The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-04

| tutr manager To Understand THAT while the new
| c"rtiucut"s w"r" important Tor the Commission
| to consider. it wouid never do to TT them stand
! IA the record, nor leHyo it to be- thereafter dis
! covered that the Presidential election depended
| upon them.
THE FALsIrfcATtoS or THE RECORD.
Accordingly before the Electoral Commission.
Mr. Morton moved TINT the votes in certificate
| No. 1.-THE objections to which it will he oh
served. stuffed nothing as agninst the form Of
! that certiil cute and wore doubtless drawn to
! Apply to No. 3. and not to iU be counted, and
! limited his motion to cert ncnte No. |. And
when, Inter. tn" record oi the proceedings in
| Congress and before the Electoral Commission
| cnme TO he made M, this formally correct hut
forged certificate was, In fact. wholly sup
! pressed. Will" second copy OF the genuine hut
! nat Is. me record declares that there wns he
fore the Congress. and by II referred to the Com
mission. aud, there considered the Dein-
0'rntlc certificate and the genuine but
detective certificate OF the Republican electors,
ana no Others. the hitter in dupli-
| cute. once hy the name Of No. and later by the
| nNmco No.. 3. Whereas. 1t is altogether certain
| that this was not the fact and altogether proba-
| Bile that the prints which were before the Eec-
| toral Commission We're a print OF the Demo-
| cratic certificate and two prinis OF tho forged
| Republican certificate. and Of those alone. and
| upon 10y the Commission or Congress but these
| ana That instead Of II being the fact, as these
! records stnte. that Congress and the Commits
| SION had before them two prints 81 the genuine
! but defective. and no other Republican certih-
cate; there was before them. ard really consid-
| cred nv them. only two prints of the regular but
! torgcd-nnd of mother Republican--certiil"ute
and thai neither Congress nor the Commission
| ever had an opportunity to or did consider the
detects Of the genuine certificate at all.
NOT AcciDHN.. But Drs1GN.
An attempt was made to explain this error in
the record. on the ground that the printed copies
| OF the certn mtrs had become Accidentally in
! t.rmixed. Mr. Mckennoy says that when Mr..
Murphy the compiler Of the volume known us
! Tho Electoral Count aud stpnOgrapher OF
! the Commission, applied to HIM for copies OF the
| Louisiann certificates, he took from each Of the
! three pockets IN which he Ind received the
] % faa la
/ printer one print. and gave them 20 Mr.. MUIR
/ ply; and that when. tho following ycnt. he
! learned that mistake had occurred, he won't 10
these pockets and found that the ccrtil ntcs
/ hal become iutermiNcd. different ones having
/ might have happened ACCIDENTALLY once. al
| though in setting up the typo from such copies
] " would he almost unavoidable that intention
snpulI tll'u nave pten called 10 IL hut, unior-
/ tunatrly for the theory OF mistake there were
| two separate reports OF the electoral pro-
! cg"dngs printed; Ono, this book OF " The
/ Electoral Count" and N" other the supplement
| to the fongres siOudi Rec0rj. These books were
! prepared mud printed at different times and
! for the Congressional Record, which was first
| prepared. MIR. Mrkrnnpy made up the matter
| himself: Mr.. MURPHY did notice. IN max !ng up
| n" ma,tor for the Electoral Count that the two
| Kellogg certificates. " /" and g." were idcnti-
! cal. aud he took this as evidence Of the corrart-
| De duplicates of the same certificate. In both
! books precisely the sume error occurs, and IN
BOTH the revised but forged Louisiana Kellogg
/ c'rtnnie is suppressed. The chnnccs against
/ this having occurred once 10y accident would be
| SIX 10 one; against II having occurred twice
/ tury SIX To one, quite independent 81 the adj
! ditional lmprOhphlllty arising from such a mis-
| mk" not having been noticed IN the oili"c of the
/ Pubic Printer on either occasion. and having
| been discovered only after the forgery was
! known ana this examination was Instituted
Whether the genuine electoral cert 0euta rom
louisiana WAS So fatally defective. that its vote
] could not have been r~cri we'd. or not the par
Ties IN Interest were. entitled to the judgment al
! the Commission upon this. ana that judgment
| they never had. Instead. the certificate which
| WIS passed unon Of the votes for Hayes AMI
| Wheeler from Louisiana WAS 70 certificate made
! after the law duy when the electors were fun.ti
ON Ills. and therefore Of no validity. But were
! this otherwise, It WAS still forged certificate:
! whcturr oi Two or more electors Is immaer!al.
