Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28

mail contractor whose star route services
are subject of arbitration. Affiant further
AYERS that he was approached during the
pending of the congressional investigation
of 1879 and 1880, or after it,
by one A. II. Brown, mail
contractor, and formerly postoffice
clerk, who requested afiant to contribute
his, atlantis, share to fund raised by the
contractors to pay the expenses alleged to
be Incidental to the passage of the star
route deficiency appropriation bill of 80
and 80.
Mr.. Brown represented himself to be the
treasurer of the fund and told the afiant
that his, atlantis, share was $4,000, at the
same time showing him list of contrac-
tors with the amount paid by each. Aft
ant replied to his request that owing to
Indian depredations, the loss of
animals thereby, ETC., etc., he was in no
condition to respond, although he, afiant,
satisfied himself the contractors had paid.
Owing to the rurtailment of his mail serv-
ice by reason of railway extension and
other causes, afhant was left about this
time with number of horses, mail wag-
ons and other plant necessary to conduct
mail transportation, things which were al
most valueless unless he had work for
them.
Atfiant thereupon applied to Brady for
a temporary contract, without any COM
| petition from other bidders, from Socorro
| to Silver City, New Mexico. This request
met with negative response from Brady,
| but afterwards the affiant determined to
call upon Brady again and suggest to him
that If ne, Brady, would give affiant the
aforementioned contract, viz, Socorro to
Silver City, afiant would pay the Brown
assessment" Affant did this with the re-
suit that few days afterward Brady gave
him the temporary contract asked for at
the rate of $41,582 per annum.
1t was then that afiant put into an en-
velope $1,000 in currency and two postal
drafts of s., 250 each, drawn against the
pay on his mail route, No. 31120, from
Indionolo to Corpus Christi, Texas, for the
quarters ending September 80 and Deem
Der 81, 1880, and after addressing the en-
velope to A. d. Brown, and marking il
valuable" placed it on the desk of Second
Assistant Postmaster General Brady asking
the latter to see that Brown got the same
to which Brady granted an assent after
his usual manner" Affiant did this know
ing Brown meant Brady in this case.
Walsh, in his examination during the frs
star route trial, testified that Chase An
drews, mail contractor, asked him tt
contribute the sum of $4,000 to the same
fund which is mentioned in Prices afida
Wit and Brady insisted in charging hin
with this $4,000 in settling his, Brady's
Indebtedness for moneys borrowed
Walsh also testified that two drafts fo1
$1,250 each, which Price alleged he placed
in an envelope on Brady's desk were
the same drafts which were give1
him, Walsh, by Brady on accoun
of the latter's indebtedness to him
Afiant further alleges that having beer
given river contract, on the Usage, TO
carrying the United States mails, he di
rected the secretary of his (afiant's) mai
transportation company, Mr.. Daniel Muir
ply, of st. Louis, Mo-, to buy $500 of New
York exchange, and to endorse it in blank
and to mail the same to Brady, all o
which afiant says Murphy told him he did
Atflant further says, that when the in
vestigation of the star route matters wa
agItated Senator Kellogg became very ner
yous, manlfesting therein, however, NOR
concern for himself than for any one else
The filing of the suit of John A. Walsh
banker, against Brady, about this time
greatly alarmed afaRnt, but Kellogg has
tened to assure him that everything would
be all right, and that he had simply t.
keep quiet, and he, Kellogg, would SO,
that no harm befeIl him.
| In May, 1881, some very alarming indi
cations presented themselves, resulting il
Senator Kellogg sending, on May Is, 1881
a special messenger to afiant, who wat
then stopping at the Fifth Avenue hotel
Now York. This message came from
Washington, where Senator Kellogg ther
was. The burden of the message was cal
culated and intended to reassure affiant anc
allay any fears he might have touching the
star route investigation. This was in it,
''insipient stages" Kellogg repeatedly
told afisnt, and no harm would come tc
him, and all that he had to do was to re
main quiet, and this whole matter of stat
route investigation void end in smoke.
Afiant refers to certain occasion when
Kellogg telegraphed to him at Philadsl
phla, affiant being then in that city, saying
ne, Kellogg, was going on to Washington
from New York, and would stop over anC
see him. This he did, accompanied by
Judge Jeremiah Wilson. On this occasion
Kellogg again sought to encourage and re-
assure afhant, and babe him have no fears
as to the outcome of the investigation.
As to the disposition made Of the pro
ceeds of the Corpus Christi and San An
tonic drafts, together with the note Of
$4,000, aggregating in all $4,000 Afiani
says that Kellogg sometimes told him he
Kellogg, had given ell to Brady, deriving
no benefit therefrom personally, and a
other times he said he had derived but 81,
coo or so therefrom.
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