Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23

tell whether it before or after you were
furnished with a copy of her affidavit that you
had this conversation with her? A. 1t was at
terward. twas the reading of the affidavit
that impressed me, and asked to have her
sent TO me.
80. see that the affidavit appears 70 have
been sworn to the s0th OF November? A. adj
vised them to Take d fuller statement by in
terroyatories from Amy MITCHELL and think
L propounded a portion of the interrogato-
ries; The preliminary statement, the simple
affidavit, was earlier
see what the case of Amy Mitchell was. Turn
ing the leaves of a book. She first made an
affidavit in the Custom house, where
SHE WAS EXAMINED PRIVATELY
by James ~ Garfield That affidavit was not
full enough He prepared additional inter
rogatories to be propounded to her; and she
answered those interrogatories, and in her
testimony before this same committee she AZ
terward Swore that there was no truth in the
statement given in response to Garf1eldS IN
terrOgatOries. in answer to question pro-
pounded by GOV. Cox, of Ohio, who is Re-
publican, Amy Mitchell said-she repeated
her direct testimony-that every sentiment
contained in the affidavit was false: that she
did not say any thing because she knew it,
but said what they told her to say. Her testi-
mOny also showed that she had been trained
in the Custom house to testify before the
committee. 1 don't say that Garfield was
present when she swore tothe nterrogatOries,
but he prepared the interrogatories that were
answered, and he prepared the interro gatories
after he had an interview with that colored
woman, when there was no person besides
themselves present; and the same woman
comes before the committee of Congress, not
in an inner ROOM not where the light of Gods
day is shut Off but she comes before the COM
mittee of Democrats and Republicans, and in
that testimony, given under oath and under
the test of ii cross examination by the Repub-
lican members of the committee, she says
there was not word of truth in the testimony
which she gave in answer to Gari1elds queS-
tons. Applause. The next purpose, gen
tlemen, I have in my mind is to ask why did
Garfield spend
EIGHTEEN DAYS IN THE INNER ROOM
in the Custom house? Why did he have pri-
vate interviews with the coIOred and white
people whose testimony was to be taken to
be used before the Returning Board? and why
did he prepare interrogatories for witnesses:
Will answer in his own words:
20. But don't yOu understand that in the
cases where You suggested that interrogation
les should be prepared instead of the evil
dence, they We're to 90 before the Returning
Board? A. Yes, sir.''
And when the work of taking the testimony
was completed he turned his attention to the
preparation OF a brief. a brief, as you know
is Il lawyers argument in writing. / will show
YOU what he saws upon that subject, on page
1871 of the report:
go. Was that brief furnished to the Return
ing Board? No, sir. That brief was never
furnished to any body but the President OF the
United states In tact. considerable portion
of the brief written the cars on my
way to Washington.
20. Written after you left New Orleans? A.
considerable portion Otit. had written
summary of the evidence before that. but
considerable portion of the brief was written
in pencil on the cars after left New Orleans
on my way home"
You see he completes the evidence. He is
the only man that prepares it for West Fei1cI-
ana after the evi lence had been turned over
to him, and when he has done that work on
his way from New Orleans to Washington he
prepares an argument in the case. l wish to
connect directly this transaction with the du-
ties OF the man who takes the
SOLEMN OATH To DEAL FAIRLY.
1t is your duty rs a member of the Commits
sion to deal fairly. The next question is, what
did Garfield do in regard to Louisiana? That
we find on page S03. say he knew that Lou
isiana was Democratic by 5000 majority when
he sat in that inner room and had private
conversation with the witnesses, and pre-
pared heterogeneous to guide and control
and when he was writing brief to make it
appear the other way, he knew that Louisiana
had cast IA Democratic majority OF 5000, and
here is his sworn testimony on that subject:
40. Did you get any idea how the vote of
Louisiana stood from the returns? A. L had
all those ideas that could be got from the
newspapers and the leaders of the different
parties. We had had, OF course, very full in
formation of that sort
90. PreSumlng that there were not some
parishes to be thrown out by the Returning
Board. it was very clear that the state had
gone for Nichols and Tilden, was it not? \.
1t very well understood by the time got
there that if nothing but the face of the re-
turns was to be considered. and, if every vote
sent up was to be treated as legal vote, Mr..
Tilden was ahead. Applause.
80. And if every vote sent up was legal
vote and some more Republican votes were
not found it was very clear that the State had
gone for Nichols and Tilden? A. Yes.'
THERE Is YOUR MAN, REPUBLICANS,
that you propose to place in the chair that
Washington occupied. "A voice, mo, new
err 1t will never be done. No man with a
record like that did ever take that chair, and
in the kind providence of an eternal God it
Tilden tor President and NichoII for Governor
were elected in the State of louisiana, and
yet when he knew that. he says when he got
to New Orleans he staid there eighteen days,
and all that he did was to sit in that inner
room, where nobody could find him except
they passed from the public hail through an
other room, and there alone, with poor ig-
nOrant witnesses, he prepared InterrOga-
tories, and talked with them, and that those
interrogatories and that talk went TO the Re
turning Board andturnlSheG the scOundrelS OF
that Board the pretext TO return against the
truth that Tilden was beaten in louisiana
Do YOU suppose that this man was to return
to Washington and become n juror and de-
eide whether Tilden or Hayes was elected,
and to decide between man and man whether
Hendricks or Wheeler was elected Vice Pres
ident? He SAYS, page 193: g l heard of
nothing of the kind-that is, of a decision
then made. don't think any of our party had
heard of it. for we left in great anxiety as to
what the result would be-" Then 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 alter
that we left New Orleans. know there was
great anxiety among US all as to what the
suit would be, and we had no word or hint of
it until we had passed Bellaire on Tuesday
morning, when dispatch was received ad-
Senator sherman, giving rs the first intima-
ton of the conclusion of the Returning
Board And what do you, falr minded men,
that have from time to time taken your seats
upon the Jurors box, what do YOU think of
the man that is to come on to Washington to
try the cause?
Being anxious in his mind as he leaves New
Orleans, and all the way from that city until
he reaches Bellaire. until he reaches Ohio, he
is in a great state of anxiety, and then a dis
patch comes at lightning speed,
"rrIE WORK is DONE"
"The work is done," and there is no anxiety
thence on forever! The perjury and the ferg-
cry is committed. The people of the United
States have been beaten in their might and
majesty and in their glorious sovereignty at
the ballot box. They have been beaten like
the old lion that had his paws entangled in
the neshes of the net. The great people of
the United States are beaten, and a part of the
work was done in that room, and forever from
this time infamous room in the Custom
house; and this is the evidence, gentlemen.
John c. New you that stand high as citizen
of indianapolis, this is the evidence that
quoted in my speech at Marion. And gave
page and document so full that If you wanted
the truth you could not fall into error, and
here is what I said in that original speech:
" Garfeld's testimony commences at page
1S9,' and here it is, you can come and look for
yourselves (refeTring to the book, {" DOcu-
ment 81, accompanying report No. no. House
of Representatives, Third Session, Forty fifth
IF that not in detail WHY it il