Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1876, Page 1

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Interesting Correspondence De- tween the Ex-Secretary and Solicitor. Col. Matthews' Denial of the Thieves'«Organ Canard. BEOIND TIIE SCENES. LONG-FELT CURIOSITY AT LAST PARTIALLY GRATIFIED. Bpectal Dispatch to The Tridune. WasnmvaToN, D, C., July 28.—The testimony of Mnj. Bluford Wilson, ex-Bollcitor of the Treasury, this afternoon, was of the most son- sational and startling character. It was sup- ported thoughout in the most of its important points by original lotters to and from the prin- cipal partles concerned. The evidence s llkely 1o attract a good deal of attentlon, and muy do somethiog to prolong the sossfon of Congress. Mr. Wilson {8 not yet discharged, and his cross- examination, if ono is attempted, will, it is suid, olicit further pecullar facts. Amongother things, [t Is sald that thero arc many papers which could be produced tending to ahow thnt somo important female persouages bnd relatioms more or less intimate with the Whisky Ring. The following {s the bricfeat outline of Wilson's testimony : TNR DARNARD LETTER. Regarding the Barnard letter (with the In- dorsement: * Let no guilty man escape, If it can be avolded"), Wilson stated that, in the body of the letter, or in the nccompanying pa- per, It was made to appear that Emory Foster, of Bt. Loufs, had stated that President Grant himself was charged with belng o party to the Whisky Ring in 8t. Louts. Wilson had no doubt that tho President made this fa- mous Indorsement a8 much on account of thls charge ngafnst imecl! ns for the fact that Babeock and Casey had been accused of complicity with the Whisky Rine. The Pres- fdent willingly consented to tho publication of the Barnard lotter. Wilson proved this bya letter from the Sccretary of the Treasury to limself dated Aug. 7. DILBTOW'S DETERMINATION. The first important Jetter from Bristow to Wilson 18 dated New York, Aug. 9, 1875, ' The fmportant portlon of this letter is in outline this: i The time fa near at hand when I must mako a squaro ixsuo with the thievea and_scoundrols who have cambined to destruy ms, You cannot bo too carcful about talking with anybody, ‘Fhe matter about the **Bylpli** dispaten, and’ the fact of tho talk with Piercopont, Is known to P. and B, (Pur- ter and Dabcock) and bas greatly disturbed them. I suppose Imust make up my ‘mind tobear the abuse of the Iting papers, hard ne itis. They nre Aghting to keep their frionds out of prison, and will not hesitato to destroy auybody who standy in thu wuay, As for myaclf, cannot turn back or stopto pariey with the thieves. I huve no other ambition to_scrve, no other purposa to accomplish, than to enforco the laws and sccura the honeat collection of the revenue, 1 will com- promiso with nothing short of this, and upon this sanio [ am witling to bo sacrificed any doy. P, 8,—Ark Wobster to writo the Fresident about tho Chicago Customn-lfoude nnd the Whisky Ring. 1o kias great confidency in Webster, and it will ro. quire thy utinost watchfulnces of his ros] friends to prevent him from being misled. Toll Webstor to wrlto strongly, and tell the truth, T CREATION OF THH MILITARY COURT in Chicago was consdered by Bristow and Wii- son as an indication that the President had de- cided that the prosecution should fail, Wilson heard nothing of the charge that he had placed spies on tho President’s track until Babeock was Indicted, Then the Presfdent ex- pressed himaell openly against Henderson and Dyor. Henderson was dismissed in spite of Wilson's written protest to the Secrctary of the Treasury. Judge Treat and Eaton had both de- clared that Henderson und Dyer ineant no of- fense to the President by their specches. Henderson, on the coutrary, led gone ont of the way to defend the President. Wilson considered the dismissal of Ilenderson o fatal blow to tho futther succesaful prosecution of Babeock’s case, JASPER D, WARD, Wilson regarded tho Fresident's perslstent refusal {o remove District-Attorucy Ward, of Chicago, as another evidenca that he took lit- tic interest fu the prosecution. The President was {uformed on Dee. 8, 1875, by Burton C. Cook, of Chicago, that Ward was a partner In Powell's distillery, and had fmproper relations with Jacob Rehun. The Presldent told Cook that he would remove Wurd immediately, and ssked Webster to namo his successor at onco, LOGAN, 7 Wilson read from a note lio hiad written Bris- tow in which he etated that It was tho general Lullet that Logun's illncss was attributabls to sheer fright. AN LIONEST MAN'S AMAZEMENT, Wilson produced & letter from Gen, J, D, Webster, of Chleago, to himselfy dated Dec. 20, 1673, fn which Webstor sald Do you not begin to rub your eyes and inquire whotew you oro awake? Whether wa ure awake, and whothior wé areall not fuvolved in xome bad Iing? Wus there ovor such scandalous lying and plotitng? s tnot the wost remarkable fght of the century? fs thero suy key to it except tnat the banded corruptionists of all clasecs L] mmoning all tholr forces, and placing thols reltance on unparallcled audacity of vituporation 1y duvised sccusationa? Is it poasiblo that Habcock las willingly countenanced an attack upon Bristow while ha confcases hiv own lnfomy? What other explanation la thero for the Jnfers Oceans nttacky § expect tho ling hiave control of the