Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-28

/ Der OF horses. mail wagons and other
! plant necessary to the conduct Of mail
/ transportation, things which were al.
most yalueless unless he had work
| for them. The affiant thereupon
/ applied TO Gen. Brady for temporary
contract, /. e., contract without any
/ competition from other bidders. from
SocOrro 10 Silver City, New Mexico. This
request met with a negative response
from Gen. Brady, but afterward the
affiant determined to call upon Gen.
Brady again and suggest to him that if
he (Gen. Brady would give the affiant
the before mentioned contract. viz: from
Socorro to Silver City, he (the affiant
would pay the Brown assessment. y few
days afterward Gen. Brady gave him the
temporary contract asked for at the
rate of $4l, ,jS2 per annum. 1t was then
that the affiant put into an en-
velope $500 in currency and two
drawn against the pay on his
mail route No. 81, 100 from Indianola to
Corpus Christi, Texas, fer the quarters
ending September 30, 1880, and December
81, 1880, and, after addressing the envel-
ope to A. III. Brown and marking it ''yal-
uable," placed the same on the desk of
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Brady, asking the latter to see that Mr..
Brown got the same, to which Gen. Brady
The atfiant did this, knowing that Mr..
Brown meant Gen. Brady in this case.
Mr.. Walsh, il his examination during
the first star route trial, testified that
Chase Andrews. mail contractor, asked
him to contribute the sum of $4,000 to the
Same fund which is mentioned i'm the
Price affidavit, and that General Brady
insisted on charging him with this $4,000
in settling his General Brady's) in
debtedness for moneys borrowed. Mr..
Walsh also testified that two drafts for
81, ,250 each, which Mr.. Price alleges that
he placed in envelopes on General Brady's
desk, were the same drafts which were
given him Mr.. Walsh by General Brady
on account of the latter's Indebtedness to
him.
The affiant further alleges that having
been given a river contract on the Osage1
for carrying the United States mails he
directed the Secretary of his the affiant) J
Mail Transportation Company, Daniel
Murphy, of st. Louis, Mo-, to buy five
5000 shares of the New York Exchange
stock, to indorse it in blank and to mail
the same to Gen. Brady, all of which the
atfiant says that Mr.. Murphy told him that
he did. The affiant further says that
when the investigation of the star route
matters was agitated Senator Kellogg be-
came very nervous, manifesting therein,
however, more concern for himself than
for any one else. The filing of the suit of
John \. Walsh, banker, against General
Brady about this time greatly alarmed
the affiant, but Mr.. Kellogg hastened to
assure him that everything would be
all right, that he had simply to
keep quiet, and that he Mr.. Kellogg
would see that no harm befell him. In
May, 1881, some very alarming indications
presented themselves, resulting in Sena-
tor kellOgg's sending, on May 16, 1881, a
special messenger to the atfiant, who was
then stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York. This messenger came from
Washington, where Senator Kellogg
then was. The burden of the mes
sage was calculated and intend
ed to reassure the af1ant and
allay any fears he might have touching
the star route investigation then in its in
cipient stages. Mr.. Kellogg repeatedly
told the affiant that no harm would
come to him, and that all that he had to
do was to remain quiet, and that this
whole matter of the star route in
vestigatiOn would end in smoke. The
affiant refers to a certain occasion
when Mr.. Kellogg telegraphed to him at
Philadelphia, the affiant beng then in that
city, saying that he Mr.. Kellogg was
going on to Washington from New York
and would stop over and see him. This
he did, being accompanied by Judge Jere-
miah Wilson. On this occasion Mr.. Kel-
lOgg again sought to encourage and assure
the affiant, and bade him have no fear as
to the outcome of the investiga-
made nS9 of the to proceeds ses 'oP0''iRe Of tRe
Corpus Christi and San Antonio
draft, together with the note of $1,000,
aggregating in all $4,000, the ailiant
says that Mr.. Kellogg sometimes told him
that he Mr.. Kellogg had given all to
General Brady, deriving no benefit there
from personally. At other times he said
that he had derived but $4,000 or so there
from.
THAT $4,000 CHECK.
DENVER, March 27.-The following tel
egram was received here this morning:
''WAsHINGTON, March 26.-HOR. j. b.
Beltord: j. b. Bissell is here. He says
he did receive a check for 1900 of eX-Sen-
ator 5. w. Dorsey. II. NJ. TELLER"