New-York tribune., 1879-04-23
EXPOSING MILITARY SCANDALS.
Ex-sECRETARY BELKNAP TEsTIFIEs.

EX-SECRETARY BELKNAP TESIlflES
REVIEWING THE POsT-TRADERsHIP DISCLOSURES
GENERAL HAzEN's PART IN EXPOSING iRREGU'
LARIuEs.
The examination of eX-SecretaTy OF wal
Belknap was resumed yesterday at the Stanley court
martial. He testified that he hal received suggestion
from source that made hh believe tbs appoint
ment would be acceptable, 10 recommend GencfaI
Hazen to the General ~ the Army for az
appointment on the Army Regulation Board He cor
responded with General Sherman, but the latter many
appointed General Woods to the place. In the ran OF
1873 the witness mentioned the name of Colonel Hazc
To President Grant Il candidate for n Brgidier
GeneralshIp. General Crook however received the
appointment. The witness also granted General hlzeu
other favors. He never did any acts OF injustice TO
General Fazen that would warrant his saying as ne dd
in his letter to the Hon. Hester Cymer OF March .,
1876: 81 have waited patiently four years, never
doubling that should be finally vindcated, thou-h ~
times feeling the weight Of dpeasure OF those msn III
power for daring tell the truth respecting TINS great
outrage upon the Army inc WtIn'ss H"H tAt,u,u y
General iazru every courtesy ne hu uetl Vn'l =, ~
by The with having banished GencIal Haleh 10
The witness then described an attempt that was
made recently attribute to HIM charges thdt were
preferred by Colonel PecK ana Ml. harmon apnt5 !
General laZei. Inc testimony Oh thls point "ta luN
out the fact occurred alter The SPECIFICATIONS 10"
this trial were drawn up. The witness sad mat re-
Gently General Hdzen had given notice To me h'Juiaht L
General that year ana hdt ago General BciAnap hd
-t1tlOd with MI tulmOu ana NolOuti ltth du'"t
preierrng GharseS against General liazen, ahu LUZ. ~
General Belhnap h31 tgatcd the two gentlemen 10
wre 10 see If the War Department would uOt prefer
charges against hin. THIS the witness denied.
In regard to the letter from General Stanley 10 Gem
eral HIzen, dated September o. 1917, General beHuaP
sad that ne received copy Of tat letter rom GeHefd
stanley with the request that it be not given 10 me
newspapers. The substance Of The letter. however,
was published in The st. Pq,d Pioneer Press,
but he did not know 10y whom IL was furnished.
He said further: The article IN TIE IKiBiNE Tue
dispatch pOst-traderships OF February 10, Is y
speaks for itself Mr. smaley told ne Iiazen TESTIFIED
before that committee at that tlue, aBd was ndJufdy
Indignant because HaZeu had not told me OF these
matters before. On the impeachment trial ne testned
that he had not told me because lie thought thty WOuu
receive no attention from me-"
After the recess the Hon. John COburn, OF ndianap-
oils testified that bo was chairman OF the House MIL
tdTy Committee IN the Mild and ALllld Congresses
testify chiefly upon posradcrshlps and incidentally
stan organization. He had given General IIazcn Lo
that h testimony would be treated conhdcn-
tially. The examination was Open letter lr0W INC
witness Senator Carpenter, OF Wisconsin, dated July
II. $50 was read. In this he wrote:
Nv attention has been called to the letter or General
lazeu 10 the Secretary Of war ot date ember 800,
which he says 10 the Secretary That promised not
10 publish his testimony taken before the Military
Committee OF the House ia 1e72. This Is most re-
marKablc statement. lie was summoned from CineAl
presence OF the committee for tnat purpose, anu Ho
perfectly understood that It was to be published as
lie knew that the testimony OF other officers was being
uub shed. . IIaZen. last Spriug III his letter
from Mexico OF March 10, 1876 hIIted very broadly
that had disclosed all these frauds Of the Secretary
m 1872 aud that covered up In our committee
WAat terrific commentary on that Is ms letter 10 me
Secretary September 1870 in which he says that he
demonstrated with against publishing MS testimony,
that promised not 10 do 10, ana then In spite OF MS
UxerOns published It. | made no such promise could
for the whole Of it the possession OF the com
mIttee."