Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-06-30
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Counserfeis Ha.EDo,Iars Hayes
Eats His Civii Service order.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Coun-
terfeit silver half-dollars are in cir
culation so well executed as to be
difficult to detect either with acids
or weighing.
The President has modified his
order so that 1t now allows Federal
officer holders to take active part
In politics. They can belong to
committees and form conventions.
The Highly e,s.
LOUISVILLE, June 29.-Ten.
brock and Mollie MCCARTHY are in
excellent trim. Ten brock made
three miles in exercise in 5:36, the
last two miles in 3:34t. Mollie
made two miles In 1884.
Morrison 60 sherman.
WASHINGTON, June ga draft
of a letter has been prepared by
Mr.. Morrison, of the Potter Com
mittee, in answer to Secretary Sher-
man,requesting to have subpmnaed
from Louisiana one hundred wit
nesses, expected to give material
testimony touching the freedom of
the election and murders and intim.
idation of voters in West Feliciana
parish and other parts of Louisiana,
Morrison says in course of his reply:
"The records Of Congress to which
you refer and other records, with
which you are doubtless familiar,
authorize the statement that the
testimony of said witnesses will be
contradioted by others just as num-
erous and as intelligent, and whose
testimony is as we'll entitled to be.
lief. 1t is needless to add that, |
should these hundred witnesses
again repeat their former testimo.
ny five hundred other witnesses at
least as creditable as they Will be
ready again to contradict them.n
The reply concludes as follows:
=" Whatever of accusation Is made
made against you in this resolution
of the House of Representatives
under which this Committee is act
ing, rests SO far as any testimony
yet heard shows, upon the state.
ment and allegation that, to infiu-
ence and control d. A. Weber and
James E. Anderson In their official
acts you made verbal promises and
wrote letter to them giving them
assurances and promises of reward.
lf the Committee correctly UNDER
stood your statement before, you
denied writing such letter and
making such promises. However
material the evidence of the wit.
nesses you ask to have sum moned
may be to establish the exact num-
Der of persons killed, threatened,
driven from Office or otherwise In
Inundated, as you assure the Com
mittee, 1t can in no way affect you
personally. If the Com mittee
correctly understood you to
deny the allegation that you
wrote that letter and gave these
promises and assurances, such al.
legations will be neither tablished
or disapproved by the evidence of
the number of men killed in Fell.
ciana parish, and whether killed
because others sought to steal their
votes. The Committee is there
tore constrained for the present to
respectfully decline compliance
with your requst to have sub.
IHnaed as witnesses the several
persons named by you, all of whom
have testified once, some of the m
twice and others three times on
the same subject, and their testi-
nnony is preserved and now accessi-
BILE to all in the records of Con-
gress.n
Invcstigation.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Samuel
p. Butler, Washington correspon-
dent, testified that Mrs. jerks
stated to him that she came to
Washington in behalf of Governor
Packard for Collector; that she
called ON Secretary Sherman in re.
lation thereto, bit had not met
with a very warm reception; that
the Secretary had given her as.
surances in New Orleans that her
Influence would go for appoint
ments; that she had heard 1t said
that Judge Campbell had forged
iurat to the Anderson protest, and
that the so-called Sherman docu-
ment was safe in New Orleans.
William E. Chandler produced
dispatches sent by him from the
Fifth Avenue Hotel early on the
morning OF November 9Th, though
dated November 9TH, TO George
Gorham, California; J. H. Mitch
ell, Oregon; II. b. Packard, New
Orleans; Governor Chamberlain,
South Carolina, and Senator
Conover, Florida, in each of which
he stated that Hayes aud Wheeler
were elected IL they had carried
these States, and In each of which
he also counselled Republicans to
be watchful a gainst possible Demo-
cratic frauds. While in Florida
Chandler received telegram from
Gen. Grant saying, II hope you
will remain in Florida until the
vote of that State is declded.n Mr..
Chandler did not know of the ex-
istence OF frauds in Florida, and
the five thousand dollars for which
he telegraphed was handed by him
to Gen. Martin, who expended 1t in
procuring evidence.
Aus.ria WIN Occnpy Bosnia and
uerxegovina.
BERLIN, June 29.-AustrIa Is to
occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Tne Mabel Clark wrecked.
MADRAS, June 29.-The Ameri-
can ship Mabel Clark, from Liver
pool, March 9th, for Hongkong,
has been totally wrecked on the
Island Of Tussan De Acunta, in the
South Pacific Ocean.
An OpiniOn On fB0nt RacIsg.
LONDON, June 29.-The Times,
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