Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-02-28
TUE LOUISIANA VnLAINY.
GOVERNMENT MONEY USED TO
MAKE A FRAUDULENT PRESIDENT

That $40, 900 Borrowed ofan IN
ternal Revenue Collector with
John Sherman'S KhOWledRNnd
Consent-Faots that can be
| Proved.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The co.
900 which VIM. Pitt Kellogg is be-
ing pressed to pay to the Union Ma
tional Bank of Chicago was part Of
the money paid and agreed to be
paid by the visiting statesmen to Sc
cure the counting of the electoral
votes of Louisiana for Hayes. 1t
had to be raised quickly, They did
not dare to tele graph for it, and they
could not draw for it through New
Orleans bank. The emergency W as
a pressing one, and the mails were
too slow. It was the eleventh hour.
The Returning board, after reject
ing every poll i'll various parishes,
against which any evidence could be
trumped up, after throwing out all
the parishes which could with any
colorado pretext be claimed TO be
bulldoZed, found that there were
three Hayes electors who lacked be-
tween seven and nine hundred votes
Of haS ing 4 majority over their
Democratic competitors. Some
thing had 10 be done Immediately.
One member or the Returning
Board refused to go any further in
this dangerous business unless more
money was forthcoming. lie de-
manded cash down az an earnest Of
the future. In this dilemma the
visiting statesmen went to Kellogg,
AMI said they must have go, 900
forthwith. He protested that he
hadn't that much money. They said
'e must raise it, and they would see
that he was reimbursed. lie bor-
rowed the amount from the Collect
or of Internal Revenue, and the
baking member Of the Returning
Board was paid $4,000. The count
ing out and counting in went on un-
til the Job was done. John Sherman
and his fellow conspirators knew
that the money came from the Col
lector of Internal Revenue, and that
it was the money Of the United
States. They knew it was to bribe
member of the Returning Board.
The money was not repaid to the
Collector of Internal Revenue until
nearly eight months afterward. He
could not settle his accounts with
out it, and he demanded it from
Kellogg. John Sherman had not
kept his pledge that it should pc re-
imbursed to Kellogg. 1t was his
intention to squeeze it out Of Kel'
logg, who wanted his seat in the
Senate, and could not afford to let
the truth be known because it would
certainly destroy his chances of get
ting into the Senate, Accordingly
Kellogg had to borrow $4,000 of
the Union National Bank of Chica.
60, and G. B. Farwell became his
surety. Kellogg got his seat III the
Senate, but he does not think it i;
fair that $40, 900 of his $50, 900 sal
ary for six years should be eaten ur
in this way, while Hayes does not
contribute one penny of his 5000, 900
To bring this matter to q square
issue, propose to prove in any
court of justice or before an investi-
: gatin5 committee of either HousI
r of Congress /: First, that kellogg
has repeatedly said that $4,000 wa
: borrowed Of the Collector of Inter
nal Revenue in New Orleans Sc
cond, that he borrowed it at the re-
quest OF the visiting statesmen
third, that the visiting Statesmen
promised him that it should be mad
good fourth, that it was this mon
> ey which secured the counting in oi
=, the three Hayes electors, who wer
still behind on the 30th Of Novem
Der and fifth, that Kellogg repeat
. ediV said that If he did not get hi
seat in the Senate he would rais
hell about this $4,000, and if
! wasn't repaid to him HeYes woul
have TO get out of tho White House