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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

laid before the Senate communication from the
Secretary Of War inclosing communication from
the Commissioner-general Of Subsistence, asking
for deficiency appropriation of 100000 for the
subsistence Of the army. Referred. The Consul
lar and Diplomatic Appropriation bill under
consideration, and amendment was adopt
ed restoring to $1,000 each tho salaries
Of the ministers 10 Great Britain, France,
Germany, and Russia. :. Hamlin, fuom the Com
mittee on POetofices and Postroads reported bill
fixing the rate of postage third-class matter.
It provides that the rate for thtrdclass mail matter
shall be one cent per ounce for any distance not
exceeding 1,OO0 miles, and two cents per ounce for
distances over 1000 miles; and that transient
newspapers and magazines shall pay post
age for any distance at the rate of one cent for
every three ounces and cent for each
two ounces or fractional part OF two ounces addl-
tional. Morton desired to call up his resolutions
directing investigation into the recent election
in Mississippi, but the s: nate refused-yeas, IS
nays, Sl-to take them up for consideration.
resolution adopted giving all Government en-
ployes holiday the 18th of April, the occasion
of the inauguration of the Lincoln monument.
Hoslee-A bill was introduced by Willis to restore
the national credit by funding the non-interest
bearing debt into per cent bonds and TO repeal
much Of the Resumption acs as requires the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to redeem all outstanding legal
tenders by January /, 1879. "A motion to suspend
the rules and pass what is known as the Payne FL
nancal bill was defeated-yeas. 81, all Democrats;
nays, l56, of whom SO were Republicans and eS
Democrats
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POLITICAL POINTS.

There are yet seventeen contested election
cases before the House Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections.
Four Iowa congressman Kasson, McCrary,
McDiu and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS q renomina-
ton.
The Republicans of New York, in convention
at Syracuse last week, appointed delegation
to the National Convention at Cincinnati, and
instructed them to vote for Roscoe Conkling
for President The platform declares +" for
sound currency of coin, or paper convertible
into coin, and for common schools absolutely
free from sectarian influence"
The Democratic State Convention Of Penn
sylvania was held at Lancaster last week.
platform was adopted demanding the repeal
of the Resumption act, which is characterized
rs g deliberate proclamation that at that date
the United States will go into bankruptcy. It
paralyzes industry, creates distrust of the
future, turns the laborer and producer out of
employment, is standing threat upon BUSH
ness men, and ought to be forthwith re-
pealed';" declaring that gold and silver are
the only true basis for the currency of the
Republic, and that Congress should take such
steps for the resumption of specie payments as
will most surely and speedily reach that result
without destroying the business interests of
the people. An unpledged delegation was
chosen to the St Louis Convention.
Certain Congressman of both parties are agi-
tating the question of the formation of a nom
partisan compromise on the finance question.
The plan proposes the re-enactment of the law
allowing holders of United States notes in
sums of $50 ard upward to fund them into a
four per cent, gold bond the notes thus funded
to be cancelled and destroyed.
George William Curtis, editor of Hdrper's
Weekly, and of the g Easy Chair in Harper
Monthly, is one of the New York delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention. Curtis made a
hard fight in the Syracuse Convention against
instructing for Conkling, but was overruled.
The Rhode Island Republicans have nomi-
mated Gov. Lppett and the other State officers
forre-election. William B. Beach, a Providence
lawyer, is the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor.
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PIERREPONT,S CIRCULAR.
The Acknowledgement Relates to the Ju-
dietary Committee the History OF his In
structions to District-Attorneys.

The Accomplishment Relates to the Ju-
dietary Committee the History of his In
structiOns to District-At4orneys.
An Associated Press telegram from
Washington says Attorney General
Pierrepont was before the Judiciary
Committee to-day IN regard to the ex-
ecutive interference with the late crook
ed whisky trials in the West. Pierre
points account of his circular lettof is
sued to District-Attorneys is that the
President was very much disturbed at
the constant receipt of newspaper slips
and letters and personal statements Civ
ing information of attempts on the part
of Government officials In the West to
compromise fraud on the revenue, and
that the President spoke to him on five
or six different occasions, expressing his
fear that such things, if allowed, would
bring scandal on the administration.
Pierrepont himself was rather inclined
to treat these statements as exaggera-
tions, and did not believe that the Dis
trict Attorneys or special counsel of the
Government would be guilty of any
thing improper In the matter. He had,
therefore, rather warded off the Presi-
dents advances until finally the Presi-
dent suggested that the Attorney Gen
eral had better write to the District-At-
torneys on the subject. Pierrepont had,
therefore, prepared and forwarded let
ter couched, as he said, in terms that
were rather tame. Nobody had made
or suggested draft of this letter, and
he had not submitted it to the Presi-
dent. In fact, the President knew
nothing of it for three or four days
afterward, when he asked Pierrepont
whether he had taken any action In the
written this letter, and he sent him q
copy of it. A couple of days afterward,
on discovering that the letter had been
published In the Chicago Times on the
1st of February, himself and Mr.. Bris-
tow expressed great Indignation in the
presence of the President at the gross
improperly of giving publicity to it,
and then the President, who did not
manifest any feeling whatever on the
subject, remarked that he had never read
the letter. Pierrepont further stated
that Gen. Babcock admitted to him on
the 9th of March that he was instru-
mental in giving publicity to Uhe letter,
and defended himself on the ground
that they we're trying to destroy him,
and that he had the right to defend him
self. He (Pierrepont) called the Presi-
dents attention the next day to Bah
cocks admission. The committee want
ed to know why Babcock did not call for
court of inquiry to ascertain whether
he had been guilty of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman whether
he was still Commissioner of Public
Buildings and Grounds, etc., but Pierre
pont was unable to give information on
those points"
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The Rio Grande---A Vigorous Policy
Recommended.

