The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-06
WASHINGTON.
POST TRADERSHIP INVESTIGATION.
MORE sWINDLEs BROUGHT TO
LIGHT.
And Now Mr.. Robson Explains

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 29'-The
President has been sick for two days, and
received no visitors to-day.
The Senate in executive session to-day
further discussed the nomination of Mr.
Dana, but adjourned without action.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
directed the retirement of $lSS, l44, that
being eighty per cent Of the new ma
tional bank circulation issued the present
month.
The bill amendatory of the bankruptcy
laws, reported favorably from the Senate
Judiciary Committee to-day, is the meas
ure recently introduced by Mr.. Thurman
with some amendments, AS reported, il
provides that no voluntary assignment
by a debtor of all his property, heretofore
or hereafter made in good faith for the
benefit of all his creditors, ratably and
without creating any preference and valid
according to the law of the State where
made shall of itself, in the event of his
being subsequently adjudicated a bank
ruptin proceed; Involuntary bank
ruptcy be a bar to the discharge of debtor
SECRETARY robson DENIES.
The Secretary of the Navy denies the
published statement that he transmitted
money to the house of Jay Cooke, Nc
Cullough & Co. in September, 1873. The
money was transmitted to the Paymaster
General of the Navy, then in London, to
protect the credit of the navy in the
event of Jay Cooke, Mccullough d Co,
stopping payment of the navy drafts, and
was deposited in the Bank Of England
and with ]. S. Morgan. No advances
were made to Jay Cooke, Mccullough q
Co. until the latter part of October, after
the house had shown its intention and
ability to continue its regular payments
of the navy drafts, and after ample Sc
curity had been given to protect the gov
ernment. The Secretary also says that
the Investigating Committee can have all
the kilograms including translation OF
cipher, on asking the Department for
them.
POST TRADERsHIP FRAUDS.
General George A. Custer appeared be-
fore the Committee on Expenditures in
the War department. to-day. He testl-
fed that Robert T. Sipe, post trader at
Fort Abraham Lincoln. told that his
profits were $4,000 annually, one-thlrd
of which was paid to Gen. Hedrick, Of
Iowa, and one-third to General Rice at
Washington. He did not know, but he
understood that a portion of it went to
the Secretary of War. Raymond, the
Indian Agent at Fort Barthold, said he
paid Orville Grant 81 600 for getting him
the place. Gen. Custer testified that the
proclamation of the President extending
the great Sioux military reservation en-
HANGED the value Of trading posts on the
North Missouri river because itrendered
them a more complete monopoly. Wit
ness said that Thumb, trader at Fort
Peck, was about to be removed when he
obtained some affidavits showing that
Orville Grant and Layton Bros. were
mixed up in the Indian frauds. General
Custer said one object of Gen. Belknap's
visit to the frontier was to perfect ar
rangements whereby whisky could be
brought across the border at a reduced
rate, and increased advantages given Ia
post traders. Gen. Custer related varl'
GUS instances in which grain had been
stolen from the Government, post traders
taking it into their stores