As 10 TWO electors. 10 least, there never was be-
Tore the Commission tor consideration amy
/ y9ie rom Louisiana al an. 80 that. absolutely.
! Mr. Hayes was counted into ofilcr at most upon
lSS votes. rud the declaration ~ his election IA
! thr result 81 TINS imposition upon the Com mis-
Sion and Congress or ~ least upon those mrm-
! hrr- who wrrt not informed upon the subject
Of the two forged votes attached TO II list perfect
So entirely secro, was not only tho forgery
but the post execution oi thu sqoond SIT OF "ier-
ioru certificates kept. that. except To- certain
Repuhli'ans. nothing was known OF 4 until
/ dent the forgery II l"yi-ee's name became
known. and In tho inquiry which followed We
/ have only been able TO learn what could be- OBJ
with The forged certificates and open 10 sus-
pclon Of participation in or knowledge OF that
/ fraud.
OLihese persons Kellogg became Senator Of
/ ne tnlird Sinir-, Burrl remained senator @!
] Louisiana. brewster NnrNpkNr-t unl
/ Ju-"Ihs captain oi Poilcs: Conqu's Clnrk be-
| came lir-t.clas clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment; H. ll sipreke"per. and Anderson Coil"c-
! tor. And after this inquiry was begun. ana the
/ forgery became known. Of tho remaining per-
/ sons naturally suspected ot some connection
y IN IT, NnrkS was made Collector Of Internal
/ Revenue. L"yisee Special Treasury Agent. and
| Sheldon counsel FOR Mr.. sherman. Ii Is nlso
-u.i'ant tuat Howard, Mckenzie deputy.
wns appointed 20 place in thr Post ONCE De-
/ uartmeut on senator Mouon's rccommenda-
! ton. So long rs Kelly kent silence no provision
INA.
! that his Dissatisfaction with Mr.. Hayes action
! had made MIN speak. be WAS conveyed to WASH
! ington by "A Senate employee and car 4 for by
| ms friends unknown u tho Committee. until
| b" cou testify that the forgercs were commit
| ted by II man who WIS dead.
Lrvisse's appointment WAS especially signin-
| can't Having, like JuilrlOn. been absent. he
neither Joined IN nor knew Of the second set OF
certificates or their forgery and SO had no
! claim % place But when. after the forgery
! became known Kellogg denied that he had in
formed Leyisse of tho forgery during tho Sit
ting OF the Commission and rnloined him not
10 speak 81 IT, and Lrvlsee was sent for 10 testify
as 10 tnat but be iaiIrd To appear ana It turned
out that lie had IN ~" moan time been appointed
! Special Agent Of the Treasury by Relocg's
prorurement and your Committee have not
since been able 10 secure his attendance.
Or course, these signatures did not forge
themselves; nor would any person have COM
sroSG indueen Therc Mas no InIus s' Ihe
position either OF Kelly. the negro loorkeeprr
or Of Blanchard the executive clrr1-the sub
: 9r'linaies charged with this crme-to induce
them Of their own yo.!uon. without the knowl-
edge or request 81 Kellogg. u stand for and
forge the names OF the absent electors. II is
besides. physically as well us morally impossi-
bic that these eighteen iorgerlps could have
been committed without coming tO the notice Of
Kellogg. who ordered and joined In. und Clark,
VINO was 'harged with the execution Of the pa
uers Both knew Leylsef and Joitrlon were ah.
sent, both were noe Saarlly anxious about their
arrival and D. 'hcr could have escaped know
lug Of their entrance into tho State House. then
garrisOued.
.k"noFg's guilty participation in the execution
OF this piper uluu which, MS hrtr,tliles. Andrr-
son told him Ferry sHid the Presidential cler-
ton depended, Is manifested throughout by his
sending Tor the electors privately, Toy his secret
conference with and direction 10 them ms they
arrived. by hls false declaration 10 Sheldon that
Laysrn ana Juurion had come by his going in
the afternoon 10 the private upper room 10 see
II Brewster had arrived. 10y his waiting there
until he did arrive and until the pupers were
developed ana scaled. and 10y his then taking
the papers from CLARK and forwarding them by
HE
brewster was the last who signed the forged
signatures had been suppilrd before he came,
II Is possible that CLARK might have stepped
out OF the room to allow Kelly or Blanchard,
or whoever did forge tham. TO do 20; but II was
impQhs Bile that he could Subsequently put up,
or that Kellogg could See him put up. The pa
pers without seeing that the signatures of The
absent men bud been supplied EpuHlly inn
possible for Kellogg 10 have signed his name at
tho last moment ON the sealed envelopes with