Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-26
DaEiels's influence In Securing Post
TraderShips, and How and For
Whom ENeTted,
Expenses OF the KukluX Campaigns e
Spencer, Of Alabama Another
story on BristoW No
Help for ECxicO.

3 hSd 10 peIsousI feeling Ia tfs matter
= naying slTsys i''Si General Reynolds
: blt h's report as inspector o. "a lli.ary
POSTS ~ Tcxss was mSde IL order thsi
{ the q1srtCr.1E steT's Gepsrtm ent In Texss
, 10 gh+ oe invessREtl there having
Dsel Serious G ages gs % its c1nGsct OF
Shslrs. Ia his f5Tme! Testimony he said
lheTe was = meeting Oi citizens a san
Antonio &c ,B.se twenty. i've thousand
doi!SEg, and that il vas supposed such
I Contribution would triDg the headuuar.
tels there, bot be Gid not knew whether
money was r-iset,
John Il. Charles testified that he sup-
piled goods 10 Dar'ee & Peck. When
mat b!E was removed from gsyersI
po.ts lie applied for eet failed 70 o5ta n
license a. indian trader. To save his
iutsnests he called o. President GIANT
TO help hin, but the Pfssi iert said he
had liked tae thing, ana was not going
to change j. The President, in making
ib's -eply, bit eff the end o: his cigar
ss /! he did no. like the witness O bit.
Laughtsf.l witness called on the com"
missioner o. Indian al about the re-
1 vocation OF h!t iiceuse, Wishing 20 have
u rehoTcd under the law. The commits.
s'o1Cr said: "YCu EudtFttaUd The mat
ter as vel as : do" W taess was psr-
SOM, fland Of his, but be said he could
not help him, the Indian tradaIabips
being out OF Lis department, The Wit
ness also c0rTObCTAtcG lbe testimony
heretofore given with regard to 0vl.le
Grant having OOtGiaed some Of the
! posts.
B G. Daniels tesliE 1 that, in looking
Tor busiCes5, ho nai his attention called
. 20 The csaeshiP At For b snton; pods 10
I tne amount ofO1e hundred and LWentT-
| i've thousand dCllaIg heiDE sold there
| annually. Be WRa instrumental in hay-
ing Murphy, the trader, removed and
t'isS sppoluted n his place. The vsy
ne procared the 6ppOintm sUt was this:
] re went 10 nnso named Ajax. G7ey.
/ ciers in the attCFLey office
I Who was = friend o. Senator CirpenterIs
and told bipl that Bliss had agreed to
. nauS witness partner with himqelf,
ana TO give one thou and collars fCF the
position, aud witness promised Grew hi
he could obtain the place, BE would rec
inst The one thOo5GnG dollars were paid.
Accordingly, Grey faW Carpenter, who
lad The appointment made, as O favor
TO 5rey, tee latter so represented to W.T..
ness. me commission was sent 70 Bliss. |
Ia. he TepUdistCd it, and witness hal
MIN removed. Then Caas. Tracy caid
he would give witness taree thoasend
dollars IL he wOgld yr5tare the pace for !
him, so witness Tpiied tl . rrp5v;st
named ClOst, t. tIaLs.,cI the business for
nim. Clost se-..u ne could operate through
o5hst-. 5awye-, SIS Sawyer was his par |
.s0nSl friend. Witnsss promised five
hundred dollars II hs shor & s,ccagd. |
Iracy's b2rgsiq with witness was to give |
three theussLd dollars, i've hundred !
OF Ehioh he onty paid, and Clost /
iUst ms re. When h'ccVT went back on |
Witness' the .atter said Tracy mus. go, |
snd he did go through the influence oil
sawyer with the secretary Of war. wit. /
ness never he'd p3st IRE ,lu@a.;I. and /
What be hga Rtnve Stated was an ha /
ever hsS 10 do with them. Witness |
testified that post trsderships were pro !
cured from time to time for money, and !
the trader at Fort BRscom informed /
him he EEG given one thousand collars /
Tor bis place. He had seatd that John
Dent, br0theT-iuHlaW OF ihe President,
controlled four CT five such appoint.
nents.
