The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-19
TIE Sen ATE COMMITTEE.
Interesting and Important Testi-
mony Given Yesterday.
Something About How Witnesses
Were Corrupted While In the
Capital of the Nation.
secsnd d Day.

" bt'HA tfshaENAV ulDTHlHRs sgas85
| PETEH WILLIAMS
was tho first witness on the stand He said that
In la7s he was he chief clerk or Tho Registrar
af Voters. man named Moore was one of the
supervisors OF the seventh ward
10 Senator Hill Moore was n candidate for
the House. and resigned his position As anper~
visor of registration twenty -fonr hours before
tho election. Gardere, one of the CLERKS Of
Registrations. had a brother running. Theirs
was n oolored man named Blackstone also run
Ming In tho ward The three men were declared
elected by the Returning Board.
/ Moore II Mt present employed III the CUSTOM
House. At one time hs was turned out Of his
position there. hut was aferwafd reinstRted.
While he was out he told me that he had been n
member Of the Legislature which had elected
Kellogg, and that the clerk who called The roll
when the election took place answered for ab-
sent members, have had recent conversations
with Moore relative to the matter met him
| in accordance with his own appointments and
after referring to what he had previously said
| he asked III there was any money In the mattIsz
for him. | told him
THERE WAS NOT A DOLLAR
| that Mr. Spofprd was not Offering any. HH
said he would see his lawyer. and afterward
sent for me again. He said | was acting very
foolish In telling what knew and aaid could
get position In the Custom House IL wanted
| IT.. | told him there was no position La the
| building which would take. He tried to In
| dues mo to accept q place, but declined Moore
afterward told me thnt he would deny every
! word he had said to me II called, This WAS
yesterday morning He said Saturday morn
ing. Ms regards the value Of his testimony that
Il Senator Was worth sl0oe0o to the Democrats.
aud that 100000 Was little enough to pay fOr his
testimony.
/ Moore told me regarding the election In the
tho ward for The Republicans. He told me that
hs was not elected Previous TO the election
OF blank certificates Of registration of 1871 and
told me to carry them to Moore and ask him TO
use them i he could; It was necessary to get
Moore afterwards told me that. he had used
them. and that with them he had carried the
eIectton After Hutton had signed the eertif-
Gates Moore could fiji them, ,ont to sait himself,
md Issue them to whom he pleased; Moore
told me he had used them In 1876. and Hutton
aeknowlt dyed signing them.
70 Senator Caner1naI 1 n, va vas appointed g.
Previous to that was connected with the Met
ropolitan police | a was a. % that time RepubIi-
cans cans was appointed to a position In Tie
Custom House in September. 1871 / had noth-
Ing to do from tho breakup ef the Packard
government until that time. was appointed
TO tho Custom. House position by Cen. Ander-
son. hold the place. until May last. NY pay
heard no reason assigned for my removal.
fs %s 70 tho eoon 81 Ksoee KIN n
July Inst. in the ro,nnda Of tho Custom. House.
ncsGs a to- W. sy BOTH hfss @ g. as s
and std bavs been oay sRptpsdI tpsated
sd'~ fs Know hsv kess eactos
was worked; they , he'd substitutes for A. absent
We make sons
money out of he Democrats by lpining together
and telling what we knew. Our. second Inter-
a" 'S Wat Ps We q sb1nsfs-
.eTylew aaa " With l nip W.. at bis house. and hs
rnattsr rest. rs sdyi5ed me to wtite to Gov.
Kellogg and decided TO Do u. and did write.
,aked r. MN o. FER nIhee and stated thal M my namY
" ID appear before the committee and testify
unless | got the place.
day. Witness then repeated bis previous testf-
mony about inquiries Of Moore as to whether
hsFo o m tnsa. ana the aaea Ssue bst ct
Moore said further ut tho interview that be
would swenr that the moon was made of green
cheese before bs would giys anything away nn~
ess be waa pAid for it. Hutton was present at
theintervtew. Moore further told witness thar
II tho three including Hutton stuck together
they might make something; that th.ir posi-
Mons were ready for them in the Custom-
/ lfst spoke 70 Judge Whitaker about testify-
ing: that Is. / consulted with him. He ID
friend Of mne and asked him rs to whether
Whitaker told mo he thought it did. and re-.
terrtd meto NJ Cavanae, ! t,ld Mr. oayanae
Mr., spofrord about whether. Of. not It would bs
Of use. | have not seen Mr. Cayanae about u
since ! met Ton Murray 7, once , on Canal street.
mo- and went to Mr.. Walk RS office at the ap-
pointed time. This was about two, weeks ago,
and have been there most every day since.
went TO give him polnts metlmes. sometimes
! to got book, sometimes to write q note. some-
J times 10 talk about this matter and sometimes
m 4 tal "a ut ia mn huys "a
haps q balf-dozen times about this matter with
Mr, Walker. have talked With . lnan Al named m zee
matter / got ooints from him ON Two occa-
| sions. did not make it y business to pics up
nna ony y went & 19 10 M uo "aks5s oSe S
lnst ime was on Friday. was In Mr, Walkers
office yesterdny. the day before n aud this motI-
NOR morning / stated nothing to MI. Walker in
the presence q Murray as to what my testi-
= mony to be- / did not understat that
, Murray was engaged in the case. He told me
4 hat he had done nothing oil summer 1 have
on4 n hsz. bso sso ggtS h
$ tr and have been Gu u yassing for ok.
Witnsss rspeated hs timony relative 70 the he
h said further that the certificates could not 20
/ duplicated In thi. city.
: the use Of the Certificate. Personally ! know
. nothing as to whether there WAS or was not q
: quorum present when Kellogg was eiectea.
l. showed q Republican majority, but Mr. Moore
t took the census In 1875. There was some COM
q plaint about the census. and Mr.. Moore told me-
q ne was looking to the future: that no intsndea
Z to have the ward. do not know now the WaFn
: = went In 1874 .
], TO Mr. Kellogg-lfr. Hahn was registrar Of
y voters In 1878. and | was ebtef clerk. cannot
4 say how the seventh ward has been since re-
# To senator Hill believe the white Tegistra-
n ton 81 the ward is at present largely ~ the
= majority. nave affiliated with ths Republican
IL party for years and am still kepnbiican. hGl
I cannot inaors the EapuDsfeans Oh Louisiana
In 1875 one box Ia the seventh ward coutalntnG
49i votes was thrown ont because the commits
4 sioners did not get through counting IN tine
le Democratic votes in the box. In 1915 the regis
- tration books were carried to TIE Custom
is House, Mr.. Blanchard. clerk of ssoy. elIo0R
ct forged my name TO q dispatch telling super
visors to bring their registration books TO tht