Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-03-09

expenditures OF tho War Department
who is from Kentucky. and neicbbor Of
her family, and implOred him to stay it
which request of course, the member was
not able to comply with.
THE REPUBLICANS DoUMDFoUNpEp.
The Republican members of Con.
gress were dumblounded to-day, but
all were unanimous in expressing their
detestatlon OF the crime Of the Secre-
tary and their wish that he should be
brought to punishment. 1t was ad.
mltted that the disclosure, coming at
TINS time, would undoubtedly have an
injurious effect upon Republican pros
poets in New Hampshire.
LATEST INCIDENTS AND nuNoRs.
The President was 50 much disturbed
IN his mind that he declined to receive
any visitors, and spent most of the day in
walking around the streets. A promi.
nent Republican Senator said to him
that he oaght not to have allowed Mr..
Belknap to resign: that it would result
lnjuriously to the Republican party. lie
replied that he did not know 1t was 50
bad at the time he accepted the resigna>
ton.
1t is said that at least FIVE other promi>
nent officials of the War Department will
be discovered to have been engaged in
improper transactions.
a Kansas politician says that at the
time Belknap FIRST went into the War
Department Marsh wrote that Belkpap
had said there was money in the military
posts, and he wanted to know which was
the best post to 60 for. 1t is understood
that every post trader has been or will
will be summoned to appear before the
committee.
Te-night number of persons have
called On Gen. Belknap to hear if he
desired to make any statement. lie
said to one gentleman that there wcr,
some things alleged which were true,
some which were not true, and some of
which he had never heard. lie, however,
said that he would decline to make any
public statement. lie can do so before
the Senate in an official form. Both he
and Mrs. Belknap arc terribly prostrated,
and their appearance almost compels
sympathy. In tie short space of twenty,
four hours the world has changed entirely
for them.
There is much discussion as to tie
power to impcach public officer after
he has resigned, and this question will
OF course be thoroughly discussed in the
Senate after it receives the formal Motif.
cation from the House. Justice Fields.
of the Supreme Court, is of the opinion
that the resignation can not stop impcacl..
ment proceedings. Whatever may be
the decision in this respect Gen. Bolknap
Is in addition subject to criminal indict-
ment, and there is no doubt no will also
bo proceeded against in this way.
1t is reported tonight that the Com.
mittee on Expenditures of the War De.
partmeut have also been investigating the
matter OF headstones for soldiers graves
which involved an expenditure of a million
dollars, and which is said to have been q
prolific source of corruption, involving
two or more army officers.
WHO BELKNAP IS.
Gen. Bclknap, who succeeded Gen.
Rawlings as Secretary of War in 1869,
shortly after the death of that brilliant
young officer, was of military family.
His father was Gen. VIM. G. Belknap.
and he was named after Gen. Worth.
He was born at Newburg, N. Y, Sep.
tember, 1928, aud is consequently about
torty'scven years of age. lie graduated
at Princeton in 1918, and was q cotempo>
rary of Hester Clymcr, Of Pennsylvania,
who presented articles Of impeachment,
aud George NJ. Robson, Secretary of the
Navy. He studied law with II. Caperton
at Georgetown, d. G., and with Hon
Ralph p, Lowe practiced at Keokuk,
Iowa, where he located in 1851. lie
entered the army as MA jor of the fifteenth
Iowa infantry, serving during the war
with the army Of the Tennessee, partici-
pating in the battle of Shiloh, the slepes
of Corirth, Vicksburg, Atlanta, and after
Atlanta marched with Sherman to the
sea. He was brevetted Major General |
bafore the final muster out in 1865, when
he was regarded by Gen. Sherman and |
others as one Of the most accomplished
and promising young officers in the
service. He was married three times.
His grst wife was the sis er of Mrs. Hugh |
7. Reid The second was the accom- |
plished Miss. .romlinson, of Harrodsburg,
KY, and the third her sister, Mrs. Bower, |
whom he married some two years ago in
Kentucky. General Belknap is in the
prime of life, of commanding figure aud |
presence, and filed a most enviable place