Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-15
THE ELECTORAL INVESTIGATION.
Proceedings Before the Potter Com.
mitteP.

m1etee.
The Potter investigating committee did not
hear the testimony yesterday of Mrs. Agnes
jerks, as expected.
TESTIMONY OF LOUISIANA ELECToR.
Orlando III. Brewster, one of the Hayes elec
tors in Louisiana, testified as to his signing the
certif Gates of the election. He held the posi-
tiOn of surveyor general of Louisiana in 1876,
and did not go to the meeting of the electors
until the afternoon, when he was elected to
supply the vacancy occasioned by his own
nOnattendance in the morning. All the men,
berS OF the college. he thinks, were present.
President and Vice President were voted for
and then the college adjourned. Either that
afternoon or next morning he signed the GER
tificates. Two or three weeks afterwards he
heard that defect existed as to the certificate
OIL Louisiana; clerical defect as he under
stood it, and some thought that while it might
be OF no Importance it would be we'll to make
sure, and new sets were made out. Witness
signed them in the Office of GOV. Kellogg, but
did not remember who were present. except
examine the certificates to see wherein the de-
tect was. In replytO questions by Gen. Butler,
witness said that he held the office of surveyor
In his resignation three or four days after the
election, but asked that it should be dated
back to the fourth of November. He staid
away in the morning from the meeting of the
college because he had his doubts about his
being a legal presidential electOr, and he
wanted to remedy that defect by causing a
vacancy. His reasons were understood by the
members of the college.
THE M'vEIGH COMMISSION
A letter from the State department signed
chairman:
1t is in answer to to the request of the com
mlttee for "al the original communications,
whether written, printed of teegraphic, now
in or which may have been in the office of the
Secretary of State, and which may be under
his control, received by him or other person
IN tie State department, purporting to come
from either or all of the members Of a com
mission, of which Hon. Wayne McVeigh and
Hon. Jas. Ii. Harlan were members, which
commission was sent by the President to New
copies of all communications, whether writ
ten, printed or telegraphic, delivered to or
sent to said commission, from the State de-
Sonsh sad ID Es Ea TsG9 pasea
fPays ayng this request before the
Whle he considers it not at all Incompatible
with the pubic interests that all the docu
ments sought for by this resolution should be
made public, yet he is unable to perceive that
tue subject embraced in said resolution is
your committee by the House Of Representa-
t!ves. The President has, upon this view of
The matter, directed me to communicate to
the House of Representatives the informa
tion sought in the resolution of your com
mlttee, for such disposition by that honorable
body as shall seem to it meet
TO-day's Proceedings.
The committee met at 10 o'clock this morn
ing and examined III. G. Clark. of New Or
leans, who was kind of factotum for Kellogg
when the latter was governor of Louisiana.
He testified that he made up the original re-
turns OF tie vote cast by the Hayes and Whee-
Ter electors, and that Gen. T. G. Anderson was
sent to Washington with them as special mes
SengeIs; subsequently Anderson returned to
New Orleans with one set of the returns in an
envelope which had been opened, and stated
tfat there were Irregularities therein, and
that II was necessary to make another set in
duplicates. Gov Kellogg instructed him to
make them out, which he did; Kellogg affixed
the .ea OF the STATE to the paper, and the
electors signed their names afterwards, not in
the .preaeDce of one another, but as they could
be found.
At II o'clock the committee took a recess
until p. II.
SLOW WORK.
The committee had not met up TO 2:3O
clock. The general complaint among the
newspaper men is that there is too much So
cietV i'll the committee room and too little
testimony.