would secure for him better bail?-A. I did not; I never thought of such a thing.

Q. Did you have any conversation with him on the train coming from Bellefonte to Port Matilda?-A. I did not; I didn't see him.

Q. Did you have any conversation with him on that day coming from Port Matilda to Philipsburg?—A. I did not; didn't see him.

Q. Did you have any conversation with him on the following day in relation to his vote?-A. I did not.

Q. What is the reputation of Wash. Brady in this community for truth and veracity?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is irrelevant and impertinent.)

A. He is in one respect, I know, a liar.

Q. State his reputation in this community for truth and veracity.—A. I couldn't state only what I have heard in this case only.

Q. Is it good, bad, or indifferent?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it has been asked and answered twice before as far as the witness knows.) A. It's bad.

Q. Is Wash. Brady single or married?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question becausé it is irrelevant and there is better evidence than the knowledge of the witness.) A. He is married. He showed me his certificate.

Q. State if his wife is living, and where?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is irrelevant.) A. Just before court she was living at Woodland, Clearfield County. Q. State whether or not he is living with his wife at present. (Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is irrelevant.) A. No.

Q. With whom does he live?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is irrelevant. and impertinent.)

A. I don't know. He lives with some woman, not his wife, in Philipsburg Borough.

Cross-examined by D. H. HASTINGS, Esq.:

Q. When were Mr. Brewer's taxes paid?—A. I couldn't tell the date exactly; it was either Thursday evening or Friday morning before the time run out for paying taxes to get a vote at that election.

Q. Who paid Brewer's taxes?-A. Mr. Casanova.

Q. Who paid Jas. Holes' taxes?-A. I don't recollect.

Q. To whom did you give James C. Holes' tax receipt?-A. I don't recollect.

Q. What was the amount of James C. Holes' tax receipt?—A. I don't recollect.

Q. What was the amount of Mr. Brewer's taxes that Casanova paid?— A. I couldn't tell that without looking at the book.

Q. Please look at your book and tell the amount of taxes assessed against James C. Holes and Mr. Brewer.-A. Brewer's State and county taxes was 21 cents. I received 9 cents of State tax. Amount of James C. Holes' taxes is 35 cents, State and county.

Q. How do you come to recollect so distinctly the time when these taxes were paid?-A. I don't recollect anything about when Holes' was paid. The way I recollect Brewer's so distinctly, I was notified up at Flegal's that I only had two more days to receive taxes; that they could vote on that receipt. Mr. Casanova came to me with a list of

either three or four names; said that they requested him to pay their tax. He paid them, and I gave him the receipts, three or four, I think. Mr. Brewer came to me the next morning and asked me if his tax was paid, and I told him that I gave Mr. Casanova a receipt for it.

Q. Was that list of three or four the only taxes that Mr. Casanova paid?-A. He paid his own.

Q. Was that all?-A. That's all that I recollect of now.

Q. Do I understand you to say that Brewer and Holes' taxes, the three or four others, and his own, were all the taxes that Casanova paid you last fall?-A. That's all I recollect of, but he didn't pay Holes' taxes. Q. Who made the information for the arrest of Brady ?-A. Mr. Adam Walker.

Q. How long was the warrant in your hands before you arrested him?— A. I think, the same day.

Q. Who gave you the warrant?-A. Squire Shoup. No; I take that back; Adam Walker gave me the warrant, brought it up to my house. Q. How long before you arrested him had the information been made?— A. I could not say as to that.

Q. Were you requested by any other person or persons to arrest Brady on the Monday before the election?-A. I arrested him a month before

that.

Q. Were you requested by anybody else to take Brady to jail on the Monday before the election?-A. I was not; there was no one knew it but Charles Lego and myself.

Q. Were any persons at your house on the Sunday before the election in conversation with you about arresting him?-A. No, sir.

Q. Had you any conversation with anybody on the Sunday before you arrested him in which his arrest was discussed?—A. No, sir; without it was Lego.

Q. Was you intimate with the woman he was living with ?—A. No, sir; I was not.

Q. When did you first see her?-A. I could not tell when I first saw her.

Q. Don't you know that Brady was released from jail on the same day you put him in?-A. Yes, sir.

Q. How long after he was put in jail did he get out?-A. I think it was in the afternoon of the same day.

Q. How many times did you see him in Bellefonte after he was released from jail?—A. I don't recollect of seeing him but the once.

