The Van Buren press., 1878-10-22
MORE EVIDENCE.
The Fraud Coming ia Light,

cial gives an interview with gentleman
in that city which opens new chapter in
the interesting proceeding known as the
presidential count He says:
"You remember when Morrison's
committee was>orgsnssd in 1876 and sent
to New Orleans to investigate how the
vote Of tho state OF Louisiana WAS stolen,
that the senate fastened to empower the
Morton committee on privileges and
elections to make an Investigation to
counteraet everything damaging in the
disclosures that might be obtained BY
Colonel Morrison. When the latter ar.
rived at New Orleans he served sub
pnna upon the local telegraph officers o t
the Western Union Telegraph Company
to produce all the dispatches received
and sent bearing upon the election. The
local managers refused, without the con
sent of those higher in authority, The
matter was referred to Orion, then presi.
dent of the company, and he, to make
delay, said that he could not give up the
dispatches without referring the subject
to the executive committee. This gave
the senate committee time to serve it's
subpoena also, calling for the same class
of dispatches. Morton himself had sent
q great many dispatches when he was in
San Francisco looking after matters upon
the Pacific coast, and he was very anx
ious that they should not fall into the
handle Of thu democrats. II was for shis
reason that he slapped ia subpoena
Orion came over to Washington, and, it
is understood, had consultation with
the republican leaders At any rate,
when the executive committee decided to
to give up the dispatches under protest,
they were shipped in trunk to the seu-
ate committee, instead of the democratic
committee, who were entitled to them
first by right of prior subpoena. do
not care to charge that Orton had an UNI
Outstanding with the republican leaders
TO send them these dispatches first Or
ton is dead, let us bear lightly upon his
acts. At any rate the dispatches went
as have said. The Republicans mem
bers of the senate committee sorted over
the dispatches and took out all that h I'D
been sent and received by their party
leaders. They had also sorted out care
fully the democratic dispatches. or
course, in great mass of dispatches fill
ing a large trunk, there we're many unim-
portant ones from nobodies containing
nothing Now, the Democr members
of Morrison's committe nominally had
access to these dispatches, but they new
err saw any of the republican dispatches,
so carefully were they weeded out BY
Morton. Now to gallop ahead with the
story. When the dispatches were sent
back the Western Union company, it is y
fact that only the unimportant ones were
returned. All the dispatches from and to
the democrats and republican leaders
were retained, making compact bundle
nearly two feet square. Whether the tel
egraph company ever noticed this or not,
cannot say at least, have no knowl.
edge OF their making any complaint, or
attempting to recover them Now here
comes the most important aud highly in.
teresting part Of the story. Two hours
after the trunk was reshipped to New
York, the bundle containing all the im
| poat Gu not. .nu sudasr UuIn fkIII TrI
room, and, it has been since found, was
conveyed to Ben Buffers private Office
and placed upon his desk. Tue mysteri
GUS transfer, it is claimed, was without
any knowle ge of Butler, and is surmsed
to have been the work of some mischief
loving person who desired to fu, nish the
general with special hatful of bricks
Butler, like most men, was not disposed
to look pet horse in the mouth, and as
quite content to have these important
documents without being too particular
from whence they came. Their authen-
ITCHY was upon their face. Later in the
season it came to the knowledge Of John
Sherman that Butler had these dispatch.
es. This occasioned great demonstra-
ton in the republican ranks, as it was
not known just what shoot Butler would
take. Butler was then an aspirant for
| the govenorship Of Massac husetts and
the presidency. lie regarded John Sher-
man as the most vital element in the ad-
ministration, and he therefore made him
agree not to fight him, whichever course
he Butler might take politically. This,
Sherman has strictly observed, and, in q
quiet way, Buffers hold upon the treasu-
ry management in Massachusetts has
been very strong. Buffers compact with
the New York Tribune, the hard money
organ of the administration, was that
if he gave the dispatches to it, it should
not abuse him editorially during the DO
litical campaign. This, too, has been
strictly observed by Mr.. Whitelaw Reid,
as can be testified TO by any one who has
read the Tribune Now as to the dis.
patches in Buffers hands. He does not
care to drive any bargain with them, but
will put them in as closing chapter OF
Potters investigation. 1t will make a
chapter that will prove startling even to
the most hardened. These dispatches
in the first place, will convict every one
of tho visiting statesmen OF downright
fat perjury, from John Sherman down
for it will be remembered that all the
visiting statesmen have sworn, under the
solemn form Of an oath, ia the name OF
the Almighty God, that they did no,
know one thing about the work of the
returning board in Louisiana until the 70
suit was declared. Now these dispatch
es show that every act and step OF the
returning board in its perjured crime was
known at the instant Of its accomplish.
ments, and telegraphed to Governor
Noyes in Florida every day by these Wis
iting statesmen. Dispatches in their O wn
| hand writing ahow TIM nnat ia ,nna BAL :.