The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-29

ing Nud6 purpOIIS 10 Dc kiSC
of the members of the Anderson caYal-
front and engaged in the battle of
MurfreesbOrough. ~The witness said
that on October 1st, last, the senior
clerk Of his Office came to him and said
that Chief Clerk TWeedal. of the war
department, desired to Lave the names
Of the members of that organization of
which he was member incorporated
in the records, and that he would re-
quest the governor of Pennsylvania to
furnish the list. If the governor did
not furnish it he would get the infor-
nation himself. October 10th list of
the names was received from the ad-
jutant-general. which the certificate
stated had been made from the Off
cial report to General Roseerans,
and had been carefully compared
with the official records of the
Office, and found to be correct. Such
certificates had always been regarded
sufficient basis for publication, and
their rolls or honor and tables had
been included in the publication on
like certificates. A part of the en-
dOrsement stated that Che list had been
copied from the Cincinnati Inquirer of
February Is, 1868; but that excited
no comment because it was
known that many newspapers
had published strictly correct reports
during the war. Witness did not eX-
anime the text of the volume carefully,
that was the duty of the senior clerk,
but he did not ascertain that the body
OF the volume would not furnish Suf-
ficient data for the presentation of the
list. Respecting the apparent discrep-
ancy between the list contained in the
body of the department and that con-
tanned in the appendix, the witness
read from a number of official reports
to show the lack of agreement between
them as to the actual number of mem
bers of the Anderson cavalry who
went to the front with this informa-
tiOn in hand. He said that not only
to be correct, but it's correctness
was also verified by careful compari-
son with the body of the volume.
Assistant General KeltOn. the next
witness Cal ed, said that all the edju-
tant generals Office knew about the
newspaper slip was that it had been
handed in by Chief Clerk Tumdale,
with the request that it be compared
with the muster rolls and verified.
1t had been compared, verified
and certified. The witness produced
the muster rolls to show how the COM
pilation had been made. There was
no report from General Rosecrans o.
file at the war department.
A chief clerk in the Acknowledgment
al'S office said he had compared the
newspaper slip with the muster rolls
and made up the list of names i'll the
appendix, but he had not placed the
caption on it, nor had he stated that
1t was made up from official reports to
General Rusecrans. Upon being
shown the manuscript the witness said
it was not the list he made up.
Cutcheon, with the witness, began a
comparison between the list as pub
lished in che newspaper and
the muster rolls, with the
result that two names of
persons got down as in the battle could
not be found on the muster rolls. Ad-
journed till Wednesday next.
INTERSTATE LAW.
Franklin B. Gowen, ex-president of
the Reading railroad and counsel for
George Rice in his contests with the
Standard Oil company, was given a
hearing to-day by Senator Cullom' s
committee on interstate COM
merce, which is investigating the
Determinations practiced by the Read
ing raj way in favor of the Standard
Oil company. Mr.. Governs purpose
was to advocate certain amendments
to the interstate commerce law which
4du SuBROSIOO GucuiSClfcS OuIluR JIlc
progress of the Rice cases.
Mr.. Gowen thought congress ought
to give United States district
and circuit courts original juris-
diction in all cases arising under
the interstate commerce law to COM
pei the common carrier to perform its
duty. In advocating exemplary
damages he urged that there was
no injury so great as that
whereby officers of pub
lie highway selected a few favored
people and made special
rate to them and drove
others entirely out of the business. He
expressed the belief that out of $780,
OO0, 900 annually paid for Transports
tion in the country from fifty to one
hundred millions were taken from the
pockets of the people and paid into the
hands of favored corporations, which
fact accounted for the large fortunes
that were sometimes made very sud
denly. Adjourned