National Republican., 1882-12-22

business, took the routes Brady tclcgraphed
to him and asked him, "What routes of
Miner, Dorsey, and Peck are you going to
put the stock on2 This thing can be con-
tinucd no longer. The stock must go on"
Vale had then the absolute control Neither
Peck, nor John w. Dorsey nor stephen w.
Dorsey had the slightest thing TO do with any
of these routes until the final settlement and
in that time the prosecution could find no line,
no word from stephen w. Dorsey on the sub
iect. 1t could not be found that he wrote
word to any official, that he signed a petition
to anybody, that he wrote letter TO anybody
on the subject, or that he took any more in
terest in it than he did in the ashes of Sodom
or Gomorrah. And yet, according TO the pros
ecution, this was
MONTHS AFTER THE CONSPIRACY HAD BEEN
ENTERED UPON.
In April, 1879 Vaile having had possession
of the routes for several months, division of
the routes was made. Stephen w. Dorsey
had returned from New Mexico and insisted
on settlement. He wanted his money re-
funded to him. They said, "We have not got
tho money. We have just got under way,
and cannot pay you the money. But we will
divide the routes with you" And the routes
were divided between Vale, Miner and
Stephen w. Dorsey Tho routes that were
awarded to stephen w. Dorsey were in con-
sideration of the $4,000 advanced by him
of $4,000 paid by him to his brother, and
of $4,000 paid by him to Peck
$4,000 in all, without interest After the
division of the routes what had Stephen w.
Dorsey done? He had rancho. in New
Mexico which was more profitable to him
than all of these star routes, and he could not
afford to leave that business and to engage in
carrying the mails. He went to gentleman
living in Pennsylvania, james w. Boswell, %
man well acquainted with the business of
contracting with the government, and he said
to him: Through the advance of money l
am in business which 1 do not understand.
| want to turn it over to you. You pay me
back my money, and then we will divide the
profits" Mr.. Boswell took the routes, and
has since had control of them. And what,
said Mr.. Ingersoll, is
THE PRODUCT OF ALL THIS RAsCALITY,
of all this conspiracy, of all the written and
spoken lies? The entire profit on all these
routes turned over by Stephen w. Dorsey to
Mr.. Boswell has been less than $10,000-not
enough to pay for the witnesses of the gov
ernment-not one fftieth of the expenses Of
the government in this prosecution. A
most lame and impotent conclusion" He
went on to show the absurdity of Mr.. Bliss
representing, in one breath, that people will
sign any petition presented to them, and rep
resenting, in the next breath, that the peti-
tions for the increase of mail service had
been forged. When tho whole west was up,
tion," why should these defendants go to
forging petitions? He wanted the jury to
recolleCt that the defendants had moth
ing to do with establishing mail routes;
that congress did all that. And the
prosecution had threatened to lift the curtain
on congress, too. This suit, said he, threatens
the whole government. If the constitutions
weathers this storm it will be in luck.
[Laughter.l In ridicule of Mr.. Bliss, he said
there is nothing SO contemplate as the ego
tism Of little fellow who liYes in big town.
Some people really think that New York sup
ports the country. 1t probably never entered
the mind of Mr.. Bliss that this country sup
ports New York, but it does. He talks as if
all the beef and mutton of the country grew
in Central park, and as if we got all our wool
from shearing lambs in Wall street. Laugh
teri . .@@N0
He ridiculed the idea of productiveness be-
ing consideration, and spoke, among other
things, of the payment of $S00,000 year for
carrying the overland mail, which was not to
exceed 1000 pounds in weight. Some letters
had cost $500 each. And yet, said he, some
poor misguided attorney might have stood up
at that time and commenced talking about
productiveness. Laughter. The mail is not
carried because it pays, but because there are
Americans citizens to be served. The post
Office is
NOT A MIsER, BUT A NATIONAL PUBLIC BENE,
FACTOR.
There are twenty-one states in which the
mail is carried at a loss, ten territories in
which, substantially, nothing is received in
return, and one dstrict-the District of Co.
lumbia.-in which the mail is delivered at a
loss of 5000 year. The mail is carried in
Kansas at a loss of $250000 a year, and Kan
sas has 1OO,O00,OOO bushels of wheat for sale.
Good 1 am willing to send letters to such
people. The mail is carried in Nebraska at q
loss of $225,000. If you have never been in
Nebraska, you have never felt the wind blow.
You have felt nothing but an atmos-
pherical caress. A blizzard in Nebraska will
blow hole out of the ground. Go out there
and try blizzard, and you will be willing to
have the mail carried to anybody who will
settle there. In Utah the government pays
$3.50, 900 for carrying the mails, and the males
in that territory are mostly pOlygamistS.
[Laughter.1 Fast mail trains are sent out
from New York at a cost greater by far than
the amount of the postage if every car was
filled with letters.
Speaking of what he called "another badge
of fraud" he said that the case was one of
badges and rags and scraps and tatters-a sort
of mental garret full of odd boots and strange
cats that were thrown at the defendants.
Laughter. Another badge of fraud" was
the fact that if man had contract to carry
the mail once u week at 81 900 a year, and if
he were required to carry it twice u week he
was paid $1,000 and if seven times a week
$1,000. That was the law, and that had been
the practice of the government since its very
foundation. man would be almost crazy
to take contract on any other terms.
ANOTHER "BADGE OF FRAUD"
was the allowance of a months pay in cases
where service was discontinued. Mr.. Brady
had no discretion in the matter. Ho was
bound to do it. 1t was the law, and it was u
law made in the interest of the United States,
to limit its liability As to the allegations
about forged petitions and aflidavits, he de-
clared that the prosecution would not be able
to show that the defendants had ever put on
file in the Postotice department solitary
letter, solitary petition,
A SOLITARY AFFIDAVIT THAT WAS NOT
GENUINE AND TRUE.
Rccapitulating the various points made by
him in his statement, he made reference to
Rcrdcll, who had been represented as the pri-
vate secretary Of Stephen W. Dorsey He
denied that he ever was so, but said that Rcr-
lie had no doubt but that the prosecution
imagined it could debauch somebody. lie
gave them notice now to go ON. There
defense feared. There was no living
lawyer who had the genius to make
perjury do harm to the defense. There was
only one way for the prosecution to surprise
him, and that was by doing q kind thing.
[Laughter.l If passion and prejudice and
falsehood were left out of this case there
would be nothing left of IL. And if from Mr.
Bliss's speech were taken all the mistakes
that he made in the law and inthe facts there
would be nothing left to answer.
Mr. InUprsOll. ny he malg his arpumpnt