Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-24


| iDgtoD; he presumed ehey were ssked to
subscribe because tbeY nel the post
tEadeTships under tha administration
he did not consider they were Obliged to
pay, but were notified that contributors
would ba acceptable; he thought that
the amount Of contributions from the
military posts was desiguatTd ia proper
ton to the number Of troops there.
EVANS & co.
| J. J. + .sher Was recalled and testified
that the hgs1 CT Evans g. Co., post
! traders, contributed money for political
| PURPOSES, in pl,r uapce 10 the request
| CONTAINED in printei circular. He
! d;i not understand tht t the contribution
was pdisory, la be thought it the
saf-r way 10 pay the nO1ey, apart ItCm
| political constellation.
M. Evans testified that during the
lss: Presidential canvass be, in compii-
ancs with circular received at Fort
Sill, sent three hundred dollars TO the
Republican executive committee IN
Washington, stld has paid one hundred
and fifty doll6rJ to the same COMMITTEES
within the last six montt s He voted
fer Lincoln for President agatost.
MCCLELLAN, bat was not now mixed up
in politics. He would not have paid the
money If he had not been called on to
DO so. Hs sent \ check for the money
to Postmaster EimunGs.
THE BOWER ESTATE.
F.. g. Leonard, OF Cincinnati, testified
that he was in the hardware business
with the la5e Mr.. Bower; the es. ate of
deceased was from tWenty-eight thou.
sand t. thirty thousand dollars, fifteen
thousand dollars being for lie insurance;
the money he owed to Mrs. Bower was
paid, as Surviving partner, to Geo. II.
Pendjeten, mutual friend of both par.
ties, and VINO was attorney for Mrs.
Bower; witness never heard what in
vestmeGt WAS msda OF the money; he
knew G. p. Marsh, who at that tins
was in Cincinnati, but had no conneo-
tion With the transaction; Marsh said he
wss glad 70 hear that the widow como
oat 50 nicely in her business.
TIE FORT DODGE POST.
John Fletcher, OF indianapolis, testi-
fed that in 1871 he made application FOR
the pcst-tTadersbip at Fort Dodge. He
had an interview with the secretary CT
war, but was told that tha position had
been promised.
M COOK STESI1MONYs
Lieutenant Colonel MpCook testified
thai he believed the secretary OF war, or
some middle man, had been selecting
post -traderships. This was matter Of
common conversation at western pOsts.
MARSH AGAIN.
WASHINGTON, March &c. P.
Msrsh WIS again before the sub,cOnl-
mittee OF the Judiciary commit this
morning. His attention was called to
an srticle in the New York Tribune OF
March, 1872, in relation to the pest
tradershlp at Fort Sill, stating that
Evans had paid Marsh twelve thousand
dollars year for the place. Marsh tfs'
titled that he called General Belknsp'5
attention to the article, and asked who
could have written or inspired the 8rti-
Gle, when General Belknap replied that
he supposed it was the work of General
H8zsn. Marsh explained the reason
why ha went to Montreal after giving
his testimony bsfOre the committee on
expenditures in the war department.
He apprehended, When he read the de-
bate in the house which appeared on the
morning OF the day he lett New York,
that he might be Indicted for q criminal
cffense, and hence his anxiety to get
out Of tha way Of arrest.
sTEWAET ON TIE sCHENCK swINDLE.
WASHINGTON, karGh 23.-Ex Sona-
tor Stewart resumed his testimony, say.
ing that on his return from Paris %
London he met General SchencS, who
stated to him that he had concluded to
become director in the Emma mine
company, not thinking there WIS any
improperly in doing SC, for the reason
that az that time the minister of POrtu.
gal, one Of the oldest and most respect
ed Of diplomats, was president of
tramway company and also vender Of
the stock. Witness ssid ne had reason
to believe General Sehenck knew before
he became director that Albert Grant
was 10 receive one hundred thousand
pounds for being 8 promoter OF the
scheme. Stewart also. said that Park
bought fifty thousand dollars worth Of
Canada Southern and Utah Central
bonds for Mrs. Stewart. The bonds
were given to bis wife, and the cash paid
to him from time to time. The lsrge
sums were paid with check for fifteen
or twenty tnOusand dollars, and the
amounts 10 the settlement made were,
as near as he could get at it, two hundred
and seventy thousand dollars.
MI. EDLGHElb HlCSClkCNA . lAE AuLhAJ@A
of letters, which were placed on file.
They were fi0m Lyon to ThOmFs Almy,
Salt Lake, and soma of them relate to
the proceedings OF Lyon 10 secure the
removal OF Judge M'Keap. Lyon eX-
plains his plans for making q raid on the
Judges, ana informs 4 lmy that II he
can get the proper evidence, he Will
have them removed, and that be has
employed Noah Davis, 0! New York,
and Senator COnkEiug and Senat Jr
Stewart, and that he could have Colonel
Patrick removed if he desired.
PIERREPoNT ON THAT LETTER,
WASHINGTON, March 23.-AttOrney-
General Pierrep0nt was before the judi
ciary committee to-day in regard to ex-
scutive interference with the late
crooked whisky trials in the west.
PiFrfep1nps account of his circular let
ter TO distyict-attorEey is that the Pres
ident was very mucn disturbed at the
constant Teesips Of newspaper slips and
letters and personal statements, giving
information of attempts on the part of
government officials in the west 70 com.
promise fraud on the revenue, and that
the President spoke to him on five or
six different occasions expressing his
fear that such things, il allowed, would
bring scandal on the administration.
Pierrepont himself was rather inclined
to treat these statements as exsggs sra-
tionp, and did not believe that district
attorneys, or the Pp cial counsel Cf the
govern ment, would be guilty OF anything
Improper in the matter. He had, there
fore, rather wardsd off the Presidents
advances, until finslly the President
suggested that tie atUOrDey-genergI had
better write TO district-attorneys Oh
the subject, PieIrepont had there
fore prepared and forwarded let
ters, couched, ss he said, in
terms tbRt were rather tame. Nobody
had made or suggested drsught of this
letter, and he had not submitted it t.
the President. In fact, the President
knew nothing Of IL for three or four days
after ward, when be asked Pierrepo1: If
he had taken any action in the ma.t-r,
AMI then he told him he had written