Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-01
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FROM the GREAT STRAW sTAck or
THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Senator Mahone's excuse-Secretary Vim
dom on the Call for Bonds-lay-
ing the Wires for the peaeOcEs /
Return to the. Senate.
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WASHINGTON, September 80. -N'
Senator ]. L. Lewes, Resdjuster cand.
date for Lieutenant Governor OF Viz
yinia, is in this city. He asssrts fhsf
Malone will find no more embarrass-
ment in voting on the organization IN
the Senate than he did at the last ses-
sion, and is not the man to shirk re-
sponsibility of any kind. He Gains
that Readjuster success is certain, and
the Legislature will belargely Readiustsr,
securing the election OF an anti-Bourbon
United States Senator.
Secretary Window denies the rumor
that the Treasure would modify the re-
cent call for S20, 900, 900 OF bonds so that
they would be duly paid upon presea-
ta,ion instead OF on December "a. The
effect OF such q modification would be
to at once ease the present strlDgency
on Wall street, as it would be possible
for nearly the whole amount to be pre-
sented within a week, thus putting
afloat large amount OF currency. Mr..
Window said the Treasurer had not op.
Grated to effect the market and would
not in future.
Mr. Window left at 2 P. N. for Massa.
chusetts, and will be gone ten days or
two weeks.
A report comes from New York that
President Arthur has rendered place
in his Cabinet to Judge Lapham, the
new Senator from New York. This
would leave to Governor Cornell an op.
portunity to call special session to
elect Senator,
Opening the Way for Conkling.
WASHINGTON, September 80. - COL
George Bliss, Hon. B. II. Brewster and
Col. Cook, as counsel for the Govern.
ment in the Star Route cases, fled in
court this morning long information
against ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Brady and others, and the following
order was issued: In the Supreme Court
of the District Of Columbia: "Holding
criminal term, June term, 1881, and
now to-wit, September 80, 1881, on read
ing the affidavits OF Thos. l.. James and
P. Henry Woodward, and on motion OF
Geo. B. Corkhill, United States Attor:
ney for the District oil Columbia, and
NJ. A. Cook, special Assistant District
Attorney for the United States, it is or
dered that the information annexed 10
the said affidavi,s be exhibited against
Thos. ]. Brady, John ID. French, VIM.
Fl. Turner, Geo. L. McDonough ami
Samuel z. Brown for conspiracy to de.
fraud the United States government,
aud that the same be fled, and that
warrants be issued IN the ordinary
form as prayed.
[Signedl WALTER :. Cox.
This is the first instance in this dis
trict that proceedings OF this character
have
Been Begun BY Information,
but the adjournment OF the Grand Jury
until October Sd, and the limitation OF the
statue OF Limitation rendered this step
pececessary. The information sets forth
in effect that on the lst day of October,
1878, in the city OF Washington, anu
within the jurisdiction of the Court,
Thos. J. Brady, Second Assistant Post.
master General, Jno. l.. French, Chief
Clerk, VIM. Ii. Turner, Clerk in Com
tract Office, together with u. l.. Nc.
Donaugh, S. S. Brown, and certain other
persons, knowingly, wilfully, uniaw-
fully, fraudulently, corruptly, etc, did
conspire, combine and agree together to
defraud out of large sums Of money in
in making and procuring unnecessary
and improper and extravagant addi-
tional compensation to be paid by the
United States for additional service
in carrying mails. The general
charge set up in the document is OF con-
spiracy to defraud the Government and
an attempt is made to show the fraudu-
lent proceedings OF the alleged conspi'
rators in manipulations OF contract Tor
conveyingthe mail on the route between
Prescott, Arizona and Santa Fe, New
Mexico, a distance Of 460 miles. The
document charges the alleged conspira.
tors with deirauding the Government
out OF $S50.000 in manipulating con.
tracts for mail service on this particular
route between July lst and June 3oth,
| 1880. One OF the counsel for the Gov
erument, referring to the contemplated
actisn against other persons than
these mentioned in the document
presented to-day, said that papers a'e
in active preparation 10 be presented
against ex Senator Dorsey and several
| other persons who have held Office un-
der the general government, and that
the counsel engaged in the prosecr-
ton OF the Star route cases, intend to
proceed against them just as fast as the
formal papers can be got ready. "No
body" ex-Dstrict Attorney Bliss said
to-day, connected with the Star route
frauds is 10 escape prosecution, except
| such persons as may choose to appear
and give testimony against others"
Warrants are said to have bsen issued
for the arrest OF all persons charged
with conspiracy in the document PIE
sented to-day, excepting General Brady
The dismay OF parties implicated was
unconcealed to-day when Mr.. Cook
opened the prosecution in the S,ar
Route cases by information in
stead of waiting to obtain an
Indictment. The fact that all the pa
pers in the case had been completed and
had yesterday received the final revi.
sion and sanction OF Messrs James and
MacVeagb, was made known 10 the pub
lie only through the dispatches OF the
Western Union Associated Press, hav
ing escaped the notice ui the New York
Associa teu Press, as well as that Of the
corps of vigilAnt specials here from ali
parts of the country. The discovery
that the statute OF limitation would
begin TO run on October 1st was not
made, or at least was not thought OF un-
til after the adjournment OF the Grand
Jury on September 18th. 1t was then
seen that another proclamation
| would have TO be tried,
and the result was seen in Judge
Coxe's court to-day. 1t pretty certain
that this action rendered migratory
plan to defeat justice conceived shrewdly
and worked cunningly almost to
success. The fact that one day
more OF non-sction on the part
OF the prosecution would have
been fatal to this particular set OF
cases was not unknown to the deceased,
and it is more than suspected it fnrn.