The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-08
Stanley Matthews.

While public attention was fixed on the
contest between the Senate and the House
Of Representatives in regard TO the repeal
OF the odious election laws and the amend
ment forbidding the presence of troops at
the polls, Mr.. ALLISON seized convenient
moment, in the midst of the noise and con-
fusion, TO make a lame and craven report
from the special committee which had been
appointed at the last session to investigate
the connection Of STANLEY MATTHEWS with
tho Louisiana frauds and the payments
therefor.
The charges against him were, indeed.
formulated by his own hand, for they rested
upon his correspondence with JAMES T..
ANDERSON, which upon its face furnishes
evidence of guilty collision TO protect crime
by fragrant prostitution Of the public
patronage, wherein HAYES, EvARTs, and
Justice HARLAN were parties. Nothing
more scandalous in the whole Louisiana
business has appeared than this transac-
ton, and no part OF it depends on the tcsti-
mony Of ANDERSON alone. The salient facts
have not been denied, aud they may be prop
erly reproduced after the action OF this Com
mittee, in order that the country may see
how the Republicans OF the Senate, treadng
in the footsteps OF their friends in the House
In the recent cases Of SECoR robson and
GEORGE +. SEWARD, have audaciously pro-
tccted MATTHEWS from the penalty OF his
undisputed acts.
ANDERSON went 10 Washington at the in
auguration of HAYES to demand pay for sup
pressing the exposure OF the forged protest
for East Feliciana bearing his name and
fortified with copy of the letter which john
SHERMAN undoubtedly wrote. and which he
never vcntured to dispute until after the
testimony of his friend, AGNES jerks, whose
husband and brother are now holding places
under the Treasury, III recognition OF that
service.
The Republican members from Louisiana
recommended ANDERSON for a Consulate,
and DARRALL and NASH Of the delegation
went with him personally to the White
House to present his claims" He bore a
letter also from Z. b. CONN, editor OF the
Stcubonyile Hraid, which explained AN
prHsONs services sufficiently to be UNDER
stood, for HAYES at once made an order in
these words:
Please appoint this gentleman to aconsulship in a
warm climate. Thisisa special ease. "R Is H.
In the rush at that time nothing was
done and ANDERSON, Disguised at the delay,
started back for New Orleans to get the
original of the SHERMAN letter. in order to
dictate his own terms. II may be stated incl
dentally that D. A. WEBER, to whom, with
ANDERSON, This letter was addressed had
been Killed few days after the Inaugural
tion, and the belief is that the SHERMAN
hotter was then taken from his person, rs he
was the custodian Of it,
ANDERSON stopped at Cincinnati TO see
STANLEY MATTHEWS, knowing him 10 be
thc confidential adviser Of HAYES. lie told
him the whole story of the frauds in Louis
lana, as they came to his personal knowl-
edge, aud Of the nou-fulhlment of the prom
ises made to him. lie put the following
document into his hands, as sort Of ere
dential:
WV ORtrANs. Nov a. 1876
" By an arrangement entered into this day between
JAMS T. ANuusoN. supervisor Of Registration Tor the
parish ot East fchcuua, Louisiana, and rHAHtts l.
kAsH member OF Cou-rr,s FROM Che SIKH, Congress
District Louisiana il is agreed thnt the said AaurH.os
shall suppress evidence showing that tAc said parish COT
Ea-t Fchciana was taIriy carried hy the Democratic
party at the election held Nov 1876 thereby ccctue
Tie entire Democratic srte ticket and Congressman
In consideration of which the sand NAsn agrees to secure
for SAIL ANpFHsov the POSITION of Naval Oniccr at the
port VI New orleans, Louisiana.
"JAus T.. ASprnsos,
&C T. NASH
"The above agreement signed IN our presence the
Nsi dag of November, 1876
81 NJ ToNuvsov
90 - MouGAEH
MATTHEWS voluntarily became the custo-
dian Of this precious document on the I'D OF
March, 1871, a little more than q fortnight
after the inauguration and ne suhscQucutl y