Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-03-16
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ion about one of Your cabinet
told him | had not heard anything.
The secretary said they were dread
full stories, almost too bad To be
believed. inquired what they
were, and the secretary began to tell
me, when in came Belknap and
Chandler. Chandler looked very
sober, and Belknap was changed 80
that you would hardly have known
him. He looked as if he had not
slept for a week. | got up and shook
hands with him, and asked him what
was the matter. He went on TO tell
me, ia an incoherent way, about the
congressional investigation that il
was going to damage him very much,
and he said he had written his resig-
nation, and brought it with him. He
! took out the letter and | read it. /
said TO him that | would regret very
much his leaving the cabinet, for 1
had confidence 10 him. At that be
burst into tears, and took h0li of my
| HAND. / asked him the nature of the
investigation, and his manner, more
than the words of his reply, showed
me that it was something Of an
unusual character / understood
that be was expecting an inVes'iga-
ton that he could AVOID by resigning;
that the facts if exposed would not
damage him so mnch as his wife. He
apoke of his dead wife, too. | told
him that he had great many friends
and they would help him OFT, but he
said it was impossible /; that he had
shouldered ell the blame, and would
be ruined. III insisted that it VIC, |
save me and the rest of the govern
ment q great deal of trouble if bis
resignation was accepted | tried
again to induce him To wait awhile,
but be said he must go before the
investigating committee that morn
ing, and wanted to tell them that he
was no longer an officer Of the gov.
eminent. SO l wrote him letter
accepting the resignation, and, after
| thankieg me for that and for what
he cailsd my kindness to him in the
past, he went away with Chandler
Then Eimunds and Morton came
in, aud they told me the whole story.
could not believe them, and sent a
messenger for Bass, who, | UNDER
stood, was a member of the investi-
eating committee. The President
said that If be had known the whole
truth he would not have accepted
The resignation as be did, but would
have suspended Belxnap till the in
ves.igation was over. He was IeveI
40 astonished in his life. There was
no member of his cabinet in whom
he had more confidence. The Illinois
gentleman suggested that he felt like
having Belkuap tried by drum-heat
court-matial and shot, and the
President replied that no one coul.
feel worse than he did. After hear
Jog the truth of the matter The Presi
: dent was SO unse tied in his mine
that he was untitled for business
His friends say they never saw hin
so completely unnerved. All th'
afternoon he spent with his SOD
Ulysses, walking down on the bant
Of the river, back Of the White House
Talking seemed to relieve his mind
, and he spoke very freely to severa
gentleman who called upon him.
"A woMAN's scRAPE ALL WAY THROUGH
A gentleman who has for year
, been intimately acquainted with Mr.
, and Mrs. Belknap, nee Bowers, sait
. to Chicago Times reporter, very
: emphaticalIy: 'Its woman
scrape all the way through. Iknov
! Laura Marsh and Mrs. Belkpap q bou
as well as know anybody. Whei
the latter was widow, and he
name was Bowers, she set her Cal
for high game For a while she hat
her eye on Henry Claws, thinking
, she would get about 81. 900, 900 viii
him, and when be gave her the sIiI
, and married her nelce, she pulled on
for Europe after foreign count
and persuaded Laura Marsh TO &C
company her. During their stay
abroad, Laura became dissatisfied
with Mrs. Bowers conduct, and gu
upon her ear and came home, leav ine
her TO make her way back by herself
This was the beginning of Belknap'.
troubles, for when Mrs. Bowers wa
about TO become Mrs. Bsiknap, anC
grand splurge was contemplated
Mrs. Marsh got no invitation.
reckon she's even now. Marsh woul.
| nauar haua haan an nonfounde II
willing to testify. if he had not beer
goaded on by feminine spite, | tel
you it's a woman's work all through
A woman got Belknap into it, anc
now another woman has got hin
out of it, with vengeance.