Inler-Ocean,” 'Thoy want an English orgun lu tho Jater-Ucean 'as they nalready have s Germun organ in the Staa/s-Zefung, . ALOUS HUSSELL. ‘Websterrefers to the report that Russcll, while 1a Washington, attempted to blackmailboth the Secretary of War and the Bceretary of the Treasury; ssks Wilson §f tho report is true; sald he warned Dexter and Ayer to have no conference with 1im, but to talk only with Treat and Smith; did pot bellove that Rus- sell was such & graceless scanp; thinks this out- burst of mulies of the Luter-Ocean will overshoot Jts mask; belloyea that 1t will fall to mako 3 breach between the President and Bristow, Lut will only serve more thoroughly to unite them for a rald on the Whisky Ring. FARWELL. ‘Wileon, under date of Dec. 15, 1575, writes to the Prezident from Bt, Louls, denylag that he engaged persons to convict Farwell. BELL. Wilson warned the President and the Attor- ney-General from using C. 8, Bell. The Presi- dent had practically engiged him to work inde- pendently of the prosecuting ofllcers In St. Louls. Wilson defeated this, On Christmas Day, 185, the President charged Wilson with attempting to indlet ORVILLE GRANT AND PHED GRANT. In the course of the conversation, the Presi- dent fnformed Wilson of his bellet in Babeock’s entire Innocence, and denounced Henderson and Dyer for refusing to send original documents to’ tbe military court. ANOTIIER TIOT PARLEY. June 26, 1876, Wiison was Invited to n conforence at the Whitc-House. The Presl- dent protested agoinst receiving the tes- timony of accomplices, He sald there ‘was altogetlier too much of that thing, The President referrod to the case of Roddis, o Mil- waukee (iauger, who bad been nolle prossed. ‘The President asked Wilson ALL ABOUT EVEREST —bis return from Rurope; whers he swos; whether Lie was to be granted immunity; what 4 it was expected*to prove by himn; and what he knew about sending a letter to Babeock by Joyce contalnlng £500. Wilson eald Everest had not been promised imimnunity. The President sald: *Major, when I said ‘Let no puflty man cacape,’ I meunt it, but not that njne should esenpe and one bo convlcted.” Wilson replied: 4 Mr. President, we are not counting hicads; we are trylng to break up unlawful combinations agajust the revenue, and to discover those who organized It, and I kuow no other way to do thiy cxcept by gettiug nside of the Ring." Sccretary Chandler was present. In the room during this interview. Wilson offered to satisfy the Presi- dent further. Tho President replied that it was not worth while—there was TOO MUCH OF IT. Supervisor Futton had been therc that day, fresh from Chleago, Influencing the Pres- fdent. Wilson sent Bristow to the Presi- dent with documnents to counteract Sut- ton's representations. Bristow dld so. Wilson then produced liis instructions as to the usc of Informera comprehended in the dispatch to Tuttonin Chicago Jan. 14, 1875, published some time afterwards. The President then ex- pressed himself satlsficd with the conduct of Wilson and Bristow. Babcock subsequently came to Wilson, showing that he had complete knowlodge of tho entirs. couversation between ‘Wilson und the President about Evereate WILSON COMPLAINED TO BHRISTOW that all information given the President about Babeocli's case was linmedlately conveyed to Babeock, and asked what right Babeock had more than any other accused person to a knowl- edgo of the case against hlm, k Jun, 10, in nu interview with Attorney-General® Pierrepont, the latter ucknowledged to Wilson that tire cireulur-letter of Instructions to United States District Attarneys relative to the teati- mony of accomplices was wrilten AT THE DIRECTION OF THI PRESIDENT, This was to have been kept secrot, sud was not to have been juterpreted as it read, but Storrs, Babeock’s counsel, obtuined it'and gave it to the Chicago Timer. Upon the publication of this lotter Wilson told Dristow that the pro- found crisls fn the coutest with the thieves had come—that It was evident that the President meant to bring about n confifet and & chaoge of polfcy. Wilzon told. Sccretary Bris- tow that hie must take immeditie stops to have an understouding with the President and -At- tornoy-tieneral. Bristow did so. Wilson de- clincd to state what those steps were. Dyer told Wilson that Plerrepont Informed him that the circular-lotter was written by or- der of the Presldent hiinsclf. THUE RESULT OF LSING TillS CIROULAR-LETTER wus that Bristow, Feb, 16, decided to leave the Cabluet, The personal relations between himself and the President werealmostt Fakenoff. Bris- tow and Wilson botl learned from many sources that the President had determined, at the closo of the Babeock trial, to dismnlss them both. Ong of thess sourves was Qen. J. D. Webster, of Chicsgo, whose letter upon that subject Wilson read. The letter was dated Chleago, Feb. 16, WERSTER LEARNED OF GEN, MURLBUT, then [n the West, that Bristow was to bo re. moved at the termination of the Babcock trial. Webster had the same story also voucted for from Logan, and from Foster, of Ohio, Web- ster, in the sume letter, also stated that e hiad heard that the Jiter-Ocran was about to have fts entire policy changed, except on the flnance question, This letter contains expressions of the strongest friendship for Wilson and Bristow, Stinitar information come to Witson through J. nf Henderson und others, Bristow and Wilson