Q. Did you not see him at the Bellefonte depot before the 4.30 o'clock train went out?-A. I might of seen him at the station, but don't recollect.

Q. Did you see him at Port Matilda that evening after the arrival of the same train?-A. I don't think I did.

Q. Who came with you from Port Matilda to Philipsburg that evening?—A. W. W. Hale.

Q. Did you come over in the hack?-A. I did not.

Q. Did you not see Brady in the hack?-A. I did not.

Q. Did you have any conversation at any time with Brady on the subject of bail?—A. I did.

Q. When?-A. The time that I first arrested him.

Q. Did you say anything to him at any other time about bail?—A. I. did not.

Q. Did he to you?-A. He did.

Q. When?-A. The morning that Charley Lego and I went to his house.

Q. When was that?-A. The morning that I took him over. Q. Did you speak to him then about furnishing him bail?-A. I did not.

Q. Did you at any time agree to furnish him bail?—A. I never did. Q. Didn't you tell him that you would get Casanova to go his bail if he would vote the Democratic ticket?-A. I never thought of such a thing.

Q. Why did you hold the time of taking him to jail until the day before the election?-A. There was several reasons for it.

Q. Give the reasons.-A. One was, Mr. Walker was out to my house; said I had got to take care of that man. I told him that I had got to go over with Mr. Callahan as soon as he got home, and he said I must take care of him immediately. He said he was going off into the lumber woods in Clearfield County. I told him I would take him as soon as Callahan got home and not before; and I think it was on Saturday night that Mr. Callahan got home that I was notified. I took him over on Monday morning.

JACKSON GORTON.

Adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock Tuesday, April 8, A. D. 1879.

Met, as per adjournment, Tuesday, April 8, A. D. 1879, at 8 o'clock

a. m.

J. L. Spangler and D. F. Fortney, esqs., appear as counsel for contestant and D. H. Hastings and S. D. Gray, esqs., appear as counsel for

contestee.

J. G. WIGHAMAN, being produced, sworn, and examined by D. F. FORTNEY, Esq., on the part of the contestant, deposeth as follows: Question. State your age and residence.-Answer. My age is thirtyeight years. My residence is Philipsburg Borough, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Q. How long have you lived in the borough of Philipsburg ?—A. Twelve years.

Q. Where were you born?-A. Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Q. How long have you been a citizen of Pennsylvania ?-A. I was a citizen all my life.

Q. State whether or not you have paid a State or county tax within two years preceding the 5th of November, 1878.-A. I have always paid. my State and county taxes.

Q. State when and to whom you paid the tax.-A. I think I paid it in the beginning of January, 1878, to Jackson Gorton.

Q. State for what year the tax you paid to Gorton was assessed?—A. I could not do it.

Q. State whether or not you voted at the election held in Philipsburg on the 5th of November, 1878.-A. Yes.

Q. For whom did you vote for Congress at that election ?-A. Andrew G. Curtin.

(Counsel for contestee requests.the counsel for contestant to state the object of the testimony, wherein it is rebuttal.

Counsel for contestant maintains silence.

Counsel for contestee objects to the testimony of this witness, 1st, because counsel for contestant declines to state the purpose thereof or wherein it is rebuttal; 2d, because his testimony is not rebuttal in any sense; and reserving these objections, claim the right to ask the committee of Congress to strike out the above testimony, decline to crossxamine the witness.)

J. G. WIGH AMAN.

G. S. FLEGAL, being produced, affirmed, and examined by J. L. SPANGLER, Esq., on the part of the contestant, deposeth as follows: Question. State where you reside.-Answer. Philipsburg Borough, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Q. Are you acquainted with Maj. George H. Zeigler, Henry Stockbridge, and H. H. Hewit ?-A. I am.

Q. Are they all leading, active, and prominent Republicans?

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is too leading and puts the answer in the mouth of the witness.)

A. They are considered as such, I believe.

Q. What part did they take in the election for Philipsburg Borough, on November 5, 1878 ?—A. Took a very active part. George Zeigler run his own rig and seemed to be very active in getting voters in. Stockbridge had charge of the window-book part of the time.

(Counsel for contestee protests against counsel for contestant stating a portion of the answer and asking the witness's assent thereto and requiring it to be placed on the notes as part of the answer. Which said assertion counsel for contestant denies.)

