New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-07

indebted and think told that 1t didn't make any
dnerenee; TO let ii go at that.
q What Office OF the Department told you that, A.
! cannot remember
@ ! wish you would try to remember; that may be
que important At rate did il by the advice Of
tue chief officer OF the Department. A. was there two
or three days about il.
q And this advice you got from high in au-
thorlty In the Departmentt In whose office IL that
pu nad tins conversation when you were advised TO
let IL goF A. | can't tell.
Q Il either the Secretary or the Assistant secre
1liy, OF the Solicitor that gave you that adyce A.
don't remember
" do you remember that 1t was not either Of those
n. dOnt remember; know was there talking about
'ho matter two or three days
!, y 10 whom did you taxi A. talked with the so
Ii,itor ana the Secretary about It,.
u -. lh0se were the only men that you consulted
1t was one officers that advised you 20 put
inc roads all INF A. can't Tell You about that.
Mr. BecS-That was 1873; Mr.. Richardson was Seere
btIy tnen, OF course
Tho wiines-I wanted 1t returned and told them II
they wanted list revised and down to just the
number that knew about would do 20.
pp Ana they advised you to put them all inf A. MI
hlrndrdson accepted the whole report.
After bis attention was called TO the fact that there
were large number of those roads that you knew
nothing abodti A. | don't remember whether it was
he or some one else that talked with about that
~ But you did call the attention Of the chief officers
about most Of those roadsf A. objected in the first
place az said before, TO putting IN ANYTHING Of that
mere aud asked whether should make Inst Of
cases that knew about, or whether these should gon
"a a Whole,
q And after advising the officers of the Depart
ment OF exactly the state OF tacts what Won knew
oi and what YOU did not know OF. they advised you
to put them all Ini A. oh! knew Of 100 that we
had Examined.
q But the others you did not know abOuti A. The
0tuers did about, only Judged from those
we had examined that they all ndeDr; there was
not one case of the 15O thereabOuts that we exam
lned, mat We did not find them OWING the Government
something's not one case 1t was very remarkable.
And, therefore, you just took AppetOns Guide and
put IN all the others you could fnd there A. Yes, Sir
not AppleJOns' Guide, think, but some Guide.
q And you advised to put them all In; at least
you were permitted TO put them all int A. We were
permitted TO put them all in.
q After you had been here two or three days and
had made the facts known and talked the matter
A. | think they must nave known the facts
q We'll, want get at this: that you, objecting to
putting them all ill., coming here and making the facts
known 10 the officers Of the Department. aud offering to
90 back and revise your list and put IN only suchas you
knew aD0ut-that. after all tins they were all put ia
with the consent of the Departments A. They were
certainly.
O. And this oath, that all these railroads In this list
were indebted and that they had withheld their taxes
and refused to pay them. TO by with the
full knowledge OF the chief officers OF the Department
that that not the TRUTH and they accepted 1t not
that the facti They accepted the report OF course
The hour oS noon having arrived, the Committee ad'
iourned until tomorrow to enable the members 10
attend the session Of the House.