A Washington dispatch says The
special committee appointed to investi
gate the alleged outrages on the Mexican
border held full meeting to-day, and
adopted the report previously prepared
by it's chairman, Schleicher. The con-
illusions of this report have heretofore
been published. The committee also
voted unanimously to report a joint reso-
luton authorizing and directing the
President to send at once to the Rio
Grande frontier, in addition to the In
fantry doing garrison duty there, two
full regiments of the best cavalry, each
regiment to consist of twelve companies,
and each company of 100 men. In order
to fill these regiments up, as they now
have only about 400 men each, the
President is authorized to recruit sufi-
cient number. The second section di-
reefs the President to order the COM
mander of the United States troops on
the border to cross the Rio Grande
whenever it is necessary for the purpose
of furnishing cattle thieves and muir
derers and recovering stolen property.
This joint resolution viii be reported to
the House in a few days, as the commit
tee by the resolution creating it was au-
thorized to report at any time.
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Marsh Tells WHY He Ran Away.
washington Associated Press telegram

washington Associated Press telegram
@. P. Marsh was recalled and inter-
r0gated by Clymer. He testified that
he left Washington for New York on the
day the impeachment report was pre-
sented, the I'd of March, and did not
design going to Canada.
Question-On the evening of Wednes-
day, you came to my lodging and saw
me moment. Tell what transpired.
Answer-From something said at the
dinner-table, inferred that Belknap was
not only liable to impeachment, but to a
criminal prosecution. [ said to you :
;, IF the Secretary is In danger, I am in
d anger" when you said, ooh. you are
not IN danger"
Clymer-I did not attempt to alarm
you2
Answer-On the contrary, you pacifed
me. I was alarmed when came to you.
I went back to New York easy, when
you said there was no danger.
Question When you reached New
York, what induced you to conclude
upon going to Canada9
MISUNDERSTANDING in the newspapers
Of Friday morning concerning my testi-
mony, all of which was published. /. I
read the remarks in the House, that the
Secretary of War was not only liable to
impeachment, but to criminal prosecu-
ton. L therefore thought that if the
Secretary was in danger, I was in danger
as well. / consulted a lawyer, who made
an exhaustive examination of the case.
The lawyer did not think / could be in
dicted; but if I should be, I could not
be convicted. His counsel said there
seemed, however, to be some danger.
This very much alarmed me, and | de-
termined not to remain In New York. /
left early in the afternoon of Friday for
Montreal. This was the first time /
heard it said that I had committed an
oAense for which I.might be imprisoned.
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amendments.

