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Show GENERAL. F(lin'V-TlllIU) CONUKKSS. HOUSF. Wasi in-tuu, 30. Alter the house was called to order the clerk proceeded proceed-ed to read the journal, omitting the yeas and nays in detail, when Randall raised thw p'uint of order that ihey must bo read. After a hng debate, the speaker decided that the point was well taken, and directed the cierk to read the whole journal. U is said it will take twelve hour to do this. Kandall btated that his object was to consume the whole day, &o as to prevent a day's notice being given ol the resolution to change the rules and thus throw that back lor another 1 week. The houao adjourned at 4.30, on motion of Butler, after defeating the motion for adjournment coining from Eidridge. Seventeen roll calls had beem read through. It would have ! been daylight on Sunday belore the journal was finished. The only read-f read-f ing when the house n:eria on Monday will be the short journal of to-day. The luveyticutlou. New Orleans, :J0. George E. Head, major in the lid infantry, U-stifb-d before be-fore the investigating committee that Marshal Seeleyc suuwed him a list of :lo persons to l arresttd on October iitrh, and asked witness to aid him; TJn't help and couldn't say whether tho troops were used for political purposes. pur-poses. H. C. Meyers, a resident of Nathi-toches Nathi-toches parish, testified that the trouble among lbs people there is duo to the ; excessive taxes; did not think many negroes voted wilh the democrats; never heard of the negroes that were hung in his parish. Mr. Frye questioned ques-tioned him as to the cause "of his leaving home. Witness said it waa through fear of personal injury. Republicans where safe there up to the lime of the meeting on the 2'Al of July. Thirty-thrte persous, twenty-two being colored, were killed , in the parish since '6S, and nobody was punished. Some were brought to trial and were acquitted. Mrs. Myers corroborated her husband's hus-band's testimony. ; Thos. Lightfoot (colored) testified that while under bonds for cow stealing, steal-ing, Mr. JameB promised him if be i would work and vote for the demo-, demo-, crats his final discharge was assured. He was offered $400 or $500 to testily 1 before the committee for the demo- crata. Ho nover bad been offered ' anything by the republicans. He received $-30 from a club with which , to buy colored voters at $- each. Sandy Rice (colored) testified that i he received $7.50 for voting tho deni-l deni-l ocratic ticket, and had an ofVer of ) $400 to testify before the committee i for the democrats. uovernor jeiiogg as t;iooa-A-amined as to why he didn't send the metropolitan militia to Grant parish during the troubles there. Fie said that Judge Manning and other prominent pro-minent conservatives assured them there would be ne trouble, and tho steamboat men refused transportation to the state militia. When General Emory sent up troops be had to almost al-most buy the boat. He said taxation in the county parishes was not excessive. ex-cessive. Low lands on the Fecte were assessed at $5 per acre, while the products pro-ducts of those lands were worth five times as much as corresponding lands in Illinois. In New Urleans , the assessment was high and the system bad. The commerce of the city is greater to-day than for twenty years. Tho import trade has fallen oS, owing to tiie riots and political trouble, but the western product and steamboat trade had increased. in-creased. The governor continued t great length, giving the facts about the commerce of the state and internal in-ternal interests. Irwin, nnder Bell's examination, testified that he paid Capt. Bradbury $10,000. Witness employed Bradbury Brad-bury more on other business than on the subsidy. Witness knew only from inference that Stock well employed em-ployed Win. 8. King, to whom was paid $125,000. |