then BOTIl PREPARED THEIR RESIGNATIONS, This was Feb, 24, the day Babeock was nc- qulitted. eh, 27, three days later, ovidence wns placed fn the Trrestdent’s hauds showing that Gen, Babeock and Horpce Porter lost $40,000 in the Black Friday Gould conspiracy, through day Couke & Co.; that Asa Birn Gardi- ner, President of tha Chicago Militury Court, wus Trusieu to adjust thelr loases; ‘that the presentation of these facts to the President was THI: KEAL CAUBE OF BANCOCK'S IEMOVAL, and that the President, having determined to remove Babeock for tils cause, beeame recon- clled to Bristow und Wilson. Question by Mr, Plalsted—8tate more fully what tho relations of this were to the retentioin of Mr. Bristow {n the Cabinet, Mr. Wilson—Becaure the President, for the first time, comprehended fu gl ts signiticance, the fuct that UE MAD BEEN NETRATED BY BANCOCK, and that, it he had betrayed Idm i the Hack Fridny conspiracy, he was also capable of be- traying him o the whisky frauds, nud ho be- cante convineed that tho vroscentlon ugalnst Babeack hud had {ts full justitication, Wilson does not appear to have become fully reconciied with the. President, for luter thy President churges that his offles s the rendezvous of hostile newspaper-uen. Wilson demands tho names of his accusers from the President, They are refuscd. “ 110 MONEY.!! ; Wilson produced the following telegram, dis- covered during the Babeock trial: 87, Louw, Feb, 0.-~70 Deloms, No. 108 For- ayih sireet, New York: Can {un produce evidonce against Wilaon for blg money? J. T lowten. Portor was the dismisscd Becrct-Service agont working for the defenge. GO0D-BY1 Wilson's vesipnation {mmedintely followed Bristow’s, The President was coldly pollte fn taking leavo of blm, and gald that he' now hoped for pence and quict. Wilson sald that those who had acatsed him to the President were Furwell, Logau, Spencer, Ilurlbut, and Sargent of Californis, beaides some discharged cm- ployes, Wilson thought the President could not sympathize with the &:roeecullu;( ofllcers Dbecause Lie honestly belleved Babeock innoceut. TIIE TESTIMONY, BABCOCK'S 8YLIH, ‘Wasmxarox, D, C., July 28.—Before thoe Comunittee on Whisky Trials to-day, the ex- amination of Bluford Wilson, ex-Solicitor of the Treasury was contlnued, In connection with tho atatement fu Lis previous testimony of Gen. Porter's - explanation of the term “8ylph," Wilson having refreshed his memory by refer- cnee toaletier froma friend fn. New York, testiled that the anuoyance which ft-was safd the woman Sylph guve’ tho President was by Ler efforts to blackmnail him {n 8t. Loufs. ‘The exam!nation was continucd as follows: Qucation—~By Mr. Cochiranc, Chalrm:an of the Bub-Committee. You sald fn your examination yesterday that from the timo of the Qiscovery of the **8ylph* dlspatch fmplicating Gen Babeock Iu those whisky frauds, or tending 80 to implicate him, the Presldent of tho United Btatcs did nat show tho eamo sywpatby with the Sceretary of the Treasury or yourscif that he had previously shown. Please atate any act or acts of the Presiilent from that time forward Indieating to you that he was not in sympathy with those whisky prosecutions. Angwer—Before I proceed to snawer that question, I wish to make an addition tomy testimony of yesterday in reference to the con- tents of THZ BARNARD LETTER, on which the President made the: well-known Indorsement * Let no gullty man escape™ if it can be avoided. Eltlier {n the body of that Tetter or In the accompanying _ducu- mnent there wns o statement from Emory 8, Foster, of 8t. Louls, to thu effect that the President was himself charged with being n party to an unlawful combination fin that city to defraud the Government of its rev- enues, I want that fact to be noted, because I have no doubt that the President made his in- darsement as much with reference to that fact. and that allegasion as with reference to tho al- , legations, and that Babcock was o ;mrt y and that Jim Casey, the Presldent’s brother-fn-layw, was openly asserting that the Secretary of the ‘I'reasury would not hold his office for thirty days. Another point I was asked e'v.-au.-nln)', whether the Presldent o nted willingly to the publication of i Indorsement” on the Barnard letter, which has heen o often referred to. By reference to the letter nddressed to me by Gen. DBristow, under date Aur. 7, written in the Treasury De- artmedt, I fnd that the Beeretary of the Treasury had addressed an official cotnmunica- tion to the President, asking bim for permission to publish that indorscinent, and that at that ate, Aug. 7, hie had recelved no respunse, BRISTOW TO WIIEON, For the purpose of fixing the date when the “8ylph * telegram was discovered I refer to the Jetter of Gen, Bristow to me, written from New ork, Aug, 9, 187, and which I have no objec- tlon to make a part of the record. Itis ns fol- L] wa s NEw Yonsx, Aux. 8, 1875.