The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-25
MRS. jerks.
Yesterdays Proceedings Of the
Potter Committee.
THE LEADING LADY AGAIN.
Trying to Get at the Bot
tom Facts.
NO MORE LIGHT.
Details of the Private History of
the Witness.
GENERAL BOYNTON TESTlFIES.
Butler Told that He Is
"a Rowdv."
Details of the Private History of
the Witness.
GENERAL BoyNToN TEsTlFIEs.
Butler Told that He Is
"a Rowdv."
WAsuryeroN. june "a. ISIS

wAsHIyGroS, June "a 1878.
Mrs jerks performed her part for two hours TO-
day in the great national drama called the Potter
vessgation to the delight and amusement OF large
audience. Hcr style OF acting somewhat change
from that which distinguished hor on Sat-
urday. Il made up In positivcness what
Il lacked in briancy. Shc SAT close to
The committee table, ofton leaned head upon her
hand. sometimes took up pen and scribbed with an
absent air. upon shoot OF paper, looked laugula
issiess generally disguised; at timcs, however,
she would IRE up, give glance OF contempt with her
eyes, thun put that feeling into words, and again
tall back into an attitude, not OF Indifference
but OF wearincss OF hcart. Her first encounter was
With Nr. Springer, OF Illinois. He opened the COLO
guy With rehearsal OF hcr Saturdays speech, be-
ginning with her confession to tho 'august commit
tee and to tho nation At large" that she and she
alone. knew tho Alpha and Omega Of tho Sherman
lcster.
LITTLE FENCING.
he tried to goad nor either into . confession that
sbc had written the letter herself or into admis-
zion OF who the person whom she had dictated
It, This somewhat reused her energies, and tor
. time she gave some specimens OF her skill
II fence, bat finally refused, point blank,
10 commit herself In either way. She had
dictated It, she said; but, them" she said, "a PEN
ysu know, Is . mechanical instrument" When Mr.
Springer tried TO into saying whether she
dictated 1t 10 pen in her hand to nm actual
person, sho lodged said something about quill pen
ana observing the feathers It, and then said that
she would cut OF her right hand rather than say who
wrote It, Sho admitted, however, that she die.
lated II.
SHADOWS
AZ Mr.. Springer would persist in pressing her on
that poiat she summoned a far or dreamy oxprcs-
sion into her eyes, and intimated that her accompce
nigh have '.passed away into tho land or shadows
Mr. Springer not sentimental intimated that
The committee did not care for the land
Of shadows, and asked whether she had
forgotten the namo Of the person to whom
shc had dictated the letter. Eyes" sho replied with
tho faron look, II have given the namo to OBJ
hvion." "Are you sure" asked Mr. Springer. "thas
you had Il oblivion 20 and tho answer was
"No; IL never had resurrection And then again
she parried similar question by the reply, .sThcy
vmsaniug her accompsoc) 4mny have passed INTO the
land Of shadows and what is the OF talking moro
about it2"
al AM SOMEWHAT NERVOUS"
Then Mr. Springer tried persuade her into writing
with her hand facsimile Of tho herman letter
from memory At arst she set herself TO tho as
'u she intonded to perform 1t; then, suddenly re-
collecting herself, she pushed the paper
from before her, laid down the pen, refused
to write, but offered TO dictate tho let
ter TO Mr. Springer and let him write II
aimsoli. she declared point blank that she would
nos do IL; asked him In q defiant tone what he
thought Of that. and then added, half apollo getl-
cally, al am somewhat nervous, you know" al
should think you ought to be-" put in Mr.. Springer.
ROMANCE AND CRITICISM.
After that she got or good many her roma ntic
expressions; mingled her answers with "nay,' "for-
sootb," "unconsc,ous," "obhvious," "phiianthro-
pic." &C. spoke Of Secretary Sherman "a distin.
gushcd statesman honored In tho councils OF the
naiion;' spoke OF Kellogg 50 Mercury who, at that
time, had TO be always caught the wing and spokc
Of the leaders who had carpet baggers
uhortsighted persons who not favascrs BY this
lime Mr.. Springer was showing signs Of impa,iencc,
ana tho more she noticed this the moro provokingiy
impudent sho became she told him that everything
in Louisiana politics to him, that he talked
Ill the time, and that II he was long at the beginning
OF tho subject would never get 10 the end OF It.
Then MI. Batter, who was sitting beside her, asked
her about Andsrson's fotters, when sho turned The
tables upon him ana asked him to explain
how he had got those letters OF hers
which he had produced last Saturday. Mt.
Butler did not give her my encourage
mont, but rather treated her with a cor
regional afr, whercupon shc advised him not to
distress himself and assured him that Andcrson's
letters not 'aowery" enough to suit him.
When Mr.. Mcmahon told her that be wanted her
political letters he might preserve them in tho
6Iss OF this "august triouna' tquotng her own ex-
pressioul she rstorted that such tribunal needed
something 10 preserves
sun MOVES TO ADJOURN.
Finally, the committee about TO take
recess, she with sigh OF reief) moved IN adjourn.
The committee has no. yos dono with IT'S pleading
lady,, but sue viii Ut so disposcd) appear again to-
morrow with q buudle OF letters
wonAS.
II seems that Scotland, not LOUISIANA has the honor
81 being the country OF her BIRTH
suTLrn B'rSroy.
Ater tho recess NJ II. v. Boyntop. n ncwspaper
sorrespondent testified an interview with tho
President In which no asked tue Prssdest hsw this
man Anderson, with charges sgaiuss him OF having
manipulated votcs In Louisiana. csmo to DO APP
pointed 70 . Consu'ship, and that tins Prcsi-
sent told him 1t nccoun, OF gooa
services which he hsd rendered the party,
sniaugering hu life. &c., but that nca (Andcrssn)
would not get the appointment would not hold IL
The witness ara get the idea from The President
that Anderson's services had boon or an I'M
proper character, bat, nevertheless he had carried
away the imprsssop, aud had conveyed u 10 others,
that the appointment due the fact Of some
political knowledge which Anderson had. That i'm.
preston had been changed, however, from finding
out recently that, a. tho timo OF this con
vsrsatlon Andsrson's commission had already
been Withheld By direction OF the Prcsi-
den. The witness resented very warmly tho
style Of Mr. Buffers examination, and said that
while the otnsr members OF the committee acted like
gentlemen Mr.. Butler acted toward him the part OF
'rowdy." Tho Chairman rebukcd this inssuperanee
Of language, and then peace was restored
PROCEEDINGS or TIE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Jaue -, 1873
Tue investigating committees met al a quarter TO
eleven A. ~, tho chairman, Mr.. Potter, presiding