New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-18

@. Did he intimate thai you were 70 keep -
sefi A; He did not sayi ltooh II as my s..s ana
@. With whom did you have any ....u,;.a,,o,
about it A. do not know that 80 sr;,h aOs
one Reynolds knew all about t. nssc,;ou w nav
know that he knew all al 49,, ~ ,ranssct;en bui
whether he got il om on ue do ,'o
Der; BIER. may have ,ahe wsh Reynolds about !. at the
Nth ,nbodr n,.p nher how that was; hot talked
o. After Inc e'' LIN at any time about i.
,,rard 49, receipt Of this Oh, ok, what did you do
49,, So;, corruipg any servicef A. Jus as had
20 gall along before
,H JbSm d d you see A. never after sim
e member never lad any opportunity wisnI S%
upon any subject; urged the settlement Of that quss
ton as had been doing before.
BY the Chairman: q. What conversation had You
with Mr.. Wendell at the time he proposed 10 give You
s20,000l A. Tha. grew ou of my gassing with Rey.
! noyds nv Joking plasuing him; he proposed, If
weud take the contract 10 give me $40, O00 here 10
memorandum which lie made and handed 70 me when
be left me, during the first conversations do not
now remember which il III place of telling II, he
wrote it down while was looking on; says he,
"Here is what l will do and then wrote this;
updeIstaI ding sss that this was $1,000 apiece said
81 would rather take the 5000 down, and not take
| the contract"
| men2 A. / forget the number of men who were
needed to pass the b or raise the Committee, which
| ever il WIS
BY tie Chairman: O. Is this Ithe memorandum the
witness had Produced in Mr. Wendell handwriting 7
A. Yes, Sir.
| @. Lid MIR. Wendell evince willingness TO invest
! great deal more than that in Lecompt0n A. He
made remark something like this: bushel OF gold
| IL object in this matter
Q. In what matter a. In the passage of the bill,
OF in the settlement Of the Lecompton question; there
was no bill then before the House, think; am not
certain which it was.
O. Do you recollect whether il was before the Con-
ference Committee raised after that you changed
your deposit and took draft A. did 1t within a
few days after first went to the bank think il was
in the same week; got uneasy about il and did not
know but what they might 60 and attach 1t, or do
something to stop payment, If they found was doing
nothing; and could do nothing more than had been
doing.
@. Could you understand why il was that Mr.. Wen
dell offered you only 10000 when he said that "a
bushel of gold was object in getting that matter
settled A. He said that when he was urging this
proposition upon urging me 10 engage III this mat
ter; | understood him by that 10 mean that II even
wanted more could have it; that was what under
stood by that remark.
O. Did YOU not give Mr. REYNOLDS portion of this
money, in consideration of his services in getting you
the agency in this matter A. He said 70 day,
You made good thing out of this, and You never
co. out or me- a yEe r H"oo ne
SIM; 4 tod him that | would go up TO the bank the
next mornings did 60 up, and drew ont some money;
do not remember how much ! gave him. IT was
either $50 500 do not know which; II was not
over $500, and | DO not think it was under Sl5Oi l
think il was one of those TIVE sums.
!. Q. Did You know any other parties who were
engaged here as outsiders in helping to get the Le-
compton bin passed A. There were plenty of them.
q. Who were engaged in that business a. l do
not know any who had the handling of any money.
| Q. We understand that man who had the hand.
ling of money in that matter would not tell any
else about H. mean, who were engaged in getting
that bill through! 4. There great many men
here from Ohio pressing members to vote for that BILL
Q. Can You name any who came at that particu-
lar time, for that purpoee, that you knew of A. do
| not know any who came for that purpose; there
were men here from number of districts who urged
members TO vote for that bill; Col Medary was here
Mr. johnson was here, candidate for United States
Marshall that was the business he was here about.