—My Dran Wirsox: Your letter of yesterday with inclosure ia re- celved, The time fu very neur at lsnd when [ must make “Tm fesne with the thleves and rcoundrelswho havecomblned todestroy me, Tmust be eupported cordially and earnestly, or I must ana will break. I fear the complications are such that the former cannot be dunv, and the latter niuat. You cannot he too careful sbout talidng to anybody, I have heard here that the matter abont the **Sylph™ dispntchand our huving seen it In tonnection with Plerrepont Is fully known to P, & 1. (mesning Porter and Dabcock), and they are greatly disturbed, Don't sufer yourself to talk to auybody nbout It. Of course Thie 18 not meant for censure, bat for cantfon.. I suppose I must make up my mind to bear the abuee of the 3 Ring" papers, hard on it 18 to do, They are flzhting to keep thelr friends out of prison, and to ruve . themselves from exposure, and of conme will seek to destroy anybady who stands inthelr way, Well, sa for myself, [ cannot turn back, nor will I stopto parley with thieves, 1huave noambition to serve and no pur- poxe to accomplisl but the onforcement of the luw and honest collection of the revenue. Iwlllcom- promise on nothing short of this, but on this iesne amn reudy to be sncrificed any dn{. P, 8.—Ark Webstor to write the President fally hie views about the Chicapo Custom-Houre and the Whisky Ring. lehas great conildence in Webster, o it 18 goutrg to require 1he utmost watchfulnoss of hisreal friends to prevent his belng misled by men who profess friendship for him, but whou are acting treacherouely, Toll Webeter to write strong. 1y, and give him plain teath, and mark his letter confidential, il 1 ANTA L BUFPOBED JIK MEANT IT, Now fn respouse to the question of the Chatr- man, T may eay that the Scerctary of the Treae- ury aud myscll, haviog been ordered by the President to_scs that no gullty man should cs- capo i it could be avolded, un consultation mu- tually concluded that the President could not ’;o bacle on that injunection without atultifying iineelf, and placing his ofticers In a fulse posi- tion, and we therefore resolved to leave the swhole matter of Geu, Yabeock’s alleged connee- tiou with the Whisky Riog at Bt. Louls to be dealt with by local officers there. Until abont the 1at of Décember, and Indeed I may say until it was known absolutely thut Gen. Bahcock had been indicted, the relations of Gen. Bristow and nyself with the President were paesable, but as #O0n A8 §t was scen that Babeock wus to bo in- dicted, the ddea of n military Inquiry wus Lrought to the front, to my knowledge, by Geu. Habeock and his friends, The {dea of o military court wagbroached before the indictment wus found againat Babeock, and the fuct that the Fresident of the Unlted States took ground that that military court should supercede the pro- ceedings before the the civil tribunals at St. Louis as taken by myself and Ly the Scere- tary to be a marked Indication of his purpose to DECEAT TUR PROSECUTION IN THAT CITY. On the $& or 4th of December, I wrote o lutter to Gen, lenderson advisiug hiin fully of my views und indleating to him the settled purnoso of the Secretary of the Treasury to see Ly all houorable means that the E)mcucdhl:u hefore the cfvil tribunal should not be postponed, or delayed, or cmbarrassed if he conld prevent it by any proceediugs to be fstituted or had be- fore u military tribunal. Of that letter I Lave uot a copy, bt Gen, Ilenderson, I Lelieve, has the orlnal, In the next 1lucn’ It{s o fact that leard nothing fromn the President of the charge thut 1 had ut spies upon him, or of a forged letter, which was adduced wgalust “me a3 stated in my testimony yesterday, until it was scen and kiiown that” Uen, Babcack was fndicted. The conference botween the Prosident and myself, which I think I stated yesterday to have taken placo late In November; took place, as 1 ting by reference to contemporunéous dveuments, on the 8th of Decenber, 1875, HENDERYON, Tt will be remembered that, in that confer- enee, the I'resfdent expressed himself to me with regard to Gen. Henderson and Mr. Dyer with F‘m Litterness, and fimedintely there- alter Gen, Tlonderson was dismiszed from the prosecation. e was dismisscd in opposition to my written_protest, uddressed to tho Scere- tary “of the Tressury, In which 1 called the attentlon of the “Secretary to the fact was advised oflicially by Eaton, of counsel for the Government, that Judge Treat, the presiding Justlee at the trial{n which the allejged objectionabile remarks of Gon. Handerson were made, wis sakl to hnve declared to Enton, amd to huve requested Eaton to notify the authorities here, that i his Judg- ment Gen, Henderson's remarks contalned no etlectlun on the President, Talso called atten- tion to the fact that Eaton, Dyery and Hewder- son had all, In writtue, informed methat no such purxlmu existed on llenderson’s part, and that, on the contrary, b appesred from the ofilcial reconds fn my posaession at tho time, and now futho Treasury Depurtinent, that Gen, Hender- son went out” of his way In an srument fn thut caseto state that, in his judgment, the President of the United Stateswas altogether nbove reprouch, as far s he knew, and to pay the Presldent u compliment. 1 sald, therefore, to the Sceretary of tho Trcasury that Luccepted the judgment of Gon, Henderson's collespues and of thy Court as conclusive on that questlon, and thut [n wy Judgment the President of the United States ought to rise sbove personal considerutlons, in_view of the fuct that public interests {mperatively required Gew, Mender- son's retention fn the prosceution. The dls- missal of Gen, Henderson was, fn my judg- ment, o fatal blow to the Bronlmut. of the stice cessful prosecution in Gen, Balock’s case, WILS0N TO BATON, (‘,—u,v Mr, Plal wh d—Ilave you tho protest to ch fuu have just referred ! 