The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-20

members of Board of Control, all of
whom were officers. Each member had
one vote regardless of the amount of in
terest. Death did not create vacancy in
the Board until the number was recured
to five. The Bowler estate was not rep.
resented in the Board after his death.
Pendleton could not have represented
the Bowler interest there because Mr..
Baldwin had no exclusive control over
the estate,
THE EMMA MINE INVESTIGATION.
Before the House Committee on For
eign Affairs. Trenor w. Park testified that
his opinion of the value of the Emma
Mine had been formed from repreSen-
tations of Silliman, Williams and others,
and that he did not take advantage Of
the dispatch Of the persons named to sell
out his stock.
The jury disagreed and was discharged
in the case of Ottman, tried for receiving
$47, 900 stolen from the Treasury by the
clerk a year ago.
The subcommittee of the Committee
on the Judiciary, consisting of Republi-
cans, Lynde, Hoar, and Hurd, to whom
the subject Of the habeas corpus in the
case of Hallett Kilbourn was referred
agreed that respectful reply be made to
Judge Cartier, but that the body of Kill
bourn should not be produced before him
by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
JOHN DELANo'S SHORTCOMINGS.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
Interior Department have positive proof
regarding John Delano's transactions in
the land surveying business that is rich
and rare, Stevens, Clerk of Reed, Gem
eral Land Commissioner of Wyoming
Territory, has been before the Committee
and told the story and produced docu-
mentary evidence of startling nature.
He testifes that Reed and Delano have
been hiring men at SIS month as sur
veyors, and drawing the Government
price of $40 mile for surveying the pub.
lie lands and dividing the amount be-
tween themselves. Stevens produced
notes taken from Reeds office which he
was in the habit of paying to ohm De-
lano as his share of the profits. He paid
at one time $500, and various other sums,
to Delano direct. He produced letter
from John Delano requesting that future
payment be made for him to Merriam, a
banker at St. Paul, Minnesota, IN order
that he might not be implicated. There
is also a letter from Reed to Columbus
Delano, stating that he had John under
his care and was doing the right thing
by John. The loving parent wrote back,
thanking him, and requesting him to be
careful and do nothing that would seem
wrong. The Committee also have in
their possession notes indorsed in John
Delano handwriting acknowledging the
receipt of money. The Committee are
now awaiting the appearance of John
Delano to explain his connection with
these profitable transactions.
q BABcocK AND SAMOA.
A private letter from Samoa to San
Francisco Says documents have been
found among Steinberger's papers,
showing that Babcock for reconsideration
obtained Steinberger's appointment as a
special agent; also that an arrangement
existed between Steinberger and Joseph
Goddefroy & Son, of Hamburger, by
which the former was to play into the
hands Of the latter, who we're to have
monopoly Of the salmon trade, to be
bankers of the government and issue
paper currency. Steinberger was to have
10 per cent, on all the transactions be-
tween the firm and the government. This
firm owned the Peerless, seized by Bar
racouta. The Senate and Assembly sup
port Steinberger, but the King and people
are against him.
a IToRs.
Washington, April I6.-The Ca6tta5
to-day prints the following paragraph in
its editorial columns "Its is well known
about Washington that Gen. Grant, vex-
ed and worried over late developments,
has resorted to his old habits for relief.
In other words he has been so under the
influence of Intoxicating liquors as to be
at times incapable of seeing visitors or
transacting business. Upon last Sunday
we drove by the asylum for lunatics at
the moment when Gen. Grant came out
at the gate and started to the city. There
was no mistaking the flushed and bloated
face and unsteady gait.