Q. Are you acquainted with Benjamin Jones ?—A. I am.
Q. State his politics.-A. I believe he is a Republican.

Q. What position did he hold on the election board at the election of November 5, 1878?—A. Judge of the election.

Q. State if you had any conversation with Major Zeigler, Henry Stockbridge, and H. H. Hewit on the morning of the election day, in reference to the treatment of the overseers of that election; and if so, state what that conversation was.

(Counsel for contestee objects to the question because it is immaterial, hearsay, and not rebuttal.)

A. I was coming up the street and met Zeigler, Stockbridge, and Hewit at Herlinger's corner; they seemed to be very angry about the overseers being placed on the board; Zeigler made the remark that they would " put them out of that by force;" Stockbridge made the remark, "And we will do it, too;" Hewit muttered something; I could not tell what it was, but it was sanctioning what the others said; Zeigler made the remark that they had had a conference with the judge; that they would treat them as though they were not there. This was the whole conversation.

Cross-examined by D. H. HASTINGS, Esq.:

(Counsel for contestee objects to the above testimony because it is hearsay and not rebuttal, and, if it have any value whatever, is part of contestant's case in chief, reserving these objections, proceeds to crossexamine.)

Q. Who did you say was the Republican window-book man at that election?-A I think I saw Stockbridge with it a part of the time; I don't remember; it seems to me Harry Simler had it; I won't be positive. Q. Who was the window-book man for the Greenback party on that day?-A. I don't remember.

Q. Was not Jeremiah Sankey the window-book man that day?—A. I don't know, indeed.

Q. Who was the window-book man for the Democrat party that day! -A. I don't remember.

Q. Did you not see J. N. Casanova, chairman of the Democratic borough committee, at the polls with the window-book that day?-A. I don't think he kept the window-book all that day.

Q. Did you see him at the polls that day?-A. I did.

Q. Did you not see him have the window-book in his hands?—A. I saw him have a list; I do not know if it was a window-book or not.

Q. Did not the Democrats have one or more men at the window checking off votes all that day?—A. I don't know; but I think they had.

Q. Who were they?-A. I don't know who the parties were.

Q. Did you have the window-book part of that day at the polls?-A. No, sir.

Q. Were you not at the polls frequently that day?-A. I was there two or three times.

Q. What were you doing there those times?-A. I just went up to see how they were getting along.

Q. Were you not working in the interest of the Democratic party that day?—A. I took no active part in it.

Q. How do you remember so well about the Republican window-book men when your recollection is so poor about the Greenback and Democratic window-book men?-A. I was not watching what our men were doing, I was watching what the other fellows was doing.

Q. If you were watching what the other parties were doing, why don't you recollect anything about the Greenbackers?-A. I didn't pay so particular attention; of course I saw Sankey there and other Greenbackers; I didn't pay much attention to the Greenbackers, because I didn't think they would amount to much.

Q. Was Major Zeigler's wagon or conveyance the only one that was used that day to bring voters to the polls?-A. No, sir.

Q. What others were?-A. There was a number of rigs out; I can't remember them just now; the Republicans had several out, and so had the Democrats.

Q. Mention the Democrats who had rigs out that day?—A. Chester Munson's team was out, and L. G. Lingle's, and some others I don't remember.

Q. Was James Wighaman's rig out that day for that purpose?-A. I believe it was.

Q. Can you now remember any other Democrats whose rigs were out that day for that purpose?-A. I can't state positively, but I know there was others out.

Q. At the time you visited the polls that day did you not see a num ber of Democrats about the voting place?-A. I did.

Q. State the politics of Chester Munson, L. G. Lingle, and J. G. Wighaman.-A. Chester Munson and Lingle, I believe, are considered good Democrats.

Q. Do you not know the fact that Mr. Wighaman was on the witness stand just before you, and that he testified that he voted for Hon. A. G. Curtin for Congress?-A. I heard him say he did before he testified. Q. Please state your politics?-A. I am a Democrat.

Q. At the two or three different times you visited the polls on that election day, did you hear or see any improper treatment of J. J. Lingle, or Albert Owen, esq., by Major Zeigler, Henry Stockbridge, and H. H. Hewit?-A. I did not.

Q. At the times you visited the polls that day did you not find the election proceeding in the usual orderly manner?-A. While I was there it was.

Q. Has it not been the custom for years for the different political parties to have window-book men at the polls on election days?—A. It has been here, I believe.

Q. Did Major Zeigler, Henry Stockbridge, H. H. Hewit, or any other