Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Before the Investigating Committee. [ARTICLE]

Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Before the Investigating Committee.

Wachihgtov, March 21. Mrs. C. P. Msrsb, who arrived this morning, came into the room of the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department to-day, accompanied by her Husband. She was swan* as a witness, and under the examination ot Mr. Danford, testified that she left Cincinnati in 1885, ■where she had formerly resided, and has lived in New York most of the time since that year. She had known Mrs. Bowers, | {now Mrs. Belknap), since lfcfiO, and had | been At the same hotel with Jut Id Cincin- 1

anti for four years. Cincinnati was her home, ami she visited that city twice a year, staying than two or mdre weeks. She met Mrs. Bower* in New York, where Mr*. Bowen win her guest. Mrs. Bowers w%s a widow at the time the, witness commenced housekeeping in Now York, in Ihe summer of 1871. She, went

to Europe, in company with Mrs. Bowers, the last of June, 1873, and knew Mr. Pendleton's name was on the - list of passengers. The witness was naked whether •he had any conversation “ &t~ any time - , with Mrs. Bowers, now Mrs. Belknap, relative to her interest in too Kentucky Central Railroad claim? The answer was:’ ** Two or three weeks ago, at the Arlington Hotel.” At that time the witness asked Mrs. Belknap whether she had ever received any money on account ot toe claim. The witness told her she had heard that she received 970,000. Mrs, Belknap replied: “The claim was for only SIO,OOO, and how could I receive 9~0,000?” During that conversation, Mrs. Bclkfmp was in a state of excitement and distress. Mrs. Belknap was a friend ot hers, and the witness felt much interest in her account. She had simply mentioned to Mrs. Belknap an idle rumor. Sire had always talked to Mrs. Belknap as she would to her sister. She had

heard rumors for over a year. She re. latod to Gen. Kiddoo the conversation between her and Mrs. Belknap. She did not know of Mr. ’ Pendleton’s paying money to Mrs. Belknap on account of the Kentucky Railroad claim, or of making her presents. She never heard the Secretary of War say anything about the contract between her husband and Evans. On her cross examination by Mr, Robbins, the witness said that she understood Mrs. Belknap as denying that she received anything, and meant to convey that impression. In response to a question by Mr. Clymer, the witness said that she saw Clymer but once, and that was three weeks ago. it was at toe breakfast table at the Arlington Hotel; her husband presented her to Clymer. Their short conversation had no reference to coming before the committee. Mr. Marsh was recalled and testified to the effect that Mr. Clymer had told him, ,on.toe.occasion of his former evidence, that there was no danger to him (witness), as he could not be sent to prison for anything he had said before the committee. Witness went to New York feeling easy; but when, on Friday morning, he read the remarks in the House, that the Secretary of War was not only liable to imfeachmeat. but toa criminal prosecution, e thought he (witness) was in danger as well, and hence his trip to Canada. Mrs. Marsh, being interrogated as to why she went to Montreal, said that she saw in a morning paper that her husband j had jumped off the train. She followed the next morning, fearful that he had been injured. .