Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Aw Internal Km*«e DepartMent Clerk re «nUy addraMed a Wter to Sac’y Miura, ■taking that he had been called upon to conUibute to* fund tor electioneering purposes, ■ad aaktag whether raeh contribution was required, and whether his position as an employe of the Department would be affected if be did or did not pay. The Secretary replied that the clerk waa as free as any other citizen to pay or not, aa he pleased, and that his tenure of office .would not be affected by his action tn the premises. The President Is said to haw since informed the heads of the different Departments that Sec’y Schurz’s letter embodied his own opinions. J How. K. W. Broughton, United States Minister to Russia, has written a letter in which he declares he had no connection or complicity with the proceedings which form the subject of Investigation by the Potter Committee. Nor long ago President Hayes nominated two colored men to be Justices of the Peace for the District of Columbia. The Senate, on the 18th, voted not to confirm the nominations. How. T. J. QciXX, Member of Congress for the Albany (N. Y.) District, died at hie home on the 18th. Them was a wedding at the White House on the evening of the 10th, the third event of the kind that has been celebrated there in the sixty-four yean that it has been occupied by Presidents. The groom was Russell Hastings, of Roekford, 111., and the bride Miss Platt, the President’s niece and ward. Ex-Gov. Bmown, of Georgia, one of the visiting statesmen Orleans in the spring of 1877, has recently sent to Sec’y Sherman a draft for 9837.63, to pay one-fifth of the expenses of the Commission. Sec’y Sherman returned the draft, on the 20th, with the statement that the President believed Congress would yet make the necessary appropriation; but, If it did not, the President himself would pay the expenses of the Commission. Mju. Reno, of the cavalry force, whose failure to relieve Gen. Custer at the time of the massacre provoked charges of cowardice, has written to the Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, demanding an investigation. Congress finally ad journed at seven o’clock, on the morning of the 20th. The statement is made that its work was so finished that an extra session will not be necessary. Ths SundryJCivll Appropriation bill, passed by Congress just before the close of the recent session, has been discovered to be deficient through an alleged blunder of the Enrolling Clerk. The section providing for the continuance of the Hot Springs Commission, which was created in 1877, to appraise and sell the Government reservation in the Hot Springs (Ark.) region, was almost entirely omitted in the enrollment of the bill in the office of the Clerk of the House. Because of this omission the Hot Springs Commission will have to suspend operations until Congress can again act upon the subject.

THE EAST. The Maine Democratic State Convention met at Portland, on the 18th, and nominated Alonzo Garcelon for Governor. Resolutions were adopted declaring against any further issue of Government bonds; opposing an irredeemable currency and the present National Banking system, and favoring the gradual substitution of greenbacks for National Bank bills; indorsing fully the action of the majority of the National House of Representatives in their investigation of the alleged Presidential election frauds, and insisting that the guilty parties, whoever they may be, should be punished. The schooner Eothen sailed from New York, on the 19th, for the Arctic regions, in search for the relics of Sir John Franklin. Coh Gilder, just before sailing, stated that the voyagers would probably be absent for two years or more. After landing a searching parly at Repulse Bay, the Eothen will depart on a whaling voyage. Ox the 19th, the bark Liberia sailed from New York tor Liberia, having on board five missionaries and fifty-nine negro emigrants. The ship sailed under the auspices of the United States Colonization Society. The Vermont State Democratic Convention was held on the 20th. The following nominations were made: For Governor, W. H. H. Bingham; Lieutenant-Governor, Jerome W. Pierce; Treasurer, George E. Royce. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton was excommunicated at a special business meeting of Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the evening of the 21st. Gold closed in New York, on June 21st, at 100%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: Na 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *[email protected]%; Na 2 Milwaukee, [email protected] Oats—Western Mixed, 31% @3l%c. Corn, Western Mixed, 41@45%c. Pork, Mess, 810.50. Lard, $7.25. Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]; Winter Wheat, [email protected]. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, $3.5(J@ 4.09.

