The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-27
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, March 25.-John II.
Charles testified that he supplied goods
10 Duriee & Peck. When the firm was
removed from several posts, he applied
for it, but failed TO obtain license as In.
dim trader. To save his interests, he
called on President Grant to help him,
but the President said he had fixed the
thing, and was not going to change it.
The President, in making his reply, bit
of the end OF his cigar, as il he did not
like the witness bit. Laughter. Wit
ness called on the Commissioner oil Indian
Affairs about the revocation Of his license,
wishing TO have it renewed under the law.
The Commissioner said: "You under
stand this matter US well as / do" The
Secretary OF War was personal friend Of
his, but he SAID he could not help him,
the Indian leadership being out Of his de:
partment. The witness also corrobora;ed
the testimony heretofore given with re.
gard TO Orville Grant having obtained
some OF the posts.
B. Gordon Daniels testified that in
looking for business he had his attention
called 10 the leadership at Fort Stanton,
goods to the amount Of Sl25,OOO being
sold there annually. lie was instrument
al in having Murphy, the trader, removed,
and Bliss appointed in his place. The
way he procured the appointment was
this: He went to q man named Alex
ander Grey, u clerk in the Attorney
Generals Office, who was friend of Sem
ator Carpenters, and told him Bliss had
agreed to make the witness partner
with himself, and to give $1,000 for the
position; and the witness promised Grey
that il he could obtain the place he would
see that the 81 900 were paid. Accord.
ingly Grey saw Carpenter, who had the
appointment made as favor to Grey;
the latter so represented TO witness. The
commission was sent TO Bliss, but he re-
pudiated it, and witEess had him re-
moved. Then Charles Tracy said that
lie would give the witness $4,000 il he
would procure a place for him. So the
witness applied to lobbyist named
CIost to transact the business for him.
Clost said he could operate through Sen.
atOr Sawyer, as Sawyer was his personal
friend. Witness promised him $500 il
he should succeed. Tracy's bargain with
the witness was to give him $1,000, OF
which he paid only $500, and Clost lost
his fee. When Tracy went back on the
witness the latter said he must go, and he
did go, through the influence OF Sawyer
with the Secretary OF War. Witness
never held a post.tradership, and what
he had above stated was all he ever had
10 do with them. Witness testified that
post.traderships were procured from
time to time with money, and the trader
at Fort Bascom informed him that he
had given 81, 900 for his place. He had
heard that John Dent, brother-in-law OF
the President, controlled lour or five
such appointments. ,
Witness was asked by Mr.. Danford
whether he thought such business as he
had been engaged in was honorable.
Witness replied he thought his business
with Bliss was honorable, as he never
looked on post tradershipS in political
light. =.
Two other witnesses were examined,
G. W. Felt and S. Cheney, who testified
they paid nothing whatever for their post
traderships. The latter said when he
was trader at Fort Davis he paid 500 for
political purposes to Senator Harlan,
THE MARSHES.
Mrs. c. P. Marsh, accompanied by her
husband, was before the House sub-Judi.
ciary Committee to-day, and gave testi-
mony similar to that of yesterday, before
the Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department.
GENERAL M'cooK.
The latter committee met shortly after
noon to-day, when General McCook ap-
peared and explained his former testi-
mony about house having been present.
cd to General Reynolds by an army con-
tractor at San Antonio. He had no per-
sonaI feeling in the matter, having always
liked General Reynolds, but his report as
Inspector Of Military Posts in Texas was
made in order that the Quartermaster's
Department in Texas might be investi-
gated, there having been serious charges
as to its conduct Of affairs. In his former
testimony he SAID there was a meeting Of
citizens at San Antonio to raise S25,000
and it was supposed that such contribution
wonld bring the headquarters there, but
he did not know whether the money was
raised.
ARMS FOR MEXICO.
No action has been taken By the au-
thorities here regarding the request from
the Mexican government for the pur-
chase Of arms from this government.
Persons officially connected with the War
Department do not think thisgovernment
has the material to spare.
MAIL CONTRACTS.
The House Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads to-day examined ]. D.
Chidester, mail contractor, OF Arkansas.
He testified that he deposited in the con-
tract office, last spring, bid for the route
from Dallas, Texas, TO Jacksboro; that
the contract was awarded to some one else,
and that when he called for his bid and
the security check attached to it, they
were handed TO him by the Second As.
sistant Postmaster General, with the re-
marx tnuL tuc Olu uuu hVNeI uGeu Ieblb-
tered or considered. Witness did not
know whether 1t was the lowest bid or
not 1t was, however, just after the time
Of the discoveries that Channel and Floyd,
Department clerks, had suppressed and
abstracted numbers OF bids, Witness was
asked II J. ]. Kinds had not demanded,
when they were making a settlement Of
some Joint business interests, that Ger.
tain sum, perhaps $1,000, must be reserv.
ed or paid for the benefit Of Senator
Spencer. He replied that nothing Of the
sort had ever occurred, and he had no
recollection oihaying ever said 50 to any
person.
EX-ArToRHEY GENERAL WILLIAMS
And sx.couptrOller Brodhead we're be.