Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11
THE POTTER INVESTTGITIO
Meeting Of the Committee To-day.
The Potter committee met to-day at L "a
o'clock

SENATOR KELLOGG AS A WITNESS.
senator Kellogg was sworn, and examined
by Mr.. Butler. He testified that at the time
he went out of the gubernatorial Office no 9th r
government claimed TO exist in the state tr
had right TO exist; the election of 1876 was
held under the forms of law in all respects e
lower house OF The legislature consisted of %
members; the opposition conceded thai the e.
publicans had carried sixty districts, and on
was in dispute, lthe election Of man am d
kennedy0 with Kennedy the repu licans
had majority of the legislature on the ace Of
the returns; this was admitted " the
democratic en newspapers, and also y tn.
the Senate the republican had with no e
holding over and those newly elected Rithi =,
three: OF "a quorum; this was admitted by the
9ppOsitlon undoubtedly, and was So, " thout
Weber elected for East and West Feliciana,
and Point Couple parishes; they also returned
TWO senators elected from other pai ish"S
WRlch mad heretofore given large republican
majorities, and in which the republicans We're
intimidated; the vote was declared on the lSt
OF January, lST, and the republicans had
majority and quorum in each house bO!h
houses, then, under the law. organized the
house chose speaker; the lieutenant
governor presided: the meeting was in
as governor, communicated with both in
written message; the legislature passed sew
eIal acts which witness approved do not
KNOW whether they have since been repealed
or not; the opposition, however, claimed to
ignore them after they took possession of the
government The quorum In the house con
unued untli alter witness was elected Sena-
tor, but the quorum in the senate was broken
up; there was however, in the Joint conYen-
ton quorum of all the members elected to
both houses under that convention witness
was elected TO the Senate and got his seat
Witness then explained at length the method
OF determining and declaring the result of an
election under the constitution of the state of
Louisiana: the legislature took the finding of
the returning board usually, and acquieSced
III thelr footing up, although all the original
naIers were sent TO the legislature by the re-
turning board; if the returning board had
taken the returns Just as they were it would
have given the legislature to the republicans
Two OF Hayes electors would have been de-
feated; that Is. The returning board did throw
out parishes which did not affect the legiSla-
tuIe, but it was necessary to throw them out
to G eject the two defeated Hayes electors.
Gen. BUTTERFLIES: to elect the two defeated
Hayes electors it became necessary for the
returning board to go little farther-take
ANOTHER twist and throw out few more votes
Witness admitted that if the returning board
nad hOt thrown out more parishes than We're
necessary to secure the legislature, that two
OF The Hayes electors would have been III a
q. Do you know any reason why Ieyisee and
Josephs ran behind the rest of the Hayes cleo
A. They evidently did. l received more
votes than any man on the electoral ticket |
received 1000 more votes than LeviSee and
LEO more than Josephs. Two of the electors,
Marks and Brewster, were behind the ticket;
the principal deficit was in the case of Marks,
who ran in the lbervIle district, and ran be-
hind because his name had been left off the
ticket.
g. How much did the lowest Hayes elector
run behind Packard ON the face of the re.
turns?
A. Consulting a table, About iOl votes.
At as O'Clock the committee took a recess
until 2:25 o'clock.
The committee had not reassembled at 2:30
O'Clock, when our report closed.
TIE SUBCOMMITTEE AT NEW ORLEANS
yesterday, heard Col. Joseph nj. T0mins0n
chief clerk Of the collector of customs as to
the employees of the custom house since Col
lector Kings appointment, and VIM. VIII
llams, c0lOred, gave some confused testimony
III relation to the Anderson Weber agree
ment, to the effect that Weber had said 10 him
that he would not sign the agreement Other
testimony OF no new Importance was also sub
mitted