Show POTTER POTHER the Ti visiting statesmen matheu make their statement they were only lookers on in ili venice recall or of the other Inqui inquisitors front from ATLANTIC N J july 21 t representative kelly m ans as before tile the potter colter committee this morning iud and testified stilled tc that he be new orl ris io in 1870 P president grant irk in philadelphia particia parti participating cip abing in ili ilia clon closing of tile the exposition siut to ur for 1 president grant pr proposed he should visit new orleans lowliness the action of the returning heard at first ho he declined tout but the president said it a number or of prominent gentlemen of the llie democratic party had find gone thre and themi therefore tim lie wanted him to go lie ile was moral merely to go to new orleans as aa 4 i looker on nod and to sew see that nothing im improper rr r a should hould occur on arriving at new orleans he found a number of a gentlemen republicans in ig pel itice the r he n witness unes stated that tant the republican visiting statesmen stat esmin found there gentlemen of the Demor democratic ratto committee tho the letter latter addressed a communication to the ronner former pro proposing the two bodies organize nut and I 1 I 1 participate lu in tho the business of the re turning taming board the Ite committee replied we are hero here as 03 vate talc citizens with mith no DO official power isomer we vie cannot there fuM supersede or modify fifty any law of stole state nor have we any right to control or influence say ouy at dofita its officers as to the manner in 10 which they snail shall perform the lerdal or judicial duties impo imposed ml upon them by its ilia senator Shur nian concurred very decidedly in tho the views express the republican committee the N visitors of tho the opposite sides mingled freely at it jimca I 1 in answer to the llie republican publican Kc committee discussed buy any question involving au an with the ohl dal course of the returning boand nit n ness neat said he never heard tot any such conversation la ia private or tit at tile the nicil ackt ings inga if any one etli ganjon hied often I 1 such a thing thine it would bie base been to his associates HS As nell ell as aa a lo hillon tit of july inc acil kally rai in it tile hie boum elot ot hia 13 testimony said 1 ho a ever aicard of 1 any y suggestions to man palate the paris ito for r n anny a y purposes bor did lie llor a tl 1 mits ROM ill ilia names of fictitious per lons nc ile lid hl not nol know of having a conversation B m ith weber and andron lie he hd had no consciousness of having ever Cort hindt parker of new kew tell lie he visited new orleans hall bull ly y at tho the re bust of f president grol lie did riot not wh while kle in in louisiana hear any doubts donata abro n on alio protest in ulc by ille chy anderson na aa to eist east alicina or r that it it was or that anderson anderaon u imbed to w m withdraw it HAID luhtin lu ta knihal atin that hat lie went to new orleans only at the request est of president grant gran and like nil all t the te visitors Bitoni vl abstained abat tincel careful carefully Z front from ath the ti 9 boa board hod had I 1 tho a iirth letter and slier mon man letter been lie would probably have known it because ho nos mes intimate mith unit and mas ak mth all him daily at new hii ho thought alnes lid us nud and packard were elected lift danford ti stilled that clayta and Packard hud hall the same mine num bar of except that chat packard had avio 0 huni or three hundred more in u one ex sphar D A had liall asked him at tile timo ile tho lie t visiting were in new orleans if malthew Malt bew and sacr man could bo be trustie tru inis td slid and being assured bellar thy duy could mu amid lie it like a to take a y a verbal fir and alkil would I 1 ad a m ritten time next day Webers aldow honed cd a kl il tir hr kiich buness road anti and winch to lo bo be signed by blickman but as aa out nut sure sura it ft eks as Sher shermans mans v riling presumed its it mas as 1 I aliis ilia lestr me fiut substantially as pule pul imbed the vaa on bulc pt per nit S atness ilia fact to J lutgo tac duhg ngo ago sherman testified to going to new near orleans ill 11 ilia request or of ad adjourned mourned the lie committee decided it to recall the abc lu in nw now orleans bt at once and butler gave notice hi he ouia ifould n ant wine m hero here front nw orleans to gino annd ad Ie cllon J air 21 24 the worlds world t washington sale the decision or ia tile the racille railroad lund land great taw tal w is extensive exten sivi ly delin debated ted anti and commented oil oa in tile tho con missioner ncr cribs of the land today nil AV illiam Aoa said I 1 cannot k 14 the amount of 0 land ind Illa tIll iw a open act under tile decision duci there are hundreds of ike norca I 1 niu am sure bure but riot not on one la Ts forty or tile lauth which have nul not already been disposed of by tuc the compani that ibal Is id worth burih anything for agricultural ecA ahou 1 hou send of acres granted cup c u P an have bavo no ool bli surveyed sed cd there ther i Is a larger rams area of lead land now DOW am ialy by the aban alt the lands we leavo to theta them since the grants were n tile line of tile the C P road its iia fur as the black hills ilia load grants erada have been from alic aliuk stlla to thu une line varv cry fitt lAsur iyog likes tm anta n done the abo kansas pulli fic annil grants tinta have been surveyed Is blo ble piotr wit ilir r P I 1 a id on in ilia lluc line or ul I 1 kanfu in lalni 1 dr uro 1 I some soine farin hull in ili L man grants winch may inay b be a tile alf la Is 84 1 ilio mcf aall bet tr adapted to ulfat beat flueling Is tn karkan ilia alian a further north I 1 believe aliat thu advantages to matt enlora leria under abo awn decision M n ill bu fkr avs than utica ia 1 generally gani rouy expected the area A OM to 10 preemption ts good rand epou it ARISO d is ii 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