1 liavonot; but it Isnow on the files of the Trculur{e Departinent, sud I will make it an exhibit Defore 1 get through. By refercnce to wy private letter-book, I thi, under date Dec, 4, the following letter was written by me. Dxan Eatox: 1 wroto Gen, Henderson a confle dontial letter lont night, g1y Ing yun the situation of alfalrs at this ond b the **Sylph " matter, ~ We do nut know licro what you arc dolng, but presuue, of cotrse, you are dolng your duty. ‘That fs the letter in which I huve made refer- ence Lo the controversy I regard to the inflitary and civil tribunal. Another ground was the Presldent's REFUSAL TO IEMOVA JASPAR D, WAND, United 8tates District-Attorney at Chicugo un- til ha was confronted by the evidence on the 8d of December, which showed thut Ward was a partuer in the Powell dlstillery, aud had un- proper relations with Jacob Hehin, which state- ment was nada to tho President by the Hou, Burton O, Cooke, of Chicago. On that point I suid to Beeretury hrllww, oe Dran Genznai: Mr, Cou mo with some startiing nows. o saw the Presi- dent after ho et you, and wue assured by the Frosldent that be would remnove Ward promptly, aud to that end hio would ask Webater tu nauio lile successor ut oncu; bit what was cspeclally note- worthy was a lctter to Cooko from a reliabld triend s Chicago aftributing Logan's lituces to shoer feight st charges that ho fu in it, that tho atmos- phero was fall 0f rumor about Ward's .connection with the Ring, his relations with Distiller Powell, et ‘Iha inclosed from DBrooks way fnterest you. Tho Lord give you wisdom, Falthfully, o That noto I sent to Gen. Bristow in Cablnct, and the ejaculution at the eud of it was becunse kuew that the proposal to bave s military .court of inquiry wus under consideratiou. WELSTER TO WILSON, Now Iwaut torcad, a8 Part of my teth 8 just In to seo ] g & g g k=3 mong, a letter to me from Gen. Webster, dato'gf the 20th December, 1875 =8 U, 8, IxTanwAL itavexur Orricr, Dist='y P Iitisois, Citicaoo, Dec. 20, 1876, NS & n 8im: Do you not begin {o rub your eyes®.® 1 quire whether yau are awake; whether w ‘e 1y of na awake, and not all Involved In { ad dream? \Waa there ever wnch scandalond bying and pleading? 1x it not the niost remarkable fight of & century? 18 therc uny key to it oll, ex- copt that lLanded corruptionists of ail claasen and kinds are desperate, and are anmmoning sl thelr forces, placing thelr reliance on an unpuralleled audacity of vilupera- tlon, and cunnbigly-canteived accusationy Ir it poseible thut Babcock has lent any conntenance (o) 4 proporition for an attack on Dristow? WI he confers s own Infamy, anit ley to drag down the Secretary with himacif ¥ What other explanstion is there for tue Jufer-Geedn's ottack, 1 sus- pect that the Ring bas got the entire control of the w+0, 'Fhey are desperate, and will furnfsh all the money necemnry to get an English orran, a8 they bave n German one In the Stuate-Zeitung. W liat ure we consing tu when such things can even be attempted in o’k'n day? Butltook my to pen ask ott a goustion, 1 have been Just told that the mon tusecl] I+ there In Wanlington, and lisa the impue dence to try to Lisckmall hoth the Sccretaries of Warand the Treasury. s thut so? Ican hardly belleva it, and yee 1 sce that he hos lived so loni in an ntmosplicre_ulmoat peculine o the pulitical whisky-ring of Chicagu thut perhaps he has no conception of honeaty left, and nv jdea of decency or (nta(rn[‘»llhmu in'any one. Yesterday I warned Dexteraud Ayer tu hiveno further conference with him, to bave it only with Sweet and Smith, Please let me know whether I Is snch u gracelesa scamp as to have roally blackmailed the Secretarics. 1 hope this cutburst of mallce inthe /-0, will overehoot 1ia inarlk, and, instead of maklug a breach tetween the Prosident and Mr. Lristow, lwye the opposite effect, and unite them more firmly in the fgtht againat corruption. It looks as i the time Is coming when a1l guod tnen of all parties must hand together ngainet the rascals as the only way in which the country can be raved, Dut we shall soon ree. Write “me u few wordsof truth and soberness, Truly yours, 3. U, Wesstan, The Ilon, Bluford Wilson. WILSON TO GRANT. On the 15th of December, while in the City of St. Louis, I wrute the Fresldent of the United Btates thls letter: . d clipplug from yeater- nuse. 1 might under quite content to let the ard’s explanation feaves it,and 10 permit that gentleman and the ion, C, B, Far- wellta settle thelr own diffcrences in thelr own way. In view, howover, of the mmny misstate~ ments in relation to myself that have reached you, and of the fact that 1°did not care to go into the matter with a sreporter, I wiali to_say to yon that the wholo story o Mr. Parwell,nq It relates to mo. s utterly aud’ unquuliledly fulse, evenusa joke 2 pour ono at best, It ke wholly without foniida- tlon ar warrant i any word or actof mhit: in refer- ence to any case either instde or nutaide the Whis- kg-ulng sults, If it coines in your way, | will be obliged If you will show this to'Mr, FParwell, if he has been at you with his complaint agalnet me. [ wwiil take it As a favor 1f you whl call his attention to my unswer, ‘The sitdutlon here and at Chicago reems to be satlafactory. I return to Washingtun to-night. WIth great respect, your fricnd, LuroRD WiLsox, I wrote that letter In reply o a charge which Farwell caused