Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-11
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of the absence of Senator
Thurman, who asked to be present when It
was considered.
Agricultural.
On the LIST Nay the Department Of Ag-
ricnlture completed its distribution Of seeds
to the entire country. This was much
earlier than usual The Department can
not therefore comply with present requests
for supplies.
The French Arms Scandal.
The Senate Arms Committee held final
meeting to-day and agreed on a report.
The Committee express their astonisment
at the refusal of Senators Sumner and
Schurz 20 testify in regard to certain mat
ters touching the investigation, and state
that, notwithstanding the protest of Sena-
tor Sumner 20 which they have given due
consideration, the Committee cannot doubt
that the Subpoena was properly issued to him
and that he was bound to obey 1t and to test
ify before the the Committee, and that his
refusal to answer the questions which were
out to him cannot be justified. The Com
mittee find that the amounts received for
the sale of ordinance stores was S., 4O9,3O1
for fine fiscal year ending June 20, 1871,
were regularly paid into the treasury, and
they discover nothing in these transactions
which reflects dishonor either upon the gov
eminent or any officers connected there
with. The Committee reflect on Senator
Schurz and Sumner for invoking the invest
igation.
Senator Stevenson viii present his dis
senting views.
who stole the Buell. RecOrd-SOme
Interesting Revelations.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, May S-There has been
no important testimony since Friday last IN
reference to the missing records OF the War
Department. There are some important
points in the previous testimony, however,
that have not been fully stated, which are
worthy of attention. One is that the Buell.
record was discovered to be missing shortly
after Gen. Badeau was authorized to rum
mage at will among the papers In the WaI
DEPARTMENT and carry Otto theWhite House
| ANYTHING and everything he might see Fit
| TO Law hands upon, leaving no record OF the
pauers he took. Another important fact Is
| tbatthere is every reason to suppose that
fine Buell record, when taken from the box
| in the Bureau of Military Justice, and semi
over to the War Department building, was
! depOsited in the file room OF the depart
ment and never returned, from the TACT thal
no one recollects that it was returned, ano
| from the strongest and almost conclusive
evidence that it was in that room that the
few papers that were found OF the record
were discovered. The file room, it ap
pears, was in charge Of Col. Leet, O.
recent general order notOriety, anC
it was from this room that
Badeau carried off four or five chests ful
of documents to examine in the White
House at his leisure while writing his bi
ography of Gen. Grant. None OF the pa
pers he took from the room appear to have
bean returned. No trace of them can b'
found. Fortunately a record remains Q
such papers as were letters, so that 1t L
known who wrote the letters, to whom thel
were written, and the subjects; but Their
was no record kept, it appears, Of the pro
ceedings of Military Courts of Inquiry hk'
that which investigated Gen. Bueu's cam
paigns.
Of letters alone, Badeau took over si1
hundred, all of them of great i'm
portance, and many of them indispensable
to a full knowledge of the great milltar
movements of the war. The most singu
lar part of the affair is that when the Adlu
tant General requested of Badeau the paper
he had taken, he replied that he had alread
returned them, when be had not. 1t is I'M
possible to see how he could have beer
mistaken and suppose he had sent the1
hack. when such was not the case. FlV
or six boxes of papers, each box as large a
a common sized trunk, could net have Oh
appeared without some persons knowledge
Badeau could not have carried them owe
to London with his private baggage, WhlI'
supposing he had safely returned them a
to the War Department. What became
them is mystery which finds no satisfa'
tory explanation.
, The Military Committee in cOnductiT
} the investigation continues to sit VII
J closed doors, for the purpose Of keepln
from the public the information e'icite
/ This course, it is said, is taken at the i
r stance Of the chairman, Gen. Coburn, WI
appears to think that the interests OF u
Administration are best subserved Iii I'll
= way.