Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-13

Whenever congress commences an investl-
cation of the Louisiana corruptions the pub
lie is prepared for the odors of a sewer in
dog-days. The committee appointed by the
senate to investigate the means by which
Kellogg was elected senator have been in
session for a week, and they have stirred up
a stencil which causes the public to hold its
nose. IL has brought out bribery and per-
jury in all their hideous deformity. 1t was
thought for a while that Jim Anderson was
TIE most stupendous liar of the age, and
that he had reduced perjury to science.
Then came Mrs. jerks who, in a jlfy,
eclipsed Anderson, and has since won the
belt as the colossal perjurer of the age. But
Mrs. jerks must look to her laurels, as the
investigation now going on In the Kellogg
case has developed perjurers who will dwarf
into insignifcance the triumphant Anderson
and the victorious jerks. The Washington
Post shows that members of the Kellogg
leglslature-the unlawful organization by
which Kellogg claims to have been elected to
the United States voluntarily went
before notaries public in New Orleans, and
on their own motion made affidavlts to bril-
berry, to absence from the legislature at the
time they are recorded as having voted for
Kellogg, and to other facts, all tending to
show that the alleged election was not an
election, that no quorum was present and
that part of the votes cast for Kellogg were
purchased of the ignorant creatures in whose
hands the Radical party placed the destinies
of the State of Louisiana. We repeat,
this was the voluntary, unsought act
of these witnesses. They told their story,
had the affidavits made to suit them, had
them carefully and rer eatedly read to them,
were furnished with copies, and declared that
they had told only the simple truth. These
witnesses were summoned to Washington to
testify before the senate committee on priv
ileges and elections. One Of Kellogg's men,
a customhouse officer, came with them for no
other reason than to prevent them from tell
ing the truth. On their arrival they were
surrounded by emissaries of Kellogg, and it
has become apparent that they have been in
fuenced to go back on their affdavits and
render them of little avail. These are the
facts mildly drawn. These men have been
Induced to add perjury to their other crimes,
in order to serve the interests of Kellogg. He
is running the New Orleans customhouse as
an agency to recompense the sort of service
that this class OF witnesses render. We have
the old story of unblushing crime backed by
the treasury and the authority of the United
States TO aid the vilest fraud. These
revelations are a disgrace to the pol
itics of America and to the Pres
ident of the United States who has appointed
to office confessed petjurers and villains. In
all that concerns Louisiana politics the public
il prepared to believe anything except tale
of honesty. The chances of truthfulness are
always on the side OF the witness who con-
fesses his villainy. But as perjury is also an
accomplishment in which the average Louisi-
ana witness is anxious TO shine, everything is
so tangled up That the inference is that there
has been nothing but fraud and rascality in