At East Liberty, Pa., on June 21st, Cattle, brought: Best, t 5 12(85.35; Medium, $4-W 5.00; Common, $3.7584.35. Hogs sold— Yorkers, »[email protected]; Philadelphia®, |3.95@ 4.15. Bbeep brought s3.oo(B4.oo—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on June 21st, Cattle brought; Best, U 75(85.62},,'; Medium, $3.00(84.25. Hogs sold al $4.50(85.00-.for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.00(84.25 for Good. W EST AID BOCTH. The picnic of the Chicago Communists, which for some time had caused anxiety and apprehension in Chicago and elsewhere, passed off quietly, on the 16th. An immense crowd was in attendance, but exceptional quiet prevailed. Ex-Reiummentative O’Coxxob, the member lately expelled from the Ohio Legislature, was arrested at Columbus and held to bail, on the 17th, upon the charge of forging certain signatures to pension applications. Om the 18th, the National Council of the Junior Order of American Mechanics commenced its sessions at Baltimore, G. W. Ihgenfrtta, of Indiana, presiding. The Secretary’s report showed a total membership of 8,796, and that the Order was otherwise flourishing’ Acookduo to a Portland (Ore.) dispatch of the 18th, the latest election returns render certain the election ot Thayer (Bep) for Gov‘■rnorbl * majority ranging from forty to seventy. The Democratic majority in the Legislature, on joint ballot, would be twelve. Thb lowa State Republican Convention met at Des Moines, on the 19th, and organized by the choice of ex-Benator Harlan as Temporary, and cx-Senator Wright as Permanent, President, with the usual Vice-Presidents and Mecretaries. The following nominations were made: Secretary of State, Capt J. A. T. Hull; State Auditor, B. B Sherman; State Treasu, rer, George W. Bemis; Begister of Laud-Of-itee, J. K- Powers; Attorney-General, J. V. McJunkin; Supreme Judge, J. H. Bothreek; Supreme Court Reporter, J. g. Bunnells; Supreme Court Clerk, E. J. Holmes. Frank Hatton, of the Burliagton was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. The platform lauds the Republican party and affirms its old-time principles and policies; declares the permanent pacification of the South to be a paramount duty; opposes and ridicules the dogma of Home Bule;”

gives special credit to the soldiers for the cervices during the late war; insists that the Republican party alone la t|>y party of law and order, applauds Its financial policy; denounces the rebel raids upon the Treasury; favors a revenue tariff; deprecates the covert attack upon the Presidential title, etr., etc. The Greenback State ConventfiWi df Missouri was held at Sedalia, on the: 20th. The fallowing nominations were mpde: A. L. Gllstrop for Judge of the Supreme Court; G. Hayden for Railroad Commissioner, and J. M. Greenwood for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform demands the repeal of the Specie-Resumption act and the issue of absolute money In greenbacks equal to gold and silver; that all bonds now' subject to redemption be Immediately redeemed In absolute money equivalent to coin; that tlie Federal Constitution be amended so aa to limit and restrain Congress from exempting any property, stock, bonds or credit from taxation, and. front granting all subsidies, etc., etc.

A St. Paul (Minn.) special to tUb Chicago /nfer-fAwm of the 23d says of the Indian scare in Burnett County, Wis., that the correspondent had just returned from Grantsburg, where he had sifted the scare to the bottom, and found there was not the slightest foundation for the alarm that had been created. The ninth annual gathering of the National Christian Association, devoted to the exposure of and opposition to secret societies, met in Chicago, a few days ago, and clectel the following officers for the ensuing year: Preaidertt, Moses Pettlngill; Vice-President, Rev. A. D. Freeman; Secretary, J. P. Stoddard; Treasurer, H. L. Kellogg, and a Board of nine Directors. A letter was presented by President Blanchard, editor of the Cynosure, resigning all connection with the Association, but resolutions were adopted declining its acceptance and requesting him to continue hla membership. The Treasurer’s report showed a satisfactory financial condition. Ox the 21st, at Chicago, George Sherry and Jeremiah Connolly, who, in January last, made an assault on Hugh McConville and his niece on a public street of that city, and then killed McConville because he resented their violence toward the young lady and himself, were hanged tn the County Jail. On the same day there were other hangings, as follows: At Paris, 111., Charles Burns, for the murder of Elijah Burdwell, on the 20th of November,lß77; at Chillicothe, Ohio, Perry Bosher, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. McVey, on the 26th of October, 1877; at Little Rock, Ark., Jacob Levels (colored), for the niurder of another colored man; at Frederick, Md., E. H. Costlcy, for the murder of Solomon Costley, his cousin, on the 4th of April, 1877. lx Chicago, on June 21st, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 92(ii92%c cash. Cash Corn cloned at 37> 4 c for No. 2. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 24%c; and 23%c seller July. Rye No. 2, 52%c. Barley No. 2, 47%@48e. Cash Mess Pork closed at 19.20. Lard. $6.85. Beeves— Extra brought Choice, $4.50 @4.90; Good, $4.15@>4.40; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected]%.

