The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-03-09

been asked and in many instances
granted. &. w.
The Belknap ExpOsc-What the
Metropolitan Press Has TO Say
About il.
The New York Times speaking cd
itorially of the Bclknap expose, says:
at would be absurd to regard the
guilty tralIicking of Secretary Bel
KNAPP as a mere misfortune for the
administration, or ground of re-
proach against the Republican par
ty. 1t assumes the character of a
national disgrace and as such, touch
cs the American peoplewithout dis
5inction of politics. The good name
of our government has been smirched
in Il place where it had kept its hon
or clean. Apart from the direct
guilt Of offence against moral and
public virtue, General Bclknap must
bear the additional odium of being
the first to break down the personal
integrity of the Presidents official
advisers. The Herald says the sud.
den overwhelming and irrctrievablc
disgrace of Secretary Bclknap is in
one sense an occasion for profound
regret and sorrow, but sentiments of
this nature are swallowed up in an
indignant apprcCiatiOp of his crime
and a vigorous desire to see it twisted
by Just retribution. 1t claims that
Bclknap is merely a sample of the
men by whom President Grant was
surrounded, and mentions the cases
of Williams, Delano, Richardson and
Creswell, as instances, 1t contends
that Belknap being no longer civil
officer cannot be impoachcd. Bel
knap's crime will be terribly damag-
ing to the administration The
World and Tribune both consider Bel
knap's crime national disgrace.
The Committee on Expenditures
have already given Belknap several
opportunities to appear before them,
but he says he will make no state
ment until he can do so before the
Senate in an official form. Various
rumors were current yesterday, one
to the effect when he rendered his
resignation, Belknap said he wished
he had killed himself, when he found
that Marsh was to tell the whole af-
fair. The President is said to have
responded ~ wish to God you had
done sol
1t was also rumorcd that Orvillc
Grant was implicated Ihe,scene in
the House yesterday when Clymer
took the floor has not been cqualed
since the impeachment of johnson.
There was an immense crowd of spec
from its trcmulousncss, and himself
from his agitation. Attic close of
the reading and after many of the
members who had takenup positions
near the clerks desk the better to
hear the testimony and accompany
ing statements had returned to their
proper seats, Mr.. Clymcr, who had
also gone to his seat, again rose and
said, with great emotion, Mr.. Speak
or, | would moi if l could and | could
not in my present, condition if !
would, all a!S:%tth!.iing 70 the facts just
reported TO the House, and another
occasion may be afforded me to do so.
They are so plain that everywhere
throughout this broad land and
throughout Observation-Disclosures the
English language is read or spoke,
they will for long years constitute a
record of offences, convictions and
crimes, such us there is no parallel
for in our own history or in that of
any country that | know of if in this
hourofour history, if oncwordof sym,
pathy could find uttcrancc from me,
it would be because the fault of the
late Secretary Of war; is but the
proper out-growth of and the true cx-
poncnt of the corruption andeXtray-
agauce of the disagreement that
has cursed this land toryears past
That being my own reflection, | will
discharge my duty to myself and this
House by demanding the previous
question on the adoption of the res
olution.