News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-01
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE DORSEY-BRADY STAR-RoUTE TRIAL.
Witness Boone testified in the Dor
sey-Brady trial Saturday, that he filed
out blank proposals in Stephen w.
DOrsey's house and in Lis presence.
Dorsey wrote the letters to accompany
the packages. At the time Of the
first congressional investigation, wit
ness had a conversation with Miner in
the presence of Stephen 3. Elkins.
They had been notified 10 consult
Elkins. Miner said it was unfortu-
nate that Peck's name had been signed
to the proposals by Stephen Dorsey.
The defense appealed to the cUur: to
charge the jury to disregard the last
statement, and the court said the
counsel should not put 4 question cal
culated to bring out an improper
answer. 9Lr. Ingersoll said that per-
sonally he had no objection 10 the
answer; let them prove the fact.
Witness said that when he had pre-
pared 500 or 1000 of the bids, Dorsey
informed him that the bids must be
confined 10 routes where the trips did
exceed three a week. Accordingly
400 or 500 bids that had been already
filled out were destroyed. Miner
showed witness a book containing 4
list of the routes to be let, with writ
ten figures set down against certain
routes. Direct evidence relative to
the contents of this book was exclud-
ed, bat after many attempts, it was
finally brought out Indirectly. The
methods of preparing sub-contracts
were next described by the witness,
who said that Dorsey directed the in
sertion of the expedition clause
something new to witness at that time.
At Dorsey's request, witness furnished
one of the sureties Samuel n. Hoyt)
whose name was used in the propOs-
ais. Witness connection with the
concern terminated August IS, 1873. |
He resigned because it was represent
ed to him that unless he left, the con-
Germ would ultimately fail.
The Post is informed that the ex-
penses of the defendants in the recent
and pending star-rOute trials amount
to fully 5000, 900, of which Brady and
Dorsey have paid s75, 900 each.
The president sent message to the |
House relative to the joint resolution |
''to refer certain claims to the court |
of Claims which has become a law
under constitutional provision without
his approval. The president says,
that "its apparent purpose is to allow
foir hc nj ar1 RI cT1a in tho npt of
claims for the amount of internal-rev-
enue tax collected from them without
lawful authority upon showing as
matter of excuse for not having
brought their suits within the time
limited by law, that they had entered
into an agreement with the district
attorney. which was substantially that
they should be relieved of that neces-
sity." The message says in effect,
that the president finds no sufficient
grounds for the legislation, but pre-
fers to let it become a law without |
his approval, not finding it so objec
tionable as to demand his disappro-
val.
Secretary Folger has informed the
speaker of the house that all the stor-
age vaults are practically filled with
silver, and that unless the law requir
ing the monthly coinage Of 1000, 900 |
silver dollars is repealed before Con-
gress adjourns, vaults must be pro-
vided to hold that part of the coinage,
not going into circulation.
Col. o. H. Irish, chief of the bureau
of engraving and printing, died Sat
urday morning, aged 50. The cause
of his death was paralysis ofthe heart.
He was born in New York State.