FOKEItiX IXTEAAIUEMC'E. Berlin dispatches of the 16th say that Count Andrassy had admitted that Austria had mobilized 100,000 men to enforce the decisions of the Congress. Announcement was made from London, on the 16th, that Oxford University would confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Common Law upon Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, late United States Minister to Great Britain. A cable special to the Charleston (S. C.) A r ews and ('wirier announces the arrival at Sierra Leone of the bark Azor, which sailed from Charleston, April 1, with 250 emigrants to Liberia on board. Twenty-three of the emigrants had died from ship-fever. Cbttinje telegrams of the 17th say that Turks from Scutari liad attacked the Montenegrins and been repulsed, with the loss of several killed and numerous wounded, and sixty prisoners. Berlin dispatches of the ’.Bth say the Albanians had sent to the Congress an energetic protest against the annexation of any portion of Albania t< > Montenegro. During a recent interview between Bismarck and Gortschakoff, at Berlin, the latter was furiously attacked by a large Danish dog belonging to the German Chancellor, and was, with considerable difficulty, rescued.

A Faris paper of the 19th relates that the Khedive recently f offered to abdicate and place the financial affairs of Egypt in the hands of the English, provided his civil list and his son’s succession were assured. The offer was declined, but the Khedive renewed it. The Freiligrath Library, in Berlin, famous for its bld English books, has been purchased by an American gentleman. According to Berlin dispatches of the 20tb, the Congress had that day decided to admit Greece to its deliberations with a consultative voice only in cases where her Interests are concerned. It is stated that the English expenses at the Congress are sß,oob per day. An Athens (Greece) telegram of the 20th says the insurrection in Crete had broken out with Increased violence. A severe battle was then being fought in the vicinity of Canea. A private telegram from Constantinople was received in Berlin, on the morning of the 21st, which stated that a revolution was imminent there, which had for its object the'dethronement of the Sultan. A Berlin telegram of the morning* of the 22d says therßepresentatives of England, Russia and Austria had arrived at an agreement upon the Bulgarian question. They had fixed upon the Balkans as the boundary of Northern Bulgaria, giving to Turkey the right to fortify its passes and garrison the fortified assigning Sofia to Rumelia, Varna to Bulgaria and Burgas to Turkey; restricting the northern frontier of Montenegro and the boundaries of Servia, the countries receiving compensation in the south. It was further stated that the annexation of Bosnia and Herzogovina to Austria had been deehjed upon.

FORTV-HFTH COXGKEHM. In the Senate, on the 15th, the concurrent resolution of the House, extending the session of Congress until four p. m. on the 18th, was agreed to. . A report was made in the case of Senator Grover to the effect that the evidence before the Committee on Privileges and Elections did not sustain aty of the charges that his election was procured bv fraud and bribery.... William E. Spencer, for many years the Journal Clerk, was chosen Chief Clerk of the Senate, Vm. J. McDonald, deceased .. The House bill to provide for the expenses of the Select Committee on alleged frauds in the late Presidentialelection, appropriating .*20.000 for that Snrpose. was amended by adding $21,000 for the enate investigation, and $lll,OOO to be used under the direction of the Attor-ney-General to defray any expenses that may be incurred by the Department of Justice for the" detection of any crimes committed against the United States m the affairs or in the course of the investigations mentioned iq the Het. and the bill, as amended, was passed The conference reports on the Army and or the River and Harbor A ppn»priation bills were agreed to. ...Anew Conference Committee was ordered and appointed on the Legislative. Executive and •pdunw Appropriation bill .., The amendmeut of the House to the bill of the Senate increasinj the pension of Oen. Shields to month was concurred in and the bill, as amended, was passed. In the House, Conference reposts were made and agreed to on the Army and on the River and Harbor Appropriation bi 115.,.. A Conference Committee was appointed on the Post-Route bill, and the old Conference Committee on the legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropnatton pill was reappointed A resolution providing for final adjournment on the 18th was agree.l to. The bill amending Hie Internal Revenue laws was further considered, and ngood deal of confusion resulted from efforts to change the tax on tobacco, etc., and pending action on aproposed amendment the House adjourned. The House bill to organize the LifeSaving Service was pass'd in the Senate, on the 17th. without amendments.... A motion to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution in

