The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-09

all doubt on this score has since been re-
moved by his conduct and that of Mrs.
Bclknap and her brothcr-in-law since
investigation began a few days ago.
Their efforts to induce Mr.. Marsh to in
vent some story by which to deceive the
committee in regard to the nature of the
transaction, the assurances brought him
by Mrs. Belknap's brother that he was
in communication with Democratic
member of the committee, and could so
manage the investigation as to prevent its
inquiry from being of too searching a
character, the secretary's behavior before
the committee at its meeting, and final
ly his precipitate resignation, all conspire
to fix Upon him the responsibility for his
acts as they appear, and to make no
other explanation possible than that he
has been guilty of open and unblushing
bribery.
WASHINGTON, March 2.
The President, in conversation with
friends tonight, stated emphatically that
he was not aware of the enormity of the
charges against Belknap at the time he
rendered, and the President accepted, his
resignation. From the hurried and inco-
herent manner of Belknap's communica-
ton to him, the President drew the con-
clusion that Mrs. Belknap, and not her
husband, was the guilty party, and that
the General assumed all responsibility
and censure in order to shield his wife.
Although he did not inform the President
that he was actually guilty himself he
confessed he was not free from blame.
The President says that if he had known
the full measure of Belknap's guilt he
would not have yielded so readily to Bel
knap's appeal in accepting the resigna.
ton in the mild terms he did, but would
have demanded that the official relations
between them should Immediately cease,
and that Belknap should at once vacate
his Office and take all the consequences of
his official misconduct The President
had no suspicion up to 10 o'clock to-day
that Belknap's official conduct was the
subject of investigation, and nothing
could have occasioned him more surprise
than the communication made to him by
Belknap himself at the time he presented
his written resignation.
LONDON, March 4.
The Times, this morning, says editorial
ly of the Belknap scandal: "This event
is the more grave because it is confrma-
tory of the suspicion which has long pre-
vailed among the American people
Even the Europeans cannot but be struck
with the altered tones in which the Amer
leans speak; if not of their institutions,
at least of the men WHO have the present
direction of them"
The Neaes, alluding to the same subject,
says: american political life seems to
be in anything but healthy condition"
1t refers to the whiskey fraud trials, the
Emma Mine scandal and the downfall of
Bclknap, and says that ''these scandals
lift the veil from class of society which
it was hitherto pretty generally supposed
had as yet escaped the impurities of the
social strata below, and they lead one to
fear that some of the worst vices of the
municipal government may be percola-
ting into the Federal administration"
The Telegraph says: Disclosures after
disclosures, charges after charges, varying
in degrees of truth, but with the same
ugly and untoward character, have lately
darkened the commercial, religious, judi
cial and administrative institutions of the
United States. Some have proved false
and others true, and more await evidence;
but the general effect, beyond denial, has
been to bring the blush of shame and
anxiety into the face of all honest Amer
leans, and to make the countless friends
of the republic in this country silent and
sorrowful, when its enemies rejoice over
these recurring revelations"
The Standard says: "Happily the
countries are few where so gross an abuse
of trust would be possible"
WASHINGTON, March 6.
Belknap was arrested last night on
warrant sworn out by Judge Wells. He
was detained in his house with police in
side and out all night.
Belknap. will have hearing before
Judge Smell in the Police Court this af-
ternoon.
(. The St. Louis Time, publishes state
ment from DR.. Terry, for many years con-
nected actively with Ducker &Peck, post
traders, giving full account of the oper-
ations of Orville Grant, brother of the
President, in connection with Belknap.
whom Terry designates as Orville Grants
partner. Grant visited the posts once
year to collect his money. On these
Journeys he had orders from the War
Department for ambulances and other
things which he required. he also had
like arrangements with the Indian agen-
cies. The new arrangements went into
operation shortly after the death of Gen
eral Rawlins. Other reports say that the
President specially interfered in giving
his brother Orville such control of the
storekeepers as to enable him to force the
the storekeepers to terms. DR.. Terry
says Orville Grant was much feared on
the frontier.
The investigating committee have
list of twenty trading posts on the from
tier of Texas, which were sold by Belk-
nap. Mr.. Clymer, chairman, will issue
summonses for witnesses to day.
Mat Carpenter, counselor for Belknap,
sent word to Belknap that he was not
ready to come down with his bail, and
requesting that matters stand as they are
until tomorrow Meantime Belknap is
a prisoner in his own house. 1t is un-
derstood an examination will be waived,
with bail, pending the action of the
grand jury. Ex-Attorney General Black
and Montgomery Blair, with Carpenter,
will act for Belknap in the courts and
before the Senate. In the Senate, coun-
sci will demur as to jurisdiction.
THE DUTY OF EVERY NAN.