New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-24
WARRINGTON.

| IHs OFFICIAL DENfALs OF SECRETARY DELASO's
INTENDED RESIGNATION RECEIVED WITH LITrLE
cREDENCE-rnE ORIGINAL PROGRAMME TO BE
| CARRIED OUr-HgNRY T. BLOW PROMINENTLY
| MENTIONED AS HIS sUCCkssOR--THE vINDIcA-
TON BY HIS sUBoRDINATEs AND THE PREsI-
DENT-A SPECIMEN OF JOHN DEI-ANOs METHOD
OF DOING BUSINESS
IBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUyH.l
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The degree OF con-
ndence which Is placed in the socallcd denlas Of the
Dciano soondal which officially given ont at tAe
"bte iiouse yesterday, may I've understood when 1t IL
Known that almost the only topic In connection with the
whole matter which has been discussed in public places
to-day has been the selection Of the secetarys
AT the very time that the President and the White House
KING are doing thing In their power hush the
scandal aud resorting to the most extraordinary
pcdns to discover who who let their whole secret
ont 10 authoiitatiyely announced that Secretary
Desno VIII rerefrom the Cabinet next week, but not
IRON any causes arising out Of the recent publications
In other words the original programme now seems
| hkey to be carried out in spite Of the
| publicity that has been given to the cause
OF the change il was never intended has already
oeen sad that the Irregularities In the Interior Depart
ment should be the subject Of discussion even mention
between the President and the Secretary OF tho Interior
or In the Cabinet or 10 the public prints The resignation
was apparently 10 be voluntary one, prompted by the
pressure Of private business aud the customary letters
ofrceet were TO pass between the President and Mr..
Deano, and all this will now probably This being
the Plan adopted In the beginning, and purpose 10
change II having been formed, the subject not
TONED In the Cabinet meeting to-day and will not prob
ably bc the subject Of discussion In the Presidents pot
ical family at any future time.
The most prominent that has yet been mentioned
IN connection with the appointment OF new Secretary
Is that OF the honorable Henry T. Blow OF Missouri Mr.
Blow Is one OF the Presidents fayores, and os he IL
Western man he has these two very essential qualfca-
IN Soc
name has also been mentioned but there Il apparently
little prospect that he will he selected TO I'LL the vacancy
One OF the funniest circumstances that has occurred in
connection with the eptire scandal the appearance
ut the While House to-day OF the heads Of oil the
eralheaus in the Interior Department to testify to the
secretarys honesty lie had never Influenced any OF
their decisions, nor had he reversed except after full
and free conference concerning such son. Perhaps
these same gentlemen might have told some Interesting
facts about the delay OF in the secresrys office be-
fore they have been referred 10 the heads o bureaus and
the facility with which other baNe been advanced
and disposed Of They might also have told the PT,si
dcLt something about decisions, oricrs, which they
| have been requested, directed 10 make, but which
have been prepared IN the Secretarys o6rc, by per
sons net connected with the Department But then they
did not call upon Gen. Craut for that purpose and they
had the latter would not have cared TO hear them He
has alDa, regarded Mr.. Delano honest and efficient
executive officer.
One Of the worst eases VI matchmaking Of which John
Dclano has been guilty bas slreay been referred 20 IN
dispatches TO Tat TRIBUNE but the whole story. told
10 many perVns In this city by those who were the VIC
tins OF It, has yet been printed gentleman re-
siding In California purchased, time Spanish
grant covering eleven leagues Of land The boundaries,
often happens IN such cases, were very understandable
purchaser Interpreting the grant rs covering consider
able tract Of valley land, aud the se,tcrs tho
litter that Il included nothing but barren noun
tain side This controversy Of course had to be- settled
fhn land Ina
the Interior Department Before any decision
| was reached, tho purchaser, while prospecting
| upon the mountain discovered what appeared
TO be q rich quicksilver mine, and finally concluded 10
save himself and the settlers in the valley trouble and
expense by leaving them I'm und-urbed session and
locating his grant upon the mountains. No sooner had
this done and preparations made for obtaining the
patsnt than a number OF claimants appeared for the
mining property, although they bad never been heard o
BEFORE and they represented by San E15ncitc0
lawyer named Harvey Brown, who at once began 10 te
graph Secretary Dcano 10 prevent the issuing OF the
patent until the claims Of himself and clients had been
considered. Thore is the best OF authority for the belief
that Secretary Deano replied directing Mr. Brown 70 see
his John his arrival the latter having, very FOR
| tunately, been appointed a Pacific Railroad Commits
sioner and being then on his way to sen Fanceo
Soon after John Delanos arrival ne met Harvey Brown
and Others Interested in the adverse cain ana an I'M
Outstanding was soon reached. The adverse claimants
never having pod thing for the land any portion of
IL they got would be clear GAIN and they were thus aolo
| to offer very liberal terms 10 any one who could hcp
them much moro liberal than the rghtfu owner could
onor, 10 Offer IL Is reported that the Harvey Brown
party In order to John Dlano's influence Ia get
ting the patent .su to them ecd 10 give lin soOOO
in money aud one half Of the stock OF the mining com
pany which they had formed. The result or ths opera
ton was that ,he rghfu owner OF the property became
convinced that be must Of two thing. either buy
John Dolano 10 his side, or make compromise
.ty ella i'm
or OF losnx his property altogether He determined
upcn the latter course, buying of the opposition and
having hein IL H. understood handsome share or the
stock in the mining company which he had formed The
owner Of the land supposed that lie wonld have no
further trouble lie had reached an ancablc under
s,pdipc with all adverse claimants that their oppos
ton was Withdrawn, and he saw no reason why he should
NOT at once got his patent But John Delan0 very
angry that hi. interests had not been considered when
tbe compromise wls made andthe ultn with whom John
WAS most intimate during his stay in san Francisco suy
gested 10 the owner of the land that he hal better
cure tho friendship OK the secretary's son
n bo desired to get his patent without
trouble. This he absolutely refused to do, and
then the party with whom he had compounded, fearing
that John Deano would actually prevent tho issue OF the
paeut and so make their share of value paid TO him
themselves s. 900 AMI two three thousand shares OF
the stock they had received Some Of them we're So In
djgnan at the imposition that had been prcticed upon
them that they came - Washington and repeated the cir
cumstances to many OF their friends and in this way 1t
became known generally among those having business at
the Interior Department There to believe that
the President has also heard Of this case.
MIR. DELANOS DEFENDERS.
TIT prpr Ar OFFICERS OF HE INTERIOR DFPARr-