Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-04-04

1880. Mr.. Brown represented himsel
to be treasurer of the fund, and tOlt
affiant that his (affiant) share was
$5, ZOO, at the same time showing hin
list of contractors with the amoun
paid by each. Afiant replied to thi:
request that owing to Indian depreda
tions, loss of animals, etc, he was il
no condition to respond, although he
(afiiant) satisfied himself that the con
tractors had paid.
BRADY MADE HAPPY.
Owing to curtaiiment OF bis mai
service by reason of railway extension
and other causes, affiant Was lett about
this time with a number of horses,
mail wagons and other plant necessary
to the conduct of mail transportation
things that were aim Ist valueless un-
less be had work for them Alfilnt
thereupon applied to Brady fer tenn
porary contract, i. e., a contract with
out any competition from other bidders,
from Socorro to Silver City, n. NJ. This
request met with negative response
from Brady, but afterward affiaut de-
termined to call upon Brady again
and suggest to him that if he BRADY
would give affiant the aforementioned
contract, viz, Socorro to Silver City,
affiant would pay the Brown assess
ment." Aliiant did this with the re-
suit that few days afterward Brady
gave him the temporary contract asked
for at the rate of $4l ,5S2 per annum.
1t was then that aft ant put into an en-
velop $500 in currency and two pos
tai drafts of 81 ,520 each, drawn against
the pay On his mail route, 3l,l2O, for
the quarters ending September 80 and
December 81, 1880, and after address
ing the envelop to A. III. Brown and
marking it valuable placed the same
on the desk of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General Brady asking tie
latter to see that Brown got the same,
to which Brady "grunted al assent af-
ter his usual manner" Afiant did
this knowing that Brown meant Brady
in this case.
KELLOGG NERVOUS BUT TRICKY.
Afiiant further says that when the
investigation of the Star route matters
was agitaoed, Senator Kellogg beca ue
very nervous, manifestiDg therein, how
ever, more concern for himself than
for anyone else. The filing of the suit
of John A. Walsh against Brady about
this time greatly alarmed afliant, but
Kellogg FASTENED to assure him that
everything would be all right; that he
had simply to keep quiet, and that he
(Kellogg) would see that no harm be-
fell him. In May, 1881, some very
alarming indications presented them
selves, resulting in Senator kellogg's
sending, on May lG, 1881, a special
messenger to affiant, who was then
stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York. The messenger came from
Washington, where Senator Kellogg
then was. The burden of the message
was calculated and intended 10 rcas-
sure afiiant and to allay any fears he
might have touching the Star route in
vestigation, then in its incipient stages.
Kellogg repeatedly told afllant that
no harm would come to him, and all
that he had to do was to remain quiet,
and that this "whole matter of Star
route investigation would end in
smoke" Aliant refers to a certain
occasion when kellagg teiegraphed
him at Philadelphia, afliant being then
in that city, saying he (kellogg) was
going to Washington from New York
and would stop over and see him.
This he did, being accompanied by
Judge Wilson On this occasion Kel-
Iogg again encouraged and reassured
defiant, and bade him have no fear as
to the outcome of the investigation.
AS to the disposition made of the
proceeds of the Corpus Christi and San
Antonio drafts, together with the note
of S. 900, aggregating in all $4,000,
afiiant says that Kellogg sometimes
told him that he (kellogg) had given
all to Brady, deriving no benefit there
from personally. AT other times he
said he had derived but $4,000 or SO
therefrom