St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-25

prevent present consideration. The
attorney general was in the Senate chamber
a few moments before the resolution was
offered but had just stepped out when Senator
Youwick got the floor. Mr.. Brewster will
probably answer this resolution as he did the
one Senator Voorhees, offered, asking him
why he had not applied for construction of
a statute made by the post master
general more than six months
before Attorney general Brewster
replied to Senator Voorhees, resolution
that he had answered the letter of the post
master general. When that answer was
made public it was found to be dated the very
day the senate adopted Senator Voorhees,
resolution.
PITT KELLoG's TRIAL.
The attorneys for William Pitt Kellogg
being satisfied that the government cannot
| secure the attendance of J. A. Walsh as a
witness will on Wednesday press for an
immediate trial Without Walsh the gov
eminent has no show, and while Walsh is on
bad terms with Kellogg and has given all his
testimony to grand jury, he is at present
hostile to the government, or else he has been
induced to keep out Of the way. But even if
he were more complasent, there would be
little prospect Of eonyicting man who con-
trolls the Republican party in Louisiana,
carries the convention delegation from that
state around in his pocket. Tomorrow the
department of justice in response to call
from Springer's committee, will send to the
committee complete statement of its case
against Kellogg, and the papers on which
that statement is based This statement
shows that the testimony of Price, the con-
tractor on the San Antonio and Corpus
Christi route, and the testimony
of Walsh, at that time a broker
here, made out clear case against Kellogg,
but the government requires the testimony
Of both. For some time after the investiga-
ton began Price kept himself in Mexico and
Canada but at last he came back and told
the government hisS.ory. Prices story is
that falling to secure expedition in his
routes on the usual petitions he
went to Kellogg and offered
him $4,000 if he would get Brady
to issue the desired orders, and that kellogg
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all right and he would get the expedition
Price says he then gave Kellogg five drafts
for SO, 900 each on the San Antonio route
and his note for $4,000, aggregating
$40, 900, and all payable to himself. Walsh
has testified that Kellogg brought these secu-
rites to him for collection, that all were paid
as they fell due and that in accordance
| ha hale A.
collections to Kellogg and put the other hall
to the credit of Brady. Walsh gave details OF
several payments, and showed letter from
Kellogg asking Immediately for ''that 81, 943.' u
This sum is made up of two items, 81, 500 be-
Ing half of one of the $4,000 drafts of the
San Antonio route, and S442
the quarterly allowance for increase
and expedition on the Monroe & Shreveport
routes as pro rated by the contractor after a
part of the donative thrown to him han been
cut off by a subsequent reduction of trips.
When the investigation began Kellogg cast
about for his own protection, and in Deem
Der, 1881, Price in New York, received the
following dispatch from Washington "Be
in New Yorck; see yourself regarding dates.
AS to your other suggestions, don't bring
your Willard friend hew into the matter.
anyway. 1t is unjust and dnpoHtic, ''P. P.''
is the initial of Pitt, 'B'' of Brady. The
dates seems to refer to the date of the drafts
and Prices Willard friend for whom sP''
was solicitous, could hardly have been any
other than Kellogg himself. 1t was at Viii
lards that Price offered Kellogg $40, 900 to
get the two orders from Brady.
Kellogg tried to induce Walsh and
Price to let him out by agreeing to testify
that Price had deposited the drafts and notes
with Walsh and Price partly yielded, and
Kellogg himself delivered to Walsh note
from Price asking for "a statement of all
notes and drafts of mine discounted by you
also the discount or share taken off. l have
lost or mislaid my cash book" Walsh
never discounted for Price and
refused to join in this scheme
for clearing the senator. Price ultimately
backed out of it, came back from foreign
ports and told the whole story, but now
Walsh keeps out of the way.
! Western Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The senate COM
mittee on public lands agreed to report fav-
orably Brewster Cameron as receiver of pub
lie monies at Tucson, Arizona.
CoUNTERFEITs.
The treasury department is informed that
a new countirfeit $40 silver certificates is
being circulated in Ohio and Kentucky. The
counterfeits bear either the number B 49,
Ais X, or number B l ,4O7 XIV, and may be
detected that way.
CLAIMS ALLOWED.
The house committee on claims directed a
favorable report on the claim of VIM. A and
Adelcia Cheatham, for S32, 074, with interest
from Oct. 1868. The claim grows out of an
assessment made by the internal revenue
collector on cotton raised and taxed, and
which was paid under protest of the Cheat
hams. The cotton was raised in Louisiana.
persisted FROM COLD AND EXPOSURE.
The following telegram in regard to the
disappearance of Charlie McComas, was re-
ceived at the war department to-day:
Preside, San Francisco Cal, March 23-
To the adjutant general of the United States
army, Washington. The following dispatch
OF this date just received from General
Crook: The most careful examination has
been made, but the general testimony of the
Indians is that Charlie McComas, was never
seen alive after the fight in the Sierra Madre.
| The Indians scattered in every direction at
the moment of attack, The country there
is indescribably rough, sides of the canon
with boulders and scrub timber, which eff
fectually conceals any one taking refuge in
them. l am satisfied the Apaches hunted
for him as they promised to do, but cold rain