| Show by telegraph AMERICAN AMERICA NEW ORLEANS 19 tho the democratic counsels statement to the senate committee of their case contains the following points first they received in the late presidential election in louisiana a majority of the legal votes of about second that the election ao so far mas was the democrats were concerned I 1 alvas vas fair and peaceable and free und b d the democrats all attempted t to secure such an election f third on oa the contrary the republicans pu public blicaus ans aus and their leaders having pro pre previously bously determined and con aspired to carry the state unfairly therefore did many unlawful acts I 1 fourth the republicans appoint td ed only ly republican supervisors and VI almost exclusively republican clerks of registration refusing the democrats repeated demands for presentation thus preventing the v detection of frauds 11 44 wi fifth they usually sent bent out cori cor 1 ruit runt men as supervisors in the country parishes sometimes selecting united states officials clala living lout outside jmdej the tho counties count ies iea in walh hil hii py y acted 1 sixth these supervisors in several e v parishes impeded the 0 demo tk cruts crits from registering practically ade yde nying registration in some emes cases jet 3 31 affording the tho every chance to register even fraudulent rii names nes amounting in the state to seventh these sup supervisors e often refused to strike off the names of col cl red d republicans clearly proven ins in alot rdv revision Islon to be fraudulent aaita anu irl iti in elre elfe elf eif tion cion day the greater pan a art ari yi ip in lioen laen voted increasing 6 t pa shelb W jut in the vil bil illy ir ab rhth ighel these fu communicated munica ted freely ilithe the republican committees reviving 1 aig instructions to commit frauds with promises of reward if bucce successful isrul ninth the tie r leaders cand vand and voters devisee leans ef of intimidating mating the tiem item estic atac voters by fil and borrup practices baus causing wholesale airas air As its of white voters jut aford tf 0 election thus causing terror and de depriving 1 mug the democrats of many ot bentli the leaders leadens an and I 1 supervisors N connived to present the iho cast ewt lb log ing g of a full fuli voto vote in several par lanes wiel eleventh they illegally appointed numerous deputy united 4 in marsi marii ars hais hals at great ym tho iho he government also deputy constable le who surround ea the polls and intimidated the voters twelfth they spent government money for fon pait partisan ikan isan purposes by commissioning many united states marshals exclusively among the republicans and empl empi employing oin oln clerks to copy affidavits for tor the returning board also by summoning many republican witnesses paying large mileage thirteenth they closed the courts against redress in an unheard of manner fourteenth the republican leaders dis before and after election eon con jo to count fraudulent fraudulently IF the votes cast to reverse the large democratic majority on the face of the returns public declarations and subsequent actions revealed this conspiracy s fifteenth tie tho the fe returning turning p board was the instrument of this conspiracy it was an illegal body being wholly republican and acting with idith a an u unfilled vacancy the law ra required aired the fill filling fiig of cles cies and a full board of nive five members sixteenth his sis the said sald beard board usurped judicial functions contrary to the stalo stale constitution which restricts ts that power to the judiciary Judici aryA A seventeenth it attempted to escape 0 effective berut scrutiny n by excluding we the democratic de observers 0 9 I 1 vars at the M most ost I 1 important ee session and by refusing refuting to fill the vacancy with alth a democrat eighteenth the board conspired with the republican leaders to accomplish com its purpose violated the laws concerning it as to receiving and opening the returns anu anh can vas kak sinthe same bame as rip rig tho the tion of protests protas etc Nineteenth eiith elith the board altered ita its rules and modified its proceedings ds wh whenever v er necessary to promote its t I 1 interests n age rest opposing likewise dem democratic 0 cratic interests twentieth tile the board as a climax fraudulently rejected say democratic votes sometimes rejecting a whole parish without justification s t i f ati on audd aud id others the board doard r d bb showing 0 ina ing heavy democratic demo domo crati cratl j k 06 e majorities thus violating the law and their own r rules u les ies twenty first that 0 H brewster ter whom they declared elected presidential elector dector was wa at the time of his election ineligible being united states surveyor general of louisiana A H Lev issee was also united states commissioner being therefore ineligible yet the board declared them eligible despite written protests twenty second there were nvere throughout ut the state vast numbers of republican ballots bearing beating but three three electors yet the board did not consider this protest signed by F C Za zacharie charle charie H C brown charles Cavana cavanac cand and four others before the house committee wm AX maynell aynell a colored democrat of new Orlean orleans ss testified