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“ ‘WASHINGTON. The Story of Detective Bell Beforc the Clymer Committee. THE TESTIMONY DENIAL. Statements of the Attorney General, Mr. Luckey and Mr. Bradley. AN ALLEGED POLITICAL CONSPIRACY. indignation Over the Herald Exposures of the indian Ring. Secretary Bristow and the Whiskey Ring. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, | Wasuixarox, April 6, 1874 MR. LUCKEY IN RESPONSE TO DETECTIVE BELL— THE STORY OF A POLITICAL CONSPIRACY AND THE RFFORTS TO DEFEAT 1T—WHAT LOVE ¥OR HIS OLD COMMANDER PROMPTED A SPY TO DO—AN EXPLANATION OF THE FAMOUS CIPHER. : The following is the statement made by Mr. Luckey, lormerly the President’s Private Secretary, to-day be- fore the Clymer committee concerning his relations to and dealings with the dotective, Bell:— _ | was in St Louis during the latter part of last November as a witness inthe Avery tral I went there solely for that purpose, and in no way at General ’# solicitation nor in'his interest. While there Mr. Hotel. 1 recognized tim as had been seeking ome position government two or three fears before, and at the time had called at the Executive Mansion and represented bimeolf to me as a former spy of the Union army dur- bs the war, and had shown me testimonials of Ins faithful service in that capocity, and had related some of his hairbreadth escapes when take! joner by the Confederates. 1 had been unable to assist him, and had not seen him nor heard of him again untilhe tume to me in St. Louis. He said he wanted to talk to me ron. and had come to me because he felt he sould trust me orf account of my connection with the President, and he felt that the President should be made acquainted with what was going on. Hetaid the President was his old commander, and he felt that his allegiance and fidelity ‘belonged to aim rather than to those who were seeking io do bim an injury. He told me he was a special agent at the Fost Oflice Department, and, on account of his familiarity with the duty, had yn loaned temporarily wo the Hawg s ‘tment to assist in procuring evi- dence in the whiskey investigations; thatim that way ‘ho had become associated in the office of Mr. Dyer, the United States Attorney, and was treated 1p that office .8an assistant and trusted by Mr. Dycr and his asso- siates; thathe had become, in that way, aware of many things going on which convinced him that Mr. Dyer, Mi mdersou and others were in a conspiracy vo hav neral Babcock indicted, and for the sol pur- pose of injuring the administration for politics! oftech He suia it were known that tad) = communicated to me avythmg = that to the United States Attorney's office be would be d‘smissed and would lose bis piace. I re- pled that whatever he felt :t nis duty totell me ho might, and oan it was of such a nature that the President sb hear it, | should consider i, my duty to inform him. I also said to him that if, in doing ‘what he Sir wetoine so ay; and if what he Brews me was true, 1 thought [ could, at least, promise him that he should not lose his place, or, ii be did, he should ye another one, He gave me a long story of what had seen and heard; that were a number of papers relating to General Babcock which Mr. Heuder- ton had been very urgent to have introduced in the McDooald trial, aud Mr. Dyer had opposed their introduction, though he had been directed to mtroduce them by officials of the Treasury Depart- ; that there had beeu soine feeling tary of the Treasury and Solicitor Wiison had tele- graphed Dyer congratulating him upon his success and Saying. that they were convinced that bis jadgment had been correct in regard to the introduction of tho Wash- Papers, meaning Babcock papers. ~ That Mr. Vory much elated at this praise and said he he was right and it ho bad his way they should Bot be introduced during the Avery trial cither, for they would have far greater political effect it delayed until ay near the conventions as possible. He told me ® great deal more of the same import which I do got recall, amd said that they made no secret when alone together of their intentions toward the admunis- bration, and expressed their contidence that they would be able to killof General Grant; that the effect would ir. Bristow President, an same character. He said that a number of detectives were in St Louis belonging to the secret service of the Treasury they watched every movement in Department, and that of Gener pabeock's friends, and were strivin; every way to get hoid of something against bim; t! shey bad aman in the telegraph oillice who furnished them with copies of any despatches sent between St. Louw and Washington, aad he thought, trom bits of tonversation he had beard in Dyer’s office, that letters gent by General Babcock’s friends bad boen onencd and read, and he believed some one in the Post Oflice, vither at St. Louis or Washington, was in their pay or assisting them in that way. Lassured Mr. Bell of iny perfect faith in General Babcock’s innocence and that I did not believe he would be indicted nd that 1 looked upon tho rt to secure jet rm as @ persecution and Bothing els. 1 told Bell that ne could come to me at any time while | remained thee, and Jearned anythiog more he shouid tell me. A short time after Mr. Avery told me that Bell had doen talking to him, and bad told bim that he had been employed by Treasury officials to hunt up evidence againet Hoag, one of the absconding indicted revenue agen! id found a large number of despatches | joag under the assumed name of Bixvy, and bowed conclusively who bad been sending the @ivrmation to the distillers of the contemplated saids upon them, and that the proof was so clear bat apy one could see that they bad oecded no other miormer; Beli bad sail that these telegrams had not deen allowed to be brought to St. Louis, but were de- at Indi is, and, ashe bad secured them erent puints, be would be allowed to get copies: of them, at ly os would pay bis expenses he would start at once for fadianapolis and get thean and shat be could swear to them. Avery said he had given 3im money to go and he had just left, saying be would wke the first train. It #track me as very untair for Avery’s prosecators to charge bin as the particular man ,again:t whom all suspicion should rest us tne in- jormer when they were aware o! Hoag’s despitcvesi and ‘new who it was who bad given the informati trom shey him; fithin two or three days he returned with the copies of the telegrams, ‘The second time Bet! called to see mo Mr. Bradle; of Washington, was with me; Bell objected to talku Ttold him I was pertectly willing Mr. e wished to aa a Ge ee a ng report trust fully; Bell to make of what be hb seen, and made it very upparent that he was incurring ex, ‘and was in great heed of money for his family, and shoald like to have his services en, some way. During the conversation of some length fecited about what he Lad told me before, and gave solutions ut suspicious fragments of conversations he overheard in Mr. Dyer’s office. He said that Mr. Henderson did not seem to few! that