Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04
CHARGES OF CORRUPTION.

Accusations Against Certain Prominent
Statesmen Ina Connection with Texas Pa
cific Land Grants-Mr. Newelps Story OF
Alleged wholesale Corruption Submitted
to thS senate with Other Docaments.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Among the pa
pers relating to the Texas & Pacific land
grant and the claim of the Southern Pa
cific TO it, sent 10 the Senate yesterday by
Secretary Teller in response to the reso.u-
ton OF Senator Van Wyck, is communi.
cation from J. ]. Newell purporting to be
made up from his diary, and describing al
legged 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 follow.
ing, Newell says that Senators Mcdonald,
Of Arkansas, and kellogg, of Louisiana,
told General f. W. Rice and Colonel G. II
Giddings that they would push the Southern
Pacific scheme, then engineered by General
Fremont for $500, 900 in firstmortgage
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 into the hands of par
ties to be named by the Sena-
tors, and some other propositions
were made, and then Mcdonald went to
Fremont and told him he would take hold
Of the thing on the terms he named to Rice.
Mrs. Fremont raised 500, 900 OH a mortgage
on some New York property, and on June Z
this amount and securities to make I'D the
difference were put in the hands of E. w.
Rice and j. ID. Defrees, and next day Newell,
Rice and Giddings contracted with Defrees
as agent for Fremont to push the thing for
S150,O0O in bonds The bill passed
July 3, and Immediately thereafter
Mcdonald and his friends received
S62, 900 of the money put up with
Rice and Defrees, and Newell says Melon
aid divided with the other Senators. The
next winter K c. Parsons contracted with
nj. y. Roberts, OF New York, to get the bill
through the House and put Roberts at the
head OF the organization for 81, 600, 900, all
OF which Parsons said he had contracted to
pay members, except ten per cent for his
own pay. The bill passed, and in April
| 1871, organization was effected and Roberts
was elected President, having given
j. w. Forney and Giddings, as q
committee of persons interested. verbal
promise to pay all the claims of the lobby
and others. At the Conference Committee
on passage of the bill, Kellogg refused to
sign or agree 10 the bill unless he was paid
cash in hand ten thousand dollars, which
was given, and he supported the bill. Ae-
companying this is lot of letters between
Newell, Defrees, Giddings and Parsons in
regard to the non-payment of their claims
Newell says the books of the Texas & Pacific
Company will show the names OF over thir-
ty Congressman who were paid for their
votes, and the amounts given. Newell filed
this document last May. Since then he has
become the friend of the Southern Pacific.
and has tried 10 withdraw this paper from
the files of the Interior Department.
Ex- Senator Kellogg denounces Newe!ls
story as an infa nous lie from end to end,
and without one syllable that even approx
mates to truth, and he is ready to bet q
thousand dollars that Newell dare not look
him in the face and repeat his story.