Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
DEMAND FOX MORE LIGHT,
FRESH EVIDENCE OFFERED IN THE
ARKANSAS CONTEST.
BreckIuridEe Anxious Tint the Clnytoh
Murder and His Election Shall be More
Fully Investigated Garland Presents

BreckIuridgs Anxious Thnt the CIaytof
Murder and His Election shnIl be More
Fully Investigated Garland Presents
His PIen TO the Committee.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-Representatiye
Lacey's subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Elections, which has been investi-
eating the election of Representative Breck-
inridge, of Arkansas, to-day received
formal application from Mr. Garland, the
attorney for Breckenridge, for prolongation
of the investigation and examination of
number of witnesses. The application recites
the fact that certain precincts in Woodruff
county have been dealt with BY the commit
tee, although the United States Court had
affirmed the correctness of the returns. and
the defendant had not presumed that an at
tempt would be made to deprive him of the
small contingent of colored votes there re-
ceived. The application reads:
As the proceedings of the committee how
ever, indicate that an inteh<ton to reverse the
findings of the election officials and of the
United States District Court by the testimonv
of the few negroes defendant had voting for
him, how exposed to the prescription of their
Church and race if they confessed in nubIic
how they voted, and to cast out these precincts
except in SO far as the votes may be proved up
anew, it is desired to prove up tie
defendants vote. 1t is true the CHANGE
in the small Democratic negro vote.
apparently proposed by the committee does
not defeat defendant. but if they propose to
cast out the white vote and only hold on to the
Republican VOTE that would defeat him. He
asks therefore. to prove up his vote at these
precincts provided it is contemplated by the
committee to refuse the reports of the officials
and findings of the United States Court which
tried and acquitted these officials upon the
charge that they had tampered with the bal
lots, which court had the ballots and poll books
and all other evidence before it. If it is pro-
posed to count the Republicans who did not
vote at Monroe township (where no election
was heidi, defendant requests that the Demo-
Gratis be also polled and that he be permitted
to prove that the failure tn hold an election
was due to the Republicans. Other matters
that it is desired to prove are that
the democratic party usually receives 10 per
cent of the cOlored vote in Woodruff county;
that colored men who desired to vote the
Democratic ticket were prevented from doing
way from fear of race prescription; that efforts
were made by the Democrats to detect the
murderer of John NJ. Clayton; that colored
Democrats in Cornerstone had difficulty in
voting their ticket, and that Powell Clayton be
examined relative to his written request that
race troubles be reported to him for campaign
uses.
Evidently the defense is not satisfied with
the conclusion of the subcommittee that the
theory OF Clayton's murder by Hooper is
groundless, for Mr.. Garland asks that
further testimony be taken on that point
from the Sheriff o. Los Angeles, and other
persons in California.