The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-10

/ AS your income increased did your dis
bursements increase?"
"They did"
when TIE court sat in New York come
bills were introduced in evidence. ! refer
particularly TO the Tiffany bills. State for
/ whom the items in those bills were secur-
ed?"
1T is difficult to state definitely. The
principal ones were commissions I execut-
ed for the ladies Of my family or that Of
| my father-in-law."
As to the pictures costing 800 each or
thereabouts, Capt. Carter said some of
them were in his possession and others
! in the possession of his sister-in-law in
| Mr.. Westcotts house. Mr.. Blair said chat
| covered Capt. Carriers private life as fully
| as he cared to go into il. There was one
| other matter he would refer to, the state
| ment by Chief Clerk Sterly that Capt.
| Carter owned no horses between July and
July 20.
'As matter or fact" Capt. Garter said,
II owned four horses. I had one at Hun
| tingtCn, w. Va, one at Richfield Springs
| ". Y, and two here. The one that Sterly
knew ! had was in T. f. Gleasons stable
| I gave him permission TO ride it, but be-
| lieve he was afraid TO do so. The other
was allowed to remain for reasons of my
own with DR.. Paige; never took it away
| from his stable. l got the horse which IS
at G.easons Stable from Mr.. West, paying
| about 1925 for it, or an equivalent"
The next matter taken up was the
| Twiggs contract for work in the 6avan-
nah river near Augusta, with regard to
| which il has been made to appear that
| Twiggs was oppressed by Capt Carter
Capt. Carter stated he could have an
| nulled the contract altogether, If he had
| desired to Cypress Twiggs. Twiggs, he
said, was dealing with a work with which
| he was not familiar, He felt sorry for
| TwiggS and secured two extensions of
| time for him. He did not arnul the con-
| tract as that would have made Twiggs a
defaultlng bidder, and besides, he would
| have lost the money then coming to him.
When he went to Augusta he simply ex-
| planned to Twiggs how a brush fascine
should be made.
With regard to s.ush funds, there was
one in the district Capt. Carter said, when
he first came here. 1t was in Charleston,
and he was allowed a small amount from
H. The last one had in this district was
in 1890, but he did not remem Der whether
it was from the sale of old rope or not He
was certain, however, that he had never
told Lieut.. Rees that the making out of
an inspection report was merely a matter
of form
AS to pay rolls Capt Carter said he had
always instructed his clerks to be govern
ed by the office regulations. AS to the IA
nous $3.50 pay roll, the basis of one of
the specifications under the third charge,
Capt. Carter said he had never heard of it
until it was brought up by his prosecutor.
He had to rely largely on his clerical
force, in fact almost altogether, for the
accuracy of pay rolls. He had certified
to some pay rolls which were irregular
without the authority of the chief of en-
gineers, he said, but he had never certified
to any that were untrue. He had had some
Office furniture made or shelves put in,
and put them on the pay rolls, but he had
never purchased materials and committed
them into labor He did give Lieut.. Rees
permission to take the file case and map
case to West Point with him. When his
chief clerk certified to "A pay roll after
checking it, he accepted it as correct
where did you get Sterly?" Mr.. Blair
asked.
II took him from, the engineering bat
talon at Willetts Point" was the reply.
''When did you bring him here?"
II think II was In 1885. I brought him
here rodman at $40 a month";
''And what were you paying him when
| you were relieved?"
III was paying him $500 a month";"
Capt. Carter said he regarded Sterly as
a faithful clerk, and when he went away
| from Savannah he left him money to set
| tie some unpaid bills.
do you know or can you think of any
reason why Sterly and Cooper should have
any animus toward your" Mr. Blair asked.
do you mean any just reason?" Capt.
Carter asked.
mo. any unjust reason?"
mo, do not relieved Cooper from the
| fort at Tybee. 1t could hardly be on that
account. Both Sterly and Cooper wanted
to go with me on the Nicaragua Canal
| Commission work and I could not take
| nj "a ole
in the office, were bitter enemies. Cooper
wanted me to recommend him to Maj
Raymond on the Deep Waterways Com
mission. I wrote Maj. Raymond a letter,
and don't know but what 1 did"
Capt. Carter said his statement to the
| chief of engineers that excessive rentals
| and high prices were being demanded for
property on Hutchinson's Island, at the
| time 1t was proposed to cut off a piece Of
| it, was true. He cited instances In support
of this.
! He stated positively that he did not tell
| Mr. Sterly to use the S182.10 as a slush
fund, and he did not think it ever was
used that way He did not mention it to
his successor, because it did not occur
| to him at the time He believed that 1t
was used by Sterly.
With regard to his alleged false report
of his presence here in March, 1897, he said
| IL must have been a clerical error. He
| was on the works a great deal, and his
reports were made out by his clerks. 1t
| was never intended to deceive anyone, he
said. With regard to the other report of
absence in May, 1897, there could have
| been no intention to deceive he said, be-
! cause he was really in the office of the
| Secretary of War on the day in question
| II was his custom to send all of his tele-
| grams and letters from Savannah so as
to keep a record in his office here That
was his reason for wiring Sterly to send
| certain kilograms for him at the time he
\ was North. 1t was his desire always to
| keep posted on what was going on. That
was why he arranged the telegraph code
between himself and Sterly. 1t was a
code used by his father-in-law with a few
additions to meet the necessities of the
! work
1t is probable that the direct examIna-
ton of Capt. Carter will be concluded. to-
morrow. and the cross examination will
| begin. The cross examination is expected
to be an interesting feature. The court
adjourned to meet at 1890 o'clock to-mor-
row morning
UNCOvERING THEIR CROPS.