American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-07-20
tee adjourned until the 23d of July, to me
at Atlantic City, n. j.
The Louisiana subcommittee.

There was no evidence taken by the sub
| Committee on the Gill; on account of tie eb
| sence of Witnesses. I'D J. Wedge, Chair
man of the Hep,ocfatic Campaign Commit
| tee of East Feliciana Parish, .a.s testified OF
| the sth as to the Republican leaders tsf"s
| ing to vote at the election and advising the
negroes to do likewise. Anderson signed
| the returns. and witness paid him the
amount of his voucher for services as super
| visor, amounting to between 500 and $500
Thomas E. Williams. colored, testified thai
Capt. Dc Gray, a leading Republican. told
| him it was no ttse to vote, that the vote:
Would be thrown out: JOHN De Lee testified
that De Gray and Campbell told him that il
was agreed by the leading. Republicans thffi
| there was to be no Republican ticket in thu
| Court, testified that two indictments found
| by the prs.nd Jury .gainst Thos. II. jerks, fol
nolle prosecuted, but a civil suit fof the de
felt was Still pending: : MI; Cox took tils
the sub Committee.
Additional evidence taken by the Sub
| Committee up to theHth. is as follows: n
| I. Hobbs, testified that one Wilder told hin
| that he (WiIder) accompanied Anderson to
Notary SeyInour's office when the Anderson
Weber agreement was sworn to by Anderson
pervfsor OF Registration in Richland Parish
testified that he delivered the returns of the
parish unaccompanied by any protest, but ;at
the solicitation of Kellogg and others, finally
was induced to make protest; did not make
oaen 70 tine aIdavit Punisnea IN SHERMAN e1, h1,r
...... Hiram Smedley testified: Being shown
by Mr.. Cox the Anderson Weber agreement
signed to that paper by j. w. Jones, Notary
Public, in the back room of my coffee house
Asy WeSe of his
examined by Mr.. Cox as. to his testimony
in Miss in 1876 before shs
from the report of that committee the
Questions proponnded and answers ans, e,,
ness whether they were severally true or
false. The witness said the statements then
made were not wilfulIy false, but from hear
the truth thinks in most eases he told the
committee the truth as understood by him at
ments were false. Was never warned away
from the parish; had no information that
In answer to a question of Mr.. Cox as to the
Sherman letter, the witness said he found it
Sara, to his father in laws warehouse. in
Donaldsonville; found the letter after Mrs.
jerks visit; showed 1t to no one: tore It up
wrong doing his brother told him there were
no grounds for protesting the parish.
E. L. Weber was further examined on the
18th. Cross examined by Mr.. Cox in relation
to his connection with the Legislature and
his absence from the Packard Senate for 10
days, the witness stated his object was to
elect Pinchback United States Senator;
Pinchback paid the witness 81 GOO for ex-
he .be his
submitted portion of $4,000 of warrants
on the State Treasury received from Twitchell
as security of good faith to carry out
the scheme of passing the appropriation bill
of $500 600 out of which Insane Asylum claims
for $4,000 held by the witness were to be paid.
The witness failing to get his claims cashed,
by reason of the collapse of the Packard Gov
ernment, retained collaterals without being
able to give any very good reason why he
should retain them. fhe witness said 10
Packard Senators were interested in the
$500 $50 scheme. and Packard promised
the bill, when passed, should be-
come law. The witness stated he was a
member of an association in the Senate in
1875 s, which included Gov. Antoine, II. e. An
derson, Twitcheil. Burch and Others for cor
rupt purposes. There were 10 of them. They
received $40, 900 for passing the Levee bill and
$50 900 for passing the State House bill. Each
member of the association received 81 900 of
the money. Twitchell was President and T.
G.. Anderson, Treasurer of the association.