reward to the Eight-Hour law was postponed until the next seaaion. wka defeated—yeas, 24; nays, $0 ... A resolution was agreed to instructing the Oommittes on Education and labor to inquire into the industrial condition of the country, the extent, nature ami onuses of tlie depnvuon of buaineas and the enforced idleness of lalmr, and what remedies, if any. can be provided by Na tional legialation; also, into the expediency qf providing a bureau for the purpose of gathering statistics of National industries, ana that the Committee report by bill or otherwise.,. A new Conference was ordered on the revenue item In the Post-Route bi 11.... The Conference report on tile Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill waa agreed to, and the bill was passed . . . A large number of amendments to the Hendry Civil Appropriation bill were dw>.*od of- several being adopted increasing the amounts of several items in the bill the amendment proposing an appropriation of ♦♦>.ooo, of so much thereof aa might be necessary to defray the expenses and compensation of the Commission aplaiinted by the President to go to Ixiiiiaiana. was. after considerable disciwiion. laid on the table • ntoM A preamble and resolution wefe adopted in the House, reciting the "depressed condition of laltor and industry throughout the country, and providing for a select committee to ait during the revert to inquire into the Cannes therefor.... A resolution waa also adopted requesting the Senate to give leave to Senator Matthews to testify before the Potter Committee ...A new Conference was ordered on the Post Route bi 11... Conference reports on the legislative. Executive and Judicial and on the Mexican Award bi Ila wore agreed td.... Reports were made from the Committee On Elections, and agreed to that Robertson and Elan, of Louisiana I the sitting members of the contested election caseai, are entitled to their seats, and that in the Alabama contested case of Haralson and Shelley, additional testimony may lie taxrn ..The bill reducing the tax on tobacco to sixteen rente a pound was passed— J3U to 1118. The bill appropriating $5,600,000 in gold to p«iy the Fishery award to Great Britain was reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and object? ns to its consideration were made by Messrs. Butler, Springer, Cox (N. Y.) and others, and overruled by the Speaker, but la nding further action a recess waa taken nntil eno o'clock p. m. on the 18tn. In the Senate, on the 18th, a resolution was passed extending the session nntil six o'clock p. m. on the 19th.... Several amendments to tlie Sundry Civil Appropriation bill wore agreed to, one of them being for £5,800,0(10 to pay the award of the Halifax Fishery Commission, and the bill aa amended waa passed. The House non-concurring in these amendments, n Conference Committee was subsequently appointed. . ...A resolution was submitted add referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections to allow Senator Matthews to testify berore the Potter Investigating Committee.. . .The Honse bill for the relief of settlers on the public lands was passed, extending the provisions of the act allowing settlers wno had their crupi injured by grasshoppers to leave their homesteads temporarily for the purpose of obtaining sustenance.

