Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-11
Washington News, and Still Cor.
ruptiOn.

Washington News, and Still Cor.
ruptiOn.
NEW YORK, April 10.
The Herdld's Wasnington's special
says: The full inner history of the safe
burglary conspiracy is likely TO come
to light in the rae between Whitley
and his chief c~onfederates to tell what
they know of the affair. and thus Sc
cure immunity for their part of the
crime.
There was q prospect hat the PreSi-
dent would go OF the stand in regard
to the safe burglary business, but now
it seems that the cases against the con
spirators were dismissed n o by order
of the President or Babrock. Int by
the Attorney General, on the ground
that the supreme COur. OF the district
has decided that the grand jury who
had indicted Harrington anu others
were illegally impaneied. 1t will he
shown however. that the suits were
abandoned through White House in
fluence. BaDcock has been in consul
alton with the President to-day, and
protests his innocence a. vehementiy
as he did in the whisky frauds. He gOes
before the comnllttee again to-day.
kilb0urne will probably he released
IN habeas corpus. He proposes to
apply for u writ to-day. The warden
probably will not produce the pri>-
oner, following the precedent recently
made i'll the matter of The Pacific Mail
witness. Nothing better evinces the
frighteneu condition of nearly ali
Republican officials under inyestiea-
ton than the way i'll wnicn they are
replying 10 requests OF the committees
for information. IL Is impossible for
the committees to get Wha, inirrma-
ton they desire. They can always get
a valuable man sent down to the COM
mite ~ with Il car pet sack full OF
papers with everything in it except the
very papers they want. The commit
tee most lately troubled this way is
that of Expend ture in the department
of Justice. They have received inlor-
nation Of bogus claims passed by the
Trea-ury under Richardson ~ the
Presidents written order ut no
Treasury Clerk knows anyt. x about
it, and the papers canDot be found.
A Crooked sx.ColIector NabDe.t-
What lac Knows.
New York, April 10.
Chas. b. Wilkinson, OK Collector of
Internal Revenue OF The Western Dis
trict of Missouri, was arrested on Sat.
urday for embezzlerneni in office. He
states that he is convinced that a con-
spiracy 10 defraud the Government
extended throughout Northern and
Western Missouri. and that Joyce,
Mcdonald and Bittinger shared in the
profits, but he maintains that it will he
fairly shown in evidence that distillers
aud members of the ring were in
structed to withhold all knowledge
from the collector. Moreover, no tie
| iieved Joyce and Mcdonald will be
pardoned as soon as the presidential
| election il over. He says it will be q
desperate thing for the President Ia do.
| but it will be done. From a fugitive dis
tiller, whom he met in Melbourne, he
learned that Joyce represented to the
| distiilers OF Northern Missouri that
assessments on crooked whisky were
levied for party purposes and remitted
TO Babcock in Washington.
Twesd's observation-disclosures Ia
Force.
NEW YORK, April 10.
Sundays Citizen has a report that
| VIM. Nj. Tweed has bought a house in
Havana and is living there.
A gang of tramps stoned the New
Jersey Central railroad train in War
rem county, n. j., yesterday. and at
tempted to take possession of the en-
CINE. A desperate fight ensued and
the train hands, being assisted hy
officers, thirteen tramps were finally
made prisoners and lodged in jail.
Some of the officers we're very badly
beaten.