to be telegraphed to Tue Cui- ©AGO TRIBUNE that I had ou a certaln visit to Cticazo sald to J. D. Ward, while he was Dis- trict-Attorney, that Le MUST INDICT FARWELL AND LOGAY, and when Mr, Ward asked mo for the evidonce, Isaid to him, *“Damn the evidence. Iudict them first and tind the evidence afterwards," I will state that Tur Cit1oacg Trinuss article referod to stated thal the thlegram was sub- mitted to Ward under Farwell's conslderation, upon Furwell's statement that Ward wonld con- flein {8, and upon Ward's conflrming and uormhornuufi i, It should be publish- ed, Upon ts belng submitted to Ward, however, he repualted it in tolo, and deniced ever hoving hud any conference or conversation with me uflum\vmch uny sach fu- terpretation could be placed. To ghe reporter of ' Trisoxx, who came tome fora S:nlul. I simply snid, **I have uone to muke to so ut~ terly absurd a charge” 1innke this stutement because I see that the reporter of the New York Gn;pm: and the correspondent of the Chicago Jnter-Ocean in this city has, In sub- stauee, ropeated this charge in & 1iew shape yes- tenlay to the Graphic, and [ presume also tothe Inter-Oceun, This wes m{lmswet then made to the Chief BMagistrate of the land, and it fs my snawer to thocharge today. In further response to the question of the Cominittee, both the Seerctary aud mysell wore carly led to cutertain Ezwu uppfih:: ns us to what the {ssuc would be in the for the resson that I learned from the ! C. 8. Bell himself thut the Presilent had recoinmented him to go to 8t, Loufs, I learned from the Preaident, from C, 8, Bell, aud from the Attorney-General thatelt was fn contemplu- tion to employ Bell to o to 81, Louls and to report, wot to Dyer, but to the Attorney- Geners), and that the resson for hL retentlon — was that _ the Prestdent understood that Dyer and Henderson intended to implicate bim i the frauds if possible. WILYON TO DYER. On Dec, 18, 1875, 1 wrote to Dyer as followa: And now a word of eaution, You have made o mistake In teusting C. 3, Bell, Hc has been pre- tending to know that You have been endeavorivg 10 lmplicate the President, and it is positble that be may return to $t. Louls, 1 he docs, put your best mun on at once, oud you will soon see where he trains, 1M he callson you, don’t let on that you suspect, but don’t trist Lilm, and have bim waich- ed. Mind what 1 say, 1 know what 1am writing about; snd you waust burn this on your honor. 1 will state, further, that I made such repre- sentations to thy Anamcf'-h‘euuml und to the President, when Iearned that t wax fn contem- plation to seud this muu to 8t. Louls, as Induced them to reconsider their proposed action, and he was ot cmployed, 1t s a fuct that the Pres- Ident was INTENSELY DARNEST IN THE BADCOUK MATTER, in opposltion to the views of the Seerctary and myseif. On the 25th of December he sent fur me and confronted me with the charge that it was reported to him that 1was trving to have his brother, Orvilie Grant, and s son, Col, Fred D, Grant, indleted for complicity fiv the frauds, and fu the courssof couversation o again * psserted to me his carnest beliel in Babcoek's Innocence, und his own sense of the great outrage thut had been perpetrated o him l'f Henderson amt Dyer in retusing to send to the military court ut Chicago the orlg- nnl evidenco contajned In the records of the clvil tribunal ay 8t. Louls. As fllustrating the personal attitude of the President to mysell, 1 wiay mention that Col, Grant told the réporter of the New York Jlevald fu December thuy Bab- cock's Inaletment waa THR BESULT OF A CONBPIRACY between o prominent Treasurs wliclal, naming myselfy sud Carl Schurz, This I stute because tho reporter, Mr, Mecker, told me so the same oventng, as did léo Mr, Nordhoff, and heeause [ brought the attentlon of the Vresident himsell to it,and on the 24 day of January the attentlon of Col. Fred D, Grant WIL3ON HENT POX, I now come ta the celebrated cireular letter. On the 27Lh January, 1878, 1 received this pote: Exrourive Maxsioy, Wasuixatox, Jan, 187012510 pon,—My Dxan Mu, SoLicirons The President saya to drop you s note and ask you o cumo over and see hia,” Very ILuly. l(u\lx EVI I Lrcier, ox, BLurou Witsox, Sollciter of the Treasury. Beforo golug further I will state that I had twice called upon the President of tho United States before 1 could get an futerviow with bim on the (‘ll..l:blklu of the charge made agalust me by Col, Fred Grant, and for that_reuson after that 1 did not call ut the White Iouss except when 1 wus sent for, 1 went oyer to see the President promptly, and learned that e was diseatisfied with the tourse of the Scere- tary und iuyself with refereace to the conduet of the prosceutions ut Miwankee, Chicugo, and 8t, Louis. He objected specificallysnd carnestly to our permitting persons who pleaded guiity 10 by used 48 witnesses to convict otherss In other words tu the testimony of accomplices, o called iny attention to “the case of the Gauger Roddis, ‘of Milwaukee, ngafust whom a nolle {Aru‘&l]lfl had been entered, and suld toine that hiere wus gulte too muchui that thiug golng on, and read from the report to show thut the uol- lnrux. had been entered for the purpose of using toddls as Btate's cyidence. EVEREST, Houext sald to me, *Eunderstand Evercst has returned. Isuppose be has buen prmnhctl fuiunity too,” 1 sald tohim: *Mr, President, 80 far as'l know uP o this date Roddls is the only {nstance in which a nol pros, Lus beenen- tered for the purpose of uccepting the party us State's evidence, In answer to your question as to whether Everest s not to bé prosceuted, I should say that [ have specilic Information on that point from the District-Attoruey, sl be tells” mo that 1o promlss ‘whatever bhaa been made to bhim, und that none will be Ho asked mo what Everest would testify to. I tokl bhin that it was suld that Everest would testify that lo saw Joyce mall two letters coutsinlog $500 cach, one addressed to Babeock, He asked mo when Evercst returned. 