The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-04
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.


the Institution, ana will examine additional
witnesses at a series of meeting throughout
the present week, but the investigation has
now drawn nearly to ITS close. The com
mittee II is understood, will report that, in
consequence OF the death of some persons re-
spOnsioe for the banks bad management,
and the present impecupiosty of the remain
der, nothing can now be done for further re-
lief OF tile depositors, except 10 eonsummate
The proposed purchase OF the Free drnens bank
Government, "A bill for which purpose mas
heretofore been recommended by the COM
missiOnerS and once passed the Senate.
EXODUS INvEsTIGATION-MR LEwMAN's rEsTT-
MoNY
Before the senate exodus committee to-day
the animation of NJ. r. Lewman. sheriff at
Greencastle, Ind was concluded. dc iesti-
lied in reply TO questions by Mr.. NcoI hees,
that he met and had an interview with col
ored man named Heath, who came in a mail
ca from Washing on TO GTeencastle, over the
Nandalia road 4he mail route agents name
the people on She car had treated him kindly.
Heath was trying TO find location for colored
emigIaDts, and told the witness That his OBJ
ject in the first place was To get TO Kansas, but
mt Washington. Adams. the secretary OF the
EmigTant Aid society, asked him To stop AT
indianapolis. He had letters TO Judge Mar
tindale ana Colonel Holloway, prominent
Indiana Republicans. One reason for
the cOlOred people leaving North Carollns
was to better Ihem condition; aud another
reason was that their friends in Washington
desired. as many of them as possible, TO get out
OF North Carolina and into Indiana before the
censnS was taken, about Mas J. 50 as to de-
crease the representation of North Carolina
and increase that OF Indiana. Ten thousand
intended 10 come. Heath supposed when he
was making these statements tnat the witness
was Republican. He said the Republicans
had proposed to pay half the expenses of the
trip. The witness could not remember the
mention OF any name but that Of Adams
On ncrOSS-examtnatiOn, Dy Mr.. Window, the
witness stated that his county is well settled
up; there is no demand Tor labor there; the
dissatisfaction felt on account OF the emigTa-
tion Is not because otthe elnl3Iants being coll
ored, but because they reach there destitute,
and have 10 be supported by the county, and
because they overstock the labor market;
there is an i'll feeling among laOOTers of both
political parties; it sometimes takes the shape
of threa's; one man who hired some of the
negroes had n = barn burned "A few days later;
the matter was before the grand jury the wit
ness pre- ferredtn that &C sOGnt not TO speak of
parties there; perhaps the Democrats
had burned the barn; cOulo not say whether
this conduct would have the effect of deter
ring people from hiring emigrants, and 80
Cause il to appear that there was no demand
or labor. He met Heath at the depot when
he came IN on The train, and, representing
himself a Republican, got into a converSa-
tion with him. He told Heath the Republi-
cans wan ted a good many negroes TO come to
Indiana; Heath said there was no doubt they
could get all they wanted, but 1t would be
necessary TO pay. one hall their expenses, be.
leave home and those without horses
cou d moi afford tile expense
The witness gOt the impression that no ar
rangemenJs had yet been made whereby
their expenses We're to be paid. Heath found
fault with the store order ystem Of pay ia
North Carolina. The next morning the y it
ness met Mr.. Bridges, a Democrat, who said
he had seen Heath and infoTa ed him he
Heath. had fallen into the -Dds of Demo-
erat instead of q Republican, the night before
Heath theTeupon hurriedly left town. Some
of the negroes desired to return home. Heath
At Mr.. Voorhees, request the witness read
9Es %nat Pos, %Po master Sn the hsngsp. nPs aaS %[
Clay (color.dl at Greepcastle, Put
nam county, on the Terre Haute railroad.
Provide for this gentleman. More are com,
"Union Depot mail Office, Reynolds" ~. NJ.
Adams, l,s:S street, y. W.
To Mr. Voorhees, IL is necessary for a sher-
if TO dissimulate in order to obtain infoTma-
tiOn from suspicious characters. The di' salts
faction in the county Is not confined To Dem
especially among the laboring G ass. No OBJ
lection would be made TO self supporting
emigraDts. All the Republican papers that
the witness hsd read condemned the commit
tee and approved of the exodus.
At Mr.. Windows request, Mr. Window will
be summoned as witness.
FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSES or THE
NEGRO EXODUS
The Senate special committee to-day re-
sumtd Investigation OF the causes of the col
ored exodus. harles IA Otuy, who gave his
direct testimony last Monday, was the first
witness He was subjected 10 a rigorous cross
examination by Senators Window and Blair,
in the course of which he acR nowletged that
he had not heard any member of the Wash
tngton Em'grant Ala society advise the di-
vesslOa of the exodus from Kansas TO Indiana
nd d1r political % purposes except any MynaeneS ohe1
Republic%ns in H Washington outside
OF the Emigrant Aid society who
had advised or promoted the exodus for
political purposes. He also stated that he had
never heard OF any colored men other than
Perry, Williams, aud Evans, who were en-
gagged in stirring up the coIored people TO
emigrate from North Carolina, and he be-
heved that the Baltimore and OHIO Railroad
ennfW cl
ing expenses of these men, and
that the company pays them premium
of 81 per head for each passenger ODIained.
He believed the intelligent people of North
Carolina, black and wbiIe, Democrats and
Republicans, Were opposed To this exodus, and
understood the entire Democratic and colored
press of North Carolina had been engaged in
exploding the false statement spread broad
cast i'm tnat State by Perry, Williams and
Evans. Notwithstanding all these agencies,
engaged in dissipating these delusions, still
them. Four-fift however, OF those that go
probably 90 for no other reason than because
their friends have gone.
r.. A. BOnifZ, q residence OF GOldsbOro and
editor of a Democratic paper there. was next
sworD. He SAID il was difficult TO assg
T.eson for the exodus of cOlored people from
North Carolina. It certainly was not on 8c
count OF oppression, ana here he took occasion
to indorse the evidence of ~ Hara aud Otuy, so
far as IL related To the condition of the
colOred people OF that State. In refer
ence 10 The treatment of colored
people DtlOIt tue COURTS, nt CitCu
several instances, and stated that ne could cite
many more to show where white jurymeu
had shown strict iDpartiality in their deci-
slons where colored men were on trial. Rare
cases, he said. might be instanceu where
severe penalties had been imposed on both
white and colored culprits for petit larcenies.
/ In his cross-examination he admitted that
I there existed a belief among some blacks in
Moth Carolina that penal laws were les
severe IN Indiana than in North Carolina
and thought this had some effect on infiu-
encing the emigration of colored people to
/ that State.
Mt. Lewman, sheriff OF Putnam county,
Indiana, a resident of Greencastie, IND, was
sworn, and produced a printed circular which
/ ne obtained from one of the North Carolina
emigrants after he had reached Greencastle.
This circular. it was afterward proven by an
other witness, baa been printed in the office
Of the Greencastle Banner during the latter
part OF last july, and. that the editor OF
Inat paper, Mr. j. II Clay,
colored, was the author OF it. This circular
1 Lowman said he was Informed by colored
man VINO gave it 10 him, had been circulated
quite extensively among the coloied people in
North Carolina. It urges them TO come To
Ind ana, setting forth the attractions OF that
state stating tnat its climate was heathful;
that tree schools for both races We're main
tsined: that there were numerous coloreo
+ churches. and that the blacks and whites