St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-11
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ties, which have been brought to light by
the Springer committee, are the summon
ing of the entire voting population of
counties to testify in relation to frauds in
the south. This occurred in one county in
Alabama, and two in Texas, and the num-
ber of witnesses il these cases ranged from
100 to 1000, when, according to special
agents of the government, ten Witnesses
would have been sufficient. It was a
method of earning fees.
swINDLING COMPROMISES.
In Texas, a district attorney named
Guthridge, comp romised claim of the
government of $4,000 for $4,000, although
the government held a Judgment on realty
that would have fully covered the claim.
The defendants only had to pay the at
torney $500 for this favor. He has been
dismissed from Office.
The Springer committee has called for
papers in the cases of Ottman and Lewis
for the purpose of throwing some light
upon them. OttRan was tried twice for
robbing the treasury of a package contain
ing $4,000, but escaped by favor of Wash
ELOA JuIlSb duO AyeGCIlCuS
ence that surrounded the trials here. Fin
ally, the case was compromised for pit
tance and the swag divided between the
thieves and attorneys. The committee
want 10 know the details of the matter.
A New Jersey crank named Lewis be-
queathed $1,500,000 to the government
home years ago. Claims of false heirs
were set up and it cost the government
100000 to get the money. Detectives
fled bill in the case amounting to
$4,000, bet part of this was disalIowed
There are 80 many cases of crookedness in
connection with the law department of the
government that, the Investigation com.
mittee cannot complete its work for
months, although its sessions are held
almost daily.
GEN. GRANT ON LOGAN.
The Capital claims to have conyersed
with Gen. Grant IN his sick room on pol
itics, and says: "The ex-presidsnt consid-
ers Gen. John A. Logan as the most avail
bile candidate of all those named, and one
whom he would not only support himself,
but candidate whom he would ask all his
friends to support. He remarked that he
had known Logan from the beginning of
the war, and he c~dld testify that he pos-
sessed the ability, courage, obedience and
endurance of the citizen-soldier of our
great country to es eminent degree as.
the most distinguished in its brilliant array
In public affairs, he said, Logan has
courage of his convictions. He asserts
the integrity of his own character even in
his own political matters, and that could
not always be said of men in political life
andin private life, he added, there is not
man to my knowledge who stands out SO
notably as a type of honesty of purpose
simplicity of life and virtue
The general further observed that there
were others also who would fill the Office
with great ability, men like Edmunds, of
Vermont. But his idea seemed to be that
Logan was more man of the people. 1t
was evident that there were those
whom the ex-president thinks it would be
suicidal to nominate, and who, in fact,
would not receive his support. He did
not wish to be specific but would only say
it might be wiser in makiug the nomina-
tions to regard the harmony of the party.
POSSIBLE INJUSTICE DONE DOUGLASS.
The statements that have come from
the department of Justice seem to have
done an injustice to ex-Megshall R. NJ.
Douglass, of North Carolina. Douglass
was investigated some time ago by two
special agents, Bowman, representing
tho 5annrtroapt of iuskion nd Far,ar
representing the treasury. Bowman testi
fed npon the Springer committee yester-
day that during the whole time that
Farney was nominally attend
ing to the investigation he
was so drunk as to be absolutely incapable
of asking question or understanding an
answer, and that when Bowman returned
join with Franey iui report, but made
one of his own. Bowman testified that in
stead of Withdrawing his books, Douglass
offered every facility for making his in
vestigation and when Douglass was in
formed that his deputies were making
charges that the department would not
allow, he made them point out these items
duO Will lis OWu uHuu QI0W d Iln6 VI 0IaS-
ure across them, but there left untouched
good many fraudulent items which
Douglass knewabout and Bowman thought
he ought to have made his deputies verify
every item after he found what they ere
dolngr Since then frome disputeswith the
department of justice has occurred and
Douglass refused to furnish certain books,
which he claimed were his private account
books, but he states that he furnished all
his official account books and, further
more, that he sent his accounts up here
be settled and they are stopped in the
treasury department. They are in the
hands of Fnaey, above mentioned, who
will not audit them out of spite. Doug
lass says that while he was marshall, he
was taking two convicts TO the peniten-
tiary when one of them, g
notorious despersdo, escaped and he
never succeeded in capturing him, but his
successor, Tom Keogh, late secrerary of
the Republican national convention was
now successful. He caught this fugative
from justice and made him one of his dep
uties, and so retains him. He performs
all the duties of a deputy marshal, except
that feeling of delicacy deferred him from
going into the court room of the Judge
who pronounced on him the sentence he
had never undergone. Mr.. Douglass says
there are 10000 white Republicans in
North Carolina, to say nothing of the col
ored ones; and, but for such scandals as
this, and divisions in the party the Repub-
licans might hold tbs state easily.
DELAYED WESTERN MAIL.