Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-03
LOS ANGELES WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY g. 1873.

tary Seymour in New Orleans be-
fore whom the affidavit appears to
have been made.
James e. Anderson, asking per.
mission to explain, stated that on
the llth of May he met Jenks on
the street, and he (Anderson) was
going to leave for the North at
p. NJ. jerks requested him to use
his influence towards securing him
a position in Washington, and,
after some further conversation,
jerks went with witness to
his Office in the Custom House and
dictated the affidavit in question,
and he tAnderson) copied it, and
then they went to Notary Sey.
mour's office and jerks swore to
the document. The purpose of the
affidavit was to aid Anderson in
securing jerks his position. An.
derson was to show the affidavit to
Matthews, and endeavor to secure
him an appointment on the
strength of it.
Emile l.. Webber, brother OF
Daniel Webber, was sworn, desir-
ing to read a statement of his con-
nections with the Republican party.
Cox objected to the statements
read being a part of the
testimony, and Webber retired
for the time. H. Conquest Clarke,
former private Secretary of Gov.
Kellogg re-told his recollections of
the signing of the electoral certifi.
Gates and promptly and emphatic-
ally denied all knowledge of who
appended the forged signatures.
A secret session followed.
Drowned Whiie Re>cuing his
Daughter.
PORTLAND, Me-, July 2.-James
S. Bediow. Superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, was drowned at Pine Point,
Scarborough, while rescuing his
daughter.
lOvessiEslion COniIaued.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Emile
Weber was then given permission
to read his statement provided lie
would swear to the facts contained
therein. The statement was read
and set forth that he had no per-
sonal knowledge that Democratic
intimidation had existed in the
parish of East and West Felicinia !;
that his brother Dan'l Webber and
James Anderson had Informed
him that the two parishes
had gone fairly Democratic;
great influence was brought to
bear on his brother to make his
protest, and he had been ap.
preached very frequently to use his
influence with his brother to effect
the signing Of the protest; he saw
Anderson sign his protest, and saw
the blanks therein. After Ander-
son had left Judge Campbell at
tached a jurat to the paper. 1t was
not sworn to by Anderson; it
was notorious fact In
the Custom House that Kellogg
Packard and others were pressing
Anderson and Webber to make
their respective protests. John
Sherman was spokesman for the
visiting statesmen, and he (Web-
ber) knew that Sherman had given
his brother assurances which
caused him to allow his protest to
stand after it had been m ade.
Webber had, in conversation with
Sherman, explained to him that
his brother thought his parish had
gone Democratic. His brother, on
the day he received it, showed
him the Sherman letter of as
surance and said he had received it
direct from Sherman. Webber
was familiar with the hand.
writing of Sherman, ard was sat
isfied that the letter was written by
that gentlman. In 1877 the Sher-
man letter was the subject of great
modification to the Webber fam
lily, and his sister-in.law, Mrs.
Daniel Webber, had endeavored to
find it among the papers of her
husband, which were packed away
in two trunks and large shoe e-box.
Late In the Summer of 1877 he
1.-THE witness] had made search for
the letter and had found 1t in the
shoe.box and destroyed it forth.
with. Mrs. jerks had been in no
way connected with the authorship
of the Sherman letter.
Nitro GIy cerise Works Exploded,
PATTERSON, N. j., July 2l.-
The Rand Nitro Glycerine works
at Preakness exploded to-day. A
number Of persons are reported
killed.
The Congress.
BERLIN, July with yester-
days session of the Congress the
problems presented by the reor.
ganization of Turkey in Europe
were solved, with the difficult
exception of the border provinces
of Greece. One scheme of settle.
ment proposed is to offer to Greece
the same rights of supervision and
control over West Roumelia; that
is, Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus,
as Austria will be intrusted with
over Bosnia and Herzegovina, and,
possibly, in northern Albania. By
thus extending the influence of
neighboring States over adjacent