Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-09
WASHINGTON.
The swaim Ce.rs Of I.a,,r,.

pas Voucher, ne said that Col. M0rrov
haa come TO his Office in company With
Col MchibbeR. of the armv. with a let
yer OF Introduction from Gen. Swain.
Col Morrow said he wanted to borrow
s9me money. The firm rejected his APP
piicahon. On the same day, later in
the afternoon, Gen. Swain came into
the Office of Bateman 4 Co, a. usual.
he and witness went out for a drive in
witness coupe, and he asked witness
Why the firm had not let Morrow have
that money. He told witness that Nor
row Was Colonel on Sherman's staff.
and was perfectly good for the sum in
question Witness then decided To ai-
vance Col. Morrow a nocsSate amount.
ana the latter came into his office next
morning with his vouchers already fixed
up, and the firm advanced Sli00 ON
them. Witness thought they covered
-four months pay and were for the
months next succeeding the day on
which the advance was made. Witness
learned afterwards that there were three
other vouchers out, covering the same
four months pay, from Col. Morrow.
A few days aferward Swain was in his
office. and witness talked about the
Morrow matter. Swain, he said, told
him that h. Swain had himself loan
ed Col. Morrow some money, and had
taken bill of sale on his piano for Sc
curity. This statement angered wit
ness, aud be asked Swain :" How in
the devil 10 1t that you refused 20 loan a
brother officer $l0e or $125 without tax
ing bill of sale for his piano. and then
send him to me with a duplicated pay
account for loan of $l500!" Swain
then told nim that Morrow WAS going
to use this money to take the other
vouchers 1p. Witness tbea wrote to
Mchibben to call at his Office, and Col
Morrow came alone. Witness said to
him :" You perpetrated fraud on u.s."
he clustered up and said How dare
you say that | committed fraud?' He
denied that there was any fraud on his
part, and asked il Gen. Swain had not
told him that he Morrow had taken to
hin (Swaim) schedule of his debts
and told him the vouchers would be
taken up before they were due. Col. |
Morrow afterwards pleaded that per-
haps he had got into this trouble by |
not understanding finances. Witness |
stated that it afterwards turned out |
that the vouchers on which the money |
had been drawn by Col. Morrow called |
for about 5000 on four or five months |
pay, and that the vouchers he had re-. |
ceiyed were the last of the lot. These |
vouchers had been gathered up from |
different bankers who held them, and |
An arrangement had been entered into |
between the bankers to hold them.
Chandler then introduced statement |
In writing which he said embodied the /
charges alluded to in the last paragraph |
of Bateman's letter to the Secretary, 1
which had been called for by the court |
yesterday. This was in substance that |
after certain bankers of this city be-
came involved with Morrow's paw
vouchers, and had made the best ar
rangements they could to protect them
selves, all of which was known, accord
ing to this statement, to Gen. Swain,
the latter claimed that there was about /
500 due him from Morrow, and came
to Bateman with demand that the
bankers should pay him that sum,
threatening that. if they did not pay
him, he would SO squeeze" Morrow at |
the War Department that none of the
bankers would get the money from Nor
row on these vouchers.
After reading this statement, Judge
Advocate Scott announced that il WAS
probable that he would end it neces-
sary further along to ask for some fur
IL
charges in the latter part of B4teman's
letter, az he did not believe that this
statement was all there was to be Of
fered.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Nay S.-The entire ses-
sion of the Swain Court of Inquiry to-
day, up to 2 o'clock, when a recess was
taken, was occupied in the cross exam
ination of Bateman. The cross-exami-
nation was directed principally to show
that there had been dissatisfaction on /
the part of General Swain with respect |
to the manner in which certain bust
ness has been transacted for him by |
Bateman. with the object, as Calkins,
counsel for Swain, explained to the
court, of showing that there might have
been an honest difference of opinion
between Swain and Bateman as to the l
account of the former.
Change In German Ministers.
Baron Won Eisendecker, who has
represented the German Government at |
this capital for a little more than
year, received dispatch today from his
home Office infor ming him of his trans
fer TO position at Baden, and the
appointment of Won Alverstelen, now
Minister at the Hague, to succeed him
fere. The position to which Won
Eisendecker is transferred has recently
been made vacant by the death of
former office. holder. The telegram re-
ceived by Von Esendecker was very
brief. and he will be obliged to await a
further dispatch by mail to ascertain
the date when he will be relieve from
his duties here.
Pacific Coast Appropriation.
The river and harbor bill has reported
the following appropriations For the
rivers of North Minnesota, $40, 600; Sac
ramento aud Feather, CAL, $40 .000; San
Joaquin, Stockton and Mormon slcaghs,
CAL, so 900; canal at Cascades of the
Columbia river, Ogn., $50 900; Upper
Columbia and Snake, Ogn., SIS 600;
lower Willamette and Columbia, below
Portland, Ogu., 100000; Sksgit, Stila-
quamish, Nootsaok. Snohomish and
Snoqualmie rivers. Washington Terri
tory, $4,000. Tue appropri tons for
harbors are Humboldt. CAL, g., 800;
Oakland, CAL. $l39.600 Wilmington,
Cal, $4,000; Yaauins Ba Ogn.. $40,-
600. For examinations aud surveys nov
projected in various States and Terri
tories, $4,000 was Appropriated.
Among the appropriations not la book
estimates IL the Colorado river, Col,
5000 The bill provides that no tolls /
or operating charges shall be levied
upon vessels passing through any canal
or other work for the improvement Of |
navigation. belonging to the United |
States. The bill as reported appropri- |
ates $l2,6i9.li0.
senator Frye Aexiea. to Have uis nan |
Considered.
Senator Frye has requested a confer |
ence upon the shipping bill, before IL |
goes back to the House for concurrence |
in the Senate amendments. His object |
is TO secare for il when il reaches that |
body, the privilege which a Conference |
COMMITTEES report always has, of imms- |
diate consideration. He believes that |
in the present condition of the business |
of the House. IL the measure goes there |
in the usual way, its enemies may send |
il TO the Committee of the Whole, where |
il would be hurried under the mass of |
matter already pending there. Although |
the bill has been passed by the senate. |
it h not released from that body until |
Frye's motion from the Committee of
Conference IL disposed of. Frye said,
b fore adjournment, thai he might not
press the motion tomorrow, but in its