Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-25
sHERMAN's STATIONERY"


How it Was Turned to Good account
j HIS Campaign.
WAsHINeroN, Marcn 16.-When the hui
for Sherman delegates was in full blast, mol
and more stationery or "stuff, 5" as Mr.. Brat
Adams called it, was furnished to the Shel
man Bureau under various false invoices.
The following Is the testimony Of Pitne,
sherman's confidential friend In the business
By Mr.. Logan-Q. VAST or not under
stood, directly or indirectly, between the Al
sistant Secretary, Mr.. Upton; the chic
clerk, Mr.. Power; yourself and Mr.. Norton
that vouchers were to be made for The pul
pose of covering up these expenditures TO
stationery, ETC.?
A. NV previous statements would cove
that pretty WELL There was no misunder
standing about it that the department woul
pay for these articles between the chief clerl
and myself at the time the payment was made
| In the first instance it was Mr.. Upton whel
he was CHIEF clerk, and next Mr.. Power whel
| he was chief clerk. There was no misunder
standing about that, SO far as I have any idea
because 1 know ! spoke to both partie
about it.
Stationery of all sorts was furnished dl
rectly from the department to the "bureau'
by Mr.. Sturtevant, the clerk, as well as By
Adams, the favored dealer. But Sturtevant
after awhile, refused to furnish more.
@. You say that you had also an under
standing with Mr.. Power. When did YOU
first have conversation with Mr.. Power or
this subject, and where? A. In the CHIEF
clerks room directly after he became chieI
clerk. He could not have been chief clerk
more than three days. I think it was not
more than three days; it was directly after he
told him of the committee oyer there, what
had been doing and asked him what we should
do. told him we had paid for
some stationery for the use of the
committee I do not recollect that I
told him we had paid for it
as fileholders. I do not recollect how told
him we paid for 1t. 4 u l told him we
had, under Upton, paid for some stationery
for the use of the committee, and think
now, and I believe I told him, that Mr.. Stur-
tevant. had sent stationery over there; that is,
he had furnished stationery to be sent over
there. am not SO positive about telling him,
but I think did. I have no reason to ques-
ton did; but would not make an issue with
him on that point. 4 II think lust
told him that the department paid for it. 1
do not think he made any inquiry as to the
manner it was paid for. Y Adams
was up there one day and mentioned that the
committee were still getting stuff. He men,
toned it incidentally. We did not have any
that the committee were getting stuff over
there. That was about the amount of it,.
He was one day in the Office, and spoke about
the committee over there doing business
pretty lively, or'something of that kind, ind.
eating that they were drawing stationery still.
knew there was some to be paid for. u *
So told Mr.. Power. I think he told me
this before MINOR Power came in; it may
have been few days before. n Il
The Major said he would have to do as
Upton had done, or something that brought
have to do as Upton had done. xx
explained that, the department had paid for
stationery across the way.
@. Do you know that Mr.. Upton knew that
you were paying for the stationery out of the
contingent fund of the treasury? A. No doubt
In the world that he knew it. l do
not know it from having talked to him about
it afterward; only this, that he said we would
have to get it and pay for 1t in some way.
'some way" meant an improper way? A..
That is what it meant. He did not say an i'm.
proper way, but knew what he meant, and
he knew that knew what he meant.
@. Were you in the habit of having that
sort OF communication with Mr. Upton? A.
No. I cannot say that I was; but this was
right on the heels of supplying stationery
from the department, and he knew that pay
ment IN some way was not payment out of his
own pocket. 1t was to be paid for in some
way, it was understood, out of the fund for
contingent expenses.
During the Chicago convention there was
lunch spread in Upton's room in the depart
ment to assist the Sherman boom at long
range. It ran three or four days. There
were plenty of good things to eat and drink.
The lunch was paid for partly under vouchers
for candles. Pitney testifies that he paid $40
out of the safe. = The last he knew about it
the debt was not all paid. Pitney testifies
thus;
= They were in the habit Of buying
lemons and sugar for the benefit Of the secre-
tary's Office, and they were generally billed
under some other name, and that was under
stood upstairs and well known to the chief
clerk, to Mr.. Upton, to the storekeeper, Mr..
Hatch, to Mr.. Norton, and himself. We all
knew that. So when voucher came for that
and was not very large one,
would sign the voucher. l do not know
which was paid first, the voucher for the six
boxes or the voucher Tor the sixteen
Q.-You simply told Mr.. Reed to coser the
balance into candles, whatever it wass A.
No; to get pay for them as we paid for lemons
and sugar.
Q.--How did you expect to account for that
$40 in money that you took out of your safe?
A II did not expect to account for it at all.
@. Was that your individual money? A.
No, sir.
Q. Was it money belonging to the govern
ment? A. Yes, sir.
Q. How could you go through with that
without accounting for it? A. When I
used that by direction of my superior officers,
it was their affair, not mine. l only held the
money as the agent of the chief clerk, you
may say, or of the Assistant Secretary, my
superior officer. II they told me to use that
money for any purpose, should use it.
B. How did it get there? a. Isold an old,
engine.
@. And received that sum for it. A. Yes
SIT; it was CONDEMNED by the engineer and that
was about the value.
erty sold by you? A. deposited the money
in the treasury department usually.
@. You did not deposit this? A. No, l
would deposit ii If we had another sale.
@. Did Mr.. Upton tell you to use that
money, belonging TO the government, to pay
for this lunch.
@. And he said: "Take 1t and use it?''
A. Yes: and told me not to tell Major Power
about it, A. He was assistant
W. G Smith, laborer in the treasury de.
partment, testified to Moulton, Sherman's
having the free run OF the
stationery room; and to the way whole boxes
of stationery of every des ription were trans
ferred to the Sherman Bureau" which was
across the street.
These specimens OF testimony are taken
quite at random from mass over which the
committee has been occupied for weeks.
Eight Hundred Thousand People.
There are already booked for passage to
til s country in 1882, nearly half million pee.
pie, nd it is estimated that 100000 will emf.
CRATE from Europe and Canada to the West
and Northwest.
In consequence of this vast throng, the