The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-09
The Arms Sale IlnvestitntiDu. .


The Arms Sale investigation. -1oG
WASHINGTON, April S.1The Senate
Arms COMMITTEES met thismornmg at 1O4
O'clock. -sr. rr r.f,if, n r,f5,l T|'I~,lI.s.
Daniel Shea, who was examined by Nr.
Schurz, testified. that he owned a number
0flighters at New York, and during the
FrancoP Prussian war he lightered goods
for the New York Ordnance office. re-
ceiying bis orders from, Mayor Hall, and
in all receipts for the goods lie delivered
from Reilly; sometimes he delivered
goods direct to vessels, and sometimes at
tho docks. ,,f,..I,....,...
Senator HamlinrThe witness had no
official CONNECTION with the Ordnance
Office which employed him as would other
parlies,, ifst BIuleT adi 10 yI.r'.i fiyituf
The chairman Mr. uamlin) laid be-.
fore the committee the letter OF General
Schollcld, saying his recollection Of the
the law Of 1883, providing for the sale Of
arms, NC, substantially agreed with the
testimony; Of General Dyer. The chair
man also laid before the Committee the
following letter, addressed To him BY
Secretary Fish: VI 1s'r 10 Iti. q il,a.'i
| - - ,Sf5i aalDEPARTMENT OF STATE, 4 q
| .--.. .;,y,i, .,,,. 90. WARRINGTON. r
SlR Referring 10 your letter Of the
18th upon the subject Of the resolution
alleged To have been adopted lby q com.
mittee Of the French National Assembly
on war contracts. inquiring into the con-
duct OF United States officials concerned
therein, and 10 my reply Of the Goth ultg
Inow have the honor'ito inclose, for the,
Information OF, the comwittee of which
you arc chairman, q translation ot the
note OF the Both ult. upon the subject,
from the Charge d'eA1Taires Of France. iii''
rara Your obedient servant, .. "a.
rii lagii,.T al HAMILTON FnH. 4,
| .,r .,-.s, Translation
LOCATION OF FRANCE IN THR UN1TRp
STATRs, WASHINGTON, y. c., March 80.
-SecTetary Of Slate. THE Commission
appointed lYlthc National Assembly. Of
France TO Investigate the matter Of the
purchase made during the war, has been
surprised by atelegram published by the
New York Associated Press, which attri4
butes 10 II iheadoption ol resolution of
inquiry with regard 10 the conduct of the
officers OF the United States. Il has re-
quested the Minister OF Foreign Affairs to
contradict this report, and l hasten to in
form you officially by order Of II. eDeRe-
muset that 1t did not adopt the resolution
In question, and that 1t has addressed no
request for an Investigation 10 the Gov
ernment Of the United States: Assurance
my high consideration. ,,.;.,r.,is; a,a..-
GSlgnedl HENRY DE BRILoNNET.
To Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary Of State.
l.Mr. Hartley, Of the firm of Schuyler,
Hartley u Graham, was sworn and ex!
amined by Mr.. Schurz.- -.
Witness, did not know. what other
people thought with regard to the
destination Of arms shipped in 1870 and
NJ, but he believed they were going
to France. Some Of tue goods shipped
to France by his firm were marked ac-
cording TO o telegram from France, 6UR.
+. Mannieg, RepGblfHue Francatse."
They, however, sent, thiLher goods not
thus marked, but not through the, French
officials Witness saw General Dyer and
Colonel Crispin, and asked them how
many Enields they would sell him. They
asked the secretaryof State whether they
would be allowed 10 ship goods To France,
70 Which the Secretary Of State replied
that II they did SO It Should be entirely
at their own risk. The firm had recently
sold arms TO RusSia, Mexico and South
America, Witness was further interro-
gated BY MI, Schurz and tic members Of
the committee, and he knew ofno gov
ernment officers who had received q dol
larllEom the sales was certain that his
firm never paid q dollar 10, then, or any
I6tthe French officials either, nor did they
pay other persons d dollar; they con.
Quoted their own lpurchasesli lelS g1lsy
i. s. Allen, Chief, Armorer of the
Springfield Armories, testified as 10 the
making 81 "a lot oI Remington rifles for
the navy at that place, and astoiiother
matters in that connection; The arms hay
ing been sold TO PoplLney, Trimble & Co.;
with the present force al the Armory, It
could turn out $50 Springfield 'breect.
loaders q day, bat'if the full machinery
were worked between 200 and 800 could
DO made per ,dsyielt would take, three
monlhS 70 prepare 10 turnout 600 day;
during the late war tlic capacity was m
cteasing from day 10 day lntlltiat mum.
ber was reacheti!v sA .srpil,lm a,1 a.
The COMMITTEES adjourned I'LL tenor
, lrOw,