The Republican journal., 1876-03-16
Coming Developments.

Especial Despatch March III to the n. y. World !
The special investigation into the fam
Gus real estate pool of this District has at
last reached a point where the witness Kill
bourne will be obliged to furnish the
names of the secret beneficiaries of the
trust or be arranged before the House for
contempt, and on persistent refusal be
committed to Jail. The indications are
that the witness will give the names at
The meeting on Monday, and it is believed
that he will implicate the President and
Lieut. Fred Grant as two of the beneticiar-
les who contributed to the fund, but who
have during the last six months paid up
their assessment and sold out. OF the
original members of the pool, it is not be-
lieved that more that three remain, and
they are real estate agents. The pool last
Fall compromised with the Jay Cooke &
Cos receivership by paying something
over $40, 900, which the firm Of jay Cooke
q Co., paid in 1872 as its contribution
At the settlement was made last year be-
tween the pool and the estate in order to
have the exposure prevented and the suit
dismissed for the recovery OF the Cookies
interest. Grant mortgaged his property at
Long Branch, it is believed, to raise the
money to pay his portion of the assess
ment made on the pool, and has since dis
posed of the real estate, which consisted
wholly Of unimproved lots, to other par
ties
Tkilbourne was brought before the
House on Tuesday, and refusing to give
the names, was committed to Jail
From the st. Louis Republican.
Just before the investigation of the real
estate pool by the Forty third Congress, a
piece of property valued at SO 900 was
dee ded to the President by the pool, but
the deed was not recorded until the inyes-
LEGATION was closed, u period OF four
months elapsing before it was recorded.
This seems to indicate that the President
desired 10 conceal this transaction, OF at
least feared inquiry by the Committee OF
the last House. The date of the deed and
the date of its recording will be brought
before the Committee, and some of its
members advocate a reSolut on of inquiry
directed to the President
special Despatch March ~ 10 the New York
Within forty-eight hours probably, and
certainly as soon as the Committee can
get at it, a well known gentleman of I'M
inpeachable integrity will testify to a fact
which places the President in a hardly
less disgracetul light than is Belknap him
self. This gentleman holds himself ready
to swear that on a certain occasion he
went to the White House and introduced
to the President gentleman who wanted
Il post-tradership or an Indian agency
This gentleman made his application, and
having made it, then remarked to the
President, in the hearing OF the witness,
that in coming through the Indian country
he had come across the finest pair OF lndi-
an ponies which he had ever laid ewes up
on, and If the gift would be acceptable he
would like to make present of them to
the Presidents boys. Thereupon, without
any hens or haws, the President accepted
the gift and at once sent telegram to
the commandment OF the post where the
ponies then We're, ordering them to be i'm
medately forwarded at his (Grant's) ex-
pense. Shortly after the applicant received
an appointment, not, indeed, to the post
or agency for which he had applied, but
to another equally as lucrative