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Show POTTER INVESTIGATION. New Orleans, 16. Before the Potter sub-committee to day the testimony was taken tending to show Ibat certain supervisors bad made false returns; that tbe returns were altered to favor the republican candidates and that tbe affidavits sworn to by some persons per-sons regarding intimidation were pre pared in the custom bouse and never read by those who signed them. The wituesses denied the substance of most of the affidavits when tead to them by members of the committee, saying they never would have Bigned trie documents had they known what they contained. Some witnetiea swore to having joined the democratic clubs before the election and to j knowing of many other colored pert one who did the same thing. |