Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-22
rEyDLEroN.
The Mystery Surrounding Cen
theman George is Being
Exploded.
Gen. B. Il. Butler Assisting the
Investigators.
Evans, who Paid the Hucats for
the FOrt,Si1l7Sutlcrship
tDravels. -
The Pendleton Job.
GENERAL -Bu4s.kt ON tr,,,s-srxs1

- g ii;NEltAi. BEai.Eh On -rtiis Stand.
WAsulNGToN, March 21 GGncla b.
Butter was before he committee cn cX-
Pcndl:ules inthc war departmental day.
Being questioned by the chairman
Mle.hcr he had information on the So
called Bclknap-Pendl;ron Scandal, he
said he had only hear say evidence,
which he thought might be of use to
the chairman. He SAID it was alleged
III a telegram to the New York Evening
Post that the treasury draft for thirty
thousand dollars, made payable at tile
National Park Bank of New York, was
endorsed by Pchdieton, and the money
alter passing through the hands of two
persons. WAS paid over to Mrs. Bower, in
person, il-tlat city. General Butler said
gentleman who was looking up legal
evidences Tor him in New York lI-
termed him that he was told by one i
person that another person ewabout
the payment OF money, and that she
was present when the thirty thousand
dollars was paid to Mrs. Bower, said
10 come from Pcndle,on.
The general saidto his informant,
"can you get at the persons
= hS aus WI was YES,
lfrls was week ago Saturday.
The general left for asLlngtuu.-SSA
nLday-uiptA4-- II ne generaITlurther said
-tlnl,T you had better probe the
matter 10 the BOTTOM; if what YOU
state issa fact j, ought to be known
This informant made ali arrangement
to meet the party supposed to possess
| the information; this was the next
| Wednesday. The general told h,mI
that il there was anything
to require his presence in New
| York Ire would go thither-on being
| telcgraphed. Thursday his informant
,efcgraphed in cipher that the party
whom he was to meet had lef, New
i York for New Orleans on the pre-.
vioUs tuEsi1ay night. together with
other Persons'p possessed OF information.
He told these facts to Dantord and
stated to him sit is eviden, somebody
j has been talking Swi,h the parties
whicn has resulted in sending them
to New Orleans so. suddenly. He
said TO Daniord il you can get sup
ocIla from your committee in blank,
Il 10 be filled up privately, without the
names getting into the newspapers,
Il and have ii sent by Confidential dep
II uty ol the sergeant al arms, whom
II should name ! thought the parties
Il could be caught. He relrained from
telling names, because the.
!: press would have them publishcd,~all
/ over the United States.
tluestion:-Have You any objection to
stating to the committee the names Of
the parties?
81 Answer: IN ct at ALL
II Question II Have you any objection to
II stating the names OF the person who gave
Il you the names of the parties possessed
of the information.
II Answer THE name of my informant
Sl is b. F.Jaync.
Fl Butler said he-mat- Smith, the -eer-
81 respondent of the Evening Post and re-
3I marked to him, that he knew something
N OF the thirty thousand dollars which
III Pcndleton received on account of the
\ Kentucky Central.
III The general was asked whether he sup
sI posed Smith was'going to publish what
b lie said to him:
luC SSuCIhk iC PilCN ttdC uOI Wishing
Ito throw any imputation on Smith, he
a would merely remark that he never said
i sn ything to the correspondent that was
\ trust them with untold gold, but not
y the Pendlcton matter a-litte on his own
al account. .-.-..-=s-s
al w. Scott Smith, the Posts correspond
q Ab,% h,,tl. A..
|sl lawyer to whom his evidence referred to
hi yesterday. ~
|I General Butler privately at the rcques:
| Il Of the committee wrote the names of the
Il parties who had fled from New York to
|al New Orleans, and the committee will
tsI SEND, "a subpoena after them.
(#I John F. Evans who made the contract
u with Marsh for the leadership ut For,
Sill, and other witnesses, were examined
Z vAHs'TEsTIMoMY
j. S. Evans late post trader at For
Sill, detailed to the committee on expeua
itures in the. war department this after
noon =all-the circumstances Surrounding
his obtaining permission from Marsh t
81 remain at Fort Sill. 1t was matter -o
necessity with him, he said, to come t,
terms with Marsh. Secretary Belkna]
told Evans he had promised Marsh
d place, and Marsh had selected Fort Sill
III Evans saw Marsh who appeared to un
HI dcrstund all about the matter. He wen
III TO New York with Marsh when writtc
ID contract WAS signed Evans presented
III detailed statement in writing of his pay
n ments to lMarsh, he said he told hi
III friends of his arrangement with Marsh. h.an
HI showed General ericsson, the command
HI ing officer at that post, the contract, o
ua his return. to Fort Sill. The facts wcr
IIssI we'll known there. 1t was regarded.
III great outrage aud the cause Of extortiotr