The Senate resolution declaring that the treaty with China allowing unrestricted immigration to this country should be mollified, and calling the attention of tlie President to the subject, was concurred in by the House.... The Senate amendments to the bill to repeal the Resumption act were non-concurred in--140 to 105, less than the nece sary two-thirds in the affirmative—and the hill thus failed of imssage... The Senate resolution extending the time for final adjournment until six p. m„ on the 19th. was agreed t 0... A bill was paused providing fora judicial ascertainment of claims against the United States . A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to reiwal that section of the Resumption act which authorizes the sale of United States bonds for the purposes of resumption, and to provide that United States notes shall be receivable for duties on imports, was rejected -114 to 113. not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative... .The Senate amendment to the bill appropriating $20,000 for the expenses of the Presidential Election Investigating Committee was concurred in. . . A Conference Committee was ordered and appointed on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bi 11... Mr. Mayliam announced the death of his late colleague, Mr. Quinn, of New York, and paid a tribute to his memory. In the Senate, on the 19th, a new Conference Committee was appointed on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and the session having been extended to three o’clock on the morningof the 2Uth, a subsequent report was agreed to and the bill was passed. . The House bill relating to claim agents and attorneys in pension eases, limiting their fee to ten dollars in each case, was passed ... A resolution was adopted to allow the Matthews Investigating Committee to sit during the recess of Congress, at such place or places as it may deem most convenient Tor the purpose of investigation.... The bill to establish the Territory of Lincoln was ixstponed until December next. ■ ■ Resolutions extending thanks to Vice-President Wheeler and Hon.Tliomas W. Ferry for the able and impartial manner in which they had discharged the duties of presiding officer were unanimously adopted.... Messrs. Burnside, Plumb and Butler were announced as the committee, on the part of the Senate, to consider the subject of reorganizing the Army, and Messrs. Oglesby, Saunders and McCreery to consider the subject of transferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department.... The House bill to authorize the payment of customs duties in legal-tender notes, from and after Oct. 1, next, was taken up, and its second reading was objected to. In the House, the resolution ing the session to three a. m;, on the 2t)th, was agreed to. and a second Conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was finally adopted, and the bill was passed. As originally reported the bill appropriated .£16,548.000; as it passed the House. ■T17,590.186 and as it naased the Senate. $22.075,100 (exclusive of the Halifax award); as it came from the Conference Commit-, tee the amount was ent down to £19,250,100 (also exclusive of the Halifax award.).. . Bills were passed —that on and after Oct. 1 next legal-tender notes shall be received at par in payment for custom duties—ls 3to 53; Senate bill to create an Auditor of Railroad Accounts; to fix the pay of letter carriers; providing that pensions shall commence from the date of death or discharge, and that no claim agent shall be entitled to any compensation for making an application for the airears of pensions... .The joint resolution. proposing a Constitutional amendment, forever prohibiting the payment of any claim for property taken, used, injured or destroyed by United States troops during the War of the Rebellion, unless the owner was loyal to the Government, and gave neither aid nor encouragement to the enemy, was passed—l 44 to 61... Special committees were announced as follows: On the Reorganization of the Armv—Messrs. Banning. Dibrell, Bragg. Strait and White i Pa.). On we Transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department—Messrs. Scales, Boone, Hooker, Van Vorhes and Stewart. On the Ijatair Question —Hewitt IN. It.), Kiddle. Dickey, Jones (Ala.), Thompson, Rice and Boyd.

_ The House resolution extending tlie session of Congress up to seven o'clock on the morning of the 2)th was concurred in by the Senate. . . A bill was introduced to establish a National Academy of Education, giving the preference io the genius and talent of the land nnd to the orphans of the Republic . After the signing of the Sundry'Civil Appropriation bill by the P:esident pro tern, of the Senate, and the report of a committee that the President had no further communication to make to Congress. Mr. Ferry, after a tew remarks, declared the present session of the Forty-fifth Congress adjourned nine die. " In the House, a resolution was agreed to extending the session to seven o’clock on the morning of the 20th. .. A motion to- suspend the rules and pass a_.joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the payment of claims for property taken, used, injured or destroyed during the war was rejected—veas, 22; nays, 135. . A resolution was agreed to declaring that the investigation of the charges preferred against the late Doorkeeper, J. \\. Polk, had shown nothing affecting bis personal integrity or reflecting on him as an honorable,.man, and allowing him two months’ extra iviy. A message was received from the Presietent announcing his approval of the Snndry Civil Amropriation bi 11.... At seven o'clock the Speaker, after slew appropriate remarks,declared the House adjourned tine die.

THE INVESTIGATIONS. ■’ j * lie®*® COMMITTEE. The Matthews Senate Committee was in session for two hours and a half on the 21st. When the doors were opened, James E. Anderson was sworn, but lieing refused counsel, he said that he had no statements to make nor questions to answer. The Committee went into private session for the third time. When the door was again opened, Mr. Anderson was informed, that he should answer anv questions that the committee might see proper to put, and was asked his age and occupation. Anderson replied that he had no desire to throw obstacles in the Way. but Senator Sliitthews was a lawyer, and was there looking alter his interests, and he < Anderson > did not see why he should not have a Jiiwy er to look after his own interests. The questions were re;>e:ited: also, whether he had placed any papers in Matthews' possession, and, if so, what: but Anderson declih d t-o answer. Senator Whyte asked ■if he meant to say that he set at defiance the will of the Committee, and Anderson replied that the .. Senator put it too strong; that he simply wished to say that he declinod'finswerng; he said if Senator Matthews would go before the Potter Committee he would testify. Senator Allison then asked Senator Matthews if he had any suggestion to make with reference to going ou without Anderson’s testimony. Mr. Matthews said he disliked very much to take the responsibility of m iking any supt'estiona to the Committee on the subject: he was present then and should be at any future time that the convenience of the Committee might fix for the purpose of assisting the Committee in any way within bis power in the objects and pur|M»es for which it wire oruritiateu "and authorized; tiw only course other than thatof. wait- . ing until the Committee could have tire i>6wei; of the Senate to compei answers of witnesses was to obtain from the Committee of the other House the statement which Anderson bad already imide underoath before it. and which constituted the ground and basis on which he (Matthews) had

