New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-28
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
EX-SENATOR KELLOGG INDICTED.

TICfs IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRICE ROUTES
WHAT MR.. KELLOGG sAYs-PRICE's AFFIDAVIT
-DoRsEY's TESTIMONY.
The Grand Jury in Washington yesterday
made presentments against ex-senator Kellogg
and General Brady, charging them with receiv-
Ing money unlawfully from j. b. Price, mall
contractor, whose purpose in paying the money
was to secure increase of pay and compeh-
satiOn. Mr.. Kellogg protested to TRIBUNE
cOrrespOndent his innocence of the charges
against him, and was surprised and de-
messed by the action of the Grand jury.
The affidavit of Price, upon which it is believed
this action was largely based, is given here
with Stephen W. Dorsey continued his testi-
mony in the Star Route trial yesterday, fatty
cOntradicting Rerdeli's statements.
WHAT THE PREsEN1MENTS CHARGE.
CHE EX-SENATOR SAID TO HAVE RECEIVED $4,000
FROM PRICE-IIE SAYS He Is PERSONALLY AND
POLITICALLY ATTACKED.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The CIR and Jury this
afternoon brought IN two prcsentments against ex-
Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana. and two more
against Brady. The first presentment against
Kellogg sets forth that he whilst Senator in the
Congress of the United States of America from the
State of Louisiana, did unlawfully receive from one
James B. Price. mail contractor post route
from Monroe TO Shreveport, In the State of Louls-
ana and on a route from San Antonio to Corpus
Christi. in Texas certain sum OF money,
post-ofce drafts, and a promissory note to-
gcthcr of the value of $4,000, for the
service of procuring, persuading and inducing
one Thomas j. Brady, the Second Assistant
PostmaSter-Genera of tine United States to award
and allow the said James B. Price an increase of
pay and compensation for carrying the mail with
al nd zach Of the SAID
and completely Influencing the action Of the said
Thomas j. Brady therein" The witnesses named
are John A. Walsh. James b. Price, Joseph Cochran
ard j. w. Brady.
CHARGES AGAINST KELLOGG AND BRADY.
The second presentment Is against Kellogg and
Brady jointly, charging them with having conspired
with James B. Price TO defraud the United States
of America by of false oaths and fraudulent
allowances for expedition and false and fraudulent
claims to be made for increased pay for exped-
ton on the routes before descyibed. One of the
presentments against Brady alone is for having
unawfully received $1,000 as pay for awarding a
mail contract to James b. Price for the route from
Socorro to Silver City, New Mexico The witnesses
are Price and Walsh. The other charges him with
unawfully receiving $4,000 for awarding the
contracts on the routes described in the present.
Went against Kellogg
Mr.. KELLOGG SURPRISED AND DEPRESSED.
Ex-senator Kellogg appeared very much de- |
pressed this evening when TRIBUNE correspond |
ent called to ask If he desired to make any state |
ment for publication. While he had evidently |
known that earnest efforts making by Mr.. |
Ker to procure his indictment through the |
iDstrumentality of Price and Walsh it was |
apparent that the action of the Grand Jury |
was very painful surprise to Mr.. Kellogg
az had thought" said he, of making statement
through the Associated Press but believe / shall
wait until after l have consulted my counsel and
some other friends"
Mr. Kellogg then went on to speak about the case
in substance as follows "There is no against
me- and nobody knows it better than do those who
are at the bottom of this persecution. In the first
place, the transactions between Walsh and myself,
which are alleged to have been corrupt, took place
in July, 1879, and their prosecution is barred by
the statute. The counsel for the Government vir-
tually admitted this when they requested the call
ing of a special Grand Jury last July, They said
that before the regular Grand Jury term the cases
which they desired to investigate would be barred
by the statute of limitations. Well, they got
the Grand Jury, and tried their best TO have me In
dicted They failed. The effort was not renewed
during the regular Grand Jury term last winter.
Now they appear TO have succeeded and how
Why. by nsing as witnesses Walsh-after hearing
whose testimony one of the best Grand Juries ever
brought together in this District ignored the
charges against me-and Price, who is himself un-
der indictment in these very cases, jointly with
Brady AZ for Prices testimony before the Grand
Jury l know what it was and there was nothing
in it upon which to base an indictment against
me- There is not scintila of evidence in exls- |
tenee to show that ever spoke wrote to Brady |
one word asking HIM to expedite either of those
routes or to increase the compensation OF the con-
tractor" =
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL REVENGE.
II am thoroughly convinced" Mr. Kellogg con-
tinued that this attempt to break me down is in
.pred by motives of personal and political revenge
and have very good reasons to believe that it does
not receive the countenance or sympathy of those
high In authority who desire to see only justice :
done"
Mr. Kellogg threw ont strong hints that certain (,
prominent Democratic Senators among those in
'tigating the attack upon him, and mentioned one
nan who, he said, had personally urged Price to 90
,n the witness-stand against him. he intimated v
hat IN his opinion another motive on the part OF
certain of the Government counsel Is desire 10 h
prOtract long possible the star Route Trials,
Kellogg seems TO believe that the Government will
ail to secure the conviction of the defendants in
he present trial. -
;sses against Price are not to be pressed Mt kel
ogg asserts his entire innocence OF the charges o.
Po Which the % tine nw SGe T. a the propsr
lme. Nevertheless, he Is naturally Eteatiy do, =,
'ressed. His wife is absent from washington 10 -
tend the funeral OF her brother, who died two or
hree DAYS ago. aud this domestic affiiction, OF
curse, adds 10 the depression OF the ex-senator.
THE AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES B. PRICE. "a
'ETAiLs OF HIS CHARGES AGAINST KELLOGG AND OF
BRADY-swEARING POSITIVELY To PAYMENTS #
or MONEY. lie
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