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Show TELEGRAPHIC A XHCF.T I, AMY. Ta It ' it la nul Itoiift t or Hon Himm Atlta Uvcuuie I'cnalou Aicrnl, WitahiiiKton, 8. Miu Ailu C. Sweot. punuion at'ont at Chiciitjo, lun-tiliisl lun-tiliisl bufore the coinmiUeu toclmrncn of paying inoiuj for her piiion uh penaion nnunt. Hue ttwlificd thai aliu was au applitutnt for tho position, mid in conaidynition of recoiviiiR the nppoiuLmoul uKretd lo pay David Ulaltfily, peiiflion aunt, U)0, and wm directed by him to puy tlio niomy over lo li. 11. Ctnipl.cli, tliun us i,ow, UiiiU-d SluluK inamtiiill lor that di- trit!l. When aliu imil paul thft uin nf $-,UH), hu iiolili.'d bUtt-ly and Cauipbull tlmt alio tuul purlormi-tl lir part of the contract, but Campbell told bur that wan not correct, that he had a mile aainat Ulakely for $.,000, and alio waa to pay the whole of lliat nolo. Witncas stated that Campbell wrb Haboock's fatlier-in-law. CotiBiderahle correnpondt'nee piuwetl between nil tho parties on th.-subject. th.-subject. lilakely was also a do-fan do-fan Iter in tho sum o( $:i,000. When lie turned tho olliee ovr to Mihh Sweel he let h r have fi.OOO and in tu. eti her to kivo liiui a receipt for $40,100 Lo COVEft UP HIS DEFICIT, and promised lo attend to it in a lew weeks, lie did not do ho, nud wbep the otlico was visited byau oflicial (nun the pension ofGco, and Miss Swet told him the wholo story, the ationt told her he would dch.v n examination of her oflice until he wag on his return trip, so as to allow some further time for paying this deficit. de-ficit. One day after the Minnesota election, General J. if. U.iker of Missouri, commiasioner of pension, aud Blakely, came into her otliin and demanded that the amount of the $3,000 detiuit should re paid that day, and charged it upon her as her cwu deficit. Sue went to Campbell Camp-bell and between them tho amount v raiaed. C:niphuU iave her a note fur alwiit $1,810, which she indorsed in-dorsed and KOt discounted aud she laised the balance ot $3,000. Iu this way the dt licit was made up on that occasion. Blakely and Commisaioner Baker were great friends, and liaker knew of tho arrangement which Bhe mado with Blakely. When the president found out that Bhe w&s paying out money lor ber appointment, appoint-ment, bo notified her that a continuance con-tinuance of it would bo a sutlicient CiOSE FOR HER REMOVAL. This was after she bad paid the :3,000. She had paid out so much on that account that so far she had , received no benefit from her appointment appoint-ment as pension agent; but had run into debt, and was still behind about $2,U00. Baker is now surveyor general for Minnesota, and Blakely w publishing a pancr somewhere in that vicinity. Adjourned tint i Saturday |