St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-11
Col. Knight Puts An Entirely
Different Phase on the
Gregory Affair.
The Lumber Company Never
Handled Bad River Reser-
I'd walton Logs.
The Whole Proceedings Pro-
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81 mulgated to Work an In
% : jury to Some One.
Majority and Minority Reports
- OF the Committee on the
III Fisheries Treaty.
Special to the Globe.

.cPSclal 10 lne Gl0De.
WASHINGTON, May 1O.-The Chan
dler senate committee to-day gave a
hearing to Col. j. H. Knight, of Ash
land, and his testimony is regarded as
the best yet given in eXOneration of the
indian office from charges formulated
by Thad Pound, and fathered by Cur
ran and Denomee. In reply to ques-
tons by Senator Faulkner, he said that
ne alone made the purchases of lumber
Tor the company. The company had
never done any logging on the Bad River
reservation, or any other reservation,
and had never had log cut from
any Indian reservation. He PRONOUNCED
the statement of John B. Denomee that
he had frequently seen logs out from
the Bad River reservation in the SUI
perlor company's mills, to be absolutely
untrue. AT one time in 1886, some logs
from the Bad River reservation were
cut at the company's mills; but they
were cut for another party, and the fact
was not known by the witness until
some months afterwards. The witness
had never seen DenOmee about the mill,
and DenOmee had never seen the logs
10 identify them from others. Had he
Deen there since he would not have
been allowed on the log dock where they
were being cut. There were about
100000 feet of these logs and the work
was paid for at the ruling rate for that
season. Witness was very earnest on
the point that the company, as
A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE,
had never, at any time, directly or indi-
rectly, had anything to do with lumber
from the Indian reservation. He stated
this from personal knowledge, and de-
clared that the records of the company
were kept in such way that the place
OF origin of every log purchased by the
company could be learned from its
books. When witness was sick in his
room here in Washington last April a
gentleman came to hime and
told him that the committee
had certain letters written by
the Superior company to n. E. PerO,
one of them incl0sing $50 to be paid to
an Indian woman who owned an allot-
ment. This gentleman told witness
that Thaddeus Pound. who witness I'M
derstood to be the paterfamilias of this
inquiry, had said that witness did not
dare to appear before the committee as
witness. The chairman Senator
Chandler) asked the name of witness
informant, but. there being some queS-
ton as to the propriety of extending
this inquiry too far, the question was
not answered and the testimony regard
ing Gov. Pound was stricken out. Wit
| ness produced newspaper slips contain
ing the two letters to Pero and read
Thorn tho oh hnllinnr 10 nrir ri,, vol
manuscripts in his hand for COMPARE
son. Witness said he at first believed
the letters were forgerieS, knowing that
the company had had
t- NO SUCH TRANSACTIONS,
and that no one but himself was author
lied to write letters on general business
matters on the cOmpany's behalf. He
had, however, Investigated the matter,
and learned that the letters were writ
ten III the cOmpany'S office by Mr..
Clark, the company's bookkeeper, who
was also clerk and boOkkeper for D. A.
Kennedy. the cOmpany'S superinten-
dent. The letters were written by Mr..
Kennedy'S instruction, but were on his
own private business and were signed
by mistake as from the Superior
Lumber company. These letters had
fallen into the hands of a lawyer
named E. Il. Gleason, prominent
gentleman in that part of the country,
and were forwarded by him to Wash
ington for purpose which was not
brought out definitely. Witnessdesired to
put in evidence letter written by Mr..
Gleason subsequently, explaining the
reason why he sent the letters ON to
Washington, but this was objected to,
as Mr.. Gleason's opinions and explana-
lions were not pertinent to the matter
before the committee During the in
formal colloQuy which took place over
this. it was said that the purpose in
sending these letters on to Washing
ton was to smirch some one little and
try to sour some ones reinstatement to
an office from which the latter some one
had been discharged. The committee
adjourned till tomorrow.