Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-03-09

wise acknowledge the receipt of same.
Sometimes | paid it to him in person
in New York, when no receipt was
necessary. | have not preserved any
receipts or letters When sent by ex-
press | always deposited the money
personally and took receipt from
them.
INTERVIEW WITH TIE SECRETARY.
QUESTION by the Chairman.-A After res
ceiving the telegraph subpoena from
tho seargeant-at-arms to appear before
the committee. which was on Monday,
the Dist of this month, did you come
to Washington, and if SO had you an
interview with the Secretary Of War,
and when and where
Answer came to Washington on
Wednesday, the 23d Of this month !;
went to the house of the Secretary of
War; stayed Wednesday night, and re
turned Thursday morning showed
him the telegraphic subpoena, and
asked him what it meant. He said he
supposed it was to state before the COM
mittee what knew about our transact.
ions together. | said / did not like to
appear, because / thought my testimony
would be damaging to or implicate him
or give him trouble He said he
thought not, and advised. me to stay
and meet the committee
woMAN's DEVICE.
During that evening my conversation
was chiefly with his wife, he being
present part Of the time and under~
standing the general tenor of our con
versatlon. She suggested that I could
make statement which would satisfy
the committee and exculpate the scores
tary. She wanted me to go before the
committee and represent that she and /
had business transactions together for
many years, and that all this money |
had sent the secretary was money that
shs had from time to time deposited
with me as q kind of banker, and that
she had distracted me to send it to the
secretary for her. I dined there and
spent the evening and staid all night
retiring about II o'clock.
A DILEMMA.
The evening was devoted to discuss
ing this matter | told her that the
statement would not hold water before
the committee, and even if it would
could not make it. At the same time
was wrought up. and had such an
anxiety, she pressing and pressing me
about it, and having slept little since
the receipt of the subpoena and symp&>
thizing with their condition, I did not
give them positive answer that night.
[ went to bed at twelve o'clock and I
do not suppose I slept a wink, Thy
said they would breakfast about nine
O'Clock. I came down about s and met
the secretary alone. I told him
thought l had better leave and get out
| of the country, for l would not perjnre
myself for any one that | could afford
to have my throat cut, but not to
perjure myself. He did not wish me to
do that; that we could FIX it up some
other way said l think l had better
leave the country.
THE SPECTRE OF RUIN.
The secretary said would ruin him
if I left l said, "If I 60 before the
committee I will surely ruin You. for |
will tell the truth He was greatly
excited. When I came Iown stairs to
leave he followed NE, and asked me
into the parlor, and said, Il want to
make a last appeal to you to stay
longer" He said if | went he would
be ruined. | said | would ruin him if
| went before the committee, and left
and took the limited express for New
Y ork On reaching home | consulted
my attorney, asking HIM if the com
mittee could reach me by subpoena if |
left the country. stated the case to
him, Mr. Bartlett, $50 Broadway,
Equitable building.
CoMEENTs OF TIE PRESS.
The leading daily papers indulge in
extended editorial comment on the exr
posure and Impeachment of Secretary
of War Belknap, the spirit of which is
indicated by the annexed extracts:
The New York Tribune says:
'sThe news of Belknap's fall was not
such shock as such discovery would
have brought five OF six or eight years
ago. For-let us confess it with shame
President Grant has dropped us by
easy stages to these depths of shame.
lie has parenlhesized i'll history eight
years which will be marked hereafter
as the era ofpersonal government ard
the period of greed; eight years OF
such official corruption and dishonesty,
such sellishness and shamelessness, such
low aims and base purposes, such
erasping avarice and eager over-reach
ing, such specializing in official iintor
nation, such bribery and such barter
and sale of offices, aud such dtgrada-
ton of all things which the nation has
held to be high and holy and worthy
an honest pride, that to day the country
hang its heads and holds its hose and
waits for this administration to pass
The New York Herald says:
"Whether the acceptance OF
Delkanp's resignation really protects
him from impeachment is question
on which opinions will differ; but there
is no room for question that the pro-
pose of the President was to bar an
impeachment and assist a confessed
criminal to flee from justice. This bold
attempt to shield a guilty officer from
the legal consequences of his crimes
makes the President a neral accom-
plice in the guilt of Belknap. The
downfall of Secretary Belknap means
the ruin of the Republican party. 1t is
only another of the many streams of
corruption and folly that have flowed