be wonld ve reo tuined very long as the associate counsel tor Fogg gov. nt ro- that cou! frument, and was urgent that against Babcock sho thas they had letters writen on Exec! urporting to be trom General Babcock, Temeed, ‘wore copies or lorgeries, and be they were using them before the Grand Jury to procure an indictment; that he bad read or Deurd read some of these letters, and he bad said to Mr, Dyer that Geueral Babcock migit be able to give a very simple explanat on of them, when Dyer bad re- & that Babcock would not have an opportunity; Mouth would be closed. As be was about leaving my room he saidhe could, he thought, vbtain possession of these letters long enough to bring them to us, and we oe — \hey were using jurgerics or not, and he might pet the other and we ‘could see what they were. at once rmed him that Unad n0 money to'give him and no authority to em- ploy that I would not sanction nis doing any- —? which was illegal or improper to do in the mat- ter; | told nim then, if | remember correctly, that Mr. | Bradley had come out to St. Louis as counsel tor Gen- chew ext one will be U. 8. G.,”” ant. | @ man always jealous of authority and a stickler for NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1876.—TKIPLE SHEET. one else whica could possibly be tortured into a pro- jon to abstract and destroy papers trom Mr. ers office, and I don’t know how I, as his | friend, could bave compromised General Baboock | more than such an act. 1 arrived at! home from St. Louis within the first few days of De- cember, Some time alter Bell came to Washington and me, Thad not doubtea bis sincerity of pur- pose the ner hig honesty in bis professed attachment to President om account of bis army experience, | tbvugh I doubted lis conclusions very often. Mr. Henderson’s attack vpon the Preeident, in his argu. Avery trial, had, to my mind, corrobo- rated Belj’s assertion-of the bitter iccling ha tained, and seemed to add strength to ail he hi me in that connection. Beil told me Dyer was offer- ing large sums for evidence against Babcock, and had | employed him to go to Jeiferson City and see Joyce and try to obtaiv something trom him by representing that the President gared not pardon him, but, if he would help them pst ‘k, they would all jon asking his yardon, and bring such a rt that the President would bave to grant it for fear that he would be thought to refuse through Pe atin his (Jo: ce’s) course in helping to implicate Babcock. Beli showed me a note or card which Dyer had given bim to sceure him admission to Joyce, 1 told bim, as he was bere, he could tell the President himself whatever be desired to, and | would ask the President to see him. The President heard him and recognized him as having served asa spy ugder him during the war, or as haying carried de- speeeet for him through the rebel lines, ral jurlburt, of Iiln the office the same day came or the next, and, as Bell had a testimonial trom him, asked tim if he considered bim reliabie; he replied | that he had always been so when with him during the war, and he deemed him trustworthy. Bell told me be had been suspended unjustly | by the Post Office Department because, when travelling, he had obliged to borrow o: the business he was of the depart got out of money, and had been ‘& postmaster in order to continud and it was agatpst the ral could not at the time get along any other way. jesired to get in the Interior | Department or Attorney Generai’s office. He thought there were chances of working up a promotion sooner in the Interior than anywhere else. | Within a few days he cime to me and said that the Attorney Geveral was going to send bim to St, Lous to assist Dyer in bis whiskey investigations, ant he was going just as soon as he could get away; that he was to help all he could; butif uny unwarranted or unlawful means were resorted to, such as introducing | tors papers, or if inducements for evidence were offered calculated to induce perjury, he was to report | 1, In short, as I think, he expressed it, to see fair play. Ye said that iu case he discovered gome- thing goimg on which the President ought | to know at once, m order to prevent repre wrong, how could he commonicate it. | If he tel | raphed 1t would Le known in Dyer’s oflice at once, and he would be turned out and a letter might be too late, I told bism it was entirely unlikely that | apy such cane coo! would arrive, and he could com. | municate anything he wished by wail; but for fear I | ae t teel to blame if such an occasion sbould arise, I | ‘short simple cipher and showed him how to | use it 19 case he thought he ought to dosa I did not distrust the man, and | considered a cipher in tele- graphing nothing more than a device to secure the privacy of the despatch, the same asa sealed euvelopo | Jor the same purpose in sending a letter through tho | mail, With the purpose I had in view 1 believed it | proper to give the cipher if I saw Mt to do so. After providing him a means whereby ho could | telegraph what he thought ought to be brought to the | | immediat igo of the President as sately as bo could send it by wail, I thought very little more about | it until I saw it im a garbled state published in the New | Youk Hxra.p about a month » When L could easily | Perceive how « cipher, harmless in itself, could be | made to appear inst one by a designing, unscru- , pulous man. No despatches were ever sent in tho | cipher, and whatever responsibility thore may be in iving it to him is wholly my own, for neituer the | ident nor General Babcock knew of it. | ‘The Attorney General did not appoint Mr. Bell, and he Kept occasionally coming to me and complaining that be was being put off, and bis complaints became rather annoying. Finally he came to say tnat he did | not think he would be sent to St. Lous | at all by tho Attorney 0 as he had) consulted of! officials abot im and Dyer would not trust him. He wanted to ; be.appointed somewhere elo and suggested the Inti rior | again. 1 bad not yet learned lis true character and felt under obligations to assist him, as I had told him in St, Louis | would; so Lspoke to the President that Mr. Bell bad requested m€ to ask nim to speak to Mr. Chandler in his behalf for un appoiptinent as 4 special agent in the Pension Office. I am not certain that | ever spoke to Mr. Chandler about him, but my impres- sion it I did ask bim if the Presidont men- ed a Mr, Bell to bim about a place and he had not so, I lost sight of him very shortly after and knew {cr certain whethor he got the appoint- ed by the ernment asa witness in | left tor St Lows the fore ut, before leaving I had heard from 1 was subporn: General Babcock’s trial ai Sr of February, Woodward, 42, the true hi of pension in that | department and found that be had deceived me in that | matter, and I to distrust him very much. I | never knew he was in St. Louis during the Babcock trial, nor have I seen him since until yesterday. THE EPFORT TO BREAK DOWN DETECTIVE BELL'S STORY—OUBIOUS ADMISSION BY ONE | OF BaBCOCK’s COUNSEL—THE PRIVATE DE- ‘TECTIVE AT THE