Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

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600. He declined to state how he speat the
sums he had 20 give for information.
There was snow OF the ground to the depth
/ of foot in Washington on the morning of
/ the 9th.
John D. Sanborn on the 7th was again be-
| fore the Committee of WAYS and Means, and
was cross-examined for several hours, but
nothing Of Importance was elected. He de-
clined to give detailed statement of his ex-
penditures. He admitted nothing that would
connect Gen. Butler or any other member of
| Congress with his contracts.
| Despite the success of the anti-temperance
ticket at Dayton, Ohio, the crusaders re-
| paired to the curbstones on the It'll, and con-
tinued their praying efforts. At Rapp's saloon
| they were surrounded by furious crowd.
| Knives were brandished and a riot ap-
! peared imminent to that degree that
| the Police Commissioners were Obliged to in
! terfere and request the women to retire from
! the street. The Mayor subsequently issued
his proclamation forbidding street crusading.
! The Supreme Court of Indiana, on the 18th,
held Section II of the Baxter law, which de-
| clares places where liquors are sold to be COM
mon nuisances, unconstitutional and void;
also Section Is of the same law, SO far as it
attempts to dispense with statement of the
name of the party to whom liquor is sold.
Solicitor Banfeld was examined in the San
born investigation on the Sth, and testified
that he had never drawn any contract, signed
any paper, written any letter or done any act
In connection with the Sanborn business ex-
cept by the direct order of the Secretary of the
Treasury. He said that he had never been
consulted about any of the contracts under
this law except the first, to Kelsey, on which
nothing was collected. Everything done by
him was under specific instructions from the
Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Butler
came before the committee and complained
that witness had been examined in reference
to his private affairs and that he had not been
notified to be present to hear the testimony
and, if he deemed it proper, to cross-examine
the witnesses. He had much experience in
committees, and it had been his uniform
practice whenever a witness made a statement
involving a member of either house to sus-
pend the examination and to send for the
member. He simply asked for that measure
of courtesy to himself. He denied any con-
nection with the Sanborn matter, except what
he.would be glad to tell.
Sanborn testified before the WAYS and
Means Committee on the 9th that his collec-
lions amounted to 1927 ,O36, of which one-half
went to the Government. His total expenses
were S156, 4S3. The expenses attendant upon
his late trial in Brooklyn and in coming to
Washington are not included in this amount
-Four persons were instantly killed at Pat
tenburg, n. j., on the Sth by the explosion
of steam boiler. A number of persons were
injured by the flying debris.
A severe snow-storm visited Cairo, ILL.,, and
vicinity on the Sth.
During a recent gale two fishing smacks
were capsiZed off Kenosha, Wis, and eight
persons drowned. A similar accident oc-
CURED near the harbor of South Chicago,
which resulted in five persons being drowned.
At Davenport, Iowa, on the 9th, meeting
Of liquor dealers and brewers was held, and an
organization formed to agitate for a stringent
license law for Iowa, in lieu of the present
prohbiitory law. Similar organizations are to
be formed in other portions of the State.
The authorities of Richmond, Ind, on the
9th, decreed that no more street crusading
should be allowed in that city. All the
saloons had closed, and the ladies were pay
ing prayerful attention to the wholesale estab-
lishments.
Official proclamation has been made by
President Grant of the ratification of the
treaty between the United States and San
Salvador for the surrender of criminals. 1t
is expressly provided that extradition shall
not apply to any crime or offense of politi-
col obo g
ten years.
In the Sanborn inquiry on the 10th an ex-
pert testified that there were millions of
withheld taxes which could only be collected
by some such fundamentally as the Sanbon
law. He, himself, had information of
$50, 100000 of withheld whisky taxes
Mr.. Nudge, Chief of the special agents
in the Treasury Department., stated San
born's connection with the department and
his duties as special agent. Those duties
were in his capacity as an employee of the
Adams Express Company to detect and give
information of the cases of smuggling that
were constantly going on between Canada and
Boston. Mr.. Nudge admitted that he had
allowed $4,000 paid to Wallet Martin, a
whisky detective, and formerly in the en-
ploy of Sanborn, but he was unable to satisfy
the committee of the legality of paying out of
the customs funds the expenses of a private
contractor to engage, for his own benefit, in
detecting frauds in the internal revenue. The
only explanation of it was that he did not know
until December last that Sanborn had any
such contract. The witness had appointed,
as special agent to Europe, A. 6. Fay, of
New York, mentioned in the case as San
had allowed his expenses to the amount of
about So, 900. He stated that some $4,000
had been recovered to the Treasury through
information derived from Fay, and that there
were suits pending for some SS00,0 This
was principally on account of differentiation
of imports. He admitted that Sanborn had
an interest in these cases, in the shape of
mOeties.
The New York EUenimg Post of the 10th
says: 6 The train which left Vanderbilt's
Landing at Staten Island at about seven
o'clock last evening was stopped about two
miles out by band of Italians, who tore up
the track. Particulars of the outrage have
not yet been received, save that the robbers
secured the cash-box on the train, but were
themselves arrested, and they are now locked
up"
New Orleans dispatches of the 10th say that
serious crevasses had occurred in the lower
Mississippi and caused extensive damage. The
levee in the vicinity of New Orleans had
broken In not less than a score of places