New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-19

| The Committee will not meet again until Monday,
when it is probable Mr. Twins examination will be
closed
EXAMINATION OF SECRETARY JOHNSON
AND THREE DIRECTORS.
| LITTLE LIGHT THROWN UPoN THE WASHINGTON tx
| PENDITUREs 49, MR.. r.. c. PARSONS RECEIVED
| S2OO0-GREAT UNCERTAINTY As TO BALANCE OF
| SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUsAND-IT WAS PROBA-
lily CHARGED 10 PROFIT AND Lcss-MR STOCK
WELLS EXTRAvAGANT IDEAS AND HIS ARBITRARY
PowrRs-MR. IRWIN WILLING ID MAKE STATE
MENT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
lGESERAL FREES DrsPArcUl
WASHINGTON, Dec 1S.-1he Committee on
WAYS aud Means this afternoon examined I. T. John
sou. Secretary Of the Pacific Mail steamship Company
with reference to the books II appears that six checks
wefo drawn one for {CsC0OO aud the others aegregang
100000 A, first they made payable TO the order
OF A. -. S,ockwcl, aud delivered TO Vice.Presi'
dent Bellows. who took them to the room oil
Mr.. stockwcll, tho President. Bellows came
back to the secretary In few minutes
aud said they would be drawn to the order Of Irwin
This DONE and the original checks destroyed
These checks Endorsed by Irwin No explanation
gwen for the change. Tho witness had no knowl-
edge Of the transactions involving these amounts
There ia tie b0oSs that any part Of the
$50 coo was returned.
Witness told how Tidrilgc AMI Irwin. formerly The
California agents OF the Company rendered tier ac-
counts TO the Company and said he had no knowledge
that there were any open questions between them ana
tue Company. The transactions Of the Executive Com
| mlttco always brought before the Board OF
Directors for their ratification aud approval On tho
liih OF february. 1872. the Executive Committee was
called, when resolution pasted "a follows:
That the President. 10 hIs discretion il hereby author
IL employ counsel AMI incur such Other expenses
be necessary IN connection with measures for an
| Subsidy
the 2l't OF February the minutes were unanimously ap
proved and ratified by the Board ~ Directors. After
TINS the $3.50 passed to Irwin, and by bin checked
oAt. On the 9th Of Nay draft for t2,ooo, through
! jaw Cooke & Co.. given to X. {. Parsons
aud charged TO s'ockwcm witness, after fur
| Their exnmiuing the books, sAil he also found
| an entry OF loan to Stockwcl for {2j.is2
All these items for the same m0ath, aud special
loan to st0ckwc,l OF s40O0o At tie Board toe statement
Of the President was that only $500 5000, or o0l
would be necessary. lie authorized to draw for 1t.
No other Obj than those stated IN the resolution
were there mentioned Tho President said the
amount would be required for gath ring sta
tis,ics from the Treasury Department about the
commerce CHINA, japan, and India for the nforma-
OF Congress HnI the public press showing the IN
crease OF trade with those countries. 10
report was ever made a. 70 how the money W. cX-
pended. Mr.. ockwell never Informed the Board he
had employ ed Irwin to look after tho subsidy. In
swer to question: witness sail he knew Stpckven
| ceiyed the bonds Of TIE Company and u.cd them in
what he claimed to be the Companys Transactions He
was not aware that StDckwell used them FOR hi, own
use On May Is, 1872. s.0ckSelI orlcIct check for
$4,000 TO 10 the order Of Charles AID TT 70 DO
charged to Messrs. Eldr.drc aud Irwin. II, dd not
know whether any account had been rendered covering
| His money. There snndry items Of expense
| for years In Washington for services rendered
! the Company. such as claims against the
Dapartrn Mt, on wHcl Albeit charged small comm'-
sion. lie did not know OF any account having been
rendered by Parsons di he know that Par-ons
m agent Of the Company. II" Ouy heard tlat Parsons
had pcrsOnal relations with SOckwel. The only agent
| the Company had in Washington was william i.
Tsdel aud he could scarcely be called an agent; as
clerk Of the Company lie was sent anywhere TIE inter
ests Of the Company might require witness repeated
that stockwell himself emp0,ed Irwin, IN, Company
Did He mad always looked on Irwin a. III epio}c
| of StockYen.
f. W. G. Bellows being sworn. was asked TO state his
relation 70 the COmpanY az the time OF the SUBSIDY lie
sail he was Wee President and a director Of
the Company IN May. 1872 and continued as such TIL
tie following May; he was VcePresdent pending tho
application for a subsidy; he confirmed the testimony
NJ the secretary as to drawing of the checks he
mcmacrcd rhcre were individual checks OF SiockNelPs
in Twins hands. and thought mat these
checks we're returned before the other! were
gwen; the private che ks were Tor kO)OJ or F9,o~;
not all N one rrCE' my pric lc,tcp IRWIN rcUSI
r. S,nc<wrl he had not received the amount he cX-
according to the understanding witness thought
irwin wanted $4,000 io thought the $1,000 drawn
70 Aherrr order covered part OF the money nualiy
given 70 irwin Al the time Eufldse ana r"im VEN
of tho acco credited to their SucreHsors TINS
NJ s. aud covered the 100000 Tue vouchers covered
;~aay KPe0d a"t know i% WHAT these Sx
WiaSSs uI We're ch"ck was drawn. dated
San Francisco, Nov. So 1872 FOR 5000, parable by
for snndry expenses IN Washington The witness was
not ware The details. A.,
Geo G. testified he had been director Of the
Company since May. 1873, AID was elected Prcsl-
dent last May. lie had no connection with the Com
pany to that time The referee had no knowl'
ico OF what took place during 1874 While III Europe
met irwin lie cid not know OF sun h%n,t E%a
about Disbursements made in Washington; Irwin oniy
told HIM his ground for general diense. "n showed
Sensitive ssIn -" and thought 1t wrong TO make
him responsible for the acts on ms supotior
how the money was expended and by Whose Orders.
ness cllod the attention OF the Boar to ibis subject
last Thursday week. and stated the propositin Irwin
transaetons irwin did not tell him ia of
parties who dsbursed the money. or through whom II
saton with Stockwell but learned from him no facts as
to how the money was spent stockweli ana not Know
where the money went to except from the en- res III tne
hooks The subsidies were not subject Of con
yersation. lie saw stoekwel in London, Ia November
Ina health was good; he mad been III rOpe since APRIL
1874 witness nothing from the books az to the
disbursements made az Washington The cusi"dhns OF
tho property OF the Company not only gave SiocHwrl
when President lts assets, but It's money II was only
necessary for HIM TO demand s6NooO OF sooCoI, ana IL
was gwen to hun without asking questions This was
contrary to The consultation and bylaws. when pro-
| uhited auy member from Spending more than $4,000
without the consent OF the Board. There only ore
explanation for StOckweps course; lie was exceedingly
| WHO 0pposed him. The resolution for the payment OF
necessary expenses connection with the subsidy di
nor mean bribery but employment OF counsel an
nther legitimate transactions Siockwcls stock opera
lions aud losses were enormous, and Nc rs largely m
debted to the Company. The COMPANY ana not admit
that the affairs closed between IL and Siockwt,