Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-04
DANVILLE INVESTIGATION.

WASHINGTON, ID. u, Marcn t, loof.- ne
DInville investigation was resumed this
morning. Senator Sherman said that Mr..
Wise wished to make correction of his
testimony or to make an additional state.
ment. Mr.. Wise, taking the witness chair,
said that while be did not wish to make any
issue with the official reporter in regard to the
language imputed to him in connection with
the visits Of colored members Of the Legis-
laturc to his house, still, as 4 general state
menl Of his dealings with members ofthe
legislature the report did him injustice.
What he referred TO was particular in
stance Of person who had came to his
house to see his mother, and had called upon
him 10 talk with him. He mentioned it not
as reflection upon them in any sense, but
to illustrate that that man in that position
was less cxacting than white person SINH
larry situated would probably have been.
Before he began his testimony he had asked
the reporter to submit the notes to him for
the insertion of tables, etc.
Senator Vance-Wel now, Mr.. Wise. I
wish TO ask you, sir, how are we to under
stand you in relation to this correction. Do
YOU say that the statement which the re-
porter made is not what you said or that it
is not what you wished or intended TO say !?
Mr.. Wise--I say this. Sir, ! don't care 10
make an issue with the reporter as to wheth-
er he took my exact words or not. ! say
do not believe he did, At the same time
pursuant to what had been the understand
ing from the moment testified, revised it
for the reason that before l spoke word
told him desired to revise the testimony
and put in the tabuatel statements.
Senator Sherman said that when Mr..
Wise first applied to him for leave to revise
his statement, he Mr.. Shermanl told him
that he thought he would be allowed the
usual privilege accorded to members of
Congress to revise his testimony. Mr..
Wise said he would like to add one SEN
tence more. Insofar as my testimony is
sought to convey the impression that |
made discrimination between colored and
white members of the Legislature as rule
in their communication with me, it does
them and me I'M Justice. | have always
treated an official call upon me by Whomso-
ever made without any discrimination
whatever and always expect to do So"
The following is the official report of the
remark which Mr.. Wise revised "The fact
that agree with them politically does not
mean that invite them to my house. I
could not do such a thing in Virginia and
maintain my social standing. There is no
such condition there. Black members OF
the Legislature have TO come to consult me
as TO politics and they 60 to my kitchen and
send up their message and so TO the back
yard and see them"
Mr. Wise's revision is as follows: "The
fact that agree with them politically does
not mean that l invite them to my house
socially. l could not do such a thing in
| Virginia and maintain any social standing
and there is no such condition there. Fol-
example black member of the Legislature
came to consult me as to politics; you would
have thought that being member of the
Legislature he would have gone to the front
door, but he went to the kitchen, his moth.
er being the cook, and sent up his message
and went to the back yard"
u. Verser and Daniel Digger, white
and Walter Gay, colored, testified to-day in
regard to the riot, though their testimany
developed nothing new.