CAPITAL. . The testimony in th mer committee tends to coe] firm the statements of Pe.vctive Beli and strengthens him with those who heard i, The republican mem- | bers of the committee for some reason-are determined | to break bim down and to make him out, if possible, a | mere adventurer and trader upon other pcople’s secrets, General Babcock to-day owned to having had several interviews with Bell and that he paid Bell $100 in all He put in as part of this testimony a sworn account by Bell of cor. tain things he had done, Bell suspects that some changes bave been made in this, and it will come up | again for examination to morrow. Luckey’s statement | before the committee generally confirms this affidavit of Bell, but the testimony of Bradley, one of Bab- cock’s lawyers, made the greatest sensation to-day. He contessed that he did engage, not, he said, to d stroy papers against Babcock, which Bell might get at in Dyer’s oflice, but to make copies of them for bim, or if he could not do that, to send him their substance, ‘This he thought all right to do as General Babcock’s | attorney, this being before the Grand Jury indicted Babcock, It begins to look, in the light of recent develop- ments here, as though this private detective business ‘was run into the ground by big and little people in Washington. The air here smells of detectives. It is pretty well known that during the St, Lous whiskey | war the ring and their friends had detecti gaged | to hunt up the record and private history of General } Bristow and Solicitor Wilson, Now one of Babcock’s lawyers thinks he did no wrong in employing a de- | tective to surreptitiously copy papers in the District | Attorney’s office. One hears of detectives searching | out the histories of various Presidential candidates, | and, on the whole, whatever industry may suffer, it — would seem that iho private detective business—the | trade of the spy—wust be thriving, fora good many | men do not think themselves equipped for public life without a private force of such spics. Another thing which begins to appear hera is that | the republicans are gradually assuming the attitude of | defonders of the evils which the investigating commit- tocs are developing. It is not unnatural that they | should slip invo this attitude, Itie their duty to seo fair play, and it is easy to overstep the limits and be- come advocates. Their course, where they blunder in this way, makes the discovery of malleasanco or cor- ruption more difficult, Butt must in the long ran do more harm to the party whose members obstiuct dis- coveries than so the public interest. 4 LONG DESIRED REFORM IN ARMY MATTERS— THE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF RESTORED TO HIS | LEGITIMATE POSITION—HEADQUARTERS TO BE RETURNED TO WASHINGTON. Secretary .Taft has just reformed an abuse in the management of the army, the begin: of which dates as tar back as when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of | ‘War and Genoral Scott commanded the forces. Pre- | vious to that time the purely military administration | which is included in tne Adjutant General’s and In- | spector Genoral’s offices was under the control of the | General of the Army, aud these officers reported to | the General, and not to the Secretary of War, | Mr. Davis and General Scott did not agree very well, and Mr. Davis, a West Pointer, | power, gradually, and as much as he could, drew the control of these offices to himself as Secretary of War. Daring the rebellion it was inevitable that Mr. Stan- ton should do the same thing, especially as the Gen- eral-in-Chiet was mostly in the field. When General Grant became President he endeavored to restore the old order of things, and had an understanding with General Sherman to that purpose, but General Raw- | lings, the Orst Secretary of War under Grant, strongly opposed it, His opposition caused some disagreement | ‘at the time. Rawlings, however, carried his point. When Belknap became Secretary of War he, too, insisted on retaining | and concentrating afl the authority in his own hands, and G al Sherman, finding himeeif a mere figure- head and constantly slighted, alter a while withdrew the army headquarters to St. Louis, It was stated in these despatches ten days ago that he would probably return, and that the proper control over the offices which, tor the sake of orderly and efficient adminis. tration of mihtary affairs, should rest in the General's bands, would be restored to him. Yesterday the order was signed and issued by which the adjatant general and inspectors general of the army are in- | upon | a farthing, nor was al structed hereafter to report to the General-in-Chief, i examined James Trainer, post trader at Fort Concho, | THE EMMA MINE INVESTIGATION—AN InTIMA- | and no longer to the War Department, Secretary Taft deserves great credit for his quickness © tosee the advisability of this change for the proper © discipline and work of the Army and his readines to Fesign a Dart of the power which he found placed in | his hands when he became Secretary of War. If he | had been a narrow minded man or given to petty am- bition he would have resisted. Genera! Sherman will at once remove his headquarters to Washington and | resume the duties which were denied him by Mr. Bel- | knap, and this change will be beneticially felt by the | whole army, which will no longer have so much reason to complain of favoritism and of other abuses as it has | bad under the rule of Mr, Belknap. | Everybody here who is familar with the dotails of | army management rejoices at this reform to-day and Praises tho new Secretary of War. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONENT. Wasutxatox, April 6, 1876. THE POSITION OF MR. PAGE ON THE HERALD'S EXPOSURE OF INDIAN FRAUDS—THE NATURAL INDIGNATION OF A FRIEND OF THE RING, Congressman Page, of California, affected much in- | ignation in the Indian Committeo yesterday after the i examination of tho Hexaip correspondent was con- | cluded. He expressed his determination to force an | Auswer to nis conundrums at the bar of the House, but | | the other members of the committee did not agreo | with him, and they advised h:m.to let the matter drop and say no more about it, He did not seem inclined to | relent, however, untifhe was imformed that, in the | opinion of certain members of the committee, he could | hot compel the correspondent to auswor his queries, us | tuey were not in the line of evidence un- der consideration. Mr, Page protested in a | subdued way, but at last yielded to the better judg- ment of the committee, Ho then referred to the state- ments made in the Hexatp to the effect that ho was inclined to be severe in cross-examining witnesses, and defended himself by saying that he was @illing to extend every courtesy to ordinary witnesses, but as | for the Yxratp correspondout, he, for one, would not | admit him to the room during the meetings of the committee, To use his own metaphor, be would be damned if such trash should be permitted in his presence. ‘The only reason for Mr, Pago’s