The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-25
WASHINGTON.

DIR. j. W. Rogers testified before the
| Telephone Investigating Committee at Wash
ington, March II, that there was no intention
of deriving any advantage from the official
| positions of the men to whom Pan Electric
stock was donated The object was to bank
on their names and reputation. Witness wished
TO secure the cooperation Of men of integrity
and of national regulations Without the
names of such men the stock could not be sold
The incorporators of the Pan-Electric Com
tric Company paid nothing for their stock
| TIVE meetings were held in the rooms of the
Senate Judiciary Committee for the organiza-
ton of the telephone company. There were
| Money, Rogers, Jr., Senator's Harris and Gar
land, and Gen. Johnston. AT the first meeting
| general agreement was reached Senator
| Garland prepared the papers and submitted
them at the second meeting. charter for a
| telephone company was obtained in Tennes-
see, and one for telegraph company was OBJ
tanned in New York. There never was any
Pan Electric stock issued Witness de-
clared that he had no idea when the
company was organized that Mr. Garland
would be Attorney General; but he had done
his best to make him Attorney General after
A
to Attorney General Garland, and predicted
that Cleveland would select the wisest purest
man in the country to elevate the judiciary of
| the country. On May "a he had sent letter to
Attorney General Garland asking him TO insti-
| tute a suit against the Bell company, but re-
ceived no reply.
DIR. j. w. Rogers testified in the tele-
1
he never sold any stock to member of Con-
gress. He had applied for a consular place,
and had written TO Attorney General Garland
about it Money had also seen the Attorney
General in furtherance of the application.
| Witness said that he had no hard feelings
| against Mr.. Garland, although he thought
the Attorney General acted meanly. When
asked if he had not written satirical poetry
directed against the Attorney General, he re-
piled, drawing out pamphlet: "Just got it
this morning from Baltimore. Here it is;
| want TO see itg" The cover of the PAM
phlet bore the following inscription: The
Great Mugwump Canto l. Pan-Electric Sale
OF Government Property; To BE Followed
by Parthenon; Congressional Whitewash and
the Last of the Dog Catcher BY J. W. Rogers
of Parthenon Heights. Published by Puck Il
Bottom, Parthenon Heights, Bladensburg, Nd.
1880" DIR. Rogers besought Mr.. Oates to read
the pamphlet, but several members threw up
their hands iii eloquent protest
A special agent of the Treasury De-
partment reports that extensive frauds are
perpetrated upon the customs revenues by
sending Texas calves into Mexico to fatten and
be returned free of duty.
A Washington dispatch says the
/ Pres dent celebrated his 4sth birthday on the
night of March IS by attending performance
of the ~Mikado" with Misses Cleveland and
Van vechten and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont
The party was warmly applauded a. it entered
! its box
The Ways and Mems Committee has
adopted a substitute for the Morrison tariff
bill, which subjects the wooden articles placed
on the free list TO an import duty when the
country from which they imported lev.es
an export duty. The provision is aimed at the
export duty now levied upon Canadian logs
sent into the United States. The free list was
then adopted it stands in the bill, except
that Indian corn, hay. and oats were stricken
| of.
The President nominated Gen. o. O.
Howard to be Major General, vice Gen Pope,
retired In view of the fact that Mai Gen
Schofeld has expressed a preference for the
command of the Division of the Atlantic, it is
now thought likely that Maj. Gen Terry will
be assigned to the command of the div.s Oh of
the Pacific. Coils Ruger and Merritt are said.
to have been selected for promotion to Briga-
der Generalships.
DIR. Rogers testified in the telephone
investigation, at Washington, March ~, that
| among those who took stock of the Pan-Elec-
| trio Company were Gen. Frank Armstrong
! (thcn of the Indian Office, Gen. Thomas
Crittenden, Gen. A. b. Upshaw now of the
Indian Office. Col Boudinot, r. C. Winter
smith, A. ID. Coke, aud the Republic and
Chronicle Washington newspapersl Witness
paid the newspapers for advertising in stock He
thought il possible that he had given American
Postal stock to Messrs. Money and Manning
| Witness had expressly contemplated legislation
for the American Postal Company, and il was
so stated in the pamphlets, but the bill was
never introduced He saw no improperly in
| giving stock 10 members of Congress. Soon
| gressmen do not take vows of chastity, pow
erty, and obedience said the witness Il
went upon that principle" he added to the
amusement of the spectators
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