Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-21
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orders were as follows: Leave of absence
for two months on surgeons certificate of
disability, with permission to apply for
an extension of two months and TO leave
the department of Dakota, is granted
Joaeph S. Conrad, Seventeenth infantry
Leave of absence for fifteen day. is granted
Capt. John N. Craig, Tenth infantry. The
leave of absencs granted Capt. Geo. E.
Head, Third infaotry, is extended three
| months.
1aE SOUTHERN PACIFIC UNDER CLOUD.
Among the papers relating TO the Texas
& Paclic land grant, and the claim of the
Southern Pacific, sent to the senate to- day
by Secretary Teller in response to the res
clution of Senator Van Wyck's, is com
munication from j. j. Newell, purporting
TO be made up from his diary, and describ-
ing alleged wholesale corruption in the
passage of the Southern Pacific bill. The
events occurred in May, June and July,
1870, and in the winter and spring fol-
lowin Newell says that Senators
Mcdonald, of Arkansas, and Kellogg, of
Louisiana, told General E.. W. Rice and
Colonel G. q. Giddings that they would
push McDonald's Southern Pacific scheme,
then engineered by General Fremont, for
100000 in first mortgage bonds and
$4,000 cash, half to be paid when the
bill passed the senate, and half when it
became law. The money was to be paid
IN the hands of parties to be named by
the senators. Some other propositions
were made and then Mcdonald went to
Fremont and toll him he would
take hold of the thing on the
terms he named to Rice. Mrs.
Fremont raised $4,000 on mortgage
on some New York property, and on June
z, this amount aud securities to make no
the difference was put into the hands of
E. W. Rice and J. J. Defrees, and next day
Newell, Rice q Giddings contracted with
Defrees as agent for Fremont to push the
thing for $15O,0OO in bonds. The bill
passed July 3, and Immediately thereafter
Mcdonald and his friends received S62. 2.OOO
of the money put up witn Rice & Defrees
and Newell says Mcdowell divided with
the other senators. The next
winter 4. G Parsons contracted
with II. 0. Roberts, of New York, to get
the bill through the house and put Roberts
at the head Of the organization fer 81, ,OO0.-
eco, all of which, Parsons says, he had con-
tracted to pay members, exaept one per
cent. for his own pay. The bill passed.
and in April, 1871, an organization was eff
fected and Roberts was elected president.
having given J. W. Forney and Giddings
as a committee of persons interested. a
verbal promise to pay all the claims of the
lobby and others. At the conference COM
mittee on the passage of the bill, Kellogg
refused to sign or agree to the bill unle IS
he was paid cash $4,000, which was given
and he supported the bill. Accompanying
this is lot of letters between Newell,
Setield, Geddings and Parsons in regard
to the non-payment of their claims.
Newell says the books of the Texas & Pa
cltlc company will show tie names of
over thirty congressman who were paid for
their votes and the amounts given. Newell
filed this document last May. Since then
ne has become the friend of the Southern
Pacific, and has tried to withdraw this
paper from the files of the interior
department. Ex-senator Kellogg de-
nounces Newell's story as an infamous lie
from end to end, and without one SYLLABLE
that even approximates to the truth, and
he is ready to bet $1,000 that Newell dare
not look him in the face and repeat the
story. Newell, he says, is thief and q
blackmailer, who goes around town bor-
rowing fifty cents for drinks, and is
ready to stab the reputation of any man
who refuses
PETTY STEAL STOPPED.
A months extra pay for all employees of
the house that have been discharged to
make room for Democrats, was debated
today in the house. Mr.. Geddes asked
it be dons out of gratitude to the Repub.
licans who had been equally liberal with
the public money two years ago. Prooa-
bly, the money would have been voted, but
Ar. Keifer put in his oar and the game
was spoiled. An inqaisitive Democrat
wanted him to inform the house whether
the resolution would include persons
who had been appointed at the close of
the Forty seventh congress and who had
been drawing salary for doing nothing
during the nine months recess. The
question, as Kaifer we'll knew, referred to
his having turned out an official steno-
grepher to get the large salary for his
| nephew, Mr.. Gaines, for the nine months
| when there would be nothing to do. Mr..
Keifer's fat face flushed, but be replied
that he had no knowledge of such
| cases gs to those implied by
the question. A motion was
immedsataly offered by Democrat and
adopted, sonding the resolution to the
committee on eccoants with instructions
to report the facts that e1-speaker retired
| to his seat in the rear.
THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.
The speakers cast of committee of ways
and means is now formed as follows
Morrison, Blackburn, Hurd, of New York,
Hancock, Blount, Herbert and Hatch, dem
ocrats. and Kelly, Kasson, Hiscock, Nc
Kinney, and Russell, Republicans. It is
understood that since the creation of The
committee on rivers and harbors, which
will control the river and harbor bill, and