Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-26
PITKIN'S PALAVER.
WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT ANDERSON
AND WEBER.

AND WEBER.
After Brief Talk With Mrs. jerks an
Boynton the Committee Take up Pitkin-.
He Reads an Elaborate Statement of Hi
Relations With Red-Headed .Jim---An
Asserts shat His Protest Was Made by Hi
Own Free Will---His Knowledge of tn
Sherman and Matthews Letters---Levis
sees Transactions With tho Bribers.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The examination o
Mrs. jerks was resumed to-day as soon as tn
Potter committee met. She said she had no
received the letter inquired for yesterday an,
did not know whether they would be of an,
Importance. Witness had seen Mrs. Weber a
Donaldsonville shortly before leaving for Wash
ington and Mrs. Weber had told her that An
derson had said that she Mrs. Jenks) had re
ceived about one hundred thousand dollars fo
certain documents and appeared somewhat hur
because she had received no portion of thu
money. Mrs. jerks, however, informed Mrs
Weber that she had never received any money
whatever. General Sheldon requested witness
to visit Mrs. Weber with a view to having bel
come to Washington.
wanted Mrs. Weber to come to New Orleans
and make an affidavit to the effect that there
was no such document the so-called Sher
man letter in existence?
Wltness-NO, sir; you are entirely mistaken
about that.
Mr.. Springer inquired if witness received any
other consideration from Gen. Sheldon except
ing her actual expenses.
Witness Every sharply)-No, sir; and it wal
but four dollars; you need not distress your
self about it.
The witness was asked by the chairman il
she would produce the letters desired to-mor
row IT they arrived.
A. Oh, yes; if they arrive / will produce
4hem.
GEN. HENRY y. aeYNToN,
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazclte, was re-
called and said: The President never during
their conversation gave him to understand thai
Anderson was in possession Of political secrets
he derlveG the impression entirely from news.
papers. Gen. Comfy was present during the
entire conversation and heard all, including
tina Anderson matter.
Gen. Butler inquired if witness ever had an
interview with any one in Washington regarding
Anderson and had stated that the President had
appointed Anderson and others connected with
dirty work in Louisiana in order to keep their
mouths closed. Gen. Boynton replied that he
hati never talked of the matter in that way tc
any one.
Witness stated, in answer to inquiries, that
when the MacVeagh commission was appointed
he had conversed with Messrs. Hawley and
Harlan both before they left Washington fol-
New Orleans and after they had returned
Gen. Butler requested the witness to state as
nearly as he could, all the conversation which
transpired between him and these gentlemen
concerning the Louisiana commission.
Gen. Boynton said he had no conversation
other than pertained to regular newspape,
work, and would be pleased to answer any par.
tlcular que tion Gen. Butler might ask.
Butler-Was there anything said regarding
Gen. Harlan's candidacy for the supreme
bench?
Witness-Yes, sir. Before leaving for New
Orleans, Gen, Harlan requested me to ascer-
tain, IT could, favor to him, whether
Gen. Bristow was candidate. If 80, he liar
LAM did not desire to stand in his way. Gen.
Harlan said to me: II know nothing with re-
ference to the use of any money for the pur-
pose of breaking up the Packard Legislature,
and do not believe any member Of the COM
mission has any such knowledge. The only
thiLg which I ever heard which would give a
possible basis for such story was this
Yhat just about the time the breaking up took
place some of the Packard men represented
that there were certain employees about the
Packard legislature who had not received their
salaries, and they thought it was fair thing
that these sums should be paid by the incoming,
legislature, and they went to gee about it, and
he mentioned some names Of persons he called
on, but the names have entirely gone out of
my mind. At any rate, he went to pe,rs,ns
connected with the Nichols government and
repeated the conversation to Them and they
said to him very considerable sum had been
raised by the Nichols men in Louisiana, for
the purpose of putting the Nichols govern
ment on its feet and there was a
small sum, think five or six thousand dollars,
oI<lo 4l@L
piled to that purpose, and they would try to
have it SO applied. That is the sum and sub
stance of it.
Harlan was Of the opinion if he went to New
Orleans he could aid in bringing about salts
factory settlement of the very annoying state
of affairs then existing, and he thought prob
ably that the transaction would help him in
securing a seat upon the supreme bench. That
is all that happened connection with that
matter, except that 1 promised to
endeavor to comply with Harlan'a
request. The conversation after Gen. Har-
lan's return from New Orleans was in the of
hce OF Gen. Boynton, who informed Harlan
that he had been absolutely unable to find out
definitely from Bristow or his intimate friends.
5ut that it was believed by us (1neauing some
of his friends) that Bristow would accept the
position were it rendered him. Harlan replied
In effect that he thought he himself would be a
candidate for the position. General Boynton
conversed with Gen. Harlan regarding Louisii-
ana matters, mentioned to Harlan
at the time that the members of
his commission would have to
prepare for investigation, as General Butler
friends in Washington were saying he was not
satisfied with the result of the investigation.
and there was a charge that some $4,000 or
sic, 900 had been used in Louisiana for the
purpose of putting the Nichols government on
its feet.
= Gen. Butler desired to know who were his
trends that made such statement, Gen.
Boynton: II cannot name them. The fact
was published DIS l have stated it at the tlme'
long discussion between Gen. Butler and
Gen. Boynton tock place, relative to the CONVEX
satlon about the alleged expenditure of money
in Louisiana, and at the conclusion Gen. Boyn-
ton retired,
MARSHAL PITKIN.
Mr.. Pitkin read a document as follows: On
the 18th of November, 1876, Anderson entered
my Office with several other parties, among
whom was D. A. Weber, now dead. During
che period of Anderson's official duties in Fell
ciana he returned to New Orleans several times,
and frequent surmlses had been made in re-
gard to his business, and why he came down
there. 7 asked him one day about it, and told
him that he was exposing himself to a charge
Of cowardice and of abandoning the parish at
SO critical juncture. My remark
aHfonLed MIN, and ne left me
saying his life was about as good
as many other Republicans I knew of. About
week later was informed by Mr.. Catlin that
Anderson had received letter while on the
street with him from J. W. Patton, chairman
of the Democratic State central committee,
and that Anderson after reading the letter left
HIM, saying he had an engagement. was in
clined to believe that this was not the first let
ter he had received from that source. Two or
three days afterwards I learned that Anderson
had returned to East Feliciana. did not see
him again until the 10th of November, the
third day after election when he came into
my office. The impression prevailed
among many Republicans that An
dersOn had had and still held FRIENDLY