The Hartford herald., 1880-09-29
SHE WAS EXAMINED PRIVATELY

dltional interrogatOries to be prOpOund
eel To her, and she answered those in
terrOgatories, and i'm her testimony
before this same committee she after
wards swOre that there was no truth in
the statement given i'm response to Gar
nelds interrOgatOries. In answer to q
question prOpOunded by Gov. Cox, Oi
Ohio, who is "a Republican, Amy Mitch
ell said she repeated her direct testi-
mOny-that every statement contained
IN the affidavit was false; that she did
not say anything because she knew il,
but slid what they told her to say.
Her testimony also showed that she had
been trained in the custOm-hOuse Ia
testify bef're the committee. / don't
say that Garfield was present when she
swOre To the answers to interrOgatories,
but he prepared the iuterrOgatOries that
were answered, and he prepared the in
terrogatOries after he had an interview
with that colOred woman, when there
was no person beside themselves pres
ent and the same woman comes before
the committee of Congress-, not in an
inner room, nor when the light of Gods
day II shut oil, but she comes before the
committee of Democrats and Republi-
cans, and IN that testimony, given under
oath and "a test of crOss-eXdmlnati0n
by the Republican members 0f the COM
mlttee, she says there was MT Word Of
truth I'm the testimony when SIZE gave
IN answer to Garfield's qUsstl3ns. The
next purpose, gentlemen, have i'm my
mind Is To- ask why did Garfield spend
EIGHTEEN DAYS IN THE INNER ROOM
in the eustom-house Why did he
have private interviews with eolOred
and white people whose testimony was
to be taken to he used before the Return
ing Board and why did he prepare in
terrogatories for witnesses ? | will an
swer in his own words:
Q-But don't you understand that in
the eases where you suggested, that in
terrogatories should be prepared instead
OF the evidence, they were to go before
the Returning Board?
A-Ies, sir.
And when his work of taking the test
imony was complete heturnedhi atten-
tiOn to the preparation of "a brief A brief,
rs you all know, Is n lawyers argument
in writing. will show you what he
says upon that subject, ON page T97 Ofthe
report:
Q-Was that brief furnished to the
/ returning Board?
A-No, sir. That brief was never
furnished to anybody but the President
of the United States. In fact, a consid-
cradle portion of the brief was written
ON the ears ON my way To Washington.
/ Written after you left New Or
leans?
"A considerable portion of it. / had
/ written a summary of the evidence be-
fore that, but considerable portion of
the brief was written in pencil on the
ears after ! left New Orleans on my way
home.
You see he completes the evidence
lie is the only man that prepares it for
West Feliciana after the evidence
had been turned over to him, and when
he has done that work, ON his way home
from New Orleans to Washington he
prepares an argument in the ease. /
wish To connect this transaction directly
with the duties of the man who takes
the
SOLEMN OATH To DEAL FAIRLY.
IL Is your duty as a member of the COM
mission to deal fairly. The next ques-
tiOn Is, what did Garfield do in regard To
Louisiana That we find ON page SGs.
! say he knew that Louisiana was DEM
Ocratie by 5000 majority when he sat
IN that inner room and had private con-
versation with the witnesses and pre-
pared interrogatories To guide and con-
troll their testimony when he was at
that work, and when he was writing IA
brief To make it appear the other way
he knew that Louisiana had east a
Democratic majority of 5000, and here
Is his sworn testimony ON that subject
Q-Did you get any idea how the
vote of Louisiana stood from the returns?
Al had all those ideas that could be
got from the newspapers and the lead
ers Of the different parties. We had
had, of course, very full information of
that sort.
Q-Presuming that there were not
some parishes To lie thrown out by the
Returning Board, il was very clear that
the State had gone for Nichols and
Til,len, was it not
Alt was very well understood by
the time | got there that, if nothing but
the face of the returns was to be con-
sidered, and if every vote sent up was
To be treated as legal vote, Mr. 1ilden
was ahead. Applause.
OFF every vote sent up was "A legal
vote, and some more Republican votes
were not found it was very clear that
the State had gone for Nichols and
Tilden?
A-Ies.
THERE Is YOUR MAN, REPUBLICANS,
that you propose to place i'm the chair
that Washington occupied. a voice,
"No, never."l Ii will never be done.
No man with record like that did
ever take that chair, and i'm the kind
providence of an eternal God it will
never occur. He knew by the returns
that Tilden for President and Nichols
for Governor were elected i'm the State
OF Louisiana, and yet when he knew
that, he says when he got to New Or
leans he stayed there eighteen days, and
all that he did was to sit i'm that inner
room, where nobody could find him ex-
cept they passed from the public hall
through another room, and there alone
with poor, ignorant witnesses, he pre-
pared interrOgatOries, and talked with
them, and that those interrogatOries
and that talk went to the Returning
Board and furnished the scoundrels of
that board the pretext To return against
the truth, that Tilden was beaten i'm
Louisiana. Do you suppose that this
man was to return to Washington and
become a juror and decide whether Til
den or Hayes was elected, and decide
between man and man whether Hend-
ricks or Wheeler was elected Vice Pres
ident? He says ON page 793: ''I heard
of nothing of the kind-that il, of u tie
cislon then made. i don't think any of
our party had heard Of it, for We left in
great anxiety Us to what the result 4,
would be-" Then II little further down
he says: ave went away from that
meeting, and within perhaps three hours
from that time, at least by the first
train, We left New Orleans. / know
there was great anxiety among us all rs
to what the result would be, and We had
no word or hint of it until we passed
Belaire ON Tuesday morning, when a