Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-17

received the witnesses there, as | will pro-
coed to prove. So TO the question. What
did he do in the inner room? and that
question was asked him under oath.
q. What did You dol
A. / took all those paper. com
lnrncing with the protest and then read
them carefully and made careful brief Of the
contents giving the summary of each witness in
| my own way NJ would ii were n lawyer IN the
| cnsc
There is Garfield at New Orleans-the
man that asks to preside in the chief Office
of this great nation. There is Garfield
sitting in that inner room in the custom
house, where the light of the day and the
judgment Of the American people was cut
off, and receiving the evidence that turned
the parish Of West Feliciana, and examin-
ing them as though he were lawyer in
the case, and 80 he swears
| when had completed that felt great deal
| Of anxiety to see the men who had testified il [
| could II was not enough to read the evidence
ns II had been fixed up for the negroes and the
whites, but il was more than that confess /
felt II good dea Of surprise and Hstonshment ut
the revelations contained in these documents.
| That went there with not little apprehension
TINT there must be good deal Of lying in the pa
peIT OF both sides connected with the election.
made inquiry and found that u considerable NUM-
her ut these witnesses were in the city. | made
out Il list ot pcrhapS onc-hnlf or thrce-fouills Of
the names Of the witnesses Whose testimony | had
examined and inquired for them aud procured
interviews with them. sat down with thom and
asked them to tell me in their own way the stories
OF their relation To- the election ! can not name
all these witnesses with whom | conycr1ed but
some of them remember distinctly. Mrs. Amy
Mitchell, the young woman whose husband had
been killed during the progress o the registry or
al,.l Ill IttI,r Iltull .u.ia
judge whom examined in the same way, as to
the result Of the examination As to the result of
the examination Of course IL was entirely I'M
uihcial, II WIS conversation Of my own with these
witnesses. drafted somc heterogeneous to
draw out more fully from some Of the witnesses
the testimony which they had given rather in
brief and some Of the heterogeneous which subsc-
qncnty were appended 10 the testimony Of these
witnesses.
Now, notice what he has sworn to: That
he occupied that room, and that when the
testimony was all handed to him relating
to the parish of West Feliciana he exam
ined il and the testimony, and he made
out a list Of one-half or two-thirds of the
witnesses. and he sent for them one by one.
He examined them. and when their test-
mony was not as full as he desired, he pre-.
pared additional interrogatories, which
went, in some cases nj least, before the re-
turning board. This comes really very
close around THE Joai1m and Garfield.
The summary in the testimony in the ease of
West Fcleiann was prepared by me.
A little further about what he did:
Some Of these atldnvts ! notice in the West
fcicinna made after yon arrived in
New Orleans Did you have anything tn do with
them yourself in nking them!
a. Nothing except that IN some instances, rs
have already related prepared interrogatorie-.
The next witness was George Swayzee,
z. Do You remember talking with HIM
A. by Garfield: Yes sir; de- remem-
BIER talking with Swayzrc. think inter
rogatorics were prepared for him after
my conversation with him. don't think
prepared them, but there was brief ntli
dnvit in the casr that rcnd talked with him
and then after thnt these intcrrogatorics were
fled. In the printing, they were printed instead
of the original talked with Swayzce. saw his
testimony was not very full, and after my CONVEX
sntion with him mtcrrogntnrics We're propounded
to him necessarily to bring out his evidence in
full and TINT evidence, in answering the interro-
gntorics was the evidence of Swny2cc that was
printed. The next man, Nnpalus, | remember
well, for he had very striking story ot having
been partly hing aud having been dragged with
II rope around his neck lie was one Of those to
whom interrngatomcs were propoundcd ntter the
filing of the first affidavit.
Now gentlemen, hc mentions rs the
most remarkable case in which he
prepared the questions for the witness
cs, the case Of Amy Mitchell, 50 | will
read what Garfield sworc to in regard to
that case.
z. As regards the cn-r of Amy Mitchell
which made mn impression On YOU, can you tell
whether it WINS before or after you were furnished
with II copy Of her affidavit that YOU Ind this con-
Ncrsation with herr
\. II wns nitcrwnrd 1t was the reading of
the affidavit that impressed INC, and asked to
have her sent to me.
q. sce that the affidavit appears to have
been sworn to the goth of November
\. ! advised them take n fuller statement by
heterogeneous from Amy Mitchell, and think
propoundcd portion Of Neutrality-suspicious.. The
preliminary statement the simple affidavit, was
earlier
Now, gentlemen, will turn over page
and see what the case Of Amy Mitchell was
Turning the leaves of book. She first
made nm affidavit in the custom house,
where she was examined privately by
James 4. Garfield. That affidavit was not
full enough. He prepared additional in
tcrrogations to be proponndcd to her; and
she answered those interrogatories, and in
her testimony before this same committee
abe aiterward swure that there was no
truth in the statement given in response
TO Ciurheld's heterogeneous. In answer
To question propoundcd to Gov. Cox, of
Ohio, who IL republican, Amy Mitchell
said she repeated her direct testimony
that every statement contained in the aili.
davlt was false; that she did not say any
thing because she knew it, but said what
they told her to say Her testimony also
showed that she had been trained in the
custom-housc to testify before the commit
tee. | don't say that Garfield was present
when she swure Ia the answers to the inter-
rogatories, but he prepared the interro-
gat0rics that were answered, and he pre-
pared the interrogatories after he had an
interview with that colorcd woman, when
there was no person besides themselves
present. and the same woman comes before
the committee of congress, not in IN inner
room not when the light of Gods day is
shut OIL, but she comes before the commit
tee Of democrats and republicans and III
that testimony, given under oath and
under the test Of u crosS-eNamination by
the republican members Of the committee,
she saws there was not word OF truth in
the testimony which she gave in answer To
Garield's questions, The next purpose.
gentlemen, have in my mind sto ask why
Garfield did spend eighteen days in the in
ner room in the custom house Why did
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