The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
pERsONAL AND POLITICAL.


court. A number of letters, comprising the
correspondence between Messrs. Beecher and
Moulton and Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, in
reference to the presentation of letters and
documents held by Moulton before the COM
mittee, were published on the 9th. These
letters are, l. Mr.. Beeeher to Mr.. Moulton,
July "a, asking that NJ. deliver to BIS coun-
Sc 1, Tracy, all the originals of BPS
papers held by NJ, in order to assist
B. in making up his forthcoming state
ment; the papers to be numbered and in
ventoried by NJ, and returned to him by
B. as soon as the latter could complete his
memoranda; special request is made by B.
for all letters written by his sister. 2. Mr..
Moulton to Mr.. Beecher in reply to above
(not dated). NJ. refuses TO deliver up the pa
pers asked for by B., or to make them pub
lie, unless compelled in a court of justice, un-
til requested to do so by both parties to the
controversy. 8. Mr.. Beecher to Mr.. Moul-
ton, Aug. 4, expressing astonishment that NJ.
should refuse to surrender the papers for the
purpose designated, and claiming that Tilten
had had access to the papers in M.'s hands,
and that garbled extracts from them
had been published. B. also claims
that many Of the papers held by
NJ. are strictly private letters and
notes, never placed in his hands to be held
for two parties, as claimed by NJ, but that
he held them simply as trustee, subject to
BPS order. The letter closes with a demand
that M. should at once place before
the committee every paper which b.
may have written to or deposited with him.
4. Mr.. Moulton to Mr.. Beecher, in reply to
above, reminding B. that all the documents
deposited with him during the past four years
were so placed because they had bearing
upon the mutual differences, and that he (M.)
held no papers of either party except such as
do bear on the case; denies that Tilton has
had access to the papers, but says, on the
contrary, that he has refused his re-
quest for the same; T. had never seen
all the papers in his (M.'s) possession, and
Sc would be more surprised to learn the entire
facts of the case than you can possibly be-"
5. Mr.. Moulton to Mr.. Tilton, Aug. 5, stating
Mr.. Beecher's request to him that the papers
| be placed before the committee. g. Mr..
Tilton to Mr.. Moulton, same date, giving con-
| sent and request to have NJ. appear before the
committee and explain all he knows. To
| these should be added Mr.. Moulton's letter
to the committee, accepting the invitation to
appear and testify, in which he says: 81
have endeavored to avert the calamity which
has now fallen upon all. With the consent
of Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. Tilton, have felt
myself ready, sorrowingly, to give all the
| facts that know about the object of inquiry
of the committee, and produce whatever pa
pers I have to the committee" He therefore
suggests Saturday evening, Aug. s, as con-
venient time for him to make the statement.
A schism has occurred in the Nebraska
State Temperance Society, caused by resolu-
| ton passed al their recent convention favor
ing Information of new party. The local
option men opposed this, and withdrew from
| the convention.
| The Executive Committee of the Wiscon-
sin State Grange has issued an address to the
Grangers of Wisconsin. 1t warns them that
an attempt will be make in the next Legisla-
ture to secure the repeal of the Railroad law,
and urges them to resist the effort. The ad-
dress concludes as follows:
In this connection your committee would i'm
press on every member of the order the impor-
lance of persistent attention to the details and
| incidents necessary to secure Legislature the
coming winter, which shall hereafter be known
as having been impreguable to the ass ults of or
ganized capital. Your committee would also add
a word in favor of the practice already inaugu-
rated by the order, of requiring public answers
to questions to their opinions on subjects they
are likely to be required to act upon. This Is
especially important upon the coming occasion,
but it should be adopted as the settled policy ano
practice of the order to make these public In
quiries at any and all times.
Hon. John A. Kasson has been renominat
ed for Congress by the Republicans of the
Seventh Iowa District.
The Kansas Independent State Convention
assembled at Topeka on the 9Th. About 1Ot
delegates were present, representing most
the counties in the State. The resolution
declare, briefly
The right of each State to control its own do
mestic Institutions; that the national bankini
law should be repealed, and legal-tender cur
, rency issued direct from the Treasury, inter
changeable for Government bonds bearing tn
, lowest possible rate of interest, and which cur
rency shall be receivable both for public and pri
yate dues; that the tariff on lumber should b
reneaI.d. and that the tariff on the necessities O
common life he abolished or reduced to the low
: est possible figure, and that the tax on income
, be restored that the act of March, 1856
by which 5 ,OO) acres of school fund land was di
, vided between certain railroad companies is un
constitutional and the next Legislature ought {
, pass act repeating said act, and directing th
,. in the proper courts to cancel all patents an
other conveyanees made of said land under To
| authority OF SalQ act Ildb GUe ScttleES on I'll
Usage lands and other settlers whose titles 81
!. contested by the railroad companies ul shoul
:, be sustained by every honest means
s that railroad corporations should be mad
e subservient to public good, and that sue
:. legislation should be provided, both State an
, Federal as will effeetually secure the industrii
and producing interests of the country again
e ali forms of corporate monopoly and extortor
that the passage of the so-called Poland libel bl
+ hy Congress was an outrage tending to destro
the freedom of the press and should be repealed
l. that no candidate should be supported T.
n Office unless he possesses the Jefferson1a
n standard of fitness Honesty, capacity
and fidelity to the Constitutions" that the India
policy as now administered subjects our cit
1t zens to butchery and should be proteste
v against; thai the President, Vice-President an
n United States Senators should be elected by q
rect vote of the people; that the conduct OF Il
IL present Administration, in its bold de lance
n public sentiment and disregard OF the publ
good, in its prodigality and wasteiu extravi
gance, in the innumerable frauds perpetrated u
Der its authority, in its disgraceful partlallty 10
= reckless and unstable financial polio,
T. and in its incapacity to meet Z
| fha and OrOVi0e II