The Van Buren press., 1872-04-16
LATER.
Queer Things,
Robeson, Mgalls, aud Gront-Mlitary
Rings, Dippcrs ard Dr2Rpiay'.
from the New York world.l

from the New York worlj.l
The examination before the Senate
arms committee on Thursday last deyel-
oped very startling incidents 1t had al
ready appeared in evidence that the navy
department sold navy rifles to Ponltney
& Trimble of Baltimore. To, This fact
Secretary Robson had testified. Sena'
tor Schuyz, however, ON Thursday, I'M
covered an element notbetore made pub
lie, which was that Poultny Il Trimble
were agents Of Remington and that the
firm gave to q Mr. Msrkle, Of Camden,
n j., personal friend OF Secretary
Robeson, fee Of 10000 to manage the
purchase Of the rifles at the navy de-
partment Now, if the government had
arms and ordnance stores to sell for q
fixed price, to anybody WHO applied and
paid the money, what couh be the ncces-
sity of so intelligent and vellinformed a
house as that Of Remington's proceeding
through outside parties - procure the
weapons, and in additionpaying fee Of
$4,000 for doing the work which any
body ought to be capable Of doing, il
the transaction were as honest as the
friends of the administration claim the
sale Of arms to have been?
But this is not ALL Senator Schnrz,
when Squire was on the stand, put to
him in.errogations in respect to the
names of the Stockholders ia the Reming
ton company. The witnsss professed to
give all the nawes in 1870 He denied
that any Remington stock was in the
market, or that the stock vas sold in the
street as other stocks are sold lie also
denied that there were stockholders
whose names did not appear on the
books of the company. He also insisted
that no stock IN the company had chang
ed hands within period of three years.
The developments on Thursday make
apparent the motive of Senator Schurz
in putting these inquiries, for when Gen.
Ingalls, was witness he was asked if he
ever owned any stock in he Remington
Arms company, and he admitted he had
held $4,000 worth until within year and
a half or two years. Iusalls refused to
tell Of whom he bought, out admitted he
finally sold tito Squire fer 80 600. The
point of this testimony isin the fact that
ingalls, is associated with Garrison in the
purchase of weapons Of he war depart
ment The Marquis de Chambrun tes-
titled that ingalls, name ws given to him
as one of those mixed up in the transac
ton with the war department under in
vestigation. ingalls, has been frequent
ly spoken of as the member Of the mill
tary ring who made possible the sale and
subsequent delivery Of aims by the war
department to French gents. ingalls,,
it will be remembered, was the officer
who accompanied Gen Babcock in his
expedition to Santo Domingo. Ingalls,,
in word, has the reputation of being
the intimate friend President Grant, who
has his dippcr ready to catch drippings
whenever army affairs ale upon the grid
iron. ingalls, denies thIt he or any 9th
er army officer ever received money or
pay in the Remington business. But
Senator Schurz, after ninite toll and la
Dor, at last uncovers tho fact that ingalls,
was an owner of stock h the Remington
company. And this army officer refuses
to tell how he procuredthe stock. The
inference is, of course, rrcsistably that
it was gift, and that tis sum for which
he sold it, was, in fact, Iart Of the com.
pensation for services 10 had rendered
We never had any ddlbt that all the
transactions by which ANS were sold by
the war department in l70 to Frmce,or
agents Of France, were prruptf from be.
ginning to end, Evcy one familiar
with those matters is ofthe opinion that
nobody could make Purchases except
they belonged to a certin set. 1t was
well understood that thGe was ga mill.
tary ring (which occupied and guarded
all the approaches to he ordnance bu-
reau. We have not shadow Of doubt
that Senator Schurz, inless chokcd off
from complete and Through examna-
ton of witnesses, viii yet satisfy the
most sceptical that the World has been
correct in its views of nis subject from
the first.