Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-10

| against Mr.. Bowen, and the matter was referred
to a select committee to report on the evening of
the 4th, various desultory motions to expel Mr..
Bowen being voted down.
| On the list, the Louisiana House of
Representatives adopted series of articles i'm
| peaching Gov. Kellogg of high crimes and mis-
| demeanors, it being claimed that the action of
| the Senate, the 18th ult was illegal, null and
| void. A report of the action of the Senate was
made to the House, with the statement that such
action was final on the part of the Senate, as to
| the impeachment question.
A Washington telegram of the I'd states
that Levi P. Luckey had resigned his position as
Private Secretary of the President, and had ac-
cepted responsible position in the Interior De-
partment.
| According to an Omaha telegram of the
| 1st expedition, consisting of ten companies of
| cavalry, two of infantry, twenty-five scouts, $50
teamsters and packers, and rationed for six weeks,
4 conveyed by eighty wagons and 400 pack-mules,
| had left Fort Fellerman, giG Fort Reno and Fort
| Phil Kearney, en- route to operate against the
Sioux Indians, whose bands have been for the
last several years, and are now, against every
| body.
Great excitement was caused in Wash
ington on the I'd, by an exposure of corruption
| seems Mr.. Marsh, of New York had testified be-
fore the Committee on Expenditures in the War
Department, that he had paid Mr.. Belknap $1O,-
600 for post-tradership, and $4,000 yearly since.
Mrs Belknap confessed the truth of the
accusation, saying she alone was to
blame, as her husband knew nothing
about it. The Secretary also admitted the truth
of the story, and said he desired to assume all
the responsibility and not have it put on his
wife, He then rendered his resignation to the
President and it was accepted.
Secretary Robson, of the Navy De-
partment was, on the I'd, detailed to take charge
of the War Department until successor to Gen.
Belknap should be appointed
The bill passed by the lower house of
Congress, on the I'd, to amend the act to encour-
age the growth of timber ON the Western prai-
ries, adds to the existing law provision that
wherever party holding a claim under that act
| shall prove that the trees planted and growing
have been destroyed by grasshoppers, the year or
years in which such trees were destroyed shall
not count as working any forfeiture of the rights
and privileges conferred by the act, and the time
allowed shall be extended accordingly. 1t also
provides that the proper planting of seeds cut
| tings shall be considered compliance with the
Timber Culture act 1t also provides that it
shall not be necessary to plant the trees in one
body, provided shat the tracts planted, not ex-
ceeding four shall aggregate the amountrequred
and in the time required.
Hon. Charles T. Gorham, of Michigan,
formerly United States Minister to the Hague,
has been appointed Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror at Washington.
Regarding the acceptance of Secretary
Bclkndp's resignation, the President has emphat-
icay stated, it is said, that he was not aware,
a. the time, of the enormity of the charges against
him. From the hurried and inco-
| herent manner of the Secretary's con-
versation, the President drew the conclusion that
Mrs. Belknap, and not her husband, was the
guilty party, and that the General assumed all
responsibility and censure in order to shield his
wife. Although he did not inform the President
that he was actually guilty, he confessed that he
was not free from blame Had the President
known the truth of the matter he would not, it is
| said, have accepted his resignation, but would
have suspended the Secretary until the investiga-
| ton were over
The announcement was made on the
Sd of the failure of Christian Tug & Co, owners
of one of the most extensive iron mills in the
vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa. The liabilities of the
firm are stated to reach 100000, with assets
sufficient to pay from forty to fifty cents On the
dollar.
Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs has re-
signed the presidency of the American Congre
gational Union and his dictatorship in the Home
Missionary Society. The cause of this action is
said to be the Interpretation of Congregational
polity by the recent Advisory Council.
The formal notification to the Senate
| by the House committee of the impeachment Of
ex-SeCretary Belknap was as follows:
| Mr. Presidential obedience to the order of
the House of Represents tives. we appear before
you, and in the name of the. House of Represen-
tatves and of the people of the United States of
late Secretary of War Of the United States of
high crimes and misdemeanors while in Office;
and we further inform the Senate that the House
of Representatives will in due time exhibit arti-
cles of impeachment against him, and make good
the same, and in their name we demand that the
Senate take order for the appearance of the said
William w. Belknap to answer.
Mr.. Ferry, the President pro tenn. of the Sen
ate, said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commit
>tee-The Senate will take order IN the premises.
A Montreal (Canada) dispatch of the
9Th announces the arrival in that city of Caleb P
Marsh, who has fled the country to avoid arrest
for his connection with the Belknap bribery case.
1t was semi-officially stated in Wash
| ington on the 18th, that Gen. Babeock's connec-
tion with business at the Executive Mansion had
| ceased. -
The dry-goods store of Wood, Marsh &
Co., Philadelphia, was burned on the morning of
| the 4th, and several adjoining buildings were
badly damaged. The loss was between 100000
and 100000.
Gen. Belknap was placed under the sur
r~ill~-ee ef eits- Detectives at his residence in
Washington on the evening of the 9TH,
to prevent any possibility of escape. A
report prevailed on the 4th that Mr.
Blackburn, of the Committee on Expenditures
in the War Department, had stated that the
committee was in possession of facts showing that
other post-traderships besides that of Fort Sill
were sold for sums ranging from $500 to So, 900
year, and that frauds had been unearthed in the
| disposition of the sum appropriated by Con-
gress for putting up headstones over the graves
| of Union soldiers.
CONGRESSIONAL.