1 told him that be had re- turned sbout the 12th of January, 1876. He asked o i [ kucw where hie wus.” I told him that I believed he wasthen with hiy uncle sowes whers in Western Peuusylvania. Ho sald to 7 A PRICE FIVE CENTS. me, *Major, when T sald 'Let no guilty ma escans,’ I meant {t,and not that nlnegr‘nan,ahnulla oscape and une convicted.? 1 sald to hiin, * Pardon me, Mr. President, we ars not in this battle counting heads. We are trying to break up the unlawful consplracies and come binations which we all know exiat, and, if pos= sible, to reach those who have Inspired and organlzed thein, and I know of 1o other way of dol nfi this, and cblalning proof of conspiracy, than by gulnfi Insido of the ranksof the cous lrlrllurl. and I give it to {ou as my judgment that the policy which has hicen adoptcd by the local couusel upon thelr independent judgment, and not wwder the fnstructions of elther tha Hecretary or nyself, will result in nccome plishing” this purpose, and that none other wilL? Becrcu\rly handler sat just back at the further end of the Cabinet room, and Isald to the President: *Mr, DPresident, I nutice the presence of & incmber of the Cablnet. If you will give mo thne to Fu into this matter, I think I could satisfy you t m'guu are laboring under n misapprehicuslon, “Oh,” safd he, “1t" is not warth while. lulm?‘ly wanted to call your ate tentlon to the fact that, in my Judginent, there 15 tao much of this golng on,” *That heing 8o, I huve tiotling to do, Mr, Pruak :hein, but o bid you guod inurning," and 1 d 8o, . 1went out deeply Impressed with wlat the Prestdent had m?.fm m‘::. Iwont to thy Bee retury of the ‘Treasury, and told him what had taken 3 sald o the Becretary that in my opinfon It was of vical im- portance that he should sec the Prestdont on that day; that 1 had reason to belleve, aud did bellevehlhut A. P, Tutton, then lately resurncd from Chieago (on the 20th of January, I believe), hal endeavored to create the fmpression fn the nfind of the Prealdent that we were giving away evegything in the Cll,}' of Chicago fur the purs pose of convleting Rehm, Hesing, and Ward, nnd while thic question s the propricty of the policy was not lmportant, it was fmporiant that he sheuld SR TIE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY, take with bl his lettors to ‘Tatton, let mu take my letters to Tutton, and his telegrams to Mr., Webster, and explain to the Prestdent the whole case. Hu reluctantly consented, Wi weut, and the Sceretary, with great particular: ity stated to the Presfdent, fufly and fairly, rcading from the official docunents, the situs- tion of affuirs at Ciicago. The basls of what e, Bocretary had to say 18 cosered by this tolo gramn of mine to Webster: JaN, 14, 1870, —ten. J. D. Webnter, Chicago, I ‘The followinz dispatch was scnt by the Sece retary to Tatton this morning. It onght to cover 4re ground. He (the Secretary) kas fmpliclt cone fidence In local counscl and revenuc afilcisls, A, P. Tuatton, Sapervisor, etc, As we have not desired any arfangements with fndleted purtivs, so we de- cline to interfere wilh any thiat have been entered inta by the Unlted Statea” District Attorney with tho approval of his asdoclates and jocul tevenic oificers, laring confidence In thelr Judgment and fidelity, we leave the teansaction in thelr fiands, not doubting that they will do what will beat sub- scrve (he inferest of tiie Government. After the Secretary and myselt had concluded our statement and the explunation of our pusi- tlom, the President expressed himsell wholly satisfied therewlth, und referred with great kindnens to Gen. Webster, and then ensued o very kind and mcndlg interview touching other maiters between the Sceretary and President, which It [s not necesanry or pm&er for me to 1o {uto further than to say thut Gen. Babeock's case was agaln alluded testitmony was stated Socretary, JMOW DADCOCK GOT HIS NEWS. On the evening of that day I addressed the Secretary the following letter: JaNuanry 27, 1876.