The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14

ture reported elected by that Board"
State Senator Graham, of Virginia, who
made the original charges against Represen-
tative Stowell of having sold a. naval cadet
ship, appeared before the House Naval Com
mittee the other day, and testified that he had
agreed to pay Stowell 81 900 for making the
appointment. Graham gave to Stowell the
name of the boy who was to be appointed and
he was appointed.
Washington dispatch says there is no
probability that the President will issue such
proclamation as Gen. Sheridan suggests in
his telegram to the Secretary of War.
The evidence thus far taken in the Pacific
Mail subsidy case shows that the enormous
lobby sum of $775,0O0 is accounted for by
Schumacher $275, 900; Charles A. Bert, $685.
900 !; R. B. Irwin, 100000; r. B. Irwin, $780,
600; B. A. Whiting 100000; W. S. King,
$4,000. Total, $775,O00. B. A. Whiting,
whose name is in the list, is a brother-in-law
of ex-senator Cole, of California, and is gen.
orally regarded as the counsel" who man
aged the subsidy in the Senate.
The only developments in the Pacific Mail
inquiry on the 7th were the identi6 cation by
H. D. Cooke and George W. Riggs, bankers,
of three checks paid to Representative Schu-
maker, amounting to $3.50, 060.
Representatives Parsons and Schumacher APP
peared before the Pacific Mail Investigating
| Committee on the 9th inst. and testified as to
their connection with the disbursement of the
| subsidy fund. Parsons said that he had been
employed by Stockwell as counsel, and was
paid $40, 900 for his services. and $4,000 for
contingent expenses. He had nothing to do
with the subsidy, and did not know that
Irwin was disbursing money to secure it.
Schumacher said that he had been counsel for
Stockwel, the Pacific Mail Company, and
several persons connected with the company,
and did not consider that he had any right to
tell their secrets. When pressed to tell what
he did with the $275, 900 paid to him, he said
that the money was placed to his credit by mis-
take, and that he had rectifed the mistake,
retaining about $4,000.
Washington paper is authority for the
statement that President Grant has received
several anonymous notes threatening him
with assassination if he does not remove the
Federal troops from Louisiana.
congressman Schumacher testified before
the Pacific Mail Investigating Committee,
corruption fund to Lyman Elmore New
York lobbyist, and the late Gen. Morgan L.
Smith.
The Spanish government proposes to settle
the Virgnius matter with the United States
upon the same terms as were agreed upon
with Great Britain. The latter country has
been paid G500 for the family of every white
person mas sacred by Burrill, and 9300 for
each colored family. Our government has
stated that these terms could not be accepted,
on account of this distinction in color, and
that none would be accepted which should
make any discrimination as to race.
Albert, the recusant Pacific Mail subsidy
witness, being threatened with impris.
onment, has made clean breast of
the matter and told all about
how and to whom he disbursed that part OF
the corruption fund intrusted to his manipu-
lation. The amounts were apportioned as
follows TO Joseph MacFarland CORE
spondent of Forney's Press and the Boston
Globe, $4,000; to w. A. Shaw, the CORE
spondent of the Boston Transcript, Bic, 600
to Don Piatt, the editor of the Capital, 81, 900
to J. M. Morey, formerly editor of the Wash
ington Chronicle, 81 800; to A. W. Randall,
x-Postmaster- $4,000; to s. E.
Chittenden, $4,000; to A. d. Corwine, OF
Cincinnati, $1,000; to J. H. Hersee, AS
sistant Doorkeeper of the House, 81, 900 to
j. G. Barrett, ex-Mayor of Washington, ST.
900; to FL. G.. FAINT, banker there, 81, 900; tc
R. G. Parsons, 1900; to Mr.. Moran of the
Philadelphia Tribune, $1,000; R. G. Parsons.
1900; o. J. Averill $4,000; John Fl. Jersey
$11, 000 Chas. FL. Sheriff., $500; VIM. Moran
5000; Charles Albert, $1,000 Chittenden, S.,
COO; Cormick $500 Ingraham, $5, 900; John
Body, $4,000. Total, $12O, 300, discussed be.
tween March and Sept 6, 1872.
General.
The grand combination of several leading
railways between the East and the West has
come to grief. The attempt was to prevent
the cutting of rates by competing lines, and
save the expense of an army of middlemen.
A New York dispatch announces that the
combination is dead.
Political.
The New Hampshire Democratic Conven-
ton assembled at Concord on the 5th inst,
and nominated Hiram r. Roberts for Gov
ernor.
The Maine Legislature has reelected Han
nibal Hanlin to the United States Senate.
The Republican Senators held a caucus at
Washington on the 9th inst, in which there
was q heated discussion Of the Louisiana
question. It was decided to sustain the Presi-
dent in his course toward Louisiana The
Republican members of the lower house were
in caucu the same evening, and the whole
question of the condition of the South was