There have been only six impeach-
naent trials before the United States
Senate, and but two persons were ever
convicted. The first case was that OF
Senator Blunt, charged with treason In
1898, but there was no trial, the jur1s-
diction of the Senate being denied on
the ground that Senator was not an
officer of the United States. Judge
Pickering, of New Hampshire, was found
guilty of drunkenness In 1903, and re-
moved. Judge Humphreys, of Ten
nessee, was impeached for treason early
in the war, and convicted. The most
celebrated trial, down to President john
sons, was that of Judge Samuel Chase,
of Maryland, who was impeached ID
1904 for political partisanship Ill the
trials of Fries and Callander for libel,
five years before. Chase was Fed
eralist, and these men were virulent
Democrats at time when the partisan
ship of the press was vastly more bitter
than it is now. The trial was the great
event of the day, but resulted In acqu1t-
tai. Chase was one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence and great
spirit. Having once ordered sheriff
to summon posse and take some rioters
to jail, he was timidly answered that
nobody would respond. "Summon me
then, and I'll take EN-" Numbered the
Judge. Aaron Burr's trial, one of the
few famous American state trials, was
after the expiration of his term of Vice
President, and before jury on an IN
dictment for high treason, of which he
was acquitted.
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ness said be lad sent money to Belknap while
Secretary of War; and handed various sums to
him personally, and had no apparent doubt
that the receiver knew what it was for. Marsh
asked Belknap to appoint Evans post-trader at
Fort Sill, and the reason Of the request must
have been known.
The President has appointed Hon. John A.
Bentley, Of Wisconsin, Commissioner of PEN
sions, vice McGill, resigned.
Marsh, In his testimony before the Congress
sional committee, states that his attention was
called to the article in the New York Tribune of
March, 1872 in relation to post-tradershi % at
Fort SILL stating that Evans had paid Marsh
$12, 900 year for the place, etc. Marsh testi-
fed that he called Gen. Belknap's attention to
the article and asked who could have written
or inspired the article when Gen. Belknap re-
piled he supposed it was the work of Gen.
HAGEN. Marsh explained the reason why he
went to Montreal after giving his testimony be-
fore the Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department He apprehended when he
read the debate in the House which appeared
on the morning of the day he left New York,
that he might be indicted Tor criminal Of
fense and hence his anxiety to get out of the
way of arrest.
Kilbourne, the real estate pool man, has
been indicted by the grand jury for refusing
to answer the questions of the House Com
mittee.
The wife of the witness Marsh has told MIR.
Clymer's Committee what she knows about
the Belknap crookedness, which turns out to
be very little. She says she understood that
the Fort Sill leadership was matter between
her husband and Mrs. Belknap, and that 80
far as her knowledge went, Belknap knew
nothing about it. She was Intercepted re-
garding Pendleton's railroad claim, but knew
nothing about it whatever.
Rascality of very ugly kind is being devel-
oped by the House Military Committee, in
it's investigation of the manner ia which the
contract was awarded for furnishing headstones
for the soldiers graves in the National Gene
terry. By the testimony of two witnesses,
Bridges, the successful bidder, is shown to have
obtained the contract by dishonest collision
with the Secretary of War; who, though he may
have had no share in the profits of the job, was
guilty OF outrageous 4AlO CAAAAAAo4 AONOAAcAoA''
It lays the post-tradership infamy completely
in the shade.
At Cabinet meeting the other day, the rev.
olution in Mexico formed the topic of CONVEX
sation, the attention of the Ministers being
brought directly thereto by the application OF
the Mexican authorities, who are endeavoring
to suppress the insurgents, for the purchase
of arms from this Government No definite
action was taken.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee,
Including Republicans, say the testimony
given by Marsh before that committee is
stronger than his testimony before the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the War Depart
ment. and that it is so conclusive of Gen. Bel
knap's guilt that he cannot escape.
1t is positively asserted from Washington
that, should Congress repeal the Resumption
act the President will interpose his veto.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Commissioner of Pensions Gill has resigned
on account of ill-health, but Secretary Chan
der will not accept his resignation, on the
ground that he cannot be spared. Chandler
says he will arrange to make his work lighter
If he will remain.
Ex-senator Stewart of Nevada, has been ex-
amined by the House Foreign Affairs Commit
ee concerning his connection with the Emma
mine business Stewart explained how the
stock was placed on the London market
and denied James E. Lyons statement that
he CStewart) told Lyon that Gen. Schenck re-
ceived 500 shares of the stock. His testimony
is a denial of nearly all the material charges Of
Lyon.
United States Treasurer New has finally de-
terrnined to resign his Office Mr.. New resigns
solely because he finds he cannot longer neg
lect his private business, on account of which
he has for come time contemplated returning
private life.
]. s. Evans, the post-trader at Fort Sill, was
before the Committee ON Expenditures of the
War Department, the other day, and detailed
all the circumstances surrounding his obtain
ing permission from Marsh to remain at Fort
sin. 1t was matter of necessity with him, he
said. to come to terms with Marsh. Secretary
Belknap told Evans he had promised Marsh a
place. and Marsh had selected Fort Sill.
Evans saw Marsh who appeared to understand
all about the matter. He went to New York
with Marsh, where a written contract was
signed. Evans said he was introduced to the
Secretary of War by Gen. Rice, Of Iowa, and
paid him 81, 900 for the introduction. Hethought
this was enough. though Rice wanted 81, 800.
Respecting what has been said about the re-
cent correspondence of the Attorney-ge
with District-attorney Dyer, intended to reflect
upon Gen. Babcock, he (5abcock) makes and
authorizes the publication of the following
statement: 81 found copy Of the letter lying
open upon my desk at the executive mansion.
I do not know how or by whom it came there.
1t was without any envelope or direction to
ANYBODY. 1t was not marked official or conf
Dental There was nothing to show that it was
intended for the President, and he informs me
that he never saw it. The copy appears to
have been made in the Attorney-general's
office. Finding this copy open and without
direction upon my desk, presumed it was put
there for my inspection and use, and accord
inglv I placed it in the hands of my counsel for
such action as they might think proper in re-
gard to it,
TIE man Marsh has repeated bis testimony
before the Committee of the House. The wit
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