hostility is that the correspondent gave damaging testimony against the Indian Ring and said that he nad heard ex-Comm: tioner Smith admit that he had violated the law and took his chances; also u respondent had truthfully repo! extraordinary remarks made dq showing that Mr. Page t owt ey not bally the )) to have his own yy ould protect witnesses | i) 2% Me country, Mr. Pagecon- | // saying that if he was to be dictated to he sheuls joive the room, Mr, Scales gave him to un- derstand Put the object of the committee was to in- vestigate frauds and have the truth come out and go to the world, SECRETARY BRISTOW AND THE WHISKEY RING— THE MILWAUKER SENSATION—HISTORY OF THE BARK MARY MEBRITT, AND THE SEC- RETARY’S CONNECTION THEREWITH. The sensational story from Milwaukee about Secre- tary Bristow’s connection with the alleged smuggling case of the bark Mary Merritt is pronounced s concoc- tion of the Milwaukeo Whiskey Riag. The facts of the | matter as thcy appear in the official rocord at the Treasury Department are as follows :— | First, the vessel was not seized for smuggling; second, General Bristow was nover retained as counsel in the caseand never received a cent, though he had givon advice to the brothers Trice, who were his per_ sonal friends, and wont before Secretary Richardson jor them, but with the express agreement that he should ac- | cept no compensation, as he never practised before the Department; third, the case was reopened by Secretary Richardson, but not decided; fourth, the case, thon under law, was decided upon statement of facts by the United States District Judge who tried it, aud upon a statement trom Judge Drummond, who also beard thw | case, that no evidence of wilful neglect or pur- pose to defraud was shown, and lastly ‘upon the opinions of two successive solicitors of the ‘Treasury, the decision of the last one, Major Bluford Wilson, receiving the assent of the United States Dis, trict Attorney, who had bgon engaged for several years in pressing the case against the owners; fifth, General Bristow, when he became Secretary, rejected the prop- | osition to compromise, and refused to have anyvhing | | todo with the case, because the attorneys of Trice Brothers had ventured to use bis name with the Dis- | trict Attorney as holding friendly views in regard to | their case; sixth, when in the regular course of Treas- | ury business the case was reached it went into the | hands of Assistant Secretary Conant, who was bound | by law to decide the matter upon the statement of facts presentod by the District Judge, and all this was fully set forth in the warrant of remission, from which it appeared “that forfeiture was incurred without wil- ful negligence or any intention to defraud.’” The case of the bark Mary Merritt was this:—Trice Brothers, of Hopkinsville, Ky., bought « vessel in | 1865 of a Canadian, and she was engaged in a regular and legitimate commerce of the lakes, and was never charged with smuggling. In 1869 she was seized the report of an informer that she was a foreign bottom and owned by Americaus, which prohibited her registry under our lawa. There ‘Was nothing secret about this kind of ownership, as the Trice Brothers explained their embarrassment fully to Congress a year before the seizure and asked to be allowed to take a regular register, At length seiza took place on the technical violation of law involved in the purchase of the vessel from a British subject It was in the first instance simply a case of iniormers seeking moieties, ana in the present garbled and un- fair publication of the case it is purely the work of the Milwaukee Whiskey Ring In reply to a private despatch from Solicitor Wilson Secretary Bristow tele- graphs to-night from Louisville:— 1 rer was counsel in the Mary Merritt case; only took part in argument before Secret Richardson as a triendly act for Feland and Evans. did not receive Promised or expecte My let to Evans and one to General Hamilton e: plain my connection with the case. THE CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL BOUGHTON. ‘The charges against General Boughton, Clerk of ths Military Committee, the truth of which is now under investigation by resolution of the House, are that Boughton, being Assessor of the Fourth district of ‘Texas in 1869, entered i a conspiracy with Douglass, Rhone & Co., near Tyler, Texas, to rua their distillery without paying taxes and divide the spoils between the Assessor and his assistants, named Browning, Flanna- gan and Hite, This distillery, as alleged, ran under this arrangement for some time and produced a large quantity of whiskoy, but was finally caught by Super- visor Bridgeland, When the distillers were arrested they claimed to be innocent, and said that Boughton had represented to them that this thing was done all over the country. and as he was an agent of the government they believed him. They paid $4,500 in settlement of the case a8 the amount of unpaid taxes on the whiskey manufactured. Boughton and his associates then offered $4,500 a8 a compromise, which was taken and paid into the Treasury on account as taxes due. The evidence in the case isin the Internal Revenue Department, consisting of aMdavits of three members of the firm of Douglass, Rhone & Co, ; also of the Col- lector aud Sapervisor of the Internal Revenue and Spe- cial Agent Yaryan. ‘MR. CONKLING'S VOTE ON DANA'S NOMINATION. ‘The vote for and against Mr. Dana, being given in executive session, was very inaccurately reported in some of the papers, and injustice was thus done to s number of Sepators. For instance, it was reported that Mr, Conkling voted against the confirmation of Mr. Dana, This is untrue; on the contrary, Mr. Conk- ling voted tor Dana's confirmation. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasuixotox, April ¢, 1876, CLYMER'S COMMITTEE IN PURSUIT OF KNOWI- EDGE—EXPERIENCES OF A POST TRADER— ATTORNEY GENERAL PIEREEPONT ON DETEC- TIVE BELL'S STATEMENT—TESTIMONY OF A. C, BRADLEY. ‘The Committee om War Expenditures met to-day and | said Texas. He testified that he was sutler at Fort Concho from 1867, when the post was estabished, and up io 1876; when the Secretary of War was vested with au- | thority to appoint, he came to Washington armed with recommendations for continuance at the post, and saw the Secretary of War, who told him to g6 and se Gen- eral Hedrick; be saw Hedrick and the result was that, although Hedrick was appointed in his place to the post, witness did the busines as post trader; he paid A. C Leighton, who went to Fort Concho with a letter of authority countersigned by General Belknap, Seere- | tary of War, $1,500 in greenback, and afterwards paid | to Hedrick, $1,000 through a mat! contractor named Cheney, by adraft on Northup & Chick, bankers, in New York; the agreement between witness and Leigh- ton was that he was to pay $1,500 in cash and $5,000 in ayear it the post paid; he also paid a draft for $1,000, drawn by Mr. Sawyer, a mall contractor, now Sawyer asked tor it and he paid it without asking ques- 1 | dead, and docs not know