Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The trader post scandal involved Secretary of War William W. Belknap who received quarterly kickback payments derived from an illicit Fort Sill tradership contract between Caleb P. Marsh and sutler John S. Evans. In 1870, Sec. Belknap lobbied Congress, and on July 15 of that year was granted the sole power to appoint and license sutlers with ownership rights to highly lucrative "traderships" at U.S. military forts on the Western frontier.. }
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- Trader_post_scandal_(1876) comment "The trader post scandal involved Secretary of War William W. Belknap who received quarterly kickback payments derived from an illicit Fort Sill tradership contract between Caleb P. Marsh and sutler John S. Evans. In 1870, Sec. Belknap lobbied Congress, and on July 15 of that year was granted the sole power to appoint and license sutlers with ownership rights to highly lucrative "traderships" at U.S. military forts on the Western frontier.".