The advance in wheat during the week
will be received with gratitude by the
whole country. For an advance not only
implies higher prices but larger exports.
It denotes a gap in the European mar
ket which the Mississippi Valley must
fill. Floods and high winds and unsea-
sonable weather have destroyed millions
of acres of growing crops in all the cen
trail European wheat belt, and Russia's
surplus has been materially reduced by
the discovery of the late serfs that they
are good enough to eat wheat -four.
Vessels outward bound will now have
freights and wheat will be likely to move
briskly during the next few weeks.
There is little danger of glut of the
foreign market, and the stock in store in
this city is twice as great as it was Last
year this time.-NeaO York Graphic.
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A KEARNEy man started with team
to the Black Hills, and the Indians
wanted to interview him on the way.
He whipped up his team, but the red
skins gained on him. He threw out his
load, but they came still nearer. He
finally tumbled off the bed, drew the
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

A fire at Scranton, Pa, last week, destroyed
the Opera-House and several adjacent build
ings. The loss is estimated at $15O,000.
B. T. Rogers, the receiving teller of the Ful-
ton Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y, has disappeared for
parts unknown. About $25, 900 of the banks
funds also disappeared at the same time.
The Eastern States, in common with nearly
every section of the country, have been ex-
periencing the unpleasant effects of severe
gale. The storm ragged over the whole of New
England with disastrous effect. The loss by
the breakage of DAMS destruction of bridges
mills. and dwellings, and by inundation where
property is not swept away is immense, and
cannot be accurately estimated. 1t is believed
that at least 81, ZOO, 900 worth of property was
swept away in New England, and some dozen
lives were lost.
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Almost Incredible.

Having occasion to send a private dis
patch to Paris last evening, the writer OF
this paragraph, while in the Office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, ex-
pressed some curiosity to have demon
strated the rapidity with which under
favorable circumstances transmission
could be made over the cable and the
connecting land wires between this city
and the French capital. Within thirty
minutes from the moment of this con-
yersation the following note was deiv-
cred at the office of the North Anaeri-
can:
Clayton McMichael:
DEAR SIR: Your cable this evening was in
Paris in Just eleven (11) minutes from the time
you sent it to the operating --1O:46 p. M,
our time. Truly yours, ]. e. ZEUBLIN,
Night manager Third and Chestnut.
When it is considered that this won
derful rapidly was reached without pre-
vious preparation Of any sort, without
arranging q through circuit for the special
purpose, and that the message passed
through ethe ordinary channels, it Is diff
ficult to End proper EXPIRE ssion for the
admiration excited by SO great progress
in science. Philadelphia Gazette.
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international Weights and measures


The President has sent to the Senate
for ratification a metric treaty between
the United States and the Governments
of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
the Argentine Republic, Denmark, Spain,
France, Italy, Peru, Portugal. Russia,
Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey
and Venezuela. The United States were
represented In this convention by Minis
ter Washburne. This treaty consists of
q number of articles to which the COM
missioners of the respective countries
agree as the best means for establishing
a metric system of weights and measures.
The countries agree TO maintain at mu-
tual expense permanent international
bureau of weights and measures at Paris.
The French Government is to construct
all necessary buildings. The bureau is
to be controlled by committee appoint
ed by the several countries. The duties
of the committee shall be the care and
yerifcation of the standard. Any of the
contracting parties can abrogate the
convention as to itself on one years no
tice.
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west.

Five men were killed and several seriously
injured, few days ago, by the explosion of a
boiler in the rolling mill of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, at Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory.
Gen. Crook, the famous Indian fighter. re-
Gently encountered band of indians under
Crazy Horse, and completely routed them.
Sixteen redskins were killed, and the remain
der scattered in every direction.
South.
The South Caroline Senate, sitting as court
of impeachment has found Judge Montgomery
Moses, of the seventh circuit guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and dismissed him
from Office. Judge @. W. Buttz, of the Charles
ton circuit, is now undergoing trial before the
same tribunal, and will probably be convicted.
o. A. P. Nicholson, Chief Justice of the Ten
nessee Supreme Court, an ex-United States
Senator, and once editor of the old Washing
ton Union, is dead.
Killing frosts have hurt the early crops in
Georgia and the Carolinas.
A band of masked men recently entered the
town of Oakville, Live Oak county, Texas took
possession of the Jail, murdered John Tobin
and Henry Cotton, prisoners and shot into
private houses, killing man named Adams.
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Don CARELESS is still worth $40, 0OO,-
600.