Show BY TELEGRAPH na T UMON WOOK az X az A AMERICAN M E R I 1 C A washington 9 A new york tribune reporter found thomas al nicol at a hotel yesterday and asked J ja I 1 his ale views s on the prevailing topic of political interest the contest between senator conkling and the president and particularly on the presidents entys entla action in withdrawing the new york appointments N nicol leol said the president did not make the ft quarrel he had a right to make appointments the quarrel is made by those who oppose the president in a it quarrelsome spirit and manner 1 general garfield is not a quarrel so some bome man he is the very opposite senator conkling has quarreled with more of his hia associates than any other man in public life look over th the e list of public men that conkling conking has either quarreled with or p publicly and contemptuously sneer sed at blaine bherman sherman hayes schurz evarts foster fenton curtis hoar burnside bayard ia la mar and many others othere besides whose ilfe life of such noto notorious rigus lne Ine insolence olence 1 and disregard of the common court lles lies esies asies of a gentleman as no other w man was ever tolerated in and he will not be tolerated in much longer you do not seem to be an admirer of conkling noy nos no sir I 1 am not an admirer of any bully or tyrant here nicol paused and said now I 1 have said harsh things such things as never ought to be said unless they can be fully sustained and northen not then t unless there ia is great provocation to J justify them but for one I 1 am hear tily ally tired of the strange deference w paid to this mans place and conduct in public life he is a vicious un certain disagreeable disturbing element of doubt always for por nearly 11 three months last summer nobody knew whether he was going to sup port the republican ticket or not he left chicago without speaking g to general garfield of his nomination and when garfield visited washington and happened to ask carl schurz to ride a few blocks with him when t they were both going on an errand in the same direction conkling began talking about it as though it had been an act of high treason he did not answer a respectful note that garfield had addressed him because he dewent went out riding with that professional pro fess ional foreigner now his friends k magnify what lie he did in the thecae ca M aign and tell us that if lie he s t helped helped garfield could i not have been elected and he ia is en entitled titled to have his wishes regarded he carried the y country etc that is he ought to bo be thanked and paid for not being treacherous after he considered the matter three months and concluded it would not pay why dont somebody say that blaine or sherman bherman is t entitled to special favors because they were not treacherous or general logan or mr air schurz and yet con Oon kling and his friends talk about y perfidy do you wish to be understood as a saying that conkling contemplated x treachery in the campaign I 1 do wish to be understood as saying assaying I 1 be pi oleve that very thing and I 1 believe it T on evidence too does garfield believe so I 1 do not it t know that and I 1 do not pretend to f 1 speak 10 ak for him but he knows all the facts flits to which I 1 have alluded and I 1 suspect lie appreciates them of one thing said nicol in conclusion bion blon I 1 lam iam am very certain the people of other parts of the country are yf heartily tired of these incessant bicke bieke rings about new york affairs v andoe and of the fact that needful legislation for the whole country should be made to wait walt on them and pretty soon they will place the seat of their displeasure so emphatically on the ILTIS man who introduces his own inter ests eats and selfishness in the way of public business and interests that though he were made of brass he will step steps down andou abdou and out t from the position of leader of the republican party pait IN it is tinder understood stood that lamar fa bored vor edthe the confirmation of stanley matthews the rest of the tho com gom cittee logan ingalls mcmillan davis da vis vib and bayard opposed it conkling and garland were absent no a action bas was was taken on pardee the object of kelloggs day was to ascertain what states have over their quota of the appointments and which less senator brown recently claiming that the south had very few it is stated that thousands of southern republicans have written demanding re cool cognition of thu tho south if browns acts are correct r it is stated that louisiana has 22 appointments in the departments of whom 11 were never in that state ft kellogg will insist on abote a vote tomor to mor row the commissioner of internal revenue estimates the receipts will aggregate gre gate this year about more than last year the increase is due to the increased production of cigars and cigarettes the senate committee on foreign affairs authorize its chairman to report back to the morrow morro with the recommend recommendation atlon ailon that it t be adopted without amendment the resolution recently reported by senator morgan the same introduced by senator eaton in the last congress asserting assert mg the right of the united states governments government as a measure looking to the interests and general welfare of its people to