asked the Benate for the appointment of the Committee; should the Committee obtain that testimony, ho was reedy to. U« ~B <“ if it bad been delivered again before the Senate Committee: he thought the Committee ought to decide qP"" ,hc to lie puraucd, but did not wish to I"' considered » giving any opinion or advice, or esprcssing anywiah in regard to the matter. Another consultation of tlie (ximm.ttco followed. When the doors were opeiisd Audciwon was Informed by the Chairman that uic tom mittoe had decided that they would rejjuire his testimony before the Clommittee. 'lhe Chairman then naked him if he were willing to answer such questions an might be pn>i«ouiidca io bun, and he replied tliat lie waa not. The 4 tan i man responded that in so refusing Anderson set the Committee at defiance. . Senator Whyte then atatefUhat? in the almcnre of the Semite, the Committee hud no power To punish for contempt, and he therefore moled that the Committee adjourn, subject to the call of the Chairman. The motion was agreed to, and the Committee accordingly luljonmed. THE HOUSE LXIMMITTEZ. , At the session of the Committee, on the 15th, H. C. Clarke, formerly Private ta-cretary to Gov. Kellogg, recognized the first and second set of certificates in the possession of the Committee. At the instance of Anderson, who stated that there were errors in the certificates, he had examined them. \\ itneas was present when Gov. Kellogg signed tlie second set of certificates, and had himself waled them up and forwardidthem to Washington. He also staled up the first set amt handed them to the District Judge. Witni-ss <lid not preiiare the credentials of the me-sengers charged with the delivery of the second set of certificates, lint wns of the opinion that the authority which the second messenger presented was the authority prepared for the first messenger. Mr. Clarke waa under the impression that he saw Mr. Brewster sign the second set. He had inclosed a newspaper slip, stating that the signatures to the Dmisiana Electoral returns had l>een forged, to Goy. Kellogg, but had received from him no reply. Had never heard, while in New Orleans, of the socalled " Sherman letter.” Ex-CoiigrcHHiuan Darrall was recalled, but his examination lasted only about five minutes, but no testimony of importance was educed. Chairman Potter announced that he had requested Senator Kellogg to appear before the Committee, but had received a verlial message from him, saying he could not comply with the request at pitaent A short session of the Committee wns held on the > 17th, H. C. Clarke, late Private Secretary of Gov. Kellogg, being the witness. Mr. Clarke stated that the two lists ot returns lay on the table, in the committcc-room, in New Orleans, until the signatures were complete, when he fotwarded them to the Secretary of State. The only parties signing them in hiapresence were Gov. Kellogg and Mr. Brewster. Could not say whether Lcviraee signed themipersonally. The p.'ipera were in a room to which Senator Maswco had keys. Witness did not leave them there that anything might happen to them. He considered the first set as all right anyway, and did not consider the second set as important. J udge Levissee’s absence from town was not known to witness. He (witness) did not sign either Judge Levissce’s name or Mr. Joflrion'a He knev trie vote of Louisiana would settle the election for Hayes and Wheeler. At the time of the signing of the certificates, everybody and everything about the Governor was in a condition of ohaobo confusion. There was a constant throng aii toe time, day and night, at his office and house. The Committee adjourned until the 19th. The Committee' met, on the 19th, and voted to adjourn until the following day, the members desiring to participate in the closing scenes of Congress.

