New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-30
CAPTURED CHECK BOOK.

r"LLOGG'S CAPTURED CHECK-BOOK.
A.. NEw-oRLEANs BULLETIN ON EVIDENCE ADJ
DUCED AGAINST U. s. SENATOR'S AND REPRE-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF ACTING AS PAID
ATTORNEY AND IMPARTIAL LEGISLATOR.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 29.-The Bulletin of this morn
ing has the following article showing the sentiment
of Louisiana people on the pecuniary relations OF
Kellogg with Carpenter and Butler as exposed in
the captured correspond ence telegTaphed to The
TRIBUNE:
The publication of the letters of Benz. +. Butler
to Kellogg, aud of the evidence from kellogPs
check-book that Senator Matt. Carpenter was In
frequent receipt from him of large sums OF money,
furnishes shameful proof. of the decadence OF
honesty among the public men in this conn
try. II is humiating and disgraceful exhibl-
ton; and if it does not send both OF the pohti-
cal tricksters and demagogues to coventry II VIII oe
because the decadence OF morality is not confined
TO Congress but extends to the people, 1t is idle to
say that these men had the right to appear before
the Supreme Court as representatives OF Kellogg,
and to accept large fees from him for services there
rendered, or to assert that this action and those
fees in no wise compromised them or infiu-
enced their course. 1t is idle to claim that
Mr.. Carpenter could plead for Mr.; Kellogg
before the Supreme Court and then, while the pay
ment of his fee was in allegiance, enter the Senate
and sit in judgment on the case of the people OF
Louisiana agt. Kellogg with unbiased mind and
clean hands. His most brilliant flights of oratory,
hls fercest invectives, must, have been more
if he over-did the matter Kellogg might
not come down handsomely and promptly. There
must have always been in his mind the recollection
that Kellogg owed him large sum of money! and
that recollection must in the very nature OF things
have influenced his actions if not his Judgment.
Ben Butler did not appear before the Supreme
Court, but acted as advisory counsel, for
which he demanded the sum of $4,000. or
course so insignificant n sum could not
have influenced that pink of moral perfection; but
would have been curious TO watch the expression
of Ben's strabismical countenance bad messenger
banded him check from Kellogg for those $1,000
lust as he was sailing into the usurpa-
ton in his own puffy and peculiar way.
In regard TO Carpenter, it has always
been stated heretofore that his fee for services TO
Kellogg before the Supreme Court was 81 800 where
as there is evidence IN the captured documents OF
his having received $500 from Kellogg, LEAVING
snug margin of $1,000 TO be accounted for
His captured but unpublished letter, dunning
Kellogg for money, exhibits him in very unfavora-
bic tight to say tho least. The pOiut about the
whole matter is Just this These two men-Buter
and Carpenter-whle sitting as judges III the Louis
lana case, have demanded money from the usurplng
Governor on the ground of services rendered by
them in the Supreme Court at the inception
of the trouble and we claim that this
fact is in itself not only unjusthable but damnlng
Caleb Gushing is exhibited in an attitude which IL
simply pusillanimous. He was the secret attorney
for both parties, and received money from both. III
is gratifying TO know that the publication OF tine
captured cOrespOndencein THENEW-IORK TRIBUNE
has created q profound impression North and west,
the Western papers having been telegraphed them In
and judicial fairness exhibited by The TRIBUNE in
the Louisiana case is worthy of all praise. lt has
led the entire press of the North and West hand
s0mely,