National Republican., 1883-01-30
BOONE AND STAR ROUTES.
Another Lively and Interesting Day in hs
Criminal Court
Cross-Examinaton Of Boono---Hs Re-
Iaiions with Dorsey ~ Brady
He Declares th,, Thrs was " ln.,'t,. % D,inri
ihs GuganGi % tht Part q Dorsey
An Important HOOK "a BE- Produesd ts'
urt-Boone on Moorc's Testimony.

i Ilf NiNaNa I..ANlNIN W N.N. A'
was resumed In the criminal court yesterday
morning. lie said that John W. Dorsey and
himself were the two partners iu The nrm Of
John w. Dorsey & Co. According 90 The
terms Of flic contract John W. Dorsey was o.
have two.thirds aud the witness oue-thiri of
the profits. In August and september l7'-
the partnership was terminated aud the routes
divided between John W. Dorsey and him.
self The idea In dividing up the bids was 90
avoid tho possibility of partners bidding
against one another, aud also 90 secure 90
each partner as near as possible ana equal
number Of contracts 10 was the in.
variable practice for firms engaged In mail
contracting to bid individually, aud not as
firm. Witness thought that u n route on
which the trips were infrcquont ran through
n growing, progressive country, he would bid
very low for tho service, with the cxpcc.
tation of securing nm increase In the num-
bor of trips. The preparations made
by the witness for the letting included
every route named in the advertisement. But
when Miner returned 20 the city he In.
structcd witness TO bid on no route where the
trips numbered over three por week. He gave
as the reason that they couldn't get bonds or
certified checks TO cover all the service, and
on all routes where the bond was over 5000
certified check was required by the depart
ment. Witness drew mp the blanks that were
sent to Clcndcniu, and sealed them himself
Dorsey only saw the model form. The blanks
were sent simply for the purpose ot having
the suretics and bondsmcn approyedi that
was the ordinary course of business among
mail contrac.,'i Witness had never seen
Stephen Dorsey mt work on the bids.
The witness requested the privilege Of ask
ing Miner question.
NJ. oil
allow it, would like to ask Mr.. Miner some
questions myself if get the chance.
The court. No; he cannot do that.
Mr. Ingersol 1 except to the remark Of the
counsel.
The court. I don't think it was calculated
to have any influence.
Mr.. Wilson. The law forbids any allusion
to the defendant taking the stand, and in
siSt upon an exception.
The witness said that while John w. Dorsey
and hirself were associated as partners, there
was no arrangement between them and Brady
concerning expedition and increase.
Mr.. Ingcrsoll. Did you suspect the exist
ence of any such arrangement
Mr.. Mcrricll. l object.
The court. That is improper.
Mr.. lngersoll. All right; but think am
doing great deal when / offer to accept the
suspicious of the governments own witness.
The witness said that he only had one con-
versation with Brady. That was after the
congressional investigation. Brady showed
him IL telegram from the postmaster at Dallas
Greg, reporting the failure of service. lie
said the service was all down, and he would
advise them to restore it at any cost. lie would
allow them until August 10 to do 1t, and If
service was not put on by that date he would
declare every one of them failing contractors.
They thought more time should be allowed,
for the congressional investigation had par
alyZcd them they did not know where they
stood, and were afraid to move There were
nine chances out of hundred that the con-
tracts would be taken from them.
Mr.. Ingersoll. Did Stephen Dorsey tell you
that he had advanced all the money he in
tended to put in2
Objection was made to the question, and
sustained An attempt was made by the de-
iense to elicit from the witness conversation
with Dorsey wherein the latter explained the
relation in which he stood to the business,
but the prosecution resisted the attempt, and
argument followed at length.
Mr.. DaYidge denounced the attempt to re-
strict the cross-eXamination rs simply tyran-
nical, and cited authorities in support of his
position.
The court said that if tyranny had been
exercised it had only been in the pure ad-
ministration of the law, and the very decision
cited by the gentleman laid down that tyran-
nical doctrine.
The crOss-eXaminatiOn they proposed to go
into was therefore inadmissiblc.
Mr.. lngcrsoll Was not one of your reasons
for going out, that Stephen w. Dorsey had
said that he would furnish 10 more money to
Miner, Peck & Co., or John w. Dorsey u
Co.
A. don't exactly know whether it was one
of the reasons, but ibwas fact Money was
needed to put Oh the service, and if Dorsey
refused TO furnish 1t, there was nothing for
me TO do but to get out and let some
body come in who had the money. There
had been no intention to deiIaud the
government in preparing the printed pro-
posals. Tho instructions to bidders had been
omitted from their forms only to save print
ers expenses; they were not necessary to
make n perfect proposal. Witness was an eN-
pcrienccd bidder and did not need the in
structions.
The witness said he desired to make an ox-
PLANTATION regarding some testimony given by
the preceding witucss, Moore
Mr.. lngersoll said that if he referred to that
witnesses answers to the questions concerning
his conversation with Pelham, when the de-
Tense went into that subject, they would al
low Mr.. Boone an opportunity to make an OK
PLANTATION.
The witness was then ro-eXamined by Mr..
Mcrrick. He said that hc knew Brady was
hostile to him. and that was one Of his rea-
SONS for leaving the concern. His remaining
would have jeopardized the business and prob
ably forced u failure. In that event, us the
same persons WHO NCtCu as SNicllcS were upon
his boud in his extensive private mail busi-
ness, their failure would have destroyed his
business. Another reason was that he was
called upon for money that he did not agree
originally to supply again, he believed the
service had been taken at figures entirely toe
low. There would be no profit, Still if he
had then known as much about the business
as he now does, he would never gone out
Mr. Merrick. If you had known that the
Baker City route was to be expedited as II
was, would you have gone out?
The court. We can't allow that
Witness said that =. w. Dorsey signed
Pecks name to the contracts.
Mr.. Merrick desired to question the wit
ness as TO the contents of the bidding book
before spoken Of. He had served notice
upon Miner in open court on Friday 10 pro-
duce this book, and had received no return
Mr. Hcnkle said that Miner had four large
boxes of books ut his home in Micigan, and
was not sure that it was not among them.
The court decided to allowed evidence OF
the contents of the book.
The witness then said that the figures were
written by $. w. Dorsey, Miner, himself, and
some one else,
s. w. Dorsey had written in the reduced
figures on the DallQs-Ba Cityroute
This concluded the witness's examination,
and he was allowed to stand aside tenn
poarily.
While the papers connected with the next
route were being arranged, the witness
stepped into the stand and said " Your
Honor, ! wish to say something about those
hypothetical questions put TO Mr. Moore. Mr.