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...Corey misled your reviewer. Morgan never filed any bill with anyone, or made any claim against the Government. No committee, commission or court ever said that he did. In the ordinary course of business Morgan advanced to Simon Stevens money enough to make a payment to Arthur M. Eastman for the 5,000 Hall carbines (smoothbore) which Stevens had bought from Eastman and sold to General John C. Fremont under contract to have them changed from smoothbores to rifles before delivery. On August 7, 1861, Morgan loaned him $20,000. Stevens, in accordance with usual banking practice, assigned to Morgan...
...Satterlee . . . says that Eastman sold the carbines to Stevens and that Stevens gave them as collateral for a $20.000 loan from Morgan. But Eastman could not sell the carbines and Stevens could not give them as collateral because the carbines were still Government property. In making the "sale" to General Fremont, Stevens "sold" to the Government its own property at $22 per carbine which he afterward bought from the Government at $3.50. Only after the "sale" was the purchase made, Morgan buying the carbines in Eastman's name with a payment of $17,486 (Senate Executive Documents...
Album of American Music for Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Conductor Hanson's anthology (mostly of familiar items by Chadwick, MacDowell, et al.) is chiefly remarkable for the first recording of a shimmering little impressionistic piece, Night Soliloquy by a 26-year-old Michigan composer named Kent Wheeler Kennan...
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