Year: 1874

to be the law. Great informality was exhibited
in all the returns OF the parish OF
Orleans. If exceptions had been taken
the entire vote would have been thrown
out. rule was adopted where no intimidation
or fraud were used to waive inormaities. There
were no protests from this parish and but one
charge which was not proved In ex-
amining. In country parishes where there
were objections to the polling places
the returns were laid over for a final canvass
The object OF the laws was to nrst ascertain
whether the protested polls would affect the
general result. All the afidavts showed the Ever
green poll to be largely republican. The De Soto
vote was not counted, because the supervisor
made no return. The Board declined to receive
duplicate because 1t did not come through the
proper channels the Supervisor retains other
papers not intrusted to the clerk. This principle
being settled. four returns fromi Crenvilie were
also refused; can't say where the missing Super
visor IS or what became OF him.


Question BY committee-Slpp0se that q major
ity or very large number OF supervisors were to
fail to send In their returns, what would be the
results


Answer-Under the precedent established the
vote could not be counted The reason why the
Court did not grant the mandamus is because
there are but two modes OF procedure here In
election cases un Ter the Intrusion act,
in which the certificate OF the Board
Is prtma .facte evidence OF authority
and by writ OF quo ,carrdnto, In which testimony
IS taken concerning the conduct OF the election. A
motion was made, and unanimously adopted, to
strike from the record that portion OF the testi-
mony relating to the status OF General Ander-
son, that gentleman admitting that for two years
he had affiliated with the Kellogg governments.


Mr.. ARROYo's EVIDENCE.


hon had DO
neclion with the Board and the plan adopted up to
the canvass OF the First ana Second Congressional
districts. He complained that protests we're of.
fered by the republican counsel which had never
been thought OF by registrars, many Of these we're
unsupported by afiidasit At this Judge Dibble
stated that their defence was made on the n.y.
pothesis tnat since the war and ut the present
time the republican party had majority OF from
O,000 to 10000; that by no possible means
could that majority be overcome. All violence
bloodshed, fraud and rascalty has been IN an at
tempt OF the democrats to effect this. He prom
ised to establish this fact to the satisfaction OF any
three air-minded men and upon this rest his case.


AFTER A SHORT DEBATE .
the committee took recess He offered to tele-
graph when the returns OF DE Soto we're found
missing, but the proposition was refused. When he
produced the duplicate returns the Board refused
to open them. They were found to be signed by
the supervisor and Identical with the originals
during the entire canvass not protest was read
alter the canvass was made. The President would
say, 'There Is a protest; lay 1t aside" And such
was done. In executive session Wells was the
most arbitrary man l ever saw IN my life I
was browbeaten in the most outrageous manner.
He would take or his coat and walk up and down
the room, threatening; heard nothing but white
all the time. We were surrounded BY police, and
might have been murdered without my friends
knowing il.