The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06

animation is said to have been very satisfactory
to his friends.
The President has had severe attack of
plurisy. He was confined to his room three or
four days, but is now attending to business as
usual.
The Committee on Expenditures in the War
department have stumbled upon another sensa-
tional exposure. In the examination of de-
tective named Bell on the subject of post
tradershipe, the committee discovered that he
had story to tell on another subject, He
claims to have been hired by Col. Babcock,
on the pension Office pay-rolls as clerk, to
purloin documents and otherwise cripple Col.
Dyer in the prosecution of the Babcock case at
st. Louis that he did surreptitiously gain
access to certain papers in Dyer's Office and
report the substance of their contents to Bah
cock and that Levi P. Luckey and Washing
ton lawyer named Bradley were cognizant of
the plot. Babcock and Luckey deny the whole
story.
Col D. P. Dyer the District-attorney at St.
Louis, was examined by the Committee on War
Department Expenditures on the LIST inst, in
reference to the testimony of @. 8. Bell. He
stated that he first met Bell at st. Louis last
fall, whittier he had gone ostensibly to seek
evidence for the Government, and that his tes-
timony, SO far as it related to him Oyer) was
correct that the interview between them &C.
CURED precisely as related by Bell, the only in
accuracy being that of locating the conversation
at Dyer's Office instead of at the house of Luz
Glen Eaton, where it actually occurred. In that
interview Bell, as he testified before
the committee, told Dyer that proposition had
been made to him by LuckeY and Babcock to
abstract the testimony in the Babcock case from
the District attorneys Office. The witness had
peen very careful of his dispatches and letters
relating to the Bsbcock case, because he feared
some such exploit as was resorted to in the
Avery case. He placed them In q box and de-
posted them in the safe-deposit vault. Before
that, Bell was one day seen in the District-at-
torney's Office, overhauling some papers, and
was informed that nobody was allowed to do
that in the absence of Col. Dyer. Bell excused
himself by saying that he was hunting for q
match to light his cigar. Dyer said he did not
! regard Bell as good witness to tie to without
corroborative evidence. He would, however,
have placed him on the stand in the Babcock
case for the purpose of rebutting Levi P.
Luckey's evidence, had that gentleman been
called, as at one TING was contemplated, for
the defense. Col. Dyer was also before the
special committee on the whisky prosecutions
He said that OF his interview with Atty. Gen.
Pierrepont previous to the Babcock trial, the
latter told him to be very very careful to allow
no unnecessary scandal to be stirred up against
the administration, but said thatif Gen. Babcock
was guilty he should be punished. Dyer said
he regarded the letter of the Attorney general
to him concerning the exemption of guilty
parties from punishment III consideration of
their tesifying for the Government as of very
great service to him so long as it was left Sc
cret, but that its publication was calculated to
cripple the prosecutions. Dyer made state
ment to the effect that while the United States
grand jury that indicted Babcock and others
was in session at st. Louis, member of it
named Fox was supplying the President with
information concerning everything that trans
PRED In the jury-room. He expressed the
opinion that this man Fox made use of his po-
sition to curry favor with the President, and
that he prejudiced the President greatly agains
the officers st st. Louis.
The condition of the public debt, April 1, ap-
pears from the following official statement:
Six per cent. bonds. ......$ 984, 999, $50
Five per cent. bonds. ..... T10,08T, 500
Total coin bonds .............. s., 6s5 Os7, $50
awful money debt ......$ 14,000.000
Matured debt ............ 9,183,360
Legal tende rs. ........... 370,823,645
Certificates deposit 49,. "a, 230,G00
Fractional currency ...... 42,604.693
Com certificates .......... 32,337,600
Total without interest ............ AIS, 1896, 199
Total debt 81 1875, PIG, TAO
Total interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 26,455, ITO
Cash in Treasury:
Coin. .....................S73 756, 794