Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-30
THE CApErsHIp SALES.
Interesting Revelations About n Sc
cret Meeting of Carpct-Baggers.

New YoRK, June 29.-The Sun has the
following: When the Military Committed
first began Investigating the cadetship sales
the carpet-bag members held a secret meet
ing They resolved, if there was to be an
investigation, such investigation should
begin among the leaders, who are making
their thousands, and not among few pow
erless members, who now and then take
five hundred dollars. At this meeting res
olutions were prepared They we're well
digested and based on absolute facts, in
possession of different members of Con-
gress They were to be the bomhshell
which was to make the leaders dodge to
protect their own corrupt jobs. The lead
ers heard of the resolutions; they were
thrown into intense excitement. They
shall not be introduced" s!Their introduce
ton will be the political death warrant of
any man who shall stand up and offer
them; 'They will destroy the Republican
party" Such exclamations, with threats
Of the ostracism of any Republican intro
ducing tho resolutions, squelched them.
HOW it was ina the House.
In the House they had no champion
strong enough, and SO the little ten-cent
Investigations have been occupying the at
bOAtlOA Vi l1O BOVDAC, BASht
wrongs and gigantic cases of bribery and
corruption in the upper house and in the
lower, and even with the head Of the ma
ton, 60 unpunished .1
After the President.
Seid a member of Congress: ''A car
pet-bagger receives five hundred dollars,
pays it over to build freedmen's school
house, and is debarred from his seat in the
House, while the President receives ten
thousand dollars from A. T. Stewart, which
contribution enables him to make twenty
ips thousand dollars from the sale of
house which belonged to Mr.. Bowen, and
Mr. Stewart is called to the Secretaryship.
II is dsmnable; it is unbearable. Must
we submit?"
The Resolutions.
These are the resolutions prepared by
O room full Of Southern members, and
which were to have been offered to the
House. In that room were Dockery,
Hodge, Lssh, Buck, Butler, Sheldon, De-
weese, Bowles, Hayes, Bowen, Cobb, Dox,
Newsham and Whittemore, on the eve of
expulsion The resolutions were sup
pressed:
'sWHEREAs, 1t is currently reported that
several officers of the United States Govern.
ment have been disposed of for q money
consideration, to the great scandal of re-
publican institutions and the detriment of
the people, therefore
''Resolved, That the Committee on
Military Affairs now investigating the sale
of cadetships, be and the same is hereby
authorized and directed to inquire whether
ANYTHING of that sort has been done either
by members of Congress, in using their
in fuences to procure appointments of
members of the Executive branch or the
Government in bestowing the same, and
that said committee shall especially in
duire whether the President of the United
States did, at any time, appoint or nomi-
nate to the high office of Secretary of the
Treasury, any person who had, previously
to said nomination or appointment, sub
scribed to fund, to be presented in cash,
or to the purchase of house or other sub
staatial property to be presented to the
President, and report the SAND. Whether
any and what consideration was given by
Gen. D. S. Butterfeld, United States Sub
Treasurer at New York, for the position he
now holds, and whether said Butterfeld
was or was not instrumental IN raising q
purse, or sum Of money for the President,
and report the same. Whether the Dis
trict Attorney for the Southern District of
New York, Judge Pierrepont, did, or did
not subscribe 500, 900, or other considera-
ble sum TOW ard the election OF .he Presi-
dent, and if so, the manner in which
said loan was appropriated. Fifth,
whether any party appointed to Cabinet
Office ever contributed a valuable library,
or other valuable property, not cash, to the
President before his said appointment.
Sixth. whether any members of Congress
are supplied with gas at their residences in
Washington, D. c., by the gas company of
said city, free of charge, and if so, who
and how many, and the names of said
members of Congress. Seventh, whether
any members of either branch of Congress
a1e stockholders, directly or indirectly,
through other persons, as trustees or
agents, in the Pacific or other railroads, to
which the Government of the United States
has granted subsidies of public lands and
whose bonds have been indorsed, or either
and if SO, the name OF each member, the
amount of stock owned by him, or fox him
by others, or the proportion of land owned
by him, or for him by others, or the aggre-
gate value of indorGed bonds, or construc-
ton bonds, or subsidy bonds, held by him
or others for him, and to report the same
to this House. Eighth, whether there is
any of the family of the Secretary of State
engaged by any foreign Government as at
torney or counsel, to whom is paid con-
sideration, if any, for services, and what
kind of service Ninth, whether any
member of the Cabinet has a partner or
late partner who has abandoned the posi-
ton of assistant in his Office to be-
come an attorney in prosecuting
claims before the Department.
Tenth, whether any member of
Congress has had employed, as clerk, in
any Of the departments, any female whose
relations to him have ceased to be matter
of doubt, and has paid her fees SIS mistress
by the salary of her position. Eleventh,
whether the Mayor OF Washington did or
did not purchase at bona tide sale the house
of the President, now occupied by General
Sherman, for the sum Of $40, 200, paying
the President 81 900 to bind the sale, and
said sale was subsequently set aside by the
President, and the same property sold to
A. T. Stewart and others for S65, 000 TO be
presented to General Sherman. Whether
said sale and receipt of twenty-five thou
sand dollars profit by the President was or
was not protested by Silas ]. Bowen, and
whether said Bowen did or did not secure
for the quiet settling of said sale, and al
lowing the President, instead of himself,
to make S2j, 900, some political considera-
ton, in the way of Government patronage,
district and post Office appointments, ETC.;
''Resolyed, That in order to investigate,
make clear and report upon these ques-
tions, said committee have power to send
for persons and papers.