Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-29
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. DORSEY AT IT STILL, He Continues to Stack Up
 DeniaIs. The Whiskey Men's Scheme. LIKELY TO FALL FLAT IN
 CANADA. Frank Byrne On Number One The Agitator's Arrival On American Soil.
Frank Byrne On Number One
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Dorsey Still DenyIng His Relations With H erdelI-The Checks and Names In His MemOradum.
 WASHINGTON, March 29.-In the Star route
 trial this morning ex-Senator Dorsey explain
 ed the writing Of the Clendennin letter, in
 which he asked secrecy. He said he advanc-
 ed $7,OOo to J. W. Dorsey $ Go. He could
 not say how much he advanced to Peck & Co.,.
 but thought about $13, 1000. On April l, 1879,
 the witness took one-third of the routes of
 Peck & Go. and J. W. Dorsey & Go. to secure
 his advance. He employed Rerdell to look
 after the routes After the division of the
 routes he had ne interest in those of Miner
 and Peck and never received dollars profit from them. The witness denied ever having
 8 conversation with Moore and pronounced
 his story that he (Dorsey) told him (Moore)
 to take contracts at a low figure in order to
 have them expedited as absolutely false.
 Moore's story about fund for influencing
 Postofiee department officials the witness
 characterized as nonsense. The witness
 denied that he told Rerdell to get up peti-
 titions to establish postoffice 60 miles from
 the Tongue river route, which would make
 up the distance that the line was short. He
 gave Rerdell $3, 1000 in checks to be drawn
 to the order of J. W. Dorsey. He took this
 interest in these routes because he had pro-
 cured bondsmen for them and if they failed as
 at the time Rerdel went West they were in
 danger of doing his friends would lose heavily. In regard to the memorandum about which Rerdell testified, and which contained in the latter half accounts with T. J. B., William Smith and others, the witness said he wrote the first half, but not the other. Colonel Ingersoll offered to put in the books of Dor sey as evidence, but the government de- clined them unless he would give them the of William Smith. Ingerson said if he possessed the creative power to bring them out of the chaos of perjury he would do so, but lacking that power he could not The checks drawn by Dorsey in June, 1879 on the Citizens National bank in this city no money to Brady St that time, as testified by RerdelI. The court ruled them out. The witness then testified that there were no fc- l titious names in his book. He had the mat ter looked up and would swear positively that the name William Smith was not in his book
 Senator Kellogg said to day concerning the l indictment found against him that behind l the whole matter there is an animus and an | interest which favors perpetuating the Star | route cases. "A year ago." he said, ''with a | grand jury of reputable citizens the case 1 then, as represented to that body, so far as l it affected myself, was prosecuted. The at- l torneys for the prosecution then went into l court and had the grand jury reconvene. and l after second review, the case as against me | was ignored Now after the lapse of year, and upon 8 case which has already been pro- scribed, the government prosecutors in order l to reach me take the evidence of con- tractor already indicted, and in effect offer 1 him immunity in order to reach me. am not afraid when the time comes that can have 8 complete vindication, but meanwhile the 1 machinations of certain men have the ten- dency to injure me before the public"
 The grand jury were investigating to-day l the Colgrove-Freneh case, and it is expected | a presentment will soon be brought into l court. This g case in which it is alleged that | John L. French, then chief clerk under Bra | dy, induced J. B. Colgrove to bid at a ridic I ulously low figure on certain route and af- ! rewards to throw up the contract so the ! route could be given on temporary con- l tract at highly remunerative rate of pay to l friend of French's.