assert asbert its right to dictate on what co conditions 71 the panama or other canal can be built bulit on khe the the tho american continent indications are arih that the republican caucus will be spirited if not stormy senator ferry says he does not consider it worth while to answer any speeches of the democrats in reply to his bis the administration had nothing to do with that speech he be alone was responsible for his sentiments gen hawley denies deales that he had a row with conkling dawes says bays so far from being dissatisfied leadership the president has urged him to remain Conkli conkling Dg and davis had a long jong conference today to day DENVER 8 the tribune says yesterday it was discovered that proceedings had begun in the district court of Arah apoe county a against senator dorsey for moneys promised the plaintiff for services rendered in procuring petitions as creating interest among the people etc in order to increase the mail facilities of certain portions of oregon the bringing of the suit here came about as follows some months ago go a law firm here received from an at attorney forney at portland oregon a claim for collection against dorsey the claimant is a well known politician of portland whose name the 7 tribune abune does not state the latter had bad a number of letters written by dorsey promising him so much per day for services and giving minute directions how bow to proceed to get petitions tit ions make contracts etc these letters with the claim were placed in the hands of denver attorney 4 i and last winter when dorsey came to Den denver verto to look after mining interests te he was visited by the attorney and a bundle of letters alleged to nave have been briten I 1 ten by him was shown him in bupp support of the claim dorsey pronounced the claim a fraud and denounced the claimant as a blackmailer proceedings were immediately begun in the district court dorsey instructed his counsel to enter a demurrer on the ground that these contracts were illegal since then matters have remained instate in statu quo one letter is dated washington april 1879 i and says the correspondent wants him to go to eugene city and procure all the petitions om possible for an increase of mail service from eugene city to bridge creek cree k to a daily instead of a weekly also to have the time made faster the letter continues 1 I want ten or a dozen on this route and also get people to write the postmaster general and their senators we want prominent democrats to write to slater and groyer urging them to see the increase la Is made 11 the correspondent entis is further directed to get tenor ten or twelve dif dil different petitions on each route I 1 a large number of letters written to the postmaster Post moster general and senators and be sure all ask for a daily and fast line get the state officers and chamber of commerce at portland to write 1 twill I will pay your expenses while gone and 5 per day if you have not means I 1 will telegraph you sufficient the second letter written four days later states that contracts con cou tracts are enclosed for the route from bridge creek to eugene city then under con contract tract for one trip a week and says if the tho schedule time is changed a new contract will have to be made and continues the best we can do and there must be a guarantee bond for the fulfillment of the contract is per annum for three threet trips weekly time hours which isalow is slow siow walking time the writer further says make alake the contract thus ihus three trips weekly per annum six trips beekly seven tri trl trips 1 the contract to run until july uly uis 1882 and not be filed in washington he says further that he must have a deiv new contract for the route from lookingglass to coquille 12 make the contract for the latter route as follows for three trips 2500 you may go to for six trips for sever seven trips no contract to be binding upon us but upon them until approved by 31 C riddle biddle agent here mr sir fink has filed his contract I 1 don Twant it filed I 1 will pay him monthly if he wants but dont doat want my contract contracts s on nile file here the letter closes by exhorting the correspondent to send peti petit tons lons etc by the cartload to hims himE himself eif elf slater and assistant postmaster brady another letter of the same date relating to a washington territory contract is published these letters wili will be produced in court as evidence evidene to support the claim new york j 8 the times tomor to mor row will print thel the first of a series of articles from wasia WaslA washington ington concerning the star route contracts the opening dispatch is jn in a great measure directed to a history of various routes and the means used to have pay for transporting mails malls over them increased the beginning of the story is suggestive and is as follows the time will come when the rings which have plundered the treasury of the united states by mean of contracts for carrying malls mails will take their place in the history and estimation of the american people by the side of the most infamous organizations izat ions of their kind that time is nearly at hand the tweed ring of new york and the canal ring of new york have passed beyond the period lod iod of denial explanation and attempted defense and