The Hartford herald., 1880-09-29

made repulsion and kept you and
these visiting statesmen apart? A.
Nothing that ] know of, but my duties
did not bring me into cpntact with
these gentlemen, aS We always had a
coroner's inquest held over us after
every election. cared To know as lit
! tie ~ possible.
/ Q.-Mr. Butler, you purp ,sely avoid
ed meeting with the visiting statesmen
lest you might know too much Of what
| is going on. ls that it, Without
casting amy reflections upon them, yes.
This witness swears tn he avoided
knowing anything that l!in-e visiting
statesmen were doing, bee ,lIsc he did
not want Ia know what WIS going on
there, as he probably would have to an
swtr under investigation aflerward Su
] will spend no more time upon that
witness. Now for Mr.. Garfield him
self, and he gave his testimony before
this same committee under oath:
Odd you visit New Orleans in
the month of November, 1876: Al
did.
Q.-What time of the month did you
go: Al think il was about the I4th
of November that we arrived at New
Orleans.
The 1Ith day of November was I'M
mediately after the Presidential elec-
ton of 1876, and he was there with
John Sherman he was there with Kel-
ley, of Pennsylvania, and many others
whose names | will not delay you to
repeat, and from the one in his testi-
mony he says that they left New Or
leans To return to Washington city on
the lst day of December SO you will
observe that james y. Garfield was at
New Orleans, reaching there about Il
week after the Presidential election,
and staying there eighteen days. What
did he do while there: charge, and
the .JournM says if it is supported he is
Il disgraced man, | charge that he
OCCUPIED AN INNER ROOM
OF the custom house. assigned to him,
and him alone, and in that room he saw
witnesses, black and white, of I,Ouisi-
ana, and he conversed with them alone,
and when their testimony was not made
out satisfactory to him, he suggested
interrOgatories that should he put to
them. and these interrogatOries went to
the Returning Board, and that Return
ing Board made u report against the
men that were elected. That il what |
charge. say to you | will make it
clear to you tonight by his own evil
dence. What does the JO,UHM say to
me? That | have furnished no respect
able evidence, when have referred
10y page and document to the sworn
testimony of Garfield himself. What
did he do? First, gentlemen, said
that they distributed parishes among
these visiting statesmen, and that in
the distribution of the parishes for i'll
ve>tigatiOn and manipulation, the par
ish of West Feliciaiia fell to James A.
Garfield. ! will read what he swore to
and after tonight il shall not he before
the intelligence of Indiana what Hend-
ricks said, but the question now shall
In what Garfield said. Applause. In
his answer To question he says
"ThereupOn, in order to make our work
Of examination and our ledge of
the ease Us full ls possible, the suggest
ION WAS adopted that all the testimony
relating To one parish bc given To one
man, and the testimony relating To
another parish should he given To anotL-
er man. Among the parishes that
were contested were the parishes of
Feliciana, and believe that Mr.. Shcr-
man assigned these parishes to Mr.
Parker and myself, saying that We
could divide them between us as We
chose. | suggested To Mr.. Parker to
take his choice. He took East Felici-
ana; | took West Feliciana" Laugh
ter.
Q-What did YOU take ii for:
| will give the answer to that preg-
m .ln auAsfinn anI x..h.... II -.
the Journal says that the man that the
Republicans have upon their banner
candidate is
a DISGGACED MAN.
Applause. Al mean by that to
say that | took the copies of all the
official papers which We're delivered to
the Returning Board touching the elec-
tion in West Feliciana, and for con sen-
fence of examining these papers, us
did not reside at the st. Charles hotel,
| occupied Il room in the COurt-hOlIse,
in the corner of the building. Laugh
ter.
This is coming close up to Garfield
and closer to the Journal.
al don't know whose room il was il
was room not very much used
think it was one of the private offices,
perhaps, of the collector himself"
You recOllect who was collector, don't
you? 1t was Packard. that was run
ming for Governor, and that could not
hold his office, although he got thous-
and more votes than Hayes, who got
the vote of Louisiana. [Applause.
Gentlemen, what do you say to the
which | made i'm my speech
II month ago-that Garfield went to
New Orleans as PARTISAN (; that he Oc
cupied one of the rooms of the custom
house for the Returning Board but we
go good deal further than that. This
question that | make tonight is not to
II subordinate writer OH the Journal.
| repeat, it is to John c. New, owner of
the paper, and Chairman of the Repub-
lican Central Committee of Indiana
Ii is John G. New that / shall brand il
he does not place my answer as prOmi-
nently in his paper Tomorrow morning
us the article in the Journal this morn
ing.
Where Was this room in the custom
house? | said this was an inner room,
and propose to prove that by Garfield
himself.
Q-Where did you converse with her,
that is the negro woman, Emily Mitch
ell.
AIN private Office in the custom
house.
Q-One of Gov. Kellogg's rooms
A-No, sir; in one of Mr.. Packard's
rooms in the custom-house.
Q-Who was there besides you two :
Al don't think there Was anybody
else present when she Was there.
Q-Who brought her To the room?
Al can't say; somebody brought her
there. | think she had little child in
her arms. She sat down and | asked
her to tell me the story of her husbands
death, with all the particulars, and
told her that all | wanted tO know WAS
the exact truth about it..
Q-Was there II doorkeeper to the
room:
Al think there was no one by at