The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-15

produced the COPY marked exnlDlt "A, anu hiCuJ
- THE AFFIDAVIT OF MISS CATION. -
BALTIMORE. Md. July 9 1868
United states Treasury did approach with dishoaor,
yin se: Es IND s!sS!!
;aIrng ssd night Of 18th of February 1863 at said
IN testimony Whereof of the foregoing and within
hereoy sign my name this day and year above written
ya swNT 70 and before this
The affidavit Of w. c. Carman accompanying the
above document corroborates Miss Caton's state
m r the amdavlt testiying to ocular knowledge
q After receiving these papers from General Nc
Even did You go to Pomeroy's houses A. did,
O. Did you see fomeroy that evening, and, IL so,
under what circumstancess A. did he received
the second room from the entrance; remember
others being present, and while was there Senator
Caldwell came in.
Senator P0meroy on that evening, and what did he
do or say, Ii anythingf A. After few moments'
when was going home; expressed the wish to
have an interview with him at his earliest convent
ence, and asked him If / could not see him at his
committee room next morning; POmerOy excused
himself to his guests and invited me into the next
room, farther from the street, and Indicated his
Willingness to hear what ! had to OFFER then he
sat down upon sofa or lounge, l think, and took
chair In front OF him; showed him the papers
had received from General McEwen and asked him
to read them; he said in reply to interrogations by
me that he did write letter recommending the
appointments to o position in the United States
Treasury Department OF the woman therein REFER
red to; that he was at Barnums Hotel in Baltimore,
Nd, at the time stated in said papers; that
THE WOMAN REFERRED TO 3d.
therein was there at the same time at the same
time said he did not remember the number OF the
room he occupied; did not know whether the SAID
woman occupied room adjoining his but thought
her room was near his; could not say whether
there was communicating door between the one
he occupied that night and that occupied by the
w ha III m rel
with the woman; said young man, whose name
he could not then call to mind, went to Baltimore
with him and occupied the same bed with him that
night; was confident he could get the young mans
affidavit TO that effect; said these papers were got
up by W: 9. Carman and some one else, think py
and that the same thing had been attempted upon
senators Morton and Chandler: understood him
THE SAME MEN WITH THE SAME WOMAN
6 6ad made the similar charges against Morton and
brought out against him, even il they were false
and did not want to take the time and trouble to
disprove them; and that he would very much
regret having such things said OF him by persons
Of character and standing, but did not care what
the democratic papers. might say as 1t would be
regarded as political lie. N
q. Did you not at the time you handed these
papers to Senator Pomeroy speak about the Land
Office and say In substance that you wanted to
show him that you were III earnest, or that you
had never been able to make him understand the
Importance OF the removal OF the Land
A. / did, and explained to him in what
manner; that he had bitter enemies in
Independence, and that this matter OF the papers
referred to was known to several there that the
Democrat had already published something about
1t, but that the better part of the community had
never given credit to their truthfuness; but If
failed to get the Land once alter what he had
promised to the people while there, and to colonel
Grass and Mayor Wilson since, that 1t was not I'M
probable that, in their disappointment in not get
THEIR INDIGNATION TOWARDS HIM,
they might use these statements against him; that
Mayor Wilson was cognizant OF the allegations and
charges contained therein and was personally ac-
quanted with W. G: Carman; that the removal Of
the Land ONCE would tend to make him friends and
disarm any attempt to SANDER him or injure his
character in connection with these charges; that
was, just as near as can remember, my state
@. What else, If anything, did Pomeroy say, A.
In addition to what have already given, he said
in substance that he particularly desired me to
stand by him In this matter, and pledged himself
on the honor OF man that the Land Once should
go to Independence by the 1st OF April but wanted
me to agree that it would be satisfactory for him
to promise Its removal whenever the register and
receiver should recommend its removal or the
"Strip bill' should pass, and l remember asking
him whether he could get his colleagues to agree
TO such an arrangement, so could carry back
some definite assurance, to which he replied In
substance that
HE COULD HAVE WHATEVER HE ASKED
of the Interior Department. that he was in earnest
now about this matter, and would meet me at the
commissioners Office the next morning at eight
O'Clock and arrange the matter definitely
The committee here took a recess. Upon resum-
ing the afternoon session. ON motion OF Mr. Scofeld,
the resolution adopted at the organization OF the
committee, restraining the press IRON publishing
the testimony until permission to that effect was
given, was rescinded and the
CROSS EXAMINATION OF SENATOR YORK
was resumed by MIR. Hutchings.
@. Did you know that McEwen had these afh-
davits before you went to Washington A. think
Wsa to% e t sern H Ma Ss a
about the matter; cannot state whether asked
McEwen for them or he first offered them to me;
cannot remember whether WILSON'S letter intro
ducing me to McEwen mentioned the atdayits or
not, but think 1t did, as Wilson had been In wash
ington just previously end told me he had spoken
O. was not the purport OF that letter that
McEwen was to furnish those aflldavits to you If
removal OF the Land ONCE? A. cannot state as
to that, but understood the object OF 1t to be to
enable me to obtain the information from General
removal; the aflidavts got from McEwen were
copies OF the originals; returned them through
the mail; 1t is my recollection that General Nc
Even had the originals, or knew where they were
O. When you Went to P0meroys mouse that night
did you not intend to use those afadaylts to inilu
A. did, by showing to him the situation OF affairs
as have already stated; the city OF independence
Guiding myself, and furnished Office rent for one
year, paid expenses Of removal OF the office from
81 TO r m the
Office for one year, amounting to So 400 1or which
they issued scrip.
O. After this interview with Pomeroy, when you
showed him the aiiidavits, did you see him again
before you left WASHINGTON A. Yes; saw him
next day at Commissioner DrummOnds room, in
the Interior Department., and went with Mr..
Pomeroy to Secretary Deano's ONCE, and from
there to the Capitol with him, and afterwards saw
HIM again in the waning room of the Senate cham
Der; think while we were in Mr.. Drummond's
room he took me into smaller room and gave me
a letter purporting to be from W. G. Carlnan TO
him about the charges made In the atfldavits, with
the request that would copy the same return to
him the original, and asking me to retain the copy
to be used In contradiction OF those charges If
they should be brought against him by any one OF
any Importance or character; think 1t was in
tnat same room that he spoke OF
THE "Y0UNG NAN"
already referred TO as sleeping with him at Balti-
more.
Witness was here requested to produce the copy
or the letter, which he did, and the letter was put
in evidence.
Q. The alndavits which you got Of McEwcn were
published few days before the Senatorial election
last month, they not, and distributed in cir
cular form about Topekas A. They were; but de-
to say 1t was done without my having any
tht IN IA n,sifb md hot auCh