The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-16

VIC 1e0Iu HUH Q6n WHO WAS IcCfNlI
engaged on the Memphis railroad. that .
the camp on the Blue, about eleven mile
south Of this city, on last Monday night,
difficulty ar0se between John Berney, VIII
keeps boarding house for the employees a
the camp, and a man named English, wh,
has some teams engaged. English first sho
Berney in the head and face with shot gul
loaded with bird shot, inficting a painful
though not dangerous wound. English thei
turned upon another man named Luke eau
and struck him over the h. ad with the bar
rel Of the gun. A physician was called
and the wounds dressed both are nov doing
we'll and will soon recover. In consequence
Of the difficulty and the circumstances at
tending it, a number of the hands employees
at that camp have quit work.
/ BEArY's SCOUTS.
H0W the BiDl Was passea-s;e0. Stokes
CO.neeaisa With the Fraud-Whss h>
Says Of she Matter.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Tribune gives the following account o
Captain Beatty Independent Scouts and til,
fraud perpetrated Tor their relief
On the 14th of January, 1867, Mr.. Stoke.
introduced in the House Of Representatives,
a bill 'for the relief Of Captain David Beaty'l
company of independent scouts" which was
in preamble terms and provisions almost
identical with the act finally approved more
than three years after, and under which the
frauds have been perpetrated. Having been
read twice the bill was referred to the Com.
mittee on Military Affairs, from which Gen
Gilman Marston, of New Hampshire, report.
ed it, February 6, when it was read and
ordered engrossed. Mr.. LeBlond, Demo.
cratic member from Ohio, inquired OF Gen.
eral Marston whether Captain Beatty
scouts were a regular organized company un-
der the laws of the United States, or merely
an organized guerilla party to which MIR.
MarstOn replied that, though not regularly
mustered in, Captain Beatty raised his COM
pany under the authority Of the military
commander in Tennessee, in January, 1862,
and was in continuous service until June,
1865. Mr.. LeBlOnd again asked whether he
acted in a military organization, under
proper officers, and General Marston re-
sponded, have here letters OF Generals
| Thomas and Burnside, under whom he
acted, recommending the bill.
On the eth of February, 1867, the bill was
referred to the Senate Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, of which Senator Wilson was,
and is, chairman. and on the same day the
case went from the committee to the War
Department for investigation. The Secre-
tary of War, Mr.. Stanton, indOrsed upon the
article that. in the absence of any request
to raise the force, Of authority to employ it,
of any record OF return showing its services
and the fact that the papers presented show
ed that the members of the force did not
consider themselves in the military service,
a favorable recommendation on the claim
could not be made by the War Department.
This satisfied Mr.. Wilson, and week later
he asked that his committee be discharged
from further consideration Of the bill, re-
quest which the Senate granted.
Captain Beatty and his independent scouts
did not recover from their repulse until the
18th of April, 1870, when their bill was again
introduced into the House by Mr.. Maynard,
of Tennessee, and referred to the Committee
on Military Affairs. On the 9Th OF May Mr..
Cobb reported it with amendments. provid-
ing that there should be filed in the War
Department roll Of said company, which
should be sworn to by Captain Beatty and
his lieutenants, and that each soldier on APP
plying for payment under the act should be
required to make oath as to the length of his
service. Without inquiry or discussion the
bill was passed, and sent the same day to the
Senate, where it was referred, as before, 20 the
Committee on Military Affairs. Nothing
more was heard Off until July IA, the last
day but one Of the session, when Senator
Fowler, of Tennessee, asked unanimous con-
sent to take up House bill 1,S99, saying it
would only take minute TO dispose of it.
He was as good as his word, and the Senate
enacted the bill at once, without amendment,
and before night it bore the signature of tie
President.
Two or three days later the Beatty scouts
General Stokes commanding, laid siege 10
the War Department. The War Depart
ment was occupied from July IA, 1870. to
November II Of the same year, in collecting
the rolls and the evidence in their support,
which, meeting the requirements Of the law, !
were accepted by the Department and duly |
transmitted by it to the Second Auditors
Office. On the 18th of April, 1871, COM
plants having been made to the Department
Of injustice and irregularities in the payments
Of Beaty's veterans, Secretary Beiknap d.
rected General Halleck, then commanding
he division Of the South, to cause the COM
plants to be thoroughly investigated. Hal
eek obeyed orders, and on the 18th of Sep
ember the Secretary placed the whole matter
'efore the Secretary of the Treasury, with a
rev to stall further proceedings by the De-
,artment of Justice.
The position Of ex-COngressman Stokes,
he most prominent, and, as he and his
riends claim, the most innOcen, of all the
parties in the transaction, is truly
,itiable An old man of almost three score,
,e is now arrested for the first time in his
ife, and 81 tell you, sir, says he, with tears
onrsing down his cheeks, ''it has endorsed
ne" He tells his story to all who will hear
with the same frankness and apparent hon
sly that he told j. In his own State, and
7hile he does not deny the existence of fraud,
nd admits the receipt Of so, 900 for his ser
ice and sufferinss in the matter, he asserts
is innocence Of guilt and ignorance of crime
most earnestly.
During the frs, visit Mr.. Stokes received
sun stroke, from the effects Of which he lay
n peril of death for eleven weeks. During
he second witt the rolls were passed Though
he War and Treasury Departments, all ex-
ept those for Captain Beatty and his sors
eing delivered TO the agents who !ei, Tor !
'ennessee to pay off the men. Stokes !rm
IF drew tie money tor the Captain and has =
ons, about Sc 600, and they voluntarily and !:
'i'hout previous promise, came to mis- rooms
nd presented sim with $500 for his efforts {
n their behalf. In March, 1871, the agents !.
asing just drawn their final insiament OF !.
sc, 900 from the Paymaster General, pre- :
.nlsd Stoke, with s., 900, and not long after :;
aving pad the last of the claims in Ten !,
essee, they gave him $500 more saying
lat they were able to do Il; that acting ON =
is advice, they had bought most Of the
aims at low figure, and had made good y
ling of it. Stokes insists that during all of .
ese transactions he supposed he was re- :. ;:
living the money only and simply for his :. :,
bors in the Department. after the bill had :"
used, as indemnity for his sickness and ex- =
.nse incurred by his trip to Washington y
lring the summer, and in repayment of :.
oney advanced TO Beaiy and his followers. II
ASIATIC CHOLERA. al
n lmporaant communication frsm =,
AN Experienced Authority.
DIR. John Murray, the inspector general of +
dian hospitals, and an authority on the Il. ~
bject Of cholera, has communicated to one =.
the English Journals III important paper y.
this disease, from which We extract the y:
lowing: III
at il our duty to assist nature and to re-
We pain. In the stage of mataise the first
mptoms) the poison is thrown off without -,
y violent or prominent symptoms by the =,
turai functions ci the system. Our task - =,
re is 70 support the strength, avoid indi- -, ~
'tible food and depressing causes. The -;
" medicine that have found useful in VI
8 stage, Is a little quinine every dav. The "
sequent Indications of the treatment are to =: