New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-11
PACIFIC MAIL MYSTERIES.
NOPE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS.


MEssRs. COE AND CoOKE-HOW Hk DISPOSED OF |
oNE OF TIE S5OOcO CHECKS.
ryRoN A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TR1BUNEl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-The House not in scs-
sion to-day. and therefore the Committee of ways
and Means had the whole day at its disposal; ana
1t made good of Its opportunity, sitting from
10 till % o'clock In many respects, 1t was the
most important of the sittings which that
Committee has given to the Pacific Mail lnvestlga-
tion-important. not so much for the developments
made by the witnesses. for the indications gwen
that the dark curtain which has hitherto conceaieu
the corrupt dongs Of Stockwell and Irwin Is aoou'
to be drawn aside and the light of day let ~ "po"
them. =.
Charles Abort who had been before the Commit
tee ON two previous occasions this week, and VINO
then set nm the pryege of counsel as bar against
his heino forced 10 dyulge what he knew, forthyng
ms poation las he then thought by written opln-
ION from Reyerdy johnson, again came forward TINS
,oro;,. not at all so confident in the strength of
his position he had previously appeared to be- On
the contrary he intimated that Mr.. JOhnsOns Opin-
ion as read last Thursday placed him in worse
attitude than he had occupied before and he APP
pled to the Committee not to subject him TO fur
ther examination until Monday, and that, IN
the meantime he would try and have
personal interview with Mr. johnson and
Law the whole case before him. Mr.. Albert
who appears TO be a very candid, honorable gentle
man. and one who feels keenly the emOarraSsnehlS
in which he is placed, ntimated avery serious douoI
in regard to his being privileged from testllyIhg'
and seemed to think that. when the whole case was
presented to MIR. Reverdy Johnson that gentleman
would withdraw his Opinion-in which case MI.
Albert is rrepared to make a clean breast of 1T and
inasmuch as he disbursed to the cormorants OF the
lobby S1165OO in TWINS paTlors, and has list OF
tbe,r names and took their receipts, he holds III DIS
hands the splinq which throws aside the curtain
and lets the daylight H.
REPRESENTATIVE sCHUMAKER AGAIN EXAMINED
Representative Schumacher OF Brooklyn occupied
the witness seat for four mortal hours, ana pre-
sented himself in a much better attitude than one
would have been led to expect from his retlcence
the pre- day and from the general surrouhungS
of the case Twins check for S275,OOO, which had
been traced into his hands through the Brooklyn
Trust Company, he admitted having received from
Irwin. He had previously refused to inform the
Committee as TO who had given him that check, on
the plea that il was confidential communication be-
tween attorney and client. but lie had since then been
absoved by his client respect to that point and
be therefore admitted il, and rendered very far
and satisfactory account of the disposition of the
avas of that check. 1t had been "broken up" by
the Brooklyn Trust Company into eight or nine
smaller checks; and the whole amount, less by
some $4,000 which he received for his services
was returned by the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company This
was done in the form of three separate checks of
$4,000 EACH drawn on the Marine National Bank Of
Now-York by the Brooklyn Trust Company payable
to Schumaker's order and Endorsed by him; and Of
five OF six personal checks of his own drawn against
the 1925 900 which had been placed to his credit after
the three $4,000 checks were given. He testified
positively that of that S275,OOO, more than about
$4,000 had gone his personal use directly or in
directly. He could give satisfactory reason why
this tOruous mode of getting S25O00 of the Pacific
Mail Companvs money into eight or ten distinct
checks to be used by that Company, was resorted TO-
He only knew AT such was the case And he also
knew that in January or February, 1918, just after
the inquiry had first been ordered by the
House (but before he had learned that fact,
Mr. Stockwen had got from him all the checks
which he had drawn against that S12j,O0). aud
which were his only vouchers for the payment, and
had destroyed them He could not recOect any
Endorsement on a single one Of them, and only re-
membered that they had the deposit stamps of the
various banks they had passed through.
SO much for Mr. Schumakers personal checks, but
then the three $4,000 checks were to be accounted
for The testimony taken at New-York showed that
these checks had been cashed at WashingtOn-One
by Riggs & Co.. and two by Jay Cooke
& CO.-all of them Endorsed by Schumacher
and bearing the Endorsement of no other payee.
Mr. Schumaktr denied all knowledge of the two
that passed through Jay Cookies bank, but he gives
a full account of the other. According to his state
Inent on the very day that the S27j,0OO check
was deposited in the Brooklyn Trust Company, and
the three $4,000 checks part of the avails of III
sent to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, that is
the 3Oth of May StOckwe handed to him one of
those identical checks told him that the office was
being overruu by a horde of fellows from Washing
ton claiming pay for their services in the subsidy
matter and requested him TO see Lyman Elmore a
LAWYER practicng in New. York and Washington, and
who represented this hungry, ravenOus horde, and
pay over the $4,000 to him to such persons he
should designate. Not finding Elmore in bis Office,
Schumacher came on to Washington the same night,
found ElInore next day at his rooms Est, and
then and there offered the check to him. ElmOIe
declined to accept the check on the plea that he
could not get such a large check cashed, and re-
quired the money. ThereuDOn Schumacher sought
out Mr. Kennedy" Census Kennedy"-who accom-
panied him to Riggs bank, where ne identi-
fled him and had the check cashed. With the
money in his pocket he went back to Elmore's,
and was there introduced to person designated as
Gen Smith, who turned ont TO have been the Nor
gan L. Smith who died suddenly in Jersey City
about New Years lie a perfect stranger to
schumacher who had the idea, as he left Elmore s
Office that Smith was fictitious Nance but he paid
the money over to Gilmore and Smith together. took
no Acknowledgement for IT, and went his way.
That is all he knows about that $4,000. He denied
all knowledge or information Of any money having
gone to- or being intended to 90 TO, any member or
officer of the XLIId Congress.
There are two very important points which
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