Ihe witness was asked by Dznford
whether Lao thought such business as he
bad been engaged in was hJnofROle?
witness replied that ne thought his
business with Bliss was honorable, as he
never looked on Iest-traderships in
political light.
Two other Witnesses were examined,
y ". Felt and S. Cheney, who testified
they paid nothing whatever FOR their
poet-tfsdersbipg, The latter said that
when lie w-s trsder at Fort Davis he
raid one hundred dOllals TO Senator
harlan fcr political purposes.
SPENCER AND THE PosToF.
FICE DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Tne house
COMMITTEES on postal sffairs and post
roads to-day examined J. ID. Chidester,
mail contractor OF Arkansas. He testi-
fed that he deposited ia the contract {
Office last spring bid for routes from
Dallas, Texss, TO Jacksb0rO, ard that ,
the contract wss awarded TO some one {
e.se, and when be called for his bid and
the securi, check attached TO il, they :
were handed 10 him by the second-as-
sislant pOstmssteT-general with the re-
mark that the bid had never been regis {
tered CT considered. Witness did not
know whether it was the lowest bid or !
not. Ii wes, however, Ist sner the time I
Of the discovery that Channel aud !
Floyd, depsr meit clerks, hal sup [
pressed snd sbSlrscted LumbeTs OF bids S
Witness was asked if J. J. Hinds had {
not demanded, when they were making I
q settlement OF some Joint business in I
,erestsi that ceItsin sum, perhsUs five I
thousand collars, must be reserved, OF {
paid, f5r the benefit Of Senator Spencer. [
De replied thst nothing Of the sort bad
ever occurred, and that he had no Tecol-
scsion cf having ever said SO to any
JerEOl.
REAL ESTATE POOL.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The select
committee on the District real estate
.ool, held short meeting to-day in Sc
,ret session. Leonard Whitney, super
utendent Of the Western Union tele-
yrsph company, produced, under pro- q
est, number Of kilograms that passed
Trough his Office during the summer Of a
So and since, in regId to the real es- b
ate pool. The committee declined to O
i've the kilograms or their purpOrt for Il
1t is understood that SUB. a
ua1E has been Issued for Judge MAJ 7
bur, OF the sJpreme court of 0
his district, and that be will c
holtly return 10 this city and sppesr. '
Expenses OF THE KUKLUX RAIDS. .
WASHINGTON, March 25.-EK-Attor- r
.ey- GeneIal Williams aud EX-Como- a
roller brOdheSG were bsf3re sub com. 4
li,Joe OF The bOuEe judiciary committee n
O-dEy, ard were examined in regard to
RAIN expenditures made by the de- Q
artmeDt o. justice during what was =
allied the kukiUX raids. II
CAN'T HsLP sIBXICo. 4
WASHINGTON, March 26.-No &C q
on has been taken by the su- =
lOnties here regarding the request from I,
De Mexican government for the pUr- :,
haze Of arms from this gover0mens. Ie
ersons officially connected with the -
ar department 10 not think this gov :,
nment has the material TO spare. =
ANOTHER 81 DRY ON BRIsTOw. ii
LOUISVILLE, March p. "A CORE Y
.oGGent OF the COUrjeT-JOuTnGL, writing ii
ON Maysvllie, KentUczy, tells q yarn bl
Jcut Bristow that is even more asiniLe I,
l2u the recent mule story. The corre- OK
'oadent treats tie matter lightly, but tu
.ys thet lssac {. Reeves, a EtCck-raiser th
flemiug county, stated al the Ban. %
.ci- house, Msysville, in the presence th
ciedltatle witnesses, whose sfiidavits di
~ e Lac, tha, in 1856 or 1867. while Al
cincinnati, he was arrested by a ur
lAel STATES marshsl, charged with Jj
nClt Oisuliiug. He was taken to Lon. 10
viller where, a',eT Intellectual efforts TO do