Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-18
Investigation Of the Case of Spencer, Of
Alabama-Ihe Treasury-Thief, Hal
leck, Sentenced.
The Recusant Witness, KilbOurne, Be-
coming Cheeky-The Tombstone
Contract -Bellmap.
The RAIDS on Reduction Of Expenses
The Safe-Burglary-POstal Straw
Bids -OrVille Grants InYestiga-
ton.

| WASHINGTON, March 17.-AttOrney-
General Pierrepont several days ago sent
q messenger to Canada to bring Mr..
| Msrsh TO Washington. The attorney
general has heard from his agent to-day,
| and expects that Marsh will soon be
here. Terms of safety have been offered
to Kim that in ali probability will be ac-
| ceded to.
| THE STEAMBOAT BILL PICKED UP AN
OBSTRUCTION.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE house
| cOmmitte on commerce to-day voted to
| report adversely on what is known az
| the double-eapRcityc clause of Represents
| tive Sayler's steamboat bill.
THE RECUsANT KILBOURNE.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Kilbourne
has written 8 letter from Jail to Speaker
| Kerr reminding him that it is his duty 10
certify to the facts in his case to the dis
tIict-attOrney, that he may bring the
matter before the grand jury, and de-
handing that the certificate be given so
that he may enjoy the right to speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury.
HALLECK, THE TREASURY THIEF.
WASHINGTON, March lib. g. Hal
leck, convicted yesterday OF the larceny
OF forty-seven thousand dollars from the
| treasury, was to-day sentenced to four
years imprisonment, at hard labor, in
the Albany, county penitentiary. Otto
man, indicted in the same case, wss
| then put on trial.
THAT TOMBSTONE CONTRACT.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Maurice j.
Walsh, OF New York, appeared before
the committee on military affairs to-day
in reference to the soldiers tombstone
contracts. He claims, although his bid
for frst-class CarTara marble was only
some niue hundred Thousand dollars,
! out of which two hundred thousand dol
lars was to come back to the govern
ment in the shape of duty on the i'm
ported article, the contract was given to
Mr.. Bridges, of KeOkuk, Iowa, for
nine hundred thousand dollars, for
American marble OF very inferior quail
fy, and without any such advantage to
the government. He charges also that
Bridgts's bid was put in after the hour
fixed for opening the bids, and after two
OF his own (Wash's) had been opened.
He asserts that Bridges was also favored
| to the extent of seyenty-five thousand
dollars in change of the requirements
in the specifications after the bids were
| in.
THE REPUBLICANS ON A REDUCTION OF
EXPENSES.
WASHINGTON, March l7.-At an sd-
| journed meeting OF q caucus of Repub-
| lican senators to-day there was further
| interchange of views respecting the gen.
ersl policy that should be adopted in re-
gard to the large reductions made or
contemplated by the house OF repre- senta-
| tives in the customary annual apprOpria-
tons After a long discussion, it was
unanimously agreed as the sense of the
| caucus that the necessary efficiency of
the civil service would be seriously i'm
paired if q sweeping reduction be made
in all its branches by the application Of
the reported policy OF the house COM
mittee to cut down nearly ali salaries
ten per cent. and the force of employees
twenty per cent; also that the action Of
the house in proposing to abolish the
number OF our missions to South Amer
lea and to reduce the salaries OF the
principal ministers in Europe is unwise
and impolitic. 1t was therefore agreed
that the senate committee on spprOpria-
tons should pass on each item of reduC-
ton in the various bills separately, and
in those reductions which, after separate
examination, are found compatible with
the continuance of requisite efficiency.
Wherever such reductions can be made,
the Republican majority of the senate
will vote for them; but, on the contrary,
unless similar gC 0 reasons can be shown
for concurrence in any of the recon-
mendations of the house touching mat
tiers Of Importance, the issue will be met
with unyielding firmness.
THE SAFE BURGLARY CONSPIRACY.
WASHINGTON, March IA letter
has been received in this city from a
person prominently connected with the
previous investigation and trial of Hars
ringtOn, in the safe burglary conspiracy,
stating that the sO,called confessions Of
Nettleship, CUM and Harrington were
but another chapter in this conspiracy.
The confessions implicste no one Of any
particular prominence, The letter also
states that the only man who could and
would tell the whole story, Colonel
Whitley, ex-chief OF the treasury secret
service, had been run out of the country
by the District ring, and is now engaged
in sheep and cattle-raising in Mexico.
Several other letters OF similar import
have been received.
THE POSTAL STRAW BIDS.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE house
committee on postoffices and post-roads
to- day examined William A. DanfOrth,
| Of Chicago. He testified that Sanderson,
of the firm of Barlow, Sanders On & Co.,
had informed him that they paid large
sums of money to officers In the postof-
fee department, under Postmaster Gen
eIal Cresswel's administration, to secure
valuable western mail contracts by
means Of straw bidding devices. San
derson roomed with witness in Kansas
City, and they were intimate friends.
| Ganderson told him the firm were bled
heavily by pOstoffice officials, and that
they paid not less than five thousand
dollars per quarter. To another they
had given a carriage and pair of horses,
and TO another diamond pin worth u
| thousand dollars. No names were given
by Sanderson in making these asser-
| tons. Witness said he had seen one Of
the books of the firm, which showed that
| they set aside q considerable portion of
their receipts from mail contracts, to be
| devoted to such payments. Barlow lived
| east, and attended to paying out the
| money. Witness said that subsequently
| Sanderaon informed him that they had
| burned their books, and suggested that
| he had better not remember what had
been told him on this subject. The COM
mittee will next examine the book
keeper of Barlow, Sanderson & Co.
| THE WAR DEPARTMENT INVEsTIGA-
gION.
WASHINGTON, March LEX Gov
arnor Csmpbsll, Of Wyoming, now one
| Of the assistant secre.arys of state, was
before the committee of expenditures in
the war department to-day, aud read a
dispatch, published in the New York
Herald, including him, with Others, Ia
the sale OF post -trsdsrships. He said
he appeared voluntarily to deny, under
oath, every statement concerning him
ia that article. He had rever in any
way, directly or indirectly, been con,
eerned in the sale Of post trad .rships, CT
n any bargain IN any way affecting
post.tTaderships, and no one for him had
been authorized to use his name in con-
nectjon with the sale or barter Of post
traderships. He said he did pas snow
OF any post-traders haYiug paid money
to the secretary Of war, or to any other
person, for the privilege; he had heard
such enarges IN Wyoming, but nothing
dtfi0ite, nor could he say who told him.
e. X. Peck, of the firm of Durfee &