[273] Ibid., 18, 438, 439. A part of Caddo Parish where eight hundred voters lived was cut off by water and so no registrar went to that section at all, 50.
[274] Senate Reports, 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 457, 718.
[275] According to Bovee fifteen or twenty registrars were returned. House Misc. Doc., No. 211, 245.
[276] He was put on the ticket by the Parish Committee as the man named by the convention said he could not leave. Part of the tickets bore his name, part the name of the former nominee, so that the friends of the latter who could not read were tricked into voting for Carr. Ibid., 224-25.
[277] Bovee stated: “I think there was a regular system of fraud entered into with a view of electing certain men.... As far as I can learn, all were perpetrated in the governor’s interest.” Ibid., 243.
[278] Sen. Jour., 1871, 32.
[279] Ibid., 1871, 24.
[280] See the table which illustrates this shifting in Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, 250.
[281] United States Statutes at Large, XVI., 140-6.