for whom it was intended; | | tions; ho also paid come $700 or $800 to General W. T. | Clark, member of Congress trom Texas; this was paid at three different timos, the frat payment being im currency at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, and the other two by drafts; he always regarded these payments a3 charity. Clark said he was ‘bard uj” and asked the money asa loan; witness did not ex- pect to get it Lack, nor had he got itback; witness said he paid $250 in currency in the barroom of the Metro- politan Hotel to Simon Woll, Recorder of Deeds, Wash- ington; Wolf was to have $2,000 if be got him tho Post, but he failed; bad seen Wolf since his return; had also paid $350 assessment for political purposes; he was also Postmaster at the time ata salary of $15 4 year, {Witness created great amusement in the committee by his peculiar movements, manner of speech and witty remarks.) told Cheney and Leighivn that he did not intend to | pay avy more. | J. Freidiander post trader at Fort Stockton, and | George Bowers, post trader at Fort Whipple, Arizona, were examined, Neither bad paid money directly or indirectly to any one for their appointment or continu- ance in office, Attorney General Pierrepont testified, that about the midddle of December last a man named C. 5 Bell sent in his persona! card to his office, and subsequontly called with a card from the President; this card is lost, mislaid, or thrown into the waste basket—it reac some- thing hike this:— The bearer wishes to might render valuable Boll then said he wanted employment in the Secret Service, and as bigh wages as were given in that ser- vice; Bell seemed to talk ina commanding way; the witness told him he woald see the President first, in the Cabinet meeting next day; in the Cabinet meeting he asked the President if he knew anything about the man; the President answered that ho had either known or heard of him during the war asa scout or detective, and that be now wanted an appointment in the Sceret Service; Bell called the next day and asked if he was to | Le employed; witness questioned him as to what ser- vices he had done heretofore; he answerea that he had been employed by the District Attorney at St. Louis because of extraordinary means he bad of getting at some papers in the possossion of Joyce; he said he left St. Louis because Dyer had not the means to pay; hesald that as soon 4s Dyer would write or telegraph that he wanted to employ him; witness would act promptly in making tho appointment and preparing the iostruc- tions; Bell came in nextday or tho day after and showed a despatch he had sent t> Dyer tothe effect that, if Dyer would employ him the Attorney General would sanction it; there was an interval of a tew days, during whieh time Bell did not call, bat in the mean- time the witness had talked with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, and found that his record in theso departments was very bad; he never knew of Sell’s existence before he first pro- sented bis card, and has never seen him since he re- fused to give him his appointment; nevther Babcock or Luckey bad spoken to him about Bell; witness said | get employment; I think ho | vice, said that the intorview Bell speaks of in his testimony | ‘was entirely imagmary, and denied evory part of | Bell’s evidence reierring to him where tt couflicted with this statement, A. C, Bradley was sworn and trstified:— Troside@4n Wasbington and know C. 8, Bell; I first met i S& Lvuis in November last, between ‘Thank: eS ane, the 29:b of Novamber; I tirst beard gu Mr. Luckey; onthe 4th ‘or No- vember General Bavcock said bho Teceived a telo- gram him to come to 8t. Louis, as his name bad been mentioned in the McDowell case; General Bal cock asked me to go there as bis counsel, and asc tain for him alll could in reiation to the matter, and if necessary send for him (o conte; | went to St. Louls, and in a few days after I got there 1 met Mr. Luckey; about,Thanksgiving Day Mr. Luckey told me he mot Mf. sell, who had been engaged, or had some relation with Avery’s matter, and that he | journed till to-morrow without coming to # conclusion had been engaged to go to Indianapolis and secure the | Hodge despatches; be said that Mr, Bell said he had the ran of the District Attorney's office, and he either offered to go there and steal all of the papers and havo them copied or remove them for the purpose of destroy- ing them; Mr. Luckey said whe proposition wad so astound! weeny and clined to say ‘anything in my presence; Mr. Luckey told him that unless he talked in my presence be woula ;I made & momorandum of some of his statemer he said be was not em- ployed by Mr. Dyer, but that he was solid with Colonel Dyer, because ho was working up a fraud perpetrated by the Gas Company ; that he was a friend of the President, aud that he desired to serve him forges he thought there was a conspiracy to drag him down; with Secretary Bristow at the head of it, to superin- duce the downfall of the President; he said that during the McDonald trial Bristow wrote to Dyer de- manding that the Washington papers be put in evi- dence so far as they related to General Babcock; Dyer be had «ob to lose, and ho thought the thing ought to be prolonged from month to moath until pear the time of the Presidential excction, When it will act better; that be heard Dyer say, “Huw will this set on their bowels?" reterring to the Babcock telegrums; he said that he had heard Henderson say that be would sce U. 3. Grant in hell before he would heip him; when Bell made these state- | ments it seemed to me perhaps there wassome truth in his statements; judging from Bell’s statement that there was @ conspiracy against G Grant and concluded to get as much informatiou from him us | could; I never authorized Bell nor any one else to bring any papers to my room at the Lindell Hotei and destroy them; Laskod bim to get all the information he could as to the wature of the evidence against Gon- eral Babcock, and to get such copies as he could; whea | 1 left St. LuuisT wid him, if he was unable to get | copies of the evidence, to send mo the substance ; so far as Luckey w_ concerned, he had notn- ing to do with Bell; before I leit Wash- ington General never authorized mo wo do anything which was tilegai or improper what ever; alter I returned to Washington | received a let- | ter trom Bell; it concluded by asking its return, a “God knows there are enough papers im existence now;” 1took a copy of it and expected to give it tw the committee to-day, but I have not received 1t; the letter tha: there was an influence conspiring, | seid that the District Attorney, in order to secure the indictment of Babcock, was using forged let- ters; also that Dyer | had been endeavoring to procure letters from Joyce; witness uc- kuowleaged the identity of a Jetwr written | by him to Bell, requesting him to come to Wash ton, and that he would be cared for, snd continued :— Bell came on, and I did not have much to do with bim aiterwards; he frequently called to borrow money, but I dia not invest