, i
the absorbing theme of conversation il
Washington political circles to-day, ant
gives rise to comments which vary in &C
cordance with divergent political predilec
tons. The committee, at the instance o
its Republican members, has subppnaet
Judge Campbell, now a member Of tin
Dakota Supreme Court, but formerl,
1t is claimed that he will testify that An
derson made oath before him, to protest
which he (Anderson) yesterday denied
having sworn to. Ex-Marshal Pitkin has
also been summoned as a witness in rebut
tai Of certain portions Of Anderson's testi
mony.
Representatives Huntoon, Springer and
Hiscock, the Florida subcommittee, left
Washington last night for Jacksonville, to
commence the investigation in that State
immediately. They expect to be absent
about two weeks.
More About the Beecher TiItou
Scandal.
NEW YoRK, June 3.
The long promised new chapter in ths
Beecher-Tilton scandal appears this morn
ing over the signature Of James b. Mix.
Mr.. Mix opens by declaring his purpose to
give the true statement OF what he believes
to be the origin, progress and denounce-
ment Of the gigantic and elaborate plot
eoncocted by a clique Of free love propa-
gandists, having for its object the rule or
ruin Of Beecher. The story begins early
in 1870. when Tilton, Moulton and Mix
were all neighbors on the Brooklyn Nights.
Himself and Tilton were school-boy
friends, and grew up together. The gem
eral tendency Of Mix's statement is to cast
most damaging reflections on Theodore
Tilton, both AZ a husband and a man, and
W nHp" that iS Hidul tuito contaminated
himself, disowned his own written utter
ances, and appeared altogether as a person
beside himself, whose statements regarding
a man like Beeeher should be taken with
great allowance. The time Of this singu-
lar conduct, on the part Of Iilton. was
when the conspiracy to overthrow Beecher
was in full blast in which Mix was adj
mitted.
Description of She witness AM
ders0n.
NEW YORK, June 8.
The Tribune thus describes Anderson;
The witness il an intelligent. rei-l eaded.
rcdfaccd, red-musfsched. hoyish-lookinq
man, Of about "a wears. He was neatly
dressed, had great self pessession, and ere
ated a favorable impression. The cores
pondents present we're surprised to hear
HIM announce, when his examination Le-
gan, that he had all his life been a iournal- |
iSf. and MAS now NIGHT adffor ~ fLo pfsl.z I,