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Show THE POTTER COMMITTEE. A Bn&ler Kesolnlioii Tito Poller lutjulry. Washington, 23. When the doors reopened Butler offered the following: Jtesolved, That the committee receive re-ceive from Butler the cipher dispatches dis-patches which he shall present to iheiu and that the clerk he directed, in connection with some pereon whom Butler shall dosig.uate, to mukt a complete inventory ot tbo dispatches eu received iu duplicate and cerlity to Hie aame, one copy to be preserved for the use of the committee aud 0110 given to Butler; that ull tiie cipher dispatches eo received shall ho prinlui for tbe committee; that, unices hereafter here-after otherwise ordeied, before any original copies are given out lor publication publi-cation they shall bo submitted to i clerk to he choicu by the commiltee, who shall be Bworn to make a faithful transcription and decipher tbe samti according to his beat knowledge, akill and ability, and that he shall not allow any cipher diapatchea given him to be given to any person or given out tor publication, nor any of the dispatches, nor any supposed transla tion without previous couaent is obtained ob-tained from the committee, bo to do, ' and ho will return to the comuntti t ull printed sheets and telegiams com -1 milled to him with such tranela'.ioi a aB he shall make, receiving from ihe committee Bucb reasonable eum iir! hia work aB the commiltee may judge 1 proper. The .resolution was unanimously adopted. I Reed then offered the following: Whereas, Hewitt, of New York, in hia place in the house, after alleging that Samuel J. Tildcn had been charged with tho cipher dispatches, baa demanded that Tiideu have au opportunity to face hia accusers before a competent tribunal, therefore, Jic.vlved, That a copy of tho resolution resolu-tion directing the committer to investigate in-vestigate tbe cipher dispatches bo sent- to. Tilden, and he be allowed to be represented by counsel in tho aame manner and under the eame limita-tion limita-tion aa persona arra:goed under the ordinary issolution conaiitutmg this commiltee. R'ied remarked ihat ho offorcd thi b resolution in gncd faith, and not in any partisan spirit. The resolution was accepted. The chairman called St. Martin, who w.is examiuod at some lengih regardiug bis affidavit already published. pub-lished. Following are thn most, important im-portant points of the testimony: Question Your affidavit saya that you were iustrucled by t?tengr to report re-port "not found" when you bad any etibiceuas to serve ou republican wilueasefc? A. It was not Steuger but Maddox. It was a mistake ami I altered it aa soon as I saw it iu the papers. This affidavit was umde on December 2d, aud I dill not alter it until last week. I had not a copy of tbo atlidavit, and did not know Stcnger's name occurred where- it should read Maddox. Witness thcu stated bow, when acting aa serge inl-al inl-al arms of the committee, he bad returned re-turned twelve or thirteen eubfutnas with the report "not found." He did sn on instructions from Maddox iu Mi iu-.-i-j cases. They wore wit-. wit-. m who were republican, or wit-, jiiuosua whom he was unable to "fix I up" to testily as Maddux desiml. |