The daily gazette., 1876-03-15
WARRINGTON.
THE REAL ESTATE POOL.
PRESIDENT GRANT BELIEVED TO HAVE
BEEN MEMBER OF 1T. I'D

| PRESIDENT GRANT BELIEVED TO HAVE
BEEN A MEMBER OF 1T. ...
| Special Despatch to the World
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The more
the. true inwardness " of the District
real estate pool is investigated beyond
the knowledge of the witness Kilbourne.
who was at one time the trustee of the
pool, but who is now ono Of its benefci-
| aries, the more evident does it appear
that these "cestuys que trust" covered
important official personages, whom the
pool desired to keep from view, and
whom the witness to-day. after all, re-
fused to give the names of. He will be
| arraigned at the bar of the House to-
morrow. and committed, it he still refu-
ses to answer, for contempt. The COM
mittee, from the investigation of 1874
and the present one, are now satisfied
| that there have been at different times
| three separate pools. The first one
bought property to the amount of $50, 900
| and was organized in 1871. when the
Board of Public Works came into power.
| James M. Latta was trustee, and he
bought for his partner kilbourne without
| knowing, as he testified, for whom the
various portions of the property he pur-
chased were to be held in secret trust
kilbourne was soon after made trustee,
when the pool was in full operation, and
l uhocl liio IIuSIttSulp bllt WAS
run up to over 100000. After the ring
| commenced to be investigated and when
it became necessary for the reputation
OF certain party or parties to get out OF
the pool, Kilbourne stepped in as pur-
| chaser and surrendered portion of his
trusteeship to the third partner of his-
firm, John f. Olmstead, who now holds
it. The pool remained, however, intact
up to 1874, with the exception of one Sc
cret change from an unknown person to
| kilbourne. What is the name OF the un-
known party who was so anxious to get
out and did get out? p? 1t is believed here
ITO be none other than President Grant.
On page 255, volume 2, of the investiga-
tion of 1874, kilbourne testified that
none Of the members of the pool were
residents Of Washington, with one ex-
| ception. On page 256 he declines to
swear that any of the members of the
pool were not members Of Congress. Ia
deed it came out that one of the largest
purchases of real estate by the pool was
from Alex. r. Shepherd, and the Con-
gresham P. NJ. B. Young, Of Georgia,
beng JOINT owners of square 156 for some
s65, 900 which was held in trust and par
tially sold out at profit to two Califor-
mans, Hillyer and Sunderland, also mem
bers Of the pool So far then as can be
ascertained the President, two Republi-
can Senators, two ex-Democratic men,
bers and one Democratic member of this
House possibly are now or were at one
time members of this pool Will Mr..
KlbourLe confirm or deny this ?
CADETsHIPS.
Ananlns Hays and his next friend.
Washington, March 14.-Charlier,
who was summoned here to give evil
dence in the alleged sale of mialitry
cadetship by Representative Hays ar
rived to day, and will tell his story to
the judiciary committee tomorrow
He talks very simply and innocently
36bout what he knows in this case. He
says he keeps sort of preparatory
school in New York, where he trains
boys who expect to enter West Point,
and sometimes, in consideration of ad-
ditional compensation, uses his tact
and influence to procure appointments
to the academy. In the case of young
Beardslee he was paid three thousand
dollars for services in having the ap-
pointment made. He came to WASH
ington, and paid all of the three
thousand dollars to William Lilley, a
scheming lobbyist. claim agent and
note shaver, but Charlier doesn't be-
lieve any of the money ever reached
Hays. The committee expect to find
evidence to prove that Hays didn't ap-
point this Utica boy for nothing.
Schenck's Wicked Partner.
Special Dispatch to the Bait. Gazette.
| WASHINGTON, March 13.-Prefesser
Sillman was given every opportunity
when before the foreign affairs COM
mittee to say whether he signed the
report that eight thousand tons of ore
from the Emma mine would yield
$16, ,e00,0 900. Since his departure from
Washington he has seen fit to deny
that he ever signed the telegram. The
official report of the testimony will
place Professor Sillman in a more en-
barassing position than ever. His
denial is not only desperate attempt
to rid himself of a serious charge, but
his own language will convict him Of
being the willing tool of the projectors
of the Emma mine scheme.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appro-
priation Bill.
special Dcspat' to the World.
| WASHINGTON, March 14.-A dead
lock between the two Houses on the
| OohSuiut auu OlploudtiC hppTOpTld
tion bill on reducing the salaries of
Ministers and consuls.seems inevitable.
The Senate Committee have had sever
al sessions on the bill as it passed the
House and decided that the rates of
the existing law should be maintained
and will so report to the Senate. The
Republican members of the committee
declare that the present representation
abroad was fixed by q Democratic
Congress twenty years ago and should
not be disturbed.
Look on this Picture and then on that.
| WASHINGTON, March 14.-The New
Hampshire election is the uppermost
topic in the hotels and along News
paper Row tonight. Patterson, of
Colorado, Governor Walker, of Vir-
ginia, and Springer, of Illinois, who
have been there stumping for the
Democrats, returned to-day and paint
a sorry picture of the unblushing pur-
chase of votes by both sides. At pri
yate party at the Presidential mansion