—Dran (csenan: 1 called to bid you hon voysge, and to say that within lesa than en_hour sfier vur retarn from the White House Babcock came in o little white and a good desl nervous, sod osked e §f 1 had any nows, [ replled that I had none cxcept what I had given tha Presldent, to which lio replied: **Yew, It is that obout which I desire to pak you, What doea Eyer- ent clalin about tha $300Y"" ete., showing that hie Excellency had conveyed at once to Habe cock every ltem of ovidence which ha hnd receivod from me, Dabcock —stayed quites while, had o prompt and empliatic denial 1o uvery story nnd had o theory Lo itk He usked mo on going sway. o tell Him I anyiling now turned up, This ]lo-".l'tl{ refuved, but | ndded 1could notd!l‘? when tho Preaident asked. llo loughied and sald that would do Juel as well, aod wewes iL dues. The pointof all this [s that tho President_questions we In Babcock's intercst, What am 1 to do? Agaln I have no ol.l?ccllnn on general principlea to give Babcock a falr show, If the testimony s really false, but how {f it should turn out Lo ba true, and what right has be moro thun any other accused party to bear the detalls of* the case uyainst him? H, W, WILSON AND FIERREFONT. . About the 20th of Juyuary the Attorney-Gen-, eral called for me, and I went over. Hosald ot wanted to talk with me about the Babeock case, ' and the situation of aifaira at 8t. Louls, Ch; go.aud Miwaukee, I sald *Certalnly.” Ho suld, *'What s jt uhout that man Everesti” told the Attorney-General fn substance what X bad already reported to the Preaident. Il wald: to me that is had been n guod deal troubl by a request which the President had mide of hlm with reference to writing o circulor-letter: to United States District-Attorneys cautloning, them agninet taking the testimony of accom-! pllees, He enld be had told tho President thaty he raw 110 other way to get to the bottom e: cept by resorting to tho “testimony of accome. plices, and that, slter two or three Interviews: With the President, the Prestdent belng very carnest about Ity bad written a letter which he wanted to read me. He seut his clork to bring it, aud then for the first time he read to me his CIICULAR LETTER TO DISTRICT-ATTORNBYS, e sald: * You note, Wilson, that I don't o so fur us the President wanted mio to. I took a draft of that letter over to the President, and read {t to bim, and he was not satlstied with it, and wanted me to eny n_specltle termsg that the testimony of no man who cutered tha plea of gullty should he used in any prosceus tion, but that parties should be given to under stand that lhef’ should be brought to punishs ment.'t 1sald in rc[;l(y to the Attorney-ticnerad that the letter would be sure, even luits press ent condition, to be misunderstood, and I told him that, in my judgment, it was equivalent ta I sald to lim, to, and Mr, Everest’s to the President by the saying to those = who pleaded puiltys Yuu must not do it It you do, you shoply render certaln youre own coudetnuntion, and you have nothing whate r to expeet therel ' The Attorneys Geueral said hie hoped the letter would not he s0 understood, und he suld, * You noté that if 13 not Intended for publication, T sald It the District-Attorneys duin't misunderstand it, [{ it didn't ereate that impression, and if it didn'e fet out, 1 didu't think {t would hugt nnythlnf. That was on the 2th. Ou tho niht of the &1 or 8d of February, 1 reud the Chivago Times of tho 1st of Februury, and saw that it vontulned the clreular letter of the Attorney-Genernl in sube stance, with an introductlon,in which it was atated, as 1 uow recollect, thut the Prestdent vl tho United States was dissatisfied with tho pole fey which had been adopted, and that this let~ ter Indfeated o change with refercnce theretos I took the paper at once and went over to Gen. Dirtstow, and read it to his, 1 snid to him that in my judgment, a profound crisls hud arrived fu_ the prosecutions of thicves; thut nozwmmunuln{: the gssurpuce of the Presi- dent's satisfaction with what hud bren decided upon In our interview of the 27th ol Junuary, i& was clearty evident that ho MEANT T0 HRINU ANOUT A CONFLICT and a chayge of policy, aud 1 told the Secretary that he must take lutnediate steps to huve aw understanding with the Al.lumel{-ficllcrul ami President. He agreed with me. The ateps that he took he himaclf and the Attorusy-Geuorad und the records must show, On tho day ufter tho interview with the Secretary of the ‘Tseasury I suw the correspond- eut of the Chicago T¥mes, Mr. Kecnun, ail ho told me that he had _reeeived that letter from the hands of Kinery Storrs, the counsel of Uen, + . E. Bubeock, 1 wish to say, alsu, that Col, Dyer, of 5t Louls, had a cuiference with the Attorney-Cenernly {n which, uccording to Cols Dyer's statement, the Attorucy-lieucral told hiin in substance Fruclsuly what he told mo, that the circulur-lettor was written at the sugs stion_and fustanco of the President of the nited States, 1t is enough for wu to sayof mny own kuowledge, thut stich was the reault of the evidence and of the facta that I have here nurrated, that the Secretary of the Trewsury by the 16th of February hud’resolyed that sbere wasnothing left for film but to LEAVR TIIN OADINET. Tho personal relations between bimself and tha President of the United Btutes wero almos wholly broken off. Wu learned from tnuny sources that the President had determioed to dlsinlss hoth tho Sccretary and mysclf at tha cloga of the Babeock trial. Oneof those souncs of tnformation wus sus aod so hiph that &&y taken with othor facty, al fu my mind abs sulute certainty, Hero is the letter: GEN.” WELSTER TO WILSON, * Ciicaoo, Feb, 10, 1870, —My Drans St I g Inforwed on good autlorlty that Gen. Hurlbut, M. C., Who ls nuw at houie, i¥ wusarting very strongly that 80 s00n as tho Babeuck trisl Le Unlied, Uen. Lirlatow will ga out of the Cabinct, 1am ulso told on good anthozity ths dthoscusational dispatch fn the Inter-ucean of Mondsy wock relative Lo the storuiy scaslon of the Cabluet, clc., aud which the Presi- deut so dircetly contradicied, wus vouched fof U, Logan and Fagter, of Oulo, I tell you thls f