Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — THE ELECTION INVESTIGATION. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTION INVESTIGATION.

SYNOPSIS OF TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE. The Senate committee inquiring into the alleged frauds in the late election, of which Senator Wallace is Chairman, and heretofore known as the Teller Committee, resumed the taking of testimony at Washington last week. George C. Goihtm, laie Secretary ofthe Senate, and also Secretary of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, was tne first witness examined. He said that during the Congressional campaign of 1878 about $106,000 was raised for Renublican camp lign purposes; $93,000 from Federal officers aud employes by voluntary contribution, and the remainder from friends of the party not holding office. Perhaps $7,000 or SB,OOO came from Congressmen. No contributions were asked from national banks, as such. A canvass among wealthy friends of the cause in New York city resulted in obtaining about $13,001. There may have been some bankers contributing. Some lady employes of the Government insisted on contributing. Of $106,000, about $25,000 was expended for documents, about $12,000 was paid employes of the committee, and SB,OOO for furniture and general expenses. This left $55,500, of which $54,000 was sent to different States, and $1,500 was paid to speakers for expenses. Of the balance, $5,700 was lost by the failure of the German-American National Bank, and S3OO remains on hand. Ex-Secretary of the Senate Gorham was before the committee again ou the second day of the siting, aud produced the books of subscriptions in the departments, aud the list of moneys sent to different States. The National Committee aided nineteen Southern Congressional districts with an average of *663, and fifty-eight Northern districts with an average es *712. No aid was given to 212 districts. The policy was to devote the money to close districts. About nine districts iu Oh«o were thus helped. The witness thought the subscription in the Treasury Department might amount to $12,000 or *13,000, instead of $7,000 or *B,OOO, asstated the day before. About $2,000 was subscribed in the Postofflee Department. Very little was got from the Interior Department James M. Kerns, United B’ates Marshal for the Eastern district ot Pennsylvan’a, testified that he thought, as far as United States Supervisors and Marshals * are concerned, Philadelphia could do without thorn very welt The expenses of United States Supervisors in 1878 amounted to *27,440. Special attention was paid to Randall’s district, because it was in a bad part of the city, where riots frequently occur. THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. A sub-committee of the Wallace-Teller Investigating Committee, consisting of Senators Wallace (Pa.), Garland (Ark ), McDonald (Ind.), Hoar (Mass.) and Cameron (Wis.) have been examining witnesses at Philadelphia. R. C. Howell, of the Eighteenth ward, testified that Deputy Marshal Charles Oliphant was drunk on election day, and insulted every Democrat that came to the polls to vote. His testimony was corroborated by other witnesses, who also testified that Oliphant used every means to drive away Democratic voters. John Warner, of the Twenty-ninth ward, testified that Thomas Herr, the United States Marshal in this ward, had a bad reputation. He arrested a man for trying to vote, notwithstanding that parties were ready to vouch for him. Arthur Vance, of the Fifteenth ward, a United States Marshal, was also charged with intimidating voters.

It is stated that two men who have lived within three miles of each other in the seacoast town of Rye, N. H., for fifty years never saw eiuih other until last November.