their dishonesty and corruption are facts as firmly established in history as events of the war of the revolution the sparser vice r rings ings are still in existence but their condition resembles that of a snake that has lost its ita head and is seeking to replace it the head beao is gone but there is tremendous energy and power in the body nevertheless th eless without a head bead izat ions lons must die it is a great struggle in which these rings rings are engaged tho the influence ext extends eds in into Ir almost every eveny direction their agents are numerous in both hoth loth great political parties their operations have been interwoven with great poll poil political undertakings their strength can be understood only by those who have sought for evidence of their corruption coard bioti and seen the efforts which which they have put forth in their own defense there are intelligent persons who predict that they will win this their greatest battle as they have won battles before the people will make the fulfillment fulfilment of ta this is prediction impossible as soon as they plainly understand the manner in which they havn have been robbed to the people the facts must be shown for with them lies the enduring remedy through th their air I 1 depre senta benta tives in congress in the past the people and their representatives have id re innocently been a bulwark for the protection of these rings any attempt to lay bare the accumulation of wickedness has been denounced as an ari attack upon the energetic pioneers of our guo gro glowing west and southwest and the honest influence of these people has been sufficient to bring the scale in favor of persons who were robbing them under pretence predence pre tence of a bran new n w policy j liy forthe for the thorough thor pugh of intelligence in last annual report of the postmaster general mr maynard then holding I 1 that office thero there wa the following assertion the general public cares only obly to know that its correspondence is conveyed to its destination wili wil i dainty celerity and cecur ifyu and pays little attention to the methods lays by y which these ends are attai attal attained nedY this is true and in this truth may be been seen been seen the safety of the the people determine to pay some attention te to these methods thum them then thin the rings will be at an amend end new york 9 the rimes times hasa has a page and a half of star route exposure there is a group of routes in oregon which will receive careful attention Qu extracts extract from official re cords and gressional cou congre documents shed ahod br bright ight light upon th them em houi foul have been chosen for the purpose of this examination for three of these the contractor is 1 J E peck of the firm of dorsey miner briner peck and the fourth is in the hand hind of I 1 J W dorsey dorey so far as the records eari cari show after the official history of these routes has been given there will be added some interesting mony the annual pay on these four routes was raised from to as follows eoute route 1 no to from dalles to baker city raised from to the contract was awarded to john M peck of the dorsey combination on march 1878 the fourth contract was transferred to H M vail another contract contractor oc identified with the dorsey interest in and d the route at once began to undergo de government lins hns paid thus far to contractors since bince july lat 1878 although the tiie route was wai bailet let at per year there were petitions of coure coune cour coun e upon which to base the action that va vaa was wag a taken by brady the most earnest advocate st of the increase and eirp expedition edition was senator mitchell mite heil of nand one or two petitions were endorsed by senator slater it was shown that the net annual reve revenue nue of the aate offices was only 1123 but in spite of this the number of trips was increased and the running time reduced at an annual expense of route from eugene city to bridge creek was raised from 2468 to the contract was awarded to J M peck and sublet sub let to P J for 2700 the subcontract sub con cou contract tract is one of the pew few on the line which shows that it receives only leaving more than annual profit to contractors by means of this sub con tract the department dont donst know how bow much the service really costs government has paid the contractor about on this route up to date in less than three years route from canson carson city to fort mcdermott was let in 77 for 2888 to J M reck peck k and n d ra raised 1 s e d to the route was turned over to EL M vail during the two years and ten months of the contract term which passed government ment has paid the contractor about the fourth route of the 1 oregon group is from dalles to lake rake view this toute route also belonged to the dorsey donsey combination but peck did not bid for it the duty was vas assigned to td J W dorsey brother of the ex senator the annual pay for this route was raised from to th th the a papers show that at first an attempt was made by means of petitions and recommendations to secure an addition of one trip but very soon nothing less than six trim trips and reduced time would suffice at times there were many complaints about the thi e poor performance or noli noll perform ance of the bervice |