in that way; I paid bim in St, Lous $10 at one time and $50 at another; General Babcock knew nothing of Beli until alter I returned to Wash- ington, a Rf teen fc aid not ask him to get copies of | papers irom District Attorney Dyer’s office? A. Ldid; he said they were laying around loose and that he could get copies easy, Q. By whom were you authorized to ask Mr, Bell to { come bere? A, Mr. Luckey said thatif he came on he inight yet an appoint he said that ho believed tuat Mr. Bell could procure a place if he came here; that he had rendered valuaole services asa scout and might obtain an appoiatment. Q What induced you to think you could get a man an appointwent in whom you had no faith? A. Weil, the government either has to or dues empluy detectives, I | puvlie debt; and ihe t ‘éeliar shail bot told Mr. Luckey, however, that I didn’t think much of them, Q Did Mr. Boll over bring you any papers at all to Jook at im St. Louis’ A. No, Q. When did you first A. When be returned Indianapolis to rest of Avery; 1 met him ¢ 2h of November. Q. When did you first conclude Bell was a rascal? A. Weil, alter be had bee: Washington awhile he Babcock had sent hin jeneral Babouck denied, order to borrow some money irom me, . Q@ What was Luckey doing in St. Louis in Novem- ber? A. As @ witness ior Colonel Avery; be was vot called as ® Witness im the Avery case because the Court made aruling which would have excluded his testimony and he went home; Bell repeatediy said to great mixtake on the part of Mr. Luckey that he reiused to atiow the evidence to be taken trom District Attorney Dyer's office. Q Where did you meet Bell when be came to Wash- A. He came to my office; | don't remember what passed between us; Luckey was in my office afew minutes when be was thero; le was passing in a car- riage and I called him in; he said at first he % have time; I have no recollection how long we were together. ew interview? A. All my inter. wa eonne ows with eu; be did all be Herd were prolonged; generally | various points, but implicating him in alleged fraudu- | es fer th h He said that whon he paid the $1,000 to Hedrick he | nuendees, reports stl p> neal ipl Abe -authorized to exchat TION THAT GENKRAL SCHENCK 18 TO BE EXCULPATED BY THE COMMITTEE-—THE QUES- TION OF INTRODUCING ADDITIONAL TESTI- MONTY. Mr. Phelps, of counsel for General Schenck, pre- sented to the House Commitiee on Foreign Affairs to- day a list of witnesses whom he desires to havo sum- moned. Mr, Hamilton suggested that no further testimony be taken concerning the history of the Emma Mine, General Schenck invited the most searching investi- gation, and insisted that the commiitee should cover the whole ground, showing all facts connected with the history, progress, ownership and sale of the mine, | the testimony against him being contradictory in lent transactions, Mr. Springer, of the committee, asked General Schenck if the committce should say that he hon- estly and in good faith acquired an interest in the mine, irrespective of any fraud that might have been committed by others, whether he would still desire a fuller investigation for the sake of others. General Schenck replied that he desired such inves- tigation for others as well as for himself. The ground he took was this—that he was neither a dupe nora ruscalL He knew he was neither, but he invested his money in the mine with a view of bettering his condi- tion. He made his investment with his eyes open. | He wished to show not only this, but that the mine is still an enormuusly valuable property, and the failure ‘was owing to the mismanagement of the company in England. He did not want to appear as a simple booby, taken in by others, and therefore desired to have the value of the mine fully established. Not one particle of the testimony of Lyon would be received fn a court of justice, That witness having indulged in gouo to the world on the wings of lightning to his prejudice, donnecting nim with an alleged fraudulent purchase and sale of the Emma mine, Mr. Hamilton, in support of his suggestion, said the investigation was ordered with reference to General Schenck alone, who had now been heard before the committee. He did not seo what the history and sale of the mine had to do with General Schenck’s inves! ment inthe stock. He understood a suit concerning the Emma mine was pending in a New York court, and that was the proper tribunal where the original vendors of the mine should be vindicated or cen- sured, Mr, Springer said a statement had been made that Mr. Day was called to testify against General Schenck; but such was not the fact, A gentleman of Illinois had written to him that Mr. Day, having been one of the original owners of the mine, could furnish 1n- formation on that subject and be was therefore sum- moned. To the first question asked of him the wituess answered that he had no knowledge of General Schenck’s connection with the mine, Mr, Banks said the way that Mr. Day was introduced | Jed him to believe that his testimony would be adverse to the Emma mine business. It was under that belief he asked Mr, Day whether he knew of any fraud? Mr. Schenck remarked that both in England and America the whole matter of the Emma mine had been spoken of as a groat swindle and scandal and his name had been connected with it in a manner to throw dark- | ness over him. Therefore everything connected with it should be made clear as tight, Mr. Phelps bricfly argued that it was necessary for the complete vindication of General Schenck that all the facts relative to the character of the mino should be given, If it was universally believed, ag alleged, that the mine was a fraud Genoral Schenck must have known it, Therefore the committee wero right in hearing testimony, and having hoard one side they should hear the other, so that ral Schenck’s vindi- cation should: beas complete and as broad as the at- tack which had been made on him,.and therefore the testimony should be allowed to proceed with a view of | showing the complete honosty and fairness of the | Emma mibe sale, ° After a conversation betwoen the members of the committee, involving Mr, Ramilton’s suggestion, the committee helda session with closed doors and ad- | us to whether they will admit the testimony proposed by General Schenck. THE SPENCER CASE—CLOSE OF THE TESTIMONY FOR THE PROSECUTION. The Committee on Priviieges and Elections of the Senate opassembling this morning, announced that they had concluded not to issue subpoenas for the three col- , ored men named by Geveral Morgan, counsel for tho | prosecution, in the Spencer case yesterday, on the | ground that the testimony, which it was proposed to elicit, woula not only be irreievant, but inadmissible. ‘The prosecution then closed their case, and A exander White, of Alabama, was called to the stand for mr. Spencer. He testified in brief, that he knew of no cor- rupt means being used tosecure Spencer's election. General Morgan began his cross-exammation of tho witness, but soon after the committee adjourned until to-morrow, THE TRANSFER OF ARMY HEADQUARTERS