Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-25

| iorce or IfauQ, ana 90 lnSlSt tina
both Democrats and Repub lican
! should have their office
as flint against any abuses agains
a free and fair use of the ballot box
Colonel Melton, l desire, shall reat
this, and I would write directly t,
him upon this subject if it were no
thai it might look like an. official ad-
| monition that to certain extent wa
prompted by belief in the rumo
that l have before repeated, to.wit
that the poor and obscure were tt
be pursued and the conspicuous ant
prosperous were to escape th,
judgment of the law. l would
not IN any way impeacl
him, and therefore I Will not write
even this letter in the kindest spirit
that might be construed as giving
color to such imputation, for [ be-
ieve, as the public believe and hope
that he will do his duty.
With crest respect. your friend,
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER.
To Dallas Saunders, Esq, Assistant
District Attorney of the United
States, Charleston, S. G.
The letter is dated March 18th
In his reply, dated Charleston,
March 21st, Saunders says:
enclose you a list of election
cases SO far selected for trial, the
extract being selected from yester-
days Charleston News and Cou-
rler. When I reached Col
umbia last month, Judge Melton
instructed me, in my visits to
the various counties, to select the
strongest cases against the most im>
portant and influential men, not to
take the little fellows: You will see
by the list enclosed that the men we
propose to try are except from
Barnwell County managers of
elections-that is election officers
who carry on the election ON the day
of election, like the judges and in :
spectors of elections IN Penn. Then
we have case from Sumter County,
against the board of county cans
vassers. They are men who count
the returns from the various counties
and precincts of their respective
counties, and forward them to the
board of State canvassers.
The Star Route cases were called
in the Criminal Court to day before
Judge Wylie, but as the defendants s
were not ready, they were postponed
until Saturday, when the necessity Of
pleading to indictments will be per
emptory.
The President has signed the anti
bill.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The Sen
lte committee on the improvement
'f the Mississippi River and it's trib>
ltar1es agreed this morning on a
Dill appropriating s5,00O,O0O for the
of the Mississippi and
81 100000 for the Missouri River,
o be expended under the direction
# the Secretary of War in accord
nee with the plans of the lIissis
ippi River Improvement Commits
lion. Part of the appropriation for
be Mississippi is to be made inn
nediately available, in order to re
'air, as quickly as possible, some of
he damage caused by the recent
loods.
Jacob r. Shipherd sent to the
House foreign affairs committee this
morning, physicians certificate of
illness, and the Peruvian investiga~
ion was adjousned, subject to the
'all of the chairman.
The Senate and House committees
IN education and labor held joint
Meeting to-day, to hear the argus
aents presented by members of the
National Educational Convention
now in session in this city,, in advo-
'acy of their appeal for congress
ional grant OF immediate aid to the
Southern States, to supplement their
Efforts to provide for educating all
he children within their respective |
,orders.
Among those who addressed the
committee in advocacy of an appro-
,riation were DIR. Dickinson, secre-
ary of the Uni ed States board of |
'du.. q ton /; State Superintendent G.
:. Orr, of Georgia; o. S. Thomp-
or, city superintendent of Charles
on; Mayor Courtenay, of Charles
on; MIR. Bryan, son OF United States
District Judge Bryan, of South
Carolina; Rev. DR.. Porter, of Charles
on, and several prominent Northern
Senator Blair, chairman of the
senate committee, addressed several |
questions to the delegates as to the
mount of government aid desir, d,
he period during which it should
'e afforded, and the methods of dis
ribution.
In reply, it was stated that S15,-
OO.OOO d year, for ten years, would
'e the smallest sum needed to effect
ally supplement the efforts of the
,tate5.
The Secretary of War has issued
special order discnarging Cadet J.
). Whitaker from the military acad-
my on recommendation of the
board, because deficiency
n his studies.
CONGRESSIONAL,