to being maltreated mal treated because he was suspected of democracy by a republican negro and was afraid to go out alone lately jerry jery hall hail a colored democrat t canvassed several precincts ho told the same sto story ry of colored democrats fearing to voter vote the tho democratic tic tie ticket ket radford hadford blount a baptist bishop said he would refuse to perform the marriage ceremony for colored democrat saula sauld sanu sana would r refuse e fuse to baptize them would excommunicate them all ali and h voting the democratic ticket would justify getting a divorce bethought He thought the change would protect the people as t the 6 administration had failed to do it Ol glasses asses colored I 1 canvass ed the stafe state for the democrats there was talk of intimidation of colored democrats but all was peaceable many republicans voted the democratic ticket general anderson of ol the returning board was before the committee tee tonight to night without bringing the document called for by the commit he resubmitted submitted his reasons for refusing to bring it which the co committee declined to receive i they aro are ro in substance as follows the officers constituting the board having received the command 0 of f tho the committee had answered tha that t the list of voters were part of the record with which the board were still busy canvassing the returns which work must bo completed by the first monday in january next for presentation to the general assembly sem t y therefore the original ro returns cannot be removed being preserved for this purpose moreover tho the valuable records re cords colds entrusted by tho the board to the former congressional gressi committee have never been returned for the seand other reasons the officers refused to surrender the 0 original 1 rIgI rial rini returns vo to avoid the appearance of wishing concealment hode howe however very ve vers they gave eight clerks of the committee every facility frn for making correct copies of the he understood that nea nearly ay one third of f this work was al already d d done n ge gen ande An andelson anderson deison delson son aid said in answer to a question that he did not know whether tilden or hayes had the most votes he never heard any member of the 1 ardway ard say Bay all ail the final discussion by the tho board hoard was tyas in secret though counsel for the board was seme some sometimes times tAmes called in for information on questions of law east Fell feil feliciana clana ciana was rejected for great intimidation grant parish because no legal returns were received th gefrom he favored the counting of that pare parish sh but was overruled any statement declaring that votes were thrown out in orleans parish was false falsie it wils was possible that they received no votes from oue one or two city polls but he did not remember it is claimed by the democrats that the vote at the three polls above alluded to were thrown out or did not appear on the eer certified tilled copy of the city vote filed with Wih the secretary of state Ye turnIng board the republican members of the house rouse committee were elated oker over th the testimony of gen anderson Au derson claiming that i it fully vindicates the boards action in rejecting the tift action of bulldozed parishes in the compilation of the votes should the ie returning board refuse to deliver the ordinal returns tomorrow to morrow thie the case ease of come up squarely P but the committee will probably await the action of the house ousa before arresting anybody the re republican publican counsels cation to the senate committee alleges ages its 10 ts ability to prove first that the late lection was at certain polls and pi incas nullified by violence and intimidation consisting of secret conspiracies li dagues leagues and emed hands iba ads of brig ands known as bulldozers bull dozers who n 4 whipped ed shots shot hung burned mutilated ti and assassinated white and colored republicans thus producing terrorism among republicans lasting over a year prior to the elec olec j tion lion second the state election laws were enacted to meet sueh ruch a condition of affairs affair they declare an election thus held null and void and ayes yest t the returning board with pow power er to examine into the facts where r such a condition of affairs exists and if proven to declare void any such euch election by rejecting and refusing to count such pretended vote sAnd that this law is righteous and just juat third the returning officers accordingly aam eam examined ned and found in certain parishes that the election was nullified by such a tato state of affairs and the returning off meers officers as the law comman dedy declared the nullity and rejected the votes of d districts astri acts t thus h us terrorized fourth at the decent recent election i 1200 to 1600 republican voters who wilo wished and attempted to vote the republican ticket were put in fear of their lives and ten to ined trifled systematically ati cally and by outrages prevented from casting their ballot and that to republican votes were thus forced to vote the tho democratic ticket fifth thus was the right to vote of the to colored persons denied and abridged sixth such an abridgment wab was in whole or part of the parish of east baton rouge bouge east