TO WASHINGTON—THE AMENDED ORDER OF SE RETARY TAYT. The order issued from the War Department yester- day, transferring the army headquarters from St Louis to Washington, has been amended so as 10 direct the Adjutant General and Inspector General to roport to the General of the Army. The following is the order, as amended :— Wax Dreawtet, Wasurxcton, D. C, April 6, 1876. The Adjutant Goneral will promulgate the following order for tne information and guidance of all cor cerned :- ra of the army is hereby re-establ at Washington and ail orders instructions — relati military Operations or affecting the military control and discipline ‘of the , ssnued by the President, through the Secre War, shall U® promulgated through the General of the Army, and the departments of tue Adjutant General and the Inspector Gen shall report to him and be under his control in all matters relating thereto, ALPHONSO TAFT, Secretary of War. THE SILVER CURRENCY BILL AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE, The Senate Finance Committee recommend that various important changes be made in the so calied | “Silver Currency Bill’’ of the House of Representatives and as reported from the Committee, and placed on the Senate calendar, Its provisions are as follows: — The first section appropriating $163,000 for printing and engraving United States notes during the remainder | of the current fiscal year is unaltered. A purely verbal amendment is made im the second section, which requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver coins of the denominations of ten, twenty, twenty-five and filty conts of standard value in redemp” tion of the full amount of outstanding fractional cur- | rency as rapidly as it may be presented for redemption, ‘The third and last section of the House bill which Proposes to make the silver coma of the United States of the denomination of $1 a legal tender for amounts of $50, and all tho subsi silver coins a legal tender for $25 is entirely strickem out and two new sectious ure inserted as follows :— Sxcrion %—That there shall be coined at the mints | of the United States a silver dollar of the weight of | 412 4-10 grains troy of storling silver; the embiems, | devices and inscriptions of which shall conform to | those prescribed by law for the gold ai er colus of | the United States, with such modifi # thereof as | delivery thereof the same deviations from standard weight of flaeness may be allowed as are pre- | scribed by law for the trade dollar, and tl id dollar | herein authorized shall be a legal tende! nominal value for any ing $20 iu any ono payment, except for custom dues and interest on the hereafter be a legal tender, sxc, 4 That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby silver dollars herein su. thorized for an equai amount of United States which shali be retired and cancelled and not be replaced by other notes; and he is authorized to change such nominal value, for silver bullion at its market value, to be as- certained and announced from time to by the Di- rector of the Mint, with the approval of the tary of the Treasury ; and the United States notes and frac- tonal currency redeemed under this act shall be held to be tof the sinking fund provided for by the ‘ The Chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Sherman, states that the silver dollar, whose cofnage is thus provided for, will be of the same weight and fineness as the old silver dollar, the coinage and issue of which was stopped mber of years ago, and that {ts value will bo about six per cent more than the | really | are in jail at THE LANSFORD MURDER. KILLING OF MINE BOSS JOHN P, JONES—CON= FESSION OF ONE O¥ THE MURDERERS—KELLES CONVICTED, Maveu Cavy«, April 6, 1876, The trial of Edward J. Keliey, indicted for the mar der of mine boss John P. Jones, has occupied the attention of the Carbon County Court for ten dayt past, and been listened to with great interost by large | numbers and created no little excitement among the people of this entirs community. Doyle, the accom plice of Kelley, was tried at the January term, and convicted of murder in the first degree, On the 22d of February he was sentenced to be hanged on the 23d of March. The Governor signed the death warrant, fixingaa the day of execution Tharsday, May 4, During the hear- ing of Doyle’s case Bianop Wood published his denuncias | ton of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Almost simul tancously with the appearance of that document Ker- rigan, one of the Jones murderers, communicated to the Commonwealth that he desired to make a commu- nication, and thereupon General Albright, F,, Hughes and District Attorney Sel proceeded to the jail, and tothem the following confession was voluntarily made:— KERRIGAN’S CONFESSION, “I knew John P. Jones, and know ali about his death, On the Ist of September I was at work at Alaska Col- liery, pear Tamaqua, for Mr. Richards, While on my way from work—I was on the night shift—T stopped into the place o! James Carroll, as I was in the habit of doing, and called fora drink. I there met Doyle and Kelley, whom I had never seen before, After gow ting my drink I stepped out onthe porch and Carroll followed me. When we got outside he asked me if 1 would take those two men, Kelley and Doyle, over to Alexander Campbell’s, at Storm Hill, near Ashton or Lansford, At first — declined, on the ground that I was steadily at work and that morning had to lower a piece of road | in the mine about eleven o'clock. Carroll said, “Oh, Jet the shift go to hell; it will neither make you nor break you,” and, finally, prevailed upon me to go with the men, We arranged to start for Campbeil’s early ia tho evening, and left about half-past seven o’clock, Carroll went with us as faras Freidenburgh’s Hotel, and there bade us good night, He said we must be careful ifanybody questioned us as to our business, We went along without anybody seeing us until we got tothe New York Railroad, and there met a Mrs, Griffiths, who knew me. By way of a joke I asked her if she had seen a goat, and [ thought it was a good one, We pushed on te Campbell’s, where Carroll had tola me to take the men, and got there between nine aad ten o’clock. We gave a signal and Campbell came out He had a talk with Doyle, and then told us he would put on his coat and go With us to Hugh MeGehau’s, at Summit Hill. Camp- bell and McGehan had a private talk, and then MoGehan brought out three revolvers and oiled them, Alter be bad done oiling he handed one to Doyle | and one to Kelley. Campbell handed me one, and said I must go and shoot Jones, but Tee fused, Doyie, Kelley and I remained in McGehan’s saioon all night, and it was arranged that in the morning | shoula go and point out Jones to Doyle and Kelley a8 I knew bim, because he once lived in Tamaqua. They were to ask for work and I waste point him out so that there might be no mistake about the man. Campbell and McGehan said that Jones was ‘to be put out of the way, becaase he had biack-listed some tnen and they could get no more work in the mines of the company. McGehan was one of them, and when he got a lotter trom Mr. Parrish to Mr. Zehner, the superintendent of the works, to reinstate him be was told to go away—clear out, McGeban said that if Jones was shot Zebner woula run away, aud added, ‘Yes, by Goa, and if he don’t we will give him @ ball or two after the Jones matter cools off.’ McGeban said he had been black-listed at Jeddo, The next morning we all left MoGeban’s saloon for Storm Hill, ‘e@ went down by the Catholic church and Mickey O’Lonnell’s tavern to the station; then down to the telegraph office, and then up the railroad to No. 6slope. We went the rounds that day look- ing for Jones, but conld not find bim, and thea went over to Campbell’s in the evening [ wanted to go home, but Campbell would not fet me, aud I stayed all night Campbell suggested to shont Jones at his house or as he was coming fromthe Post Office, and Doyle and Koliey started over to Jones’ house, While they were gone Campbell made me go down on my knees and sweat that I would never speak about the matter drunk oF sober. Campbell then told me to go out and see where Doyle and Kelley were. 1 saw them near Mickey O’Donnell’s, and Kelley said he had been to Jones’ house but he was not at home, and we all went back to Campbell’s for the night. Campbell told Keliey to shoot Jones early in the morning as he was going to work and not let hun go.with ome ball, bat give bim two rr Foaieal Roles had some Gaateie Dorie istol; some of the cartri were too yie ad the large pistol and ‘oily. Kerri ‘was not present at the killing, and the de- tails of his movements, after he lett Campbeli’s, so as 1d meet the murderers in Tamaqua, are not important’ or of material interest. He merely reiated how he renched Tamaqaa, and tells of the arrest of his com- anions of the two days previous, His account of th¢ jolly Maguires, the instigators of the many berrid murders perpetrated in the cual regions, is truly stare ling, however. . It is as fotlows:— ORIGIN OF THE MOLLIES, “Some years ago Alexander Campbell kept the same saloon thapis now kept by James Carroll, in Tamaqua. lx that house, when Campbell kept it, I first joined the society known as the Ancient Order of Hiberniang, ‘That is the Order of Molly Maguires, and nothing else, 1 was introduced into it by a man trom Tuscarora, ¢ man named John Donohue. The first taste | got of my new Order was when Barney O'Hare was burned | out. The men who did that were sent out by Alexan- der Campbeil, who was paid for sending them out by man named Slatiering. I knew he sent them, for was in Campbell's place when they wont, and the nex & morning the place was burned. ‘The purposes of the “Molly Magaires,”’ or 4. 0. H, is to kill people, beat them and buru down their houses. The notion is given out that it is to protect workimgmen, but they are all of the must hardened villains in the places where they re- side, The charter of the Molly Maguires calls for the Ancient Order of Hibernians, but the murders and, Olver uppoimtments are seldom maue at the regular meetings, but at special meetings called outside for tne purpoee, The regular meeting minutes aro kept just the same as those cf any other oem ‘vut the appoint ments are rade and carried out. If any one wants & eng thing done he goes to the head man of the ranch, known as president or body master, and he calls a mecting. Two or three men are usually ap- pointed to do such work. It is the At cient Order of Hibernians who do it f ought to know, for I belong to them, and they have made me trouble enough. Most of tne body masters are hotel keepers and keepers, and manage to get all the poor men’s money for bud whiskey, and then send them out to burn houses, beat men andcommit murder. Jeremiah Kane was body master at Mount Lafiee, (Whence Doyle is known to have come September 1, two days preceding the murder of Joncs—Cor.] James Carrot! was body master at Tanoagua and Alexander Campbell was body muster at Ashton when Joncs was killed. No money was me lor taking Doyle and Kelley over to Lansford; thi was one of my duties as a Molly when commanded by @ body master, and I went by order of James Carroll. '? Such 18 the gist of the confession of the man now in prison, and he further asserted that McGehan was une o( the men who helped kill Policeman Yost, in Tann- agua, Inst July. Yost had beaten a Molly Maguire at & picnic, and the body master at Summit Hill directed McGehan to go and aid in eer him out of the way, For that job MeGehan demanded the death of Jones, who had blacklisted him, and Doyle and Kelley were sent over from Mount Laffee to commit the deed. The iurders iu the coal fields have always been done by men from distant localities, so that they might not be #0 readily recog and the revelations made by Kerrigan in r to the Yost and Jones murder show how this system of the Molly Maguires bas been | carried out, Kerrigan explains his absence from the scene of the Jones murder in this way:—“l didn’t want to have anything to do with the affair, 20 on the morning that Jones was killed I slipped out of Campvell’s about three o’clock aud walked down to near dalle Col. hery, where I sent to sleep in the brush, and slept till near nino o'clock. Soon after { left there | met a boy and asked him for a match to ight the stamp of = cigar. Then I went on home and was arrested soon after my arrival,” Kerrigan is a small-sized man, cunning an a fox, but he sold his story in a straightforward manner, and ia the most minute details of his statement as to the | movements ot the trio while at Lansford be bas beea fully corroborated by a cloud of witnesses called by the Commonwealth. Ho is retained as a witness against Campbdeli in this county, and m the caso of tne Com- monwealth agai rroll, Me ata Duffy, who Pottsville, charged with the murder of Policeman Yost. KELLRY CONVICTED. Hon, Frank Hughes closed hw argument sor the Commonwealth in Kelley’s case last evening, and dur. ing his plea he made a most telli ment of the orgamzation of which the young man is knows to have been umembor. At the close of his remarka the court ad; ed Ui this morning, when Judge har charged the ju most impressive manner. ‘The case wus given to the jury at forty-five minutes Past ton to-day, and at a quarter past one o’clock @ ‘Verdict was rendered of murder in the Grst degree, Mr. Kalbius, on tho part of the defence, moved thas the jury be polled, and each juror, as bis name w: called, uttered the words which consigned Taward Kelley to the scaffold. MOTION POR ARREST OF JUDGMENT, Mr. Kalbfus then filed « motion for arrest of judge ihe followii nds — @ new trial upon t ~ rer the inst the evidence, ‘that the value of two of the present haif dollars. A MAD DOG. Yesterday afternoon two children, named James Rannay and Maria Gallaghor, aged respectively mne and six while img in Stuyvesant Park were ban bh oman cog 2 2 kaimel was not tepvured, alone Kelley did not exhibit the sightest feoli the solemn scenes of this morning, Yenrs, it is evident that bis nerves are splays more bardibood than Dayle