The Committee resumed its sittings on the. 21st, Mr. Morrison presiding, in the absence of Mr. Potter. Capt. Thomas A. Jenks testified that, in 1876. he held the office of Deputy United States Marshal and resided in East Feliciana Parish. Republicans in the parish Lad informed him timt they did not dare to register on account of intimidation. Here Mr. McMahon objected to any testimony being given on the part of Sec’y Sherman until he admitted that he had written that letter to Anderson. As he had denied writing it. he had no interest in showing what had l>een the condition of affairs in East Feliciana before the last election. A long c-iscussion ensued, nt the end of which the objection was withdrawn and Mr. Jenks resumed his testimony. Witness said Anderson did sign and swear to the protest which he said he had not sworn to. He himself had gone over the protest, sentence by sentence, with Anderson, and he saw him sign it lief ore Judge Hugh J. Campbell, and swear to it. Witness produced a letter signed by Anderson, re.|iiesting him to forward to him (Andersonithe list rrf nineteen murders committed in East Feliciana. Anderson told witness that he was attacked by the Democrats. The witness said the Anderson protest in the Sherman report, w hich Anderson heretofore testified was not the document that lie had signed, claiming that it had been altered, was the document that Anderson signed and swore to before Judge Campbell. Anderson requester! the witness to make an affidavit that he i Anderson' was intoxicated when he signed that paper, bnt the witness refused. He was perfectly sober. 'Bev eral months afterward Anderson came to the witness and wanted him to make a statement to the effect that he (Anderson’ had never signed a protest, and had a document written by Himself to that effect. Anderson told the witness that Maj. Burke had offered him several thousand dollars and a position if be would go.back on his Srotest. Witness said the first he knew' alxiut the herman letter was on the 6th of January last, when it was mentioned by Marshal Pitkin, in a convers ition. He never saw a letter written by Mr. Sherman to anyone about the election of 1876. The witness was shown several letters, which he identified as being in the handwriting of D. A. Weber, and then he was shown the signature of Weber to the Anderson-Weber contract, and was asked whether he believed it to be the genuine. ‘He replied he did not think it was; that Welier always signed his name in a backhand; that he had never seen him sign as this paper was signed; that it might be Weber’s signature, but it was not his nsual signature. He had never seen that Anderson-Webercontract before. He also testified to Gov. Kellogg s desire that Anderson should return to East Feliciana and discharge his duties as Supervisor. and that the Governor had advanced him SSO out of his own funds to pay his expenses. He denied Anderson's statement to L. B. Jenks mot a cousin or a relation of the witness: being got drunk at the witness’ house, and as to the facte of the conspiracy (that there should be no election in East Feliciana) lieing drawn out of him. That part of the statement which mentioned the fact of his wife going to Col. Patten, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, was true, but her object was to get a guarantee for Anderson's protection from violence. The witness testified abpnt the $350 which Anderson had received in Baton Rouge, and said it was paid on a draft drawn on the Democratic candidate for District Judge by the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee inNew Orleans. It was intimated, however, by McMahon, that the draft in question was signed by Gov. Kellogg and indorsed by State Supervisor Hahn. Cross-examination elicited the fact that witness was Tax Collector of East Feliciana in 1869-'7O; that it was since claimed that there was a deficit of SIO,OOO in his accounts, and that an indictment was found against L. B. Jenks, his deputy, who got off by pleadin" the statute of limitation. L. B. Jenks was a candidate on the Republican ticket in 1876 for Parish Judge of West Feliciana. Witness then detailed his movements since his arrival in Washington. His wife had ‘called on Gov. Kellogg and Judge Shellaharger. and to- ? ether with himself had discussed Ixjuisiana stairs with them. He did not remember of Pitkin’s mentioning the fact that the Sherman letter was in Mrs. Weber’s possession. His wife had said that Mrs. Weber haxl denied ever having heard of such a letter. He said Mrs. Jenks came to Washington in rcspomie to a letter from Kellogg and Packard inquiring whether she had any information or documents which would be useful to them in the fight for the New Orleans Collectorship and Senatomhip. In a reply to a question as to the documenta she took with her. witness said he did not think she took any or had any to take. Witness further ■aid that his wife find told him that Anderson claimed to have a copy of the Sherman letter: he did not know if his wife had ever corresponded with Sherman in relation to that letter. Witness had been intimate with Anderson nntil he requested witness to go back on that affidavit. The original Anderson-WelMir agreement was shown to the witness, who recognized the body of the paper and the signature of Anderson as Anderson's writing, but failed to recognized the other signatures of Weber or either of the witnesses.