Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur sent to the Senate the names of the Civil Service Commissioners, as follows: Dorman A Eaton, of New York; John M. Gregory, of Illinois; and Leroy D. Thoman, of Ohio In the star-route trial at Washington, Feb. 21, the defense attempted to offset the confession of BerdeH by quoting from affidavits made by him last July, in which he furnished Dorsey and Brady with a clean bill of health. The witness declared that he made the affidavits under duress, Dorsey having threatened to prosecute him for perjury and to expose his relations with certain women if he declined to sign what Dorsey had prepared. The witness brought in the name of Congressman Belford, of Colorado, as the recipient of one of the star-route checks, but the insinuation was indignantly repelled by Mr. Belford in an interview had later.