and west feliciana morehouse richland grant livingston franklin sabine Clari eiarl ela Cla bones desota nui uni jackson jack jacw son and in the foregoing parishes not less than to voters were prevent proven t sd ed from voting as they chose seve seventh n th this denial genial and abridgment was the result of a conspiracy for the violent suppression of banou bno buo f gh republican votes to enable enible the conspirators to carry the state fo for fon r the democrats armed bodies of men carried out tho the conspiracy sp iracy they were the bulldozers bull dozers they used every known means massacres whipping hanging etc eighth this conspiracy and the resulting acts were committed by the white democrats ninth the tho purpose was to coerce su sufficient M republican voters to vote vota the tho democrat democratic le feket ticket to secure an a apparent democratic mt majority jor dor in th the 0 state tate tato tenth A con eon spir ncy acy ia rs shown by pattons yat Pat tons confidential circular issued by the chairman of the I 1 ate late democratic committee by a select ign of thoad parishes for bulldozing bull dozing which skirt the states of mississippi and arkansas and render violence asler easier they were tho the strong republican parishes parl pari hes by sudden and simultaneous ou outbreaks about election in these parishes s b by Y encouragement received from this city and by failure to attempt conviction by lack of con eon condemnation demnati an of these facts by press and public meetings or clergy while citizens who ven ventured turea to denounce outrages had been menaced with proscription crip tion and persecution and thus silenced the democrats have denied these outrages or attributed them to negligence of loc local a I 1 0 officers M c e r sa knowing local off meers officers were powerless by the same terrorism eleventh eleven th under tb the tha 0 state stale law the tho returning officers ollI cers alone can make returns of the election N neither tei lei supervisors nor vor commissioners of registration can make and rind declare the returns i twelfth the effect of such lawlessness spread into surrounding parishes thirteenth in east F feliciana eli ell ciana clana tho the horrible murder of john gair 1 ex representative and ana sergeant at arms of the house of representatives under pretence predence pre tence that he killed a man who is now alive and who was tied to a tree and shot to death was a crime committed by the democrats for reasons growing out of political animosities and for political ends it was the most lost dastardly act of the history of crime yet it its perpetrators go unpunished and ond unsought after fourteenth in ouachita Ou achita dink ay grave was assassinated fora for a similar reason teason F fifteenth i f t ee n th the assassination of senator twitchell adred in red bed river kiver parish wa was wag secretly sper etly contrived by the democrats for a apolitical political end finally the counsel call attention to the parallel between the affairs of 1868 and 1876 remarking that few democrats now dare deny the 0 outrages of 1868 which haye have passed into history the protest is signed by hugh JC ampbell chairman of the committee washington 19 today to day the tin j i 1 treaty commission called upon the president to present a pipe sent cent to him by white ghost the den dent t sal sai sald said d it ia Is r sometimes difficult to know low th the e real facts of the condition of the indian tribes by reason of conflicting reports from agents dermen bor and rind military officers and in that way injustice might be done but ut I 1 always try to deal deai justly with the indians I 1 believe that the favorable result results sot of the peace policy justify the belief that it will wili be continued I 1 have always endeavored to so firmly establish this policy during my term of office that my ray successor may not think proper to change it LITTLE ROCK I 1 19 another fire has broken out in n the block at the corner of markham and bherman sherman streets which threatens the whole eastern business part of the city the utmost excitement prevail prevails at 9 four engines aro are playing on the fire the bloc block seems doomed if it is destroyed the loss will be 1115 the brick walls walis of the largest largest wholesale house in arkansas are in flames and cannot be checked yet and there is no telling what destruction will ensue the fire is bell uell believed eved to le be the work of an incendiary y at 1130 the fire was under control and confined to one block although t h ong h those tose h a adjoining don J 1 1 were considerably sider bider ably damaged by fire and water later the loss by the fire is estimated at the I 1 ia less thau haic half in the past six weeks the loss by fire in this city has been 19 the committees have been in session all day the senate committee sitting with WN closed doors the case of manatee county 3 thrown out because there was n no 0 clerk in the county during the election was called up one witness appeared judge Gra grahams hams bams he testified that the clerk resigned reigned just before the elec ion that the governor did not fill his place in ti time e for the democrats to register that the republican county commissioners miss loners ners called the election which was regularly |
